WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:05.320 Golf Smarter number four hundred twenty published on January twenty one, 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:06.599 twenty fourteen. 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:11.839 Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:15.480 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:21.519 golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 6 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.399 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:30.039 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:33.679 Another way is the way we practice, and I think golfers, 9 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.439 even to hire as well, will violate these principles, probably 10 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:39.719 more than any other fourth that I know. So we 11 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:41.960 need to practice in a different way. And there's three 12 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:45.920 ways to practice. One is hitting fifty seven irons. That's 13 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:48.640 good if you're going to enter a seven iron tournament, 14 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:50.960 but I'm not sure when that is. The other way 15 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:53.000 to practice is if we're on a range, is to 16 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:55.759 practice how you play. So how about next time you 17 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.280 go to the range, why don't you do first shot practice? 18 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.920 Change targets on every shot. I can use the same 19 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.560 club if you really have some skill, you can change 20 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.280 the shape of the shot. You can change clubs on 21 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:08.920 each shot, but you can't repeat anything. Well, you're going 22 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:12.200 to find during your practice. Probably won't practice as well 23 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.719 as when you hit fifty seven irons in a row, 24 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:18.280 but it's going to correlate more significantly to what you 25 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:19.599 do when you play on the course. 26 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:29.079 Winning the Battle Within the return of doctor Glenn Alboch. 27 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:30.879 This is Golf. 28 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:35.760 Smarter sharing tips and insights from golfers and golf professionals 29 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:37.120 to help lower your score. 30 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:41.079 It's worked for your host, Fred Green. Welcome back to 31 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:42.239 Golf Smarter. Glenn. 32 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.280 It's it's good to be back, but well. 33 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:45.480 Thank you. 34 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.799 It's been a long time since we spoke, but each 35 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.959 time it's been very meaningful for me because there are 36 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:55.040 moments where my mental game gets a little bit wacky 37 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.599 and I need a tune up, and I'm so glad 38 00:01:57.680 --> 00:01:58.799 to have you back on the show. 39 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.079 Well, i'll offer that tune up. 40 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:03.879 Thank you. 41 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.920 In the name of your book to remind listeners who 42 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.919 have been here a long time and for those who've 43 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.599 never been able to hear you before. It's called Winning 44 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.080 the Battle Within. Why don't you give us a brief 45 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:17.240 summary of the. 46 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:22.879 Book, Well, Winning the Battle Within is it is a 47 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:27.199 lifetime work and what it centers on, of course, is 48 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:34.840 the way that we can finding a way towards self 49 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:39.360 coaching so that we can manage ourselves in our games, 50 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.039 so when we're out there playing, we have a set 51 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:47.000 of skills that will allow us to continue playing for 52 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:51.479 more enjoyment and lower scores. So the book is full 53 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.960 of all kinds of anecdotes and stories you know about 54 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.280 how people have used these particular concepts in their own games, 55 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:06.879 and it's full of drills and questionnaires and information it 56 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:08.759 you can use is for your own game, and it's 57 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:13.159 it's for people who across all skill levels and all ages. 58 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.520 People able to read it, or twelve and eight people 59 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.199 that are eighty to be able to use this stuff. 60 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:24.080 And in looking through it recently because of putting together 61 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:28.599 an excerpt from the book, it will never go out 62 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.840 of style. It was first published in two thousand and 63 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.520 six and redone again in two thousand and nine, and 64 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:42.120 the information will be golden for everybody in twenty twenty. 65 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:44.840 And that's one of the things that I love about 66 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:48.080 the Mental Game, and that's really what I try to 67 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.080 do here on the podcast is present content what we'd 68 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.800 call evergreen, which means that it's just as good in 69 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:58.000 two thousand as it is in twenty fourteen in twenty twenty, 70 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:03.680 it's just as valid like that. Yeah, And also you 71 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:07.120 say from eight to eighty, but it's not just for golfers. 72 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.840 I know that you've worked with from athletes of different 73 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:12.800 sports as well. 74 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:19.360 Oh, indeed work with in past years, I've worked with 75 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.560 athletes across many domains and teams as well. And I'm 76 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:28.319 currently working with a couple of teams at the University 77 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:34.240 of Pacific, the men's basketball team and the men's tennis teams, 78 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.959 and work with volleyball teams and athletes across many domains. 79 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:44.879 Right and as we're recording this, it is the morning 80 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:52.639 after the two thirteen NFC Championship between the Seattle Seahawks 81 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:54.800 and the San Francisco forty nine Ers, and you have 82 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:55.600 ties to. 83 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:58.680 Those teams as well. 84 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.879 Oh yeah, close ties of course with the forty nine 85 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:06.399 ers of the eighties. When Bill Waffs in his heyday, 86 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:08.199 you know, I missed him every day. 87 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:11.120 Yeah, you were good friends with Bill Walsh and. 88 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.920 A wonderful coach, and so they have access to them 89 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.040 during that time was an education indeed for me that 90 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.160 I can use in all the work that I do. 91 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.600 And then Pete Carroll We've done many, many things together. 92 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:29.160 And as I texted him this morning, there's been a 93 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:32.680 long journey since the seventies, you know, when he was 94 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:37.519 first exposed to the golf in the Kingdom and the 95 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.560 intergame oft tenants is all of Timothy Galways stuff as 96 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:45.279 any and all of a sudden here he is not 97 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:48.160 all of a sudden. His journey has been It's been 98 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:53.560 an interesting journey through all of his coaching experiences. He's 99 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:55.560 taken the inner game right to the top, and now 100 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:59.160 they're headed to the Super Bowl. People ask me, who 101 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.839 are you rooting for? Well, I'm rooting for a great game, 102 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.040 and yes, indeed we did. I kind of leaned towards 103 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:09.759 Pete and people ask me why. I said, well, if 104 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:14.680 you knew Pete Carroll, you'd probably root for them too. Anyway, 105 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.160 it was, it was. It was quite an epic game, 106 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.199 with a fourth quarter that was full of all kinds 107 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.040 of ebbs and flows. 108 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:27.879 Actually, I find that really interesting that you know, we're 109 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:30.120 as much as I was rooting for the forty nine 110 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.439 ers peak. I have ties to Pete Carroll as well 111 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:37.600 through USC but also because here I live here in 112 00:06:37.639 --> 00:06:40.199 Marin County and Pete is from Marine County, went to 113 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.360 high school in Marin County and we here in Marine County. 114 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:50.399 You're accused of being a little Oh boy, what do 115 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:53.480 I accuse myself of Western thought? 116 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:54.399 You know? 117 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.040 Sometimes there were a little too two out there for 118 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:58.639 some people. 119 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.560 Yeah, this is you know, Governor Moonbeam and stuff. 120 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:06.000 But Pete Carroll has taken this inner game and he 121 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.800 has really got a very different coaching approach than any 122 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.879 other NFL coach we've ever seen. He's happy, he's fun, 123 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:19.360 he's the players love him. You think that a lot 124 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.279 of his inner game, a lot of his teachings help that. 125 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:29.360 Well, there's probably more similarities between Pete and the other 126 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:35.360 NFL coaches than than was. There's many similarities. Oh, of 127 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:40.879 course they are dissimilarities. It's his approach is is quite interesting, 128 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.399 and probably it's more similar to Bill Wallace, although there 129 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:48.079 are different personalities. Yeah, you know his you know, competition 130 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.160 is everything, and if anybody has read his book, Win 131 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:57.279 Win Forever, it's it's not it's not about winning as 132 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:01.439 much as it's about preparing to win, and competition is 133 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:05.040 the essence of it. And I would say that going 134 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:08.480 into the game yesterday it was probably really really exciting 135 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.839 for him because there they were. It's the Ulfhleman and 136 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.399 competition with two teams and two coaches that are so 137 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.360 absolutely incredibly prepared for this. And isn't that the essence 138 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:23.439 of competition. It's probably not the winning of it, it's 139 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:29.240 the epic competition of the battle that certainly is a 140 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:34.159 motivation for Pete. Yes, he has taken the inner game 141 00:08:34.240 --> 00:08:36.679 and put it into the NFL and the way he 142 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:42.480 approaches it. And probably one of the concepts and fact 143 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:47.759 in his in my book that he wrote about the 144 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:53.159 importance of suspending judgment and what does that mean. It means, 145 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:59.039 of course that each spending judgment for ourselves. Let's say, 146 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:05.679 for instance, look, let's put it into a shot. So 147 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.039 we hit a shot, and I said, we hit a 148 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.240 great shot. They ever connected all the odds, and we 149 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.919 want to embrace that and anchor it and remember it. 150 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.840 And it's easy to do because we remember the division 151 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.360 we see in the feel of the swing and the 152 00:09:19.399 --> 00:09:25.200 emotions attached to wow and sometimes the misshots, so Pete says, 153 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.600 and we say, and winning the battle in the most 154 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.960 important thing you do there is suspend judgment. Describe the shot. 155 00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:35.000 So we described the shot by saying hmm, well, you 156 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.080 know I'll hit that one high right, And I wasn't. 157 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:43.600 I wasn't connected to the target, and so when I 158 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.919 got the impact, because I wasn't connected to the target, 159 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.039 I didn't really allow my club to release. Okay, on 160 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:53.399 the next one, I'm going to I'm going to stay 161 00:09:53.399 --> 00:09:58.279 connected to the target and release it. Or says say that, wow, 162 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.919 I topped that one. You know, I really was really 163 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.000 rushed and I was scared to death. You know that 164 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:06.720 I was going to hit it in the water. Sure enough, 165 00:10:06.759 --> 00:10:07.120 I did. 166 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:08.120 So. 167 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:11.039 When Pete talked about suspending judgment, he cuts across all 168 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:13.399 of his coaching, and of course it's something important for 169 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.679 us to learn as we play golf as well. That's 170 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.480 just a couple of descriptions of how we use his 171 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:25.919 suspending judgment, how and he's coaching, and of course how 172 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.840 we can use it as we self coach ourselves in 173 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:34.480 our own game of golf. Being able to describe the 174 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:38.759 shot to spend judgment so how quickly then we can 175 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.440 refocus and ready for the next shot. 176 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.759 This all goes very well with a newsletter that you 177 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:53.240 sent out for the new year to remind us about 178 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.879 the well, not just about winning the battle within the book, 179 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:00.639 but you gave us some tools to work with as 180 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:02.679 we approach the new year in our golf game and 181 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:03.840 our and our mental game. 182 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:07.600 And I would love to I just was so moved. 183 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.679 By exactly the points that you had. It resonated so 184 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.399 well with me that I that's why I wanted to 185 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:15.720 bring you back on the show and talk about this 186 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:18.639 newsletter because there's not a lot there, but there's so 187 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.039 much depth to it that we can really break it down. 188 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:27.440 Okay, okay, Well. 189 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:28.559 The first point. 190 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:30.480 You just have a number of points here, and I 191 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:34.399 think the first one kind of dovetails right off of 192 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:35.639 that football game. 193 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:36.759 If anybody watched it. 194 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.320 But it's a commit to a strategy that fits your game. 195 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.159 I would love to hear you explain that a little more. 196 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.000 Sure, Well, it's part of appreciate with team. And the 197 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.639 most important thing is when you're getting ready to play 198 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:52.440 and they have a shot, commit to a strategy fits 199 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.039 your game. So if you haven't hit the pins on 200 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:56.480 the right hand side and they have, you had a 201 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.639 cut shot in about a month, please don't try it today. 202 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:04.600 So you're going to well some then the best best 203 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.639 shot for me is hit the ball straight right into 204 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.759 the middle of the green, and I can totally commit 205 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.600 to That's very difficult to commit to a shot when 206 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:18.840 you really don't have the skill, so so maybe you'll 207 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.799 have to kind of bump it up there. But pick 208 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.600 something that fits the situation and hits your game. 209 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.200 And what about those times? 210 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:33.679 How do you put yourself in check when you're standing 211 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.000 on the tee box of a par three. You've got 212 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:39.440 to hit over the water. There's a green that moves 213 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.879 away from you. You've played this hole hundreds of times before. 214 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.960 You know that you've got to come up short. So 215 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.559 the ball is just going to take a couple hops 216 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.039 and land safely, softly in the middle of the green. 217 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.759 But that flag in the back is tempting you to 218 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:00.240 try to put the ball closer to the pin. And 219 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:04.600 as you say, you got to You know, when how 220 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.320 do you hear yourself say, oh, I'm going to commit 221 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.240 to this shot. Maybe you know, I mean like there's 222 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:12.240 something in the back of your head. How do you 223 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:16.799 listen to that? How do you not squash that voice 224 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:19.200 that's going you really shouldn't be going for this. 225 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:22.840 You're going to certainly have that inner conversation for yeah, 226 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.240 but you got to keep your ego and check and 227 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.120 making sure that you hit the shot that as I say, again, 228 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:34.679 it's's the situation. And sometimes that means, well, I'll just 229 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:39.840 take a booge here, but I know this that you 230 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.039 have a chance if you're totally committed to this strategy. 231 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:45.960 You have no chance. If you're not committed. 232 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.799 How do you quiet that voice? 233 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.120 Well, then how do we acquire that voice? So the 234 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:56.720 main thing is to understand that you are having the conversation, 235 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.480 and it begins with being having a work so you 236 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:04.120 can be in the present. Oh here it comes again. 237 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:08.720 You know, well should I go for this? And you're 238 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.039 going to have that conversation, but you have to come 239 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.200 back to the fact that you're going to be totally 240 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.279 committed to us to a to a strategy that really 241 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.879 fits that situation. And so then it goes back to 242 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.399 the way we practice. If indeed we were on the 243 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.840 range and are doing our practices, we're practicing developing the 244 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.639 shops that we can totally commit to when we're playing. 245 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.360 And so there's a correlation there, of course, between the 246 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:38.120 way that we practice and what we decide to commit 247 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.080 to when we're playing. 248 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:41.320 Mm hmm. 249 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.480 This is obviously much more than you know. I see 250 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:50.399 this coming into play on approach shots or you know, 251 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:53.000 after a bad t shot when you're tucked in the 252 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.240 woods and you're like, oh, I can get through those trees. 253 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.759 Wait, I have to interrupt you there. See, if indeed 254 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:00.960 we're going to suspend judgment and no such thing are 255 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:01.639 good or bad. 256 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:04.200 Shots, oh thank you, because. 257 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:08.919 It doesn't tell us anything. So if I'm working, no, 258 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.240 there's just there's no such thing. It's just when I 259 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:16.000 missed the shot. You see saying describing and we're missing 260 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:18.519 when we missed the shot is not judging the shot, 261 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.679 it's just evaluating the fact, Well I wasn't committed, so 262 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:25.200 I topped the damn thing, or you know, I try 263 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.600 to hit a cut there and I really can't do that, 264 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:33.799 or you know I rushed that one. You know, God, 265 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:35.720 I was thinking about I was a down one, three 266 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:38.480 and five, and I'm not sure have enough money to 267 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:40.200 even pay the debt at the end of the round. 268 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:45.759 So when those inner conversations has come that are interference, 269 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:49.360 is we just we you know, there's just really no chance, 270 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:53.879 and so suspending judgment is really important and it's not 271 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.919 just a good shot. We say that I really connected it. 272 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.000 You know. So I'm playing the other day and I 273 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:03.399 had a fifty yard I had the distance locked in 274 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.120 and it was a little web shot and I hit 275 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:07.960 a lot of web shots these days because I don't 276 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:12.440 reach many greens. And I just nailed it. Just write 277 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.360 an impact. I said, wow, that is really something, and 278 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:19.679 I really released that, and I was totally committed to it. See, 279 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.840 it's not just a good shot, it's just what did 280 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.679 I do to make sure that I executed. So it's 281 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:30.480 really really important to suspend judgment, you know, as a player, 282 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.240 and I mean a good teacher, Fred is not going 283 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:35.320 to say to you that was a horrible shot. Well, coach, 284 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:37.799 you already knew that. And when you turn to the teaching 285 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:39.720 and say, how about telling me something I didn't know? 286 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:47.360 Or the partner you're playing with, you and said, wow, man, 287 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.639 you know that was an awful shot. Knew that. I 288 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:56.320 got to see it. Tell me more about what happened. Then, well, 289 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:00.440 I wasn't committed or you know, I rushed that one 290 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:04.279 or all the things that have already stated. It's so important. 291 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:07.359 It's one of the things that I really learned from 292 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:14.640 Pete Carroll the importance of sus sending judgment. Okay, so 293 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:19.759 so Russell Wilson fumbles that on a one yard line Yeah, 294 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:21.000 and so what do you think to him when he 295 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.799 comes off the field. I mean, he really screwed that 296 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.359 out of Russell. No, he probably say to him with 297 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.119 the next play, So what's the next opportunity we have? 298 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:35.279 But primarily with the next play. It's just so nonproductive 299 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:41.000 to judge anybody's behavior or anybody's actions. It just doesn't 300 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.880 make any sense at all because it doesn't tell us 301 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:45.599 anything the information we need to have. 302 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:47.319 Well, that does make sense. 303 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.880 But when you said, you you hit this web shot 304 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.119 and as soon as you hit it, you went wow, 305 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.279 and then it landed and it's like, wow, that was 306 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.720 a great shot, right, Yeah I did. 307 00:17:57.759 --> 00:17:58.920 I made the putt too, by the. 308 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:02.039 Way, Oh congratulations. I'm happy to hear that. But you 309 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:05.079 didn't suspend judgment. Wait, you're only telling me to suspend 310 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:06.759 judgment if it's a negative judgment. 311 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.440 No, No, it's just it's just that it's so important 312 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.799 for us to give ourselves the information. I was talking 313 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.319 to a guy on a basketball team that was in 314 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.319 kind of a shooting slump, and I said, you know, 315 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:22.640 it's just it's just like a golfer. You know, my goodness, gracious, 316 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:26.839 you knew learned how to shoot, and you're six years old. 317 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:29.799 Why are you trying all these different things on your technique? 318 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:31.920 You know how to do it. What's the target? Just 319 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.200 get back on it, you know, get in balance and 320 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.759 shoot the thing. Look like a good golfer, not a 321 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:46.000 bad one. Yeah right, yeah, And it's so anyway back 322 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:49.400 to suspending judgment again, it's just it's just not productive 323 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.799 at all. And I've already said that. 324 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.839 Well, and hear your second point of suspend judgment. You say, 325 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.400 review replaced refocus, explained to me. 326 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.480 Yeah, well, okay, so I missed a shot and high right, 327 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:09.039 So I went high right. Wow. You know I didn't 328 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.759 release that one because I really wasn't connected with the target. Okay, 329 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:16.039 I'm gonna take a swing right here, and boy, I'm 330 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.920 going to let this one go. Okay, now I'm ready 331 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:24.240 for the next shot. And I also okay, so that's 332 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:27.960 how I review replaced refocused. Sometimes in there there's some 333 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:32.480 nakeadive emotion that floods in. You know, emotion doesn't tell 334 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:35.640 us it's coming. You know, when frustration we miss a shot, 335 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:38.920 it just comes. So we've got to do with that 336 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.200 first Okay, yeah, well yeah, I hate to miss those, 337 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:44.319 and I was really frustrated. Okay, let's get back in 338 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:49.400 the present here, Okay, high right, didn't release it? Okay, 339 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.000 let's keep going. All right, I get five steps here 340 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.079 or five seconds for me to get back into the 341 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.599 present and so I can get ready for the next shot. 342 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.519 And so that's what our post chart routine is. Pre 343 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.640 chary team gets us ready, you know, ready to hit 344 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:12.720 the shot. You know, selecting this strategy we can totally 345 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:16.400 commit to, and a post arrou tine it reviews you 346 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:20.000 know what happened. Wow, I nailed that wedge. But when 347 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:23.559 I released that one, I was really on the target. Wow, 348 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:27.039 you know I pulled that one way left. You know, 349 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.359 it's just petrified that I was going to miss a shot, 350 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.359 and sure enough I did. Okay, let's get back in 351 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.119 the present here, review it, replace it, refocus, be on 352 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:37.599 our way. 353 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:44.240 Okay. 354 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.799 Now let's talk about the rest of us. Now, we're 355 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:51.039 not talking about the players who are at the peak 356 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:54.799 level of the sport. You know, the NFL Championship that 357 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:59.880 We're not talking about tour players who who occasionally will 358 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.160 make a shot that maybe they weren't totally focused on 359 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.559 and it didn't have the result they were hoping for. 360 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.079 But the rest of a golfers who may do this, 361 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:17.119 you know, shot after shot where they're having mishits or 362 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:20.039 you know, I'm sorry, that's a judgment that it didn't 363 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.599 the result wasn't what they had hoped for. 364 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:28.799 Where Where do you where? How do you quiet that? 365 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:31.000 How do you quell that noise in your head that 366 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.480 just all of a sudden, now you have no confidence 367 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:35.200 in what you're doing? 368 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:39.200 Well, thank you for laughing at that. 369 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:43.160 You know it? See, do you have a semester? 370 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:47.720 And which university am I signing up at? 371 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:53.440 It's it's a a person. If a person makes their 372 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:58.880 commitment to improve their self coaching. Oh, one of the 373 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:02.400 things that they have to develop this performance package which 374 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:07.680 pre shot, in between shot and post shot routines. Okay, 375 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.119 that's one thing. The next thing they have to understand 376 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.720 the value of the awareness of being presence centered. And 377 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.640 there's all kinds of ways we can practice, all right, 378 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:23.000 that's important. Another way we have to do it is 379 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:26.599 the way we practice and I think golfers, even as 380 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:31.559 the highest level, violate these principles probably more than any 381 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:34.640 other fourth that I know. So we need to practice 382 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:37.119 in a different way. There's three ways to practice, and 383 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.559 one is hitting fifty seven irons, you know, and so 384 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:45.559 that's good if you're going to enter a seven iron tournament, 385 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.599 but I'm not sure when that is. And the other 386 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:50.839 way to practice, if we're on the range is to 387 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:54.519 practice like you play. So how about next time you 388 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:57.240 go to the listeners, the next time you go to 389 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.519 the range, why don't you do this? Why don't you 390 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.519 do first shot practice? It was okay, what's first shot practice? 391 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.480 All that said, I'm going to change targets on every shot. 392 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.920 I can use the same club. If you really have 393 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:13.160 some skill, you can change the shape of the shot. 394 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:16.400 You can change clubs in each shot, but you can't 395 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:20.200 repeat anything. Well, you're going to find during your practice 396 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:23.720 you probably won't practice as well as when you hit 397 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:26.839 fifty seven irons in a row. But it's going to 398 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:31.759 be more correlate more significantly to what you do when 399 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:34.880 you play on the course. Maybe the next time you practice, 400 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:39.599 you take the wedge out and you'll get some targets out. 401 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:45.880