What's in a Golf Training Grip?

Have you ever had anyone say to you "Get a gripthe prescribed work to accomplish concentration.
on yourself?" Or "He' s got a good grip on reality."Focus is the result of concentration. By the way,
Getting a "grip" is not only important in life, but ishappiness is also one of the measured results of
essential to playing great golf. The golf training grip isconcentration. So, go ahead and concentrate on your
a universe unknown to most people, but if a golfergolf training grip and just see what happens.
doesn't know about it... then his or her game will2) Application - Once the attention is gathered up
suffer tremendously.from all the distractions of life and focus is gained,
I never really thought of the golf training grip as verythat's when the application phase comes into play.
important to my golf game until I hurt my wrist doingThis might explain all those so-so rounds of golf over
some construction work a few years ago. In fact, Ithe past twenty years - whoops! Concentrate, focus
strongly feel that this painful experience was veryand then apply the energy.
useful (not fun at all), but useful - useful in gettingDeciding what is worth applying that energy to is also
my conscious attention. It is not just a good golfa useful exercise. Why? Because we live in a stress
training grip that we're discussing here; it's thefilled world that pulls and tugs on us - that's why. It's
application of consciousness to every aspect ofnot just your golf training grip that wants and needs
playing golf, with the golf training grip as just oneattention. It is though, the point at which we'd like to
aspect to increasing your ability!put some attention when we are approaching the
Just look at Tiger Woods. He brings focus and onefirst tee next Saturday morning. Give it a try.
pointed concentration to his game of golf, and this3) Results - If we are successful in our golf training
includes his golf training grip. Here are 3 aspects ofgrip experiment, the signs will show and our game will
Tiger's game that we can easily incorporate for ourimprove. Once perfected, the attention can be
own golf and golf training grip.directed as required to almost any activity. It's not
1) Concentration - Concentration, according to theabout multi-tasking though as everybody thinks; it' s
Webster dictionary is the direction of attention on aabout gaining mastery over the self and that's a
single object. Of course, implied here is that you havegood thing, that' s a very good thing indeed.
the ability to concentrate and that you have done