The paradoxical freeing power of commitment
Commitment displaces doubt, insecurity, tentativeness and overthinking. It prevents you from wriggling out of your commitment. Commitment is freeing.
Performance
How to hit lower flighted, reliable ‘stingers’
Martin Chuck from the Tour Striker Academy demonstrates how to keep the ball lower for penetrating shots into the wind or under tree limbs.
How to use your hips to blast big rips
Martin Chuck from the Tour Striker Academy helps demystify hip rotation versus sway in your backswing.
Going live before you’re ready is deadly
Most golfers rarely spend the time to learn a new move or uncover a problem before they flit off to something new. And they don’t practice deliberately
How to stop making unconscious grip adjustments
Many amateur golfers make unconscious, last-second adjustments to their grip just before staring their backswing.. And this sets off a domino effect of swing flaws.
How to build a better backswing
The most common thing I see is someone quickly retracting their trail arm, which (to me) looks similar to the motion of pull-starting a lawnmower.
Anger is an energy – scary to touch but with a gift to give
But as golfers, we’re not supposed to get mad. If you’re read one article in your life on the mental game, it likely said anger makes you play crappy.
Try ‘chopping wood’ to start swinging good
When you combine the instinctive motion of chopping wood with the right body movement (ie., rotation) – you can get the results you’re looking for.
I got mad, it felt bad, I was sad, but now I’m … well, less of a danger with anger
Getting angry and feeling disappointed about golf is absurd and irrational, but we do many absurd and irrational things anyway.
