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<v Speaker 1>Probably the best tool you can develop is what I

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<v Speaker 1>call the golden rule, take the fault and try the opposite,

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<v Speaker 1>which sounds so mindumbingly simple to people that most people

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<v Speaker 1>have never tried it. In fact, I get emails daily

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<v Speaker 1>from people saying, you know what, I played years and

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<v Speaker 1>I never tried just doing the opposite of my fault.

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<v Speaker 1>I had a guy maybe a couple of days ago, said,

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<v Speaker 1>I suffered with shanks for almost a year now, I

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<v Speaker 1>was almost quitting the game. I'm a three handicap, and

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<v Speaker 1>he said, I watched one of your social posts and

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<v Speaker 1>it fixed it for me.

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<v Speaker 2>All Right, Well, today my guest is Adam Young from

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<v Speaker 2>Adam Young Golf and he's in Las Vegas and welcome

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<v Speaker 2>to the show.

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<v Speaker 1>Adam, nice to be on, always happy to check golf.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, thank you for taking the time to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's start a little bit talk about you know

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<v Speaker 2>your background. You you grew up in Britain.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so play golf in the rain and the wind constantly,

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<v Speaker 1>got pretty good at that. Played a lot of links golf,

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<v Speaker 1>which I know the Americans love and I hate the

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<v Speaker 1>side of a Lynx golf.

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<v Speaker 3>Wait, you hate lenks courses?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, it's I like very stable environments, so I like

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<v Speaker 1>to know that if I hit a good shot, it's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be out a good outcome. In Links, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of luck involved. You've got to get the

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<v Speaker 1>right bounce, you've got to I mean obviously if you

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<v Speaker 1>if you play really well, you're going to get good

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<v Speaker 1>outcomes as well, but there's more, there's more luck to it.

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<v Speaker 1>I prefer Parkland, point and shoot style golf, but yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's nice to get a good mix. I probably appreciate

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<v Speaker 1>a Links course now after not seeing one for many years.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, right, So how old are you when you started playing?

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<v Speaker 1>Quite late actually, as I was fifteen, very analytical kid,

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<v Speaker 1>so I just get a bunch of books out of

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<v Speaker 1>the library and start learning golf that way. So my

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<v Speaker 1>first books were like led Better and fal Though, so

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<v Speaker 1>it was all a position based and my brain just

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<v Speaker 1>matches onto that completely. So anything that's like mechanical and

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<v Speaker 1>it's like if you do this, you will get this.

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<v Speaker 1>I love that, but unfortunately I found that it was

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<v Speaker 1>chasing my tail for a.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, So now did you were you kind of self

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<v Speaker 2>taught before you started reading those books or.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well those books taught me so it wasn't a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of self teaching. I was hitting balls on the

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<v Speaker 1>football field soccer field for quite some time, and then

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<v Speaker 1>when I felt ready, I went out on the golf

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<v Speaker 1>course and I think my first, yeah, my first round

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<v Speaker 1>of golf, I shot three over par on a nine

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<v Speaker 1>whole course. It was easy. But my friend who I

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<v Speaker 1>was playing with had played for years and his best

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<v Speaker 1>was forty five around there, nineteen over pa. And he

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I can't believe you just did that. And

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, I'm hooked. Now, I'm in on this.

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<v Speaker 1>And it took me a while to do anything like

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<v Speaker 1>that again, but yeah, that really was a hooking situation

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<v Speaker 1>for me. It really latched me on the golf.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh my god. Yeah, no, I mean so that.

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<v Speaker 2>I've heard so many people talk, guys for pros talk

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<v Speaker 2>about how oh yeah, you know, it took me, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>nine months, and I was, you know, a three handicap

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<v Speaker 2>or you know, a scratch golfer, and the rest of

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<v Speaker 2>us have been slaving away our entire lives to shoot

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<v Speaker 2>the forty five on the nine. So what's I mean

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<v Speaker 2>I've other than talent and drive? Is there something else

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<v Speaker 2>in there?

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<v Speaker 1>The kind of practice obsession I think that I when

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<v Speaker 1>I started golf, I just I wanted everything to absolve

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<v Speaker 1>everything about it. I was drawing lines on the television

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<v Speaker 1>for Tiger Woods is Swing, analyzing it. I was reading

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<v Speaker 1>all these books. I was videoing my swing as a

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen year old and we didn't have iPhones back then.

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<v Speaker 1>My dad's video camera, our JBC video camera, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>record it and then run back into the house and

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<v Speaker 1>have a look at it and then come back out again.

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<v Speaker 1>It was. It was crazy, but I absolutely loved it.

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<v Speaker 1>Any any moment there was light, I would head down

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<v Speaker 1>to the football field and hit balls until it was

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<v Speaker 1>dark and then come home and just repeat. On summer's

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<v Speaker 1>my parents would drop me off at the golf course

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<v Speaker 1>at seven in the morning and pick me up at

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<v Speaker 1>when it was dark at ten at night. In Britain,

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<v Speaker 1>it gets dark, right, was constantly, so I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>just obsession. And when I wasn't playing, I was thinking

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<v Speaker 1>about it as well. I was writing stats like fairways, greens.

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<v Speaker 1>I was going through imaginary rounds of golf in my

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<v Speaker 1>head with a notebook, saying, oh I'd done that differently,

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<v Speaker 1>I would have scored this. Then I'd write down predicted

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<v Speaker 1>scores like, oh, if I play, if maybe in three

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<v Speaker 1>years time, when I hit it farther, I would imagine

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<v Speaker 1>and like hitting to these different spots. Yeah, now I'm

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<v Speaker 1>saying it out loud. I sound like a crazy person,

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<v Speaker 1>but absolutely crazy for golf. And I think when we

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<v Speaker 1>talk about practice, we often don't talk about the mental

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<v Speaker 1>part of it, like the rehearsing of swings in your head,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, just imagining being on the golf course and

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<v Speaker 1>playing the rounds of golf. Those don't get logged as

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<v Speaker 1>practice hours, but I believe they they have something to

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<v Speaker 1>do with improving as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, talk a little bit about that kind of

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<v Speaker 2>mental side of of game improvement, you know, not just

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<v Speaker 2>on course, but you know, off the course, like when

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<v Speaker 2>you're thinking about it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's not my area of expertise. I'll be honest.

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<v Speaker 2>I know what you're saying. You're saying that you thought

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<v Speaker 2>you know that was helpful, right, I mean, is that

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<v Speaker 2>I think?

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<v Speaker 1>So? I mean I can't see I was it was harmful.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, if I have the choice, if I've got

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<v Speaker 1>an hour of practice, I'm going to do physical practice

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<v Speaker 1>over over mental practice. But when I couldn't practice physically,

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<v Speaker 1>I would be mentally doing it just thinking about the game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think it's interesting. I did find the old books,

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<v Speaker 1>and I had books book after book. Book is proper

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<v Speaker 1>crazy stuff, predicted rounds of twelve, like best case scenario,

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<v Speaker 1>current scenarios, and everything in between. And what's interesting is,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you've heard of a vision board, just like

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<v Speaker 1>writing down a vision board. I've achieved those things. So

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<v Speaker 1>my best case scenario is things like, oh, imagine if

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<v Speaker 1>I hit the ball two hundred and sixty yards and

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<v Speaker 1>my seven nine goes one hundred and seventy yards, which

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<v Speaker 1>was crazy at the time when I was writing it,

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<v Speaker 1>But now all those things have come true. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I play, I think off a plus two right now.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been as low as a plus five momentarily. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>these things, you know, you surpass where you think you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to get to as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, so when did you, I mean, did you immediately

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<v Speaker 2>know this is what you wanted to do with your life?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, since you're thinking about it all the time,

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<v Speaker 2>were you like, I'm this is it?

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<v Speaker 3>Or was it just an obsession at the time?

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<v Speaker 1>Interestingly to me, yeah, when I started golf. Probably about

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<v Speaker 1>a year in I'm like, I want to be a teacher.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't even think of playing the game professionally. I

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<v Speaker 1>watched them. It didn't occur to me, Oh, maybe I

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<v Speaker 1>could be like like them and play. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>why I don't. I didn't dream big enough as a kid,

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<v Speaker 1>but I loved the mechanical side and the problem solving

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<v Speaker 1>side of it so much that it was always like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>this is my dream job. And I used to watch

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<v Speaker 1>my local professional he come in. He'd have a completely

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<v Speaker 1>flexible schedule. He'd come in and just like, I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to cross these hours off, and I'm like, this is

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<v Speaker 1>the life. I want flexible hours. He was earning what

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<v Speaker 1>I thought at the time was a ton of money

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<v Speaker 1>as well, and this is this is the life for me.

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<v Speaker 1>And so yeah, that's kind of where I set my

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<v Speaker 1>brain is, Okay, I'm going to become a coach. Now.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, at most people, I mean most people who become.

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<v Speaker 2>Coaches at one point aspired to be players, right, I

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<v Speaker 2>mean that's yeah, and that so did you I mean

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<v Speaker 2>did you enjoy the competition when did you play competition

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<v Speaker 2>a lot when you were a kid and stuff, or

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<v Speaker 2>did you just love the game.

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<v Speaker 1>Not really because because I started at fifteen, by the

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<v Speaker 1>time I was eighteen, I was I got to scratch ish.

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<v Speaker 1>Then I think it is too handicap, and that was

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<v Speaker 1>the point where you could start to enter these bigger tournaments.

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<v Speaker 1>But by that time I kind of burned out a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit. On the playing side, I mean, we can't

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<v Speaker 1>talk about that. A lot of that was to how

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<v Speaker 1>I was trying to learn golf. I was trying to

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<v Speaker 1>learn it purely mechanically, mechanically, so you know, I was

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<v Speaker 1>putting myself into positions and not understanding why if my

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<v Speaker 1>swing was looking better, why am I not playing better?

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<v Speaker 1>Why am I not scoring better? So there was there

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<v Speaker 1>was a big level of frustration at that point because

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<v Speaker 1>it's like, well, I'm putting all this hard work in

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<v Speaker 1>my swing is looking exactly like everybody says it should look,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm hitting it worse, so why and no one

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<v Speaker 1>can explain to me why, and so it's hugely frustrating.

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<v Speaker 1>Caused me to burn out a little bit. On the

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<v Speaker 1>competition side, I didn't enjoy it. I still to this

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<v Speaker 1>day don't really enjoy competition that much. I love just

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<v Speaker 1>going out on my own problem solving, figuring it out,

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<v Speaker 1>competition against myself, trying to improve my own stats, my

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<v Speaker 1>own game. I love that side of it, right when

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<v Speaker 1>I'm competing against others and there's a level of lack

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<v Speaker 1>of control over it. You know, you can't shoot, you

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<v Speaker 1>can't control whether someone else goes out and shoots a ten.

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<v Speaker 1>Underpart my brain doesn't like those things as much. And

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<v Speaker 1>so I mean, I like a little bit competition. When

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<v Speaker 1>I go out with the boys, is like, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>let's play for five bucks, let's make something out of it,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's enough for me to get, you know, inspired.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, once we stop playing for big money,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, I'm not enjoying this now because you hit

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<v Speaker 1>a good shot and it's like, okay, I should do that.

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<v Speaker 1>You hit a bad shot, and then you get upset

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<v Speaker 1>because it's like it means, it means so much, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's just I know a lot of people will be like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that's that's weird to not enjoy competition, and.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's weird at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, honestly, you know, because it really I mean, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, there's so many reasons to beat yourselfself up

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<v Speaker 2>on a golf course that like, I don't need another.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Like you know, like and I love playing.

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<v Speaker 2>I like playing with my friends, and I don't mind

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<v Speaker 2>playing competition with them.

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<v Speaker 3>But I mostly I just like.

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<v Speaker 2>Playing, you know, I just like you know, the playing

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<v Speaker 2>playing the game, and like you said, playing against yourself,

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<v Speaker 2>playing against the course, like that's enough for me most days.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I don't know, you all want to play better, right,

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<v Speaker 1>we all want to hit well, enjoy the game, so

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<v Speaker 1>they is, there's still motivation to improve, but going out

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<v Speaker 3>To be something you like.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you just have to love going out there

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<v Speaker 1>It makes me sick to my something to think about

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<v Speaker 2>But they might they might be like, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean even this year I decided, you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>of golf for a pro It's I need to play good.

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<v Speaker 1>Happiness is not a relevant factor really if if it's not,

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<v Speaker 1>if it's a byproduct, are playing good? Great? But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>So we'll talk a little bit now, whose swings did

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<v Speaker 2>you admire him? And obviously failed os probably because you're

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<v Speaker 2>studying him, right, But what were the swings you you

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<v Speaker 2>know you really admired and that you based your years.

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<v Speaker 1>On Tiger pretty much Tiger he was dominating. I started

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<v Speaker 1>when Tiger was dominating, like two thousand and two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and one, so you know, just watching that in action,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't realize how special that was, Like that didn't

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<v Speaker 1>happen these days, winning by what are you in the

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<v Speaker 1>US Open by fifteen shots?

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<v Speaker 3>strugs or something like that, and.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, that was very inspiring to me. So and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, his swing mechanics were beautiful, symmetrical, powerful, athletic.

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<v Speaker 1>This is everything about him is like, Okay, that's the model.

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<v Speaker 1>And so that's why I based my my my improvement

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<v Speaker 1>elbow and Tiger's elbow is down a little bit. I

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, no, that's why I Yeah. I for a

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<v Speaker 2>while was like going, like, God, why can't I get

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<v Speaker 2>it back? Like you know, like Sam Sneid, And I'm like, well,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, you know, he's got the most the most

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<v Speaker 3>He can do that.

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<v Speaker 2>Talk so talk a little bit about how you can

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<v Speaker 3>You know, what were some of the things.

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<v Speaker 1>I Yes, I'm you know, just like most most things

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<v Speaker 1>in life, the bad things that happened to you end

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<v Speaker 1>up being the good things, right, whether you can link

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<v Speaker 1>them to the good things in the future. And so,

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<v Speaker 1>just work on your mechanics, put your swing into positions,

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<v Speaker 1>And these definits can only really be found in the

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<v Speaker 1>the ball basically receives all this information from the club

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<v Speaker 1>So there are things like where did you strike it

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<v Speaker 1>more left or more right? There's the path the club

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<v Speaker 1>the ball off the ground. And then there's a dynamic

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<v Speaker 1>loft as well, So how much people know what loft is,

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<v Speaker 1>but how much is applied at impact. So the last

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<v Speaker 1>one I didn't mention was speed, how fast that clubhead

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<v Speaker 1>what's happening in these seven areas or whittle it down

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<v Speaker 1>to maybe one or two of those areas, and then

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<v Speaker 2>What do people what are the I mean, are there

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<v Speaker 3>To the others.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, almost every mistake a golfer will make. So like

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<v Speaker 1>a poet, every mistake golf is in ground contact. Golfers

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<v Speaker 1>so fat or thin to ground contact errors account for

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<v Speaker 1>although that that's getting less of an issue with modern clubs.

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<v Speaker 1>They're so forgiving these days. I mean, it can be

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<v Speaker 1>extremely So we hit a toe shank or a heel shank,

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<v Speaker 1>So you got to watch out for the extremes with that.

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, ground contact and face contact are two biggies.

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, I can lump those two things into one thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I can say ground contact location, and basically if someone's

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<v Speaker 1>hitting the ground too far away from them or too

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<v Speaker 1>close to them, that relates to face contact. And if

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<v Speaker 1>they're hitting the ground too far behind, too far in front,

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<v Speaker 1>or not at all, that relates to the thin or

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<v Speaker 1>The other twenty or so percent is face orientation at impact,

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<v Speaker 1>and then whatever's left ten percent or so is kind

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<v Speaker 1>of optimizing path, attack angle, dynamic loft, things like that,

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<v Speaker 1>And people put a lot of stock in that last

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<v Speaker 1>ten percent, Like most golfers are so obsessed with their

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<v Speaker 1>club path, and it's like for most golfers, it's more

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<v Speaker 2>Basically, yeah, yeah, it's I mean, I've had this thing lately.

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<v Speaker 3>It's probably a terrible thing. You can tell me yes

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<v Speaker 3>or no. Where I gave.

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<v Speaker 2>Up trying to have any like I when I go

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<v Speaker 2>going with this thing. But now, you know, I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like it's just, you know, it keeps me out of

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<v Speaker 1>And you because you've been taught all your lie O,

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<v Speaker 1>all your golfing life that you need to have a

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<v Speaker 1>certain position in the back swing, right, and that's just

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<v Speaker 1>take it outside. I've got I've got a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>outside the line and golfers who whip the club inside,

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<v Speaker 1>like John Ray, Floyd Nancy Lopez, and there's just a

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<v Speaker 1>ton of them. You see it less often now because

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<v Speaker 1>The reason why those good golfers have good takeaways is

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<v Speaker 1>no one knew. If you just got a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>golfers hitting balls on a desert island and they had

421
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<v Speaker 1>no contact with the world, no understanding of what a

422
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<v Speaker 1>good golf spring look like, you'd see a bunch of

423
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<v Speaker 1>great golfers emerge, but they'd all have different takeaways. Very few.

424
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<v Speaker 1>You'd have far few people with these textbook looking takeaways.

425
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<v Speaker 1>And I used to see this actually when I worked

426
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<v Speaker 1>at IMG academies. You'd see kids from South America who

427
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<v Speaker 1>had had learned golf themselves and they weren't they weren't

428
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<v Speaker 1>formally instructed, but they were really good at the game.

429
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<v Speaker 1>And they'd often get like mini scholarships to come over,

430
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<v Speaker 1>and they'd all look like Jim Furick or Matt Wolf

431
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<v Speaker 1>or you know, they'd all have these quirky movements in

432
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<v Speaker 1>their swings, but they could they could break par they

433
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<v Speaker 1>could shape it anyway you wanted them to. But their

434
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<v Speaker 1>swings didn't look textbook. And so that, you know, that

435
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<v Speaker 1>was a big highlighting moment for me as well. And

436
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<v Speaker 1>oftentimes when you made these swings more textbook, they didn't

437
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<v Speaker 1>play well, they didn't play better.

438
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<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, Well, so how do you approach a student

439
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<v Speaker 2>from that perspective, because you're obviously getting a lot of

440
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<v Speaker 2>different looking swings. Everybody does not look just like all

441
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<v Speaker 2>the guys on tour, who all look within a certain

442
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<v Speaker 2>bandwidth you know of swing, you know, and we're all

443
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<v Speaker 2>trying to imitate them, which is never going to happen,

444
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<v Speaker 2>at least for me. And and but we're all we

445
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<v Speaker 2>all think that's the model, and we all come at

446
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<v Speaker 2>wide up with a million different swings.

447
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<v Speaker 3>Anyway, So what how do.

448
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<v Speaker 2>You teach people who are coming at you with all

449
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<v Speaker 2>these different issues, you know, or different types of swags.

450
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So the first thing I do is I look

451
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<v Speaker 1>at what's causing them the biggest issue with their outcomes.

452
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<v Speaker 1>And again, most of that could be tied to how

453
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<v Speaker 1>is their ground contact, how is their face contact, and

454
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<v Speaker 1>how is their face direction? Because the thing is if

455
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<v Speaker 1>you get those three to be better, the result is

456
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<v Speaker 1>absolutely guaranteed to be better. And so when a player

457
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<v Speaker 1>comes to me and they say, well, I'm missing everything right,

458
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<v Speaker 1>So okay, even without looking at this swing, I know, okay,

459
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<v Speaker 1>they is too open to the path. Like yeah, people

460
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<v Speaker 1>could say, oh, their path is off as well. It's

461
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<v Speaker 1>like no, if you get the face closed enough to

462
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<v Speaker 1>the path or less open to the bath in the

463
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<v Speaker 1>slices case, the ball will land on the target. It

464
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<v Speaker 1>may be a fade onto the target in the slices example.

465
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<v Speaker 1>So you know someone's like slicing it off to the right.

466
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<v Speaker 1>You close the face enough, it turns into a nice

467
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<v Speaker 1>powerful fade that goes on the target. Now, could we

468
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<v Speaker 1>turn that player into a drawer of the ball. Yes,

469
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<v Speaker 1>we could, but we don't have to necessarily. We just

470
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<v Speaker 1>have to get the ball on the target, and plenty

471
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<v Speaker 1>of pros fade the ball or in most cases, if

472
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<v Speaker 1>you know, if they're above a five ten handicap, almost

473
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<v Speaker 1>always it's a face strike and or a ground contact issue.

474
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<v Speaker 1>And so I'm just looking at patterns there. Almost everybody

475
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<v Speaker 1>has a pattern as well. So if the average golfer

476
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<v Speaker 1>hits ten twenty balls, I can say to that person

477
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<v Speaker 1>will on average, you're hitting it about it an inch fat.

478
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<v Speaker 1>If we move that ground contact an inch farther forwards,

479
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<v Speaker 1>this will happen to the outcome. You'll get better distance control,

480
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<v Speaker 1>better distance, and even more accuracy for free as well,

481
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<v Speaker 1>because usually when we hit the ground earlier, it also

482
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<v Speaker 1>affects the face angle, so it can it can make

483
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<v Speaker 1>less consistency with direction as well.

484
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<v Speaker 2>Now I okay, Now I can only give myself as

485
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<v Speaker 2>an example, but I barely touch the ground, okay, Like

486
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<v Speaker 2>I just graze it, like I never leave at which

487
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<v Speaker 2>I know is bad, right, I'm supposed to be.

488
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, not necessarily. You can. You can be a clipper

489
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<v Speaker 1>of the golf ball and be a pretty good golfer.

490
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<v Speaker 1>What I would do with you is I would look

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<v Speaker 1>at vertical strike. So you can spray the club with

492
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<v Speaker 1>doctor Schall's foot spray, so that allows us ho and

493
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<v Speaker 1>heal contact. So basically you give it a quick spray

494
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<v Speaker 1>doctor Chall's foot spray or dry shampoo something like that

495
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<v Speaker 1>leaves a nice little white dusting on the face and

496
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<v Speaker 1>then when you hit a ball, it leaves an imprint

497
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<v Speaker 1>of the ball. You can see toll heel, which tells

498
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<v Speaker 1>us you know, to a heel the vertical contact. If

499
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<v Speaker 1>it's too low on the face, it's obviously too high

500
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<v Speaker 1>on the face is fat. If you hit it too

501
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<v Speaker 1>high in the face. The only way to do that

502
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<v Speaker 1>is to hit the ground early. So if you can

503
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<v Speaker 1>manage to hit usually it's about between groove three and five,

504
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<v Speaker 1>so we shoot for the fourth groove. If you can

505
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<v Speaker 1>hit that, then you're golden. So that that's a replacement

506
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<v Speaker 1>for ground contact. Vertical okay contact for those of us

507
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<v Speaker 1>who are pickers of the golf ball.

508
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because I always try to I literally am like, Okay,

509
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<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna hit so down on this, I'm going

510
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<v Speaker 2>to hit you know, I'm gonna take some you know,

511
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<v Speaker 2>a little ground when I and then and it just

512
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<v Speaker 2>screws me up, like unbelievably so. But I like the

513
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<v Speaker 2>idea of putting this stuff out and seeing which groove,

514
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<v Speaker 2>which groove you're hitting on? Now, how I just talk

515
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<v Speaker 2>a little bit about how people learn differently, right, because

516
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<v Speaker 2>that's a big part of how you teach, right, It's

517
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<v Speaker 2>based on learning patterns, right.

518
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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So I mean there are different ways of The

519
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<v Speaker 1>predominant way of learning golf is what through what we

520
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<v Speaker 1>call an internal focus of attention. So that's that's what

521
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<v Speaker 1>they call it in the mode of learning science. Internal

522
00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:17.319
<v Speaker 1>focus of attention is basically when you think about what

523
00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:20.559
<v Speaker 1>your body parts are doing. If you ask one hundred

524
00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:22.960
<v Speaker 1>golfers on the range, what are your swing thoughts, the

525
00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.799
<v Speaker 1>answers you'll get back are thinking about my weight shift,

526
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<v Speaker 1>which is an internal thought. I'm thinking about my head position,

527
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.079
<v Speaker 1>which is an internal thought. I'm thinking about my right

528
00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.240
<v Speaker 1>elbow position, my lead wrist, I'm thinking about my shoulder turn.

529
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<v Speaker 1>All of these are body part focuses. Now, you ask

530
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<v Speaker 1>that player what do you think of when you throw

531
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<v Speaker 1>a ball into a bucket, or you just say them,

532
00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:49.960
<v Speaker 1>you just say to them, or throw me your keys

533
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.319
<v Speaker 1>and they'll throw they'll throw your keys and you say

534
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:54.720
<v Speaker 1>what what do you think about doing that? And they say, well,

535
00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.559
<v Speaker 1>it's just just trying to get it in your hand.

536
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<v Speaker 1>That's classed as an external focus of attention. It's outside

537
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<v Speaker 1>of your body. I would class as an external result focus.

538
00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:08.839
<v Speaker 1>So you're thinking about the end result. So a golf

539
00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:11.880
<v Speaker 1>version of that would be thinking about the where the

540
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:14.119
<v Speaker 1>ball is finishing, or the shape of the ball, the

541
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<v Speaker 1>trajectory of the ball, and so Yeah. Traditionally golf has

542
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.640
<v Speaker 1>always been taught. I would say ninety nine percent of

543
00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:26.519
<v Speaker 1>lessons are all internal. Very few lessons are externally focused.

544
00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:29.960
<v Speaker 1>We actually in golf we have an intermediate step I

545
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:35.640
<v Speaker 1>call this external process. External process is basically what is

546
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:40.319
<v Speaker 1>the club doing? What is the club head doing specifically

547
00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:45.039
<v Speaker 1>through impact. So for example of this would be if

548
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<v Speaker 1>I ask a player to brush the grass, and then

549
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:50.640
<v Speaker 1>I say can you brush the top of the grass,

550
00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:52.640
<v Speaker 1>can you brush the middle of the grass, can you

551
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:57.000
<v Speaker 1>brush the base of the grass. That's an external process result.

552
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:58.799
<v Speaker 1>So it's not quite You're not quite thinking about what

553
00:28:58.839 --> 00:29:01.000
<v Speaker 1>you want the ball to do. You're thinking about what

554
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:06.119
<v Speaker 1>you want the tool to do. And so these external

555
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:11.200
<v Speaker 1>focuses are I know this is not really a good definition,

556
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.799
<v Speaker 1>but more natural. The way I would say that is

557
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.200
<v Speaker 1>that's how we learn almost everything. That's how we learn

558
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:19.799
<v Speaker 1>to pick up a glass of water. It's how we

559
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:22.240
<v Speaker 1>learn to throw a ball towards someone. It's how we

560
00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.200
<v Speaker 1>learn to right. You don't learn the right by okay,

561
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.799
<v Speaker 1>I need to bend my wrist thirteen degrees this way.

562
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:31.160
<v Speaker 1>I need to keep pressure on this finger. I mean,

563
00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:34.000
<v Speaker 1>at some point you think may be a part of that.

564
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.519
<v Speaker 1>We don't learn to walk by okay. I need to

565
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.160
<v Speaker 1>bend my leg this way. I need to swing this

566
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:42.160
<v Speaker 1>arm when my I need to swing my left arm

567
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:46.039
<v Speaker 1>where my right foot is going forwards. We just we

568
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:49.160
<v Speaker 1>make mistakes, right, We just watch someone, we copy it,

569
00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.680
<v Speaker 1>and we make mistakes, and our body does what we

570
00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:56.039
<v Speaker 1>call self organizes. It figures out the movement patterns needed

571
00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.440
<v Speaker 1>to achieve the task. And it's not to say that

572
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.680
<v Speaker 1>external sorry, it's not to say that internal focuses are bad.

573
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<v Speaker 1>It's just that typically we don't learn most everyday tasks

574
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<v Speaker 1>that way. Yet golf we spend all our time, well

575
00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:16.240
<v Speaker 1>most golfers spend all our time learning that way. And

576
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:21.200
<v Speaker 1>there's scientifically, it's been studied quite a lot, the difference

577
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<v Speaker 1>between internal and external. And while I think there are

578
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<v Speaker 1>some flaws in the studies, I think more research is needed.

579
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<v Speaker 1>The studies are pretty solidly on external focuses winning. So

580
00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:38.559
<v Speaker 1>if you give a hundred golfers and you see I

581
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:40.519
<v Speaker 1>want you to focus on shoulder turn, and you give

582
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<v Speaker 1>another hundred golfers saying I want you to focus on

583
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:47.799
<v Speaker 1>brushing the grass, the grass brushers will win out in

584
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<v Speaker 1>terms of how quick they learn, how fast they retain

585
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.079
<v Speaker 1>that learning, or you know, how much it is retained

586
00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:58.039
<v Speaker 1>over the course of sessions. How refers to real life

587
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:00.119
<v Speaker 1>situations like you put them on the golf course, so

588
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.400
<v Speaker 1>pressure situations, it maintains a lot better. And I've done

589
00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:09.039
<v Speaker 1>some of these studies myself as well with with beginners

590
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.480
<v Speaker 1>with chipping, for example, I would set up a scenario

591
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:14.640
<v Speaker 1>where they have to chip over a bunker or to

592
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:17.559
<v Speaker 1>do a little pitch over a bunker, and I would

593
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:20.359
<v Speaker 1>ask these golfers, all right, I want you to focus

594
00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:22.759
<v Speaker 1>on getting the ball up in the air and landing

595
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:27.319
<v Speaker 1>on this spot. So it's a very externally focused external

596
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:30.039
<v Speaker 1>result focus. It's like where I want the ball to go.

597
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:33.279
<v Speaker 1>Then i'd ask the second set of golfers, I want

598
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:35.799
<v Speaker 1>you to focus on brushing the grass as close to

599
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:38.359
<v Speaker 1>the ball as you can, so all your focus is

600
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:41.240
<v Speaker 1>on that. And then ask a third set of golfers

601
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:44.119
<v Speaker 1>to I want you to focus on keeping your weight

602
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:47.000
<v Speaker 1>on your left side and like not getting your wrists

603
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:49.079
<v Speaker 1>to break down. You know, it's the typical of what

604
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.839
<v Speaker 1>most golfers. The weight is on their back foot and

605
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.880
<v Speaker 1>they're trying to scoop it in the air. So more

606
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.119
<v Speaker 1>internally focused. So we actually test in three different types

607
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:03.640
<v Speaker 1>internal external pro says an external result, and with beginners,

608
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:11.240
<v Speaker 1>what I found was the internal focus was not very

609
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:15.000
<v Speaker 1>good at all. In fact, there was often this conflict

610
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.160
<v Speaker 1>here because you would tell these players, right, you've got

611
00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:19.240
<v Speaker 1>to keep your weight on your front foot, and they

612
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.599
<v Speaker 1>would go backwards, almost as if there's a lack of

613
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.000
<v Speaker 1>control there, like they can't control their body and you

614
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:27.039
<v Speaker 1>have to really get them to focus on it, and

615
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:29.559
<v Speaker 1>it's almost like a conflict there. Now. The conflict I

616
00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:33.400
<v Speaker 1>know is because these golfers are trying to get under

617
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:36.119
<v Speaker 1>the golf ball and lift it in there, because that's

618
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.240
<v Speaker 1>how a beginner thinks you get the ball in the air.

619
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<v Speaker 1>So already there's like this idea that, oh, the body

620
00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:47.680
<v Speaker 1>is actually trying to self organize for a concept. This

621
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:50.279
<v Speaker 1>person thinks they have to get under and scoop it,

622
00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:53.240
<v Speaker 1>and so the emotion is doing exactly that. And when

623
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:55.880
<v Speaker 1>you try and force emotion on a bad concept, it

624
00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:58.920
<v Speaker 1>doesn't hold. So if you've ever tried to do something

625
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.559
<v Speaker 1>in your swing and it hasn't changed, and you're like, God,

626
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:04.240
<v Speaker 1>this is really difficult to change my swing, there may

627
00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.720
<v Speaker 1>be a multi concept conflicting with what you're telling your

628
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:12.599
<v Speaker 1>body to do. Now. The second group performed the best

629
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<v Speaker 1>in my studies. When I asked players to brush the

630
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.799
<v Speaker 1>ground in the right place. They were the ones who

631
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:21.960
<v Speaker 1>got the ball in the air and over the bunker.

632
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.759
<v Speaker 1>And because that's what is required to get the ball

633
00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:27.079
<v Speaker 1>up in the air, you brush the ground in the

634
00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:29.440
<v Speaker 1>right place, it'll pop up in the air very easily.

635
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<v Speaker 1>And the interesting thing I noted was with these players,

636
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:34.240
<v Speaker 1>when I was asking them to brush the ground in

637
00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:39.039
<v Speaker 1>the right area, they started to move better. They started

638
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:41.200
<v Speaker 1>to put their weight on their left side without me

639
00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:45.000
<v Speaker 1>telling them, without me even giving them those cues, the

640
00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:50.319
<v Speaker 1>task created the better movement. So basically I changed their concept.

641
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:52.559
<v Speaker 1>Instead of them now thinking I got to get under

642
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.359
<v Speaker 1>and scoop it, they're now focusing on the task is

643
00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.920
<v Speaker 1>brushing the ground next to the ball, and as a result,

644
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:02.720
<v Speaker 1>the movement improved. Now the third group, the ones who

645
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:06.000
<v Speaker 1>are asked to focus on getting the ball up, so

646
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.079
<v Speaker 1>they're focusing on the trajectory of the ball where it landed,

647
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:12.880
<v Speaker 1>they performed awful as well. They started blading the balls in,

648
00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:17.039
<v Speaker 1>they started hitting the ground early. Why because when a

649
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:19.559
<v Speaker 1>beginner visualizes the ball going up in the air, they're

650
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:21.719
<v Speaker 1>going to go on their backfoot and try and scoop again.

651
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:25.079
<v Speaker 1>So again the visual there or the concept was self

652
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:31.840
<v Speaker 1>organizing a poor technique. It does flip for different players, though,

653
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:35.320
<v Speaker 1>when you get to a high level of golfer. Lots

654
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.000
<v Speaker 1>of high level golfers start to perform better when they

655
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.800
<v Speaker 1>focus on the outcome. The reason for that is they've

656
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:45.239
<v Speaker 1>spent so many years in graining good mechanics. When they

657
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:49.480
<v Speaker 1>focus on the outcome, the mechanics are still there. So

658
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:51.960
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, I mean I think all of these focuses

659
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.360
<v Speaker 1>can be part of the process of learning. I think

660
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:58.400
<v Speaker 1>there's a time to be internal. I think there's a

661
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:01.440
<v Speaker 1>time to be externally process and a time to be

662
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:04.199
<v Speaker 1>externally result focused. I think all of them can be

663
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.840
<v Speaker 1>tools along someone's journey of improvement, and then you can

664
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.400
<v Speaker 1>even test them to say, hey, which one do you

665
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:12.039
<v Speaker 1>perform best with right now?

666
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:16.159
<v Speaker 2>I'm realizing right now that I performed best with the

667
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:20.920
<v Speaker 2>middle one. The and I wonder is because I, you know,

668
00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.920
<v Speaker 2>I was trying. I gave up trying to do the

669
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:27.880
<v Speaker 2>internal focus because that just made me crazy, you know,

670
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.679
<v Speaker 2>and just put me in my head. The external focus.

671
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.840
<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh, that's you know, I'll focus on

672
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:36.880
<v Speaker 2>where I want the ball to go and and all

673
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:40.159
<v Speaker 2>those things. But I realized that, like the best I

674
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:44.679
<v Speaker 2>play is when I'm focused on just even practice swings,

675
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:46.840
<v Speaker 2>just the feel of it. I mean, is that, you know,

676
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:49.480
<v Speaker 2>and and and like you know, I when I get

677
00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:51.480
<v Speaker 2>on the tee, I hit the ball a lot better

678
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:53.199
<v Speaker 2>if I just kind of do that like Ben Hogan

679
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:55.559
<v Speaker 2>thing he did on TV, you know, where you just

680
00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.320
<v Speaker 2>kind of go back and forth like that changes everything

681
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:01.159
<v Speaker 2>about the way I wind up hitting the balls. So

682
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:05.800
<v Speaker 2>is it because it's a feel thing that people do well.

683
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:09.480
<v Speaker 1>With classes that would be classes internal. But even with internal,

684
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:13.239
<v Speaker 1>you can separate them into specific or more global. So

685
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.079
<v Speaker 1>something like a feel of rhythm is more global. It's

686
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:20.960
<v Speaker 1>you're not trying to micromanage individual pieces, whereas if I said, right,

687
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.119
<v Speaker 1>I want to focus on flexing the lead rist, that's

688
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:28.239
<v Speaker 1>a more specific thing that can throw people off sometimes.

689
00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.679
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it could be good thought for some people

690
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:34.599
<v Speaker 1>as well. I'm a gnostic to all of this stuff.

691
00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:37.760
<v Speaker 1>I don't say anything's good or bad. I say there

692
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:41.599
<v Speaker 1>are certain advantages to certain things and certain disadvantages to

693
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:44.599
<v Speaker 1>those same things. You know, I live by the mantra.

694
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:48.559
<v Speaker 1>There's no there are no solutions. There are only trade offs.

695
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:53.000
<v Speaker 1>I almost forgot Wars, and I'm like, oh, that's gonna

696
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:54.920
<v Speaker 1>sound stupid if I say I lived by this mantra

697
00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.800
<v Speaker 1>and can't remember it. There are no solutions, only trade offs. Right.

698
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.000
<v Speaker 1>That's very true in golf, in golf instruction as well.

699
00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:05.719
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, you just have to find out what works

700
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.679
<v Speaker 1>for you. What I will say is that there are

701
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:15.639
<v Speaker 1>certain things that are definitely linked to the geometry of

702
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:20.079
<v Speaker 1>good golf. Okay, so if say, for example, if I

703
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:23.760
<v Speaker 1>get someone to brush the ground in the right area,

704
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:28.400
<v Speaker 1>that's linked to what's happening at impact, which makes the

705
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:31.280
<v Speaker 1>ball go up, which is good. If I say to

706
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:34.599
<v Speaker 1>hundred golfers, I need you to shift your weight forwards

707
00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.000
<v Speaker 1>more in the swing. If I get those hundred golfers

708
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:40.920
<v Speaker 1>actually do that, the ground contact will move forwards. So

709
00:37:41.079 --> 00:37:44.079
<v Speaker 1>the movement is related to the geometry and that could

710
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.039
<v Speaker 1>either be good or bad for someone, depending on what

711
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:50.400
<v Speaker 1>they need. Then you have more I kind of call

712
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:54.760
<v Speaker 1>them voodoo golf or rain dance golf in that it's

713
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:58.159
<v Speaker 1>like you get golfers say things like, oh, when I

714
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:00.880
<v Speaker 1>put a T in my right pocket, play better. I mean,

715
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.039
<v Speaker 1>that's an extreme example to lay it point that. You know,

716
00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.559
<v Speaker 1>these are things are less they may well produce better

717
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:13.119
<v Speaker 1>outcomes for a golfer. You know, golfers might say things like, oh,

718
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:18.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm working on my rhythm or my tempo, and for

719
00:38:18.639 --> 00:38:23.239
<v Speaker 1>that golfer in that moment, it may improve them. But

720
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:25.880
<v Speaker 1>I would be looking if that is true. I would

721
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.480
<v Speaker 1>be looking at why is that golfer better? So what

722
00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:30.320
<v Speaker 1>I would do with that golfer is I'd let them

723
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:33.920
<v Speaker 1>hit their bad shots and then they say, right, I

724
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:36.760
<v Speaker 1>perform best when I focus on rhythm, And I would

725
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:39.199
<v Speaker 1>say to the okay, hit ten shots for me focusing

726
00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:42.239
<v Speaker 1>on rhythm, and at the end of those ten shots

727
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:44.559
<v Speaker 1>we get test results.

728
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:44.760
<v Speaker 3>Right.

729
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.360
<v Speaker 1>We can see the before in the after, and I

730
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:49.800
<v Speaker 1>can say to that person, well, yes, you do hit

731
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.480
<v Speaker 1>it better with rhythm, or no, you don't. You just

732
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:56.920
<v Speaker 1>it's it's a hallucination, which happens a lot. But in

733
00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:59.280
<v Speaker 1>the case where someone says, yeah, I hit it better

734
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:02.719
<v Speaker 1>with rhythm and the data shows that they do, I

735
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:04.599
<v Speaker 1>can then go in and look and I can tell

736
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:06.280
<v Speaker 1>them why they hit it better with the rhythm. I

737
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:08.800
<v Speaker 1>can say, well, you hit the ground better when you're

738
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:11.760
<v Speaker 1>thinking of rhythm. We can see that your ground contact

739
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:14.000
<v Speaker 1>is not one inch behind, it's one inch in front.

740
00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:17.599
<v Speaker 1>So at least then I'm linking that feel that they

741
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:21.920
<v Speaker 1>have to what's actually happening and what's actually causing the

742
00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:25.199
<v Speaker 1>good shot. That's where I always want to get to, Yeah,

743
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:26.320
<v Speaker 1>causing the good shop.

744
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:34.519
<v Speaker 3>Now in terms.

745
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:38.000
<v Speaker 2>Of like practicing, like you know, I mean you go

746
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:40.199
<v Speaker 2>to the every range I go to, there are always

747
00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:43.360
<v Speaker 2>a million people out there and we're all just slamming balls,

748
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:46.039
<v Speaker 2>and some of us might be getting better, but I'm

749
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:47.800
<v Speaker 2>not sure all of us are.

750
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:48.719
<v Speaker 3>I don't know that I am.

751
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:52.960
<v Speaker 2>So what is it about the way we practice as

752
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:55.840
<v Speaker 2>a whole that is not working?

753
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:02.840
<v Speaker 1>Do you know the Skinner box pigeon in Skinner experiments

754
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:03.639
<v Speaker 1>Skinner pigeons.

755
00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:07.360
<v Speaker 2>I know enough that I remember it, but I don't

756
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:08.519
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't describe it.

757
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:14.599
<v Speaker 1>So basically Skinner BF. Skinner put pigeons in a box

758
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:20.960
<v Speaker 1>and he fed them food pellets randomly, and when he

759
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.679
<v Speaker 1>came back after a few hours, these pigeons were doing

760
00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:27.519
<v Speaker 1>all these weird tics, weird movements, and when he watched

761
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.199
<v Speaker 1>the video footage back, what he saw was the pigeon

762
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:34.880
<v Speaker 1>would tap on a wall and a food pellet came

763
00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:39.519
<v Speaker 1>out ate it. So the pigeons brained. Obviously it doesn't

764
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.519
<v Speaker 1>have language, but it's the brain is linking up. Oh

765
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:45.159
<v Speaker 1>when I tap, I got a food pellet. So what

766
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:48.480
<v Speaker 1>does it do It taps again, another food palette comes out.

767
00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:51.760
<v Speaker 1>It may have nothing to do with the tap. They're

768
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:56.920
<v Speaker 1>random rewards, but now it's got two bits of information saying, oh,

769
00:40:56.920 --> 00:41:00.159
<v Speaker 1>when I tapped twice, I get a food pellett. So

770
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:03.280
<v Speaker 1>you see again, tap twice, food palt come out. Bang,

771
00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:07.400
<v Speaker 1>it's ingrained. Maybe then it taps twice and nothing happens.

772
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.920
<v Speaker 1>It tries it again, nothing happens. It kind of turns

773
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:12.559
<v Speaker 1>around a little bit, and then all of a sudden,

774
00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.800
<v Speaker 1>the food palette comes out, and the pigeon's brain is like, oh,

775
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:18.480
<v Speaker 1>if I tap twice and turn then a food pealet

776
00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:21.079
<v Speaker 1>comes out. And then after a while these things get

777
00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:27.320
<v Speaker 1>falsely linked. Golfers on a driving range matt are basically

778
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:31.559
<v Speaker 1>a pigeon in the skin of the experiment. What they

779
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:34.599
<v Speaker 1>do is they hit a ball, and their food pellett

780
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.039
<v Speaker 1>and golf our food pealettes are was it a good

781
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:39.079
<v Speaker 1>shot or not? Did it feel good or not? Did

782
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:41.440
<v Speaker 1>it do what I wanted it to? So a player

783
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:44.960
<v Speaker 1>hits a shot and it's a bad one. They hit

784
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:47.239
<v Speaker 1>another shot, it's a bad one. They hit another shot

785
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.559
<v Speaker 1>and it's a good one. What does the person do?

786
00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:52.719
<v Speaker 1>They say, Ah, what did I do differently on that one?

787
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:53.760
<v Speaker 3>Oh?

788
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:56.760
<v Speaker 1>I think I did I did this. Let me try

789
00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:00.440
<v Speaker 1>that again, doesn't work, they said, Let me try more,

790
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:03.840
<v Speaker 1>doesn't work. Let me really trying to quadruple it. And

791
00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:07.039
<v Speaker 1>they hit a good shot. Now that person is locked

792
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.840
<v Speaker 1>in on whatever it was now that thing that they

793
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:13.639
<v Speaker 1>were trying might have had nothing to do with what

794
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.480
<v Speaker 1>actually was causing a good shot. In fact, in many cases,

795
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:22.400
<v Speaker 1>what they're trying to do could be harmful to the development.

796
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:28.039
<v Speaker 1>An example of that would be, and you know what,

797
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:34.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't think people normally arise to this thing themselves.

798
00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:38.800
<v Speaker 1>I think normally they're told it by someone is head down, Oh,

799
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:41.440
<v Speaker 1>keep your head down. I see this all the time,

800
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:44.840
<v Speaker 1>maybe husbands teaching their wives, or men teach their fathers

801
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:49.159
<v Speaker 1>teaching their kids. The kid is like moving beautifully, their

802
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:53.519
<v Speaker 1>heads rotating nicely, they're springing up, they're moving like an athlete,

803
00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:55.440
<v Speaker 1>and then all of a sudden, they hit a bad shot.

804
00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:57.599
<v Speaker 1>Even though they might have moved well, they hit a

805
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.639
<v Speaker 1>bad shot because maybe they hit it two grooves low

806
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.239
<v Speaker 1>on the face right, and it's it's And the dad says, oh,

807
00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:06.599
<v Speaker 1>you've got to keep your head down. So the kid

808
00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:08.599
<v Speaker 1>then tries to keep his head down. It's still a

809
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:10.840
<v Speaker 1>bad shot. He's like, more, keep your head down more.

810
00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:13.880
<v Speaker 1>So the kid's now locked in place, their heads like

811
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.880
<v Speaker 1>fixated on the ground. They make a swing, their entire

812
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:20.239
<v Speaker 1>arms collapse, their body doesn't rotate, and if they hit

813
00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:22.800
<v Speaker 1>a good shot doing that, which you can you can

814
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:26.159
<v Speaker 1>make a horrible movement and hit a good shot. That

815
00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:28.719
<v Speaker 1>kid is now locked in and now they're locked into

816
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:32.039
<v Speaker 1>making a bad movement, right, So then now their body

817
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:36.280
<v Speaker 1>is rotating and it can cause When I say a

818
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:39.440
<v Speaker 1>bad movement, I mean a movement that can cause injury.

819
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:43.039
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna limit speed in the long term as a

820
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:47.480
<v Speaker 1>long term as well, so it just completely destroys the athleticism.

821
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:51.400
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, we got to be careful what we're linking

822
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.880
<v Speaker 1>up here. And to your question why the most golfers

823
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:58.440
<v Speaker 1>not improved is because they're just they're out there linking

824
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:04.639
<v Speaker 1>random things to the result and sometimes rarely they will

825
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:08.400
<v Speaker 1>link something good like I love it if a player went, oh,

826
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:10.320
<v Speaker 1>I shifted my weight more forwards and I hit the

827
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:13.400
<v Speaker 1>ground better. That's a good linking, right, because that makes

828
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.679
<v Speaker 1>sense the midd links. But unfortunately, what I see I

829
00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:19.719
<v Speaker 1>see I've seen a lot of golf. I've seen a

830
00:44:19.719 --> 00:44:22.559
<v Speaker 1>lot of golf as a teacher is bad linking.

831
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:24.639
<v Speaker 3>Son.

832
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:28.440
<v Speaker 1>Example of a bad linking would be, oh, my ball

833
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.880
<v Speaker 1>went right, I'm going to weaken my grip off and

834
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:34.960
<v Speaker 1>then the next swing they hit the ground a foot

835
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:37.639
<v Speaker 1>behind it closes the face and they hit one straight.

836
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:41.639
<v Speaker 3>Grip them.

837
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:44.360
<v Speaker 1>It is like, no, they introduced two faults that made

838
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:46.480
<v Speaker 1>the ball goes. I see that all the time, stuff

839
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:46.760
<v Speaker 1>like that.

840
00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:52.440
<v Speaker 2>So so what do you So? What should somebody? What

841
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.400
<v Speaker 2>should you know? Obviously you need to know what to

842
00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:58.079
<v Speaker 2>work on, right? I mean that is that the number

843
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.239
<v Speaker 2>one step in practicing better first step.

844
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.639
<v Speaker 1>I have these different layers of when I'm educating people.

845
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:06.559
<v Speaker 1>A lesson with me is more a lot more theory

846
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:09.599
<v Speaker 1>than practice. I'm obviously watching them hit balls, but I'm

847
00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:12.320
<v Speaker 1>trying to get that person to coach themselves, and I'm

848
00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:15.559
<v Speaker 1>these levels I go through is number one, do they

849
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.079
<v Speaker 1>know what creates a good shot? And so, like I

850
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:22.239
<v Speaker 1>said at the start, what creates a good shot is

851
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:25.639
<v Speaker 1>a good impact. Specifically, it was ground contact good? Was

852
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.760
<v Speaker 1>the face contact good? Was the face direction good? Those

853
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:33.360
<v Speaker 1>are the three most fundamental things in golf. If you

854
00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:36.320
<v Speaker 1>do those three things, the outcome will be good. Even

855
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:41.880
<v Speaker 1>with a bad movement, the outcome will be good. The

856
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:44.960
<v Speaker 1>next stage to it is, okay, if you know what

857
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.360
<v Speaker 1>creates a good shot, do you know what you are

858
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:50.880
<v Speaker 1>doing in that? So, when I'm in a coaching session,

859
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.199
<v Speaker 1>when a player hits a bad shot, I as a coach,

860
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.639
<v Speaker 1>instantly looks at it and goes, oh, it was twenty

861
00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.599
<v Speaker 1>millimeters off the toe. That's why I was a bad shot.

862
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:02.800
<v Speaker 1>But I don't tell them that. I ask them, I say,

863
00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:06.599
<v Speaker 1>why do you think that felt worse than the one before,

864
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:09.400
<v Speaker 1>which was a really good shot? Why do you think that?

865
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:12.639
<v Speaker 1>And they might not give me the right answer. They

866
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:14.719
<v Speaker 1>might they might say, oh, I don't know. Maybe the

867
00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:19.960
<v Speaker 1>face was open. I don't know. And so I'm educating

868
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.519
<v Speaker 1>them to help them identify the actual issue and how

869
00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:27.840
<v Speaker 1>they can do this themselves without my trained eyes. Foot

870
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:31.440
<v Speaker 1>spray and ballflight will tell you almost everything. If you

871
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:34.679
<v Speaker 1>use foot spray and you see that the strike is vertically,

872
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:38.280
<v Speaker 1>it's say it's on the fourth groove, we know hit

873
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:41.000
<v Speaker 1>You've hit the ground pretty well. There's some caveats to that,

874
00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:43.840
<v Speaker 1>but for most people, Okay, you've hit the ground pretty well.

875
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.320
<v Speaker 1>If it's on the fourth groove, if it's close to

876
00:46:46.360 --> 00:46:49.559
<v Speaker 1>the center third of the face, you've struck it pretty well.

877
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.400
<v Speaker 1>Tone heel as well. How do we know if face

878
00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:54.960
<v Speaker 1>is appropriate, the ball is going to go on the target?

879
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:57.639
<v Speaker 1>Simple algorithm as if the ball goes too far right,

880
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.480
<v Speaker 1>the face has been too open. If all goes too

881
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.440
<v Speaker 1>far left, the face has been too closed, and you've

882
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:05.599
<v Speaker 1>got to try and balance that. You've got to try

883
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:08.440
<v Speaker 1>and balance that equation. So it's first, do we understand

884
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:11.880
<v Speaker 1>what creates a good shot? That's level one. Level two

885
00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:14.880
<v Speaker 1>is do you know what you are doing? Are you

886
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:18.559
<v Speaker 1>getting good feedback on it? Level three is then, okay,

887
00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:21.239
<v Speaker 1>do you know how to change this? If you hit

888
00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:23.199
<v Speaker 1>shots and you see, oh, they're all on the toe

889
00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:26.239
<v Speaker 1>of the club, do you know how to move that

890
00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:29.400
<v Speaker 1>more towards the heel, more dowards the center. And that's

891
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:32.880
<v Speaker 1>where we start building these tools. And so the simplest

892
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:39.039
<v Speaker 1>or yeah, it's simple, and probably the best tool you

893
00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:43.800
<v Speaker 1>can develop is what I call the golden rule. Take

894
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:47.960
<v Speaker 1>the fault and try the opposite, which sounds so mind

895
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:52.320
<v Speaker 1>numbingly simple to people that most people have never tried it.

896
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:54.880
<v Speaker 1>In fact, I get emails daily from people saying, you

897
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:58.239
<v Speaker 1>know what, I played years and I never tried just

898
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:00.480
<v Speaker 1>doing the opposite of my fault. So I had a

899
00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:03.599
<v Speaker 1>guy maybe a couple of days ago, said, I suffered

900
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:07.719
<v Speaker 1>with shanks for almost a year. Now, I was almost

901
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:12.519
<v Speaker 1>quitting the game. I'm a three handicap and he said,

902
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:15.599
<v Speaker 1>I watched one of your social posts and it fixed

903
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:18.599
<v Speaker 1>it for me. And he said, all it was was

904
00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:21.199
<v Speaker 1>I tried to hit out of the toe more. He said,

905
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:24.519
<v Speaker 1>it's so silly. I don't know why I've never tried

906
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:28.880
<v Speaker 1>that before. No one teaches this. Why I just emailed back.

907
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:30.559
<v Speaker 1>I said, I don't know why people don't teach it

908
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:34.239
<v Speaker 1>because I see it work every single day, the amount

909
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.039
<v Speaker 1>of shank as I've had in my lesson tea where

910
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.039
<v Speaker 1>they're like, I'm on the verge of quitting. And I said,

911
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:41.920
<v Speaker 1>entertain me for a moment. Can you just try and

912
00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:45.199
<v Speaker 1>hit a few shots out of the toe? And they try,

913
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:47.159
<v Speaker 1>and we look at the data and they say that's

914
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:49.039
<v Speaker 1>still a little heally, can you try and hit even

915
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:51.239
<v Speaker 1>more out of the toe for me? And we try

916
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:54.679
<v Speaker 1>and I'm going it's better, but it's still not toey.

917
00:48:55.320 --> 00:48:57.480
<v Speaker 1>I said, I want you to really toe at this time.

918
00:48:57.719 --> 00:48:59.800
<v Speaker 1>I want you to hit the shiny part of the toe.

919
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:02.159
<v Speaker 1>And they go off and they hit ten shots and

920
00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:04.119
<v Speaker 1>we have a look at it and they're like, wow,

921
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.960
<v Speaker 1>all of those were flushed, and I say, yeah, for

922
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.280
<v Speaker 1>the last thirty balls, you didn't hit one shank guy either.

923
00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:12.039
<v Speaker 1>They're like, well, that's yeah, that's crazy. I didn't even

924
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.360
<v Speaker 1>think about that. I'm like, yeah, you're literally just taking

925
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:19.199
<v Speaker 1>the fault heel and trying the opposite, trying to hit

926
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.440
<v Speaker 1>the toe, and it's improving the pattern. I see this

927
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:24.559
<v Speaker 1>in ninety nine percent of cases.

928
00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:27.920
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, no, it's funny.

929
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:31.760
<v Speaker 2>I mean I had a club fitting about three months ago,

930
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:36.760
<v Speaker 2>first time I've ever had club's fit, and my problem

931
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:40.679
<v Speaker 2>is pushing it right and slicing. And they show you,

932
00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:42.599
<v Speaker 2>you know, all the data from the different clubs up there,

933
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:44.719
<v Speaker 2>and all of a sudden, I look and they're showing

934
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:47.239
<v Speaker 2>me where I'm hitting the ball with my driver, and

935
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:53.559
<v Speaker 2>every single ball I am hitting right off the toe basically,

936
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:56.360
<v Speaker 2>I mean I'm hitting right of you know what I mean,

937
00:49:56.360 --> 00:49:58.559
<v Speaker 2>I'm hitting it, you know, a decent distance, and it's

938
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:05.000
<v Speaker 2>going straight, but slicinger going straight right, And all of

939
00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:06.679
<v Speaker 2>a sudden, and I was like, God, well how do

940
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:08.159
<v Speaker 2>I do this? And I was like, Oh, the simplest

941
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:09.800
<v Speaker 2>thing is why don't I try to hit it off

942
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:14.039
<v Speaker 2>the heel? Yeah, every time, And I've not hit a

943
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:17.000
<v Speaker 2>drive out of bounds since I've hit everything, and it's

944
00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:20.320
<v Speaker 2>and I was like it could it possibly be that easy?

945
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.880
<v Speaker 2>Because I first I tried, I'm no.

946
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:30.440
<v Speaker 1>Correct you there, moment not simple, very thank you. Yeah, yeah, yes.

947
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:32.480
<v Speaker 2>That is a great distinction. I started doing it with

948
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:35.679
<v Speaker 2>my other clubs too, and it's because I was trying

949
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:38.239
<v Speaker 2>to change the way I was swinging. Yeah, And all

950
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:40.880
<v Speaker 2>of a sudden I was like, it's maybe it's just

951
00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:42.840
<v Speaker 2>where I'm putting my club on the ball when I

952
00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:46.519
<v Speaker 2>line up, and it has made a huge So but

953
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:49.400
<v Speaker 2>is it literally, like you said, ninety nine percent of

954
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:52.519
<v Speaker 2>the time, if you find the right compensation and it's

955
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:54.719
<v Speaker 2>just doing the opposite, that'll.

956
00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:58.199
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just just feeling the opposite because these things are

957
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:03.239
<v Speaker 1>so small, right, The example I give you is actually

958
00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:05.840
<v Speaker 1>the biggest change. So if you get a shanker and

959
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:09.159
<v Speaker 1>you want to convert them to a more centered striker,

960
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:12.199
<v Speaker 1>you got to change it by an inch or so,

961
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:14.519
<v Speaker 1>Like there's a difference between a flush shot and a

962
00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:17.440
<v Speaker 1>shank is about an inch more towards a heel. That's

963
00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:20.599
<v Speaker 1>actually the biggest change. Now, even with that, if you

964
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.280
<v Speaker 1>show someone shank, if you show a video of someone

965
00:51:23.360 --> 00:51:26.400
<v Speaker 1>hitting a shank and someone hitting a flush shot, only

966
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:28.960
<v Speaker 1>the most trained eyes will be able to see the

967
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:32.480
<v Speaker 1>difference between those. Now we can see the difference in

968
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:36.239
<v Speaker 1>the result. Right, A flush shot flies long, far goes

969
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:39.519
<v Speaker 1>relatively towards the target. Shank shoots ninety degrees. Right, we

970
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:43.360
<v Speaker 1>assume because the result has been so drastically different, that

971
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:46.719
<v Speaker 1>we have done something so drastically different. We haven't. It's

972
00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:49.400
<v Speaker 1>a lie, it's a myth. One of the best tests

973
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:51.760
<v Speaker 1>that your listeners can do is to go off and

974
00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:55.679
<v Speaker 1>video this wing and wait for a good shot, and

975
00:51:55.719 --> 00:51:57.960
<v Speaker 1>when they do that, put a thumbs up to the camera.

976
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:00.840
<v Speaker 1>Then keep hitting, wait for a bad shot, put a

977
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:03.760
<v Speaker 1>thumbs down, and go off and analyze those two just

978
00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:06.360
<v Speaker 1>so you can when you're scrolling through, yoh, that one's

979
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.199
<v Speaker 1>the good one, that one was the bad one. With

980
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:10.719
<v Speaker 1>the thumbs up the thing, and then go and video

981
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:13.159
<v Speaker 1>them side by side. If you have that ability, you

982
00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:16.400
<v Speaker 1>will not see the difference between them. Because it's an

983
00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:19.679
<v Speaker 1>inch in It can be less than that. I mean, honestly,

984
00:52:19.719 --> 00:52:22.679
<v Speaker 1>a difference between a shank and someone hitting an okay

985
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:24.920
<v Speaker 1>shot out of the heel, it's like a quarter of

986
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:28.920
<v Speaker 1>an inch really right right now, it gets even more,

987
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.920
<v Speaker 1>it gets even smaller with the differences. When we're talking

988
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:38.159
<v Speaker 1>about things like direction. So when you slice a driver

989
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:43.199
<v Speaker 1>forty yards right, and this is undeniable because we have

990
00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:46.320
<v Speaker 1>launch monitors showing this. Now, when you slice a driver

991
00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:50.920
<v Speaker 1>forty yards right, the club face has been three degrees

992
00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:54.440
<v Speaker 1>more open than the one that was piped on the center.

993
00:52:54.760 --> 00:52:57.400
<v Speaker 1>So imagine you hit two shots right, pipe one down

994
00:52:57.400 --> 00:53:00.519
<v Speaker 1>the center, next one goes forty yards right. You go

995
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:03.000
<v Speaker 1>into the launch monitor data, you have a look, and

996
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:05.360
<v Speaker 1>what you see is, oh, the club face was three

997
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:10.360
<v Speaker 1>degrees more open. Now three degrees It is half a

998
00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:14.159
<v Speaker 1>second on a clock face. It's nothing. In fact, I

999
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:16.880
<v Speaker 1>have visuals images that I post on social media a

1000
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:20.159
<v Speaker 1>lot of a square face and one that's three degrees open.

1001
00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:23.079
<v Speaker 1>People look at it and they go, god, I had

1002
00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:24.880
<v Speaker 1>to really look at that to see if there's a

1003
00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:27.880
<v Speaker 1>difference there. And that's the difference between thirty yards more

1004
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.800
<v Speaker 1>right at about two hundred and fifty two hundred and

1005
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:36.000
<v Speaker 1>sixty yards. Even if you only hit it two hundred yards,

1006
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.000
<v Speaker 1>it's still like thirty yards right.

1007
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:39.199
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

1008
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:42.639
<v Speaker 1>People often think, oh, I've done something so drastic, and

1009
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.559
<v Speaker 1>it's like, no, you haven't. This game is super difficult,

1010
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:48.280
<v Speaker 1>and if you want to fix that forty yard slice.

1011
00:53:48.320 --> 00:53:50.800
<v Speaker 1>You've just got to get the face three degrees more closed,

1012
00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:55.400
<v Speaker 1>which is not much at all. Now that the caveat

1013
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:58.800
<v Speaker 1>to that, or the addition to that is three degrees

1014
00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:02.480
<v Speaker 1>might feel like a lot when you actually go and

1015
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:05.400
<v Speaker 1>try and make the change. I've had people hitting forty

1016
00:54:05.480 --> 00:54:08.000
<v Speaker 1>yards right, forty yards right, forty yards right, and I say, right,

1017
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.639
<v Speaker 1>try and close the face for me, and it's twenty

1018
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:13.960
<v Speaker 1>yards right, thirty yards right, ten yards right, and they're like,

1019
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:15.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm really trying to do this year And we go

1020
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:18.840
<v Speaker 1>into a launch monitor and say, well, you're moving it

1021
00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:22.000
<v Speaker 1>in the right direction, but you're only one degree more closed,

1022
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:24.119
<v Speaker 1>and they could they go, wow, it felt like I

1023
00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:26.920
<v Speaker 1>was closing it ten degrees right.

1024
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:27.159
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

1025
00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:31.239
<v Speaker 1>Feel is not real. This is where technology can help us,

1026
00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:34.559
<v Speaker 1>really is bridging the gap between feel and real. And

1027
00:54:34.599 --> 00:54:36.960
<v Speaker 1>there are some people who are the opposite. It's rare

1028
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.360
<v Speaker 1>for an adult, but some players. I'll say, can you

1029
00:54:39.400 --> 00:54:42.000
<v Speaker 1>try and close the face? And they overdo it. Again,

1030
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:45.000
<v Speaker 1>technology helps you. You say, oh, you felt like you

1031
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:47.679
<v Speaker 1>closed it two degrees and you actually closed it twenty.

1032
00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:50.280
<v Speaker 1>Let's try and find somewhere in between. I'll be honest,

1033
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:54.559
<v Speaker 1>most adults are underdoers. So you ask them to do

1034
00:54:54.599 --> 00:54:57.719
<v Speaker 1>a task and they underdo it. Kids are overdoers. You

1035
00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:00.280
<v Speaker 1>ask kids to close the face and they'll sl lamate

1036
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.360
<v Speaker 1>shut and hit it forty yards left off the planet.

1037
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:05.719
<v Speaker 1>So kids, you have to be more careful and not careful,

1038
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:07.920
<v Speaker 1>but you have to tell them to make smaller changes.

1039
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.079
<v Speaker 1>Adults you could really are going to get in there

1040
00:55:10.079 --> 00:55:15.039
<v Speaker 1>and kick them to make a proper change often. But yeah,

1041
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:18.119
<v Speaker 1>so three degrees can be the difference between a successful

1042
00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:22.440
<v Speaker 1>shot and a non successful shot. Half an inch an

1043
00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:24.440
<v Speaker 1>inch on the face can be the difference between a

1044
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:29.559
<v Speaker 1>shank and one that's flush with ground contact, It's even

1045
00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:35.679
<v Speaker 1>scarier one groove of height change. So a player hits

1046
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:41.000
<v Speaker 1>the fourth groove flush, next shot, they hit the sixth groove.

1047
00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:43.000
<v Speaker 1>So as let's say two shots higher on the face

1048
00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:46.400
<v Speaker 1>and they laid the sod over it, right, that's the

1049
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:53.880
<v Speaker 1>difference we're looking at there. Pros have unbelievable depth control. Okay,

1050
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:55.599
<v Speaker 1>what I mean by that is if I ask a

1051
00:55:56.039 --> 00:55:59.559
<v Speaker 1>if I ask a pro to brush the top of

1052
00:55:59.599 --> 00:56:01.679
<v Speaker 1>the ground, and they will be able to control the

1053
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:04.599
<v Speaker 1>depth very very well. In fact, I used to do

1054
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:06.840
<v Speaker 1>these little drills with players where I would get a

1055
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:10.039
<v Speaker 1>towel and I would put a bottle cap on top

1056
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:12.360
<v Speaker 1>of it, and I'd say, right, I want you to

1057
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:16.920
<v Speaker 1>practice clipping the bottle cap off without moving the towel. Right,

1058
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:18.880
<v Speaker 1>So imagine if you swing a little too high, you

1059
00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:21.760
<v Speaker 1>miss the bottle cap, you swing a little bit too low,

1060
00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:25.599
<v Speaker 1>the towel bunches and flies out everywhere. A progue can

1061
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:28.039
<v Speaker 1>stand and do that drill all day. I can put

1062
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:31.000
<v Speaker 1>one of those little thin bottle caps, the water bottle

1063
00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.920
<v Speaker 1>caps like a desani, and they'll do it all day.

1064
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:36.480
<v Speaker 1>And then you get amateur and they're not very good

1065
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:38.800
<v Speaker 1>all at all. Well, actually I say they're not very

1066
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:42.400
<v Speaker 1>good at it. They're good, just not as good as

1067
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:46.000
<v Speaker 1>a pro. And like I said, the difference there between

1068
00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:52.199
<v Speaker 1>the difference between a pro level control is a pro

1069
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:55.840
<v Speaker 1>has about a three millimeter standard deviation, right, which is

1070
00:56:55.880 --> 00:57:00.920
<v Speaker 1>about a one groove standard deviation. With a bad golfer,

1071
00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:03.280
<v Speaker 1>it's about a one and a half to two groove

1072
00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:07.159
<v Speaker 1>standard deviation right right. On the one hand, you could say, oh,

1073
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:10.400
<v Speaker 1>it's not that different, is it. It's one groove difference huge.

1074
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:12.679
<v Speaker 1>The other hand, you could say, well, that's actually fifty

1075
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.320
<v Speaker 1>two one hundred percent worse. So you know, twice as

1076
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:19.920
<v Speaker 1>twice the standard deviation is more pro. But so on

1077
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:22.079
<v Speaker 1>the one hand, you can say, oh, god, yeah, I

1078
00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:24.719
<v Speaker 1>am bad at it if I've got two group standard deviation.

1079
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:26.159
<v Speaker 1>But on the other hand, you could look at it

1080
00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:28.960
<v Speaker 1>and say, well, hey, I'm not actually that far off

1081
00:57:28.960 --> 00:57:33.360
<v Speaker 1>from a pro. It's just they're doing these little things

1082
00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:37.480
<v Speaker 1>really really well. And my life has been spent teaching

1083
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:40.440
<v Speaker 1>people how do we do these little things really really well?

1084
00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:47.199
<v Speaker 3>Now?

1085
00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:50.280
<v Speaker 2>What are a you know, say, I'm listening to the

1086
00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:53.280
<v Speaker 2>show and I want to just I'm not gonna take

1087
00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:56.880
<v Speaker 2>a lesson. I'm you know, I would watch your YouTube

1088
00:57:56.920 --> 00:57:57.559
<v Speaker 2>videos if I.

1089
00:57:57.519 --> 00:57:57.960
<v Speaker 3>Was one of them.

1090
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:01.039
<v Speaker 2>But I but if I'm not taking all but you're

1091
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:03.559
<v Speaker 2>giving me two or three things to just go out

1092
00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:06.280
<v Speaker 2>and do right now that can have an impact on

1093
00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:06.679
<v Speaker 2>my game.

1094
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:07.400
<v Speaker 3>What would you do?

1095
00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:13.280
<v Speaker 1>Spray the face number one? Number two, tinker around with

1096
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:15.760
<v Speaker 1>like try and hit ten shots from the toe, Try

1097
00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:17.880
<v Speaker 1>and hit ten shots on the heel. You will learn

1098
00:58:18.199 --> 00:58:21.599
<v Speaker 1>so much doing that. Wonder the first time you do it,

1099
00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.280
<v Speaker 1>you may not have success with it. You may try

1100
00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:26.400
<v Speaker 1>and hit ten shots on the toe and they're all centered.

1101
00:58:26.840 --> 00:58:29.360
<v Speaker 1>You just learned something valuable there you might hit Try

1102
00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:31.480
<v Speaker 1>and hit ten shots on the heel, and you're hitting

1103
00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:33.840
<v Speaker 1>all shanks and you're like, oh God, I overdo that.

1104
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.679
<v Speaker 1>You've learned something. You've learned that you are more heel

1105
00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:39.679
<v Speaker 1>biased with everything you may learn they're actually pretty good

1106
00:58:39.679 --> 00:58:41.079
<v Speaker 1>at it. Oh when I try and hit ten from

1107
00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:42.599
<v Speaker 1>the toe, I'm quite good at it, And ten from

1108
00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:44.199
<v Speaker 1>the heel, I'm quite good at it. Maybe I should

1109
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:45.840
<v Speaker 1>focus on this a little bit more. You're going to

1110
00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:48.719
<v Speaker 1>learn something from the task. Try and hit ten shots

1111
00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:51.079
<v Speaker 1>a little higher on the face by digging in a

1112
00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:53.360
<v Speaker 1>little deeper. Just say yourself, R, I'm really going to

1113
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:55.119
<v Speaker 1>thump and dig in a little on the mat here,

1114
00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:58.440
<v Speaker 1>hit them high on the face. Then try and say, right,

1115
00:58:58.440 --> 00:59:00.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna pick it off the surface. I'm gonna

1116
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:03.000
<v Speaker 1>imagine the ground is glass and I'm just gonna imagine

1117
00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:05.719
<v Speaker 1>picking the ball off the surface without smashing the glass.

1118
00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:08.519
<v Speaker 1>You'll hit it lower on the face. Then try and

1119
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:10.840
<v Speaker 1>go somewhere in between with them. So with both of

1120
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:12.800
<v Speaker 1>those tasks, ten off the toe, ten off the heel.

1121
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.920
<v Speaker 1>Now try in between ten high on the face, ten

1122
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:19.119
<v Speaker 1>low on the face. Now try in between, try and

1123
00:59:19.199 --> 00:59:21.840
<v Speaker 1>hit ten shots left, try and hit ten shots right,

1124
00:59:22.400 --> 00:59:25.719
<v Speaker 1>then do in between. You will learn so much from

1125
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:29.960
<v Speaker 1>that and just understand the concept that face orientation is

1126
00:59:29.960 --> 00:59:31.920
<v Speaker 1>going to be the biggest determinant of whether the ball

1127
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:36.000
<v Speaker 1>goes right or left. So by just doing those two

1128
00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:41.920
<v Speaker 1>are those three tasks you're you're learning so much with

1129
00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:42.519
<v Speaker 1>that with.

1130
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:46.039
<v Speaker 2>Those Yeah, no, that's really that's really helpful because that

1131
00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:49.079
<v Speaker 2>I'm actually like, I'm going to go do that. So

1132
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:52.920
<v Speaker 2>one one sold and you got a lot more her

1133
00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.400
<v Speaker 2>sold out of the world.

1134
00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Well, Adam, the next step to that would be say

1135
00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:00.800
<v Speaker 1>someone can't do it right. So that's that's why I start.

1136
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:03.760
<v Speaker 1>With most people, I'm like, okay, can you hit shots

1137
01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:05.840
<v Speaker 1>from the toe for me? And we test their ability.

1138
01:00:06.559 --> 01:00:08.679
<v Speaker 1>With a really good player, I might give them a

1139
01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:11.119
<v Speaker 1>task of I want you to hit it five millimeters

1140
01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:12.960
<v Speaker 1>off the toe for me, and I've got a GC

1141
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:15.800
<v Speaker 1>quad running so I can tell their ability. And then

1142
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:18.280
<v Speaker 1>I say, hit some ten milimeters off the toe and

1143
01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:20.760
<v Speaker 1>I can tell their ability. Very high skilled players can

1144
01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:22.920
<v Speaker 1>move it, and they can move it in specific amounts

1145
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:27.920
<v Speaker 1>as well, so you can scale the task if you

1146
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.599
<v Speaker 1>want to. So instead of just going left and right,

1147
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:33.079
<v Speaker 1>I might say to a player hit a small left,

1148
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:36.280
<v Speaker 1>a medium left, a big left. So we're now layering

1149
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:41.559
<v Speaker 1>more parts to this task here. If a player can't

1150
01:00:41.679 --> 01:00:45.000
<v Speaker 1>do a task, like say I'm asking a lifelong slicer,

1151
01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:47.000
<v Speaker 1>can you close the face down and hit it left?

1152
01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:50.119
<v Speaker 1>And they just they try and after twenty shots they can't.

1153
01:00:50.639 --> 01:00:54.360
<v Speaker 1>We may then go into well, let's look at what

1154
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:57.320
<v Speaker 1>there is technically that may be limiting your ability to

1155
01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:58.920
<v Speaker 1>do it, and we would say, okay, you've got a

1156
01:00:58.960 --> 01:01:02.039
<v Speaker 1>really weak grip. Let's put your grip in a stronger

1157
01:01:02.079 --> 01:01:05.320
<v Speaker 1>position and now try the task again. So again that's

1158
01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:08.480
<v Speaker 1>an internal focus. I'm not anti internal Changing your grip

1159
01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:11.760
<v Speaker 1>is a mechanical thing, but that might help them to

1160
01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:17.519
<v Speaker 1>achieve the task. Now, So technique for me, when I'm

1161
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:21.960
<v Speaker 1>changing techniques with players, it's all task related. It's like, right,

1162
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:26.199
<v Speaker 1>what task does this player struggle with? What technical things

1163
01:01:26.199 --> 01:01:28.320
<v Speaker 1>can we add to them to help them with that.

1164
01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:31.000
<v Speaker 1>So say, for example, someone stands quite far away from it,

1165
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:35.039
<v Speaker 1>like Bryson de Shambeau, if they're hitting the sweet spot

1166
01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:37.320
<v Speaker 1>all the time, I'm like, hey, you keep doing that,

1167
01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:39.800
<v Speaker 1>that's fine, I'm okay with that. Bryson does it? MO

1168
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:42.280
<v Speaker 1>normal used to do it. Yeah, there are many color

1169
01:01:42.320 --> 01:01:45.039
<v Speaker 1>players who do it, but that's okay. But if that

1170
01:01:45.079 --> 01:01:49.280
<v Speaker 1>player says I'm hitting everything out of the toe, my

1171
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:51.880
<v Speaker 1>first thing would be, well, let's see if you can

1172
01:01:51.960 --> 01:01:55.119
<v Speaker 1>hit out the heel. And usually in that first round

1173
01:01:55.159 --> 01:01:57.480
<v Speaker 1>they start to naturally stand a little closer to it,

1174
01:01:57.559 --> 01:01:59.360
<v Speaker 1>so I don't have to tell them they move closer.

1175
01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:02.039
<v Speaker 1>They naturally do it. But if they don't, then they

1176
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.719
<v Speaker 1>can't hit the heel. Then I might suggest to them, hey,

1177
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:07.920
<v Speaker 1>what about standing a little closer to it and then

1178
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.679
<v Speaker 1>seeing if you can do this heel task And they're like, oh, yeah,

1179
01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:14.760
<v Speaker 1>that was a lot easier now. So the movement doesn't

1180
01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:18.519
<v Speaker 1>have to become more textbook, but we can use that

1181
01:02:18.599 --> 01:02:21.039
<v Speaker 1>as a tool if a player is struggling with a task.

1182
01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:23.079
<v Speaker 1>If they don't struggle with the task, we don't need

1183
01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:25.679
<v Speaker 1>to change it. I've got players with weak grips who

1184
01:02:25.719 --> 01:02:29.760
<v Speaker 1>hit straight shots. I don't need that grip to move

1185
01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:32.400
<v Speaker 1>to a more neutral position if they're hitting straight shots

1186
01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:34.559
<v Speaker 1>with it. Because there are plenty of top players of

1187
01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:38.199
<v Speaker 1>weak grips. Bryson is one, more Coauer is one, and

1188
01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:40.760
<v Speaker 1>there are plenty of players with strong grips Dustin Johnson

1189
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:43.559
<v Speaker 1>is one, Paul Asingo is won, David Duval was one.

1190
01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:48.199
<v Speaker 1>Web Simpson was strong grip. I need not any motion,

1191
01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:52.719
<v Speaker 1>but there are a wider range of motions and grips

1192
01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:56.159
<v Speaker 1>and setups that can work. Then you would be led

1193
01:02:56.199 --> 01:02:59.159
<v Speaker 1>to believe all you have to do is to be

1194
01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:02.360
<v Speaker 1>able to do the task of impact. And if you

1195
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:06.960
<v Speaker 1>can't do the task of impact, we could use technique

1196
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:09.159
<v Speaker 1>changes to help us with the task of impact, but

1197
01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:10.840
<v Speaker 1>it all comes down to the task of impact.

1198
01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:16.480
<v Speaker 2>One last question for you. So you're talking about more Norman. Yeah,

1199
01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:22.360
<v Speaker 2>and you know, there are obviously all these school schools

1200
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:24.280
<v Speaker 2>of thought as to how to swing a club. And

1201
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:25.920
<v Speaker 2>I see a lot of a lot of people want

1202
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:28.159
<v Speaker 2>to study more Norman, and a lot of people want

1203
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:32.800
<v Speaker 2>to study Ben Hogan. Yea, And I mean and and

1204
01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:35.559
<v Speaker 2>and it seems to me, you know, like the Hogan thing.

1205
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:37.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean, obviously the guy had, like, you know, this

1206
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:41.360
<v Speaker 2>incredible repeatable swing, but he developed it right because he

1207
01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:45.440
<v Speaker 2>was hooking the ball. So we're all trying to adapt

1208
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.800
<v Speaker 2>to a swing that one of the great players of

1209
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:51.480
<v Speaker 2>all time had created because he was hooking right to

1210
01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:56.039
<v Speaker 2>some extent, and with more Norman it's like amazing, but

1211
01:03:56.079 --> 01:03:59.719
<v Speaker 2>it's I've tried it and I cannot very homegrown.

1212
01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:01.480
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, worked for him, not.

1213
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.079
<v Speaker 2>For So what what is the applicability you know of

1214
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:09.199
<v Speaker 2>some of a individual players swing spread out into the world,

1215
01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:12.280
<v Speaker 2>you know, I mean, are there I mean obviously some

1216
01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:15.519
<v Speaker 2>people can learn and really excel with those swings.

1217
01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:17.800
<v Speaker 3>But you know, is that what? What? What? Just what's

1218
01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:18.480
<v Speaker 3>your take on.

1219
01:04:18.559 --> 01:04:22.199
<v Speaker 2>Kind of you know, embracing one kind of school of

1220
01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:24.519
<v Speaker 2>thought that way and going with it, or is it

1221
01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:27.599
<v Speaker 2>more you want to just find your natural way of

1222
01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:28.280
<v Speaker 2>hitting the ball.

1223
01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:33.519
<v Speaker 1>The analogy I would use for this is dieting. Right,

1224
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:36.119
<v Speaker 1>I've done a lot of look at research. Now whether

1225
01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:39.119
<v Speaker 1>you agree with this or not is actually scientifically proven.

1226
01:04:39.159 --> 01:04:43.400
<v Speaker 2>But whether I've failed at both golf and dieting side.

1227
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:47.440
<v Speaker 1>Failing and dieting right now. Yeah, But the if you

1228
01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:52.760
<v Speaker 1>look at every diet study, it all comes down to calories, right.

1229
01:04:52.840 --> 01:04:55.440
<v Speaker 1>So you can look at high cob diets, low cob diets,

1230
01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:57.760
<v Speaker 1>you can look at high fat dietes, low fat diets,

1231
01:04:58.079 --> 01:05:01.800
<v Speaker 1>any mix you want out the letter k out your diet.

1232
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:05.920
<v Speaker 1>They will all work if they reduce calories, even high

1233
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:08.880
<v Speaker 1>sugar diets. There there's a study by sir whether they

1234
01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:12.280
<v Speaker 1>put metabolic war they put one group on high sugar,

1235
01:05:12.360 --> 01:05:15.039
<v Speaker 1>one group on low. They lost the same weight if

1236
01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:22.360
<v Speaker 1>calories were controlled. That is analogous to impact. If you

1237
01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:25.000
<v Speaker 1>get the calories right, you will lose weight. If you

1238
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.719
<v Speaker 1>get impact right, you will lose weight. What you have

1239
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:33.239
<v Speaker 1>to find out is, well, what method is right for

1240
01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:36.920
<v Speaker 1>me to achieve a calorie deficit. So for some people

1241
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:39.320
<v Speaker 1>that might be low carb, they might try low carb

1242
01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:41.440
<v Speaker 1>and they might say, ah, this is easy for me

1243
01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:47.880
<v Speaker 1>to get low calories. That's the equivalent of someone saying, oh,

1244
01:05:48.119 --> 01:05:50.239
<v Speaker 1>I tried the most Norman swing and it got my

1245
01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:54.159
<v Speaker 1>impact better. But other people might try low carb and

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<v Speaker 1>they're like, oh God, if you're awful on this and

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<v Speaker 1>I can't stop, I get cravings and I overeat, which

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<v Speaker 1>is basically them try and more Norman swing and being like,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't get a task of impact. Here's that right?

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<v Speaker 1>What's the one of the true fundamentals of dieting or

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<v Speaker 1>golf golf. It's impact the method. There are a million

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<v Speaker 1>methods that work, there are a million diets that work right,

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<v Speaker 1>but do you have to abide by the principle of

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<v Speaker 1>impact or calorie control. So I don't want to go

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<v Speaker 1>too far off on the announced, No, but I.

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<v Speaker 3>Totally it's absolutely right.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, because if your daily calories are two thousand

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<v Speaker 2>and you stay below that or keep your exercise, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>burn enough calories to get below that, you lose weight

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<v Speaker 2>and you can eat all the protein of the world,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, nothing else than you you know, don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that's not to say that some diets won't. Some

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<v Speaker 1>diets might be better than others, you know, like a

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<v Speaker 1>Mediterranean diet is probably going to be better than the

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<v Speaker 1>twinkie diet, right, but both both will work if you're

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<v Speaker 1>trying to lose weight. I mean, it's been proved. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a professor Harvard who did a twinkie diet. He ate

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen hundred calories a day on of twinkies, and he

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<v Speaker 1>lost thirty pounds and all his blood markers improved. Now

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<v Speaker 1>if he continued that for forty years, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>what the effects would be on the health. And yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>there are certain ways of achieving impact that might not

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<v Speaker 1>be really optimal, but if you achieve impact, you'll get

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<v Speaker 1>the result. Right, So this is where you can get

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<v Speaker 1>You can use a coach to help you. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>like I said, you don't. You don't want to use

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<v Speaker 1>a super weak grip and I hit the ground early

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<v Speaker 1>to close the face. That's not it's in effect, you're

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<v Speaker 1>actually getting one of the impact tasks. Incorrect anyway. So

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, in terms of choosing a model, I think

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<v Speaker 1>you have I think we have it the wrong way around.

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<v Speaker 1>I think we should focus more on what what is

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<v Speaker 1>the task? Am I achieving that? And then we can

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<v Speaker 1>pick and choose from models. So I'm model like not agnostic.

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<v Speaker 1>What I say is is if someone struggles to close

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<v Speaker 1>the face, I can draw upon different models or just

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<v Speaker 1>understanding of how different movements affect the face. Well, I

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<v Speaker 1>know that if I get a hundred golfers and I

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<v Speaker 1>give them a stronger grip position which means hands turn

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<v Speaker 1>more to the right, those hundred golfers on average will

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<v Speaker 1>close the face more. So we can say, okay, there's

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<v Speaker 1>an overarching rule. Stronger grip tends tends to close the

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<v Speaker 1>face for golfers. Similarly, if you get a hundred golfers

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<v Speaker 1>and you add more forearm rotation through impact of course supernation,

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<v Speaker 1>they will close the face more. If you get a

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<v Speaker 1>hundred golfers and you cup the wrist more at the

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<v Speaker 1>top of the swing, go into extension leader's extension, they

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<v Speaker 1>will tend to open the face more so, or vice versa.

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<v Speaker 1>They'll tend to close if they're more flexed or bode

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<v Speaker 1>with the wrist. So that's a kind of complicated one, definitely,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's an option for me. So say I player

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<v Speaker 1>is like, I'm hitting everything right. So okay, well, we

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<v Speaker 1>know the face is too open to the path. What

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<v Speaker 1>are our options here? While we could strengthen the grid position,

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<v Speaker 1>we could add more supernation at the bottom, we could

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<v Speaker 1>add more lead reflection. I could just give a player

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<v Speaker 1>the task of can you close the face of impact?

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<v Speaker 1>And maybe they self organize different wrist angles without me

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<v Speaker 1>telling them to. So there's lots of ways of AI

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<v Speaker 1>achieving this goal, but it's all centered on the task

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<v Speaker 1>of impact. Models and swing pieces are just ways of

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<v Speaker 1>helping us achieve that.

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<v Speaker 2>Adam, thank you for doing this, man, You're great and

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<v Speaker 2>this was really really educational and I'm glad we took

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<v Speaker 2>the time to do it. So can you tell people

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<v Speaker 2>where they can find you?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, adamongolf dot com. I've got tons of articles on there.

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<v Speaker 1>There's some freebies as well, like free ebooks giving you

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<v Speaker 1>visuals of the certain fundamentals that we talked about. See

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<v Speaker 1>if you go onto any blog you know, for about

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<v Speaker 1>a tenth of the way down, it'll say, hey, enter

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<v Speaker 1>your email here for the free ebook, and then you

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<v Speaker 1>can continue reading the blog. But yeah, I've got products

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<v Speaker 1>on there as well. I do have paid products if

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<v Speaker 1>people want, like really structured plans. This thing like the

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<v Speaker 1>strike plan helps you with ground contact and face contact.

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<v Speaker 1>The accuracy plan helps you with directional issues. So everybody

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<v Speaker 1>has both to get both if you want, or if

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<v Speaker 1>there's just one one issue, just get the one that's

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<v Speaker 1>most pertinent to you.

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<v Speaker 2>I'd love to meet the guy with one issue that's

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<v Speaker 2>not me well, and and he has you have great

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<v Speaker 2>video content, so everybody should totally check it out. Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for being on Golf Smarter, Adam,