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This concept video is a feeling starting to emerge.

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One of my favorite questions to ask towards the end of the lesson is a feeling starting

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to emerge.

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Usually the scenario is this if we've done something that's very different.

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Let's say they're used to kind of flipping like this and we're working more on the

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motorcycle and kind of getting more width in the falter.

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It could be a very different movement pattern than they're used to.

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Often times students in person or some even through the website will ask, well what would

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it feel like if I do it?

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And my honest answer is I have absolutely no idea.

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I can offer suggestions as far as what other students have felt.

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But at least once a month, once every couple weeks, someone will describe a movement

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in a way that completely surprises me.

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And so I've given up on trying to guess what it's going to feel like.

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Instead, my goal is to get you to design a drill to design a station so that you can do it

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enough times that a feeling will start to emerge.

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Usually that could take 70 balls, 100 balls, 300 balls.

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But if you do enough reps correctly, a feeling will emerge.

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And then what you can do is test out that feeling over subsequent practices or back-to-back days.

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If it's a really strong feeling, it will last multiple days.

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But no one feeling is going to last forever.

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So what's more important than having the right feeling is having the right set of drills

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for your game so that when something gets off, you can do a few drills and get a new feeling

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to accomplish the same position or the same movement pattern that gives you the right results.

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Because the positions and the physics of how we hit the ball, that's not going to change day to day.

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But your feelings can change quite dramatically.

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So instead of trying to guess what it's going to feel like,

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no, where you're trying to go.

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So set up a really good station, focus on your checkpoints, some of these little details,

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and then after you do a bunch of reps, you'll start to get a feeling of what it's like to do it better.

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That's the first step in being able to take it to the course,

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especially if you're more of a feel golfer, is you have to do enough to let the feel show up.

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Instead of just thinking, hey, this is probably what it's going to feel like.

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This can almost be more important when I have golfers who I get to do the right movement,

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and their answer or their first comment is, well, that doesn't feel right.

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It doesn't feel good.

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And so usually what I'll do then is I'll show them on video that, hey, look,

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it's doing what you were asking you wanted to do.

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We're making better contact or we're slightly off because of a set complimentary piece.

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But we're making progress, and it doesn't feel comfortable yet, because you haven't done enough reps.

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So the general idea in this video is that as you do more reps,

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if you have proper feedback in your in the right area,

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you'll develop feels that will help you to take what could be really clunky and kind of awkward

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and turn it into something very fluid and very efficient.

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One of my favorite stories about that comes more from the Marshall Arts,

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where they talk about making the punch the circle smaller.

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So when a beginner is learning to throw a punch,

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oftentimes there's a really excessive movement to coordinate all the muscles and deliver the blow.

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And as you practice, that punch gets smaller and smaller to where it's no longer,

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you know, swinging over this big pattern,

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it's now a very refined movement creating the same amount of speed.

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As you do more and more reps, if it's a good drill for you,

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you will hit better and better until you have a feel.

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As you do more with that feel, it'll solidify into something that will help coordinate your overall swing.

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So don't get too caught up trying to find the perfect feel.

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Instead, try to find the perfect drill where you're able to feel some of these key movements.

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Once you've felt these movements enough times, I promise you a feel will emerge.