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Speaker 1: It's the son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Claude Harmon. So I'm always trying to figure out different

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Speaker 1: ways i can try and talk about practice because I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of players get stuck in that practice world.

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Speaker 1: And I think practicing and the way you practice can

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Speaker 1: be a massive, massive part of your development and your

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Speaker 1: improvement as a golfer, but I also think it can

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Speaker 1: be at times just a disaster. So it was an

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Speaker 1: idea that I wanted to try and just kind of

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Speaker 1: float this idea, and the idea was the no blame

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Speaker 1: from looking at some things. So Total Wolf is the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a huge, huge job.

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Speaker 1: So when I look at coaches and I look at

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Speaker 1: people running things, I'm always trying to figure out, you know,

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Speaker 1: what I can learn from them. And one of Toto's

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Speaker 1: kind of principles of the way that he operates is

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Speaker 1: he says, in most cases, it's the process that's failed,

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Speaker 1: not the person. And I think golfers more than in

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Speaker 1: any other sport one. I think it's because it's it's

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Speaker 1: an individual sport. But I think golfers just they beat

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Speaker 1: themselves up and they're really really hard on themselves. So

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Speaker 1: their practice environment becomes kind of an internal war zone

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Speaker 1: with themselves. I think most golfers practice in a way

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Speaker 1: do I mean by that? So you're working on a

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Speaker 1: swing change, you go to the range, try something to

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Speaker 1: take a lesson, whatever, go on YouTube, whatever you're trying

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Speaker 1: to work on in your golf swing. Most golfers go

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Speaker 1: to the driving range. They've got something they're going to

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Speaker 1: try and work on in their golf swing, get three

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Speaker 2: They bail.

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Speaker 1: It's not working, or they're working on something in the

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Speaker 1: technique phase, but they're immediately doing it in a performance

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Speaker 1: little bit better, it's a little bit like you're trying

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Speaker 1: to learn how to speak French, and on day two

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Speaker 1: you're surprised you can't give an entire presentation in French,

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Speaker 1: because obviously you're trying to learn French. But on day

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Speaker 1: two you're going to try and give a presentation in

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Speaker 2: You don't really know.

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Speaker 1: So I think, don't be so hard on yourself and

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Speaker 1: try and create a better environment that isn't so much

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Speaker 1: based on fear and those fear components are I think

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Speaker 1: most golfers look at every bad shot they hit on

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Speaker 1: that they're getting worse right, And so what that does

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Speaker 1: is is it makes it really hard to stick with changes.

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Speaker 1: You try something but doesn't feel right, so you just

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Speaker 1: think that's what sends people back to things that they

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Speaker 1: know feels that feel comfortable, and a lot of times

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Speaker 1: that's sending you back to things that you know don't work,

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Speaker 1: that you don't have any data that supports that what

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Speaker 2: What they don't think is, okay, maybe I use my.

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Speaker 1: Practice for kind of experimentation and setting up in your

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not failing right.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not that you're untalented and that you don't

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Speaker 1: we've got three kind of buckets that we're going to

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Speaker 1: be in. We're going to be in technique phase, where

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Speaker 1: we're working on what we're doing from a technique standpoint.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of that transfer phase where you're trying to

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Speaker 1: I think one of the only negative things about the

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Speaker 1: he made it fashionable to change your golf swing. If

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven, it's working with my dad, which harmon

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Speaker 1: I mean, the win rate was through the roof, winning majors,

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Speaker 1: completely again. So I think one of the things that

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Speaker 2: Massive, massive swing changes.

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Speaker 1: But like I said, my dad and Tiger made the

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Speaker 1: I mean that process took almost three years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: and took almost three years to make those changes.

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Speaker 2: I was around for that.

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Speaker 1: I watched that. I watched him struggle. I watched, you know,

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Speaker 1: they made the changes and stuff. And so most people

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Speaker 1: And you know, I hear people sometimes say, how you've

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Speaker 1: And I think most golfers just they expect changes to

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Speaker 1: It should never feel weird. There should be no kind

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Speaker 1: trying to practice? And if you're trying to practice, what

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Speaker 1: are you trying to practice? How long have you been

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Speaker 1: And create an environment where in your practice sessions it's

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Speaker 1: okay for you to not hit great shots, it's okay

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Speaker 1: you're not doing it. So anytime you're making a change

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Speaker 1: whatever those changes are, they should feel weird, they should

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Speaker 1: feel different. In reality, they should feel bad. I mean,

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Speaker 1: tell you, okay, am I making these change. So if

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Speaker 1: and it allows us to basically focus on these technical things,

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Speaker 1: these mechanical things that we're trying to change in our

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Speaker 1: golf swing and make and kind of get those two

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Speaker 1: embed to where you're able to use technology, launch monitors,

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Speaker 1: force plates three D. But the one technology I think

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Speaker 1: everybody has readily available to them when you're making technical

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Speaker 1: changes is video. So when I'm looking at a golfer's

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Speaker 1: golf swing and I'm making technical changes, what I'm always

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Speaker 1: trying to do is do things so that in a

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Speaker 1: very very short time gap the player can see something

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Speaker 1: very very different. Visually. I can show them, hey, remember

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Speaker 1: this is where you were when you started. Split the

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Speaker 1: screen and say this is where the backswing was. It

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Speaker 1: was really really on the outside, that grip was really

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Speaker 1: really weak, that face was really open. Take a look

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Speaker 1: at these swings here side by side. Now you can

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Speaker 1: see that golf swings looking in a much better position,

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Speaker 1: not as outside, it's going back a little bit.

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Speaker 2: What you feel like is way inside. It's a little

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Speaker 2: bit more kind of neutral right now.

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Speaker 1: And let's just keep working on our drills and our

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Speaker 1: feels and stuff like that, and where it is situation

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Speaker 1: hitting into a net to where we're not going to

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Speaker 1: see what the outcome is, right, And then once the

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Speaker 1: positions look good and once you feel a little bit

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Speaker 1: less strange and you've done the work, you know how

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Speaker 1: many range sessions is that? Give yourself a month give yourself. However,

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Speaker 1: many times you have the availability to practice. But definitely

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Speaker 1: don't think that you're going to go to the gym

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to lose weight and in a month

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Speaker 1: you're going to be able to go buy a brand

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Speaker 1: new wardrobe because you've shrunk in size and all of

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Speaker 1: your clothes no longer fits. Right, that is going to

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Speaker 1: take time. I always say this when you're making swing changes.

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Speaker 1: To me, it is a little bit like you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get in shape. So beginning of the year, you say, hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: and a little weight over the holidays, you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas,

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Speaker 1: New Year, and I want to try and get back

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Speaker 1: in the gym and loose a weight. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get back in three days a week. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to try and do, you know, twenty thirty minutes on

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Speaker 1: the treadmill and just start there, right, and see if

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Speaker 1: I can do that for a month. I'm not even

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Speaker 1: gonna lift any weights, right, I'm just gonna get on

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Speaker 1: an elliptical, whether I'm walking on a treadmill, whether I'm jogging,

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Speaker 1: whether I'm doing an elliptical, spin bike, whatever it is, right,

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Speaker 1: go to some classes. Whatever I guarantee you after about

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Speaker 1: a month to two months, someone is going to say

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Speaker 1: to you, hey, have you been working out? And you're

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Speaker 1: going to say, yeah, I have been, and they'll say, eh,

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Speaker 1: you look different. Or you're going to put on a

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Speaker 1: pair of jeans or shirt or something and it's going

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Speaker 1: to feel different. Right, it's gonna fit better. You don't

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Speaker 1: actively watch yourself do that, right, You're not watching yourself

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Speaker 1: every single day, but you're sticking to You're trying to

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Speaker 1: create a new pattern. You're trying to create a new habit,

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Speaker 1: and over time, if you stick with that, the math

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Speaker 1: is the math. You will lose weight, you will look differently,

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Speaker 1: you will feel differently.

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Speaker 2: So giving and creating that.

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Speaker 1: No judgment, no fear environment to say, Okay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go to the range today. It's probably not going

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Speaker 1: to be great because I am making some changes, but

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Speaker 1: I'm going to evaluate this practice session when I'm done,

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Speaker 1: and the only thing I'm really going to ask myself

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Speaker 1: is did I commit to the changes that I was

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Speaker 1: trying to make?

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Speaker 2: Did I struggle?

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Speaker 1: Did it feel kind of dirty and messy and you know,

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Speaker 1: chaotic at times? And was I able to use some

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Speaker 1: technology mainly visually technolog if you're working on positions, set

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Speaker 1: your phone up on a tripod, take some videos, look

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Speaker 1: at them, and then say, okay, that gives me a

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Speaker 1: really good gauge on what I'm trying to do for

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Speaker 1: my next practice session. But allowing for experimenting, allowing for

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Speaker 1: ideas and concepts, and say, okay, I'm going to try

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Speaker 1: and cycle through these three or four thoughts that I'm

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Speaker 1: going to try to have to get my backswing in

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Speaker 1: a better position or a club face and a better

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Speaker 1: position and stuff.

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Speaker 2: But don't be.

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Speaker 1: Afraid to fail right and set up an environment that

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Speaker 1: is about discovery, not about outcome, not about certainly not

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Speaker 1: about perfection. And I think it's easier than to give

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Speaker 1: yourself some timelines and say, okay, let me do this

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Speaker 1: for a month and see where I am in a month.

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Speaker 1: If that's you know, if I can practice once a week,

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Speaker 1: if I can practice you know, a couple times a week,

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Speaker 1: you know whatever, and then look at it. If it's

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Speaker 1: starting to feel better and you feel like you've done

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Speaker 1: the work, then say, okay, now I'm going to go

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Speaker 1: into this next practice session for the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to try and get a little bit

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Speaker 1: into the transfer staged where I'm going to try and

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Speaker 1: continue some of the things that I'm working on in

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Speaker 1: my golf swing. It's still going to be somewhat experimentation,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also going to add in aiming at some targets.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to set some alignment sticks down. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to pick out some specific targets. That isn't going to

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Speaker 1: be execution yet, that isn't going to be perfect yet,

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Speaker 1: That isn't going to be strictly about the outcome. You're

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Speaker 1: still going to be failing in that stage. Right in

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Speaker 1: that transfer stage, You're still going to be making some mistakes.

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Speaker 1: It's probably not always going to be perfect. But I

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Speaker 1: do think that if you can give yourself some time

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Speaker 1: guidelines to get into these phases and then say, all right,

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Speaker 1: you know, I really feel like my backswing's in a

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Speaker 1: different position. I've got some data points visually on video

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Speaker 1: to show me that it's in a better position. I

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Speaker 1: feel like the golf club's in a better spot at

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Speaker 1: the top. I feel like my grip is better. I've

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Speaker 1: taken some video and I can see that it's better.

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Speaker 1: Then maybe you go back for another lesson with your instructor,

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Speaker 1: your coach and say, hey, listen, I've been working on

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Speaker 1: this and feel like it's better and would like to

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Speaker 1: now try and transfer that and get into the transfer

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Speaker 1: stage of starting to incorporate some targets, starting to have

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Speaker 1: my alignment be consistent all of those things, and then

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Speaker 1: embed the changes in transfer stage and then say all right,

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Speaker 1: now I'm going to take it to the course and

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Speaker 1: see if I can go to the course with not

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Speaker 1: a ton of swing thoughts. Focus on outcomes, focus on results,

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Speaker 1: focus on scoring, focus on you know, getting the golf

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Speaker 1: ball in the hole in the least amount of shots.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you'll find which of.

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Speaker 1: These stages the technical stage, the transfer stage, and the

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Speaker 1: performance execution stage, you know, being able to identify which

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Speaker 1: one of those that you're in. You know, from a

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Speaker 1: competitive standpoint, we're trying to get players into execution and

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Speaker 1: performance and get them out of technique and get them

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Speaker 1: focusing on transferring what they're doing from the driving range

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Speaker 1: into a performance situation. But don't always blame yourself, right,

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Speaker 1: don't always blame the person. Look at the process and

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Speaker 1: look at how you're trying to achieve the outcome. You're

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Speaker 1: trying to achieve, and don't be afraid to fail, don't

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Speaker 1: be afraid to experiment in your technique practice stages. I

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Speaker 1: think it's hugely, hugely important for that development. And you know,

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Speaker 1: at a later date, I'm just going to do an

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Speaker 1: entire podcast on this kind of transfer, on this technique

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Speaker 1: transfer and execution phase, because that's kind of the world

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Speaker 1: that I live in with players as we're trying to

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Speaker 1: work on some things, get them to feel more comfortable

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Speaker 1: with that on the range once we get targets involved,

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Speaker 1: and then trying to say, okay, let's just see if

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Speaker 1: we can go play now and get out of thinking

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Speaker 1: of all of these swing thoughts. But creating this no

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Speaker 1: blame practice space, this safe space where you know you're

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Speaker 1: going to make mistakes. It's okay to make mistakes. You're

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Speaker 1: not Mistakes don't mean that you're a bad golfer. Mistakes

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Speaker 1: don't mean that you don't get it, that you've lost it,

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Speaker 1: that you're getting worse. Allowing yourself the time and the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to fail, which I think will help you commit

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Speaker 1: and embed these changes in the long term and for

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Speaker 1: the future. So the no blame practice environment great reviews,

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Speaker 1: Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks everyone for listening.

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