Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: This is Larry Fleck from Indianapolis, Indiana, and I play
golf at Winding River Golf Course. This is golf Smarter.
Speaker 3: Golf Smarter number four hundred and sixty seven published on
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Speaker 1: If you look on TV or you go to a tournament,
you watch the pros and tour pros. Probably the biggest
difference between the professionals and the amateurs is their balance.
And balance is what contains the energy so that you
can deliver it all into the golf ball so that
the golf ball gets maximum distance and optimal accuracy. Balance
is critical to that when people are like lifting off
the ball, you know, swaying off the ball and lifting
up through it and falling back after they try to
muscle it and they recoil and it kicks them back
and their ball's not going. That's because they don't have
that musculature and that awareness and that ability to be
so balanced. And one of the most beautiful things about
the touring pros, male and female, is their balance.
Speaker 3: Golf is a mental game. The return of our golf
sense Ay Jamie Zimron.
Speaker 2: This is Golf.
Speaker 4: Smarter, sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals.
Speaker 2: To help lower your score.
Speaker 4: It's worked for your host, Fred Green.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast.
Speaker 5: Jamie.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Fred, it's been too long. I'm so happy
to be talking with you and your listeners.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we are glad to have you back.
Speaker 5: I am shocked.
Speaker 3: I was looking through the spreadsheet on the show shows
and here we are at an episode four hundred and
sixty seven and you haven't been on since twenty eleven.
I'm shocked that the last episode was to eighty.
Speaker 5: Nine with you.
Speaker 2: That is too long, absolutely, But to.
Speaker 3: Our members who are going back and listening, if you
miss Jamie in the past and you need some help
on your game, go back to episodes one, thirty three, two,
twenty five, to twenty six and to eighty nine and
you can hear previous conversations with Jamie.
Speaker 5: But don't go anywhere yet because now we're going to
start another one. How are you. What have you been
up to in the last three years?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: He's been doing a lot of Kei golf ki golfing,
and I've also been doing a lot of Kei business
trainings and working on peak performance with people in athletes,
lead athletes, ordinary folks, and business leaders, all kinds of people.
So been carrying the teachings far and wide, shall we say,
around the world, around the country and world.
Speaker 3: That's amazing. Now let's go back and talk about kii.
Since it's been a long time and we're going to
be introducing you to a lot of people for the
first time, let's explain what ki golf is and how
it's transformed and evolved into ki business.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 1: Well, Kii is made up of two characters or kanji
they call them in Japanese and Chinese.
Speaker 2: One is the first. One is Kei.
Speaker 1: Well, it's Chi and Chinese, and that simply means life energy.
It's something that's in every one of us.
Speaker 2: It's what the world is made of. It's in us,
it's around us.
Speaker 1: And when we can become more masterful in using our energy.
We tend to be able to get it into golf
all better or whatever we're doing and make it fly.
Speaker 2: So that's key.
Speaker 1: And then you've got i ai, which actually means love,
and love is understood as in a practical way, harmony, unity, oneness,
when things are all synchronized, gelling working together. So KII
is this power of unified life energy, the key I way.
So it's a key way of hitting a golf ball,
it's the KEYI way of really doing anything well.
Speaker 5: And your background is not just.
Speaker 3: Well, let's go into what your background is in regards
to golf and then we'll let it evolve into the
ikdo and everything else.
Speaker 5: Let's give us more background there.
Speaker 1: Well, I started playing golf when I was seven years
old in Wisconsin because my parents started playing, and I
was really a natural. I just sort of, you know,
would swing the club and chase the ball and it
was all good. Was this is way back when when
there weren't all the great junior golf programs that exists today.
So I was kind of a natural, and I was
shooting in the eighties. I think by the time I
was ten, and my very first golf tournament I played.
I had just turned thirteen and it was the Wisconsin
State Junior Championship. It was a Green Bay, Oneida country Club,
and I went and you had to shoot a metal
round and then play match play. So I qualified for
the championship division. I made it to the semi finals,
and I remember I was three down with four to
go to the seventeen year old and I just made
three birdies in a bar and beat her.
Speaker 2: Then we had a.
Speaker 1: Thirty six hole final and I beat the seventeen year
old to become the Wisconsin State Junior Champion, which I
went on to do a number of times.
Speaker 2: And then I played nationally.
Speaker 1: My cohort is people well known people like Amy Alcott,
Hollis Stacey who are in the Hall of Fame now
LPJA Hall of Fame. And I was actually ranked in
the top ten nationally as a junior with them.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I had a stellar junior golf career. And this
was way again, way back when, and it was kind
of a choice. I got accepted to school at Stanford
University from.
Speaker 2: Wisconsin, California calling at.
Speaker 1: California called well it was also Stanford or the tour
and at that time. It was just before Title nine
kicked in, which gave equal funding to girls athletics, and
so I didn't have a golf scholarship and I went
to Stanford hardly played golf. We didn't have a lot
of much of a golf team at the time, if
you can imagine, and yes, you know, it.
Speaker 2: Was like Stanford Tour.
Speaker 1: I went to Stanford and didn't even have golf scholarship,
even though I was ranked nationally.
Speaker 3: I'm curious about the conversation that you were having with
your folks about I'm thinking about going on the tour
but I was accepted to Stanford.
Speaker 5: What their response was to that.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a big conversation.
Speaker 5: It was a short conversation, right.
Speaker 3: Let me guess it was, no, you're going to Stanford exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But in lieu of golf, what happened is to go.
Speaker 2: On with my background.
Speaker 1: When I was sophomore junior year, I was just twenty
twenty one years old, I started to practice iikedo, which
is a martial art.
Speaker 2: At Stanford.
Speaker 1: It was offered for a pe crew and a friend
told me about it.
Speaker 2: And aikedo is KEII way.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful martial art, which I really didn't appreciate
what I was really getting into at the time, but
I went to class and I instantly fell in love
with it. As it happened, it was quite the heyday
of aikdo at Stanford and in the Bay Area. At
that time, aikito was just coming into the States from Japan.
It's a Japanese martial art and it's a transformative martial art.
It's known as the martial art of peace. It differs
from karate and kind of combat of arts in that.
Speaker 2: The idea is not I win, you lose. I'm okay,
you're not.
Speaker 1: The idea is here's an attack, and how can we
move with it in such a way that we can
blend and harmonize, use that energy, go with the flow
to sort of simplify it, and then make some circular
movements that are able to neutralize the problem, take the
attacker down, but without having to hurt them. So I'm
okay and you're okay. It's got a win win kind
of philosophy, this harmonious resolution of conflict.
Speaker 2: And the other part that is very.
Speaker 1: Directly applicable in the key way is to use our
life energy to use this internal breath, natural inborn power
that we have in our body, mind, emotion, spirit, rather
than just trying to use brute muscle force.
Speaker 3: So is it like I'm okay, you're okay, but you'd
know that I just kicked your butt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's because there is a tremendous level of power.
Speaker 5: You're okay, I'm better.
Speaker 2: In a certain way. I guess you could say that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So then then after Stanford and now you're getting ikeito
and you're still playing golf after Stanford, did you, like,
was the tour still calling in the back of your
head or how did you get to teaching?
Speaker 2: Well, what happened is that's a good question. What happened is.
Speaker 1: That I just got headlong one hundred thousand percent into
Aikdo and I earned my first degree black belt, and
some women asked me to teach. I was barely twenty five,
but I opened my own Aikdo dojo or martial arts
school in San Francisco when I was just twenty five.
So I started teaching, and it was originally called the
Women's Aikdo School of San Francisco. It evolved into the
Ikdo Art Center of San Francisco with programs for you know.
Speaker 2: Mixed men, women, kids.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, I did my master's work in clinical psychology,
and I also studied a lot of bodywork, fitness anatomy,
so you know, massage, therapy, all this kind of stuff.
And I've always been involved in the mind body interaction
and the mind body realm so and then I went
on to become fair involved in both creating and instructing
at National Women's Martial Arts Federation, Pacific Association of Women
Martial Artists. I co founded the Association of Women Martial
Arts Instructors many things, and have taught very much in
the aikido world.
Speaker 2: We introduced Aikdo.
Speaker 1: To the Soviet Union in nineteen eighty seven when Garbacheff
came in, and I started teaching.
Speaker 2: In the Middle East in the early nineties, and I've been.
Speaker 1: Using aikto as a vehicle, Ikto training a vehicle to
get Palestinians and Israelis, Arabs and Jews together in the
Middle East.
Speaker 2: It's really powerful stuff.
Speaker 1: So you know, I've been so kind of like age
twenty to forty without telling hold I am. I wasn't
golfing a whole lot except when I would see my
parents and I would always go out and shoo in
the seventies, even without playing, and I noticed that I
was actually improving at golf from doing so much aikdo
and body mind psychology, fitness mastery stuff.
Speaker 3: How sure you weren't doing better at golf because you
were away from it and you weren't really invested. I mean,
I know that if I take a couple of weeks off,
I get nervous, like, oh boy, I better just keep
my expectations low and I'll, you know, and then just
I have a great round, you know. You know, when
I don't have any pressure on myself too, I got
to do better because I'm playing so often. And then
then you know, but then when you're away from it,
you come back, it's like, oh, whatever happens is great, and.
Speaker 2: You yeah, well you know it.
Speaker 1: With some of sum I would say, and in certain
ways I would say that I was very a stress
less golf you know, I wasn't worrying about it and
trying or competing or anything like that. So in that way,
I could just go out and have a good time.
On the other hand, I really did notice during that
period that the focus the fitness, the centering, the balance
and flow that I was getting from iqto it was
directly translating into my golf and so even without practicing,
I was doing well. But I also noticed that I
was sort of rusty, that it really does take some
more practice and play than I was doing to really.
Speaker 2: Be you know, really be good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I was.
Speaker 1: But I was impressed at how well I was maintained
and even improving without hardly playing or practicing right on
the basis of of iketo practice.
Speaker 5: The balance and flow. Now, is this.
Speaker 3: A psychological boost for you in your golf game?
Speaker 5: You know, we're going to keep it back to golf.
Speaker 3: But did the psychology the mindset of iketo help your
golf game or was there the physical element to you
talked about balance and flow.
Speaker 1: Well, it's both, and that's why I keep saying mind body.
It's funny people say, oh, you know, golf, it's all
between your ears, it's all a mental game.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of scenarios, and.
Speaker 1: I'm a psychologist, so I'm all for it. On the
other hand, you can stand there and stare at the
golf ball from your head and it's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: So it's not all a mental game.
Speaker 1: In fact, I have a nice article it's on my
website called golf is a mental game?
Speaker 2: Question mark? Is it really?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So then it's a physical game. The thing is
that golf is mostly taught is a physical game. Here's
the techniques. Here's where your STANCHI R posture, put your
hands here, do this, release them there, da da da,
all these little things that you're supposed to like piece
together like beads on a string, and it's all going
to add up to a good swing. And also equipment,
as if if you just drop another four or five
hundred dollars on these great clubs or drivers, something you're
going to do better. So golf is so much taught
as a physical game, and the focus on mechanics and technique,
well that's not really working that great for everybody either.
So there must be something about this interface, this joined
integrated interaction, holistic right of the mind and body working
together that is important to create more success in golf
and golf instruction, golf learning and playing better golf.
Speaker 2: So that's the part that I think.
Speaker 1: I've certainly been trying to lead the way, and there
are some others trying to lead the way in that realm.
Speaker 2: So that everybody could play better.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, you know, you can go off to
a therapist or whatever, do some hypnotherapy. You may or
may not play better, right, You may or may not
do any better if you've got these new clubs. But
when you have a certain amount of self mastery and
you actually understand stability, centeredness, relaxed, flowing power, how to
focus your mind, how to have your mind be able
to tell your right elbow to drop into the slot
right now while you're right knees kicking. In most of us,
most players, and most average golfers don't have that kind
of mind body connection that they can even utilize even
just physical instruction, because they don't really know where their
body parts are that well, wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really it's neat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: The other part of the physical that's going on these
days is golf fitness. I mean, I'm a huge support
of golf fitness. I've designed, as you and those who've
heard some of the previous podcasts know, golf bliss balance
length and integrate stretch strength, and so I've designed a
whole golf fitness program.
Speaker 2: I'm all about golf fitness.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, just more physical fitness or going
to the gym or getting a little stronger, that's not
necessarily going to improve your play either. So that you
have the kind of self control of your mind, of
your muscles, of your swing, of being in different situations
that you need to actually play with confidence and consistency
and repeatability, so that you'll actually be a better golfer.
Speaker 3: If I am going to the gym on a semi
regular basis and and I'm going there with the thought
of this is going to not only keep my heart pumping,
but it's also going to improve my golf game. Should
focus more on strength or flexibility.
Speaker 1: Oh, isn't that a good question? Well, the good news
of the bad news. My usual answer is, guess what.
Speaker 5: It's both all of the above.
Speaker 1: And its I mean, there's individuals who they have strength,
so they need a little more flexibility.
Speaker 2: There's some people who are.
Speaker 1: Or maybe a little more on the flexible or even
gum beside, and they could do a little more strength.
Speaker 2: But you know, I think in general we need.
Speaker 1: To have a good balance, a good dose, in a
good ratio of both strength and flexibility because they're both important.
And the strength part has to do I think a
lot with lower body and core strength so that you
have stability.
Speaker 2: You have yeah, so you have the stability and you have.
Speaker 1: The actual shall we say, muscle power to control the
club and to really put some power into the shot.
On the other hand, the flexibility and the relaxation is
important because you've got to be able to have spinal rotation.
You really need to be able to extend on your
back swing and extend your arms and through on the
forward swing so that you have a maximum with arc.
And then the relaxation to develop club head speed and
the flow, the delivery of energy and a flowing way
to the golf ball. Even more flexibility in your wrists.
Sam Sneed said, your wrists should be oily. Most people
have never even heard of a rist exercise. These are
things we have an ike goo and we actually need
more flexibility in our wrists, while we have more strength
in some of the muscles of our forearms and also
our abdomen and our core. So again, and these aren't
things that you have to be a tour player with
an entourage to develop. I've actually, in my golf fitness
program made a very accessible golf program that works on
all those areas balance, length and integrate, stretch strength, and
so we're working on stretching and strengthening, so we have
the integration, we have the length, the extension, the turning ability,
that sort of thing, and that way we can and
it's all using your golf club, so that your average
player can do a golf warm up routine, can do
a golf fitness and a golf swing development routine, even
every day of the week at home, in your office,
in your yard, in the park.
Speaker 2: Not to mention, of course, the driving range and the
golf course.
Speaker 1: But these are the things that anybody can do without
having to be an elite or tour player, and without
having to pay a lot of money or have some
kind of entourage. Right, this is natural to all of us.
We're just all human beings with a body to mind,
and that's how it works.
Speaker 3: We've had a listener on actually recently who's a workout
fanatic and has just become this incredible body and he
says it helps his game, but you know, he's he's
spending a lot of time at the gym on a
regular basis. But if we don't have that kind of
time if we, you know, don't have that discipline. When
we're talking about strength, there are elements of you know,
the arms, the wrists, the you know, the shoulders, biceps, triceps,
but then you have the core and then you have
lower body strength, calves, knees, hips. Is there a place
to focus or is this all over the place? Is
this weight bearing training for strength training or is it
machine strength training?
Speaker 2: It would help.
Speaker 3: Mind this one because I'm a swimmer, so yeah, stay
away from machines. I just swim, which to me gives
me strength and flexibility.
Speaker 1: So well, I'm glad you asked this question too, Fred,
because it's reminded me of a story when I first
was creating my Kia Golf instructional series and we were
filming it out in mesk Nevada, Las Vegas area, and
this was some years ago, and the producers of this
had heard about a guy at a Butch Harmon golf gym.
And this is when Butch was still Tiger's coach in
Las Vegas, and there was this guy who was certified
in Butch Harmon and fitness and they wanted me to
meet him because I had this fitness program that we
were filming. So off we went in Las Vegas to
this gym and this big, tall, buff bodybuilder guy with
all these like twenty thousand dollars machines was running the
golf fitness program and so I.
Speaker 2: Was he was in charge his place.
Speaker 1: So I got on all of his his machines and know,
I'm in good shape, and I did all of his
stuff on his machines, which was challenging, but you know,
I could do it all.
Speaker 2: And then I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: Well then they all looked at me and went, it's
you know, it's the girls turn, right, it's your turn.
So I said, I don't know a girl they're dealing with,
that's right. And so I gave him a golf club.
And I had a golf club. Each had a six
seven iron. And my program is called make your Golf
Club your Health Club. All my exercises use a golf club.
And we did the first exercise, which actually is a
whole nervous system tune up.
Speaker 2: It stretches your.
Speaker 1: Spine, your hamstrings, your lats, It gets your breathing, pumps
energy through your body all in one exercise and loosened
your neck, loosens your shoulders, it's a great first exercise,
and then you do repetitions of the exercise ten up
to twenty five. To do one hundred of them, I'm
telling you that'll give you a lot of fitness.
Speaker 2: So anyways, I just got.
Speaker 1: Him in position and I think we did fifteen or
twenty reps. This big, tall muscle builder was sweating and
grunting and like, oh man, he was struggling.
Speaker 2: Well, that was the first one.
Speaker 1: Then we went through maybe half dozen of my exercises that,
by the way, actually lead into and build your golf swing.
Speaker 2: Hardly hang with my exercises, and.
Speaker 1: This is after being on all of his difficult expenses machines.
I've never forgotten that story. And I've worked with a
lot of people. I've worked with some tpis and Titleist
Performance Training and much to my shock, and I mean,
it's a great program TPI, but I've had some instructors
and TPI not actually know certain positions of the golf
swing that they need to be into and not be
able to have the flexibility to get there.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: For example, a full follow through and turn your heel
and be up on your toe on your right toe
with your heel fully turned, which has turned your hips
and your spine full rotation through and strong and tall
on your left leg and a good balance finished position.
Speaker 2: They didn't know that position that.
Speaker 1: Well and couldn't even get to it, and these guys
were instructors. So once again, this is stuff that everybody
can develop. It's really not that hard and there are
pretty easy ways to develop it in terms of strength
building strength, imagine doing just a leg lift. For example,
Let's say in one hand, you've got your your seven
iron and you're leaning on it. You've got your left
hand on top of the seven iron for balance, and
you're standing there and then you lift your right leg.
Speaker 2: Okay, so now you're gonna do leg lifts. You're gonna
keep your.
Speaker 1: Right knee locked, and then you're gonna lift from your
hip and you're using the pelvic support muscles, hip flexers,
low back, and so imagine doing ten leg lifts. You're
lifting up against psi pounds per square inch of pressure.
So to lift up, you're already like lifting weights, and
it's all internal strengthening of the big and little muscles
in your whole hip, lower back, sacral complex. To do
those leg lifts, do ten of them? Do twenty of them.
Try doing one hundred of them. You will feel like
you've just been lifting weights. But it's safe and you're
in control role of how many repetitions you do, so
you don't overdo. You're not lifting weights that might tear
a muscle, but you're getting weightlifting because you're going up
against PSI.
Speaker 5: Wow, awesome, thank you, that's interesting, and yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: And it's free, you know, well the price of a
lesson or of a DVD. But I mean, seriously, you're
in power. You can do that. You can do that yourself.
And when you strengthen those muscles, all of a sudden
you're standing there. You take your stance. You want to
talk about good posture, athletic address of the ball. You've
got the muscles, power in your musculature to actually stand
in a good athletic stance to be able to swing
a golf club, wind up and deliver seventy eighty one
hundred miles an hour of energy flow into a golf
ball and actually have the stability to contain that.
Speaker 2: And hold that and have balance.
Speaker 1: To me, if you look on TV or you go
to a tournament, you watch the pros and tour pros.
Probably the biggest difference between the professional and the amateurs
is their balance. And balance is what contains the energy
so that you can deliver it all into the golf ball,
so the golf ball gets maximum distance and maximum accuracy,
optimal accuracy.
Speaker 2: Balance is critical to that.
Speaker 1: When people are like lifting off the ball, you know,
swaying off the ball and lifting up through it and
falling back after they try to muscle it and they
recoil and it kicks them back and their ball's not going.
That's because they don't have those that musculature and that
awareness and that ability to be so balanced.
Speaker 2: And one of the.
Speaker 1: Most beautiful things about the touring pros, male and female
is their balance.
Speaker 3: That's one of the things that I struggle with a lot.
I know that when I step up, especially t shots,
when I need to tell myself keep your balance. You
don't need to swing hard, you know, because I seem
to people like, oh, you really swung out of your
shoes on that one.
Speaker 2: I didn't I swing easy.
Speaker 5: I just fell over because I have no balance.
Speaker 3: By the way, episode number two twenty five of Golf Smarter,
it was make your golf club your health club.
Speaker 5: We use that.
Speaker 3: So, taking your lead on that, I think that this
episode will be called golf is a mental game question
mark based on your blog.
Speaker 5: I hope you don't mind doing that.
Speaker 3: Good. So on the balance, I want to focus on
the last five minutes here on the balance element of
that is the balance come from the upper body or
the lower body?
Speaker 2: No, it is founded in the lower body.
Speaker 1: And we could talk for a long time about the
importance of the lower body and the golf swing.
Speaker 3: Well, then wait before you go on with the answer.
Can we do a part two of this conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh, we absolutely can.
Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite topics and I will share
the secret of the back knee with everybody.
Speaker 5: Okay, So the prior to.
Speaker 1: This, it's just it's really pretty interesting, and I actually
go through this in my DVD series. We go through
all the sports. I do this in my seminars with people.
If you throw a baseball, if you hit a home run,
if you throw a football, a quarterback throw in a football,
if you do a forehand in tennis, a backhand in tennis.
Those start in the feet. If you watch a basketball player,
they kind of go down first before they come up,
before they do a jump. Shot, they go down into
their legs and feet, their knees.
Speaker 2: Then all the.
Speaker 1: Energy comes back up through their body and that's what
we call the base and the core, and then their
upper body shoulders, elbows, hands are soft and relaxed and
deliver that energy and softly deliver the ball. But golf,
unlike all these other sports, is you know, you stand
there and it's almost like people put their focus on
the golf ball. They can see their arms and they're
tighten their hands on the club, so they're.
Speaker 2: All in their upper body.
Speaker 1: And then they're even taught unfortunately mostly by male pros
who have strong upper bodies. Take the club away with
your shoulders, with your hands, and they're all worrying about
their shoulder turn rather than thinking about how like every
other sport, things originate in the feet, and the feet
go up through the knees to the hips, and then
then comes the upper body on top of that. So
we need to follow every other sport and we don't.
And quite honestly, a beautiful quote to what everybody's appetite
for the next episode, and it's from Jack Nicholas, who
is a pretty darn good golfer, and his quote is
golf is played between the arches.
Speaker 2: Of your feet.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's straight.
Speaker 1: From Jack Nicholas, and I loved it when I found
that quote. I was reading in some golf magazine from
a decade ago, and I.
Speaker 2: Was at a club somewhere.
Speaker 1: I literally ripped that page out of that old golf
magazine because it had a picture of Jack rolling his
feet and everything and talking about it. Because I teach
working from the end steps up and working from the
ground up. Look at the football players, I mean, all
their drills their lower body.
Speaker 2: Every sport is lower body. And here when I teach ki.
Speaker 1: Golf, most people, I joke, they practically kiss my feet
because they never heard and they have not been taught
about using their lower body and how to why it's important,
and how to do it.
Speaker 2: I called the mechanics for the magic.
Speaker 1: So I would be very happy to talk about use
of the lower body and how that's important, and how
it relates then to the connected, proper, relaxed, flowing use
of the upper body rather than just you know, my
shoulder turn and not turning my shoulders enough. That's where
so many people are stuck, and they've missed so much,
and they are not following the natural order things which
every other sport does.
Speaker 2: I think we should take a clue.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I think we should do that in the
next episode.
Speaker 2: That sounds like fun.
Speaker 5: That's that's perfect. Thank you. Why don't you give us
a little hint.
Speaker 3: You alluded to a DVD series and other things that
you have available on your website. What do you got
this holiday season for the golf Smarter audience.
Speaker 1: Well, we are having a holiday special on my Evergreen
Kii Golf Instructural series.
Speaker 2: It's got three DVDs.
Speaker 1: One is called The Universal Principles for Success, the next
one is Golf Bliss, the golf fitness program make your
golf Club your health club.
Speaker 2: And the other is called the Kii Golf Katas.
Speaker 1: Which is patterning your golf swing using kind of martial
arts principles, but patterning your golf swing so you have repeatability, accuracy,
correct movement, and all these principles are incorporated into those exercises.
So there's three DVDs, a companion manual, a pocket guide
that's all in that series, and that's going to be
on a major holiday discount. I'll be on It's on
my website, and I have a Bliss Fitness which isn't
necessarily golf related, but all the Bliss Fitness original core
workout exercises DVD and a really cool trainer, this balance
forward that weaves in these principles.
Speaker 2: That people really love. So that's available on my.
Speaker 1: Website, and I'm going to be running a holiday special
of some virtual golf lessons that we can do via
Skype wow, and people can find all that on my website.
And if you want to do an in person lesson,
that's great too.
Speaker 2: I'm located in.
Speaker 1: The Bay Area and I also travel a lot, so
I sometimes arrive to many locales and we can get together.
Speaker 3: It is there a way for the golf Smarter community
to let you know that they heard about this on
golf Smarter when they make a purchase, And is there
any or is this the holiday special part of what
the discount is for the audience.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we will do the tech end
of that today or tomorrow weekend, and we will let
people be able to indicate that they've heard through golf Smarter.
And my website is you can get to my website
same website one of two ways Kei goolf dot com
k i AI golf dot com or the kei Way
dot com t h E k I A I w
A Y the kiway dot com and the stores on
there and all the information. They can also call our
direct line which is seven six zero four nine two
four six five three four nine two Golf.
Speaker 3: Oh well, that's perfect, awesome. It is so great to
have you back on the show. You are such a
wealth of amazing information that fits right into my approach
to golf instruction. I am so glad to talk to
you again and have you back and looking forward to
have you on part two of this conversation as we
start the tenth year of Golf Smarter wonderful.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it too, and I got to
give you a big congratulations in Mazel tov. Ten years
as a great milestone. I've been doing wonderful service for
the golf world.