Help For Charles??

Thanks go out to a new KiAi Golfer in Los Angeles who found me on Facebook and immediately ordered the KiAi Golf Instructional DVD Package. How nice to find these posts on my “wall”:

“Jamie Sensei, I’m so glad I found you! I just watched your DVDs and what can I say – you’re a genius.” -- “Just watched your DVDs again. I think you’re the only one who may be able to help Charles Barkley!”

What can I say, he said it not me! In all humility, boy would I love a chance to see what the centered principles and integrated mind-body golf practices of KiAi Golf could do for Charles. Mr. LA is not the first to suggest that they believe I could honestly help the big guy.

Charles Barkley may be an extreme case, but golfers generally suffer so much and mostly so needlessly. It is a game and it’s not rocket science. Meaning it should be fun, and its just us humans, using our own brain and body parts together with a golf club and golf ball, out there in splendiferous nature. Nothing is impossible, not even better golf - and for Charles too!

Daily Practice & Indoor Improvement!

I’d like to congratulate Class A LPGA Pro Marty Mallott on the new indoor golf facility named in her honor at Defiance High School in Ohio . She’s the girls golf coach there, and Executive Director of the Ohio Women’s State Open (where I had the good fortune to win the senior title in 2008). She and her family have outfitted a wonderful center for young players, and community members, to work on their golf regardless of the weather.

I was honored to be in Defiance for the dedication and to conduct a 3-hour indoor KiAi Golf Intensive. Without the seductions of the golf course or seeing shot results, it seems much easier for people to concentrate on what they’re actually doing and feeling as they swing, chip and putt, and to take time for the energetic and fitness aspects of the game.

Having grown up in the Midwest , I’ve noticed that golfers there and in northern climes tend to be the nuttiest of all! Probably because the summers are short and winters long, they really love their golf and savor the prime time they get to play.

With the cold snowy winter months looming, it is so great to have an indoor golf place and practices to do. In Defiance I shared KiAi Golf BLISS Fitness and Swing-Patterning KATA exercises that I designed for people to:

a) practice every day, indoors or out, at home or work, with or without a driving range or golf course

b) be empowered to work on their swing and “golf mind” themselves

c) have ways to get into “the zone” and return when they start “losing it” on the golf course.

Daily practice really is the name of the game, regardless of climate, talent, size, age, gender, etc. In the martial arts we call it conscious regular training. There is no perfect in golf, but training surely is the way to feel more natural, confident and capable. They're defying the winter in Defiance, and its possible for people everywhere to do even a little practice every day. Besides, who wouldn’t want to be swinging and improving, all of the time??!?

A GOLF SCHOOL LIKE NO OTHER!

Hi everyone! Wow so many moons and golf shots and life experiences have happened since my first few KiAi Golf blogs months ago.

I got so involved living it all that I just didn’t take the time out to write about it all (am sure you can relate!!)

So here we go, it’s time to swing the pen again …

Today begins A GOLF SCHOOL LIKE NO OTHER! Three days of engaging golf in a total east-west/mind-body/thought-full yet thinking-less immersion into playing better golf.

The Golf Sensei (yours truly) is teaming up with the creator of Swingolf, British PGA Pro Les Bolland, and we’ve got a great group of golfers together for a lot of fun and learning in San Diego. Wish you were here – and promise to keep you posted!

As this “way-cool golf-school” begins I’m reminded of walking Rich Harvest Farms at the LPGA Solheim Cup in August. That golf course is truly a masterpiece. Every single hole is a work of art, from the velvet fairways to rough rough, to constant cavernous bunkers and breaking greens to marshy creeks and reeds keeping manicured magnificence feeling rural and natural, to people and wildlife co-habitating and risk-reward beckoning every decision and shot.

Rich Harvest never lets up, and it never lets down. Never a trace of boredom or disappointment. Perpetual extreme challenge amidst graceful gorgeous balance and delight. A perfection that’s easy and natural, very demanding yet without stress, filling all the air and stretching out in every direction.

So imagine yourself now on a golf course where every hole is a masterpiece. See all your swings feeling "just-right" (what I call "KiAi", all in harmony). And imagine all the moments of your life, without exception or fail and beginning with this one – each and every day, all day long, in every word you say and thought you think and move you make – all becoming masterpieces!

Better Golf: You Are The Answer!

OK. You’re here. Congratulations! That means you’re already on your way to “waking up” from the insanities and morasses most golfers seem to flounder around in. Don’t you want to be different? Try some new things that actually make good common sense and work?!?

It’s only fair to let you know who you’re listening to here. I’m a Class A LPGA Pro known as “The Golf Sensei.” (www.kiaigolf.com) “Sensei (“sen-say”) is the Japanese word used in martial arts for “Teacher with a capital T” or a “master instructor.” I’m a 5th Degree Aikido Black Belt, plus a sports psychologist, plus a bodyworker-healer and mind-body fitness trainer.

Combining all that with golf (I started playing at age 7 and was a state and national junior golf champ) allows me to bring all of you some pretty cool ways to actually get better at this way-cool game!

The billion dollar question everyone wants to know is: "How can I play and score better?" The Golf Sensei is here to tell you that you are the answer, and everything you need is already inside of you!

YOU are the real key to improving your golf.

Sounds simple and obvious and in a way it is. But if you’re like most people, you’d sooner try out the next tip or buy a new club or eat some new magic bar than spend more time mastering your own body and mind.

Here’s the facts folks:
We all need to raise our physical fitness: strength, flexibility, coordination, technique.
And our mental fitness: focus, calm, clarity, positivity, knowledge.

This is the missing, guaranteed link to better golfing, that will definitely lead to lower their scores and becoming a consistently better player.

A little better physical and mental fitness goes a long way when it comes to genuinely swinging, putting and scoring better. Trust today’s top tour players. Trust me, The Golf Sensei. Get yourself even a taste of what Tiger’s got. If you’re nodding your head as you’re reading this, you are already well on your way to truly better golf.