Does Learning Through Yoga Mindsets Will Lead To An Improved Golf Swing Mechanics Overall?
March 1, 2010 by Parshooters · 1 Comment
For the serious golfer the game is a dedication to improving one’s golf skills and mindset. It’s an opportunity to get away for some 4+ hours from the daily grind and stress of everyday living. Most of the time this isn’t done and instead we bring our anger, frustrations and temperament with us out on to the golf course. Instead what you observe most of the time is frustrated golfers heaving golf clubs, making vehement self-incriminatory remarks, swearing, and throwing temper tantrums that would rival those of a 2-year-old.
Focus is the last word you would use when observing images of the frustrated golfer. Golfers who don’t learn to appreciate the mental aspect of golf will remain frustrated or give up completely before mastering the game. Perhaps no sport is more wrought with mental hazards than golf. The game introduces a constant struggle between the conscious mind analyzing, alert, logical, understanding and the subconscious mind that deals with the intuition and the implementation of your long-term memory with regards to the golf swing mechanics.
The constant battle of giving yourself up to time in practicing and the amount of depth for available instructions contributes to golf’s reputation as an intensely mental game. There are volumes of detailed videos and books on the sciences of the game. Golf is a multi-billion dollar industry of golf equipment and one-on-one coaching is considered incomparable to any other sports. Yet all the instructions in the world won’t help you if you allow stress to seep into your game. Even though golf fundamentals are learned in the conscious mind, they are stored in the regions of the subconscious mind. Yet by incorporating elements of yoga into different positions, you can develop the mental discipline that golf demands. The Flow of Concentration.
How Much Of A Factor Can Inclement Weather Have On Your Golf Swing?
January 13, 2010 by Parshooters · 17 Comments
As I watch from my window to the outside world, I’m only dreaming of the warm spring days that won’t becoming to New York for at least another three months. You see we were just hit overnight with 4″ of snow on top of the snow we received from the last snow storm. Where I live today it’s a balmy 17 degrees outside. Ouch!
That is why I’m thinking about bad weather conditions in golf. I’m sort of correlating between the two weather conditions of today and what it’s like when you have to play in all kinds of bad weather. Playing in bad weather is a challenge but, when you prepare yourself properly your round of golf doesn’t have to collapse.
All golfers find it difficult to play effectively in inclement weather. Rain, wind and cold will affect your golfing mindset. The way you dress, your golf swing, the flight of the golf ball and the speed and breaks of the greens. No amount of practice or instruction can fully prepare you for bad weather playing. Being prepared for bad weather will make it bearable for you to play when the weather does turn nasty.