Let’s Practice!

This time of year, many of you are making plans for your golf game. It’s time to refresh what you choose to focus on. In our first book, Every Shot Must Have A Purpose, we highlighted three types of practice:

Maintenance – tendencies that need regular checkup, for example: aim, alignment, posture, balance, commitment to finish, etc…

 

Performance – you simulate real playing conditions and perceived pressure.

 

Future – a new skill or a new shot you want to add to your abilities.

Maintenance Practice

Maintenance for you as a human is obvious. You need to eat, hydrate, sleep, and move your body. You are not learning anything new, or taking your skills to a higher level – you are maintaining your skills. For some it might be checking aim & alignment weekly, posture, ball position, Play Box focus, or making sure the routine in the Think Box doesn’t get too long. What are a handful of technical skills and human skills that you need maintenance on? If you don’t maintain these few things, you can easily get into a slump.

Performance Practice

Performance practice is the full-on simulation with only one try. You do your full routine – Think Box / Play Box / Memory Box – only hitting the shot once. You can create perceived pressure by hitting nine shots into the greens on the front side of a course you know. You can participate in any game or competitive events, or “bring it on” practice where you bring on something that disturbs you like slow play or putting seeing your shadow. Explore what Play Box works best in these circumstances. Before any big event coming up, you’ll want to increase the amount of performance practice you do.

Future Practice

Future practice involves things you practice that won’t give you a return on your investment of time and energy right away, but you need to do for some time before you see results. Maybe your distance wedges aren’t as good as you want them to be. You need to have good practice sessions for a few weeks, before you actually get better at it. Most technical developments fall under this category. Memory Box is another example of needing to do it for some time, before you notice that you have more confidence stepping into shots. *Note: For those that are in the middle of tournament season, you don’t want to have many ‘future’ projects going on.

Practice Resources

Looking for training resources to help make your practice productive and keep it fresh? We’ve got you covered! Our Action Guides complement our books and provide exercises and on course explorations to further the concepts presented in the books. The VISION54 Human Skills Playbook is a collection of our BEST exercises and explorations to dive deeper into the non-technical Human Skills of the Game. All of these resources are available on our bookshelf on Amazon >>

Be A Player 2

We are preparing to launch a new remote training program, Be A Player 2 on February 6th as a continuation of the first Be A Player 1 remote program. Be A Player 2 is for those who have taken the first Be A Player 1* remote training program.

In Be A Player 2, you’ll continue that journey by diving deeper into the Human Skills while adding performance skills that are very useful for your game. Many professionals have incorporated these performance skills into their games … now you can too! These performance skills are beneficial to golfers of any age or skill level.

*The next class for Be A Player 1 will begin on February 6th as well.

 
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Remote Coaching

In addition to our newest remote training program, Be A Player 2, all our remote programs will kick off new classes on February 6th! Our remote training programs can be accessed anywhere in the world. You train at your own pace with no set schedules or live sessions, and with support from VISION54 coaches. Specific programs created for juniors, all golfers, and elite players, start the first Monday of every month. Our SuperCoach54 remote program for coaches and teachers takes place four times a year, starting on February 6th, followed by the next class on May 1st. Choose the program that’s right for you and join in.

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In-Person Coaching

Our In-Person Coaching programs at our home course, Talking Stick Golf Club, are now underway for the Spring. Spaces are filling up quickly!

We offer a variety of programs in different lengths and training intensities to meet your specific goals and schedule. Our programs were created for players of any skill level and age (amateurs, juniors, college players, professionals, teachers and coaches).

A friendly reminder … it’s a busy time in Scottsdale, Arizona with the Phoenix Open and Spring Training, which means hotel rooms book up quickly. We suggest you don’t delay if you are planning on coming to see us from out of town.

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Go … BE a Player!

The VISION54 Team

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