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This concept video is discussing the two ways to learn.

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So I've got this site to help guide you with reshaping your golf swing,

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or rebalancing your golf swing.

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And you'll notice there's a lot of drills on here.

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There's a lot of concept videos.

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There are a couple different ways that I've seen over the last 15 years I've been teaching golf.

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There's a couple different ways that I've seen people actually change their swing and make progress.

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And then there's some ways that I see people, you know, get stuck in a rut.

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We've all seen them golfers who've been at the same swing level, the same handicap level, hit the same shots for literally decades,

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making no progress whatsoever.

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So I'm going to help you avoid that pitfall by understanding how to use the drills properly.

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In my mind, there are two different ways to learn.

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And, you know, I can't break it down as to if you're, you know, it's 50, 50, 60, 40.

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But there's two common ways that I see people really get into using drills and shaping their swing.

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One, I call it kind of the Tai Chi learner. They're super feel oriented.

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And they do a lot of slow motion repetition. So they can watch the drill and then they'll do it in slow motion.

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And they'll kind of have almost like, oh, they'll kind of have like this little aha moment where they get it.

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And they kind of sense that's how I need to be pushing on the club.

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And then, or that's how I need to be using my legs or that's how I'm going to use my core.

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Basically, they have this aha moment that's triggered from doing really slow motion almost positional training.

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I have a terrible time doing kind of tempo drills.

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But they'll do really well with some of the position-oriented movements.

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And they'll kind of walk through.

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And then once they have a feel, you'll see them take the swing and almost, they won't even look at contact.

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They won't even, they're so ingrained in, trench with the field that they'll go right back to know that was not quite right through their grab and other ball and do it again.

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They tend to not be the golfers who do rapid fire style of practice.

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They tend to really take their time in between shots.

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There is kind of a small subset who's more rapid-fire.

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They'll do like, you know, three to five reps and then think about it and do some practice swings and kind of work through it.

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They'll definitely, you know, work through the movement in this slow motion hyper-feel sense.

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So Tai Chi is option number one.

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They love to do slow motion swings.

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They love to practice at home.

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They love to practice away from their golf game and really just work on the movement.

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That might not be you.

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If that's not you, then you need to do option number two, which is more drill progressions.

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Which basically means you have to lay out baby steps of what am I currently doing and then a drill that helps you get to feel.

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Or you get to feel or experience something different and then add length and speed until you can do it in your full swing.

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So these are typically the people who they don't get the aha moment the first time I show it to them.

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They see that the ball fly is different but then they might have a regression every time they go back to the range.

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So what you have to do is you have to constantly kind of almost freshen up or tune in the brain sensitivity to the movement.

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Commonplace I'll work on this style is whether it's a transition or a release but releases a really common one.

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So let's say I have more of a scoop style release maybe even with a little buckle and I'm trying to get a little bit better arm extension.

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So now I'd make sure I do a drill or two and make sure I know what it feels like to get arm extension.

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Then I do a drill or two doing let's say arm extension with just brushing the ground.

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Arm extension brushing the ground then I'd try to do arm extension just brushing the ground trying to get the same turf contact.

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That's the key to this drill style learning is I have to have some type of objective measurement whether it's a shaft somewhere of pool noodle.

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Lines on the ground like four square turf contact, ball flight.

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I have to have an objective measurement so that I can or an objective form of feedback so that my brain can say yes I did that correct.

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And then after doing a hundred repetitions, five hundred repetitions and getting a lot of correct reps the brain builds the pattern and I'm able to make changes that way.

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But the key with that is let's say I did I did the little nine to three did it well I go up halfway I'm fine go three quarter I'm fine and then I go to full swing and it breaks down.

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Most golfers would just hang out at the full swing and again falling that pattern of just trying to think something different.

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That doesn't work so what they have to do is they'll back it down to where they broke down and figure out what's the difference between those two.

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I was going was it because I went bigger and that pulled me out of position and messed up my sequencing and low point control or was it that I swung harder and the way I'm creating speed messed up my sequencing messed up my low point control.

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So you want to have these little drill recipes or drill progressions so that if you're hitting full swings and you happen to lose it all you have to do is go back and run through your drill progression.

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The more times you do it the easier it'll get so the first time I go through I might have to do 10 nine to three is and then 10 three quarter and then 10 full swing.

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After I've done it maybe for a week or two weeks I may just have to do one of each where I might only have to take a practice swing to read dial it in and give my brain that sensation that I want.

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Let's do a quick recap of these two styles of learning.

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Tai Chi where I do slow motion until I have that a ha moment and every repetition I'm comparing one specific part of the movement or how movements relate to each other very detailed into the feel.

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The other option I'm not quite as strong with the feel so I'm going to use drill progressions that have checkpoints.

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The checkpoints are either going to be how the club brushes with the ground.

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Where the club is so I could use a shaft alignment I could use a physical alignment where the shaft is at different checkpoints or ball flight and trajectory.

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And I'm going to do these little drill progressions adding difficulty or intensity or length of swing until I can take what I'm trying to do and do it at full speed in my full swing that's when I know that I've really got it.

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So the two good options the one bad option is if I just watch the drill and kind of like okay.

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Yeah I can kind of feel what a little Jackson five is like I'm not going to do you know 50 repetitions a day I'm not going to work on the actual you know training my body and my brain to do it.

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I'm just going to try and think Jackson five a few times that's the time that's the style that tends to fail in a pressure you you just kind of think of feeling you haven't really trained it.

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Or not even under pressure but fails to to build it into long term memory.

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So you want to do one of the other two styles either Tai Chi where you do a lot of slow motion or drills where you progress it.

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If you do those I'm confident the you two will be able to have success in actually changing your swing changing your ball flight and change the way you get to play golf.