GOLF MENTAL
A little story about GOLF MENTAL TRAINING
A centipede was strolling along the road when a toad hops
gleefully beside him. The toad stares in amazement at the
centipede with all his legs. “Gee, I only have 4 legs. So simple it
is for me. I hop around. Hop, hop, hop.”
The centipede simply smiles. The toad, needing to meet his
curiosity, asks him, “how ever do you walk with so many legs?
How many legs do you have?” The centipede replies’ “I’m a
centipede, I have 100 legs.”
The frog continues his query, “Wow that is so many legs! That
must be so touchy to control each one and make them work
together just so you can walk. However do you execute it!?”
To this the centipede began to believe and really devote attention to
the act of walking. “Maybe the frog was right. After all it is a lot
of legs,” he thought. The centipede began to falter and
promptly tripped and fell into the ditch….
When you arrive at the stage of mastery and your unconscious
has integrated what you have learned, the burden of conscious
thought is removed. You can just bask in the experience. If you
attempt to untanglel a high level process such as this what you’re
executeing is bringing the “experience” of your knowledge down a
stage. Back to the stage of conscious competence once again.
What was once a completely unforced and natural process
becomes undone! Like the centipede you feel like it must be re-
learned.
Many pros have moved gracefully through the golf mental training
stages and arrived at a stage of personal mastery. (I didn’t
say they overcome the game, no one has). Then they want to
“discover how to play better” or to “take their game to the next
level”.
Just turn toTiger Woods, or Phil Mickelson or a array of other
outstanding players. They reach a place in the game like winning a
major championship and for some reason think that the game
that got them there isn’t good enough and requires some
changes!
Ok, sure there are benefits in looking down the road aways and
seeing that some refinements could aid them in playing at a
high level for longer. Yet more often than not they take their
unconscious competence and disentangle it. Now they’ve
unknowingly returned to the stage of conscious incompetence,
the “I know that I don’t know” stage. This is the conscious mind
stage where swing mechanics and consciously applied learning
takes place.
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