| gest problem in putting is not the breaks in the green or | | | | 5 Steps to Better Putting: |
| the distance from the hole, it is your mind. | | | | 1. Judge the distance between the ball and the hole. |
| The solution to better putting is not in focus or | | | | 2. Bend down to look for breaks in the green and hills |
| concentration; it's in your ability to "let go" of needing to | | | | or slopes toward the hole. Just allow your eyes to |
| sink that putt. | | | | pass over the green without judgment. It is what it is. |
| The Letting Go Solution: | | | | 3. Step up to the ball, practice swing your putter until |
| In a sparring situation a highly trained martial artist will | | | | your body tells you the speed you need to strike the |
| strategize the best way to get in on an opponent, not | | | | ball; until it just feels right. Trust it. |
| unlike a golf player setting up for a good approach to | | | | 4. Release your mind from the process by taking a |
| the green. But when the time comes to strike, that | | | | deep breath. |
| martial artist lets go of thought and allows her skill, | | | | 5. Take one last look toward the hole and putt away. |
| ingrained in her body over years of training, to take | | | | 6. Whether your ball goes in or not, maintain the |
| over. | | | | meditation as long as you can. This gives your body a |
| How does this help on the putting green? | | | | chance to learn from the putt. Too often we get |
| All modern martial arts derived from Shaolin Kung fu. | | | | excited either that the ball is going into the hole or it is |
| Shaolin Kung Fu was designed simply as a tool to | | | | not and our body and mind tense and impede sensory |
| strengthen the body and use it as a tool to train the | | | | learning from that putt. |
| mind to live in this moment right now. Shaolin Kung Fu | | | | Will you sink every putt? Not likely. But this process will |
| moves are a meditation-in-motion. | | | | make you a better putter. The most difficult thing is to |
| Better Putting as a meditation-in-motion: | | | | release your mind from the outcome. When you do |
| When standing in front of a putt, stop thinking and trust | | | | your natural bodily intelligence with adjust accordingly |
| in your body's natural intelligence. Empty you mind of | | | | and set you up to sink the next putt. |
| the last hole, the shots leading up to this putt, your | | | | Putting is more sensory, tactile, than any other stroke in |
| scorecard, and most importantly release your mind | | | | golf. It requires pin-point accuracy where the slightest |
| from the want to sink that putt. | | | | miscue in stroke can send the ball awry. |
| When your mind takes over it puts stress on the body | | | | When the mind puts stress on the body--to make the |
| and tension ensues. When putting you want to have | | | | putt--the body tenses and does not get an accurate |
| good form but also a natural fluidity of movement. Not | | | | feel of what went wrong, or right, and does not learn. |
| sharp, sporadic strokes that stress can cause. | | | | |