playground player
DESCRIPTION
BOOK DESCRIPTIONMy collection of eight self-study essays reflects my perceptions, impressions, and descriptive interpretations recorded in written memoir form.I am my own resource.As a personal resource tool, my writing content highlights action word descriptive keywords, guidelines, keys, formula and diagram that serve as a valued memory visualization aid.It works for me.My essays are not predetermined to be instructional, persuasive, or journalistic, but a self-study presentation guided by basic science principles and personal experiences.TRANSCRIPT
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PLAYGROUND PLAYER
AN AUTOTELIC EXPERIENCE
ROGER JAMES GREER
ATHLETIKOS EUDAIMONIA
The struggle to succeed encountered in human athletic endeavors elicits thought processes
embracing performance creating ways to excel competing with artistry and intellect
crystallizing into a feeling of well-being and fulfillment.
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PASSAGES
PLAYGROUND PLAYER
…..and standards of excellence measured and judged by all in attendance, in both time and
place.
PARALLEL PATHWAYS
…..not an elite athlete by any means, I did have a natural flair for generating base hits by
manipulating my wrists…..
GOLF GLITCHES
…..I perceptually suppressed neural memory access to my spasmodic fingers.
MOTOR MEMORY
…..mismatched athletically action coordinated and, intrusively, readily activated, I reasoned
cause, effect, and remedy.
MATH MUSE
…..a sudden flash of insight emerges in word form, a product of parallel processing, no doubt.
KINESTHESIS
…..the blueprint mental discipline that I seek already exists within me.
SOMESTHESIS
…..the key to engaging swing speed max.
GOLF LESSONS LINK
…..there was a form of competitive vitality that was natural, harmonious and therapeutic.
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NOTATIONS
PARALLEL PATHWAYS
SEEKING AN EXPLANATION TO THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A SERIES OF RAPID FIRE,
COMPLEX ATHLETIC GAME INTERACTIONS, I, IN TIME, SYSTEMATICALLY DEVELOPED
FORMULA, KEYS, AND GUIDELINES THAT DETAIL THE ACTION GAMEPLAY DYNAMICS
DISPLAYED.
SOMESTHESIS
GOLF GLITCHES KINESTHESIS SOMESTHESIS
GUIDELINES AND KEYS WRITTEN IN MORE TECHNICAL ESSAYS RE-APPEAR AS WORD-FOR-WORD
LINK EMBEDDED IN ESSAYS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN A MORE PRACTICAL FORMAT.
GOLF LESSONS LINK
GOLF GLITCHES MOTOR MEMORY
THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF CAUSE, EFFECT, AND REMEDIAL PRODUCED MEMORY GRAPHIC
IMAGES DESIGNED TO UNDERSTAND, VISUALIZE, AND SOLVE PERCEPTUAL GLITCHES AND
MISMATCHED SPATIAL FEEL SENSATIONS.
SOMESTHESIS
PARALLEL PATHWAYS
MATHEMATICAL VISUAL POETRY PROVIDED A DEPTH OF COMMUNICATION IN EASY TO
REMEMBER COMPACT FORM THAT CONNECTS CONSCIOUS ACTION WORD DESCRIPTIONS AMD
MATHEMATICAL SPATIAL FEEL SENSATIONS.
SOMESTHESIS
GOLF GLITCHES KINESTHESIS SOMESTHESIS
KEYWORD PHRASES ARE EMPLOYED AS ENTRY LEVEL TEXT MESSAGES TO RECALL INSTANTLY,
COMMAND TO ACTION, ATHLETIC MOVEMENT PARAMETERS FROM DATABASE RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
GOLF LESSONS LINK
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INFOGRAPHIC
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CONTENTS
PLAYGROUND PLAYER ................................................................................... 7
PARALLEL PATHWAYS .................................................................................... 9
GOLF GLITCHES .......................................................................................... 11
MOTOR MEMORY ......................................................................................... 15
MATH MUSE ................................................................................................. 16
KINESTHESIS ............................................................................................... 17
SOMESTHESIS ............................................................................................. 21
GOLF LESSONS LINK ................................................................................... 31
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INTRODUCTION
My suburban backyard boundary measured one full acre. The well-manicured level lawn
provided an excellent play arena. No fence needed.
Hours and hours throughout the summer I played solitary backyard baseball.
My imagination provided the means to play made-up ball games on a made-up ball field. The
rules were adapted for solitary play. A fly ball caught in the air or on the first bounce was an
out.
A wooden bat and a rubber ball were standard equipment. Pieces of wood or rocks marked
home plate and the bases. An unmarked batter’s box served its function well.
I systematically displayed a naturally disciplined intensity hitting self-tossed fly balls into the
outfield, fielding on the run, and throwing the ball to the appropriate base.
Indeed, I was my own batter, my own fielder, and my own scorekeeper.
Only later did I understand the significance of solitary play.
I am my own resource.
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PLAYGROUND PLAYER
My neighborhood elementary school yard surveyed a two-story brick school building
surrounded by a massive playground generously equipped with swing sets, monkey
bars, softball fields, and a paved basketball court. As expected, on arrival, the neighborhood
children transformed themselves into playground players temporally interlocked in playground
play.
In more detail, the playground sported a teacher-constructed softball field complete with
backstop and dirt infield. Plus, five kid-made field-work softball fields of various sizes were
scattered around the perimeter of the playground bounded by two back streets, one north and
one west, and a south fence. Concurrently, a large unmarked timeworn plot nestled between
the playground equipment, the paved basketball court, and the softball fields offered a versatile
domain for winter sliding ice games, spring marble games and the running game,
pom-pom-pullaway, “come away or I’ll pull you away.”
During the noon hour recess, the teachers permitted the playground children to walk across
the main road east of the elementary school accessing a vast tract of land known as the school
hills. The topography and cold winter snow insured excellent sliding on strips of cardboard
packing the snow to an icy glaze. It felt daring to descend a steep ice covered hillside on one’s
feet. Many a time the older boys would challenge the younger boys to prove their courage. The
ultimate thrill had to be sliding on a large not-allowed piece of plywood plunging with speed,
spinning all the way to the bottom of a packed-down snow covered hill.
Although suitably signed to return home during the noon hour, I preferred to eat my box lunch
inside the school building to expand my playtime on this wonderful playground. An altruistic
proprietor of a private residence located near the school grounds entertained the school
children with games and refreshments during the noon hour recess. I found this site to be fun
and cheery; nevertheless, I remember visiting only twice, preferring the amenities of playground
play.
Indeed, my grade school softball games neither displayed the fanfare nor fame of the nearby,
major city, professional baseball team. However, my games did spiritually embody the joy of the
moment, a sense of fulfillment, and standards of excellence measured and judged by all in
attendance, in both time and place.
In retrospect, a spring day softball game played on the kid-made field located at the southeast
corner of the playground presented a set of rules and procedures for the playground players to
follow. Popular vote selected the captains; who proceeded to be awarded first or second choice
of players by placing a hand over fist on a bat. Each team featured ten position players; the
captains managed the batting order and defensive placement. Extra players positioned in the
outfield roamed at will but spotted themselves in left field for right-handed batters and right
field for left-handed batters.
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The game progressed in an orderly manner as I waited within the self-enforced boundary limits
of the on-deck circle engaging in preparatory actions. Deftly, I stepped into the unmarked
left-handed batter’s box next to the drawn-in-the-dirt home plate. I faced the pitcher with my
wood bat waving back and forth totally absorbed in spatial thought isolated from extraneous
diversions such as catcher conversations, crowd chatter, and the ramblings of the opposing
team.
As the first pitch fell short of home plate, I scanned the outfield for defensive alignment noting
one player in left field, one player in straight away center field and three in right field. As the
next pitch angled far outside, I noted the same player in left field, the same player in center
field. However, the number of players in right field had swelled considerably collectively waving
their arms calling out for me to hit the ball to them.
The next pitch seemed about right so ignoring the masses that populate right field I prepared
myself to hit the ball to left-center field. I stepped back with my left foot, synchronously,
rotating the head of the bat low around my body. Presently, I stepped forward with my right
foot delivering an uppercut swing that powered the softball in the direction of left-center field.
I ran to first base visually aware of the ball bouncing in the distance chased by the playground
players. Pleased and delighted, I became totally immersed navigating within the framework of
the game.
Simply stated, at an early age, improvising methods to manipulate the tools of the game
enhanced my athletic abilities while the well-ordered parameters of the softball field instilled
within me an in-control perspective.
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PARALLEL PATHWAYS
The main road traveled on top of a hill above the right field fence offering a picturesque view of
the bowl shaped ball field below. Several stores, office buildings, and a railway station occupied
the hilly terrain to the north of the first base foul line. The railway tracks cut into a steep
embankment traveling north-south parallel and east of the third base foul line.
Contemporaneously, to the south, a vast lumber mill extended well beyond the left field fence
punctuated by a mammoth smoke stack.
Softball games attracted an enthusiastic walk-in crowd from the surrounding town.
The locals, seeking an upper-deck view, parked their cars alongside the road above the right
field fence watching the games from inside their cars while others sat in chairs on the road’s
shoulder.
Many a night a group of steadfast men on the bank above the right field fence whittled
throughout the evening until after sundown. Then, with a flourish, they torched the newly
carved shavings signaling the anticipated end to the proceedings.
My softball game plan, forged from numerous self-imposed lessons, mandated hitting safely
past infielders and away from outfielders. Not an elite athlete by any means, I did have a
natural flair for generating base hits by manipulating my wrists imparting spin to the softball
with day-to-day placement precision.
However, it was not my hitting on a Sunday afternoon that I remember but a defensive play on
the field. We had played all weekend in a local softball tournament that was rapidly coming to
an end culminating in the final game for the championship.
Setting the stage, it was the bottom of the seventh inning, one out, runners on first and second
base with the local team leading by three runs.
From my third base position, I scanned the field, extracted and assimilated the information
anticipating the next series of moves. Once the pitcher released the ball, I played by feel
awareness alone, machine-like, but flexible within the framework of the unfolding play.
The hitter centered the bat on the pitched ball sending a line drive deep to left-center field that
landed safely bounding towards the left field fence. Concurrently, the practiced and
experienced defensive play-makers responded efficiently to the developing action dictated by
the ball flight pattern, the speeding runners, and the overall dynamics of the game.
I moved up the third base line toward home plate a few feet, then, stepping inside the foul line
as the runner from second rounded the third base bag scoring easily.
The runner from first base was now rounding third. From my position inside the foul line, I
witnessed the runner speeding past me towards home plate as the shortstop unleashed a
strong, straight line throw to home.
The runner's speed, the velocity and the direction of the thrown ball prompted my position on
the field to change closer to home plate outside the foul line.
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The relay throw arrived well ahead of the runner to the catcher waiting at home plate. Aware
that he would be a dead out at home, the runner slide to a stop turned, then headed straight
back up the line to third base. I was in the right spot. I shouted, throw the ball, and that he
did; a perfect throw directed to the middle of the runner’s back.
As the ball nestled into my glove, my peripheral vision spotted the hitter steam rolling around
second base. Presently, being perceptually aware that the runner shielded the third base
umpire from view, I slipped the ball out of my glove before applying the phantom tag to the
runner’s back.
As the base umpire signaled out, I routed the ball to second base with a quick release
forearm-wrist throw. The alert second baseman tagged the shocked runner: double play/end of
the inning/end of the game/end of the tournament.
The members of my team came storming off the field in celebration. The opposing team roared
at the umpire that I did not tag the runner. Fortunately, the base umpire, a man of
integrity, did not call what he did not see.
I was a bit stunned by how the play evolved. Since there was no instant replay, no do-over, or
re-enactment to guide me only later did I try to elucidate how my mental and physical
processes allowed me to orchestrate the game’s final act.
SIGNPOST
PARALLEL PATHWAYS
SEEKING AN EXPLANATION TO THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A SERIES OF RAPID FIRE,
COMPLEX ATHLETIC GAME INTERACTIONS, I, IN TIME, SYSTEMATICALLY DEVELOPED FORMULA,
KEYS, AND GUIDELINES THAT DETAIL THE ACTION GAMEPLAY DYNAMICS DISPLAYED.
SOMESTHESIS
PARALLEL PATHWAYS
MATHEMATICAL VISUAL POETRY PROVIDED A DEPTH OF COMMUNICATION IN EASY TO REMEMBER
COMPACT FORM THAT CONNECTS CONSCIOUS ACTION WORD DESCRIPTIONS AMD MATHEMATICAL
SPATIAL FEEL SENSATIONS.
SOMESTHESIS
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GOLF GLITCHES I SUN SHADOW
My self-activated sun shadow presented a visual guide to the development of a balanced golf
swing; however, the shadow of the sun became a visual sensitivity glitch that persists to this
day.
While practicing in the yard, I addressed the ball with the shadow extended out from my left
side down the target line. This shadow provided a perceptual barrier to promote balance and
direction. In particular, maintaining a firm left side. I felt comfortable with this arrangement.
Concurrently, I practiced addressing the ball with my shadow directly in front of me. The
location of this sun shadow provided a visual guide to help train a non-swaying balanced
swing. I, also, felt comfortable with this arrangement.
However, on the golf course the sun’s shadow falls in various positions. The different angles
caused mental perception glitches that impaired my swing plane execution and balance. For
instance, a shadow to the right of center perceptually pulled my backswing plane to the outside
of the target line that created a disturbing, feel natural, offset oriented swing plane. I was in
trouble. To this day, I prefer to play on cloudy days.
Seeking a remedy, I began observing distant objects like a tree, a rock, or a building serving as
visual cues aligned 90 degrees to the target line. For me, objects in the distance better framed
the navigational map of the shot.
Guideline: Now, as I walk up to the ball, I observe an object in the distance that aligns 90
degrees to the target line. Then, I extend the clubhead at the object with the shaft serving as a
right angle to the intended line of flight; next, I set my feet accordingly. I maintain this
visual-motor memory image of 90-degree orientation from the address position to the top of the
backswing to the downswing release through impact.
My alignment 90-degree rule helped the sun shadow problem considerably and proved a useful
remedial tool for other glitches including random lines, angles, and sight lines that I
encountered on the golf course.
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GOLF GLITCHES II SIGHT LINES
The brick wall of my home was the domain of various made-up rubber ball games. One day I
employed the brick wall as a training aid; setting my golf club within inches of the wall to
reinforce the alignment of my set-up and the arc of my swing plane. I practiced my swing
religiously; however, unlike the brick wall, a suitably shaped golf course presents many
random disorienting sight lines.
On the golf course, mowing lines, divots, fairway-rough lines and tee box marker placements
presented sight lines that disrupted my spatial perception of the golf shot at hand. The
discouraging response was a flight pattern left or right of the target generated by a perceptually
induced, offset oriented swing plane in an attempt to compensate for the disparity between
perception and reality.
To add to my dilemma, once in the address position looking at the target risked activating
migraine activity in the form of vertigo accentuated by intrinsic positional sight line visual
distortion.
Guideline: As a supplemental remedial scheme to my 90-degree alignment rule, I created
within myself, an internal visual, motor imagery system to shield myself from external
disturbances. In time, I developed an inner sense of feel awareness direction that serves as a
shield to neutralize interfering visual disturbances, target directionality, and false orientation
perceptions.
Today, once set, my alignment procedure completed; my internal, visual motor shield switched
on; the target sight line framed fixed, and the target distance internally processed; I stop
looking at the target.
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GOLF GLITCHES III OFFSET
The sun shadow was the first glitch to undergo cause, effect, and remedial reasoning. Target
sight line visual disturbances were next. Distressingly, an additional perceptual offset
alignment glitch needed remedial attention.
My alignment 90-degree rule helped as a remedial tool with the sun shadow plus the random
lines, angles, and sight lines that I encountered on the golf course. However, I needed an
additional remedial procedure to fix an additional cause and effect alignment problem. I was in
trouble again.
In addition to intrinsic positional sight line distortion in response to random golf course
disorientating sight lines and sun shadows, I seem to possess a natural offset alignment feel
anomaly. An off-centered, spatial awareness distortion that produces ball flight patterns some
20 degrees to the right of the target regardless of address position.
My 90-degree alignment rule is a conscious effort to position body parts at the address position
and during the swing to produce accurate ball flight down the target line.
However, to be swing ready, the alignment I feel in my mind must correspond to what I see on
the ground.
I needed a subconscious effort as well as a conscious effort to succeed.
One day an idea to communicate with my subconscious mind manifested itself in the form of
right-hand rotation.
Guideline: I use my right hand as an alignment reminder at the address position by spreading
my hand out in front of me down the shaft line with the index pointing 90 degrees to the target
line. My little finger indicates my natural offset ball flight pattern. I rotate my hand
counterclockwise so that the little finger points 90 degrees to the target line. I feel myself
rotating slightly to the left.
It was a revelation.
Repeating this hand-wrist maneuver whenever my swing feels askew sends a reminder to my
sub-conscious mind to re-calibrate my body positioning to correspond to the correct alignment.
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GOLF GLITCHES IV PAROXYSM
Unexpectedly, to my shock and indignation, an alarming hand paroxysm appeared with such
ferocity that my golf swing was essentially disabled. My left hand shifted clockwise, and my
right hand shifted counterclockwise, simultaneously, the instant before impact on full shots as
well as pitching and chipping, but not putting.
Distressingly, the trauma kindled a fast freeze condition while addressing the golf ball
intensifying the ramifications of the ever-present quandary of self-doubt inducing an array of
cascading, overwhelming, and catastrophic athletic, tension tight, gridlock. I was in serious
trouble.
Naturally, I attempted to seek control of this double hand wrenching spasm that threatened
the anatomical fabric of my athlete being. Forsaking the interlocking grip, I tried the
overlapping grip, the reverse overlapping grip, and the ten-fingered grip. I explored various grip
pressure points from the fingers to the palms and also, tested separating my hands at different
lengths. The ten-fingered separated hands palm grip helped considerably; however, my hand
spasm glitch often resurfaced.
Guideline: Sedulously seeking relief, I perceptually suppressed neural memory access to my
disruptive spasmodic fingers. Furthermore, I enabled a mental discipline idea to induce the
cells in my arms and shoulders to swell. I proceeded to stimulate fluids within each cell to flow
outward in all directions generating, within me, a supple, relaxed feel.
Fortunately, in time, even the feel of my fingers wanting to jump at impact subsided as I
retained control of the club with my palms. Irrevocably, the grip I use today is light, steady
pressure ten-fingered palm grip, hands slightly separated.
SIGNPOST
GOLF GLITCHES MOTOR MEMORY
THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF CAUSE, EFFECT, AND REMEDIAL PRODUCED MEMORY GRAPHIC
IMAGES DESIGNED TO UNDERSTAND, VISUALIZE, AND SOLVE PERCEPTUAL GLITCHES AND
MISMATCHED SPATIAL FEEL SENSATIONS.
SOMESTHESIS
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MOTOR MEMORY
Undeniably, on the golf course, I played many a game puzzled and flustered. But once I
considered that potent motor memory dynamics linked to my past extensive athletic endeavors
were, deleteriously, mismatched athletically action coordinated and, intrusively, readily
activated, I reasoned cause, effect, and remedy.
1) By trial and error, I learned to suppress my strong motor memory tendency to both
bend my left wrist and to cock my right wrist. The cocked right wrist was, in part,
responsible for a divergent swing path through impact.
2) By chance occurrence, I measured my strong motor memory tendency to lift my head
vertically after swing ignition by simply observing my hat bill. The slightest vertical lift
any time after swing ignition sets in motion a divergent swing path. Indeed, my hat bill
serves as a simplistic prop that provides a means to monitor any lift of my head.
3) In time’s past, I was perplexed and annoyed observing divots that slanted decidedly left
of the target line. The release of the cocked right wrist was, in part, to blame but, a
stored strong motor memory tendency to open my shoulders to the target at impact
was, also, responsible. As a remedy, I employed my hat bill visually framing my
shoulder arms triangle centered ball strike release at impact.
Suitably shaped, my backyard practice golf swing through blade thick grass provides a means
to monitor any residual discordant motor memory as evidenced by impact torque accelerated
sound, ball strike release visualization, and target sight line perception.
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MATH MUSE
Often, a sudden flash of insight emerges in word form, a product of parallel processing, no
doubt. Time and time again, I have experienced a feel sensation communication process in
action. One day I was contemplating a feel of success about my golf game of late, in
particular, my stance. Unexpectedly, a feel sensation information bundle surged into conscious
awareness. The word was /triangle/. It was a revelation.
As time progressed, the triangle evolved into a tetrahedron that enveloped my stance. More feel
than visual the four vertices were in place at the address position: One vertex anchored the
clubhead at address. One vertex anchored the projected rotational swing arc at the top of the
backswing, and the two vertices on the ground behind me anchored the target line.
The line from the clubhead vertex to the top vertex above and behind my head served to shape
a proficient body rotation. The side triangular faces promoted a feel of balance while the back
triangular face stabilized my back. The bottom triangular face produced a 90-degree target line.
Pleased and delighted I became totally immersed in the process of cognitively constructing the
tetrahedron from the initial triangle. However, now, the tetrahedron resides deep within the
confines of my subconscious mind only to be resurrected by feel awareness alone.
90°
TARGET LINE
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KINESTHESIS I FIXING-ON THE-RUN
Unfortunately, the laboriously detailed process of learning the golf game fundamentals
triggered within my conscious mind, a perplexing plethora of swing correction thoughts and
counterintuitive feel awareness perceptions. Consequently, on the golf course, I found myself
constantly checking down an ever expanding list of well-known swing mechanics endeavoring
to improve my game. In essence, I was fixing-on-the-run.
Seeking salvation, I decided to comply with the process of learning all the basic physical and
mental fundamentals of the golf swing before blending everything into a complete swing unit.
At any rate, programming my golf swing proceeded by adding one swing component at a time.
Guideline: In sequential order, (1) the first step involved the mechanics of the swing
component assimilated into the swing package. (2) The second step monitored the physical
aspects of the swing component; activated muscles, tendons, and ligaments stretched.
However, that stretched feel quickly faded, extending to retain that stretched feel proved to be a
recurring problem, consequently, steps three and four. (3) The third step involved replacing the
stretched feel with an awareness motor feel that accompanied the performance of the swing
component. (4) The fourth step necessitated executing the swing element by feel awareness
alone with only a cursory visual verification.
Progressively, the new swing component seemed relevant but, in time, this new component
slipped into the background, therefore, displaying its true value as a small part of the whole
picture.
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KINESTHESIS II THE “FLYING” ELBOW
(1) I am standing more upright at address. (2) I am reducing my hip turn rotation on the
backswing. (3) I am extending my right elbow away from my body on the backswing while
stretching upward with my left arm. (4) I am maintaining a firm left wrist throughout the
length of the backswing. (5) I am bending my wrists and hands down at address effectively
stretching the wrist muscles to elongate down. (6) I am positioning the golf shaft perpendicular
to the target at address. (7) I am engaging an upward lift to the clubhead following forward
press ignition.
Over the winter, spontaneous, self-imposed lessons provided swing component changes that
reconstructed my backswing. Consequently, my flat swing plane became an upright swing
plane. The main swing component responsible was the resurrection of the “flying” right elbow.
I was born-again.
In my early teens, I was the recipient of my only formal golf lesson from an experienced golf
master. He proclaimed that I needed to correct my swing mechanics, in particular, the “flying”
right elbow. As we toured the local nine together one sunny summer day, the lesson proceeded
on time. Following orders, I placed a handkerchief underneath my right arm that forced me to
place my right elbow close to my body during my backswing. It felt very strange. I continued to
place my right elbow close to my body even without the handkerchief through the seventh hole.
At the par-three eighth, I quietly decided to extend my right elbow. My teacher immediately
admonished my efforts. That was the last execution of the “flying” elbow until now.
The resurrection of the “flying” elbow at the top of my backswing caused a ripple effect in the
structure and execution of my golf swing. In particular, a club shaft re-route downswing.
Guideline: I engage a slight timing pause at the top of the upright backswing with a flared
flying elbow /set/. On re-entry, the right elbow transitions straight down to my right side
pulling the left arm slightly back as my left wrist rotates passively clockwise. The laid off golf
shaft creates an inside the target line downswing /set/ with a square impact /release/ as I
shift my weight forward down the target line.
Guideline: The elongated down hands and wrists at address respond with free and fluid
motion from the address /set/ throughout the re-entry /set/ that positions the hands and
wrists for the optimum re-route /release/ through the impact area down the target line.
Guideline: The perpendicular shaft at address allows the hands to rotate forward following
forward press ignition.
Guideline: The upward lift of the clubhead following swing ignition positions the clubhead at
the top of the backswing to sweep through the impact area on the downswing.
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In programming, a keyword has a special meaning. Keywords can be a command to action or to
recall the parameters of the athletic movement. The keyword phrases drive distant straight,
drive distant control, and timeline drive distant loss provides a quick memory aid.
Guideline: I have adopted a drive distant straight discipline that affirms my true limits of ball
flight pattern.
Guideline: I have locked myself into a drive distant control discipline that affirms my true
limits of ball flight distance.
Guideline: I have embraced a progressive timeline drive distant loss discipline that affirms my
true limits of ball flight distance.
Keywords trigger memory retrieval so do sound and image.
Guideline: Approaching the tee box or fairway lie (1), I practice a self-made inflected
accelerated air pitched sound and (2); I visualize a free spinning wheel. The sound and the
image help me feel the tempo, timing, and rhythm of the clubhead acceleration through the
impact area.
I have studied the art of mental discipline to achieve performance; however, to produce the
desired results, my swing mechanics must be in order.
Guideline: Swing mechanics lessons can only provide approximations of proper swing form.
Consequently, swing mechanics approximations learned are fine tuned to the golf course
conditions shaping strategic swing adjustments and producing precise swing alignment.
I have endeavored to perform any technique that I possess within the limits of my talent both
mentally and physically throughout the game involved.
On the golf course, my primary interest is to perform well-executed golf shots.
Guideline: I trust the dynamics of competition effectuates a rush of sustained adrenaline,
intense focus, and heightened agile awareness that generates within me a feeling of competitive
vitality and composure.
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KINESTHESIS III MINDSET
Indeed, my self-imposed long-running golf developmental process produced a complete golf
swing unit.
That was step one, now step two: to transition from an analytical mindset to a spatial
awareness mindset.
In past times, I performed countless self-tossed practice sessions displaying progressive spatial
awareness swing approximations that efficiently produced consistent center hit softballs or
baseballs blissfully devoid of cognitive manipulation.
Consequently, the blueprint mental discipline that I seek already exists within me.
Implementing a feel awareness mindset blueprint was the second step, now, the third step: to
sustain an awareness mindset shot after shot.
Employing a high release point, I learned to pitch a ball flight pattern that arched high with a
right to left curve: a suburb blend of ball flight control and distance for strikes. One day the
umpire clearly marked the batter’s boxes with chalk while I was waiting to pitch. It seems that
this bit of activity impressed upon my mind the parameters that targeted a strike behind the
plate. I promptly walked the first two batters. That day and that day forward the ball flight
pattern became my point of focus rather than the small target behind the plate.
Indeed, the ball flight’s spatial complexities, whether anticipated or in real time, provided the
ball action visual display mindset discipline I needed to throw strikes.
Once again, the blueprint mental discipline that I seek already exists within me.
SIGNPOST
GOLF GLITCHES KINESTHESIS SOMESTHESIS
KEYWORD PHRASES ARE EMPLOYED AS ENTRY LEVEL TEXT MESSAGES TO RECALL INSTANTLY,
COMMAND TO ACTION, ATHLETIC MOVEMENT PARAMETERS FROM DATABASE RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
GOLF LESSONS LINK
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SOMESTHESIS I FORMULA
((F….F) + (A….A) + (E….E)) > CONFIDENCE (HARMONY)
(F) FUNDAMENTAL, (A) ANTICIPATION, AND (E) EXECUTION
My athletic performance formula of words and symbols describe a complex set of athletic
interactions.
In brief, the left side represents the concept that every fundamental has a corresponding
anticipation (mental image planning) of that fundamental plus a corresponding physical
execution of that mental image plan (anticipation). Furthermore, the right side represents
confidence multiplied by the level of harmony one feels on the field of play. The yield sign
indicates a progressive direction that connects the left side to the right side.
Guideline: Simply stated, a proper blend of fundamentals, anticipation, and execution
produces a precise athletic movement. The level of precision of an athletic movement produces
a corresponding level of confidence and harmony on the playing field.
PSYCHOLOGY
KINESIOLOGY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
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SOMESTHESIS II KEYS
My intelligence through visual perception selectively attends the best processes to interact with
mental neural networks of information, experiences, and abilities sorted, cataloged, and stored
creating knowledge readily activated, and athletically action coordinated.
1) Key: This athletic intelligence employs a wide angle sweeping visual scan, anticipating
movements, triggered or spontaneous, before or during, creating a feel anticipation
snapshot: the key to everything athletic.
2) Key: My mind through visual, motor imagery regulates the intended movements by
dialing through the various movement processes forming a mental blueprint: the key to
engaging swing speed max.
3) Key: Postulating, crossover information flows through a conduit between descriptive
language and motor awareness. Interpolative, this conduit provides a gateway buffering
the translating and understanding of crisscrossing information. The result is that my
intellect accommodates both the impression and descriptive interpretations of athletic
movements enabling a direct neural memory access: the key to flawless execution.
Therefore, I can construct internal representations by encoding verbal instructions into a
visual-spatial format that is in a constant state of calibration and re-calibration until
perception matches reality.
•THE KEY TO EVERYTHING ATHLETIC
•THE KEY TO SWING SPEED MAX
•THE KEY TO FLAWLESS EXECUTION
3KEYS
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SOMESTHESIS III COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE
CONSCIOUS MIND
COMMON GATEWAY
INTERFACE
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
This visualization memory aid infographic represents the idea that action word descriptions
intermix with spatial feel sensations. Indeed, the blueprint to produce athletic movements are
choreographed, intermixed, and mapped inside a common gateway interface that buffers the
conscious and the subconscious level of feel awareness.
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Spatial feel awareness language bubbles up from the subconscious level database that
permeates through a crossover region into a common gateway interface. This interface provides
a conduit that enables the subconscious information to permeate through a second crossover
region at the conscious level. However, a spatial language communication may be converted
into a word or phrase in the interface that reaches the conscious level in the form of descriptive
language.
Guideline: The conscious mind must be disciplined to send useful predetermined descriptive
information through the interface that does not interfere with the subconscious level thought
processes that are crisscrossing within the common gateway interface. This crisscrossing
information from the conscious level and the subconscious level in the interface must be in a
pure disciplined form to avoid confusion, conflict, and ineffectiveness.
Simply stated, the common gateway interface allows the athletic, mental state of operation
“in the zone” to form, expand and flourish.
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SOMESTHESIS IV RESISTANCE
The visualization memory aid image below represents the bypass of inner core tension or
resistance that is the primary cause of power loss and inefficiency. Indeed, the blueprint to
produce athletic movements are choreographed, intermixed, and mapped inside a common
gateway interface that buffers the conscious and the subconscious level of feel awareness. This
diagram serves as a visualization communication spatial description within the C.G.I. that
appeals to the mathematical subconscious level of spatial feel awareness.
Rationale: Pockets of tension or resistance encountered interfere with the direct neural memory
access that permits the flawless execution of athletic movements. Resistance may be in the
form of mismatched motor memory dynamics, past failures, and spatial feel awareness
uncertainties.
Resistance imaged in the image designed in the shape of an oval. The lines represent neural
memory access pathways. The idea is to eliminate the deleterious effects caused by pockets of
resistance that result in power loss and inefficiency.
Image A represents the mental effort to push
through the resistance. Partially successful,
the result is a slowed and contaminated
product.
The image listed as B represents the mental
effort to bypass the pockets of resistance that
allows for an uninhibited flow of direct
neural memory communication that is the
key to flawless execution.
A B
The result of this mental visualization exercise is a positive step. My aim is to perform athletic
movements free from the crippling effects of tension. This resistance image is a visualization
tool of value.
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SOMESTHESIS V SPIN-WHEEL-SPIN
I have always delighted in hand spinning a bicycle tire. The visual display of the smoothly
accelerating tire in the periphery, the focus of the rotary motion of the metal hub, and the
depth perception of the rotating spokes appealed to my sense of athletic spatial perception.
The insightful observation of the spinning bicycle tire stimulated parallel processing activity
that intuitively connected a spinning bicycle tire and a rotary athletic movement. Indeed, my
athletic intelligence through selective motor memory information, experiences, and abilities had
produced a visualization training aid that linked (1) the smooth acceleration of a bicycle tire
and (2) the smooth acceleration of a rotary athletic movement.
It was a revelation.
Like all training aids of this type, I had to make do without its physical presence on the field of
play. I needed to create a visualization aid to replace the spinning tire. I researched images of
spinning wheels: picture and graphic, simple and complex, single and multiple. A single visual
cog wheel produced the desired result.
[SPIN-WHEEL-SPIN]
The cog wheel color and bevel gives the image a depth perception that I value. The circle within
a circle hub provides a center of focus while the wheel cogs displayed in peripheral vision
image an orderly functional use.
I visualize the cog wheel spinning as I engage in rotary athletic movements replicating the
tempo, timing, and acceleration of the spinning bicycle tire. A keyword provides a quick
memory aid.
I have responded well to this image that serves as visualization spatial description aid within
the C.G.I. that appeals to the mathematical subconscious level of spatial feel awareness.
It works for me.
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SOMESTHESIS VI FLOW CYCLE
A perpetual motion machine is an engaging, impressive, and thought-provoking concept. Once
in motion there is no end to the motion engaged. Knowing that an identical sequence of events
will predictably unfold time and time again is both soothing and therapeutic.
My observations inspired a visualization rationale that transforms a time lag sequence of
events into a continuous flow of events.
Rationale: On the playing field there is a time gap between the end of an individual action event
and the beginning of the next individual action event. I aim to narrow that gap to a minimum.
Consequently, I am immersed in a continuous flow cycle sequence, performing one individual
event followed closely by another.
Continuous motion flow thought processes engaged within the C.G.I. are embodied within an
appealing flow cycle graphic image that communicates a continuous flow of individual action
events.
Subsequently, the flow cycle sequence extends the time frame that I am totally immersed
within a continuous flow sequence/in-the-zone/.
Therefore, on the playing field, the influential gap in time between the ending of one individual
action event and the beginning of the next individual action event is minimized. I feel that I am
executing one individual action event in a flow cycle sequence time and time again.
Pleased and delighted, I have constructed a flow cycle rationale from a perpetual motion idea
that, now, resides within the confines of my subconscious mind only to be resurrected by feel
awareness alone.
FLOW (CYCLE)
IN MOTION
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SOMESTHESIS VII ZONE (BUBBLE)
I like it. I know that it reaches deep into my subconscious mind. I can feel it.
The infographic zone (bubble) image above represents a subconscious management process
system that activates a time frame, zone conversion operation.
Spacing represents the elusive but attainable in-the–zone performance. The zone (bubble)
merger is an intermediate step to narrow the spacing to achieve immersion.
Optional firewall protection is recommended.
The goal is to remain in the zone (bubble) to sustain optimum performance.
The struggle I endure participating in athletic endeavors emanates from entering in and out of
the zone (bubble). Re-enter strategies activated, de-activated, and re-activated vary in time
duration and intensity.
The scheme is that I manage a time frame, zone conversion operation through subconscious
imagery.
I have constructed infographic images in the form of conscious descriptive language;
nevertheless, the infographic images I have constructed are understood and activated by
subconscious communication.
Simply stated, the conscious mind explains in descriptive language the play action movements
and the subconscious mind performs the task in feel awareness alone.
I relate well to the infographic images that I have made. I relate to this one. It is a fit. It looks
right. It feels right.
zone(bubble)
merger
zone(bubble)
immersion
ZONE ZONE
ZONE
ZONE
ZONE
ZONE
zone(bubble)
spacing
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SOMESTHESIS VIII THIRD PERSON
Time and time again I have encountered the ultimate immersion experience on the field of play:
one that combines a first person visual immersion and a third person visual immersion.
In the first person, I am aware of the action movement as I am the one in action while in the
third person I am unaware of the action movement as I am the one in observation. Is it an out
of body experience? No, but it almost feels that way.
The ultimate immersion experience is a subconscious deep focus in the zone phenomena.
Consequently, the conscious mind is completely removed from the control of action
movements. The offshoot is a feeling of third person observation.
The infographic above serves as a useful communication tool to access stored memories to
produce a total immersion state of mind that embodies a first and third person experience.
SIGNPOST
GOLF GLITCHES KINESTHESIS SOMESTHESIS
GUIDELINES AND KEYS WRITTEN IN MORE TECHNICAL ESSAYS RE-APPEAR AS WORD-FOR-WORD
LINK EMBEDDED IN ESSAYS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN A MORE PRACTICAL FORMAT.
GOLF LESSONS LINK
IN THE ZONE
•FIRST PERSON (VISUAL IMMERSION)
IN THE ZONE
•THIRD PERSON (VISUAL IMMERSION)
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INFOGRAPHIC
INFOGRAPHIC
COMMON GATEWAY
INTERFACE
RESISTANCE
SPIN
WHEEL
SPIN
FLOW
ZONE (BUBBLE)
THIRD PERSON
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GOLF LESSONS LINK I ROUTINE
(1) Back surgery and age-related play limitation diminished my opportunities to generate deep
breathing. One day it occurred to me that I needed a deep breathing routine. It was a blessing.
Today, I am the pilot of a well-developed, tension dampening, deep breathing routine that I
refresh throughout the day.
(2) I follow a set routine on a lush practice green located next to the tenth hole on the back
nine of my favorite golf course. I start by putting a few balls at various distances from the
practice hole concentrating on feedback feel. Yes, I do take aim.
Next, I have three different chipping techniques I practice. Again it is the feel of the ball on the
club face that is important. Yes, I do a dial-in distance.
Next, I will half-swing, then, full swing through heavy grass. One or two practice swings suffice.
My focus is the feel of the swing. The blade thick grass provides a means to monitor impact
torque accelerated sound, ball strike release visualization and target sight line perception.
(4) Upon arrival at the first tee, l stand ready, waiting for that sudden expeditiously direct flow
of anticipated movement that sends a golf ball to its destination.
Link: My athletic intelligence employs a wide angle sweeping visual scan, anticipating
movements, triggered or spontaneous, before or during, creating a feel anticipation snapshot:
the key to everything athletic.
A motion or the anticipation of motion is the key to feeling the body athletic. Consequently; I
stay in motion, first, swinging the club back and forth with an oily wrist action motion, then,
second, performing a half-swing or two through dense grass noting sound and feel. I am ready.
Link: My mind through visual, motor imagery regulates the intended movements by dialing
through the various movement processes forming a mental blueprint: the key to engaging
swing speed max.
Link: Approaching the tee box (1), I practice a self-made inflected accelerated air pitched sound
and (2); I visualize a free spinning wheel. The sound and the image help me feel the tempo,
timing, and rhythm of the clubhead acceleration through the impact area.
Link: A proper blend of fundamentals, anticipation, and execution produces a precise athletic
movement. The level of precision of an athletic movement produces a corresponding level of
confidence and harmony on the playing field.
The drop step is a variation of the square stance set depending on the level of a lie, golf course
ball location, and comfort. Selectively, I drop the flared right foot back promoting a left leg load
and release, or I drop the flared left foot back supporting a right leg load and release. Indeed,
the drop step positioning better compensates for my internally damaged left knee and lower
back than the square stance.
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As I finish framing my narrow left foot drop step over the ball, my wide angle comprehensive,
sweeping visual eye scan anticipates the swing path of the clubhead through the impact area.
(5) Once set; my alignment procedure completed; my internal visual, motor shield switched on;
the target line fixed framed and the target distance internally processed; I forward press to
engage swing ignition.
(6) Due to major surgery and diminishing body elasticity I have suffered a drastic loss of
distance. In cold weather play, I have endured an additional loss of distance. I was a bit
depressed.
Link: I embraced a progressive timeline drive distant progressive discipline that affirms my
true limits of ball flight distance.
A well-executed shot off the first tee that travels so far and no farther I accept.
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GOLF LESSONS LINK II OCTOGENARIAN
(1) I quietly experienced a milestone birth date that was both seamless and profound. A super
senior time passage crossover that signaled the beginning of a lifelong final fit. Indeed, the
senior permissive shift to the forward tees proved an excellent drive distant option.
Pleased and delighted, my compulsion to drive the ball farther by excessive wrist manipulation,
backswing extension, and swing speed intensification, faded.
(2) I have studied the art of mental discipline to achieve performance. Mental discipline allows
the athletic state of operation “in the zone” to form, expand, and flourish. However, to produce
the desired results, my swing mechanics must be in order.
Link: Swing mechanics lessons can only provide approximations of proper swing form.
Consequently, swing mechanics approximations learned are fine tuned to the golf course
conditions shaping strategic swing adjustments and producing precise swing alignment.
My alignment 90-degree rule helped the sun shadow problem considerably and proved a useful
remedial tool for other glitches including random lines, angles, and sight lines that I
encountered on the golf course. However, to be swing ready, the alignment I feel in my mind
must correspond to what I see on the ground.
Link: As a supplemental remedial scheme to my 90-degree alignment rule, I created within
myself, an internal visual, motor imagery system to shield myself from external disturbances.
In time, I developed an inner sense of feel awareness direction that serves as a shield to
neutralize interfering visual disturbances, target directionality, and false orientation
perceptions.
Link: I play with a feeling of full stretched relaxed rather than tension tight. Real or imagined;
the idea is to induce the cells in my arms and shoulders to swell. I proceeded to stimulate
fluids within each cell to flow outward in all directions against the cell membrane generating a
feeling of full stretch relaxed rather than tension tight.
(3) One summer day, by chance occurrence, my playing partner was a man nineteen years my
senior who played the golf game straight to the hole. We played the back nine together on that
hot July afternoon demonstrating characteristic focus and steady speed of play.
(4) The winding well-manicured fairways of the back nine offers topographically high and low
views of many impressive houses beautifully landscaped lawns and distant cattle farmland
hills and valleys. Tall wild grass, wooded areas, and grassy mounds surround the fairways of
this excellent country golf course. The isolated most distant from the clubhouse fairways
features an open meadow bordered by a meandering creek.
(5) The midsummer heat registered 95°. That was fine with me. I have always thrived in the
heat of the day. Remarkably, my octogenarian playing partner was reasonably comfortable with
the heat. As we toured the back nine that July afternoon, there was on display a form of
competitive vitality that was natural, harmonious and therapeutic.
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GOLF LESSONS LINK III KEYWORDS
(1) My developmental golf game equipment reflects a choice of aesthetics and practical use. I
employ vintage clubs trimmed down to fit my newly constructed upright swing. I grip down a
full inch and one-half.
GOLF BAG: A BURGUNDY BELDING TOUR STAFF GOLF BAG WITH MATCHING BLACK
BELDING HEADCOVERS.
DRIVER: TAYLORMADE ORIGINAL BUBBLE BURNER TITANIUM 42 AND 1/4 INCH LENGTH
GRAFALLOY PRO-LITE 35 STIFF.
FAIRWAY WOODS: TAYLORMADE ORIGINAL BUBBLE BURNER 3 WOOD 41 AND 1/4 INCH
LENGTH, 5 WOOD 40 AND 3/4 INCH LENGTH, 7 WOOD 40 AND 1/4 INCH LENGTH
GRAFALLOY PRO-LITE 35 STIFF.
IRONS: 76 WILSON STAFF 4-9 THAT ARE 3/4 INCHES SHORTER THAN STANDARD LENGTH,
TRUE TEMPER DYNAMIC GOLF SL STIFF.
WEDGES: MIZUNO PRO TOUR SERIES 52, 56, 60 THAT ARE 3/4 INCHES SHORTER THAN
STANDARD, TRUE TEMPER DYNAMIC GOLD STIFF.
PUTTER: YONEX SUPER A.D.X. TOUR FORGED, GRAPHITE SHAFT.
BALL: WILSON ULTRA.
GRIPS: JUMBOMAX MEDIUM WOODS AND IRONS AND WINN JUMBO LITE PISTOL PUTTER.
(2) The "flying right elbow" enables me to shape a more accurate upright swing plane. However,
time and time again, I have reconstructed the various components of my newly constructed
upright swing to proper form by following a set of sequential steps.
Link: In sequential order, (1) the first step involved the mechanics of the swing component. (2)
The second step monitored the physical aspects of the swing component; activated muscles,
tendons, and ligaments stretched. However, that stretched feel quickly faded, extending to
retain that stretched feel proved to be a recurring problem, consequently, steps three and four.
(3) The third step involved replacing the stretched feel with an awareness motor feel that
accompanied the performance of the swing component. (4) The fourth step necessitated
executing the swing element by feel awareness alone with only a cursory visual verification.
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(3) In programming, a keyword has a special meaning. Keywords can be a command to action
or to recall the parameters of the athletic movement. Today, I acknowledge six keyword phrases
that provide a quick reference memory aid.
[90°RULE]
Link: Now, as I walk up to the ball, I observe an object in the distance that aligns 90 degrees to
the target line. Then, I extend the clubhead at the object with the shaft serving as a right angle
to the intended line of flight; next, I set my feet accordingly. I maintain this visual-motor
memory image of 90-degree orientation from the address position to the top of the backswing to
the downswing release through impact.
My alignment method works well on golf course fairways constructed to allow a target line
fairway flow straight to a pin placement. Since my ball flight drive pattern is a fade, I target the
center of the fairway. Consequently, my fairway lie tends to be center or center right. A pin
placement on the green side left disrupts the fairway flow target line. Harmony and confidence
are course management factors. (1) Follow the fairway flow to the right side of the green away
from pin placement or (2) follow the more difficult fairway flow target line to the left side of the
green close to pin placement.
[20°OFFSET]
Link: I use my right hand as an alignment reminder at the address position by spreading my
hand out in front of me down the shaft line with the index pointing 90 degrees to the target
line. My little finger indicates my natural offset ball flight pattern. I rotate my hand
counterclockwise so that the little finger points 90 degrees to the target line. I feel myself
rotating slightly to the left.
The offset alignment procedure has provided a means to help remedy the pin placement on the
green side left that disrupts the fairway flow target line to the right side of the green.
It is rather a unique remedial tool, but it works for me.
[SET-SET-RELEASE]
Link: I engage a slight timing pause at the top of the upright backswing with a flared flying
elbow /set/. On re-entry, the right elbow transitions straight down to my right side pulling the
left arm slightly back as my left wrist rotates passively clockwise. The laid off shaft creates an
inside the target line downswing /set/ with a square impact /release/ as I shift my weight
forward down the target line.
The top of my backswing features the right elbow position out and up. The right elbow quickly
transitions to my right side at the beginning of the downswing directing a proper shaft slot for
entry into the impact zone with authority and zip. Tempo is critical. It is a bit of a complex
move, but it works.
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[DRIVE DISTANT STRAIGHT]
Link: I have adopted a drive distant straight discipline that affirms my true limits of ball flight
pattern.
My membership golf course provides a memory record of my tee shot straight long drives. I
observe from the tee box familiar visual spots on the fairway that locate my best straight or
nearly straight tee shots. It is detrimental to my swing tempo timing and rhythm to attempt to
hit the ball a straight distance length to match my best past efforts. I recognize the limits of my
ability to hit the ball a straight length max. A well-executed driver shot from the tee box that
travels so far and no farther, I accept.
[DRIVE DISTANT CONTROL]
Link: I have locked myself into a drive distant control discipline that affirms my true limits of
ball flight distance.
Membership par three pin placements provide a memory record of my scattered shot dispersal
pattern. It is detrimental to my swing tempo, timing, and rhythm to demand a dialed-in length
and a dialed-in ball flight pattern. A well-executed shot regardless of moderate differences in
distance and ball flight pattern, I accept.
[SWING SPEED MAX]
Link: My mind through visual, motor imagery regulates the intended movements by dialing
through the various movement processes forming a mental blueprint: the key to engaging
swing speed max.
Time and time again, I struggle to endure inner core tension that impedes my blueprint mental
execution to engage swing speed max. Consequently, as a routine, I complete an extreme deep
breathing procedure that encompasses bending over, filling my lungs with air, then, forcefully
exhaling to rid or at least dampen inner core tension. Also, I tense and relax my
hands/shoulders.
I have encountered lapses in swing mechanics comprised of swing components already learned
and incorporated in my complete swing unit that need a reminder remedy or quick fix.
Right leg lock and load comes to mind. There are more.
It’s a short list. All I need is a quick fix.
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My keyword phrases communicate by a mental process form that I describe as neural memory
text messaging. In text editing and database memory retrieval systems, a keyword is an index
entry that identifies specific memory record information.
Link: Crossover information flows through a conduit between descriptive language and motor
awareness. Interpolative, this conduit provides a gateway buffering the translating and
understanding of crisscrossing information. The result is that my intellect accommodates both
the impression and descriptive interpretations of athletic movements enabling a direct neural
memory access: the key to flawless execution.
Link: The conscious mind must be disciplined to send useful predetermined descriptive
information through the interface that does not interfere with the subconscious level thought
processes that are crisscrossing within the common gateway interface. This crisscrossing
information from the conscious level and the subconscious level in the interface must be in a
pure disciplined form to avoid confusion.
(4) The rolling fairways winding through the wooded areas of this excellent four hundred and
thirty-acre island golf course are geographically set apart from the surrounding community by
water controlled by a nearby dam. Wild turkeys, ducks, geese and a few deer roam at will on
this tear-drop shaped Island land mass. Touring the front nine one may view the wake made by
outboard motor boats cruising on the water. Also, majestic houses on a distant high cliff and a
road tunnel abandoned visually framed below a truss constructed rust-colored bridge spanning
across the expansive river.
(5) On the number 13 hole, I joined a husband and wife team who were middle age, trail card,
capable players. A brief observation produced a favorable impression. I had a good feeling
about their competitive playing relationship on the golf course.
The golfing couple standing on the green watched as I prepared for a long bunker shot. My
pitching wedge sand shot soared high in the air landing on the small upper tier of the green
rolling to within five feet from the hole. "Just like watching on TV," she said. "Thank you," I
said.
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INFOGRAPHIC
KEYWORDS
90°RULE
SET
SET
RELEASE
DRIVE DISTANT CONTROL
SWING SPEED
MAX
DRIVE DISTANT
STRAIGHT
20°RULE
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GOLF LESSONS LINK IV THE ELITE PLAYER
(1) At a young age, the fundamental action of the golf swing was implicitly implanted in my
mind from the play of the elite athlete.
I became frustrated and disheartened.
Not an elite athlete myself, I did possess an athletic intelligence and the will to play the game.
In time, I learned that self-determination through self-imposed innovative lessons produced the
feeling of well-being and fulfillment that I seek.
(2) My hands and wrists throughout swing action communicate information that is internally
processed creating knowledge readily activated.
Link: The elongated down hands and wrists at address respond with free and fluid motion from
the address /set/ throughout the re-entry /set/ that positions the hands and wrists for the
optimum re-route /release/ through the impact area down the target line.
Link: The perpendicular shaft at address allows the hands to rotate forward following forward
press ignition.
At times, I visually monitor the movement of the shaft forward.
Link: The upward lift of the clubhead following swing ignition positions the clubhead at the top
of the backswing to sweep through the impact area on the downswing.
(3) The hilly terrain, multilevel greens, and winding creek dominate the 98.6-acre landscape.
Designed by a prominent golf course architect, this exceptional par three golf course resides on
a former long-standing school site.
The site features a historically preserved red 2-story brick building and a white classroom brick
building that is now the clubhouse.
On a personal note, I worked as a programmer in the final days of the school’s educational
history.
(4) On the number 11 hole, I was joined by a single player. I noticed the logo on his golf bag.
“Are you a college player?” I asked. “Yes sir,” he said.
I observed the power, full extension and smooth rhythm of an elite player.
Unaffected, I proceeded to engage my self-determined swing efforts with confidence and
harmony.
(5) On the 17 hole, I was faced with a difficult pitch several yards off the elevated green in
spongy rough that can snag an iron. I played a runner with my 7-wood out of the rough, up the
slope, rolling to within 4 foot of the hole. I holed the putt for a 3.
“Nice up and down,” he said, “thank you,” I said.
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GOLF LESSONS LINK V HOME SLICE
COMPETITION
Sadly, playing with a family member, friend, or acquaintance invariably becomes a struggle to
win the prize as opponents. That is the nature of any athletic endeavor.
Immersed in home slice competition, I thought better of individual medal stroke play. I
proposed a best ball game. The best ball position is the ball in play. One or the other playing
partner places his ball next to the best ball no nearer the hole. The idea was accepted, then, as
it is today.
We work together as a team to score against par. I find this to be very satisfactory. I like a team
play approach.
Link: I trust the dynamics of competition effectuates a rush of sustained adrenaline, intense
focus, and heightened agile awareness that generates within me a feeling of competitive vitality
and composure.
AMBIENCE
I like this golf course.
Rolling fairways are nestled within dense towering hardwoods spawning a feeling of natural
privacy. A winding river borders the long five par two hole. Ponds, marshes, and creeks
engender a tranquil journey through nature.
It is a personal fit.
GAMEDAY
Playing best ball on the three par five hole, my home slice partner stroked an excellent shot to
the right of the pin 15 feet from the hole. I stoked a superb shot over the pin 8 feet from the
hole.
I was pleased that we both hit good shots.
He was disappointed that I had hit the better shot.
Individual rivalry overshadows team effort, at least, momentarily.
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MINDSET
I am in the midst of training myself to be immersed in feel awareness only.
Rationale: Indeed, my self-imposed long-running golf developmental process produced a
complete golf swing unit. That was step one, now step two: to transition from a cognitive
mindset to a spatial awareness mindset. Implementing a feel awareness mindset blueprint was
the second step, now, the third step: to sustain an awareness mindset shot after shot.
Link: The conscious mind must be disciplined to send useful predetermined descriptive
information through the interface that does not interfere with the subconscious level thought
processes that are crisscrossing within the common gateway interface. This crisscrossing
information from the conscious level and the subconscious level in the interface must be in a
pure disciplined form to avoid confusion, conflict, and ineffectiveness.
Accordingly, I devised a self-imposed grading system that evaluates my ability to sustain an
awareness mindset on the golf course. A level B is a good grade. I seem to fluctuate between a
C⁺ and a B⁺.
Incidents that trigger an adrenaline flow spike rush can provide the stimulus to produce a
game changing in-the-zone click-in.
Incident (1) I had caught up with a foursome on the four par number 15 hole. I wanted to
continue my round at the next hole. The smiling faces I encountered had other ideas.
Immediately, an adrenaline spike increased my grade level from a C⁺ to a B⁺. In response, I
drilled a straight drive down the fairway. My B⁺ mindset level continued the rest of the round.
Incident (2) A chatty golf course neighbor engaged me in superfluous conversation as I walked
up to the number 14 tee box. My spatial awareness mindset concentration leaped from a C⁺ to
a B⁺ in a flash. I maintained this level of in-the-zone mindset the rest of the round.
NOTEPAD
I had practiced through thick blade grass before noting impact torque accelerated sound, ball
strike release visualization, and target sight line perception. Now I have found that thick blade
wet grass is even better. I swing through wet long grass/swoosh/. The sound is like my self-
made inflected accelerator air pitched sound. The wet grass/swoosh/ sound helps me feel the
tempo, timing, and rhythm of the clubhead acceleration through the impact area.
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GOLF LESSONS LINK VI SUPER SENIOR
COMPETITION
Link: I trust the dynamics of competition effectuates a rush of sustained adrenaline, intense
focus, and heightened agile awareness that generates within me a feeling of competitive vitality
and composure.
Do I play to win the game or do I play to win?
Maybe a little of both, anyway, someone will keep score.
Do I like team play or do I like individual play?
Again, a little if both, that is, individual play within a team concept.
Do I respond to individual competitors or do I respond to the game itself?
It does not matter; the boiler inside me heats up once I step on the field of play.
AMBIANCE
My personal resource tools have served me well.
Indeed, my sun shadow, sight line, alignment, spasmodic grip, and motor memory glitches are
remedied. My developmental golf swing is complete. Fixing-on-the-run is a dead issue.
I have progressed from dysfunctional to functional.
Yes, I have finally constructed a functional golf swing that yields confidence and harmony on
the golf course.
My golf swing performance is super senior meritorious.
It is a final fit.
Link: Simply stated, a proper blend of fundamentals, anticipation, and execution produces a
precise athletic movement. The level of precision of an athletic movement produces a
corresponding level of confidence and harmony on the playing field.
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GAMEDAY
“Hey, nice drive,” He said.
I had performed a superb tee shot drive that bounced again and again down the tree line
fairway triggering a pleasing motor memory response inescapably linked to my neighborhood
elementary school, playground player, days.
Presently, I stepped forward with my right foot delivering an uppercut swing that powered the
softball in the direction of left-center field.
I ran to first base visually aware of the ball bouncing in the distance chased by the playground
players. Pleased and delighted, I became totally immersed navigating within the framework of
the game.
“Thank you,” I said.
MINDSET
Link: Postulating, crossover information flows through a conduit between descriptive language
and motor awareness. Interpolative, this conduit provides a gateway buffering the translating
and understanding of crisscrossing information. The result is that my intellect accommodates
both the impression and descriptive interpretations of athletic movements enabling a direct
neural memory access: the key to flawless execution.
Link: The conscious mind must be disciplined to send useful predetermined descriptive
information through the interface that does not interfere with the subconscious level thought
processes that are crisscrossing within the common gateway interface. This crisscrossing
information from the conscious level and the subconscious level in the interface must be in a
pure disciplined form to avoid confusion, conflict, and ineffectiveness.
Yes, I know, I am chasing a motor awareness feel that is both elusive and attainable.
That is the nature of the beast. There is no need to be stressed or upset. My functional golf
swing is a comfort. I have the tools to succeed.
So, tally ho.
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NOTEPAD
My deep breathing pre-shot routine is set in stone.
(1) I hold the length of my club with both hands extending the shaft away from my body. (2) I
tense my hands, arms, and shoulders. (3) I bend my upper body forward simultaneously
breathing in until my upper body reaches a parallel position. (4) I forcefully exhale and relax
my hands, arms, and shoulders.
This unique and visible maneuver is both a sound physical therapy practice for my surgically
repaired back and an extreme neurophysiological procedure to rid or temper inner core
tension.
If probed I prefer the physical therapy practice explanation.
I must go forward in time and place.
It is a final fade.
Forever I am.
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FREE VERSE
NO INITIAL FEES, NO DUES, NO MONTHLY PAYMENTS
MEMBERSHIP IS AUTOMATIC
NOT A GREAT BEAUTY, NOR A PHYSICAL MARVEL, AND CERTAINLY NOT IMPOSING
I SMILED FOR THE CAMERA ANYWAY
BUILT-IN REMEDIES FOR BUILT-IN FAULTS
PERCEPTION MUST MATCH REALITY
NO CLUTTER, NO CLATTER, NO CHAT
FOREVER I AM
AN UNMARKED HEADSTONE
A RECIPROCAL LESSON THAT TRANSCENDS THE EXPANSE OF TIME
HIGH VOLTAGE ADRENALINE FLOW SPIKE
COLD START
DEEP FOCUS HIGH RESOLUTION VISUALIZATIONS
LEGACY
TALLY THE SCORE
READ-ONLY
IN-ESSENCE ONLY
EMBEDDED
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INDEX I GUIDELINES
GOLF GLITCHES
1) Now, as I walk up to the ball, I observe an object in the distance that aligns 90 degrees
to the target line. Then, I extend the clubhead at the object with the shaft serving as a
right angle to the intended line of flight; next, I set my feet accordingly. I maintain this
visual-motor memory image of 90-degree orientation from the address position to the
top of the backswing to the downswing release through impact.
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2) As a supplemental remedial scheme to my 90-degree alignment rule, I created within
myself, an internal visual, motor imagery system to shield myself from external
disturbances. In time, I developed an inner sense of feel awareness direction that serves
as a shield to neutralize interfering visual disturbances, target directionality, and false
orientation perceptions.
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3) I use my right hand as an alignment reminder at the address position by spreading my
hand out in front of me down the shaft line with the index pointing 90 degrees to the
target line. My little finger indicates my natural offset ball flight pattern. I rotate my
hand counterclockwise so that the little finger points 90 degrees to the target line. I feel
myself rotating slightly to the left.
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4) Sedulously seeking relief, I perceptually suppressed neural memory access to my
disruptive spasmodic fingers. Furthermore, I enabled a mental discipline idea to induce
the cells in my arms and shoulders to swell. I proceeded to stimulate fluids within each
cell to flow outward in all directions generating, within me, a supple, relaxed feel.
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KINESTHESIS
1) In sequential order, (1) the first step involved the mechanics of the swing component
assimilated into the swing package. (2) The second step monitored the physical aspects
of the swing component; activated muscles, tendons, and ligaments stretched. However,
that stretched feel quickly faded, extending to retain that stretched feel proved to be a
recurring problem, consequently, steps three and four. (3) The third step involved
replacing the stretched feel with an awareness motor feel that accompanied the
performance of the swing component. (4) The fourth step necessitated executing the
swing element by feel awareness alone with only a cursory visual verification.
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2) I engage a slight timing pause at the top of the upright backswing with a flared flying
elbow /set/. On re-entry, the right elbow transitions straight down to my right side
pulling the left arm slightly back as my left wrist rotates passively clockwise. The laid off
golf shaft creates an inside the target line downswing /set/ with a square impact
/release/as I shift my weight forward down the target line.
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3) The elongated down hands and wrists at address respond with free and fluid motion
from the address /set/ throughout the re-entry /set/ that positions the hands and
wrists for the optimum re-route /release/ through the impact area down the target line.
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4) The perpendicular shaft at address allows the hands to rotate forward following forward
press ignition.
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5) The upward lift of the clubhead following swing ignition positions the clubhead at the
top of the backswing to sweep through the impact area on the downswing.
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6) I have adopted a drive distant straight discipline that affirms my true limits of ball flight
pattern.
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7) I have locked myself into a drive distant control discipline that affirms my true limits of
ball flight distance.
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8) I have embraced a progressive timeline drive distant loss discipline that affirms my true
limits of ball flight distance.
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9) Approaching the tee box or fairway lie (1), I practice a self-made inflected accelerated air
pitched sound and (2); I visualize a free spinning wheel. The sound and the image help
me feel the tempo, timing, and rhythm of the clubhead acceleration through the impact
area.
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10) Swing mechanics lessons can only provide approximations of proper swing form.
Consequently, swing mechanics approximations learned are fine tuned to the golf
course conditions shaping strategic swing adjustments and producing precise swing
alignment.
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11) I trust the dynamics of competition effectuates a rush of sustained adrenaline, intense
focus, and heightened agile awareness that generates within me a feeling of competitive
vitality and composure.
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SOMESTHESIS
1) Simply stated, a proper blend of fundamentals, anticipation, and execution produces a
precise athletic movement. The level of precision of an athletic movement produces a
corresponding level of confidence and harmony on the playing field.
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2) The conscious mind must be disciplined to send useful predetermined descriptive
information through the interface that does not interfere with the subconscious level
thought processes that are crisscrossing within the common gateway interface. This
crisscrossing information from the conscious level and the subconscious level in the
interface must be in a pure disciplined form to avoid confusion, conflict, and
ineffectiveness.
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INDEX II KEYS
SOMESTHESIS
1) This athletic intelligence employs a wide angle sweeping visual scan, anticipating
movements, triggered or spontaneous, before or during, creating a feel anticipation
snapshot: the key to everything athletic.
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2) My mind through visual, motor imagery regulates the intended movements by dialing
through the various movement processes forming a mental blueprint: the key to
engaging swing speed max.
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3) Postulating, crossover information flows through a conduit between descriptive
language and motor awareness. Interpolative, this conduit provides a gateway buffering
the translating and understanding of crisscrossing information. The result is that my
intellect accommodates both the impression and descriptive interpretations of athletic
movements enabling a direct neural memory access: the key to flawless execution.
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