Master’s Radio thinks Speith and Thomas Have a Problem. I don’t.

I don’t know who one of the personalities doing the talking was. But, one of them was Colt Knost. They obviously care about Jordan and Justin’s success, which is great. However, their discussion was myopic.

At one point, one of the personalities began talking about how they had become too analytical, or left-brained, or whatever I may not remember from days ago. They rationalized it with Jordan being left-handed (Right-brained, whatever). And, that’s where the analysis ended. You see, one of the commentators was self-acknowledging his own dyslexia which, of course, must give him special insight into what is at issue with Speith and Thomas.

Mr. Dyslexia’s unassailable tower of victimhood should keep him from contrary opinion, right? Almost. Here’s my contrary opinion. Feel free to disagree. First, let me preface my comments with my view that victimhood is mental weakness disguised as social disadvantage, which is idiocy disguised as helplessness, which is laziness disguised as unfairness. It’s all a passive aggressive attempt to manipulate the other person and win without competing. And, “Homey don’t play dat.”

There is NOTHING wrong with Jordan and Justin. They began to live life. They fell in love with their girl(s), got married, had children, and played golf throughout. The only thing that didn’t change was their circle of mouths to feed telling them they are still the greatest golfer playing, they could do no wrong, and they could do everything just as well as they could pre-‘life’.

Imagine a fully-developed ego based on past success. I know this dynamic as well as anyone. At my best, I could fit a two-iron between a caddy’s wingspan 9 out of 10 times while hitting the sweet spot 10 out of 10 times. Then came another point in my golf career, when I could make four putts in a row on the chosen side of “the tee”. Choose any break you like and in doing so, I would NEVER miss the sweet spot. My path and AoA was THE SAME every. single. time. And at yet another point, I could chip and pitch without EVER missing the sweet spot – from any depth of rough. Blah, blah, blah. I practiced until I could not miss… like Jordan and Justin.

Then, life got in the way. I never got worse in my mind. Only my skills degraded, and they did it without my knowledge and permission. Unfortunately, my memory stayed the same. Therefore, with degraded skills, I was still trying to pull off shots from memory instead of reality. I didn’t even have the refined sugar of “Team” telling me how great I was, and I couldn’t detect an atrophied game. Ultimately, it translates into higher scores and a worsening malaise.

Jordan and Justin, who are immensely talented, and who have each been #1 in the World, are just starting to realize their “teams” have done them no good. Justin has jettisoned Bones. Jordan will probably soon do the same with Mike – all because neither has a voice pointing them in the right direction. All they have are eager mouths to feed. They SHOULD jettison their teams, corporate and personal, and get back to basics. It’s not like they need the money. Jack never needed anyone but Barbara and much later Mark McCormack. Arnie?… Forget about it. He and Winnie took on the World.

Winning is the best agent. Majors are the best Sports Psychologist. Their competition is their best trainers. Need is the teacher. All a “Team” does for a player is insulate them from what is supposed to be an exposed competitive dynamic. Furthermore, it’s all controlled by their sponsors. Sad. However, I believe Speith and Thomas are on the cusp of lightening their life load and regaining their prominence soon.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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The Secret in The Open StanceBruce and Specific Intention

Ever wonder why everyone must get a trophy? I think I found out. This will bake your cookie. It came to me as I was listening to Wayne Dyer on YouTube. Here is what I came up with.

Wayne got rid of all his trophies, awards, memorabilia, etc. to begin a new walk. Then, I remembered, in the Bible, that Jesus told his disciples to give up everything they had to follow him. In both cases, tying ourselves to the past through our collections and icons of glory keeps us from greater consciousness and a higher vibration in the present. LIVING IN THE PRESENT is the thing.

We make excuses for holding onto our past as if our age determines our worth, and our youth was spent and without the evidence of trophies is now, somehow gone. How did we get into trophy mode in the first place?How far back can we trace the race for hardware? To me, at least… the Olympics comes to mind. The Greeks began the contests and then the Roman Empires, which peaked around 98AD, presided over Olympic games. The Coliseum of Rome became the home of all added Circus in progressive regularity – serving alcohol to numb the minds of the bloodthirsty spectators, who were most inclined to revolt.

The modern Olympic games date back to 1896, reintroduced after an absence of a millennia and a half. Why? What happened that something necessary during the Roman Empire was not necessary for the next 1,500 years, only to be necessary in modern times?

My educated guess is that the Olympics are used by empires in need of them. Introduced at a peak and added to in decline to draw and pit maximum viewership, one against the other, along racial and national lines. Empires need cover for the business of enriching the powerful. Therefore, the ‘powerful’, needed to distract their populations while they rob them daily through usury and debasement of their currencies. Sound familiar?

“Give the people BREAD AND CIRCUS, and they will never revolt.”
– attributed to the Poet, Juvenal (55AD to 128AD)

We could argue the same dynamic is underway today. The insidiousness of the rollout of Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Fencing, Badminton, etc., and don’t forget the Winter Olympics’ Luge, Bobsled, and Curling! draw in hundreds of millions of potential viewers while having no practical value at all. In my view, that’s kind of the point.

By multiplying the offerings of “qualified” Olympic sports, they (reign) in millions more kids to undertake a life of Curling. Competitions are devised that offer them all trophies for being ordinary. A years-long path to a payoff uses up their formative years better spent studying Civics, Latin, Math, and Science. Kids grow up pursuing trophies in the world instead of solutions for the world.

Modern emperors couldn’t get enough children to the finish line first, so they decided to bring the finish line to each, individual child. What better way to indoctrinate the children, not into believing they are the best or came in first, no. It was to use trophies to hook them on their past and keep them looking backwards. And that maybe then, their contributions to the present and hope for a future might pale by comparison. If true, they are demoralizing and shaming our entire population, by hook or crook, into submission to the celebrated… the celebrity class… the “Influencers”.

The powerful can turn anyone with an attitude and the ability to play a few chords on a guitar into an idol to worship. Taylor Swift is the best modern example. Please understand this is not an offensive on Taylor Swift. She’s lovely. But, she has no discernable talent other than being pretty and that which is retroactively attributed to her celebrity. If you’ve heard her without the benefit of “Autotune” you know it’s true. Her fans would say, “Well if she’s so untalented, why is she so famous and rich?” I would respond, “Because your parents weren’t paying attention while Taylor’s corporate promoters were stealing your brain.”

And, then there’s golf. The PGA Junior Leage, Operation 36, and whatever program is next, keep on coming under the auspices of “Growing the Game”. On its face, these are noble enterprises. After all, golf is fun. However, when the programs are taken from the golf professionals who devise them and made worldwide initiatives by a self-serving corporate dynamic, money becomes the lynchpin of something far more destructive to our social fabric.

Parents are tricked into spending money to have their children play an ‘outdoor, healthy, wholesome game’ while readying the trophies for tens of thousands more children than would otherwise win them. Then, by repeating the dynamic enough times for enough years, you have entire families paying into a system designed not to instill self-worth and life goal-achievement into our kids. But, rather, to flood our world with athletic supporters instead of architects, midfielders instead of medics, and Esports(mixed-reality) gamers instead of engineers. The First Tee Program is the only exception I know of (Props to Jack Barrett of the South Florida First Tee). We do it because in our current world, we have allowed celebrity to matter more than conscience.

Truly this must be the end of the American Empire. I mean, really. The intellectually insulting ridiculousness of every next ‘big’ thing is so extreme, it makes me kida sick to my stomach. Are you aware of shows called ‘The Masked Singer’ and ‘Deal or No Deal Island’? O.M.G! Do people really watch that pap? I equate it to a sick kind of anticipation, like readying yourself for a public flogging. You watch just to have the public assurance that you are not participating – never realizing that our present and future are taking the lash instead of our bodies.

Here is my solution for parent and pip-squeak alike…. Stop participating in celebrity of any kind. Stop asking for autographs and high-fives, fist-bumps, and sweat-soaked towels and gloves. Don’t let your kids have their own phone. No more joining. Individualize competition. Understand integrity and demand it in everyone and everything – especially in exchange for dollars spent.

Frame your sporting activities as opportunities to test physical and mental toughness instead of pursuing professional status. Besides, only rich kids, who would never otherwise have to work a day in their lives, are free enough to pursue icons of glory. There are no poor kids on the PGA Tour.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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Toldja.

Did Anyone Write About An Open Stance or the Link Between Intention and Our Golf Swing Before John Wright?

Open Stance and The Fade Experience is part of a mastery process, to sharpen ball-striking while measuring adaptive expertise. I begin by setting the ball outside my forward foot with the intention to make perfect contact and insist my ball finishes on my target… all from an open stance. The adaptation required in club face, path, set position, and takeaway is extreme.

I do this to regain control of my motion in all regards, intellectual, mechanical, and sensual, and carry it forward into my regular sessions and play. The result is absolute comfort on-course, knowing there is NO SITUATION I cannot handle immediately… aside from big Florida Alligators.

My particular, historical error is over-rotating into my backswing (Due to a hyper-flexible spine), which flattens my swing too much. I left Virginia under-practiced and over-hooky. I knew I had to go back to the steepening process initiated the last time I was wonky (2001 Florida). The added benefit is total confidence in my ability to adapt quickly to any ball position change.

If you can reliably associate your ball position with clubface, path, motion, and takeaway necessities, and you can pure it every time and make your ball go exactly where you want, then you too can consider yourself a master of the golf swing. Then, the Fade Experience becomes YOUR expression of mastery.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

The One Common Swing Link In Every Fade

It Is Not The Fade That Creates Control

When You Get Too Shallow, Try The Ball Forward Chop Move

“Micromagent” is Michael Scott’s nod to the Peter Principal, once the only way to do the kind of business that inevitably shrinks demand, demoralizes employees, and runs once-viable entities out of business. Now it is the description of the level of stupidity inherent in all supplicants to its purposeful distortions of the free market. And if all that doesn’t make you nod off, this will….

We have just entered the Age of Aquarius – once only a song – but now a scheduled set of expectations inherent in interplanetary and interpersonal relationships as dictated by non-human creation. Once stigmatized as mysticism, its derogatory monikers no doubt emerged from a genuine hubris of church and state officialdom and their desire to sublimate thought, freedom, and any theory of natural philosophy and our creator, wholesale, in favor of control and their own aggrandizement.

“Micromagent” is an example in modern culture of a smart man’s way to confuse language to dupe the innocent or sleeping masses. It’s passed off as fun or comedic jab at the idiocy of modern management theory, but it holds up a mirror to real life in many ways and in many disciplines and businesses. I’ve discussed them at length. However, just for the sake of reminder, I’ll recover the golf instructor corollary.

Words matter. There are words that build knowledge. There are words that destroy knowledge. And, there are words that hide a lack of knowledge. The golf industry has concerned itself with the latter two..

The words used to promote lesson-taking and celebrity over learning and self-improvement have destroyed years of golfers intellect via unwitting neglect of golfing philosophy. And the wordsmiths have imprisoned generations of golfers and tethered erstwhile rational minds to their bank accounts.

You might remember me discussing terms like stack and tilt. I’m not capitalizing it because it’s preeminent among confused golf swing thinking and use of language, and it doesn’t deserve the respect of capital letters. Marketing that uses such abstract terminology or, as I call it, definitions without a difference, depends on our ignorance to succeed. Of course there are a myriad examples of the subterfuge-in-word by charlatans-in-fact. I am only pointing out words.

Using words without definitions led to our passive acceptance of any drivel emanating from the warm body on the range telling you how much more they know about moving YOUR ball. I gotta wrap this up…. Here is the thing…. It’s entirely possible that you could learn more about a golf swing by reading through the posts here on openstanceacademy.com than ANY instructor or so-called ”Expert” could accumulate in a lifetime of immersion in “Micromagent “-theory. And I don’t need to see you make one swing to get it done.

By: John-J.; .Wright – Trustee
OSAPMA

The Open Stance Helps Swings He Has Never Seen

You Don’t Need To See My Face To Hear My Voice

“Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving! Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned, family Christmas! Nooo, no! We’re all in this together! This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here! We’re going to press on, and have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tapped danced with Danny F****** Kaye! And when Santa squeezes his fat, white ass down that chimney tonight, he’s gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse!!

You’re goofy!

Don’t piss me off, Art.”

Everyone, have a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Unscrewing The Science

They Said “Open Stance”! It’s a Miracle!

Our Shoulders Hook Our Golf Ball, Not Our Hands

Toldja so. Hooks and draws are hit from an open stance. Sing it, Lee the Flea! …turnin’ me into a rock star again!

MAN, I’m tired of being right!

By: John-J.: .Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy
soon to be OSAPMA
a Private Member Association

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Our Shoulders Hook Our Golf Ball, Not Our Hands

The Open Stance and The Ball-Flight Tree for Me

Unscrewing the science with an Open Stance is simply an eventuality. As the universe, which God spoke into existence in ONE VERSE, flashes into and out of reality at 22,000,000 times a second, we seek to explain physical reality with something called science. We have applied theory in individual disciplines, to support our own conclusions, all trying to support our claims.

Thus far, no one has come up with a cogent argument to answer, for instance, why the suns shine. Nuclear explosions? I’m afraid not. Nuclear explosions which continue constantly, at a sun level, are not supported by or occur under ‘general relativity’. No sun should be MUCH warmer than the ambient space around it, which is justifiable by the nature of the physics that are proffered by general relativity.

We screwed ourselves by compartmentalizing theories and associated languages within each. I won’t readdress the economic reason at this time. However, on the level of enlightenment, we eschewed deeper thinking for the convenience of immediate gratification. Mass Media offered a person in celebrity and the language they spoke as gospel. Eventually, I believe the luminaries Einstein, Edison, etc. will be supplanted by the real genius of Boskovich and Tesla, who had the sense to pursue great thought.

In the mean time, we have to spend our time unscrewing the science foisted upon us by chosen celebrities and their language. Notice I accused their language right along with them? That means it was never a natural part of them. Correct. Focusing human minds on Earthly pursuits too often requires wrapping up complexity in a nice box, pretty ribbon and screwy language and presenting it as a settled matter. That’s the methodology of nearly every scientific discipline.

Furthermore, the math keeps getting more and more bizarre to try to make this shit make sense. For example, Eric Weinstein, a Joe Rogan regular, is always complaining that no one takes his theory on “Unified Geometry” seriously. Never mind that his horse shit theory tries to reconcile the unreconcilable, i.e. quantum mechanics and relativity. Likewise, with every compartmentalized conclusion we make, we have to make up progressively more bizarre shit to make it make sense. Golf instructors too, have done the same thing to the golfing public for over seventy years.

We followed Hogan into the abyss based on his ‘secret’. Never mind he never mentioned it. He knew his ‘secret’ was specific to his action. Sharing his secret as an objective truth would have done a YUGE amount of damage to the golfing public, and he may have been paving the way for Homer Kelley to do it for him.

Golfers lost objectivity after reading Kelley’s work – based on his language regarding WHAT happens. The Golfing Machine was a perfect vehicle for stupefying golfers into accepting incuriosity and implementing a subjective opinion about their golf swings. “What works for me is….”

Later, golfing masses applied fixes and word pictures offered by McLean, Ledbetter, Ballard, Haney, and the rest. Their ‘school’ of thought, delivered publicly by mainstream mass media, was their clever spin on prior short-cuts. Our culture interpreted cleverness as simplicity instead of stall-tactics. Therefore, we tendered our awakening to a later date.

Eventually, all these bedazzled and bowed Schroedinger’s golfing boxes, screwed up our golf swing language and scientific knowledge. Apparently, we were not smart enough or curious enough to pursue the actual evidence. Thus, imprecise thinking allowed hypothecation of more and more bizarre language.

Over the next century, my work will serve as a basis for cleaning up our language surrounding our golf swing and unscrewing the science. Future players and teachers will use my multidisciplinary approach to help people on their path. And, before you instructors out there start arguing that we do that already, let me remind you of the origin and not the application of our golf swing. Golfers will see as objective that which was taught subjectively in our recent past.

Until then, enjoy your Open Stance golf. You are initiators. Early adopters are on board and healing. Read my other articles and posts and see where you are on the continuum to freedom from instruction. You teacher is waiting. Remember that dissonance means distance from truth. If my language sounds familiar or by some chance, comforting, then your curiosity is increasing and you are reeling in the truth.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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