We can hold more than one thought when working on our golf swings. However, almost ALL instructors believe we can only handle one at a time. Well, they’re wrong, and I can prove it. Hence, my suggestion is to separate your swing thoughts into two thought boxes.
We may only be able to convert one thought into motion at a time, but motion is not the sum total of our golf swing. In fact, MOST of our golf swing is due entirely to athletic adaptive response to stimulus. Stimulus is communication from our brain to our body about our situation and our intention.
We create our own stimulus by setting-up to our ball. If we set up intentionally, we develop mitigating or optimizing movement – however you like to think of it – to reach our objectives. Of course, creating our own stimulus means that the movement in our golf swing is quite incidental.
Our ability to click all of our intentional, set-up tumblers into place before we ready our movement speaks to human genius. We can easily think about setting our feet, hips, shoulders, ball position, grip before we ever physically move. Well, that’s five swing thoughts right there! I know a few people who have ten items on their set-up checklist. Conveniently, however, all set-up tumblers occupy only one intellectual space. Set-up, therefore, is one of our golf swing, thought boxes.
Movement has its own box, too. But, movement is where instructors live. I do not live there, so I feel no need to rehash it – except to make fun of it. “Do what I tell you to do, and practice it with much conviction. If you don’t practice and get better, I won’t tell you what to do anymore.”
Oh, jeez… call the cops! They’re gonna stop giving me worthless drills and clever analogies instead of knowledge! What am I gonna doooo!?
Here’s what you do…
Open your stance, and play golf.
John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy
“The Ancestor of Every Action Is a Thought”
Billy Ho Is Setting Up Open, But Nobody Will Say The Word!