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| BODY AWARENESS GOLF: BALANCE YOUR SENSES (Lynn Bernadett) | |||
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Lynn Bernadett - Golf Professional The
perfection
of
golf
has
eluded
many
players
of
the
game.
That’s
because
its
factors
to
achieve
perfection
are
so
great.
Players
take
long
strides
of
studying
the
balance
of
their
swing
mechanics
and
constantly
work
on
organizing
their
course
maintenance
skills
for
structure
and
repetition.
To
no
avail,
a
great
number
of
you
still
can’t
get
the
“feel”
of
the
golf
swing.
Feel
comes
from
body
awareness.
Body
awareness
is
achieved
by
utilizing
your
five
senses
in
a
well-organized
and
balanced
process.
You’ve
heard
of
the
“zone”
one
reaches
in
athletic
competition,
that’s
when
an
athlete
allows
their
mind
to
reach
the
level
of
total
body
awareness.
Body
awareness
is
balancing
your
senses
of
taste,
smell,
hearing,
touch
and
sight.
Utilizing
the
appropriate
sense(s)
at
the
appropriate
time,
in
a
well-balanced
manner.
In
athletics
there
is
a
system
to
“feel”,
but
it
only
becomes
systematic
through
trial,
error,
and
practice.
Practice
does
make
perfect. I
have
competed,
professionally,
in
many
sports
and
taught
them
all
professionally:
tennis,
racquetball,
swimming
and
golf.
Just
like
everyone
else,
I
had
to
study
and
work
hard
on
mechanics
to
develop
my
skills
in
each
sport.
The
factor
of
excelling
at
a
much
faster
rate
than
others,
and
constantly
out-performing
my
competitors
was
by
my
understanding
of
how
to
achieve
“feel”
-
balancing
the
senses.
A
technique
I
have
used
over
the
years
to
instill
“feel”
is
as
simple
as
God
intended.
It’s
a
close-the-eyes
technique
used
by
many
professional
athletes
in
warm-up
preparation.
Some
actually
use
it
during
play,
i.e.,
basketball
players
at
the
free-throw
line.
This
isn’t
brain
surgery,
I’m
just
saying
that
your
vision
can
“get
in
your
way”
of
factors
towards
high
performance
in
sports:
creativity,
trust,
relaxation,
concentration,
flexibility,
etc.
-
that
lead
to
“feel”. The
majority
of
golfers
depend
too
heavily
on
their
sight.
Stevie
Wonder,
a
blind
musician/
composer/
entertainer,
has
unbelievable
complexity
to
his
music
in
rhythm,
tempo,
and
timing
because
he
has
keenly
developed
his
dependency
on
his
four
remaining
senses
to
“feel”.
Tom
Sullivan,
blind
entertainer
and
single
digit
handicap
golfer
has
keenly
developed
his
talents
based
on
rhythm,
tempo,
and
timing
by
his
total
dependency
to
trust
“feel”
with
his
four
remaining
senses.
In
transcendental
meditation
they
close
their
eyes
for
complete
contemplative
concentration
of
body
awareness,
wiping-out
all
exterior
reception.
For
those
who
have
vision,
close
your
eyes
during
your
warm-up
swings
on
the
golf
course
...
actually
putt
on
the
practice
green
with
your
eyes
closed.
With
the
use
of
your
four
remaining
senses,
“feel”
your
breath
control,
smell
and
taste
the
air,
weight
distribution
&
balance
in
your
feet,
knee
flex,
butt
muscles
relaxing,
spine
angle
maintained,
stability,
pressure
points
in
your
hands,
extension,
weight
transfer,
flexibility
in
your
coil,
rhythm,
tempo,
and
timing
in
your
swing
-
listen
to
your
body.
Vision,
most
times,
can
be
detrimental
to
your
swing,
which
leads
to
performance
anxiety.
Don’t
let
your
vision
consume
your
entire
thought
process.
Primarily,
your
visions’
only
purpose
is
for
pre-shot
alignment,
target-line
and
squaring-up,
to
the
ball.
After
that
the
dependency
upon
your
eyes
should
be
very
little,
if
at
all! I
am
not
a
psychologist,
I
am
a
professional
athlete
and
golf
instructor
who
actually
uses
these
key
techniques
for
success.
This
is
not
an
over-night
miracle
cure.
It
takes
practice
to
be
proficient
in
anything
you
do,
and
doing
it
in
small
doses
is
the
sure
way
to
comprehension.
Putting
a
ball
should
be
your
first
attempt
in
the
discovery
of
your
body
awareness.
With
your
eyes
closed,
actually
putt
the
ball
on
the
practice
green,
then
move
on
to
chipping
and
pitching.
With
eyes
closed,
first
practice
the
motion,
then
actually
chip
or
pitch
the
ball
with
“feel”
techniques.
Practice
your
close-the-eyes/body
awareness
full-swing
(9
Iron
-
Driver)
techniques
after
you
have
developed
a
“feel”
for
the
small
doses
from
putting,
chipping
and
pitching.
Stay
organized
and
simplify.
Start
with
the
small
picture,
then
go
big.
Balance
your
senses
and
use
them
effectively.
“Feel”
the
golf
swing! *
TRAIN
YOUR
MIND
TO
TRAIN
YOUR
BODY
*
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