Mind in the Hand

The Importance of Training Your Brain to Have the Correct Thought First.

Howard’s deliberate teaching approach is designed not only to improve your performance; but it also gives you the foundation to play golf better than you ever thought possible for the rest of your life. Deliberate practice will condition our brains, it’s how we build a thing called Myelin. Myelin is impetus to developing and improving skills, making great athletes and performers.

Myelin is white matter in the brain that forms layers that make nerve impulses faster and stronger, and which a number of researchers suggest increases learning. The amount of myelin and its density seems to increase through practice and makes what you are learning to do more automatic. The idea of deliberate practice comes in because we have to ensure that myelin forms to increase and strengthen the right impulses

The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle

The beginnings of deliberate practice start with the correct thought. By having the correct thought, you can produce the correct action of the hand/s. The correct action of the hands will then produce the correct action of the clubface as well as the correct action of the body.

The Missing Link – The hands are the missing link between the mind and the clubface.

Myelin only gets created when there is a struggle, when we are not able to do the action that we want to do, it gets created from the repetitive correct thought first. The correct thought does not always produce the correct action, it’s the correct thought done over and over that creates the myelin that enables us to achieve the correct action. The essence of everything.

The degree of improvement of his or her game will show and will vary with the quality of each individual’s application. By continuing to practice and apply these fundamentals, the golfer will continue to improve his game – quite often, far beyond the fondest dreams. I do genuinely believe this: THE AVERAGE GOLFER IS ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF BUILDING A REPEATING SWING AND BREAKING 80, if he learns to perform a small number of correct movements and conversely, it follows, eliminates a lot of movements which tend to keep the swing from repeating.

Ben Hogan