Mastering the Mental Preshot Routine

The Zone

nospam@example.com (RV Team) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:07:57 +1100

The Zone

Is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energised narrow focus, full involvement, and success orientated in the process of the activity.

Other indications of being in the zone

1. Clear & precise goals

2. Concentration

3. Loss of the feeling of self consciousness

4. Distorted sense of time

5. Direct & immediate feedback

6. Balance between ability level and challenge

7. A sense of personal control over the activity

8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding

9. Become totally absorbed in the activity, so action & awareness merges

Conscious mind – is in charge, makes decisions, questions, analyses situations and interfacing with the outside world as needed

Subconscious mind – is the worker, running of the body functions, storing all memory and providing info to the conscious mind as required

The conscious mind cannot control more than one function at a time, while the subconscious many functions all the time.

When it comes to a golf swing, the conscious mind tells the subconscious mind that it wants to make a golf swing, and what type of swing to make, but it is up to the subconscious mind to translate the intentions of the conscious mind and create the body movements for that swing

Golf Swing takes 1.5 seconds and we need to keep the conscious mind quite for this time. If the conscious mind is distracted, it will divert its attention to the distraction which will also distract the subconscious mind.

So how do we make the Conscious Mind ignore outside distractions ?

By narrowing our Focus we can keep the Conscious Mind occupied while the Subconscious Mind is controlling the swing

Video Ramifications

nospam@example.com (graham boulton) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:55:51 +1100

SwingLAB Interface Video Function

The objective of the video function is to enable you to correlate at what stage of the Mental Preshot Routine the golfer is at against the Mental Sequence graph.

For example, you can see that after aligning the club, the golfer’s anxiety goes high each time they look at the target.

Pinpointing what & where the problem is then enables you to fix the blockage by prescribing the relevant drills

The video function will also enable us to train you more effectively. The first stage of training is for you to video someone performing a mental preshot routine and emailing us the video. We can then skype and discuss this further

There is a trade off between video resolution and video size. An uncompressed video is approx 45MB and a compressed video is 2MB with reduced resolution.

Videos also are very taxing on a hard-disk, to the extent if you want to do a lot of videoing we suggest you configure a separate disk just for the videos.

We recommend using the system with the reduced resolution as it will “get the job done” and preserve your hard disk.

World's First Focus Handicap System for Golf

nospam@example.com (henry boulotn) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:35:55 +1000

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What are the Brain frequencies the FocusBand Measures

nospam@example.com (henry boulotn) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:36:36 +1000

Frequency Of Brain Waves

The following information has been included as reference only.

1. Beta Waves

Beta brain waves are emanated when a personâ€™s brain is aroused and active.Â Mentally stimulating events will cause beta brain waves.Â Brain waves are also admitted during agitation, fright, and sensual arousal.Â Beta brain waves have a frequency that ranges from 13 to 60 pulses per second.Â This is the most common type of brain wave.

2. Alpha Waves

Alpha waves are a representation of physical and mental relaxation in the brain.Â For example, when one takes time to â€œrelaxâ€ or â€œtake a break,â€ they are emitting alpha waves.Â Meditation also induces alpha waves.Â It is a slower wave, with a frequency of 7 to 13 pulses per second.

3.Â Theta Waves

In a state of reduced consciousness, the brain emits theta waves.Â Even slower than alpha waves, theta waves are emitted during everyday tasks such as driving and brushing your teeth.Â During these times, your brain may be in theta state, causing a sense of â€œdaydreamingâ€ or a positive mental state.Â Theta waves have an average frequency between 4 to 8 pulses per second.

4.Â Delta Waves

Delta waves are the slowest frequency that are emitted during sleep.Â Their frequency is typically 1-4 pulses per second.

FocusBand voted best new Product at Carolinas PGA 2010 Expo

nospam@example.com (RV Team) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:52:57 +1100

The focusband turned out to be a real show stopper. Â The most common feedback was Â "ah Ha" Â now I know what focus is. Â The biofeedback really helps explain itÂ