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This video is Goldilocks drills for skill building.

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So there are two major phases to taking whatever you learn and turning it into something

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you can use on the course.

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First, you got to build a technique and then the second piece is taking that technique

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and creating a skill with it.

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So for example, let's say I'm playing basketball.

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To connect the technique to shooting a jump shot, I'm going to push with my legs, I'm going

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to push with my arms and the last thing that's going to move with my wrist.

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Pretty easy technique, right?

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I can teach someone how to do that movement in probably about five minutes.

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In order for them to shoot a high percentage from the field in an NBA finals game, they're

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going to have to put in lots of reps in order to train that technique and build a skill.

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Now when it comes to precision activities, one of the best ways to build skills is with

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Goldilocks drills.

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So doing something that is a little short, a little long and then just right.

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So this can be applied broadly to either ball flights, contacts, or it can be applied specifically

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to movements.

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So for instance, let's say I'm working on my ball flight, I could hit one.

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Let's say I want to hit a little draw.

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I could hit a shot that goes pretty much straight, then I could hit a big hook and then

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I try to hit one kind of rate between the two.

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So that we call them Goldilocks drills because you do one that's a little too hot, a little

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too cold and then find the one that's just right.

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You can do this also with movement training.

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So you could do a Goldilocks drill if you're working on that lateral shift during transition.

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You could do one that's too much.

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You could do one that's not enough and then you could do one that's kind of right in

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between the two.

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If you're working on shallow movements, you could do super shallow as much as you can.

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You could do not shallow at all and then you could kind of find that midway region.

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Using Goldilocks drills is going to be much more beneficial for long-term skill building

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than just trying to put in rep after rep after rep of doing it perfectly.

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I know for a lot of you that's going to sound counterproductive or counterintuitive.

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But there's there've been numerous motor learning studies where they've shown that

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this gives you a better chance of developing that skill.

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So there's some famous ones with wedge shots where golfers were going to be tested at hitting 90 yards.

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If you have two groups of golfers, one group hits 100 yards and 80 yards and then the second group of golfers

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only hits 90 yards for their practice.

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The group that hits 180 is going to tend to have better proficiency at hitting 90 when they get tested,

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even though they've hit fewer shots at 90.

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Then the group who did nothing but hit 90.

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And part of it is because the brain basically has no reference.

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So if you're only hitting at 90 and then you hit one that's 95 and you hit one that's 85,

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the brain doesn't really have a whole lot to calibrate on.

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Where if you're hitting some shots at 80 and then you hit some shots at 100,

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you have these two different reference frames and you know it's kind of in the middle.

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You can apply that globally to any of the skills or any of the techniques that I talk about here

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in this program.

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And ultimately that'll help you develop your own memory bank so you can take these techniques

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and build some skills that you can use that will hold up on the course.

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Some great, some of my favorite places to use Goldie lock drills are contact drills.

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So hit it a little thin, hit it a little fat, try to hit it perfect, doing tempo training.

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So swing too easy, swing as hard as you can, swing kind of your normal stock move of 90%

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80% whatever that may be.

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Length of backswing, so do a little too short, little too long and then find that one that's just right.

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Extension on the way through or a amount of racing, a amount of slide, a amount of shallowing,

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a amount of motorcycle, I like to use Goldie lock drills with a lot of the techniques that I do

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when we've established the technique and now we've the student is demonstrated that they can

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do it, you know, let's say five times out of ten.

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Once I want to start turning that technique into a skill, I'm usually going to challenge them

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and one of my favorite ways of challenge is with Goldie lock drills.