Saturday, December 24, 2011

If You Are Able To Ride A Bike Then You Can Play Great Golf

By Alex Kelly


Can you remember learning how to ride a bike? You possibly spent a lot of time practicing until you managed to mix the required balance and motor skills so you could do it without thinking. After you learn to ride a bike, how to peddle and to balance, you always remember how.

This learned ability is one of the most widely referenced examples of the brain recalling a formerly learned and frequently rehearsed psychological pattern. Once your mind "grasps it" your body can interpret that into the skills. Other motor skills are learned in a matching way by our minds, including playing golf.

Pro golfers employ a similar strategy to improve their golf skills. The strategy, one of 1 or 2 commonly known as mental golf, is mental rehearsal. Using mental rehearsal any golfer can create the ideal mental environment for improving any area of their game. Athletes from any sport can tap the power of their subconscious and achieve results beyond those from physical practice alone.

Mental rehearsal is a strategy to form and replay a psychological movie of the result you would like to achieve. Everybody has seen top golfers line up a putt. They rehearse their position and their swing numerous times before proceeding to make the shot. What sorts out the pros from other golfers is that thay also practice the whole shot - from walking up to the ball to seeing the ball drop into the center of the cup - in their mind many times before actually making it.

Mental Rehearsal is effective because your cerebral cortex doesn't know the most differences between a genuine event and an imaginery one. When you rehearse an event in your mind, the brain creates it by creating a neurological pattern in the same way it would for an honest to goodness event. You are then ready to recall this when you run into this event for real. By creating a required end result in your mind, you can create it more easily in reality. In fact, it is just like riding a bike.




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