The Brain Booster - Improve Your Mental Golf Game Karl Morris

Today on the Brain Booster we welcome the authors of a fascinating new book ‘In the Zone Secrets’
Here's the link mentioned:  https://inthezonesecrets.com/thebrainbooster 
Bo Watson and Shannon Shuskey have been very successful with their program with clients of all levels and abilities
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It is a really interesting story about how they got together and began working on their program.
Bo Watson had actually given up the game and quit coaching
He had gotten to a point where he felt so frustrated with his own game and also the progress of his students.
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He had a conversation with Shannon over dinner that changed everything.
Shannon had been incredibly successful Speed Skating coach with numerous students who had become World Champions
He had been using neuromuscular training using primarily the power of mental imagery
Bo then went away and worked on his game without doing any actual physical practice
He then came back to golf and played some of the very best golf of his life.
We discussed:
How to play ‘Caveman Golf’ How to create a ‘Custom Trigger’ Engaging the right side of your brain Painting vivid images of your intended outcomes How mental rehearsal has been used by the greats in many other sports such as Michael Jordan and Muhammed Ali How the great coach Alex Morrison in the 1940’s had such a profound effect on coaching How mental rehearsal can speed up swing changes  
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http://inthezonesecrets.com/thebrainbooster 
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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster long standing friend and colleague Kendal McWade.
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Kendal has been on the show numerous times and I have invited him back because we always have a wonderful conversation.
We managed to dive deep into the whole area of building SKILLS. How ATTENTION is so crucial to your development.
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We talked about what you could ACTUALLY do this winter to work on your game in a more effective way
The skill of bringing your attention to crucial key areas to develop true skill Why we fail to apply basic learning principles The importance to see golf as ‘problem solving’ Why we don’t understand the learning process

Today we welcome back onto the podcast top coach and researcher Dr Ian Peek.
Ian has just completed his PhD after doing extensive research on the key elements that seem to determine if a pro makes it on tour or not.
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What do the top players do? How the very best are so skilled at ADAPTING relative to the field they are playing against. The Four ‘Acts’ of a top player The Rookie Act – Discovering who you are Moving ‘Upstage’- Finding the right team The Limelight Stage – Staying with a winning team The challenge of making changes WHEN and HOW The importance of the people around you Do the people around you give you energy or take energy away from you? The sometimes difficult decisions you have to make about people around you How the best players ask good questions of others. What makes a really good PLAYER/COACH relationship? The determining factor of GOOD PARENTS How kids NEVER forget bullying parents Creating a ‘safe place’ for a young player to develop The instances of depression with former players and what to do to make the most of the final phase of your career
A whole host of great insights taken from Ian’s research
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Dr Ian Peek is a transition & performance coach, helping his clients achieve their goals whether transitioning to a new level of achievement or maintaining their position at the top of their sport or industry. Ian holds a Master’s degree in Sports Coaching and a PhD in the social- psychology of high performing athletes. His PhD research focused on the lived experiences of 16 PGA European Tour professionals during and after their careers. He is a PGA Master Professional - the highest educational level in The PGA - which recognises PGA Members who make a significant effort to improve themselves as golf professionals and maintain the highest degree of excellence for themselves and their operations.
 Ian’s contact details:
LinkedIn = @dr ian peek coaching
Twitter X = @ianpeekcoaching 
Website: www.tandpcoaching.com
E-mail: mail@nms-golf.com 
 
 

Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by a rising star on the Tour coaching stage Liam James.
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Already at a relatively young age Liam has coached numerous winners on tour such as Matt Wallace and Vincent Norrman. He also coached tour legend Lee Westwood for over two years.
We had chance to discuss his evolution and development as a coach working with great mentors such as Mac O’Grady, Robert Rock and Matt Belsham.
From an early age he has been fascinated by the art and science of both playing and coaching.
Often in his early days he would be playing tournaments with other young pros who he was actually coaching and we go into a great story how he transformed the fortunes of one young player during a 36 hole tournament they played together.
With his association with Robert Rock he gained an opportunity to coach top players and has never looked back since.
We discuss life on tour and both the opportunity and challenges of working at the highest level.
The conversation though doesn’t just apply to good players.
Whatever your standard of play you will gain something from this podcast.
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We look into:
Really understanding your game and your tendencies Effective preparation How to identify and devlop your stock shot Looking at the whole player not just the swing The importance of presenting a player FACTS The development of key SKILLS Drills YOU can do to improve your PACE control on the greens Dealing with the ups and downs of results as a coach A really insightful session with a coach who is making a big difference at the highest level but who is also still heavily involved in coaching golf at ALL levels
To find out more about Liam James go to
https://liamjames.golf/
To find out more about Karl Morris and the Mind Factor go to
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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by the biggest influence in my coaching career Fred Shoemaker.
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I first went out to Fred’s school in Carmel Valley, California over 25 years ago.
The experience had a deep and lasting impression on me and opened up a whole new world of enquiry and thought about the coaching process.
Fred has continued to influence many coaches and players with his ability to look at the game in a way that really gets you to think about what the game truly MEANS to you
What is your PURPOSE for playing the game?
What is really important to you about the experience?
In today’s show amongst many topics we managed to really drill down into the FOUR types of coaching.
The ‘DO’ instruction. The model for 90% of todays golf coaching whereby a teacher ‘tells’ you what to do in your swing based on his or her belief about how the golf swing SHOULD function
The ‘awareness’ instruction which is much more of a coaching based approach where a coach simply asks you to pay attention to what is ACTUALLY happening in your experience of swinging a club. This leads to a much stronger learning experience.
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The BE instruction
This is where the coach helps you explore the PERSON you are when you swing the golf club. Are you going to play as a courageous golfer perhaps? At the heart of this instruction is your own COMMITMENT
The fourth type of instruction is to challenge HOW the world ‘occurs’ to you.
If the golf course occurs to you as a place of threat then no amount of the first two types of instruction will have much effect.
To understand how the world is occurring to you and the CHOICE you have in creating that narrative
 
This session is not for the faint hearted.
It is challenging
It will really make you consider your approach to the game
It is a wonderful conversation with a very special coach
 
To find out more about Fred Shoemaker go to
www.extraordinarygolf.com
 
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Today on the show we are joined by Performance Coach Tim O’Connor.
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We had a wonderful conversation about his life and evolution as a performance coach.
Tim has a fascinating background as a writer, golfer and now coach.
He wrote a wonderful book about the great Moe Norman called ‘The Feeling of Greatness’
We talked about the time Tim spent with Moe, playing golf and a fascinating insight to Moe’s connection to the target when he played.
Why and how Moe was so misunderstood
Onto Tim’s coaching career
Tim’s observation of the rampant narcissism in the golfing world today and how we can all become lost in the story of ‘I will be happy WHEN’
How we are constantly being fed the story that we are ‘BROKEN’
How we could access our own innate talent
How our Ego can hijack the coaching process
What Tim learned about coaching from Lou Reed
Tim O’Connor is a golf coach, award-winning writer, and podcaster living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Tim came into coaching following a career as a music critic and then a golf writer during which he covered the major tours and wrote four books including The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story, the biography of the mysterious Canadian regarded as the best ball-striker who ever lived. Tim is in the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame as a writer.
After being involved for 20 years in men’s work with the ManKind Project, Tim moved into coaching golfers, including the University of Guelph men’s and women’s golf team.
A self-described deep golf nerd, Tim is fascinated by the psychological and spiritual aspects of golf, which he brings together in his writing on the Substack platform, talks, and his Swing Thoughts podcast with Howard Glassman. Tim is completing his latest book, Quiet Mind Golf.
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To find out more about Tim go to
Co-host Swing Thoughts podcast with Humble Howard
Read my blog on toconnor.substack.com
www.oconnorgolf.ca
 
 
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