Practice the basics

Everyone might know how important practice is the question is, how many do their practice and how do they do it?

Every practice needs to be measured for improvment, this is a must do.
If you practice to just keep a current standard that is fine.
I still would recomend you to find improvement, this is simply to train your brain to move on, to keep up to the next step.

Why to do so are beacuse of the idea of having more variation and more room for mistakes.
We are training our destinctions in how we percive our motions with the body and how we cordinate, the movement/motion.

The brain knows no difference between a percived fantasy what we just make up in our head and the real thing.
Unless we make sure the brain knows the difference.

When I practice, I find something that I need improvement on.
I check the basics, posture, ballflight, sound of quality of hit.
If they are the same, and not what I want, I go trough everything to check for flaws in the basics, posture, alignment etc...
Then I practice the new distinction, make sure it goes to the top of my priority list and then enhance that and sort out previous flaws and strengthen the new one.
Doing that allows for faster improvement and this can be measured and tested.

I test by two methods, one is on the practice tee, making sure I improve and meet my goals.
Then I measure it on the course.
One shot, so any flaws will be coming out sooner or later.

I also when I played my second round found I had improved my distance control, with the current distance even if short, I hit a lot of approach shots spot on.
That was a new feeling, a new sensation and makes me feel like I could truly play my game of golf this year and in the coming season.

I still need to work on, distance with long game, control of the short game, learning to judge ball roll on green when the greens are up for it, putting to make sure I can make 20 foot putts the same way I make 2 foot ones.

Overall, I am improving my game.
That is currently the aim, not the score.
I need to find the flaws, I need to stabilize the basics, hit the distance I want and needs to have to compete.
So, the score isnt that important currently, since I am not trying to score first and foremost but to play the game my way in how I set it up. (this makes the aim for practice)
As long I havent meet my aim and goal, I need to practice, identify the variables that I need to practice more, until I meet my criteria in how I make the shots, the distance and acuracy and when I got that, I then will focus on my score big time.
Then the state and endurance will be more important factors, how I eat, strength, and such practices.

So when practice, keep track of what you practice, why its important, what is the order of practice you need, when to shift attention of details and so on.

• Practice the basics until you can do whatever you want.
• Know the details of importance that actually produce the results in your sport.
• (In golf, short game, distance to pin and putts made)
• Measure and have evidence when you meet your practice goals.
• When you have met your criteria and have evidence of that, ie the motion/move your make produce the results you want, then you ingrain that until its fully automatic ie unconsiously produced. (Make it a habit)
• Connect motion/move to beliefs and state of performance.

What typically happens is that people never practice properly and correct.
They dont have long term goals, they dont measure and have evidence of improvement connected to the long term goals which often cause frustration, irritation, anger, and dissapointment.

If you measure the wrong things that do NOT produce result in your sport, how could you improve then?

You need the facts, the hard boiled evidence.

I never knew this myself and I been playing golf for several years.
I had to change my approach to the game this year, and I used everything I taught a pro golfer and what we found over the years to set the goals/outcome, the evidence with proper measurement, states of consiousness, eating, working out, a plan of practice based on the long term goal, full trottle to actually make my goals come true this season.

And this blogg is all about that and performance.

Using my background knowledge of NLP and doing modeling for several years and coaching athletes made my coming from a different background than most have. I also question everything taught in golf. I have found no one knows really what produce results in golf.

I sought the evidence, the information that I needed to make my goal this season.
This made me find Dave Pelz books about the short game and how he could measure success of result and scoring of golf.
I found symple golf swing last year but this year I ordered the DVD´s since they promised an easier golfswing and acurate and with distance and also faster to learn.
I changed my eating habits, my working out with crossfit system.
All this came of just setting a new goal for the season of golf.

Pretty interesting isnt it?

I can practice now with a different aim, I can measure my practice, if I improve or not, I cant do the same thing over and over again due to the goal I measure with evidence, I cant stop practice until its improving.
I know now what I need to do, how to do it and having a better quality improvement and faster one and an ability to sort out and ingrain better than most ever know exist, I can do it.

This leads to a change in my perception.
I see things, I feel things differently, I measure what I do differently since I know what my outcome is about and how to get there.

This is for me a fully different approach to golf and sports.

I can also use this experience and knowledge to improve my NLP skills and the how I teach the things I teach.

So, by doing this outcome for golf, I actually improve other things I do in my life.
Isnt that great?

Practice basics and know why and how and what and most importantly, measure with evidence.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.