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Range today

Spent some time going to my home club and checked it out before season, range is open, course is not. It will be when I be back from the trip but anyhow.

I have built a vestibular reference map within the swing that starts to kick in, and at the end I hit all clubs good. I went home and then thought to check for carry with a 9i on my back yard and since I don’t own a measuring device, I had to measure it the old way by walking and counting the steps. With a normal swing the 9i was around 160 or so yard carry.
Tour average is a 8i with such distances. With same swing with a driver I would be around 270yard carry. (that I am not so sure of yet)

I am still coordinating this, my sequence is not happening all the time, sometimes I simply don’t do the chain and stall big time and rotate especially with the driver.
But improvement was made and that is what I like and enjoy, its getting better!

Like cream with chocolate.

Note, if you set up and address the ball like many does behind the ball which means straight behind, and then your should strike the ball from the inside which isn’t how you did set up isn’t that strange?

Moe Norman understood that and look where he sets the driver and iron, way inside and aligned differently than most would do.moeadressmoeadress1

 

So if we are to strike the ball on the inside to make it go straight due to inertia and force, why set up square to the target line?

If I use a modern set up I feel like a rat in a trap no room to move.

Naturally there the issue of consistency but if you have a set up that works for you then even if it don’t match a correct posture, don’t matter as long you can do it.
If you hit it a little left or right, well aim then accordingly. Don’t make it complicated to fit a particular model. My stance is atm in flux, I have a closed stance with left foot flared out, once I set it I feel like I am way closed to the target line however if one check video that isn’t directly accurate.

Feel vs reality.

Currently and as I done the last month is to build a bank of vestibular references within the swing to apply variation and test.

I also understand the arms and the pivot goes down into impact nor around or left or across. Down. That impact and what happens in the down swing is to set position (left hip sit down) then the half turn of pelvis happens as force is going down and then take note it goes down not across or left or around.

I have many old habits, so as I practice all those older habits are going away slowly as I practice more and more variation to make the swing and impact the one I want. It’s a slow progress and as far I know is hard to do fast as I am also building reference within the progress. If I had a coach maybe it be easier and faster Blinkar

Anyhow the rest of the day is preparing for the tripe early tomorrow and blog posts will take a halt for the trip. Might update during next week.

My scoring at least Skrattar

/RoB I am

Maybe I am a bad coach?

I helped Kristine become a Olympic candidate in triathlon.

I had to build a new swing system for Hans, a new game along the way also and address a lot of other things along the way. He is up the 20 may to try qualify to Nordea Masters it’s a tournament for the European tour event here 2 spots to fight for. Its not easy to make that as everyone is going for it. He found his game, he scored low if he can do enough I don’t know, I find out.

Then I coach myself obviously.

Applied the same instruction set I taught during winter in the last 4 weeks, discovered a few other things along the way, improved my swing action, hitting balls in a way I never done before. Once I can move from swing to game I be scoring low.

I just wish I was 30 or 20 instead of soon 50. What is your excuse?

To old so its to late? To young or some other excuse that you tried to many times and never succeeded?

I know that my game will be scratch level or such this summer already without even having played a round. Without even been out on the course. Its part of my curse to calculate things ahead of its time, without even having had feedback and testing it will just work so much better so I have no calculated result for it. I am running out of numbers. How long it takes to stabilize this to shoot consistent numbers I don’t know again running up short in calculations.

I build models of predictions the good thing about those models is that they always work as they predict the bad thing they don’t do anything else than that result either so to improve I build new and better models along the way.

The new RBIm model is already kicking into higher gear making previous calculations obsolete.

It makes me a bad coach as I cant predict the result the same way I have previously done the result is simply so good.

I guess I got to live with it.

Skrattar

And learn the new way

/Robert Johansson

About practice and working things and strategies

Here is my strategy.

Do things bit by bit, master one portion within the overall action you want to display, for the golf swing it’s the motion. Once your motion works this means your brain is able to organize that within habitual framework, then you can adjust, tweak, change stuff within that, fail even make mistakes and it wont matter as your having a organization that you can hang onto. Then as your doing that you have evidence when things works better like ball impact and trajectory and such and ease of muscle fatigue etc..

Now I do things that works once I take notice you know becoming aware of that what works then it’s a matter of time before the what to apply that or link it or connect it to happens.

I tried a few things for Hans in distance control, then as he was about to compete I figure this might work to fixate that issue for him, told him what to do and he did it and had no issues with distance control. Once he had that down and he continued to do that instead of following the previous plan, naturally if you do what works its easy to then try to do it better. Time was now to do the next step for him and I told him what to do there a few days ago, so he went out and played, shot 4 under then 2 days later 2 under, his best game in years. It now just works. It wont mean he wont need adjustments and such but now he has a game plan to fall back on, basics that will just work.

I asked myself why is my pitch shots so good? I was hitting them solid so then evidently the hip weight shift was the factor and as I did that with full swing then that improved. Then as I tried variations and I can talk enough about those, how many variations do you do?

I do one with every swing I do. If  I hit 500 balls I done 500 variations.

You want to become better?

Fail a lot and make mistakes and apply variation.

I hit 900 balls or so in 2 range sessions, and those sessions I improved massively as was evident today for me as shots and my swing felt really solid and easy to do. I am continue to apply variation, change one thing, feedback on that test and adjust and then move on until what I want to happen happens. (I hit around 70 balls today and that was it)

In NLP its called modeling to do things until your able to repeat a particular result you defined and then improve upon it.

Once the breakthrough event last year the 6 of October, I taught those guidelines to a few, some have given up due to hitting 50 yards+ longer isn’t enough distance increase…instead of sticking with improve technique, more force applied which cant be rushed but so many search for the secret when there is none.

This was me 4 years

ago.
From some Moe hybrid to some all over the map swing.

 

 

 

 

 

Then this today much better.

I am not done, still work to do but that what I have now is playable beyond anything I done previously. Do I to some extent still re-route, yes a non issue with irons, driver I still end up angling the left arm the wrong way and next to be adjusted and fixed.

The strategy is to apply variation until the desired result appears. Seems simple and it is, as it allows me to cut trough assumptions and just do until it works.

As far I haven’t found a secret, awareness of the body trough the motion might be one which is trainable, aware of the inside ball quadrant to the club head vs the position you have when sitting down, maybe but all are trainable and easy to find within a few balls.

Once I understood that the C7 for example helps you to come from the inside and under and out and create the compound pivot trough the release that sets up all the sit down on the left hip and the motion down with hips not up at impact and it all is made easier with the inside quadrant of the ball to club head.

What many does in the golf swing it becomes a inside joke and don’t relate to the ball and its impact, and once that has happen its then all kind of different swing theory.

What should your body position relate to?

Now, when for example I fixed the distance control for Hans, it wasn’t his skill I needed to fix for him but I needed to give his skill a container to be used on the course as on range he hit 3 balls within a yard. I then went to Nicklaus and thought he might know. I applied that for him and he gave it a shot and worked wonders. Then I investigated it a bit and found a flaw and I told Hans and he said, how did you know?

Its what I do I said, I don’t talk and present things I don’t know about, I do tests, find out how things works and those I teach but many are so into a secret and some higher power gives them things instead of doing the work as I have found there is no short cuts.

Next once the swing works is distance and tempo. Then the short game between 30 and 80 yards or so. My main weakness atm.

However still lot of work with the swing mechanics to do but its way less than it was 2 weeks ago and again much less than a week ago so things are improving slowly and working.

If you think your brain and motoric control can do things in a few hours and then apply a magic patch to do it, yes in some cases it can happen however its more likely that your basic technique if we talk golf swing is not sound yet.
Hans has changed his swing in 5 months, its now better than he ever had it. He also done a lot of work to make it work but he also did the outline I showed him to do the same instructions I am following and I am started to pound it.

No patience and little variation, no failure and no mistakes well first range session I did I sliced a PW for more than 80 balls. Then, less than a month from that my swing now is working. 900 balls with variation also helps as it showed me I don’t use muscle force to power it.

Start with, what do you think is the overall organization you want to have and how does it relate to what you do? I view motion in the golf swing and I do that with kali Silat and other martial arts also, I view for example speech impairment kids with controlled feedback for their vocal register they cant control consciously however with proper vocal practice can learn to speek freely in a few hours in spite of years of vocal teachers with them. I view dyslexia as a failure tor elate the visual image to correlate that to the internal organization and recalling and once that is fixed they become self correcting.

Its what I am building with my golf swing and system a fail safe system so you can adjust and correct your self to the template you train for.

Its what I done with RBIm.

/RoB I am

Golf instruction BMS

Its midnight here, and I am hot due to all the things I am doing to be prepared for the RBIm workshops and making my game ready. Hans is playing great now, his best in years and its going to get better. His next competition is may 20, 2 spots for entering the Nordea Masters a European tour event here, a needle eye to pass, I hope he makes it as that would be fun.

During summer I will shoot footage in HD about the what I do within the golf system and will also contain practice principles I use when I do the work. Summer, good sunny days, well that’s the idea to shoot such stuff.

Next is 4 days golf after the RBIm workshop with a friend from Monday the 20 may, prognoses for the weather we will play with isn’t looking good with some rain, but 6 days to go it can change a lot.

No idea what I can produce with scoring but as far I can tell, I be doing things I never been near to before.

Reports will come.

/RoB I am