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Now there’s no argument about the fastest way to improve your golf game… And ANYONE can do it!

New Research has shown exactly what happens in the brain during PROPER practice to create supercharged improvement at any task, including golf. This new research shows shocking new evidence that proves:

Skill IS learned rather than a gift.

Translated: You can achieve anything you set your mind to.

Daniel Coyle has written a book called ,”The Talent Code” that goes through the process that takes place in a person’s mind when they practice any activity properly. He also studied various hotbeds of talent around the world to pin down this new skill secret. If you wish to excel at anything, this book is a must read.

So what is the difference between those who appear gifted and those who seem to work much harder, but cannot seem to achieve the same level of competency?

During any activity specific neurons in the brain fire depending on the activity. Whenever those neurons fire they get wrapped with a material called Myelin. The myelin protects the “circuit”, but more importantly, as more myelin wraps that neuron, the better and faster that neuron can fire. In other words, repetitive firing of those neurons turns their communication circuits in the brain from ‘dial-up” to T-1 high speed Broadband.

So if you want a higher degree of mastery, build more myelin! But it’s not that easy or we would all be masters…

What separates the masters of any field from the average Joe struggling to improve?

Proper practice. As a golfer I’ve heard one phrase quoted often but all too quickly ignored…

Practice DOES NOT make perfect; PERFECT practice make perfect.

Science has now proven this to be true and discovered what constitutes perfect practice. There is a lot more than constant repetition to achieve mastery.

Consider that Ben Hogan turned his game around in a couple short years from a struggling pro who fought a nasty hook to one of the most controlled, accurate golfers of all time.

To this day, the golf magazines write articles about one certain technique or another that Hogan used to achieve his accuracy… But they completely missed the boat, because…

His secret wasn’t in his technique… It was HOW HE DEVELOPED HIS TECHNIQUE! In other words, his practice technique.

You see, even back in the fifties the methods proven by this new research were already in use… And Hogan was one of the few who used them.

Hogan practiced in such a way as to accelerate this process researchers have discovered inside the brain. But this doesn’t just work for golf. It works whether you are; playing tennis, soccer, the cello, piano, or even learning to overcome shyness!

As long as you practice properly, so that you enage this newly discovered process of myelination in the brain, you can improve any ability at exponential speed.

So what constitutes proper practice?

There are a number of elements:

• Focused practice - all attention should be aimed toward every detail of each practice session.
• Breakdown of movement to smaller movements - Each component of an activity should be mastered separately so that the whole activity doesn’t blur the details of smaller parts. The more detailed the practice, the more neurons get wrapped so that the resulting movement is more exact.
• Accurate practice - Every movement needs to be compared to a “map” to immediately catch and correct mistakes. Mistakes need to be corrected immediately and constantly so that every repetition fires the same neurons to cause the brain to put more wraps on the circuit.
• Passion - because it takes an immense amount of energy to focus so closely and accurately during practice.

So, how did Hogan practice to achieve his turn-around?

Hogan used to take hours to hit only 40 balls. He would hit a golf ball, take a drag from his cigarette, and ponder each shot for a while before he hit the next. He practiced to correct errors and repeat only exact movement. Hogan often practiced his swing movements in slow motion to insure exact movement. He used the balance feedback felt in his feet to create a map he could accurately compare every swing to to insure exact movement.

But there is so much more than the golf swing that makes up a great golf shots. For the rest of the golf shot, a golfer must have excellent focus because he or she must use both the conscious and subconscious mind together to consider all of the variables and decide on the perfect shot shape and spin. Although the swing hits the ball, focus puts each individual swing together that a specific shot requires.

The ability to customize any shot comes from practicing in small parts before reassembling the whole swing. There is the setup, the backswing, transition and downswing and each of these parts can be broken down into smaller parts. Each part may have slight variations that need to be practiced as well so that each individual shot “package” can be created as needed for the varying situations that each shot presents on the golf course.

Hogan was consciously aware of every detail of his body’s movement during his practice. Hogan also practiced his FOCUS technique so he could play without distractions, and properly plan and execute every golf shot. Hogan was not only building his golf swing neurons, he also built up his focus neurons, Something Tiger has done as well.

Now for some bad news…
Because of the degree of focus and attention needed during practice, this also proves that Muscle Memory is the slowest way to groove a golf swing. Your muscles cannot act to engage the mind into the process of remembering your golf swing. Because practitioners of Muscle Memory believe that they can passively engage the brain through mere repetition, they are basically… Wasting most of their time! Sorry guys, but proof is proof.

All of this focus and mistake correction sounds like a lot of hard work doesn’t it? The advantage if done properly is that you can condense 8 hours of practice into 30 minutes or less.

I was teaching golfers world-wide these very practice techniques long before scientists discovered the myelination process and since the start, have been hearing my students rave about how quickly they are improving…

And these methods are easier to use and they still get much faster results than current mainstream teaching methods… And now science has proven the value of this type of practice. (If you can’t tell, I’m a little excited about this.)

This is the very same process with which I was able to successfully teach 1000’s of golfers around the world to quickly and permanently improve their golf games using just the written Golf Swing Control Manual over the last 8 years.

More specifically, what Golf Swing Control has done is to show golfers how to make sure they practice accurately and with the type of focus that generates the myelination process in the brain for the fastest improvement of their whole golf game.

If you have Golf Swing Control and haven’t seen the results I’m talking about here, go back to the manual and read these two chapters:

• “Practice for Quick Improvement”
• “Programming Feel Into Your Game”

And pay attention to DETAIL, because that’s what builds myelin on your neurons.

You may have heard me talking about boosting the abilities of your brain’s communication circuits by using Balance Feedback as the basis of visual focus during movement. Well, what I’ve been saying all of these years has finally been scientifically proven .

My current project, Bio-Visual Focus is another step toward exact practice and super stimulation of the myelination process, but this process is targeted specifically at the neurons that control focus. Bio-Visual Focus is the process I use with better golfers to give them the super-focus to get the final fine-tuning it takes to consistently shoot those sub-par round it takes to win consistently on the PGA Tour. The side effects I have seen of super accuracy and consistency are amazing even to me!

Now before you start writing me emails about Bio-Visual Focus, it’s only for better players
(hcp 4 or less). It is the next level for professionals or those who have mastered the practice techniques in Golf Swing Control. If you want to learn ultimate focus, you must have a legitimate 4 or better handicap OR have mastered the practice techniques in Golf Swing Control (in which case, you’ll probably have or be very near a 4 hcp.)

If you don’t have Golf Swing Control, this new scientific evidence should prove that it is the best method to gain your fastest improvement for your golf game… Even if you can only practice at home during the off season! As I’ve always said, if you do nothing, nothing will change. If you want fast permanent results, get Golf Swing Control. You won’t regret it.

Stay tuned for more cutting edge golf…

Hit’m well,
Tracy
www.golfswingcontrol.com

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