A golf lesson for beginners!...or how we begin to learn.In this lesson for beginners, babies are an interesting study. They begin to learn as soon as they open their eyes. They learn most from home where they find their most influential teachers.They have an uncanny talent for learning by example. They just watch, listen and repeat what they heard or saw. Babies learn to talk by hearing you talk and sing to them. They learn other skills by doing things over and over. They have wonderful patience and perseverance. It is quite mind-boggling just how much they do learn in such a short time. They learn many skills with the minimum of verbal instruction from their teachers at home. As I say to my students, "Thank God that they learn to walk before they can talk or we would be explaining the mechanics to them forever." This brings me to the main point of this page, golf lesson for beginners, where I have experienced magical results adopting the same parental skills.
When we interfere with the complexity of this, we see strange results. For example, as I mentioned on another page, we learn gross motor skills by watching and doing. Most people have very similar styles for walking, running, jumping, skipping, crawling, throwing, etc. As a matter of fact we will usually stare at someone who has a strange version of any of these skills. This is of course the exception, as most of these motor skills are performed similarly and smoothly by each individual. How often in everyday life do you find yourself pointing out someone with a strange, jerky walking style. More often than not this is only seen when a person is injured or hindered in some way.
Now take a trip to the driving range and then the words smooth, efficient and effortless will become the exception. They can be replaced with jerky, clumbsy and forced. In fact, if you were to watch 1000 golfers, it could take quite a long time before you would see a swing that could be described as smooth, efficient and effortless. Why is this the case?
Does this sound something like you during the set-up and swing: "O.K. here goes again. I hope I can keep this one out of the trees. Now what did my pro say. Oh yeah, turn my left shoulder under my chin, keeping my left arm straight, my right knee flexed and not to rush the take-away Oh no, I forgot not to rush it. Too late. It's in the trees. Darn it. Maxfli 3, provisional." << Thwack >> "Would you believe it! I always cream my provisional."
This happens far too often to be coincidence. Keep any verbal instruction for practicing and empty your mind, on the golf course, when it counts.
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Our bodies are made up of a very complex array of bones, joints, muscles and tissue brought into movement by neural connectors from the brain.
The best way to describe the general performance of these more common motor skills are with the words; smooth, efficient and effortless.
It's all too familar, with the first shot we bombarded ourselves anxiously with verbal instructions and with the provisional ball made a swing free of thoughts and inhabitions.
