Golf, The New Martial Art
What can we learn from martial arts and apply to the game of golf? A former fight trainer turned performance coach shares his journey.
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Challenge your body
Focus your mind
Unlock the power of Flow to achieve peak performance and create positive change
Patrick Sebastien - Performance Coach
"We are born to move and we are born to breathe. The real magic happens when we learn to combine movement and breath to trigger Flow and tap into our true potential."
Patrick Sebastien
COACHING PROGRAMS
WHERE IT STARTED...
In 2001, I discovered Thai Boxing and it changed my life. What started as a great workout, became a passion, and eventually a career.
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I trained with and coached professional fighters, athletes, and alpha-minded individuals who wanted to tap into the primal energy fight training provided.
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During those 15 years of my life, I learned how to move, how to breathe, and especially how to use combinations of movement and breath to take control of fear and stress and tap into a state of peak performance.
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This formula was tested under the intense pressure of fight training and competition. That's how I know it works.
WHERE I'M AT...
Over the past few years, I've become obsessed with the Move-Breathe-Flow formula. I know that with the right combination of movement and breath, done with the right intention, we can unlock powerful peak performance states.
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We can unlock the power of Flow.
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Flow has taken me on many journeys, some towards Spirit and some towards science. I like to think that the truth lies where these two meet.
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But peak performance formulas need to be tested. For years, I used fight training as a way to measure my ability to perform...
WHERE IT'S GOING...
When I retired from fight training, I had to feed my obsession with improvement and have something in my life where I can apply everything I know about movement, breath, performance, and flow.
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That obsession is golf. Both as a coach and an athlete, golf is the ultimate peak performance challenge, a physically technical game that heavily rewards mental focus, creativity, and confidence. The perfect sport for Flow.
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We founded OLAS Performance to explore the limits of performance coaching when it comes to golf, and by default, to life.
THE MOVE-BREATHE-FLOW FORMULA
MOVE - Movement provides the physical challenge we need in this first stage of Flow. We can use your existing workouts, slightly modified, or we can help you create a whole new movement strategy. Everything is customized to you.
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We focus on functional fitness and primal style movement, which includes strength, mobility, balance, endurance, and longevity.
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PLEASE NOTE: Though we would never push anyone way beyond their limits, for this work, you have to be willing to bring the right intention and intensity.
Not sure? Let's GET ON A CALL and figure that out.
BREATHE - Breathing is the critical second stage of this process. To tap into Flow, we need to release our body and mind from the struggle and challenge provided by the movement stage.
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Breath training consists of simple, highly effective breathing techniques designed to focus your mind, recover the body, and direct the nervous system toward a peak performance state.
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For a sample of some of the breath training techniques, check out our MEDIA section.
Ready to take control? Let's GET ON A CALL and get you started.
FLOW - If you move with the right intention and intensity. If you bring the right focus and intention to the breath training, you'll achieve the third stage - Flow.
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Flow is a state of peak performance when you feel your best and perform at your best. We want to take full advantage of this state and use it to unlock your full potential, the version of you that exists beyond fear and doubt.
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Fear and doubt stand in the way of our most powerful selves. This formula will help you get beyond them.
Ready to exist beyond fear? Let's GET ON A CALL and get you started.
TESTIMONIALS
Patrick is patient, thoughtful, creative and compassionate. He’s able to distill his expertise in both the spiritual and scientific aspects of flow states into simple yet profoundly impactful tools for people he works with.
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Shay Kostabi - Founder of Fitness Career Mastery
Patrick’s deep understanding of movement and breath training has not only helped me manage a traumatic chronic pain issue, but he’s guided me to a better quality of life.
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Dr Ken Kashkin
Since working with Patrick, I’ve been able to bring a sense of calm and presence on the golf course. Breathwork has become my 15th club and a tool I lean on often, in good times and bad, to return to a grounded headspace. I think this is the future of sports and is a vital part of my everyday routine.
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JT Griffin - Professional Golfer
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