First, I showed you that you are athletic. Second, I’ll show you that you’re a genius. Freeing you from instruction is my only goal here. After all, instruction has no specific intention for you. They have an agenda with you.

Genius follows intention. Assuming you have an intention with your golf ball, equal to your ability, your brain will convert information into feedback. Feedback requires some deciphering, which is where I come in.

For instance, suppose I intend to figure out what year you were born just by studying your golf swing. I’ll have to take action to learn astrology, Chinese animal signs, and cycles. I will also have to observe swings, grips, set-ups, and ask questions. Finally, if I can visually guess age within twelve years, I begin looking for triggers. I’ll put pieces of information together until they connect from end to end. Then, I speak.

Do you think you are a genius? I know you are. But, what genius means may be different for you than for me. I agree that possessing information is ordinary. Everyone has information. So, allow me to prove my claim.

Philosophy makes information incidental, because we collect information while pursuing specific intent. “Pursuit” is religious rigor, or action. Genius, therefore, must emerge from something preceding knowledge, action, or philosophy. If action precedes information, and philosophy precedes action, then genius may be focused mastery of intention.

In any case, once your intention is set, our process begins. Right off the bat, most are amazed at my ability to read their thoughts from swing to adaptive swing. But, I know people think about similar intention – similarly. I also know the adaptive process for every intention. My student’s intention to adapt is assumed. Consequently, my mind-reading ability is more about my intention to connect you to your process.

For example, our Open Stance philosophy requires certain swing changes to enable solid contact. I guide you to keep your set-up orientation exactly the same as we focus on contact. Once your set-up is sure, we establish contact as the secondary focus of our session. Hence, by emphasizing set-up, you are free to interpret information as cues rather than consequences.

Pressure to immediately meet your targeted intent melts away. I inform you that your process allows your intention to remain without attention. I reinforce your brain’s perfect, adaptive wiring, with my aforementioned mind-reading. Once I show you your own genius, you will settle into a consequence-free, but focused, self-teaching dynamic.

You have never been taught this way. NO ONE teaches this way. Solo io. Solo qui.

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

First, I’ll show you that you are athletic. Please, answer three questions. 1) Are athletically gifted people immediately better at golf? 2) What determines athletic “gifted-ness”? And finally, 3) Are better golfers athletically more gifted? The answers are 1) No, 2) No one has a measurable definition, and 3) Of course not.

Athleticism refers to a trained response. However, we speak of “Athleticism” as “God-given”. As a result, we can put our definition on the highest intellectual shelf. Because, after all, “out of sight, out of mind” is not just true – but convenient. Moreover, a specious definition, made unassailable by misdirection, is also self-fulfilling.

Our bottom line is that EVERYONE is athletic. Because, athleticism has nothing to do with height, weight, vision, or any culturally accepted, proficiency cue. In fact, I created my thesis with one assumption – bilateral symmetry in able-bodied golfers – due to our cultural misdirection. I really believe we need to ask better questions to get better answers.

My research shows the amount of EXPERIENCE we have moving a certain way determines how “Athletic” we seem. Consider highly-trained young golfers. Every swing made is watched, corrected, and owned by their instructor. As a result, kids never learn how to adapt athletically.

Yes, young golfers move proficiently. However, highly-trained youngsters are lost when their swing migrates, because their instructor is absent. Young suffering golfers now either race back to their instructor for help, or blame them for failing. In any case, athleticism is the missing tumbler. I believe instructors have usurped the adaptive experience and, consequently, the athleticism of highly-trained young golfers.

Athleticism cannot be taught, but rather learned by a thinking, feeling, sentient being. For example, legendary tour professionals all possess a self-sufficient ability to make athletic changes, mid round, to remedy poor results. Legends don’t rely on instruction. Legends rely on inherent adaptive ability.

Adaptation is a large part of athleticism and, therefore, cannot originate outside ourselves. Adaptation is an internal reckoning of facts and feedback. And, because we ALL know how to adapt…

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

These are the remaining three swing videos of the Open Stance Academy Founder at work. John hit a total of six shots, and we left the two draws and one camera malfunction out. This is not a practiced move due to daily demands away from the course. But, each shot was pure. He continues to reinforce that the Open Stance works with intention only.

Like it or leave it, every shot was pure. Dedicate yourself to adapt to an Open Stance, and your eyes will open.

Open your stance, and play golf.

Kendall
The Open Stance Academy

The open stance offers the highest return on investment. The investment is commitment, time, and practice. The payoff is compounding interest in the process. The open stance, therefore, accrues until the moment you need to call upon your investment for reward on the golf course.

You are joining the fastest-growing segment of the golfing public – self-improvers. The current knowledge transfer regarding set-up is the greatest of our lifetimes. The Open Stance is leading the conversation with talking points that circumvent old narratives of movement, mechanics, and instructors. As a result, golfers are waking to the new dawn of individual choice in adaptation and experimentation around a proven philosophy. Hence, we are now free to treat our adaptation as a journey rather than a errand.

Need, intention, philosophy, religion, and anthropology are disciplines yet to be tapped in freeing golfers from the yoke of Psychology, Biomechanics, and Mathematics. One path keeps you thinking and helpless. The other path keeps you feeling and empowered. Guess which is which.

On Wall Street, the winners are not the people who rely on tips. The winners go out and do their own research. They commit to a goal and choose the best philosophy to use as their fundamental research framework. Each winner chooses the same basic philosophy. They then learn what to look for and what questions to ask. However, no matter how different each expression of their common philosophy is, the winners get there without altering the starting point.

For decades, the dynamic in our world has been, “Shut off your brain, and just buy what we are selling and hold it until we say buy more.” And, for decades, we believed it worked fairly well. However, what we didn’t realize was that our new and exciting, responsibility-free narrative let the snake in the door.

We now know that inflation and inflated personalities, which maintained our illusion, had compromised our humanity. Fortunately, people are waking up now and questioning past methods. As a result, new, more holistic solutions for old problems are filling in the old knowledge gaps.

The future is in taking back our power to make positive changes. We are relearning how to do simple things that contributed to our sense of self-worth and esteem. However, we still have to actively ignore the old system while our (swing) changes occur, lest we fall back into swing slavery.

Our golf swings are, essentially, a corollary for world events and watershed moments. Golf’s watershed moment occurred five years ago when The Open Stance Academy was founded. I showed golfers innumerable examples of the Open Stance philosophy and it’s prevalence in the greatest ball-strikers of all time.

My only mission is to show golfers what is possible when they entrust themselves to the winning, set-up philosophy. Golfers know there is something substantial about that connection. Consequently, people started listening, adopting, practicing, and reporting back their successes with unanimity. Their success was guaranteed.

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

The ball starts where the club shaft points at the top, because your body moves to strike your ball solidly regardless of where you set your club. Therefore, laying the club off creates a pulled start line. Our assumption is that you align your clubface directly at the target at address. Also, we assume you have not changed your general swing motion.

Why do people lay the club off? Maybe we have a forward ball position, a closed stance, physical limitation or requirements, or are adapting to injury. All are general reasons we might lay our club off. However, no matter what our category, we guarantee our start line is a pull.

I don’t want to cover body sequencing for each category, so allow me to cover ‘physical requirement’. There is no special set-up or one-off issue to interfere with a biomechanical solution. That way, people from other categories can pull from a general explanation… so to speak.

I’ve seen kids and adults who are ‘naturally’ layed off at the top. These folks are predominantly arm swingers or, in many cases, handsy. Either due to inflexible hips, torso, neck, or unique mental processes, they compensate athletically. Without regard for how they got there, I’ll explain the downswing.

Our arms are away from our body when the downswing begins. We have to reconnect while we shallow out. Because we must shallow an impact-steepening club set, our chosen subset have to compensate with motion.

We come off the ball (raise up), hang back, chicken wing, de-loft with vertical rotation, or any combination which allows our physical abilities to compensate. When we are most efficient, we deloft with vertical shoulder rotation and leave the body sequence, more or less, intact.

If we don’t compensate with equal extremes, we are very steep at the ball. Depending upon our intended goal, we shape our swing to fix a position that is off plane. In so doing, we lose power.

Players like Brett Wetterich, Jerry Kelly, Corey Conners, and others have played well with a layed off position. However, it’s hell on the hands and wrists. You may also notice they set up a little closed. They’ve developed a causal relationship. Ultimately, our golf swings must obey our intention, no matter how our feet are arranged. That is how swing change happens.

If I can address specific concerns, let me know. Until then, open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy