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Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butcher podcast. We come to

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Speaker 1: you every Wednesday. This week, UM, I thought i'd talk

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Speaker 1: about how I give golf lessons. A lot of the

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Speaker 1: I'm just basically giving golf lessons, you know, pretty much,

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Speaker 1: you know, pretty much most days. UM. A lot of

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Speaker 1: players that I'm working with or trying to compete, they're

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Speaker 1: trying to play, UM, but they're just regular golfers, like

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Speaker 1: a lot of people that are you know, listening to

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Speaker 1: the pod. Um. Yeah. I mean when I'm on tour,

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Speaker 1: working with a lot of players that are just trying

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Speaker 1: to do what we're all trying to do, which is

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Speaker 1: is is get better and improved golf. So I wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about I get asked a lot,

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Speaker 1: you know, by instructors, by golfers, you know, how I

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Speaker 1: go about giving um golf lessons. So UM in an

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Speaker 1: ideal world, what I what I like to do sometimes

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Speaker 1: package that I offer. It's a it's a it's an

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Speaker 1: all day experience where you come in and you spend

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out, UM what we're gonna do with

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Speaker 1: doing on the golf course. UM. I think it's been

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Speaker 1: So we've we've got a little loop here UM at

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Speaker 1: my club, the Fluoridian, which is right by where our

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Speaker 1: learning center building is. So we're gonna go play three, four, five, six, seven,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we just play UM three four and five. The

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Speaker 1: reason why we do that is the third holds part four,

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Speaker 1: player actually play golf as opposed to just hit golf balls,

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Speaker 1: I think it gives me a better idea of what

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Speaker 1: they're going to be doing. UM when we get into

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Speaker 1: the golf lessons, it's very similar UM when you're when

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Speaker 1: you're working with players on on tour, right, UM, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times, UM you will have seen that player

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Speaker 1: play a lot of golf before. UM. You know, when

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Speaker 1: I'm on tour, I'm not only following the players that

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Speaker 1: I'm working with them, also following other players in the group.

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Speaker 1: So UM, I think going tour you have a really

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Speaker 1: when you've got trees, when you've got water when you've

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Speaker 1: sure you've listened to any of the past podcast episodes.

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Speaker 1: To me, contact and the way that that you strike

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Speaker 1: the single easiest and fastest ways to improve as a

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Speaker 1: So UM, that's kind of what I'm looking for. I

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Speaker 1: you're doing. Um. And then it gives me an opportunity

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Speaker 1: It's more of just me kind of wanting to observe

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Speaker 1: what they're doing, how they're they're they're encountering the actual

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Speaker 1: playing of of of golf as opposed to the concept

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Speaker 1: what type of shape? What's really important for me is

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm always asking a player, you know, what

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Speaker 1: you're a twenty handicap, you're probably going to be better

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Speaker 1: might not be. You know, Jordan's speeed when it comes

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Speaker 1: thing that's really really important is UM seeing what a

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Speaker 1: injuries they've had, UM put players through. UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: club position is at impact. UM. I do that a

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Speaker 1: lot of times. I'll have a player that's struggling with contact.

431
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: They're struggling to control what the club faces doing, They're

432
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,239
Speaker 1: struggling to control the path. So I'll say, listen, just

433
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: makebe what feels like a little half swing, make a

434
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: half back swing, and make a half follow through. And

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00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: I won't really say anything. I'll just say I'll the

436
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 1: cues that all says listen. You know, imagine you're standing

437
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: within the dial of a clock, your head is at

438
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock, your hands are at six o'clock, and you're

439
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: just going to go back to what feels like about

440
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: nine o'clock with your with your hand position on the

441
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: back swing and three o'clock on the hand position on

442
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: the follow through. So kind of waste tie back, waiste,

443
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: tied through, um, and just go ahead and hit me shots.

444
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: And I'll go ahead and film a couple of those,

445
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: and and and invariably, I think in the majority of

446
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: the golf lessons that that I give, um, the half

447
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: swing will produce a different quality of strike, a different sound,

448
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 1: a different divot, but also visually a different impact position.

449
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 1: So then I'm able to say to a player, Okay,

450
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: this is where you are when you're making your full swing,

451
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 1: and this is what your impact position looks like. Um.

452
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: And then this is you making what feels like a

453
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: half swing and a kind of nine o'clock to three

454
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 1: o'clock waste tie back waist tide through. And now this

455
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: is what your impact position looks like. And if that

456
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: looks better? UM. I always say to a player, well,

457
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: why does that look better? Because I haven't really told

458
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: you technically to do anything. I've just kind of told

459
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: you the length of the back swing and the length

460
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: of the follow through. So I don't really give a

461
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,919
Speaker 1: lot of audio cues as to what I'm trying to do.

462
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm just hey, listen, take this kind of waste tie

463
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: back waiste tie through. But if the contact improves, if

464
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: the ability to control the path improves, if the ability

465
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: to control the club face improves, if if if the

466
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: quality of of the contact, if the angle of attack changes,

467
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,719
Speaker 1: I would say it's a generalization, but I would say

468
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: a lot of the um. The average recreational golfers um

469
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: that I work with all say the same thing to me.

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00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: Really after about a pitching wedge or a nine iron

471
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: um the most players say they don't really take a

472
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: lot of divots, and if they do take divots, they

473
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,479
Speaker 1: take divots behind the golf ball. So the club the

474
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: arc is bottoming out behind the golf ball. So if

475
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,479
Speaker 1: we make the golf swings shorter, we can change the

476
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: angle of attack. It's really important that when you're you're

477
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: hitting golf balls and you're hitting your irons, specifically with

478
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 1: our irons, you've always got to remember the golf ball

479
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: is on the ground and the golf club starts on

480
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: the ground. So as you swing the golf club up

481
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 1: to the top of your back swing, and as you

482
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: swing the golf club back down to impact, fundamentally the

483
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,120
Speaker 1: golf club has to get back down to the position

484
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: it started in. So and if you do that, the

485
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: angle of attack is going to be down with your irons.

486
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: We want the angle of attack of the club to

487
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: be down to the ball. When we stick a golf

488
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 1: ball on a t and we're using our driver, we

489
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: want that angle of attack to be up because the

490
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: golf ball is in the air. I would say, um,

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00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: it's a yeah, it's a generalization, but I mean, I

492
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of truth is I think most

493
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: golfers I see um recreationally struggle to take divots because

494
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: they're trying their golf balls. As the clubs get longer,

495
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: especially with the irons, the golf balls don't get into

496
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: the air, they don't fly, so there's this effort to

497
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 1: try and swing up with the irons. When you do that,

498
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: your arc either bottoms out or you start to top

499
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: the golf ball. You hit it thin, and then most

500
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: golfers tend to have a iron swing where they're hitting

501
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: down on the ball with their driver. If you go

502
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: to your home club and go to the the t

503
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: box on a par five, you're going to see a

504
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: lot of divots. You're going to see a lot of

505
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: divots on par fives. On the te boxes, they're going

506
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: to be left um predominantly, and there it's going to

507
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: be divots. You expect to see divots on a par three.

508
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: But if you go to a PGA Tour event um

509
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: and go to a yard part part five, you're not

510
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: gonna see any divots, um tour players, they don't take

511
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: divots with their woods. So if we can change that

512
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: quality of strike, if we can change that impact position,

513
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 1: and even if we do it in a little bit

514
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: of a small small um backswing, small follow through, it

515
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: gives the player the opportunity to say, Okay, Wow, I'm

516
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: hitting the golf ball more solid. Um, I'm catching it

517
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: more in the center of the face. I'm I'm taking

518
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,439
Speaker 1: a little bit of a divot now, Um the golf

519
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: ball isn't curving that much, and and I'm starting to

520
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: change kind of how I'm moving. And you know, then

521
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: it allows me, as the instructor, as the coach, to say, okay,

522
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: so if we can get your body into these positions,

523
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: SS get you into a better impact position, UM, get

524
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: you you know, I see a lot of players, and

525
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: again this is a generalization, but we see a lot

526
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: of players specifically that struggle with their irons. Um, they've

527
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: got more weight on their back foots. If their right

528
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: handed golfer, they've got more weight on their right footed

529
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: impact than they do on their left footed impact. Um.

530
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: A lot of golfers will see have a tremendous amount

531
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: of weight on their toes it impact. So in reality,

532
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: they're not even on the ground with both of their feet. UM.

533
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: So by having them work a little bit on a

534
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: smaller swing, we can show them listen, you're transferring your

535
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: weight better now. Your your footwork is better now, um,

536
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: the way that your body is moving. And then it

537
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: allows us to say to a player, Okay, so now

538
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: let's kind of cycle back and forth between what's your

539
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: full swing and what is kind of the drill swing

540
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: and kind of go back and forth and UM, A

541
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: lot of times I don't really have to talk a

542
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: lot about what the club is doing, how a player

543
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: is delivering the club. If we can just start to

544
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: get them to think about where their body needs to

545
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: be an impact, UM, how their weight needs to be.

546
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to have the sensation with your

547
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: irons that there is more weight going forward it impact

548
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: and not so much weight going back. Um. And if

549
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: we can change that, UM, then it gives the player

550
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: UM a little bit of an exhale because they're like, Okay,

551
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm starting through the golf ball a lot more solid now,

552
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: even though I'm not making full swing, starting to hit

553
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: the golf ball more solid. And then it allows us

554
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: to kind of ramp up some of the things what

555
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: we would ask the player to do from a speed standpoint.

556
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: But what I'm always trying to do is in about

557
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: three to five swings, I'm playing this game with myself

558
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: in my head saying, Okay, what can I change that

559
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: is going to help this player hit the golf ball

560
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: more solid. If the back swings going very much on

561
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: the inside, if the takeaway is going very much on

562
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: the outside, let's take a quick break and we are back.

563
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 1: I also, I think it's important for everyone listening to

564
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: to understand that a lot of players, UM are in

565
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: an extreme position at a dress right, So they're there,

566
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: a grip is in an extreme position, their posture is

567
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 1: in an extreme position, UM they're set up, their alignment

568
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: is something is extreme. The ball position so you know,

569
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: too far away from the golf ball, bent over, too

570
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: close to the golf ball having to stand up. UM,

571
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: ball being too far forward the shoulders get open, ball

572
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: being too far back getting closed. So I think a

573
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: lot of times when we look at players were looking

574
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: at some flaws that they make before they hit the

575
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: golf ball, and then that is can be a domino

576
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: that pushes all these other dominants. If the backswing works

577
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: dramatically on the inside, if the takeaway gets super super long,

578
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: and sometimes we can change one of these things. UM,

579
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: let's just shorten up your back swing. And as the

580
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: backswing gets shorter, we know that the player is going

581
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: to have the ability to maybe, UM, control the golf

582
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: club a little bit more control the quality of the strike. UM.

583
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: When we're looking at launch monitor technology, if you've got

584
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: a player that slices the golf ball, I mean, that's

585
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: pretty much the most common fault that I continue to

586
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: to see on a regular basis, is the slicer of

587
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: the golf ball. UM. The technology that's available now, if

588
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: if we're able to watch a player hit golf balls

589
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: on a launch monitor, is I'm able to say to

590
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: the player, listen, Okay, your path is extreme. Right. Your

591
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: path is you know, seven eight, nine degrees to the left. Um,

592
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: you can somewhat get lucky and manage that with an iron,

593
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: a short iron. But as the club gets longer. UM,

594
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: when the path is that extreme, it makes it very

595
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: hard for players to just be able to control the

596
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: club face. UM. So what I'm trying to do from

597
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: a path standpoint is say, Okay, let's say you're a

598
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: big slicer. The golf ball in your path is eight

599
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: nine degrees to the left. Why why don't we just

600
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: try and cut that in half? Because I know that

601
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: if we can get that number smaller, um, if we

602
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: can get it down to maybe um four left from eight,

603
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: if we can get it um kind of four and under,

604
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: it's going to give the player the ability to control

605
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: the club face. So I'm always looking at the extreme

606
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: thing a player does, whether it's in the setup, whether

607
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: it's in the alignment, whether it's in the ball position,

608
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: whether it's in the grip. Um, what's going on in

609
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: the backswing? Is there something? Is there one extreme thing

610
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: that's going on in the backswing or as a player

611
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: losing their posture, losing their heights. And I'm trying to

612
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: figure out, Okay, if I can eliminate or make this

613
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: extreme thing the player is doing, if I can somehow

614
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: just start to minimize the damage that that has on

615
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: the player, And that has then some of the other

616
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: things that you're trying to get the player to do

617
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: um in kind of back door them or they just

618
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: kind of fall in line in the same way that

619
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: because of the extreme thing they were doing in the

620
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: golf swing before there were a bunch of other things

621
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: that just started to happen, these dominoes. So if I

622
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: can change the domino and get it going in a

623
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: positive direction, then some of these things that are working

624
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: on because I think one of the things that I

625
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: think gets frustrating for for students is you go take

626
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: a golf lesson and listen. I can look at, you know,

627
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: the majority of the golf swings that I work with

628
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: UM and say, listen, there's four or five things, maybe

629
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: six things we would want to change. But if you're

630
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: gonna try and change all six of those um into

631
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: visually in a thirty minute golf lesson or an hour

632
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: golf lesson, it's going to be very very difficult for

633
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: the player to come up with, you know, a way

634
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: to get their head around that. So I'm always trying

635
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: to figure out, Okay, what can I do as the

636
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: instructor that's going to take the extreme thing this player

637
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: is doing, and if we can make it less extreme,

638
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: we might not ever get rid of it totally, but

639
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: if we can just make it less damaging, less catastrophic

640
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: as on on what that's causing in the golf swing.

641
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: Then we can get the player to have the idea

642
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: of you know, controlling the golf club. And then I

643
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: think it's also my job because I think a lot

644
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: of golfers, UM play their entire golfing career and they

645
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: don't really have a good idea as to what makes

646
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: the golf ball do what it does. Um, they don't

647
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: know what makes with an iron, what makes the golf

648
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,919
Speaker 1: ball go into the air. They don't know with the driver, UM,

649
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: what are the optimal launch conditions. So that's where I

650
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: think as an instructor, I can take the technology and say, Okay,

651
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: in order for you to hit the golf ball that

652
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: you want to hit, in order for you to hit

653
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: the shot that you want to hit, these are some

654
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: of the things that you need to do. UM. If

655
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: it's a player that is a little bit more accomplished,

656
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: that is trying to compete, UM, that is, you know,

657
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: let's say a single digit handicap. I'm hyper hyper vigilant

658
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: on on where a player is starting the golf ball

659
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: relative to the shot they're trying to hit. So if

660
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: a player tells me that they're trying to hit a draw,

661
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: then to me, as someone that's trying to draw the

662
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: golf ball consistently, you need to be able to consistently

663
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: start the golf ball right of your target. If you're

664
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: trying to fade the golf ball, you need to fundamentally

665
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: consistently be able to start the golf ball left of

666
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: the target. So a lot of times I'm saying two players, listen,

667
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: don't worry so much about where the golf ball is

668
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: going to go. Worry about where you, as the player,

669
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 1: are trying to start the golf ball. So, if you're

670
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: trying to hit a fade, okay, can you stand up

671
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: and start ten golf balls for me and start all

672
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: ten of these golf balls left of your target. If

673
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: you're trying to hit me draws, can you, first and foremost,

674
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,720
Speaker 1: just get all ten of these golf balls to start

675
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: right of the target. Let's not worry about where it's

676
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: going to go, but let's get this initial start line

677
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: to happen first. And sometimes we need to make that

678
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: happen in smaller swings and drill swings. Sometimes we're able

679
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: to do that in bigger swings, but having players be

680
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: able to have a really clear understanding as to what

681
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: they're trying to do. And then one of the things

682
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 1: that I think that is vitally important for everyone listening

683
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: and something that I try and do and all of

684
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: the lessons that I give is I think it's most

685
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: golfers can tell you all of the things that they're

686
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: doing when they hit a bad shot, right when you

687
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: hit the big week slice, you know all of the

688
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: things that you're doing. But what I find really interesting

689
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: is I think a lot of golfers spend the majority

690
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: of their golfing career and don't really get any positive

691
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: feedback from hitting good shots. You're on the driving range

692
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: and you're handicapper, and you go to the driving range

693
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: and it's you're getting ready to go play, and it's

694
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: a stripe show, and you're just flushing every nine iron,

695
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: every eight iron, every seven iron, every six iron. You're

696
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: just crushing your driver. Everything's out of the middle of

697
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: the club face. The shape that you're trying to hit

698
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: is the shape that you're trying to hit. You're a

699
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: slicer of the golf ball. But now all of a sudden,

700
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: you're standing up. You're hitting beautiful, high little draws. You're

701
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: hitting high bomb draws with your driver. Um if that

702
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,959
Speaker 1: does happen to you, I'd venture to say that most

703
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 1: golfers have absolutely no idea as to what is happening,

704
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: because the following day they can go out and shoot

705
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: their career best score, come back the following day, do

706
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: the exact same thing they were doing before, and it

707
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: doesn't work. So let's take a short break and we

708
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: will be back right after this, and we are back.

709
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: So I think it's really important in one of the

710
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: jobs that I think it's it's vital for me as

711
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 1: an instructor is to say to a player, Okay, these

712
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: are the things that you're doing when you're hitting a

713
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: good shot. And if we have the technology to be

714
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: able to show a player that, yes, I understand that

715
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: not everyone listening has the availability to um to all

716
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: of the technology that that that I have and that

717
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: a lot of instructors have. But what I try and

718
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: do with the technologies say, Okay, that's the best swing

719
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: you've just made. Let's go ahead and look at how

720
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 1: your body was looking when you made this good swing.

721
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: Does it look different than when we started? Does the

722
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 1: impact position look different? Okay, are you now transferring your

723
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: weight better? Is your impact conditions better? With where your

724
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,479
Speaker 1: weight is versus when we started. If I can show

725
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: you that visually as the player, or you'll say, wow,

726
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: that looks really different. My backswing looks in a different position,

727
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: my impact looks different, my follow through looks different, my

728
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: footwork looks different. Um. Then if we've got a launch monitor,

729
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: we can say, okay, you've now instead of the path

730
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: being super super extreme, the path is becoming less destructive.

731
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: And as the path is becoming less destructive, the club

732
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: face is easier for you to contact. UM. One of

733
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: the things that I think, UM, I see happen a

734
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: lot with recreational golfers is when we're looking at club

735
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,479
Speaker 1: head speed and ball speed. I think most golfers are

736
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,479
Speaker 1: kind of obsessed with club head speed. What's my clubhead speed?

737
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: What's my club head speed? But a lot of times

738
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: when we look at clubhead speed, UM, I'm looking at it,

739
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, in parallel with ball speed. Because what sometimes

740
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: we see as we see players club head speeds decrease,

741
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 1: you know, one two miles per hour, but their ball

742
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: speed increases five ten miles because they're catching the ball

743
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: in the center of the club face more. And then

744
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they hit the golf ball ten

745
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: fifteen yards further. They're actually swinging the golf club maybe

746
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: one two miles per less. But because their impact position

747
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 1: is better, because they're creating a better weight transfer, because

748
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: they're delivering the club in a less extreme fashion, the

749
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: ball speed number jumps, the contact is better, and we

750
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: hit the golf ball further. So I'm always trying to

751
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: figure out ways that I can show the player. Listen,

752
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: you are making progress. So then while I'm doing this,

753
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: going back to the offensive coordinator idea, I'm just thinking, Okay,

754
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 1: what plays can I run? And if I can just

755
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: keep having this student in, this player makes small incremental gains.

756
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: You know, they're starting to hit more good shots than

757
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: bad shots. They're starting to hit the golf ball more

758
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: solid than they're not hitting the golf ball solid. And

759
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: I know that if I can do that, then we're

760
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: going to see something that looks better. We're going to

761
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: hear something that looks better, and they're going to feel

762
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: something that is different. And then I've got all of

763
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: these plays that I'm trying to run from having given

764
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: golf lessons for you know, thousands upon thousands upon thousands

765
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: of golf lessons over, you know, the better part of

766
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: two decades. I know that I've got enough stuff that

767
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: I can say. Um, I'm always trying to look at

768
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: what this one extreme thing in the golf swing that

769
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: we're trying to change or eliminate. Um, how can I

770
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: say the same thing to this player ten different ways?

771
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: So if you're taking the golf club too much on

772
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: the inside, UM, what are some things that I can say?

773
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: Because UM, I know that if I can find, you know,

774
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: ten different ways to say the same thing, ten different

775
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: ways to explain the same concept, that sooner or later,

776
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: the player that's hitting the ball is going to go Okay,

777
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: that one makes sense. UM. I don't care how a

778
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: player figures it out. I don't care what thoughts a

779
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: player needs to use. I'm just interested in the player

780
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: going Okay, that made sense. I like that thought. Okay,

781
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: let's work with that thought. And then I just try

782
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: and keep things as simple as I can, work on

783
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: one specific thing, trying to change that one domino. And

784
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: I know if I can do that, then we're going

785
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: to have the ability for the player to you know,

786
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: relax a little treadwater exhale, no longer feel like they're drowning,

787
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 1: because that's what it feels like, right. I mean, everybody

788
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: listening um has gone through that that phase of their

789
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: golf to where they're on the range, the shank one,

790
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: the top one, they hit one fat and what you

791
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: do is you freak out as a player, right, you

792
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: start to feel like you're drowning and you're like, oh

793
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: my god, I've lost it. I had it and I've

794
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: lost it. So my goal with giving golf lessons is

795
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: to have players not have that feeling that they're losing it,

796
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: that they're out of control, that they have the ability

797
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: to control what the golf club is doing. Remember, the

798
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: golf club will stay in your bag. Your seven iron

799
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: will stay in your bag until you or someone else

800
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: pick it up, take it out of your bag and

801
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: move it. So always remember that it is you, as

802
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,760
Speaker 1: the player you were moving the golf club. Golf club

803
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: is not moving you. And if you can fundamentally say okay,

804
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: how can I move this golf club effectively? How can

805
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: I move this golf club consistently? How can I have

806
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: my body work efficiently? Um? And so that's what I

807
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: try and do with players. I try and make golf

808
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: as simple as I possibly can. Yes, there are a

809
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: lot of things happening in your golf swing. It's complex.

810
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: You've got all these different body parts. It's near. The

811
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: golf swing is over in second and a half to

812
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: two seconds. It's a very very small, short dynamic movement pattern,

813
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: and there is a lot going on. But if my

814
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: if I do my job, I can help a player say, Okay,

815
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: I have a better idea, a better concept of what

816
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. Now. Um, when I hit good shots,

817
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: I have a really good understanding as to what I'm

818
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: trying to do when I hit a good shot. Okay,

819
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,280
Speaker 1: if I hit a good shot, that means I'm doing

820
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: these things in the same way that when you hit

821
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: a bad shot, and you can tell somebody all the

822
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: things you did. If you hit a big week slice, Yeah,

823
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: I came over it, hung back with my way, cut

824
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: across it, chicken wings off the toe. Okay, those are

825
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: the things you do when you get a bad one.

826
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: All right, you just did a really good shot. Talk

827
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: me through what you just did to hit the really

828
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,479
Speaker 1: good shot, and hopefully the player can start to have

829
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: those feelings. I think it's really important for everyone listening

830
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: that really really take notes and really really clue in

831
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: on your good shots um as much as your bad shots,

832
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: because if you can do that, you can start to

833
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,760
Speaker 1: have a better understanding UM as to what is happening

834
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. UM. And if you have to

835
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: make the movement pattern smaller in the beginning to gain

836
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: some control over the golf club, to gain some control

837
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: over the path and the face um. And then maybe

838
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: you cycle back and forth between one drill swing that

839
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: is a half swing, and then one full swing with

840
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: a seven iron, and then back to a drill swing

841
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,479
Speaker 1: with the seven and then back to the full swing,

842
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: and then asking yourself as a player, Okay, what feels

843
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: different about my drill swing. The drill swing feels solid,

844
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 1: it's in the center of the club face, I take

845
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: a good dividu. I feel on balance when I hit

846
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: my full swing. Okay, I'm still feeling these things. And

847
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: then work kind of as a power of you know,

848
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: deducting some things. Okay, yeah, let me get my weight

849
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: forward like am in the short shot. But making the

850
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: movement pattern smaller, I think are really really important. And

851
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: remembering that that golf really is a fairly simple game

852
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: that tends to confuse smart people. So when you're hitting

853
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: golf balls, UM, just remember, yes, there's a lot of

854
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: things going on, but you as the player have to

855
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: control the golf club, and you as the player need

856
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Speaker 1: to have less extreme things in your golf swing because

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Speaker 1: if there are less extreme things, it's going to make

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Speaker 1: the golf club and the and and make your ability

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Speaker 1: to control the golf swing much easier to do. And

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Speaker 1: then I don't think it will seem as confusing if

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Speaker 1: you're able to say, Okay, what am I doing when

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Speaker 1: I hit a good shot of a really good clear

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Speaker 1: picture of that? Okay, and that's the opposite of what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing when I hit a bad shot. So, um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's just kind of how I give golf lessons and

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Speaker 1: some of the things that you know, I think I've listened.

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Speaker 1: I could talk every eek on you know, what it's

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Speaker 1: like to give golf lessons and stuff like that. But UM,

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Speaker 1: I think it's important, um for people to understand that

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Speaker 1: when you're taking a golf lesson from an instructor, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know what that instructor is is thinking, and and

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Speaker 1: that's kind of, you know, my blueprint of giving golf lessons, UM,

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Speaker 1: I've had some success doing it, and the reason why

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Speaker 1: I continue to do a lot of the things that

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Speaker 1: I do in golf instruction is because I have had

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Speaker 1: success with it. So UM, when I look at players

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Speaker 1: and I look at instructors, and you know, I don't

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00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: necessarily agree with every instructor's methods, UM, I have my

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Speaker 1: own personal preferences. What I look at is the body

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Speaker 1: of work from a student. So UM. For the instructors listening,

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Speaker 1: if your players are improving, if your handicaps UM with

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Speaker 1: the players that you're working on are coming down, and

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Speaker 1: you're helping players get better, keep doing that because obviously

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Speaker 1: what you're doing is working. So UM, thanks everyone for listening.

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Speaker 1: I hope that helped UM and UM, next time you

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Speaker 1: go get a golf lesson, UM, you know, maybe use

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Speaker 1: some of those UM ideas and thoughts that UM we

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Speaker 1: talked about in this episode. Son of a Butch comes

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Speaker 1: to you every Wednesday. Thanks everyone for listening. We will

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Speaker 1: see you next week.