1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: For members only. Golf Smarter number three hundred and seventy nine, 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,759 published on April nine, twenty thirteen. 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 2: Welcome to golf Smarter Mulligans, your second chance to gain 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,640 insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:22,640 Golf Smarter podcast. Great Golf Instruction Never gets old. Our 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,559 interview library features hundreds of hours of game improvement conversations 7 00:00:27,679 --> 00:00:31,199 like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. 8 00:00:31,399 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 3: And finally, singer said to VJ, Well, VJ, what are 9 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,280 you working on? He goes, Paul, I've been working on 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,719 the same three things for the last ten years. I'm 11 00:00:37,759 --> 00:00:40,280 just now starting to get good at each of them. Wow, 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,520 that's overkill practice every day. This happens to me every 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,000 day and my job. And I say, okay, Tim, I 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,960 want you to do this drill and only this drill, 15 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:50,240 nothing else for the next six weeks. Every time you 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:51,799 go to the range, do some work on at home, 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,759 you know, slow motion work in the mirror, do some 18 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,159 practice flings you back there with your eyes clos only 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,359 work on this and nothing else. And here's the response 20 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:01,439 I typically did. Oh, lot's great. I really appreciate that. 21 00:01:01,479 --> 00:01:04,799 Now I also work on my grip pressure. I so no, No, 22 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,159 I just said, Tom, only work on this, don't work 23 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:09,239 on anything else. Oh, I got it. I understand, yees, 24 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:11,159 but sometimes I get bored to and equipment work on. 25 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,599 The answer is no, you can't. 26 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: Well what do you do? I mean, like, okay, I 27 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:17,400 would say I can't. I can't do that. I get 28 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,719 bored and I then I lose focus and. 29 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 3: I stop practicing. But don't practice anything else because the 30 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,159 reason why is your fatal flaw is so toxic. You're 31 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:28,920 wasting your time working on anything else. Anything else you 32 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,560 work on is just githering. 33 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:39,359 Speaker 1: Practice strategies to improve all parts of your game. With 34 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,599 Jim Walder, this is Golf Smarter. Welcome back to Golf 35 00:01:43,599 --> 00:01:44,719 Smarter for members only. 36 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 3: Jim, Thank you, Fred, it's great to be here again. 37 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: Yes, thank you very much. It's been just seconds since 38 00:01:51,439 --> 00:01:56,079 we've finished our first conversation. But we're talking about the 39 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,120 power of six, the practice strategies that you can create 40 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:03,000 for yourself while you're out on the driving range or 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 even practicing during a practice round. First one, let's go 42 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:10,039 over to the first four quickly, and then we'll get 43 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:11,199 into number five and six. 44 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 3: Number one was your your driver or whatever you hit 45 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,240 off the tea as a par four part five hitting hitting, 46 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:21,919 hitting that te ball longer and more accurately in on 47 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,639 your score. 48 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: Because I loved what you said the the prediction of 49 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:29,319 low score. The number one predictor of low score is 50 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,680 green ferry, gans and regulation and combined with fairways. Hit 51 00:02:36,479 --> 00:02:37,159 very is. 52 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,319 Speaker 3: A big part of it, yep, especially for average players 53 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:41,199 because you know, most people, if they get in the rough, 54 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:42,800 they're not going to hit the green. They don't have 55 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,960 a club at speed. Right, first cutter off maybe if 56 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:46,840 it's a decent line. 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,639 Speaker 1: Number two was putts between. 58 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,599 Speaker 3: Two super super short putts mm hm. 59 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: Those are the ones from two to six feet that 60 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:56,719 you should be spending hours in practicing. 61 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's one other part about what I meant 62 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,560 to mention, I forgot. I put it under the putting category. 63 00:03:02,759 --> 00:03:05,400 The other part of putting that can save you strokes 64 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:09,199 are long putts of around somewhe depends on what your 65 00:03:09,199 --> 00:03:11,599 green speed is, but something in the neighborhood of around 66 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:15,280 thirty five to forty five feet or longer. You know, 67 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:18,400 if you play very fast greens, it might even be 68 00:03:18,439 --> 00:03:22,039 sixty feet or longer. But those long pots. Outside that 69 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:24,840 range is where people off in three pot right exactly, 70 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,759 So you want to spend some of your time also 71 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,240 practicing your very long putts for distance control. Right. 72 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 1: Number three was the danger zone. 73 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:37,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred and seventy five to two and fifteen yards, Yeah, 74 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,840 for sure, that's that's an area where people can really 75 00:03:40,159 --> 00:03:43,639 really potentially lose some strokes if they're not practicing. 76 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: And make sure you use your alignment sticks when you are. 77 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: Practicing the distance exactly. 78 00:03:48,919 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: Number four the mental game, or what you call it, 79 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:52,639 art of shot. 80 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: Making, art of shot making, So you're having discovering what 81 00:03:55,759 --> 00:03:58,960 your own best focal points are, where your mind should 82 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,840 be focused when you play golf, so you're increasing the 83 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:06,479 probability of not flinching and therefore hitting a better shot. 84 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,120 That also includes pre shot routine, having a consistent, repetitive 85 00:04:10,159 --> 00:04:13,000 routine they do the same way every time. And that 86 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:16,560 gets to five, and let's move forward. Five is five. 87 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:18,759 But most people would answer when you say what's the 88 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:22,240 most important thing to shooting a low score short game, 89 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,079 it's actually number five on the list. Still important, but 90 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,319 it is number five again, I'm talking people can break 91 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,639 about one hundred and five or better. Right, because obviously 92 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,920 there are individual exceptions to all of these rules. 93 00:04:33,079 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting when you said danger zone, when 94 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:41,519 you talked about my first reaction was thirty to fifty. 95 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 3: Yards, that's one of them. 96 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: Because to me, that's why I will not try to 97 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:50,879 hit the ball as far as I can on my 98 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,759 second shot on a par five, because I don't want 99 00:04:52,759 --> 00:04:53,759 to get stuck in that area. 100 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well we have a ball. Who been member. 101 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:58,959 There are literally there's probably a couple of hundred different 102 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,439 varieties of short game shots, but there's four that have 103 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,759 a vastly greater influence on your score outcome than all 104 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,720 the other two hundred. Right now, we'll start with we'll 105 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,959 start in no particular order, and we'll start with what 106 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,399 you mentioned. Less than full distance. We call them partial 107 00:05:13,399 --> 00:05:17,800 webshots from from thirty to seventy yards. Those in between ers, 108 00:05:17,879 --> 00:05:20,879 especially from about forty to sixty yards, they'll drive people 109 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,800 crazy because you just don't know how to do them right. 110 00:05:22,879 --> 00:05:26,399 Speaker 1: So that's when you also you get tents, you squeeze, 111 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:29,680 you tense up, you move faster, and it's. 112 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,759 Speaker 3: Screens you don't know how to do them, yeah, or 113 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:33,279 if you do know, if you took a lesson, you 114 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,319 didn't practice it enough to form some level of skills, 115 00:05:36,399 --> 00:05:39,480 So you need to practice your partial wedges in the 116 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,560 thirty to seventy seventy yard range. The second category of 117 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,680 short game would be green side bunker shots. Average golfers 118 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,920 are just terrible at greenside bunker shots, so that needs 119 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,600 some work. The third is your basic old stand by, 120 00:05:53,639 --> 00:05:56,120 the old chip and run shots, a low trajectory shot 121 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,720 that roll the lands on the putting surface usually and 122 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:01,000 then rolls like a pot to the hole. That's a 123 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,480 very important shot. You'll probably have, you know, at least 124 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,600 five of those around if you're if you're a mid 125 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:10,160 handicap or higher golfer, if not more. And then the 126 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:12,759 fourth is a lob wedge pitch, a high a super 127 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,079 high trajectory or so called flop shot with the with 128 00:06:15,079 --> 00:06:18,319 the six two degree wedge. You know, when you know whatever, 129 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:22,319 whenever you short side yourself, uh, you know, you're very 130 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,480 little green to work with between you and the between 131 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:27,639 you and the pin, or maybe you're going over a 132 00:06:27,639 --> 00:06:30,120 bunker with the pin tucked close to the bunker, or 133 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,040 over a tree or a bush. That shot you'll probably 134 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,920 have at least I would say the average golfer probably 135 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,920 has that shot a couple of times around. It's not more. 136 00:06:39,079 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: Oh, I think that if you just concentrated on this one, 137 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,720 number five and the four elements of the short game, 138 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:48,360 you will have a significant impact on your score and 139 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:49,959 be a much happier golfer. 140 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 3: There's no question, right. So those are the four big 141 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,319 ones in the short game. The other ones not that 142 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,439 they're not Again, there are many other types of shots. 143 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,759 They just don't they just they don't have nearly as 144 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,120 big an impact on your score. And then number six 145 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,519 are basically your approach shots. So that means your second 146 00:07:04,519 --> 00:07:07,639 shot on a on a part four, uh, second and 147 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,680 third shot on a on a long part five. And 148 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,199 it's the idea here is you want to practice enough 149 00:07:14,519 --> 00:07:16,879 with all of your clubs so you feel confident with 150 00:07:16,879 --> 00:07:19,439 with with any club in your bag in your hands. 151 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,720 So I recommend people use six, seven, and eight irons 152 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,920 in one practice session and then practice with your nine 153 00:07:25,959 --> 00:07:28,519 iron through your lob wedge, so nine iron pitching wedge, 154 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,240 gap wedge, sand wedge, lob wedge and your other session 155 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,480 so you're so so you're basically covering all your bases 156 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,120 with your with those clubs, and those are the ones 157 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,160 that are going to help you hit the green and 158 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,040 regulation right now. Now you can probably see something different 159 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:47,079 how I'm presenting this information. I'm not talking about anything. 160 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,160 As you noticed, i haven't mentioned any mechanical advice whatsoever. 161 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:54,079 I'm assuming that you've already taken instruction on how to 162 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,519 do all this stuff right. And if you haven't, go 163 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,759 take some instructions. You know what you're doing right. 164 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: Call the balance Point Golf Schools at balanceolf dot com. 165 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 3: Lots of good teachers in America today and throughout the world. 166 00:08:06,839 --> 00:08:08,759 Age has got some really up and coming good teachers 167 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:11,439 right now as well in Europe as well. But take 168 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:13,519 take find out, find a good teacher in your area, 169 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,079 take to take instruction and then practice it. And uh, 170 00:08:17,399 --> 00:08:19,720 the rest of the next few minutes, I'd like to 171 00:08:19,759 --> 00:08:22,519 kind of go over how you can apportion your time 172 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,000 so that you have a more effective outcome. 173 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: I am so fired up to hear this. The soapbox 174 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,080 is yours, my friend. Now that we know what the 175 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:33,559 shots are, what do we do about it? 176 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 3: Well, let me let me start from the beginning. So 177 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:38,120 the way the power of six works is, it's it's 178 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,120 geared more toward UH. I'd say two types of golfers. 179 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,279 It's geared toward. This type of practice is geared toward 180 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,919 people who are low handicapped players or even professionals UH 181 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,799 and intermediate handicapped players. People who are about a fifteen 182 00:08:53,799 --> 00:08:59,519 handicap are lower who have already taken instruction on all 183 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,320 of these areas. They've taken They've taken full swing instruction, 184 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,320 they've taken some instruction and how to hit the driver, 185 00:09:05,879 --> 00:09:09,080 you know, longer and straight. They've taken some putting instruction. 186 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:11,200 So then so there say no what to do? But 187 00:09:11,279 --> 00:09:13,480 now the question is how do I form a habit? 188 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:15,240 How do I get better? How do I form a skill? 189 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:18,840 I How do I apportion my time during the week. 190 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,480 So here's how you do it. You basically got three 191 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,279 options if you're going to use power power stating. Oh, 192 00:09:25,279 --> 00:09:27,440 by the way, high handicappers also who've taken at least 193 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,240 some instruction and have some semblance of skill. I'm talking 194 00:09:32,279 --> 00:09:34,720 about people who are in the maybe sixteen maybe twenty 195 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,679 five handicap range. Right, if you're much higher than twenty five, 196 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,039 you need to spend more time practicing what your instructor 197 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,159 taught you to form dominant habits right, which we'll get 198 00:09:44,159 --> 00:09:46,440 to in a minute. That we call it overkill practice. 199 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,039 But if you're at a reasonable level I use the 200 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,519 acronym RPM reasonably proficient mechanics. If you're sort of there 201 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,240 or close to their, right, it's not that you're making 202 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,440 a major swing change. In other words, you've already made 203 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:00,759 the major swing change, or you're close to being done 204 00:10:00,799 --> 00:10:03,200 with the major sling change, but you still have to 205 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,639 put the time in to keep your skills sharp. That's 206 00:10:05,639 --> 00:10:09,720 what power of six is for those people. Right, Let's 207 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,360 say you have you can do two practice sessions a 208 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:17,960 week at the range, and each practice session lasts two hours. 209 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:23,279 You've got six six areas here, six key categories of skill. 210 00:10:22,879 --> 00:10:25,240 You do three, you pick three of those to say, 211 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,320 you pick the first three. So you spend forty minutes 212 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,840 on your driver practice. Stop, go to the putting green. 213 00:10:31,639 --> 00:10:34,159 You spend forty minutes practicing or you spend thirty minutes 214 00:10:34,159 --> 00:10:36,799 practicing your super short putts and ten minutes practicing your 215 00:10:36,799 --> 00:10:39,720 long putts. Right, you go back to the range. You 216 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:41,799 spend forty minutes practicing your one hundred and seventy five 217 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,559 to two hundred and fifty fifteen yard range clubs and 218 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,440 you're done. That's two hours. Three days later, you go 219 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,120 back to the range, you practice forty minutes on the 220 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:54,120 mental game, and you appreciate retine your mental focus. You 221 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:57,799 practice forty minutes on one or two of those four 222 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,320 short game skills we talked about, the flop shot, the 223 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,639 chip shot, the partial wedges in the bunker shots. So 224 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:09,320 let's say you practice flop shots and for twenty minutes 225 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,480 and chip shots for twenty minutes, and you leave the 226 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,519 wedges in the bunker shots for the next time. You 227 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,759 come right next to the next practice session and you 228 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:19,039 practice for forty minutes on your six, seven, and eight 229 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,600 iron approach shots. When you come back next week, you'll 230 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,799 practice your your nine iron through your lob wedge. So 231 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,919 it's every week with two two hour sessions you're gonna practice. 232 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,039 You'll be finished practicing all six key areas, and over time, 233 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:38,080 probably right away you'll see some significant score improvement, but 234 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,679 certainly within I'd say by the end of the second month, 235 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,159 you'll be you're gonna be significantly better at all six categories. 236 00:11:46,919 --> 00:11:47,159 Speaker 1: Yeah. 237 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. The other way you could do is if you 238 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,240 don't have two two hour sessions. You could just do 239 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,120 one four hour session if you can sustain yourself in 240 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,279 terms of mental focus and physical energy. Some people can't. 241 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,399 But if you have a four hour chunk, you could 242 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,840 just do it. Do one practice session a week and 243 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 do and do forty minutes on each of the six segments. 244 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,399 Speaker 1: And what if you only get an hour, that's it. 245 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 3: That's the last one. So give an hour, you do two, 246 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:18,000 you do two thirty minute segments. You would do, say 247 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,440 driver for thirty minutes, and then you would do short 248 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,240 puts for thirty minutes. The next time you go the 249 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:24,679 next week, then you would go you would go to 250 00:12:24,759 --> 00:12:29,200 number three and number four. So it's so it's a 251 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,840 great way to keep your your edge, so to speak, 252 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:38,120 in all six key scoring areas. Right, yep. But it's 253 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:39,679 not the only way to practice. There are a couple 254 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,440 other ways to practice, which I'll just kind of review 255 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:47,879 real quickly, which also have an influence. And this this 256 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,879 is especially geared. This first category is geared especially toward 257 00:12:51,279 --> 00:12:55,559 higher handicaps, and that's what we call fatal flaw practice. 258 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,679 You go to your teacher and you say, you say, teach, 259 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,840 tell me what the number one thing I'm doing in 260 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:05,559 my golf swing right, that's causing me the most. It's 261 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:08,080 costing me the most strokes. And he might say, well, 262 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,000 you're moving your head too much. You're moving your swinging 263 00:13:10,039 --> 00:13:12,720 off the ball in the backswing, or you're releasing your 264 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,759 wristcock agle earlier, or you're standing up out of your 265 00:13:14,799 --> 00:13:17,039 spinning it. Whatever it is, whatever the most fatal, most 266 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,960 damaging thing is. He isolates it. You see it in video. 267 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,799 He gives you a corrective drill, and then you do 268 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,759 what we call overkill practice, and you go to the 269 00:13:25,879 --> 00:13:28,840 range and you do as you hit as many balls 270 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,840 as you can. And I'm not I'm talking maybe you 271 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,759 know two three, four large baskets of balls, and that 272 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:36,360 an average large basket will have about sixty five balls, 273 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,919 and its sixty five to seventy balls, and you do, 274 00:13:39,159 --> 00:13:41,639 you do shot after shot after your shot with your 275 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,200 mind focused just on doing that one corrective drill he 276 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,240 gave you. And you might do that for a month, 277 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:49,879 six weeks, two months, until you fix the flaw, until 278 00:13:49,879 --> 00:13:52,679 it's gone. That's very effective practice. 279 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: Or are you really that flaw Well, you. 280 00:13:56,519 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 3: Only grain the flaw if you don't do anything to 281 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,879 fix it. That's the thing. Every time you practice what 282 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,639 out addressing the flaw, it's just gonna manifest more and more. Right, 283 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,519 every time we play the flaw the flaws. The flaws 284 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:08,879 tend to repeat themselves for a lot of different reasons, 285 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,279 and you need to address it. So that's that's a 286 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,519 fast way to bring your score down. To figure out 287 00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:17,240 that the worst thing. Make sure you tell your instructor. 288 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,000 I don't care about the other you know, half a 289 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:21,600 dozen sort of secondary flaws I'm doing. I don't have 290 00:14:21,639 --> 00:14:23,159 time to fix those. I've got to work. I'm working 291 00:14:23,159 --> 00:14:25,919 sixty hours a week and I got two little kids 292 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:28,720 and a wife. Give me something that's gonna if I 293 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:31,279 really work on that one thing and only that one thing. 294 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:33,919 And by the way, for all the average golfers out there, 295 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,519 I know how you guys think. I know how ninety 296 00:14:36,559 --> 00:14:39,360 nine percent of you guys are tinkerers. You're gonna you're 297 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,759 gonna do that overkill practice for one bucket and you're 298 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:44,000 gonna go. You know, maybe I'm pretty good with this drill. 299 00:14:44,879 --> 00:14:49,840 Maybe I'll try something else. Talks about illogical thinking, right, 300 00:14:50,799 --> 00:14:52,840 I mean I used to do before my back back 301 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:54,639 before I blew my back out ten years ago. I 302 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:57,200 would do eight hours a day of overkill practice with 303 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,879 only one thought in my mind. Eight hours ball after 304 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:04,120 ball after ball after ball after ball. Wow, Tiger does it? 305 00:15:04,639 --> 00:15:10,840 Ben Hogan? Did it? You know? VJ. Singh once once 306 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,720 told Paul Aisinger when they would play practice rounds together. 307 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,679 He'd say, Paul, what are you working on your swing? 308 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:19,000 And every time he asked them the question, Zinger would 309 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,600 give him a different answer, And finally Zinger said to VJ, Well, VJ, 310 00:15:23,679 --> 00:15:25,360 what are you working on? He goes, Paul, I've been 311 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,879 working on the same three things for the last ten years. 312 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:31,639 I'm just now starting to get good at each of them. 313 00:15:31,679 --> 00:15:35,679 Just three things over ten years. That's overkill practice. Yeah, 314 00:15:35,799 --> 00:15:37,320 that's what it takes. And you know the reason I'm 315 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,279 bringing this up again. Most offers don't get this. They 316 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,039 really you would not believe how people I've worked with, I, 317 00:15:43,679 --> 00:15:46,639 you know, average students every day. This happens to me 318 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:49,240 every day and my job. And I say, Okay, here's 319 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:51,240 what I want you to do here time. I want 320 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,720 you to do this drill and only this drill, nothing else. 321 00:15:53,799 --> 00:15:55,519 For the next six weeks. Every time you go to 322 00:15:55,519 --> 00:15:57,120 the range, do some work on at home, you know, 323 00:15:57,159 --> 00:15:59,919 slow motion, work in the mirror, do some practice swings 324 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,480 back there with your eyes closed. Only work on this 325 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:04,960 and nothing else. And here's the response I typically did, Oh, 326 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,879 well that's a great, great idea, Jim, I really appreciate that. Now. Now, 327 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:11,039 can I also work on my grip pressure? I go No, No, 328 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,360 I just said, Tom, only work on this, don't work 329 00:16:13,399 --> 00:16:15,600 on anything else. Oh, I got it. I understand. Yeah. So, 330 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,000 but you know, but sometimes I get bored you and 331 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,240 it couldn't I work on The answer is no, you can't. 332 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: Well what do you do? I mean, like, okay, I 333 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,000 would say I can't. I can't do that. I get 334 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,480 bored and I then I lose focus and stop practicing. 335 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 3: But don't practice anything else because the reason why is 336 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:35,320 your fatal flaw is so toxic. You're wasting your time 337 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,919 working on anything else. Anything else you work on is 338 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,759 just dithering. It's just dithering. It's not going to produce any. 339 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:43,559 Speaker 1: Possible Well, we don't want to dither now. 340 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 3: But that's the whole idea overkill is to is to 341 00:16:48,679 --> 00:16:50,799 form a new movement pattern. You know, there's a there's 342 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:55,440 it's called neurophysiology. A neuromuscular pathway. You're disrupting the old 343 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:57,559 pathway and you're creating a new one at the same time, 344 00:16:57,639 --> 00:17:00,480 and that takes a lot of repetitions. It's top said 345 00:17:00,519 --> 00:17:03,360 a lot of reps, he says. He says that phrase 346 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:04,559 a lot, a lot of reps. 347 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what's upsetting me 348 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,880 about this lesson you're giving us. Yeah, it's making a 349 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,640 lot of sense. And I'm like. 350 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:15,799 Speaker 3: I appreciate the compliment. 351 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:18,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but it's like, I don't really focus 352 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:22,160 on one thing and our No. 353 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,279 Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to go out and just 354 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:25,640 bang balls for fun, I'm not saying don't do that. 355 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:27,960 I'm just saying, don't expect to get better from doing it. 356 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,079 I just think, well, I'm going to go hit balls 357 00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:32,200 as hard as I can with my drivers, see how 358 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,599 far I can hit it, just for fun. But don't 359 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,519 call it practice. That's that's a form of play. That's 360 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:40,960 a form with tinkering. It's not practice. Practice has to 361 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,279 have some logic behind, some some purpose. Right. 362 00:17:43,559 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: Oh, you must love those who tinker during their round crazy, Oh, 363 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,319 I bet, because it happens all the time. Oh, I 364 00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:51,880 know what I did wrong on that one. Oh, I 365 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,920 know what I did wrong on that one. Really, you 366 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,160 do the same bad thing every single time, and you 367 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,079 now know I mean based. 368 00:17:57,839 --> 00:18:01,839 Speaker 3: On what Yeah, all right, here's another category of practice. 369 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,160 When you do work with a teacher on a major 370 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,559 swing change, you got to realize major swing changes take time. 371 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:11,559 They don't happen overnight. You got to think not weeks, months. 372 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,720 And if you're doing more than one major swing change, 373 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:16,640 which some people will do, you're talking in a year 374 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:22,559 or two or three years to finish, right. So, but 375 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,599 the good news about that is if you really want 376 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,880 to make that process, which is inherently slow, if you 377 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,960 want to make it faster and the most effective with 378 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,599 very few exceptions, again only for advanced players, and only 379 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:36,400 certain for certain parts of the swing. Most of the 380 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,480 mechanical changes on the balance point system that I developed 381 00:18:39,519 --> 00:18:42,279 over twenty five years ago is done it without a 382 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:44,720 ball at home, in super slow motion in front of 383 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,400 a mirror. That's the most effective way to make major 384 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,799 swing changes. So you don't do it in the range. 385 00:18:49,799 --> 00:18:51,039 You do it at home in front of a mirror. 386 00:18:51,319 --> 00:18:53,519 Speaker 1: With Lynn Mary I called the tai Chi swing. 387 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:59,039 Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. Yeah, it's very very effective. Another way to practice, 388 00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:00,680 which is one of my favorites to do. I do 389 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:02,480 it a lot, particularly if I haven't been playing for 390 00:19:02,519 --> 00:19:05,039 a while, like I take, I usually take the fall 391 00:19:05,079 --> 00:19:07,000 off and don't don't start playing till I get back 392 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:10,920 to Hawaiian in January. I call it creative tinkering and 393 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:13,880 exaggeration drills. And so this is one way Tiger was 394 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:17,119 talking about a few years ago and a clinic he did. 395 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:18,960 He did a lot when he was a kid, where 396 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,599 you just go out and you take the swing you have. 397 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,319 You don't try to change your swing in anyway, so 398 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:24,839 you're not thinking mechanics. You're thinking nothing but a ball 399 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,440 flight and let your body motion react to your intended 400 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,160 ball flight. So you take your six iron out. You 401 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,359 see how low can I hit the six iron out there? 402 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,519 You try hit a super low trajectory six iron. Hit 403 00:19:35,559 --> 00:19:37,240 a few of those, and then try the opposites. How 404 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:40,160 high can I hit the six iron? Right? Then you 405 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:41,839 bury the curve. Let me hit, Let me hit a 406 00:19:41,839 --> 00:19:44,000 couple of really, let me hit hit like a forty 407 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:47,119 yard slice with the six iron. Hit a few of those. Okay, 408 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,559 what if I could What if I could hit a 409 00:19:48,559 --> 00:19:51,400 forty yard hook with the six iron, So you're always 410 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,160 going from one extreme to the other. So you do 411 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,519 that with curvature, you do with trajectory, you do with path, 412 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,400 you know, clubhead path. You try to swing exaggeratingly into 413 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,359 out right. Normally that'll produce a big well, it depends 414 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:06,559 how your face angle responds. But but for most people 415 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,200 through decent players will produce a hook. 416 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,039 Speaker 1: Yeah. This is this is assuming that you know, the 417 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,279 the the better players who can manipulate their swing like that. 418 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:18,920 Because you know, I'm going through some swing changes right now, 419 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:24,079 and you just depressed me about about reminding me that 420 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,279 it takes months to uh to make it, you know work, 421 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,759 or even years. But the first thing that comes to 422 00:20:31,799 --> 00:20:36,440 my mind is a perfect example of that would be Tiger, right. 423 00:20:36,599 --> 00:20:38,839 I mean, how long I've been working on major swing 424 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,359 changes and he's back, He's now number one again. 425 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 3: It's been about I think it's spent two and a 426 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,839 half years with folding now. Yeah. 427 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, And and path is a. 428 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 3: Path is a big deal. I mean I had a 429 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,480 student not that long ago, actually hear Hawaii who just 430 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:56,799 could not swing into out I mean he so we 431 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:58,720 had to stop doing this drill because he just didn't 432 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,640 have enough awareness in his body to produce the desired 433 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,079 knows His body wasn't responding to the image in his 434 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,160 head of swinging the club out to right field across 435 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,079 the target line from into out. You couldn't do it. 436 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:10,880 I had to give them mechanical way to do it. 437 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,160 But for people who maybe are a little bit better 438 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,920 athletic ability, you know, what you do is you swing 439 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,359 into out. When you're doing it well, the ball starting 440 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,400 out to the right of your targets and pretty much 441 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,319 staying out to the right, then you go, okay, I'm 442 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:23,799 going to swing out the inn and most people swing 443 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:26,319 out the naturally anyhow, that's pretty much you're sort of 444 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:28,400 hard wired to swing out to end. But what you 445 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,039 do then is you go back and forth. You go 446 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:32,559 out to end. If your club face is square to 447 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,319 the path, you'll hit a pull right, then you go 448 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,279 into out. If left face is square to your path, 449 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:39,000 you'll hit a push. So you're deliberately hitting a big 450 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,200 push followed by a big pole. Back and forth, and 451 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:44,920 so then you find the middle. And you always end 452 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:47,039 the exaggeration training by finding the middle. So if you're 453 00:21:47,079 --> 00:21:48,880 hitting a low shot followed by a high shot. Then 454 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,839 you get a medium trajectory shot right, and you do 455 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,000 it with temple. You do it. You do a five speed, 456 00:21:54,559 --> 00:21:56,440 then you do a twelve speed. Twelve speed would be 457 00:21:56,559 --> 00:21:59,000 you know, twenty percent faster than your normal temple. Normal 458 00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:01,599 temple would be number ten. So you start at a 459 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,039 five which is very slow, right, like basically half speed. 460 00:22:05,559 --> 00:22:08,119 Then you do a twelve, then you do a seven 461 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,839 and a half speed, then you do a ten speed. 462 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,839 So you're constantly varying the speed of your of your 463 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,519 of your tempo. Right. That's a great way to help 464 00:22:14,559 --> 00:22:18,160 your golf swing. The length of your backswing deliberately do 465 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,680 a half backswing length and a three quarterback swing length 466 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,000 and a full backswing length. You can you can do 467 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,839 how you let your wrists release. There's two main ways 468 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,960 you can use the muscles in your wrists and forearms 469 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,039 to throw the riskcock angle open, which is called an 470 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:36,000 active release. Where you can do the opposite, where you 471 00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:38,359 do nothing with your wrists and forearm muscles and just 472 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,160 turn your body and let the turning of your body 473 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,599 create centrifical force which pulls open your riskcock angle. Right. 474 00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:46,920 You can play around with that. You can play around 475 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,519 with angled attack the angle the club head approaches the 476 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:52,359 ground on a very steep angle versus a very shallow angle, 477 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,640 and sweep the ball off the grass, no divot versus 478 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,519 a deep divot in front of the ball. Right, two different, 479 00:22:57,559 --> 00:23:00,920 two different ways of doing it. And that what happens 480 00:23:01,079 --> 00:23:02,880 when if you did like a two hour session with 481 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,000 this kind of exaggerated sort of creative tinkering where you're 482 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,240 playing around us with this nothing real, super technical, just 483 00:23:09,279 --> 00:23:11,920 sort of just feeling the sensations in your body when 484 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,839 your body responds to how you're trying to make the 485 00:23:13,839 --> 00:23:17,759 ball behave differently, most people hit it really really well 486 00:23:17,839 --> 00:23:20,000 and they realize, hey, I can make it go low, 487 00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:21,519 I can make it go high. I can hit a 488 00:23:21,519 --> 00:23:23,480 push when I want to, I can hit a poll 489 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:24,839 when I want to, I can slice it when I 490 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,200 want to. I can look at when I want to. 491 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:29,240 And after two hours, guess what you walk off the range. 492 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,480 You're super confident in your ball striking ability. It's a 493 00:23:31,519 --> 00:23:35,920 great way to your confidence and awareness. Your body awareness 494 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,880 is now much more. It's more wider, it's bigger, it's 495 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,000 more panoramic. You can feel what your body and club 496 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:44,160 are doing. Whereas you know when you're playing badly, you 497 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,240 don't feel anything. It's like you just all you know, 498 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:48,079 you're hitting the ball crappy. You don't know why, right, 499 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,799 So this is a great way to build up your confidence. 500 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,359 Another practice category I call BRTT that that stands for balance, RHARITHM, 501 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,480 tempo and timing. So you just you go to the 502 00:23:59,559 --> 00:24:02,599 range for couple hours and you maybe do thirty minutes 503 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,839 on balanced drills, thirty minutes on rhythm drills, thirty minutes 504 00:24:05,839 --> 00:24:08,680 on temple drills, and then thirty minutes on timing, which 505 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,079 is the sequencing of your body parts on the forward swing. 506 00:24:12,039 --> 00:24:14,680 And the big one there is timing. There's several, but 507 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,640 the really big one for average golfers is timing your 508 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,880 riskcock release point with your pivot right. If your riskcock 509 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,400 release is typically for most average golfers, it's going to 510 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,880 be too early relatively they're pivot, they'll have a number 511 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,160 of bad shot, particularly fat shots with their irons. So 512 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,160 getting the timing of the riskcock release downs a big 513 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,519 one for average golfers. 514 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: So hard to do. I mean, i'd swear I'm struggling 515 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:48,799 big time, not just the end out, but the riskcock 516 00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:50,839 thing is really baffling me, and so what I end 517 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,960 up doing is casting and I lose all that power 518 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,559 by releasing way too early. 519 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 3: Well, you got to get in one of Martin Chuck's 520 00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,640 tour strikers. There's a plug for I have one. 521 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,599 Speaker 1: I have one and just like, yeah, you're you're coming, 522 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,720 but my hands are too far in front, and it's 523 00:25:05,759 --> 00:25:07,759 like buy, well. 524 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can be too far in front. That's fairly rare. 525 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,200 It tends to be a better player's flaw. But I 526 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,759 actually I'm at a European tour player on the on 527 00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:18,799 the range here at Turtle Bay a few days ago. 528 00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:22,920 We've been hanging out the last few days. Marcus and 529 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,759 I showed him that we were at the Turtle Day 530 00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:27,559 Palmer Course the private range yesterday for three hours practicing 531 00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:29,799 together and I showed him the torstriker. He loved it. 532 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,480 He thought it was the best training and you'd ever used. 533 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,519 It was raven about it. Oh yeah, oh, but here's 534 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:37,200 here's a tip for you. 535 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: There are available at golf smarter dot com. By the way, 536 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,920 if you don't oh yeah, yeah, well you sell them. Yeah, 537 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,680 Martin's awesome. 538 00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 3: The quickest way to fix there's other ways, for sure, 539 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,720 including including other training aims besides torstriker. But the quickest 540 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,759 way to fix an early release where you're throwing or 541 00:25:54,799 --> 00:25:57,480 casting or throwing the riscock angle away is to work 542 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,400 on your grip pressure, because I guarantee you that right 543 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,160 before you throw, right before you fire the muscles in 544 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,720 your wrists and forearms to throw the risktock angle away, 545 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,839 you're going to tighten your grip pressure. Your finger pressure 546 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,799 is going to tighten, and then you throw. So if 547 00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:13,880 you can learn to keep your grip pressure light and 548 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,359 constant during the beginning of the downside, it's so called 549 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:23,119 transition segment. It's physically impossible to throw it away is 550 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,839 to tighten first. So as long as you don't tighten 551 00:26:24,839 --> 00:26:26,559 your fingers, you're not gonna throw it away. 552 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,039 Speaker 1: Right Yep, Yeah, I like that. 553 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,839 Speaker 3: That's a little bit about practice. I think if people 554 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,000 apply what they're hearing here, they're gonna they're gonna. It's 555 00:26:36,079 --> 00:26:38,799 very logical, it makes sense, and it works. It's worked 556 00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:40,799 for the students I've used it with the last about 557 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:41,680 eighteen months. 558 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: And and is it a mistake to mix and match 559 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,559 or I mean, because you had the way you were 560 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:51,200 doing it. You to work on number one, two and three, 561 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,440 then work on three on four or five and six. 562 00:26:53,519 --> 00:26:56,279 Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, the power of six things for people who 563 00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,359 are already take in quality instruction, they've got at least 564 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,960 a moderate degree of improvement by doing more of the 565 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,799 overkill or the slow motion mir work practice. Those other 566 00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:08,400 forms are practically talked about, so they sort of they 567 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,039 sort of got a handle on it, but they still 568 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,920 they still have to They still know that there's these 569 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,599 six categories that have more influence than all the other 570 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,119 shots do, and they want to practice those on a 571 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,400 regular basis so they continue to see the scores come down. 572 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,720 That's what the power of six is for. If you're 573 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:25,079 if you're a mid to high handicapped golfer that you 574 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,839 know has particularly golf swing issues, you need to take 575 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,599 construction how to learn the fundamentals, and that's a lot 576 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,319 most of that stuff is done at home in the mirror, right, 577 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,559 whether it's your grip position or your setup, or your 578 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,880 let's so your takeaway segment or your second half of 579 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,880 backswing segment. Do all that away from a golf ball 580 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,279 in slow motion right. If you know you have balance, rhythm, 581 00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:47,960 and tempo, or timing issues. If those if your mechanics 582 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,960 are pretty good right, but your balance is way off, 583 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:53,079 or your rhythm is terrible, or your tempo is too 584 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,480 fast or too slow for your own good, or your 585 00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:58,599 forwards sequencing the timing of your release is too late 586 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,279 or too early, then then then do that type of 587 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:04,559 practice right. But the point is is to get an 588 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:06,559 overall sense of where your game is at. Where, what 589 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,079 are my strengths, what are my weaknesses? And then come 590 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,319 up with a plan. What what are these several plans 591 00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:13,319 I outlined here and then and then work the plan 592 00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:16,960 until you reach your goal. People go, well, how long 593 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,279 does it take? I go, It takes as long as 594 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:21,200 it takes. Everybody's different. Keep doing it until you achieve 595 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,640 your goal. Until you start to see the ball behave 596 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,200 properly hit the ball further straight or make more putts, 597 00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:28,920 you'll start seeing your scores come down. That's and then 598 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,319 then then you can work on something else. 599 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:33,319 Speaker 1: I find it interesting that so much of what you 600 00:28:33,599 --> 00:28:39,720 were uh of the power of six is ball striking practice. 601 00:28:40,119 --> 00:28:43,599 But uh, I'm on number four, the mental game, the 602 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:49,039 art of shot making. Help me on that, on how 603 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:53,000 I can improve on that? While I'm on the range 604 00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:56,119 as opposed to being on the course, because it's a 605 00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:58,759 very different thing for your mental game on the range 606 00:28:58,759 --> 00:29:00,799 than it is on the court itself. 607 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 3: Well, one another form I wasn't sure we have time for. 608 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,720 There are a couple of others. One is called playing 609 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:08,799 the course, and this is what Hogan would do in 610 00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:11,920 the range. Hogan would actually pick the club he would 611 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,200 hit on the first tee, typically a driver, and then 612 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:17,200 assuming you hit the driver the way he wanted to 613 00:29:17,279 --> 00:29:19,000 hit it, his next shot, let's say, would be a 614 00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:20,680 six iron. Then he would pull a six iron, hit 615 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,559 one ball to six iron. Then then of course there's 616 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:24,920 no putting because you're in the range. You need to 617 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,359 go to the next thing. The next let's say that 618 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,319 the second hold one hundred and fifty yard part three, 619 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:32,200 so he would take an eight iron, hit one eight 620 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,319 iron shot right again, go to the next tee. So 621 00:29:36,359 --> 00:29:39,680 you're playing, you're playing the long game from from the range, 622 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,920 whatever course you're gonna be playing that either that week 623 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,839 or that day, and make it more like what you'd 624 00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:47,440 be doing on so you're basically rehearsing and what you 625 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:49,720 can do in the golf course on the driving range. 626 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's been suggested by Manny instructor who've been 627 00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:58,920 on the show and even and I remember, I don't 628 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,839 remember who said it, but I it was when you're 629 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,519 doing a warm up before year round, go ahead and 630 00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:09,119 play the first three holes. Yeah you know, you know, 631 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,079 but in your mind on the range, you know, if 632 00:30:12,079 --> 00:30:15,000 you know the course, get those first three holes in 633 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:17,000 so that when you get out and play the course, 634 00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:19,440 you've already done the first three holes in your mind, 635 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:22,799 so you can you know you've practiced that and get 636 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:24,000 yourself up to speed there. 637 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 3: Well, we'll give you a more concrete answer than that. 638 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,240 They basically comes down to stuff we've talked about at 639 00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:31,440 least four of the other episodes I've done, which is 640 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,279 the idea that you have focal points, or through experimentation, 641 00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:38,440 mostly on the range, you find that when I when 642 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,400 I see X, or feel y or here's Z right, 643 00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:45,839 you get those three primary century channels. For most people, 644 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,920 especially average golfers, they're better off ignoring the visual and 645 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,720 the auditory and they're going to probably find better results there. 646 00:30:53,799 --> 00:30:56,000 There are some exceptions, I mean, target picture being one, 647 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,559 which is visual, but except for that, if they're going 648 00:30:58,599 --> 00:31:00,440 to focus on anything to do with what they're what 649 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,880 their body is doing. They need to use field channel. 650 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,440 So so, for example, I play a lot of my 651 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,799 best golf when my mind is in my hands in 652 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,119 field channel, feeling like the pressure that I'm holding to 653 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,640 handle with. And so I keep my mind there right 654 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:19,400 from the from right before I trigger my takeaway until 655 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,680 the finish. I never let my mind go anywhere else. 656 00:31:22,519 --> 00:31:25,799 And what if I actually do that, I almost always 657 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,000 hit a really good shot. So what you're doing is 658 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,680 you're rehearsing what you're going to do on the golf horse, 659 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,200 rehearsing it on the range. How you're going to use 660 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,680 your conscious mind focal points. You know. That's a great 661 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,319 way to practice. 662 00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, every time you you pay us a visit, 663 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,359 I just walk away and it's not so much my 664 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,519 head as spinning, but I fall in love with the 665 00:31:51,559 --> 00:31:53,640 game that much more every time I talk to you. 666 00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 3: Well, thanks for that's that's a really nice compliment. I 667 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,160 appreciate it. 668 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,119 Speaker 1: Because it's like you give me such concrete stuff that 669 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,200 I understand. And I'm not a single digit player. I'm 670 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,400 not one of the better players, and I'm worse now 671 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:11,279 than I was a while ago. But you know, everything changes, 672 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,240 you know, because I'm going through. But I just feel like, Okay, 673 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,440 I have a plan of action, I know what I 674 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,400 want to do now, and I just I appreciate it 675 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:20,480 so much. Thank you. 676 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 3: Well you're welcome, you know. 677 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: I hope someday, I hope someday I can take lessons 678 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,759 from you. I would really love to do something with you. 679 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,039 Speaker 3: Well, come up, come up, come over to Hawaiian like 680 00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:29,599 we talked about. 681 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well maybe we should do a golf smarter 682 00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:37,440 school in Hawaii. I think we've talked about that. Nobody 683 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,519 responds to me. 684 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 3: Come on, folks, light to Hawaii. What a horrible thing, 685 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,119 flight of Hawaiian in the middle of winter from the mainland. 686 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do that, right, But. 687 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,359 Speaker 3: You know, back to what you said, I mean that 688 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,240 to me, I guess is if I to pick the 689 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:54,279 one advantage I've had as a golfers, it's just the 690 00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:57,799 way I am. My personality. Everything I do is is 691 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,039 is clear. If I'm not clear, I don't take any action. 692 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,000 I mean I don't even get up out of the 693 00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:06,480 chair and leave the room if I'm not clear about 694 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,279 my intention. You know, that's the power of clarity and 695 00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:11,920 having a clear intention. So you need to have that 696 00:33:12,039 --> 00:33:15,680 to play golf. Well, not too many golfers do. Most golfers, 697 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,799 if they were being honest about their game, they would say, 698 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:22,640 it's a confused mishmash, a big mess of a tip here, 699 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,440 a tip here in an article I read there, and 700 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,880 something I saw on a web forum here. And they 701 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,680 don't really know what they're supposed to do with their mind, 702 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,640 with their body, with their club. They don't They don't know, 703 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,400 you know. And it's so part of my mission in 704 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,680 life is to help people become clearer about what their 705 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,920 intention should be and how they can go about achieving it. 706 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,240 And you have to approach a golf shot with a 707 00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:50,079 very simple clear view of what you're trying to accomplish, 708 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:52,039 whether it's on to range in terms of a practice drill, 709 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:54,559 even if it's without a ball or explow motion in 710 00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:56,759 your work or you know, practice wings with your eyes closed, 711 00:33:56,759 --> 00:33:59,319 whatever it is, you have to know why you're doing 712 00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:01,519 it with the purpose is sort of the meta purpose, 713 00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:04,799 the overarching purpose, you know, and how it's going to 714 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,799 help you both in the long term and hopefully in 715 00:34:06,799 --> 00:34:10,000 the short term. Right, And you got to believe it's true. 716 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,360 Here's the other thing. We did talk about a lot 717 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,840 of the practice rules. But I always tell my students, well, 718 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,119 why do you go to the range. Here's what people 719 00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:18,840 typically say to me, to see if I can hit 720 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,800 it good. I go, No, that's not why you go 721 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,079 to the range. No, why should I go. You're going 722 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:25,679 to hit it good. You're going to the range to 723 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,280 hit it good, not to see if you could hit 724 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,159 it good. Well, yeah, but sometimes I don't hit it good. 725 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:32,039 I go. That's partly because that's golf, because it's a 726 00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:35,360 hard game, right, right, But you have to decide before 727 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,199 you leave the house what you're going to work on 728 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,199 with your mental focal point, where you're gonna put your 729 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,280 mind and what you're trying to do with your body 730 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,920 and your club, and you're not going to change it 731 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,320 just because you happen to hit, say five bad shots 732 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,559 in a row. You don't give up on it. Think 733 00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:52,440 about this, where there's no sport in the world where 734 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:57,239 they where they condition the advice about the mechanics of 735 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,920 the motion, the athletic notion on the part of the coach. Right, 736 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:03,199 the coach doesn't condition his advice on whether or not 737 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,920 the student gets instant success. Like if you're if you're 738 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,239 teaching someone how to shoot free throws, right, there's certain 739 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,400 rules for that. Right. I'll give you one example, because 740 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,639 I used to play a lot of basketball. You know 741 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,920 you're gonna roll. There's a there's actually a you know, 742 00:35:17,039 --> 00:35:19,519 there's a release of the wrist in basketball. In a 743 00:35:19,559 --> 00:35:22,599 shot in basketball deserves a golf right, and so your 744 00:35:22,679 --> 00:35:25,320 risk kind of arches fork kind of kind of uncocks forward, 745 00:35:25,599 --> 00:35:27,840 and the ball rolls off the two middle fingers. Right. 746 00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:30,840 Let's say I'm coaching you and you try that, and 747 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,400 you're on your own the next day after taking a 748 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:37,360 lesson on this with me, and the first eight shots 749 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,719 you hit badly, miss, and you're trying to roll the 750 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,239 ball off your two middle fingers, right, So then you 751 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,920 start doing something else. Well, I don't think I'll let 752 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,280 it roll off my index finger or maybe my baby finger. Ah, 753 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,239 that rolling doesn't wory. I missed threemore. I don't think 754 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,639 that's a fundamental. That's how golfers practice. Now, if I 755 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,559 was your basketball coach and I came back the next 756 00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:58,320 day and I'd say, how how's the finger roll exercise going? 757 00:35:58,599 --> 00:36:01,039 He said to me. You know, I tried it and 758 00:36:01,079 --> 00:36:02,639 I missed eight balls in a row. You know what 759 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,079 if I was, if I was like Bobby Knight, besides 760 00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:08,000 throwing chairs, which what Bobby Night would probably do, not 761 00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:11,000 John Wooden, Thank god, no, I'd be passed. I say, 762 00:36:11,039 --> 00:36:13,320 what do you mean the greatest players in history for 763 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,159 the last you know, one hundred and something years, all 764 00:36:16,199 --> 00:36:18,239 the top NBA players, they all roll, they all roll 765 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,000 the balls off the ball for two middle fingers. You're 766 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 telling me you don't think it's a rule. You don't 767 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,199 think it's a law of basketball mechanics. Of course it is. 768 00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:27,840 The fact that you missed eight is meaningless. You keep 769 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,760 doing it until you start making them. That's that's how 770 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,039 you should practice. When you play golf, you go to 771 00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:34,760 the range knowing what you're gonna do. You don't go 772 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,400 to the range try to figure out what to do. 773 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,679 That's the job of the teacher, Your teacher that you 774 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,119 paid all that money to. That guy's got the information. 775 00:36:42,199 --> 00:36:45,679 It's that you're supposed to internalize and to practice. That's 776 00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:50,360 how you get better through practice. Right, that's just cause 777 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,239 of effect loves logical right, I. 778 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,360 Speaker 1: Perfect, it makes total sense. Yeah, total sense. So I'm 779 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,440 just curious from one old hibby to do another one. 780 00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:02,599 When you talked a moment ago about you don't get 781 00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:05,760 out of your chair unless you have an intention. Yeah, 782 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,400 are you telling me that you've never walked across the house, 783 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,880 got into your bedroom and go was I what did 784 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:11,360 I try to do? 785 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:11,559 Speaker 3: Oh? 786 00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:14,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, Okay, good, I just think one night, 787 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,840 I just want to make sure that wasn't just me. 788 00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:22,280 Speaker 3: I've got to take my Alzheimer's medication and I forgot 789 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:23,920 because you know, I have a bad memory. So that's 790 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,960 that's a pimological excuse, right, No, but yeah, I'm sure 791 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,800 I do that, of course. Yeah. But in general, no, 792 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:35,639 I try. I try to be in the moment. I 793 00:37:35,679 --> 00:37:37,639 try not to think about the future of the past. 794 00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:42,239 I don't. I really don't spend hardly any time at 795 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,280 all thinking about the past. I stay in the moment. 796 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,880 It's something I started doing forty years ago as practice, 797 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,719 a spiritual practice, and I try to be aware of 798 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,239 why I'm doing something, and I have to have a 799 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,920 good reason to do it. Otherwise I don't do it. 800 00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:57,960 You're better off just doing nothing, you know. 801 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:04,119 Speaker 1: Listen, we've we've not even talked about yips or putting 802 00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:08,920 at all. But I loved this conversation about practice strategies, 803 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,119 So that just means you're gonna have to come back 804 00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:13,119 for more, right, because we've got we've got a list 805 00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:14,880 of topics we wanted to cover that I know that 806 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,880 you and I can easily spend a half hour to 807 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,119 an hour on every time. 808 00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 3: The yip stuff is fascinating. I've been doing a lot 809 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,280 of work for the last I'm fifteen years of people 810 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,719 with severe cases and the yips, and it's been really, 811 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:27,599 really successful. 812 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,760 Speaker 1: All right, well, soon, let's schedule something so we can 813 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:30,800 bring you back more often. 814 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, cool, awesome? 815 00:38:33,199 --> 00:38:36,239 Speaker 1: All right, well, Jim Waldron again, it's the Balancepoint golf 816 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,239 dot com. Take lessons or do one of his schools. 817 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,800 Let's let's all go to Hawaii in the winter and 818 00:38:43,519 --> 00:38:47,199 go play, uh not play golf, learn golf from Jim 819 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,360 Waldron of Balance Point. 820 00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 3: Thanks Freed, Thank. 821 00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:52,159 Speaker 1: You, Jim. It's great talking to you again. Have a 822 00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:55,679 phenomenal time in Hawaii, and hopefully we'll get together in 823 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,119 Oregon sometime soon. 824 00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 3: Looking forward to it. Yeah, you bet.