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This concept video is two ways to monitor progress.

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So when it comes to monitoring progress,

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you can't just go off of contact and ball flight. Um, yes,

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that's a really critical one,

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but every swing makes good shots and sometimes you're hitting good shots cuz

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you're in a good rhythm versus hitting good shots because you're improving your

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technique. Um, I always fall back on, uh, two things. One, a Tiger Woods quote,

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um, that, uh, I've seen recently, but I've,

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I've kind of described in my own way, but he said it better. Um,

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he said that when he is making a swing change, first he understands it,

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then it looks better, then it feels better, then it performs on the range,

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then it performs on a course, and then it performs in a tournament.

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So there's this little baby step progression,

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but it starts with understanding and looking better before it feels better.

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Many amateur golfers, the second a swing feels uncomfortable, uh,

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kind of freak out and want to revert back to what feels much more comfortable.

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But if you keep doing what you've always done, as Martin Hall says,

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you'll keep getting what you've always gotten or something like that. Um, so I,

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the second piece is I use progress, um,

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similar to how if you were rehabbing an injury, um,

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that your physio would approach it, um, which is,

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there's two ways that we could approach monitoring. If you're making progress,

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like let's say we have a shoulder injury and you're saying, man,

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it really hurts when I do this. Um,

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when I pick things up or when I reach for things, well, we can monitor the pain.

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That would be to monitoring kind of contact and ball flight.

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And you'd be saying, yeah, you know, we've been doing these exercises, these,

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this therapy, my shoulder doesn't hurt as much.

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But the other piece would be monitoring performance.

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We're monitoring range of motion, um,

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range of motion and kind of the functional movement that would be closer to what

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we're seeing on video. Um, so for example, it could still hurt,

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but if one week you're able to raise to here and then at the same amount of pain

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you're able to raise to here, that is also progress.

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And that's more what we see on video when we see positive changes, when we see,

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uh, getting better sequencing, you know,

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body more open when we see better shaft lean,

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when we see the arms more connected on the way through versus, or if we see, um,

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kind of getting a little bit more centered with our pivot.

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If we tend to see we're hitting the ball well,

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but we have some of the same amount of patterns. Um,

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then oftentimes at least when I see myself on video and I,

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I'm hitting it pretty well, I'll look at it and say, okay, yeah,

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I'm making really good progress cuz this is looking different. Or, um, no,

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I'm just in a good rhythm.

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Let's just enjoy it and hopefully play well when we get out there tomorrow.

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So I challenge a lot of my students to use both forms of feedback,

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not just contact how the club's hitting the ground,

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how the club's hitting the ball and ball flight, but also how it looks,

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the cautionary tale of how it looks is you have to know how to to use video,

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which is why I have, um, these, uh,

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analysis videos in each one of the courses to help you learn how to

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analyze your full swing, your short game, um, et cetera.

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But if you feel like you're plateauing,

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go more off of how it looks than how it's performing. Um,

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if it's looking good and it's not performing well,

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then you can do some little fine tuning based on balancing your seeps and

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shallows or club face or a height or any of those factors. Um,

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but hopefully this helps you, um, reinforce, uh,

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if you're not looking at it on video,

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at least do that periodically because that's gonna ultimately help make sure

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that you're trending in the right direction, um,

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not just getting into a good groove and hitting a bunch of good shots.

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All right. So all that talking,

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let's see if we can hit one good with my current thought and you'll be able to

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see on video if it looks any better.

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Felt good going at the flag, we'll take it. We better check it on video.