What are you thinking about when you're playing your best golf?
Planning for moments of pure magic.
If you are a seasoned player, if you want to see a significant improvement in your game and score, you must make a meaningful change in the way you practice. Just imagine playing golf free of swing thoughts, free of thoughts of right or wrong, that’s where you’re headed.
You have 3 seconds to pull the trigger, now what?
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Actively processing information.
Golf is hard, at times we have too much to think about. With the elements, mechanics, body movements, our mind is active processing all this information. The problem is we're processing information just before we pull the trigger. Then we're left with trying to diagnose what went wrong and how to fix it.
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Eliminate all that thinking.
The Blackout Practice Plan will focus on this very issue. We’ll focus on building your Feel for distance control, and how to eliminate all that thinking. You'll learn to hit your fairway wedges the correct distance and find your Feel for the speed of the greens, all done without conscious thought of course.
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You better have a plan.
When you step in to your golf shot you have 3 seconds to pull the trigger. You better have a plan, because if you're thinking about what is going on above the ball, if you have swing thoughts dancing in your head, do you really know where the ball is going to land? You better have a plan for your next shot...
What is Blackout Mode?
You know the phrase, “It’s just like riding a bike.” How is it that you can go years without riding a bike, then you’re able to get on and ride it effortlessly? They say it’s because of implicit memory which involves remembering how to complete tasks that do not require conscious thought.
When you hop on a bike for the first time there is zero implicit memory to fall back on, you first must learn the fundamentals, ingrain them to memory, then and only then can you ride a bike properly without conscious thought.
With the practice plan we’re not going to fiddle too much with a golf swing that has been useful for decades. This is a crucial point because many of us have spent years on the practice range trying to fix our golf swing. When you’re in Blackout Mode there are no swing thoughts, no mechanical thoughts, and no thoughts about right or wrong.
Just like with riding a bike, the seasoned player must install implicit memory into their golf swing. That is, you must learn to strike a golf ball without conscious thought. This starts at home, where you can work on the technical stuff without thinking about the result.
Once on the range, it's critical to separate mechanical thought from hitting golf shots a specific distance. By definition, that is Blackout Mode.
Changing Swing Speeds is the key to controlling distance.
This is where you change swing speeds to adjust the distance you're hitting the ball, without thought of course. We start at home, where we'll feed your mind with the fundamentals of changing speeds. Then you'll commit it to memory, so we don’t have to think or talk about the process once we get on the range. A key moment in your training.
You know you shouldn't be trying to fix your swing on the golf course. But you need to find answers, you need to know why, you need to know how. And for good reason.
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If you're anything like me.
You’ve spent way too much time trying to fix a golf swing that has been useful for a long time, maybe even decades.
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Finding swing thoughts.
I'd find my swing thoughts from a recent lesson or practice. Or a swing tip from an article in Golf Magazine, or a video on Instagram.
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The real problem.
I'd take all the swing thoughts I could find to the range and go pound golf balls, lots of them. Then I would go play golf.
How many times have you “found something” in your swing that works, and then that’s all you can think about?
Harvey Penick (Little Red Book) said this about swing thoughts:
"In the golf swing a tiny change can make an enormous difference. The natural inclination is to begin to overdo the tiny change that has brought success. So, you exaggerate to improve even more, and soon you are lost and confused again.”
I think Harvey Penick was talking about me.
Here's the real problem. We find something that works, then we pound balls on the range, and ingrain that swing thought into our conscious memory. Then we go play golf. In those few seconds just before we pull the trigger, the swing thought is barking instructions at us. By the time we make the turn, we're lost and confused again.
It's an endless cycle that some players never get out of. That's the reason why we're here.
But what if it's possible to trust your golf swing just the way it is.
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Finding your own answer.
What if every time you hit balls on the range you weren't looking for someone to give you the answer. What if you could hit balls consistently the correct distance without grinding over swing thoughts, and without trying to fix your golf swing.
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Looking ever where but within.
Ask yourself: how would your game change if you had conviction for how you practice? What if you had the foundation of a practice plan to build upon? What if you could stop changing from day to day, swing thought to swing thought?
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Practice without technical thought.
Imagine what it would be like to take everything you think you know about the golf swing and get rid of it. Imagine in the moments just before you pull the trigger, you have no technical thoughts, no swing thoughts. Imagine the freedom.
Imagine a better way to take control.
Imagine a world where you can hit balls on the range, have no worries about results, no grinding over swing thoughts. in fact, no thoughts exist about trying to fix your golf swing. NONE!
Imagine hitting greens.
When you can hit a golf ball the correct distance, put yourself in position to make a birdie Putt, and don't care to know how you just did that. Momentum is on your side.
Writing your next practice plan.
Imagine getting home, writing your next practice plan, and you literally can't wait to get back on the range. There is no better Feeling in the game of golf.
Introducing the Fairway Wedge Practice Strategy
A practice strategy that gets the distance right.
So how does this work?
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Practice starts at home.
You must learn to strike a golf ball without conscious thought. This starts at home where we’ll introduce the fundamentals of the movements and pre-shot routine, how to change speeds used for distance control inside 100-yards.
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Expand Drills to Fit Your Game.
Customize your drills to fit your strengths and weaknesses in your golf game. If you are serious about improving your scoring game, planning your next practice to fit what needs attention changes everything.
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"Take Dead Aim"
“Take Dead Aim” on your golf game and don’t look back. Transition from trying to fix something, to trusting yourself to strike a golf ball the correct distance without the thought of right or wrong. It should be understood, let’s don’t go back to old habits.
GAME DAY PREPERATION
Blackout Mode Training Bundle
Practice becomes more preparation for game day and less pounding of golf balls on the range, trying to fix a swing that has been virtually the same for decades. There is no mystery to it, more than 60% of all shots are struck within 100 yards of the flagstick. If you are a seasoned player, if you want to see a significant improvement in your game and score, you must make a meaningful change in the way you practice. Just imagine playing golf free of swing thoughts, free of thoughts of right or wrong, that’s where you’re headed.