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Palmer GOLF SPIKE TECH Classic Golf Swing That Allows the Golfer to Use Their Instinctive Baseball Swing to Develop a Natural Golf Swing
Offseason doesn’t have to mean you are off your golf game due to lack of practice. Like Bobby Jones, Sr. stated in his classic golf swing quote: Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears. This actually doesn’t have to be a handicap for you but actually an tremendous advantage to you, the golfer, during the offseason and for the average golfer trying to develop the classic golf swing.
For the average golfer, golf is their passion and not their profession where they have 4-to-5 hours a day and a golf coach to work on their golf game. But that doesn’t have to be a handicap to you in the pursuit of a single-digit handicap classic golf swing. Wherever you, the golfer, practice their putting you have the training area needed to practice your golf game from tee-to-green.
Colonel Hall Vietnam POW at Hanoi Hilton
I had the pleasure of interviewing Colonel George Hall in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where I was meeting a representative from Alcoa that provided us fiber optics. As I was leaving the meeting, I noticed a Vietnam Vet setting up his booth for a charity golf tournament. I knew from my Mississippi history this had to be Colonel George Robert Hall who was held at the infamous Hanoi Hilton for seven-and-a-half years. He survived both mentally and physically by playing golf in his cell and his mind.
After his release in February of 1974, he was invited to play in the Greater New Orleans Open Pro-Am in March of that same year. He shot a 76, his handicap of 4 less than six weeks of being released and 100 pounds lighter.
I was able to interview him on techniques that he used playing golf in his cell and maintaining his handicap of 4 without a club. Col. Hall’s technique is one that we all could use not only on the golf course, but more importantly, in our practice sessions.
Col. Hall’s technique was how he preset his wrists into the Lock Position. Col. Hall explained that if he looked down and saw and felt his wrists in the Lock Position, he knew majority of his golf swing was established correctly. I have demonstrated the Lock Position below. The only thing left to do for Col. Hall was to take his stick that he hid in his cell to the top of his swing.
As far as his round of golf in his cell, Col. Hall, used his subconscious mind to develop course-like conditions. Read more in my interview with Col. Hall:
The Subconscious Mind
The subconscious mind offers a tremendous advantage to the golfer’s golf game even during the offseason. The typical practice session the golfer may very well use their conscious mind to think through their golf swing sequence on the range or in the backyard. But I can guarantee the golfer this one thing, once they step foot onto the golf course their subconscious mind will take over.
The Mental Rules of the Subconscious Mind
I have 10 Mental Rules of the Subconscious mind that controls 90% of the golfer’s game on the course. Five (5) of these I have listed below with explanations:
RULE No. 1 The subconscious mind does not and must not differentiate between visualizations and real situations.
The golfer has to create the same conditions during their practice sessions that will exist on the golf course. If not the subconscious mind will disregard the practice sessions and return to what will closely matches those conditions. I use The 4O5- Drill challenges and video tapping of my practice sessions that create a practice session like a scrimmage game is in football.
RULE No. 3 The Quicker and longer the subconscious mind believes and proves something, the harder will it be to alter this belief in any way.
The subconscious mind must have repetition and see results before it changes habits that it has developed. This is one reason that I use the baseball-type swing in my golf coaching techniques. Most of us swung a bat before we did a club. If the golfer can feel as comfortable with their golf swing standing on the tee box as they did with a bat in their baseball swing standing in the batter’s box, their golf swing will be executed by the subconscious mind without reservations.
Also what is important about the baseball swing was when we learned to swing a bat, usually before the age of 10. The age of 10 is when we establish permanent fine motor skills that once set doesn’t change. This is why you have athletes like Tiger Woods and Wade Boggs at the top of their sport.
RULE No. 7 The subconscious mind always prevails in conflicts with the conscious mind.
This is the real kicker to the golfer trying to take their golf game from practice to performance. If the golfer doesn’t incorporate their subconscious mind during their practice, the subconscious mind will disregard all those hours of practice. Col. Hall used his conscious mind to perfection in his cell. Col. Hall created conditions that his subconscious mind didn’t differentiate between virtual and real conditions. The subconscious mind didn’t see any conflicts between practice and performance.
RULE No. 8 An idea, once accepted, will remain firmly in place until it is replaced by another.
Here’s a great example of RULE 8- Using a tool for instance that you customarily place in the workbench draw, but after you use that tool on another occasion, you place it in the tool shed instead. Next time you need the tool you go to the workbench draw where it isn’t. Now you can’t remember where you relocated the tool.
This is exactly what happens to the golfer on the golf course. The techniques you use in practice are new, but your golf performance on the course are existing techniques that you have used from prior rounds. Sounds familiar?
RULE No. 10 Suggestions and belief can be used to “program” the subconscious mind.
In actuality in sports psychology, training is more of imagery and muscle memory driven than suggestions and beliefs. The more we use our five senses with images, feel, and even sound, the more we can program the subconscious mind. I use a tremendous amount of visualization in how the wrists are present into the lock position, muscle memory with feel using the Index Knuckle and the solid sound at impact to program my and the student’s mind.
I typically video tape all my practice sessions both in my training facility and in the backyard. This is how this works, read a book then go see the movie based on that book. The book is more vivid in your mind and real. Below is my Bunt-Type Pitch Shot and my Home Depot Orange Bucket Challenge Videos:
The Bunt-Type Chip Shot
THE QATSPY® Palmer Preset Technique HOME DEPOT ORANGE BUCKET CHALLENGE
NOTE: The Home Depot Orange Bucket Challenge was produce before I lost 52- pounds.
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