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410 Quick Field Guide of Sports Psychology– Outline of the 410– Rules of How the Athlete can take Advantage & Turbo Drive their Performance
This applies to all athletes of all backgrounds and performance levels.
There are 4 conditions and 10- Rules describing how the Athlete can tap into their Turbo Drive performance just by using a particular part of their mind that will allow them to perform IN THE ZONE. Bobby Jones, Sr. was correct by stating that golf, or any sport, is a game that is played on a five-inch course, the space between one’s ears. But there is a particular part of our mind that we must focus on and use.
This particular part of that five-inch space that the athlete needs to tap into, is the athlete’s subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is where the athlete’s toolbox that contains all their fine motor skills, instincts, or intuitive senses are located. There is no limit to the capabilities of the athlete’s subconscious mind in regard to their performance. The subconscious mind is the only link we have with what I call our permanent mind, or what psychologists refer to as the unconscious mind.
My Interview with Colonel George Robert Hall
I had the pleasure of interviewing Colonel George Robert Hall that was held at the Hanoi Hilton for seven-and-a-half years. Hanoi Hilton wasn’t a pleasurable tourist destination, but a North Vietnamese POW camp. He survived by using his passion for golf. He replayed every golf course that he had ever played while in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at Ole Miss, and at the Naval Academy. He was able to project every golf shot he ever made into his seven-foot by seven foot cell.
During my interview with Col. Hall at the Hattiesburg Country Club where he was doing a fundraiser for Veterans. He explained that if he just closed his eyes and preset his wrists action in his golf swing and then looked down to his wrists in the locked position, he knew that he had his mechanics established correctly.
What was remarkable, was when he was released in February of 1974, he played in the Greater New Orleans PGA Pro-Am. This was six weeks after being released from a hell hole he was in at the Hanoi Hilton and a 100- pounds lighter. He shot his handicap of four (4) on one of the biggest stages in golf.
I don’t recommend athletes locking themselves up in a seven-foot by seven-foot cell where they have to rely totally on their subconscious mind. But to develop conditions that they can rely on their intuitive skills. Any athlete can develop drills where they can break the tendency of thinking and just develop their focus factor. Because thinking is not performing.
These are the four conditions to activate the subconscious mind’s performance:
- Develop Natural and Repetitive Routine tasks.
- Practice and perform under actual conditions that must exist in both.
- Rely on a high degree of: relaxation, confidence, and muscle memory.
- Focus to allow the Subconscious mind to take over and Dominate the conscious mind, or being IN THE ZONE.
There are the 10 Principles of how the Subconscious mind can be used to dominate the athlete’s performance. Below, I have listed each of these 10- principles with simple technique(s) the athlete can use to help the athlete develop each of these to perform at the highest level possible:
1. The subconscious mind does not and must not differentiate between visualizations (practice) and real situations (performance).
· One of the differences between the athlete’s practice and performance is the presence of adrenaline during their performance that doesn’t occur during one practice.
· Adrenaline kicks in the subconscious mind override system. Videotaping and using 4-out-of-5 drills are great techniques the athlete can use during their practice sessions to kick in their adrenaline. These are live drills that simulate actual conditions, especially if you videotape the athlete’s practice sessions.
2. Your subconscious mind feels that time passes faster.
· You heard how athletes describe that everything around them seemed to slow down.
· This is because their subconscious mind takes over their performance and everything around them seems to slow down.
· The athlete can do this by focusing on their projected performance and objective so they perceive their actions as being in slow motion. This will indicate that they are IN THE ZONE.
· A great example is giving a speech, if you think you’re talking slowly, then you are at the correct cadences for your speech where your audience can comprehend your presentation.
3. The Quicker and longer the subconscious mind believes and proves something, the harder it will be to alter this belief in any way.
· Initial habits are the most prevalent and important to form correctly by doing the same thing the same way over and over under similar conditions.
· A habit is formed over a period of 28-days without interruptions. We rely on our instincts, or habits, to perform at a high level during a normal course of a day.
· Changing those habits is very difficult to do. So it is important to use the correct techniques to establish habits and perform naturally.
· NO THINKING IS NEEDED or REQUIRED!
4. Every thought causes a physical reaction. The subconscious mind can’t distinguish between a positive or negative thought.
· Think of the subconscious mind as RAM on a laptop. Whatever data you input into the computer program that will be your results, right or wrong.
· For instance a golf player tells themselves that they don’t want to hit their ball to the left and into the water hazard.
· They should instead focus on what they want to do, hit their golf shot to the right to take the water out of play.
· Guess what the golfer just told their subconscious mind what they want to do by thinking what they don’t want to do. They just told their subconscious mind to hit the golf shot to the left and into the water.
· So if you ever wonder why you perform the very thing that you didn’t want to do, you just found out why.
5. What you expect tends to be realized.
· Athletes can Prep for their performance by visualization, or develop a mental imagery of their performance.
· You see Olympic athletes getting ready to perform in the background with their eyes shut and their body going through each element of their performance.
· Golfers and placekickers in football do this by standing behind the ball and projecting the ball’s trajectory to their target.
· Golfers and placekickers also rehearse their performance before taking the shot or kicking the field goal or extra point beside the actual set up.
6. Finding proof of your beliefs strengthens them.
· Trust your training and practice with live drills. These are drills performed under simulated conditions with adrenaline.
· Get where your drills are actually more strenuous than gameday.
· This is like Déjà vu all over again, you just have been through your performance before.
· Visualize your last positive performance and get into that same frame of mind and feeling.
7. The subconscious mind always prevails in conflicts with the conscious mind.
· This is a huge factor in the athlete’s performance. If an athlete’s typical practice and training aren’t under simulated conditions then how they will perform under actual conditions; guess what, the subconscious mind will disregard all those hours of practice; and plug in the program that fits those conditions.
· This program your subconscious mind is using might be techniques you used years ago and not what you were working on during your training.
· In the golfer case, this is why the golfer can’t take skills that they have worked on during their practice sessions to the golf course. In baseball they call it the Five- O’clock Hitter syndrome.
· The athlete’s can only work with skills that they have in their toolbox. And those skills are their motor skills that they developed before the age of 12.
· So whatever those developed skills are that were developed before the age of 12, those are the skills the athlete has to work with.
· But there are techniques, or habits, the athlete can use to maximize those motor skills that will greatly influence the athlete’s level of performance.
· In baseball, hitting coaches understand the kinesiology of the basic motor skills and how to use certain techniques to improve the batter’s performance.
· Intuitive motor skills in the athlete’s toolbox can’t be improved on, but techniques on how to use those motor skills can be improved.
· This is why some coaches can get the highest level of performance out of their athletes than other coaches can.
8. An idea, once accepted, will remain firmly in place until it is replaced by another.
· Now this is where either the good side or bad side of habits can be a positive or negative influence on an athlete’s performance.
· Just because an athlete learns a series of new techniques from principle No. 7, the athlete shouldn’t expect to perform these techniques, right off the bat. Go back to the 28- days period of consistent and routine performance that develops habits.
· Try to break a long standing habit is very difficult thing to do, so with time and repetitive performance these habits can be altered.
9. The greater the conscious effort reduces the subconscious intuitive response.
· If the athlete thinks about their mechanics they just threw a monkey wrench into their performance.
· Performance is instinctive driven and not a thought process.
· If the athlete starts thinking, they just derail their instinctive performance.
· Thinking is not performance. The athlete’s performance has to be so instinctive, or intuitive, that they don’t even have to think about it.
· The athlete wants to use their focus factor to kick in their muscle memory and their natural sequence. This especially is true with kickers.
· In golf, I want to focus on my target then on my golf ball. This triggers my muscle memory that is needed to preset the wrist action in the golf swing. I just have two simple muscle memories that I feel engaged in.
10. Suggestions and beliefs can be used to “program” the subconscious mind.
· Suggestions code words can be used to program the subconscious mind to perform very specific sequential tasks consistently. I typically use code words like– Sync, Preset, to Lock Position to set up 90 percent of my golf swing, in Figure No. 1 below.
· A key belief that I use in my Addressing Position in golf is that of being in the batter’s box, in Figure No. 2 below. These suggestions and belief keys in my motor skills that are in my toolbox that are instinctive and natural.
· These are motor skills I learned while playing sandlot baseball when I was five years old where my grandfather has photos of me with a bat in my hands.
You Have Experienced The 410 Sports Psychology IN THE ZONE Before
If you have driven for a number of years, you have experienced the 410 SP IN THE ZONE. You might not have realized it at the time. This is how you can identified that you experienced the 410 SP IN THE ZONE before.
If you have driven down a familiar scenic highway on a beautiful day under normal conditions where you are relaxed and enjoying the drive. You are well into your trip going along and for a few minutes in the trip you don’t remember driving past certain landmarks or stretches of the road. But you were able to safely navigate the highway and traffic without incident. You just experienced what they call Driving Hypnosis.
While Driving Hypnosis is unsafe for driving a vehicle down the highway, it works great for driving a golf ball down the fairway on onto the green. Driving Hypnosis perfectly describe what occurs when an athlete can set up the four following conditions in their performance as did the driver:
- Develop Natural and Repetitive Routine tasks.
- Practice and perform under actual conditions that must exist in both.
- Rely on a high degree of: relaxation, confidence, and muscle memory.
- Focus, to allow the Subconscious mind to take over and Dominate the conscious mind, or being IN THE ZONE.
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Videotape of My 410 Orange Bucket Challenge Performance
I was asked to do a video series of my golf swing and practice session for a local sports show leading up to the 2021 US OPEN. So I went out to a local football practice field with the camera crew on Saturday June 05th, 2021 to perform my typical 410 Performance Drill.
During the pre production meeting the week before, the camera crew wanted to use one camera setup to capture the entire golf shot to my orange bucket. They were concerned that they couldn’t zoom in if I hit my drives 295- plus yards.
I told the camera crew I would use my AlmostGOLF Balls that travel only one-third (1/3rd) the distance of an actual golf ball up to 100- yards. This made the Germantown High School football practice field the perfect set up for our Orange Bucket Drill.
I would like to thank Germantown High School for letting us use the practice field and keeping it in such great shape. The conditions of the practice field were what one would expect on a fairway of a golf course. Also range balls at golf courses only travel 75 percent the distance of an actual golf ball. So this type of practice drill isn’t that much of a difference that what golfers experienced on practice ranges.
All three videos were shot on June 05th, 2021 in a three part series. These were done in the first take. Again this is how I wrap up my practice sessions and practice sessions that I have with my students.
The videotaping and hitting 4-out-of-5 shots to within 15- feet of a bucket provides that adrenaline condition that kicks in my students’ and my subconscious mind. Matter of fact, performing on the golf course is a walk in the park compared to the Orange Bucket Challenge.
Below is my three part video series that I did for a local sports show, plus a promo that the crew made for mew for doing this three part series:
THE Orange Bucket Challenge Link INTRO
The Orange Bucket Challenge Walk-Through
The Orange Bucket Challenge Demo
The Promo of The Orange Bucket Challenge
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