Progress Update

As I sat down the outcome for my golfing this summer a lot has going on for me.

What I do currently is the following,

• Adding the skills/experiences/aha to the context of the outcome (I am a professionell elitegolfer).
• Practice into owning the move.
• Testing different states.
• Finding the proper moves in the golfswing.
• Get feedback on the practice of the short game and long game.

What all the above means is this,
In my practice, I need to find out "How to do the move" when I have it right I keep re-inforcing until a shift in my learning happens where "I know" I can do it happens.

When I practised today I found out I didnt know how to do a golfswing!
Suprise is the least thing that happen, frustration kicked in when I couldnt do the move properly.
So, I been playing golf down to 11 handicap, and finding out I cant do a golfswing properly?
Gee, darn, and as I worked on the range for 3 hours I kept working at the outcome, the goal, being able to do the movement, correct and properly.
The progress is all about knowing what to measure and look for, as the question, how do I know that I got it down?

I found this, I video the swing, noticing that I was not on plane, and I did not have a release which means that I didnt do a core turn properly.
I started to get it a bit better in the end.
So, at home I worked on proper plane in the backswing, and also on the release.
Now, this with some good video showing Jimmy Ballard talking about "connected left shoulder" added for me some knowledge and distinctions in what to look for to owning the move and knowing to know when I got it.

As I practice, even when I am frustrated, I dont mind that due to I am continue looking to get it right. The frustration was due to me finding out I didnt know how to do the movement at all.
My brain did know what the move is and what its like but my body could not do it due to a lack of specific movements.
So I adjust and test until I notice I am on the right track which I measure with accuracy and distance.
I am measuring the average distance, the quality of the hit.

When I get it, I will wait for the indication that I got it, then I will own the move.
This is a whole form sensation, much similiar to riding a cykle or doing a handshake, you just know you can do it.
So, when I bring out the driver, I need to have that, 300 yard down the fairway, ok, then I do this and hit it down there.
And as long I dont have that move down, I wait until I get there.
This mean a fast and much better feedback improvement happens in my learning.
I adjust and improve so fast since I know, this isnt working, that is not working, then adjusting, looking for information that helps me get there - when its working.
So even if I got stuck and frustrated and didnt know what to do I kept finding ways to get where I need and want to be.

This is the attention phase, noticing, does this work, does this improve my skill, does it meet my outcomes?
Mapping this golfswing suddenly showed me the things I needed to improve.
On plane in the backswing, and working on the athletic move of a proper core turn with a correct release.
I didnt have a release at all.(suprise)
Which made me loose power and the lack of distance showed that.

When I ingrain and integrate owning the move I am using the new findings I done over the years doing modeling of Joseph Riggio.
For me its a variation of the learning process where the new moves must be done until a shift happens where the body as a system knows how to do it. When that happens, its a deep seated knowledge, not affected by thinking.
The process builds momentum to confidence, security, faith, due to the nature of having the knowledge that you can do this move, whenever you need to.

Note that I say, this owning the move are a pre-requsite of the feelings people have in regard to an ability.
Most go by the feelings not the knowledge of owning an ability.

This is important for making fast progress:

• Knowing the outcome. (Future based)
• Practise never gets stuck due to I am looking for the right/correct/proper moves.
• Improvements in skills/abilites goes faster due to knowing what to do based on measured test against criteria. (finding the right/proper/correct move with its distinctions)
• Owning the move. The coding phase of the athletic move to produce a consistent result. (knowledge/state)
  
• Testing the move when its owned.

I test from time to time when I own the move the state I want to play from, then ingrained the state and the move with the context and future based outcome I am aiming for.
I dont use the state of how I want to play as I practice since then I am in an analytical phase and using a different state.

As I progress, finding the answers, I test them, and then make a new test session to workout the new changes.

I dont have time or the stamina to work long days so I need to work smarter, not harder.
Progress must be done fast, in the same session is optimal but if the knowledge and information is lacking this can be needed to do research to get the right information to improve. (as it was with release and being on plane)

So, tomorow I will work on release and being on plane, this be done at my sister since her house allows for at least full wedge shots on her backyard.

I am planning a small trip next week to train my short game and Maybe do some actual playing on a course.
The winter has just started to loose its grip here and the summer is still a month away.

One thing to note, if I didnt put up my new outcome then I wouldnt have found that I couldnt swing properly, I most likely would have continued doing what I had done due to no improvement most likely would have been made. (Ever get stuck in your life?)

This is crucial as a concept to understand in performance, new goals/outcomes/beliefs/practice to get it right will if the movement isnt properly done be a counterexample to the movement you currently have. ( a contrast)
For me obviously I notice, that my body didnt have a memory for the movement.
I could only notice that since I wanted to be able to do the criteria of swinging and hitting the ball the proper distance and with acuracy.
When I tried to do so, according to instruction and feedback from practice then that showed up due to setting the new outcome with measureable evidence.

I dont view this as negative or even flawed or a fault.
I just attend to what will give me the proper movement, the proper distance and the proper accuracy to meet my evidence that the shots I make are according to my criteria.
And as long my criteria is not met, I continue to find how to do it.

A lot of people when things dont work focus on why it does not work.
They are learning to troubleshooting the movements.
Often what happens as a result of that approach is the proper and correct movement never get ingrained and owned by the performer.
They learn an extra analytic stage and add that to the skill set they got, however, the pathways to perform then include two different ways the ball could be hit, the right and proper way, and then when it is not hit the proper and correct way, the person who learned to troubleshoot will then use analytic thinking in why this happen, often shift their state so much they get stuck in the thinking.
(this is why I wrote this blogg)
To understand that performance when ingrained properly, is all that is needed to attend to. When something does not work, you already know its not your technique that is to blame...its either your thinking, emotion, beliefs, physical status since if you own the move then that stays the same.

Now think about it, this is why I mention owning the move, why I work on being smarter, finding out how to do it right and properly, even when it takes time and require constant refinement, I am working on how to do it properly now, so that I dont need to do it later.

I just wished I found this swing technique earlier and also set this new outcome when I started out and also knew how to do the learning process with practice.
However, expereince and know how comes with experience.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.