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This page introduces the Old Way New Way^® Learning routine for improving your golf swing and other parts of your golf game.

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Golf swing improvement: Rapid technique correction routine for players and coaches

Chris Graham has a Level 3 AAA rating with the PGA of Australia. He says this about Old Way New Way,^® the technique correction method used in Golf Swing Improvement:

"With Old Way New Way^®, practice times are reduced, swing changes come faster and there is no falling back to old ways under pressure of competition."

Golf Swing Improvement is a self-paced golf technique improvement routine designed for golfers and coaches at all levels from beginner up to professional.

Golf Swing Improvement uses the Old Way New Way^® Learning method, the same rapid technique improvement method used so successfully by Olympic coaches and sports professionals and well reviewed by the Australian Sports Commission.

Golf Swing Improvement and Old Way New Way^® Learning can improve all aspects of your golf game, both physical and mental, not just your golf swing.

For golf coaches, Old Way New Way^® golf technique correction can enrich your coaching experience and greatly improve your coaching effectiveness.

The Golf Swing Improvement routine short course is now available on CD. More in-depth training in Old Way New Way^® is available via our online course or in group training workshops.

Golf Australia, June 2006 issue, reviewed Old Way New Way^® Learning and showed how it can improve your golf swing.

Golfers please note - before changing any part of your golf game you should seek expert advice from a golf pro.

 

Golf Swing Improvement Routine
What will it do for my golf game?

Golf Swing Improvement is a short self-paced routine that will provide you with information, demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way^® to:

• improve your own golf technique if you are a golfer or
• improve your coaching effectiveness if you are a golf coach.

Golf Swing Improvement will:

• teach you the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way^® Learning
• show you how it has been used to quickly correct golf technique and other performance problems in golf
• show you two (2) step-by-step video demonstrations of its use with a golfer to correct a golf swing fault and a putting problem<
• teach you to prepare your own golf skill correction routines that you can use in many different golfing situations; and
• show you how to use Old Way New Way^® to speed up your golf technique correction and recover more quickly from performance slumps.

Golf Swing Improvement uses the Old Way New Way^® Learning method which is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by experimental research published in international refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations stands unrivaled. Old Way New Way^® is also very user friendly - it won't frustrate you or make you feel inadequate.

 

Golf Swing Improvement Routine contents. This golf technique correction routine includes

• a review of Old Way New Way^® by the Australian Sports Commission in Sports Coach, the national journal for active sports coaches
• a course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
• background reading for the practical assignments, with a self administered test of understanding of the main concepts, accompanied by model answers
• a fascinating demonstration of the brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement, and makes old habits die hard
• progressive practical assignments that teach you the steps in Old Way New Way^® technique correction
• practical assignments that guide you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way^® to change your own or another golfer's technique
• two 10-minute videos that show you, step-by-step, how this was actually done with a faulty golf swing and a putting technique problem
• a generic Old Way New Way^® template that you can modify to suit many different kinds of technique correction and other performance problems in golf
• a stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way^® and conventional golf coaching, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
• case studies of how Old Way New Way^® has improved performance in other sports, including Olympic javelin and sprinting, lawn bowls, swimming, cricket, lacrosse, baseball, soccer, football, and running
• instructions on how to use Old Way New Way^® for skill transition training
• a list of published research that underpins this technique correction method
• implementation support options, including e-consultation, an online course and on-site consultation.

 

Golf swing improvement routine formats

Golf technique improvement: Full routine including two 10-minute video segments, all on CD

CD ROM containing full text including two 10-minute video demonstrations - one showing putting correction and another showing golf swing correction. (AU$59. Currency conversion). Order form.

Golf technique improvement: Full routine including transcripts of the two 10-minute video segments, all in a downloadable PDF file

Downloadable PDF file containing full text including transcripts of two 10-minute video demonstrations - one describing putting correction and another describing golf swing correction. (AU$39. Currency conversion). Order form.

Golf technique improvement: Online course

Online course includes all course material on CD ROM including the videos, plus step-by-step guidance and support in a course that is customised just for you (AU$395. Currency conversion). Order form

Technique improvement: Coach development workshops

One-day rapid technique correction workshop tailor made for golf pros. More information.

 

Read these reviews of Old Way New Way^® technique correction and our courses

Old Way New Way^® is a generic sports technique improvement routine that has now been especially adapted for golf.

Old Way New Way^® received a very positive review in Sports Coach, 2003, Vol. 25, No.4 (an extract appears below).

Sports Coach is Australia's national sports coaching journal, aimed at the practising sports coach.

Produced quarterly, Sports Coach presents up-to-date sports coaching articles on a variety of topics, ranging from interviews, sports coaching drills and nutrition to research results in a wide range of sports. Sports Coach is an excellent periodical for the active sports coach.

Old Way New Way^®, by Graham Cook (extracts from Sports Coach)

It is one of the most perplexing and frustrating obstacles any coach has to face; without warning and often without apparent reason, the athlete they are coaching goes into a form slump.

Hitherto excellent techniques, often carefully refined over years of hard work are lost, to be replaced by persistent and stubborn errors that refuse to respond to correction.

In the past, this has usually resulted in a long and destructive regime of constant repetition of skill drills aimed at driving the offending error from the athlete's repertoire....  [However] the correct technique, apparently recovered after constant practice, disappears under the pressure of competition ....

A different approach ... enthusiastically endorsed by a growing number of coaches and sporting professionals, is Old Way New Way^®, which aims to put the athlete back on the right path, not within months or weeks, but possibly after one intensive session ....

... one of the most spectacular examples of Old Way New Way^®'s success [is] cricketer Jason Gillespie [who] needed to change his bowling action .... he was able to change a major part of his bowling action in about 20 minutes ....

... Olympic [athletes], a javelin thrower and a sprinter, were in a form slump associated with technique problems .... both problems were corrected ....

While an experienced [Old Way New Way^®] practitioner is needed initially, there is no reason why coaches should not quickly learn the subtleties of the method and introduce it when required.

 

Some of our Old Way New Way^® customers

• Australian Golf Teachers Federation (Australia)
• Professional Golfers Association (USA)
• Professional Golfers Association of Australia
• Golf Queensland (Australia)
• Queensland Academy of Sport (Australia)
• Range Riders (Canada)
• JK Golf Gmbh (Germany)
• Transformational Golf (Australia)
• The Farm Golf (USA)
• Golf Your Way (Australia)
• Midland Golf (Australia)
• Regency Park Golf Course (Australia)
• Research Institute for Olympic Sports (Finland)
• Asian Canadian Golf Academy (Canada)
• Australian Institute of Sport (Australia)
• Box Hill Golf Club (Australia)
• David Milne Golf Academy (Australia)
• Golf Your Way (Australia)
• New Zealand Academy of Sport, North (New Zealand)
• Swedish Golf Team (Sweden)

 

Olympic sports technique correction at the Research Institute for Olympic Sports, Finland

Professor Yuri Hanin, Professor of Sport Psychology, says this about Old Way New Way^® rapid technique correction

"I've been using Old Way New Way^® for rapid correction of persistent errors in technique with track and field athletes (javelin, hammer throwing and sprinting), with a pro-tour female golfer, and also with a soccer team. All nine interventions were very successful. At the same time, we collaborated with Paul to advance our research into skill development and correction with elite athletes and still do."

"There are several benefits that I have experienced using Old Way New Way. It is very practical; the technical problem is solved quickly and completely in just one single session; the results are immediate, there is no adaptation period as with conventional skill development and correction."

"Moreover, the observed technique improvement is permanent and extends into psychological benefits such as feelings of empowerment, enhanced self-confidence, satisfaction with the elimination of errors, better understanding, higher motivation and a desire to engage in more high quality training of this kind. A single learning trial lasting from one to two hours, including an half hour warm up, usually results in 80% or better improvement in performance. The new way (corrected skill) is consistently performed and spontaneous recovery of errors, if any, is easily handled. Skill improvement also directly transfers to competitive performance, as shown in our case studies [with Olympic athletes and their coaches - read The Sport Psychologist, 2002, 16, 79-99]. Under conventional skill correction methods, technique difficulties still resisted correction after months and, in some cases, years of effort."

 

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Old Way New Way Learning improves your golf swing. Golf Australia, June 2006. "10 Steps to Kicking Your Bad Habit". Reproduced here in part, with permission.

Golf swing problem?

Golf coaches and players try to get it right the first time but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

Once established, habit pattern errors like technique faults are hard to correct and can make a player uncompetitive and can lead to a career-threatening performance slump.

The typical advice to practice skill drills and train hard is usually not very effective. The player may appear to improve during training but repeatedly falls back to old ways under pressure of competition.

Transfer of training from skills coaching sessions and practice drills to competition is consequently poor.

Transition training, required when the player has to change over to a new code, new equipment, new techniques or new rules, presents similar adjustment difficulties. Old habits die hard.

Fortunately, a coaching science discovery called Old Way New Way^® Learning offers:

(1) a new perspective on the transfer of training problem in golf.

(2) a fast and practical method of golf skill development.

(3) a cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid golf skill and technique correction and habit eradication.

This page introduces the Old Way New Way^® Learning routine for improving your golf swing and other parts of your golf game.