I'm here in Dallas, Texas, prepping for tomorrow's first session in Mental Management techniques with Lanny Bassham. The two-day course is for coaches looking to do a better job with students seeking to excel in competition. It is the first such training Lanny has conducted for coaches, but my guess is it won't be his last.
Lanny won the Silver Medal in rifle shooting at the 1972 Olympic Games and knew he choked. He spent the next two years interviewing Olympic Champions and learning the difference between their mental approach (consciously and subconsciously applied) and his. The net result was a 1974 World Championship, eight Gold Medals and three individual titles; 1975 Championship of the Americas, five Gold Medals and four world records; 1976 Gold Medal, Olympic Games; and 1978 World Shooting Champion, eight Gold Medals.
I first met Lanny in a day-long sesson before the 2007 Colonial Invitational. He was now retired from competition and teaching others the same system he had developed for himself . . . a system that would work all the time, in competition, under pressure, and enable the competitor to deliver his best performance.
Lanny's Mental Management System involves understanding the Conscious Mind, the Subconcious Mind and the Self Image. He is the first to admit -- and even proclaim! -- that he is not a sports psychologist. Far from it. Instead, he is a competitor who conquered choking and learned how to win.
I gave copies of his book With Winning In Mind to our Cuscowilla students, along with a sample page from his Performance Analysis Journal (as completed by one of my own coaching students). I strongly recommend it to readers of this site. In fact, come next week, we'll probably be offering it at a discount on this site.
Anyway, my next couple of days are rather full, and I'll be sharing some of the goodies in this thread. Meanwhile, discussions are already underway on how to best integrate Lanny's concepts with ours to produce the game's most high-powered Performance Analysis Journal.
Wish I could fast-forward this puppy!
Lanny Bassham got some nice coverage today from Tim Rosaforte on Golf Central for his work with Brian Gay, Jerry Kelley and this week's runnerup James Driscoll. Almost three wins in four weeks.
Hybrid Mode
