Rob Rashell Golf

Notes

My notes are excerpts from the book that caught my eye, stood out to me.

If you shoot when the heart beats , the movement is severe enough to cost you points . You must shoot between heartbeats. Amazing how much influence a heartbeat has in shooting.

Talent equals skill and it is acquired, not awarded.

I am not saying that everyone who expects to win will always win. What I am saying is if it is not like you to win, you have no chance of winning at all.

Contrast between thinking you’re going to win and the process it takes to win....a persons perception of themselves, does winning cause a jump out of comfort zones.

Over the past 30 years, I have talked to a lot of winners about winning. Some were National, World and Olympic Champions. I find it interesting that champions who were consciously trying to win while competing rarely do. You heard me right. They weren’t TRYING to win the competitions.

Scoring is a function of great execution, and winning is the result, but thinking about winning can pull your focus off of proper execution in a competition. Thinking about process is the answer.

Interestingly, most say that they were thinking about nothing or very little while winning their event.

Over-trying has caused more good competitors to lose competitions than any other form of mental error.

believe that one of the most important factors in success at the Olympic level is that Olympians tend to control their Self-Image growth.

We all have a comfort zone, the upper and lower limits being defined by our Self-Image. It is “like us” to operate within this zone.

The Principle of Reinforcement: The more we think about, talk about and write about something happening, we improve the probability of that thing happening.

The BEST years of the BEST players are rarely foreseen in advance. Why? I believe it is because the elite are not thinking about outcome. They are thinking about process.

Process is what you can control and only what you can control. Process can be defined and anything that can be defined can be duplicated.

Your value as a person is more a function of your character, your beliefs and your actions towards others than your results on the playing field.

When you rehearse seeing what you would actually see during the execution the technique is called actual rehearsal.

I am not against using video as long as you are watching what you are doing well much more often than reviewing your errors.

Three pieces of execution process...First, the mental program must occupy the Conscious Mind.

Second, the mental program must transfer power to the Subconscious Mind.

Third, it must be duplicable.

In my more than fifty years as both a competitor and a coach I have known only a few athletes that say that they do not feel something different in competition.

Accept the advantages of stress and expect that your scores will be better for having felt pressure.

Thinking about what you are doing wrong or counting your score just increases the negative effects of stress.

Use a planned, practiced recovery strategy.

See josh waitzken on his recovery super valuable

Though it is difficult to compare myself to Soma, I believe we share one thing in common, a passion for the process.

Wherever you are, be there 100 percent.

A person must have the discipline to stay focused on the task at hand.

When you are playing well, play a lot.

We raise ourselves to the standard we are around.

Train with people who are better than you, and you will get better.

You cannot manage what you do not measure.

Secondly, I will not coach an individual without a Performance Journal and if you are a coach you should demand it of your performers.

A Performance Journal, by my definition, has no references to bad shots, bad experiences or poor performances. It is a Performance Journal not a lack of Performance Journal.

Controlling the change in your Self-Image may be the most important skill you will ever learn.

I credit it with having the greatest single impact on building the Self-Image necessary for my success in athletics and business.

‘having the power to determine an outcome beyond doubt.’ Wow. Decisiveness is power.