Iain Highfield – Make your Training Like the Game #157

<p>It is great to have with us today on the Brain Booster Iain Highfield.</p> <p>Iain has carved out a really successful career coaching in the USA. He has co created the company ‘Game Like Training”</p> <p>Amongst other successes he has</p> <ul> <li>Created a golf psychological conditioning program implemented at the Nike Golf Academy (UK) Bishops Gate Academy (FL) International Junior Golf Academy (SC).</li> <li>Iain’s golf psychology program is currently being delivered via the ‘Game Like Training’ virtual classroom to Penn State University, European Tour Golfers and College Golfers</li> <li>Published author, ‘OSVEA, Practical Ways to Learn Golf’s Mental Game’</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>We delve into some intriguing areas on today’s show.</p> <p>Iain has spent time with some of the world’s foremost experts in motor learning including Robert Bjork and K Anders Ericsson and he shares some of his key learnings.</p> <p>How to ACTUALLY change your golf swing. It really is NOT what you think or have been led to believe.</p> <p>Why muscles don’t have ‘memory’</p> <p>Why REPETITION and ‘reps’ is NOT the key</p> <p>How learning and change has to take place in the BRAIN</p> <p>How engagement is THE critical component</p> <p>Why trying to model what the likes of Tiger Woods and Serena Williams may not be the best strategy</p> <p>The Spacing Effect</p> <p>The Variability Effect</p> <p>The correct Challenge Point</p> <p>How to set up a LEARNING ENVIRONMENT on the range</p> <p>The ‘transfer appropriate process’</p> <p>Looking at TENSION and TEMPO as a focus of attention and why this can give a great return on your investment of time</p> <p>How mechanics can actually improve as a result of TENSION awareness</p> <p>How trying to ‘keep’ a swing feeling is the wrong approach</p> <p>How a process orientation can lead to MASTERY</p> <p>How we look for happiness in all of the wrong places</p> <p>The magic of ‘this day’ focus</p> <p>How trying to ‘keep’ a swing feeling is the wrong approach</p> <p>Just a really great and wide ranging s