1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Butch podcast. I'm your host, 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Claude Harmon. So, in my never ending quest to try 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: and figure out how to make golfers improve but also 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: figure out why golfers don't improve, I'm always trying to 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: come up with ideas and concepts that I think can 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: help golfers not only get better, but also do. 7 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: It in a time zone that makes sense for people. 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people don't have a lot 9 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: of time to practice, and so the limited time that 10 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: they do have to practice, trying to make that practice 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 1: as simple but also as effective as possible. So on 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: today's episode, I want to talk about the idea of 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: creating a thirty minute practice session. Now that doesn't seem 14 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: like a lot of time, but to be honest, it's 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: plenty of time to get really productive practice. The issue is, 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: and what you want to try and do is build 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: a plan, right. What we don't want to do is 18 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: just start hitting golf balls and you know, hope something works, because, 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: first of all, hope isn't a strategy. And I think 20 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: what a lot of players do is they whatever time 21 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: constraint that they have, for however long they're going to 22 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: hit golf balls. They're trying to either do one of 23 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: two things. One, they're not working on anything. They're just 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: basically swinging to golf club, hitting shots ball after ball 25 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: after ball, and in reality, they're just getting exercise or 26 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: whatever they're trying to work on in their golf swing 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: in whatever time gap they have. But let's say we're 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: going to We're going to try and do something in 29 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: thirty minutes. You're going to try and work on your grip, 30 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: your posture, your alignment, your backswing, your top of back 31 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: swing position, your downswing, your impact position, and you're going 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: to try and do all of that at once. Right, 33 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: You're going to try and work on a number of 34 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: different things all at the same time, and regards of 35 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: how much time you put into it, that's going to 36 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: be very counterproductive. There's no plan, there's no real kind 37 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,279 Speaker 1: of you're not setting yourself up to succeed. You're setting 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: yourself up to fail. And I've talked about that in 39 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: previous podcasts. I think a lot of golfers their practice 40 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: sessions almost set. 41 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: Them up to fail. 42 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: So what we want to do is say, Okay, I've 43 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: got thirty minutes to go to the range and what 44 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: am I going to do in that thirty minutes? Okay, Well, 45 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: the first thing you want to try and do is 46 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: figure out what phase you're in, what you're going to 47 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: try and practice. Right, And I've talked about this on 48 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: another podcast. There's three phases. 49 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 2: Right. 50 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: There's the technique or the technical phase. That's where you're 51 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: working on all of your technical moves, your drills, your feels, 52 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: your positions, how your golf swing looks. I think a 53 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: lot of players really just spend the majority of their 54 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: time in that. And then there's the execution and performance. 55 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 1: So I've been talking for a number of years now 56 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: in the podcast that kind of balance and that kind 57 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: of concept between technique and execution, right, And I think 58 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: there's two phases there, the stuff you're working on in 59 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: your golf swing, and then there's seeing if any of 60 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 1: that works when you're in on the golf course or 61 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 1: trying to execute a task in performance mode. But there's 62 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: a middle phase, right, that's the transfer in the integration phase, 63 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: where you're trying to transfer the stuff that you're working 64 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: on in your technique and your technical moves, integrate some 65 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: targets and stuff, and then take that and go to 66 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: the performance category. But the real truth about thirty minutes 67 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: is it's really long enough for you to do some 68 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: meaningful work. It doesn't seem like it is, but it is, 69 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: And it's short enough for you to not get too fatigued, 70 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: but also for you not to lose concentration, to not 71 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: lose focus. I think most golfers think that tour players 72 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: have these long, elaborate, four or five hour practice sessions, 73 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: and there are players that do that. Bryson to Shambeau 74 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: is kind of famous for that. I think lately, in 75 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: the last couple of years, we've seen Victor Hovland do 76 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: a lot of that because he's grinding, he's in the 77 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: technique mode of trying to work on his golf swing. 78 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: So when you see players, you know, like Bryson and 79 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: like Victor Holin, and you see the Golf channel focus 80 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: on how long they've been there, how many balls they're hitting, 81 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: the majority of that is going to be because they're 82 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: struggling with their golf swing. In Victor Holin's case, you know, 83 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: Vick has really been trying to take apart his golf swing. 84 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: Since winning the FedEx Cup, He's gone through a bunch 85 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: of instructors, he's gone through a bunch of ideas, a 86 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: bunch of different concepts, and so that is kind of 87 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: the technical phase of what you're doing. But in a 88 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: thirty minute practice session, whether you're working on your technique, 89 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,239 Speaker 1: when you're working on trying to transfer what you're working 90 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: in your technique and then working on execution structure and 91 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: having a plan is really really vital, right, And I 92 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: think most players don't really have a plan, they don't 93 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: really have a focus. They're going to try and work 94 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: on everything at once. And when none of that works, 95 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: what do he end up doing? You just go and 96 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: end up started hounding drivers. 97 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: So what should happen? Right? 98 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: What are we trying to do in this thirty minutes. Well, 99 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: the first thing that we're trying to do, if we're 100 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: in technique phase, with the technical phase, is we're trying 101 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: to build a new pattern, right, which means it needs 102 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: and it should feel uncomfortable because we're trying to reprogram a. 103 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: New movement pattern. 104 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: So when we're in the technique phase, in our technical phase, 105 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: when we're working on these positions of our backswing, kind 106 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: of how the golf swing looks kind of the feels 107 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: if I'm working on a new move in my backswing, 108 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: if I'm working on trying to shallow the golf club, 109 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: get the club face in a stronger position, work on 110 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 1: a different impact position. 111 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 2: That's all in the technique phase. 112 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: So make sure that you go into that with the 113 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: idea that, Okay, I am in technique phase. Right now, 114 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: I am in the technical phase. It's okay for me 115 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: to experiment. It's okay for me to try a lot 116 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: of things, but it's also okay for me to fail. Right, 117 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: So what you want to start to do is divide 118 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: this thirty minutes up and in the first five minutes, 119 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: go ahead and start really really slow right, no golf ball. 120 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: We're just working on fields, and what we're trying to 121 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: do in this first five minutes is to wake up 122 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: this pattern and to try and wake up this new 123 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: pattern that we're trying to work on. So what we 124 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: want to try and do is make five to ten 125 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: slow motion swings where you're really trying to feel on 126 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: what you're working on. You're really trying to connect and 127 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: feel this new pattern that you're trying to create, and 128 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: I think taking the ball out of this takes out 129 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: the result. Right, this is where you can start to 130 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: think about that process over outcome. That's one of Nick 131 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: Saban's big, kind of core principles of his college coaching 132 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: career when he was at the University of Alabama. I 133 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: think it's one of the reasons why that program was 134 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: so successful, why they won so many national championships. Process 135 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: over outcome. So the first five minutes you're just reconnecting 136 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: with this pattern. If you've been taking lessons and you've 137 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: been working on something with your instructor, go through your 138 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: notes and say, Okay, what are the key things that 139 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: I'm trying to work on in this golf swing in 140 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: this pattern. But I'm taking the ball away right, So 141 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: it's just pure feel. And I think the slow motion 142 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: swings are really really good because in doing it in 143 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: slow motion, it can really help you feel some of 144 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: the moves that you're trying to do. The other thing 145 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: you can do is take the ball, but also take 146 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: the club away right. Just do some slow motion swings 147 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: trying to build this new pattern. Imagine that you're holding 148 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: an imaginary golf club right, So go ahead and take 149 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: your grip both with your left. 150 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 2: And your right hand. 151 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: But there's going to be no club there, but you're 152 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: going to be mimicking what you would be doing in 153 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: kind of the golf swing that you're imagining that you're 154 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: making right. 155 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 2: So the positions you're trying to in. 156 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: So if you're working on some things with an instructor 157 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: or like a lot of players, you've gone on YouTube, 158 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: and you know, I think YouTube now is a huge, 159 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: huge resource for golfer. Is what you want to make 160 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: sure that you're doing. If you're doing a lot of 161 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: stuff by yourself in YouTube or looking at YouTube videos 162 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: and looking at what other people are saying, make sure 163 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: what you're trying to make sure what you're watching is 164 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: appropriate and applicical to your golf swing into what the 165 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: issues are. It's a little bit like you read that, hey, 166 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: if you've got a broken arm, you need to put 167 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: a cast on your arm. So you go put a 168 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: cast on your arm, and then someone sees you and says, oh, 169 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: how'd you break your arm? And you're like, well, no, 170 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: I didn't actually really break my arm, but I heard 171 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: If you do have a broken arm, this is what 172 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: you need to do, right. 173 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 2: So make sure that whatever you're trying to. 174 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: Work on in your golf swing is something that your 175 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 1: golf swing actually needs. My advice would be go find 176 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: someone that you're comfortable working with that can create a 177 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: plan for you. And then when you do go to 178 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: the range in this thirty minute session and say, okay, 179 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: I'm going to just work on my technique today. I'm 180 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: going to follow the STAF in that plan. So what 181 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: you're trying to do is wake your brain up to 182 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: remember what you're trying to do, right, what pattern you're 183 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: trying to feel. Just don't go to the range and 184 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 1: just start hitting shots and stuff because that just that. 185 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 2: Isn't going to work. 186 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: So then in the next five and listen, I would 187 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: time this right, I would put the timer on your 188 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: phone so that you're under a time gap. Right, You're 189 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: under a time constraint. So it's a little bit like 190 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: preparing for a meeting, preparing for something at work, and 191 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: you've only got a short period of time to do that. 192 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: So you want to have a really good idea. So 193 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: first five minutes you're just trying to reconnect with the pattern. 194 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: That's the slow motion swings. 195 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: And then the you know, from five to twenty five 196 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: minutes technical reps with feedback, all right, and the number 197 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: one thing that you're trying to do when we were 198 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 1: having technical reps with feedback is rule number one. The 199 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: ball doesn't matter right. Where the ball is going in 200 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 1: your technique phase doesn't matter. Right. You're not in execution 201 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: and performance right, there is no outcome. You're just in practice, 202 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: so you can make mistakes, you can try stuff so 203 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: ball flight doesn't matter, and give yourself permission to not 204 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: only experiment, but give yourself permission to fail. Okay, I'm 205 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: going to try this feel, I'm going to try this 206 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: thought doesn't work. If it doesn't, okay, let me try 207 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: another one. But the sole focus on this kind of 208 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: five to twenty five minute technical rep phase is the 209 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: sole focus is are you executing the new pattern right? 210 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: And if you execute the new pattern, regardless of where 211 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 1: the ball went, it's a win, right, So executing the 212 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: pattern equals success. And what we're trying to do here 213 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: is in this kind of twenty minute period. 214 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: We're not trying to hit a lot of golf ball. 215 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: We're trying to have good reps. 216 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: So imagine that for you know, after you've done your 217 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: five minute kind of reconnect with the pattern slow motion 218 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: warm up, you're you don't want a lot of reps here, 219 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: but what you do want is good quality reps. We 220 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: don't want you making a ton of golf swings, right, 221 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: We want you making really really good golf swings with 222 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: the pattern and committing to that pattern. So on every 223 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: ball you hit, check in with yourself, check in with 224 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 1: the pattern you're trying to make. If you execute the 225 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: pattern and it feels good and it's where you want 226 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: it to be, get another one. If you don't execute 227 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 1: that pattern, give yourself maybe two or three balls as test. 228 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: And if you're not kind of executing and recreating that 229 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: new pattern, stop, go back to slow motion reps with 230 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: no ball right, and then reconnect with that pattern that 231 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: you're trying to make. Hit twenty five good reps rather 232 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,559 Speaker 1: than one hundred reps with no plan, no structure, and 233 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,199 Speaker 1: just getting exercise. One of the things that I think 234 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: is really important when you are working this technique phase. 235 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 1: In this technical phase. 236 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 2: Is use video. Right. 237 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: If you have a checkpoint, if you've got an idea 238 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: of what you're trying to get your golf swing to look, 239 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: if you're trying to have an idea of what you 240 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: where you want your golf swing to be at specific checkpoints. 241 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: Go ahead, you know, hit five balls, and then video 242 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: one and check the pattern. See if you're doing what 243 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: you're trying to do, If that backswing is in that 244 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: position you want, that's video is not going to lie 245 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: to you. 246 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 2: Right. 247 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: But again, in this kind of twenty minute phase, after 248 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: we've done our five minute kind of reconnect with the 249 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: pattern warm up, we're just trying to have good reps 250 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: with good intention. I think intent, what are you trying 251 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: to do in your practice? What are you trying to 252 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,719 Speaker 1: do on every single golf swing? And I think if 253 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: you can start to connect to that to where every 254 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: ball has a purpose that you're hitting, every ball matters 255 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: in your practice. It's a little bit like if you 256 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: look at the way team sports are being practiced right, 257 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: everybody on a team, whatever position they're playing, they have 258 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: a specific assignment, they have a specific role. So if 259 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: you're thinking about because right now in the US we're 260 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: in football season, college football, NFL, everybody own an NFL 261 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: football team has a job, right, Everybody on a basketball 262 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: team has a job, and in practice you're trying to 263 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: figure out what that job is. But in the practice arena, 264 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: they're trying to have good reps. Right, They're trying to 265 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: have everybody have good reps, so I think that's really important. 266 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 2: For that technique phase. 267 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: Right, and then the last five minutes stop stop hitting 268 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: golf balls, don't hit any golf balls. Use that last 269 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 1: twenty five minutes to review, to reflect, to take notes. Right, 270 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: you could take notes in your phone. You could go 271 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: ahead and write down what you were feeling in your 272 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: technique phase today and working on all of these drills. 273 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: Write it down in a note format and then see, Okay, 274 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: this is where my backswing was, this is where my 275 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: tapa backswing was, this is where my grip was, whatever 276 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: it is in this technical phase that you're working on, 277 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: that's the time to experiment. That's the time to see 278 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: you know what the feels are and how that golf 279 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 1: swing looks visually. But that review and taking notes see 280 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: if the notes you're taking after this twenty minutes match 281 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: the stuff that you said you wanted to try and 282 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: work on at the beginning of this lesson. Right, you're 283 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 1: building an awareness as to what you're trying to do. 284 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: And I think that reviewing of what you've done just done, 285 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: write it down and then reflect on, Okay, how did 286 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: that go and what did I accomplish there. 287 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 2: So that's thirty minutes of you kind of. 288 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: Being in that technique phase to where again you're trying 289 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: a bunch of different things. I think that's hugely, hugely important. 290 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 1: And then we can do another thirty minute practice session 291 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: where you're in that transfer phase. And again, that transfer 292 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: phase is the middle phase between you working on your technique, 293 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: working on your mechanics, not worrying about ballflight, not worrying 294 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: about where the golf ball goes. Because I think most 295 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: golfers are only interested in where the golf ball is going. 296 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: They're only interested in the results. And I think that's 297 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: why it's very hard for players to make changes in 298 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: their golf swing. 299 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 2: I think that's that's why it's very hard for players. 300 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: To make to stick with changes, right because they're all 301 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: whe's evaluating every shot in practice when they're working on 302 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: the technique phase of their golf swing. Okay, did it 303 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: go to my target, So take the target away. But 304 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: now in the transfer phase and the integration phase, we're 305 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: going to try and see if that pattern is starting 306 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: to feel a little bit more normal and a little 307 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: bit more neutral. When we're going into transfer phase. We're 308 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: pretty good at executing the drills that we're trying to do. 309 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: We're pretty good at kind of executing and putting the 310 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: golf club in the positions that we're trying to do. 311 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 2: The look of the golf swing. 312 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: Right, we're checking that when we're in our technique foes 313 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: on video to see if the pattern is changing. Right, 314 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: you can compare. There's loads of apps where you can 315 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: put side by side comparisons of video. There's loads of 316 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: apps where you can take screenshots of your backswing at 317 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: kind of waist hie at the top and down and 318 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: then where you want it to be, and then compare and. 319 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 2: Contrast those things. 320 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: But this session is going to look very different than 321 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: the pure technique session that you were just in. So again, 322 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: the first five minutes we're going to do a technical 323 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,719 Speaker 1: warm up, but it's kind of the same foundation that 324 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: we did when we were in technique mode. Right, start 325 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,719 Speaker 1: with five reps, five to ten reps, where you know 326 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: whatever club you're using your wedge, a nine iron, an 327 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: eight iron, some give yourself a club that you can control. 328 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: It's hard to make changes with longer golf clubs, right, 329 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: So give yourself a club, a scoring club that you can, Carol, 330 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: think of your scoring clubs as kind of a seven 331 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: iron and down. Right, So make five to ten reps 332 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: with just pure technical work. That's the same thing that 333 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 1: we were doing in our technique mode. Right, no pattern, 334 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: You're just trying to reconnect with the process with the 335 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 1: pattern that you were trying to make. So in technique mode, 336 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: there was no golf ball, right, we were just working 337 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: on the pattern. Now we're going to make five to 338 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: ten reps where we're using a ball. Still no target. 339 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: You're again you're just trying to wake up the pattern. Now, 340 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: a lot of players will say, listen, I've been working 341 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 1: on this for weeks. I know what to do. 342 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: I've got that. 343 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: And that's kind of the wrong mindset because every single 344 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: session that you have in a practice session, regardless of 345 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: how long that session is, think about it is, Okay, 346 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: I need to wake up the car. I need to 347 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: wake up I need to warm up the car. I 348 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: need to wake up this pattern. Right, don't skip this 349 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 1: five to ten ball, pure technical. 350 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 2: Pattern, no targets, all right, no targets. 351 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: Now we're going to be in this transfer mode to 352 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: where we're trying to blend what we're working on in 353 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: technique and we're trying to blend it into Okay, now 354 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: picking out a target, picking out alignment, right, so alternate 355 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: that pattern right, Say, okay, I'm going to go a 356 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: pure technical rep now to where I'm just trying to 357 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 1: work on my feels, no target, just working on this, 358 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: creating this new pattern. And now I'm going to have 359 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: a target rep where I'm going to pick a target 360 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: and commit to that technical change, right, and go back 361 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: and forth between that. Okay, a technical rep to where 362 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: there's no target, there's no alignment, it's just I'm making 363 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: a golf swing. I'm hitting a golf ball with all 364 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: of the stuff and the fields and the drills and 365 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: stuff that I'm doing in technique. Now get completely out 366 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: of that and make a target rep. Okay, set an 367 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 1: alignment stick down, pick a target out. What you're trying 368 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: to do is make a bridge, right, You're trying to 369 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,360 Speaker 1: make a bridge between the practice and performance. 370 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 2: Right. 371 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: One rep is just purely reconnecting and trying to execute 372 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: the new pattern, the new swing that you're trying to make. 373 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: And then the next rep is just the new pattern, 374 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: the new swing you're trying to make and a target, right, 375 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: And so as soon as you enter into or add 376 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: a target, you're going to feel this urge and this 377 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: want and this need to try and steer the golf 378 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: ball towards your target. Right, You're going to try and 379 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: want to manipulate your golf swing and your pattern to 380 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: the target. That's the thing you're trying not to do. 381 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: Your job is to try and one hundred percent commit 382 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: to this new pattern even when we have a target 383 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: in mind. Okay, so let's talk about picking out targets. 384 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: Don't pick out small, really small targets, right, don't really 385 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: pick out any target over one hundred and fifty yards. 386 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:05,239 Speaker 1: Pick a big landing area, pick a green, right, and 387 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: you're trying to hit anywhere on this green the goal 388 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: with this new pattern, this new feel, you're just trying 389 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: to hit a big, big target. So pick that big 390 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: landing era. You could use the driving range in any 391 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: way you want. Okay, I'm just going to cut the 392 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: driving range in half now, right, I'm just going to 393 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: have a left side of the driving range. I'm going 394 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: to have a right side of the driving range. And 395 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: all I'm going to try and do is just hit 396 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: these shots with these new target reps where I'm just 397 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: trying to hit the left side of the driving range, 398 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: or I'm just trying to hit the right side of 399 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: the driving range. If your driving range doesn't have any 400 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: target greens, pick out some flags, pick out some yardage markers, 401 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: you know, the one hundred and fifty, all of that. 402 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: But give yourself a really really big target, give yourself 403 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: room to miss. If you find yourself doing well, then 404 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: start to make the target smaller. So work from big 405 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: targets and then work into small targets. I think so 406 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: many players just immediately go and try and hit incredibly 407 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: small targets, right, So I think that's something you really 408 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: want to try and. 409 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 2: Stay away from that. 410 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: And then bounce back between different clubs right, Okay, do 411 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: it with a wedge, Okay, do the rep. Do a 412 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: swing that has a rep to it. Right Again, that's 413 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: just trying to create the pattern. Now add a target 414 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: to the rep, and then go from a wedge to 415 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,120 Speaker 1: a seven iron right, and then do that same thing 416 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 1: again where we're making a pattern rep to where it's 417 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: a technical rep snow target. We're just working on the 418 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: feel of this golf swing. Then we throw in a target. 419 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: Then we throw in an alignment, and we can make 420 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: those targets as big or as small as we want 421 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: to art big and work back into that, right, And 422 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: so I think another thing that you can add to 423 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: that is a kind of commitment, almost like a commitment 424 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 1: rating drill. Pick five specific targets, right, can use flags, 425 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: you can use yardage markers. Again, you can use that 426 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: concept of the left side of the green. You can 427 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: make that to the right side of the green on 428 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: each shot that you're hitting okay, on each of these 429 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: five balls with five specific different targets, rate your commitment 430 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: did you fully commit to the new pattern? On a 431 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,239 Speaker 1: scale of one to ten. One to ten would be 432 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: fully committing to the new pattern, and then a one 433 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: would be going completely back to the old pattern. And 434 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,719 Speaker 1: out of those five balls, if you could rate yourself 435 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: for the five balls you hit, okay, did I get 436 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: seven or above? You're not trying to hit every single target, right, 437 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: that's kind of performance and execution phase thinking, right, you're 438 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: judging your in this transfer phase where you're trying to 439 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: build this bridge of transferring and integrating what you're working 440 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: on in your technique, in your fields and in your drills. Right, 441 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: you're trying to transfer what you're doing in practice to 442 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: this phase to where you're still allowing yourself to phase, 443 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: but you're judging your commitment to making this new swing, 444 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 1: this new pattern. You're not judging the outcome. Right, The 445 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: pattern could really be there. You just need to calibrate 446 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: the pattern. That's the process of getting better. That's how 447 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: you get better. Right, And then the last five minutes, 448 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: do the same thing that we did in the technique 449 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: phase and reflect, write down, ask yourself. You know, you 450 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: could ask yourself these questions. How many times did I 451 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 1: fully commit to the pattern? Or how many times when 452 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: I was doing my my golf swings to where I 453 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: was working on the pattern but with a target, how 454 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: many times did I commit to that? Or how many 455 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: times did I go back and try and steer the 456 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: golf ball right? On what shots did you find yourself 457 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: steering it versus trusting the pattern? Which clubs felt easier 458 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: for you to trust the new pattern and not steer it? 459 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 2: Right? I think that's a huge, huge phase. And then 460 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 2: what's your think about it? 461 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: Okay, for that block of practice there where I was 462 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: going back through a technique rep and then a technique 463 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 1: rep with a target. What's my commitment percentage right now 464 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 1: and write that down. What you're really trying to do 465 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: in this transfer phase is kind of change the mindset. 466 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 2: You're trying to. 467 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: Build trust with this new move that you're making. You're 468 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: not trying to build perfection. 469 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 2: Right. 470 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: Some shots are going to be great, some shots are 471 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: probably going to be terrible, But that's what needs and 472 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: is supposed to happen because you're not in performance and 473 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: execution mode here. I just think so many golfers are 474 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: in technique mode with no plan, no real process. They're 475 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: not really thinking about anything, right, They're not trying to 476 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 1: create a new pattern. They're just going to hit some 477 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 1: balls and then they're just going to jump straight into performance. 478 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 2: Right. 479 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: Learning to trust something new under pressure is really important, 480 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: but I think most players the pressure and the only 481 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: pressure they ever try and add or use is. 482 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 2: The golf course. Right. 483 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: You need to build that trust in your practice session, 484 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: and that's where I think this transfer phase is this 485 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: integration phase, this bridge that you're trying to build, right. 486 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: I think that's a really really important thing to think 487 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: about when you're in this non technique phase. Right, you're 488 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: trying to bridge or build this bridge to performance. So 489 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: you're trying to take and integrate the stuff that you're 490 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 1: working on in your technique and build that bridge and 491 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: transfer it into something that you can do when you're 492 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: hitting golf balls with the target. 493 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 2: Right. 494 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: But I think that's the middle phase of this technique, 495 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: transfer execution performance. I think it's this transfer phase as 496 00:27:54,560 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: to why golfers never really get any better. So three phases, 497 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: and now let's talk about a thirty minute practice session 498 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: where we would be in execution phase. 499 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 2: Right. 500 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: The warm up in all of these phases I think 501 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: is really really important. Right, So now we're going to 502 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: be in execution phase. And if we're in this execution 503 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: and performance phase again in practice not out on the 504 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: golf course, the pattern that we built in the technical 505 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: phase and the pattern that we built and then bridged 506 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: in the transfer phase and the integration phase, the pattern 507 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: is pretty solid. 508 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 2: Right. You can commit to making. 509 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: Swings with the target in mind while you're still feeling 510 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: these things in your golf swing. Right, But now you're 511 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: going to try and simulate execution performance. You're going to 512 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: try on the range to play golf. Right, So this 513 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: first five minutes is really it's kind of a it's 514 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: kind of a light technical check in, right. You're not 515 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: drilling your technique, You've already done that in the technique phase, right, 516 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: You're just making sure everything's really really good. So make 517 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,960 Speaker 1: some swings. You can do this with any club, five 518 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: swings in total. And this is where I would use video, right, Okay, 519 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: So when I'm in my execution phase, right, I'm going 520 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: to make five swings, I'm gonna set up my video camera. 521 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: I can set up that up face on, I can 522 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: set that up. 523 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 2: Down the line. 524 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: But what I'm trying to do is make sure that 525 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: the pattern hasn't changed. Right, That's what we're trying to do. 526 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 2: Now. 527 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: If you are making swings and you're going to try 528 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: and be an execution phase and you're looking at your 529 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: golf swing, you make five swings and you know this 530 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 1: light kind of you know this technique check in, right, 531 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 1: and it's not where you want it to be, stop 532 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: and go back into and say, listen, I'm not ready 533 00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: to go into. 534 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 2: This phase yet because my golf swing, the. 535 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: Pattern isn't there yet, right, So when you're in this 536 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: execution phase, you want your pattern to be good, and 537 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: that's really really important now in an ideal world, by 538 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 1: the time you get to execution, the pattern should be 539 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: kind of automatic. You're not rebuilding your golf swing in 540 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: this phase, you're just maintaining it. So now we're going 541 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: to take that next block of twenty minutes and you're 542 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: going to use the range as a playground, right, and 543 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: so you're going to get out your driver and you're 544 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: going to pick out a target. Give yourself a fairway 545 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 1: on your driving right, use you know, if you need 546 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,479 Speaker 1: to use trees, if you need to use the whole range, 547 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: whatever it is, if you need to use the flags, right, 548 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: but give yourself a fair way. And again give yourself 549 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: a big fair way at the beginning, and then start 550 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: to work in right. So it's a game that you're 551 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 1: going to play, So then give yourself a fair way 552 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: to hit, and then give yourself a target or an 553 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: area to hit with an iron, whatever iron you want 554 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: to choose. But again give yourself a big target. So 555 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: you're hitting a driver, which is simulating what you would 556 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: do off t right, and then you're hitting an iron, 557 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: which would simulate what you would do going into a green. 558 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,120 Speaker 1: If you hit both of your targets, both with your 559 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: driver and an iron. You could do this with your 560 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: three wood. You could do this with whatever woods you have. 561 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: You could do this with a driving iron. You could 562 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: do this with a hybrid right to where you're simulating 563 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: a t shot to a big target right, and then 564 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: you're simulating an iron shot. And again you can change 565 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: the irons in any fashion you want. If you hit 566 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: both of those targets right, if you drive it into 567 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: your target, and then if you hit an iron into 568 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: your target, that's a par. Right, so you've made a 569 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: par if you miss one. So let's say you hit 570 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: the fairway but don't hit the green, that's a bogie. 571 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: Let's say you don't hit the fairway but you hit 572 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: the green, that's a bogee. If you miss both. If 573 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,800 Speaker 1: you miss the fairway and if you miss the green, 574 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: that's a double bogie. Right, different targets go through your 575 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: whole routine. You could design eighteen holes right, keep score, 576 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 1: make it matter, and then one of the things I 577 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: think that's always really hard and difficult for golfers. Right. 578 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,840 Speaker 1: I went up recently and visited Noah can at the 579 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: University of Florida. I'd never been up there before and 580 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: before I started working with Noah. The day I went 581 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: up there, JC Deacon, the head coach, and Dudley Hart, 582 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: the assistant. They took me around, you know, University of 583 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: Florida's new one hundred and fifty million dollar football facility, 584 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: which was just it was amazing, right, it was unbelievable, 585 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: and getting to walk through that facility and seeing, you know, 586 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: the college athletes are part of the University of a 587 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: Florida's football team. But I started thinking about what happens 588 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: in team sports when they practice, right, team sports, when 589 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 1: they practice, there's consequences, Right, there's consequences to practice, there's consequences. 590 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,479 Speaker 1: So whatever position you're playing in, whatever sports you're playing, 591 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: you have a job, you have a role to execute. Right, 592 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 1: So if you're playing on an NFL team, whatever position 593 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: you're playing, you have a responsibility and assignment for. 594 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 2: That play, for that rep. 595 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: So in team sports practice, they're not really going to 596 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: let you make mistakes, right with whatever you're doing in 597 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: these reps. Right, if you make mistakes, there's consequences. One 598 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: of the consequences of making mistakes in team sports in 599 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,959 Speaker 1: your position and not doing your job and missing your 600 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: assignment is they'll pull you out of the game, they'll 601 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: pull you out of practice and they'll bring somebody else in, right, 602 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,840 Speaker 1: And so what I always find interesting and in team sports, 603 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,319 Speaker 1: let's say a team is doing a scrimmage, they're doing a. 604 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 2: Five on five. You know, they're shortening the court, whatever 605 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 2: they're doing. 606 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: You know, they're not doing necessarily games in team sports 607 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,280 Speaker 1: all the time. In practice they're setting up smaller versions 608 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: of that game. But they're they're doing the things that 609 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: they need to do. But the coaches are evaluating every 610 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,800 Speaker 1: single rep right, the coaches in practice in team sports, 611 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 1: they're evaluating everybody. 612 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 2: Did you achieve your assignment? Right? Did you do your job? 613 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,479 Speaker 1: And I don't think we do that in golf because 614 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: there's no consequences, right, you mess up enough in in 615 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 1: in a college football environment and professional football, and bent 616 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: in the college basketball assignment, they'll run until you'll go run, right, 617 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: They'll make you go run the stairs, They'll make you do, 618 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: you know, some physical task which is designed as a punishment. 619 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: And so we just don't have that in golf, right, 620 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: And I don't think we as a result, I don't 621 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,960 Speaker 1: think that. And I said this to Noah when I 622 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: was up there at the University of Florida. I said, listen, 623 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: maybe we need to change what we're doing and hit 624 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,280 Speaker 1: less golf balls. 625 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 2: Right. 626 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,800 Speaker 1: You would think that in an effort to try and 627 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: qualify for these tournaments that Noah's trying to do, and 628 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: in an effort to try and get better as a 629 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 1: college golfer, we would need him to spend more time practicing. Which, yeah, 630 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: practice is always good, but practice for the sake of 631 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: practice with zero structure and not understanding what phase you're 632 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,720 Speaker 1: in in practice, understanding that you're in a technique phase, 633 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 1: understanding that you're in a transfer phase. I think that's 634 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,319 Speaker 1: really really important because when the game starts, whether you're 635 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 1: in teams or whether you're in an individual sport, the 636 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,720 Speaker 1: game is going out and playing nine holes. The game 637 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 1: is going out and playing eighteen holes. The game starts 638 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,439 Speaker 1: when you are trying to keep score. What I see 639 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 1: everybody doing is going out and while they're trying to 640 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 1: play the game, they spend more time practicing the game again, 641 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 1: practicing what you're trying to do. 642 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 2: That's technique phase, right, building that. 643 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: Bridge from technique phase and trying to build a bridge 644 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,359 Speaker 1: from what you're working on. Everyone asks me, hey, how 645 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 1: do I take what I'm working on in the draw 646 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: on the driving range and take it to the golf course. Well, 647 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: what you do is you work on these three phases, right, 648 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,839 Speaker 1: and you understand what phase you're in. If you're working 649 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,760 Speaker 1: on your golf swing, if you're working on your fields, 650 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,160 Speaker 1: if you're working on positions, if you're working on looks, 651 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,239 Speaker 1: if you're working on creating that new pattern, that's technique. 652 00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,320 Speaker 2: That's technical reps. 653 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: Right, that's you're allowed to fail, You're allowed to experiment. 654 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: You're just trying new things out. Then you're trying to 655 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:13,440 Speaker 1: build that bridge to execution and performance by transfer integration. 656 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 1: You're going back and forth between pure tech technique reps 657 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: with no targets, with no wins, with no outcomes, right, 658 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 1: not caring where the golf ball goes. The only thing 659 00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 1: you're trying to do is work on building and creating 660 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 1: that new pattern. Check yourself with video and transfer phase 661 00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: and see if it works. And then in execution, you're 662 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 1: just trying to simulate from gamifying your practice as to 663 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,600 Speaker 1: what you're going to feel on the golf course. You know, 664 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: a lot of what we're doing with our junior golfers 665 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,240 Speaker 1: now is we're trying to create those consequences in execution 666 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: and performance. 667 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:50,399 Speaker 2: Right. 668 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,959 Speaker 1: So if they are doing you know, the par game 669 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 1: where if you hit a fair way and you hit 670 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:57,799 Speaker 1: a green. 671 00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 2: That's a par. Right. 672 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: If you miss one of those two, that's bogie, and 673 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: if you miss both, it's double bogie. So a lot 674 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 1: of what we're doing with our junior golfers now is 675 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 1: if they miss both, we make them do push ups, 676 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: we make them do some sprints, we make them do 677 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,359 Speaker 1: some air squads, we make them run up and down 678 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,279 Speaker 1: a slope or something like that, so that there is 679 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 1: a consequence that is a task that they don't want 680 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,479 Speaker 1: to do, right, build in a consequence for you. Right, 681 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,959 Speaker 1: Let's say the consequence could be I'm in performance mode 682 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,240 Speaker 1: and I'm going to try and do my thirty minute practice, 683 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: and if I am making in this par game, you know, 684 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: let's say I I'm going to try and do this 685 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: eighteen times right to simulate what's happening on the golf 686 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 1: course and start off by doing, you know, a score, 687 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,239 Speaker 1: and the goal would be to get a perfect score, 688 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: to kind of get a perfect score where you're just 689 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: trying to make a part. Ryan and Chrysler and I 690 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,319 Speaker 1: Ryan who works with me here at the Floridian, but 691 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 1: his Instagram site Golf Chaos Manage. We did a podcast 692 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 1: where we talked about this game to where you go 693 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: out for eighteen holes on the golf course and all 694 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,759 Speaker 1: you're trying to do. Anything par below is a win, 695 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 1: anything over par is a loss on that hole, and 696 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,719 Speaker 1: then adding up where you are. So you could do 697 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: that in practice in this par game, right in this 698 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 1: execution phase is performance. But let's say that. 699 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,840 Speaker 2: You want to try and build in consequences right of 700 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:38,440 Speaker 2: the par game. 701 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 1: And again, the goal of the par game is if 702 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,320 Speaker 1: you hit both targets, hit the green or hit the fairway, 703 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 1: hit the green on the driving range in execution mode, 704 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:54,440 Speaker 1: that's par. And then if you miss one, it's bogie. 705 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 1: And then if you miss both, it's double bogee. The 706 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: consequence could be okay if I make more than kind 707 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: of if I look at this from an eighteen hole, 708 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to do this for eighteen times. 709 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 2: If I make two double bogies, Right, if I. 710 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: Go two in a row where I don't hit either target, 711 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: the game's over and the consequences I have to go 712 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,359 Speaker 1: back into technique mode because that's kind of and then 713 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,160 Speaker 1: go back into saying, okay, let me go back making 714 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: some technical reps, no targets, no kind of consequences. Okay, 715 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: give yourself a goal of how many swings you have 716 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,839 Speaker 1: to make. Then let me do the same amount of swings. 717 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,000 Speaker 1: So let's say you're gonna go okay, the consequence of 718 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,400 Speaker 1: making two double bogies in this part game is okay. 719 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: Now I've got to go back into technique mode for 720 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:52,200 Speaker 1: ten swings, and I've got to work no targets, no targets, feels, positions, drills, 721 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: all that stuff. Then I've got to do that transfer 722 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,040 Speaker 1: phaseed to where I'm bridging, trying to build that bridge 723 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:01,600 Speaker 1: between what I'm doing from a technique standpoint, make ten 724 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,520 Speaker 1: swings like that where I'm adding targets. Then let me 725 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,720 Speaker 1: go back into the par game. Right, give yourself consequences. 726 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,360 Speaker 1: And I think if you can create smaller practice sessions 727 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,800 Speaker 1: where the time gap is shortened, so within that shortened 728 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,399 Speaker 1: time gap you have to be really structured and really 729 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,840 Speaker 1: really organized, I think that's a really good way to 730 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,240 Speaker 1: start to see some improvement, to start to see some change, 731 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 1: and to start to understand what phase. If you're going 732 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 1: in and you're going to play in a tournament. I 733 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: think it's another opportunity for you to check in and say, listen, 734 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,719 Speaker 1: I've got the club championship. Okay, it's Monday, I've got 735 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,319 Speaker 1: the club championship. Over the weekend, I'm going to try 736 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,920 Speaker 1: and practice, you know, a couple of times to get ready. 737 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,759 Speaker 1: What phase of my practice am I in? What phase 738 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,600 Speaker 1: of my practice do I need to be in right 739 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: now to get ready for this tournament. If my golf 740 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,840 Speaker 1: swing isn't feeling really good right now, I need to 741 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 1: do some of these technique practices. Is if I feel 742 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 1: like my golf swing's getting really better, but I'm trying 743 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: to get into that commitment phase, that trust phase, I'm 744 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,200 Speaker 1: going to move into that integration phase, and then maybe 745 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:11,680 Speaker 1: I just I'm hitting. 746 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,480 Speaker 2: It really good. I feel really. 747 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 1: Confident and comfortable with my swing. I'm just going to 748 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,439 Speaker 1: use my practice sessions before this tournament that I'm playing. 749 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,879 Speaker 1: I'm just going to use my practice sessions as as 750 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,319 Speaker 1: performance execution practice sessions to where I do the par 751 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,560 Speaker 1: game and I'm changing up my targets and. 752 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:30,440 Speaker 2: I'm going imagining that. 753 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: Okay, now I'm going to play a par five to 754 00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,880 Speaker 1: where I give myself a fair way. I've got to 755 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,480 Speaker 1: hit that par five. I've got to have the ball 756 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 1: land in that target area. And then what I'm going 757 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: to do is I'm going to lay up and I'm 758 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: going to pick out another target, and if I lay 759 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: the ball up into that target, and then I'm going 760 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 1: to try. 761 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,319 Speaker 2: And hit the green. Right. 762 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: I think understanding which phase of practice you're in technique 763 00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:02,200 Speaker 1: transfer execution right, technical integrate performance right, those are the 764 00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:07,359 Speaker 1: three phases. Understanding which one you're in, and then organizing 765 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,439 Speaker 1: and designing thirty minute practice sessions. You could do our 766 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: practice sessions, but however long you're going to practice practice 767 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: with a purpose. Make sure that each ball you're hitting 768 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,120 Speaker 1: has a purpose, that there's a reason. 769 00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 2: Why you're hitting that golf ball. 770 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:30,319 Speaker 1: And I think restructuring the way that you practice, focusing 771 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:36,120 Speaker 1: in your practice sessions, having structure regardless of what phase 772 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:43,080 Speaker 1: you're in. Technique, transfer, execution, I really think that's important. 773 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 1: And out of those three phases, it's that middle gap 774 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,000 Speaker 1: to where that transfer integration, where you're trying to build 775 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,120 Speaker 1: that bridge from what you're doing in your technique, what 776 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,760 Speaker 1: you're doing in all your fields and all your drills, 777 00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,840 Speaker 1: The other thing that you can do and transfer in 778 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,880 Speaker 1: that transfer phase is cycle through your swing thoughts, cycle 779 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 1: through your feels. When a target is involved. Can you 780 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: focus on the new pattern of your golf swing. Can 781 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,439 Speaker 1: you attach a feel, a swing thought to what you're 782 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,239 Speaker 1: trying to do when you have a target? Can you 783 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,720 Speaker 1: trust that? Can you not try and steer the golf 784 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:27,920 Speaker 1: ball to the target? To not try and focus and 785 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,400 Speaker 1: have your brain jump to outcome anytime you start to 786 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:39,720 Speaker 1: think about results and outcomes, that is execution and performance thinking, 787 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,960 Speaker 1: which is fine if that's the phase you're in, But 788 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,120 Speaker 1: if you're not in that phase, right, you've got to 789 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:53,160 Speaker 1: go back in in technique phase, there's no outcome, there's 790 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:58,320 Speaker 1: no targets, there's no judgment. It's just trying to create 791 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,160 Speaker 1: a new golf swing, a new back swing, a new 792 00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: top of backswing position. Transfer is doing that with a target, 793 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,680 Speaker 1: and you're asking yourself, can I build trust? Can I 794 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,080 Speaker 1: keep my trust? Can I not go back to the 795 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,840 Speaker 1: old pattern? Can I not try and steer the golf 796 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: ball towards the target? 797 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 2: Right? 798 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: And then in performance that's what it is. You're trying 799 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,719 Speaker 1: to just think about performance and execution. So I think 800 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,839 Speaker 1: that's a really good way to try and structure it. 801 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,160 Speaker 1: I think it's a really good way to kind of 802 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,879 Speaker 1: put a time stamp and a time gap on your 803 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:36,680 Speaker 1: practice sessions. The warm up, that five minute warm up 804 00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 1: in all of these phases, don't skip that. And the 805 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 1: other thing you don't skip is don't skip that reflection 806 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,879 Speaker 1: phase at the end. Take five minutes. Write down what 807 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,640 Speaker 1: you're able to do. If you're in execution and performance, 808 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:58,239 Speaker 1: write down what you were feeling, how many swings you 809 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,719 Speaker 1: felt like you were able to just trust the process 810 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,799 Speaker 1: and focus on the outcome, focus on targets. And I 811 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,719 Speaker 1: think if most golfers would practice better and practice with structure, 812 00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,279 Speaker 1: I think their golf swings would improve. I think their 813 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,040 Speaker 1: handicaps would improve, and I think they would be able 814 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:25,359 Speaker 1: to build that bridge from technique, swing thoughts, drills, and 815 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 1: build a bridge to being able on the golf course 816 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,160 Speaker 1: to turn your brain off and just try and focus 817 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:36,640 Speaker 1: on targets, try and not focus on your golf swing 818 00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,799 Speaker 1: and just try and perform, try and hit shots and 819 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,240 Speaker 1: try and score. 820 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:43,920 Speaker 2: So give this a try. 821 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,800 Speaker 1: Hopefully this will help, And I think if you stick 822 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,120 Speaker 1: to it, I definitely think you are going to see 823 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,759 Speaker 1: some results. 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