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In this concept video, we're gonna clarify the comment why

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trying to hit every shot perfect is the worst

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way to practice skills.

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Um, so in a video on low point training, um, I talked about

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how trying to be perfect is the worst way to, um,

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improve a skill.

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So, uh, we had a question about it from Jeremy

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and I wanted to take a second to kind of, um,

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have a little discussion about it and clarify it.

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So, um, this is more gonna be in the category of kind of how

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to practice, not specifically what I want you to practice.

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In general, when you're practicing,

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there's three big buckets of like the family

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of drills that you could be doing.

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You can work on your technique, you can work on your skills,

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and you can work on your performance

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or transferring it to a pressure situation.

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When you're working on technique, it can be helpful to do,

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uh, drills where you're getting really solid feedback as far

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as precisely how well you're doing it,

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and you can get good feedback when you're working on trying

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to do the same thing over and over.

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We call that block practice.

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When it comes to skill building, it's better

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to find the bandwidth of what is too much

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and what is too little.

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Um, so one classic study that's frequently cited is one

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where they looked at free throw shooting in

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basketball, and they had two groups.

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One group tried to make a swish every single time,

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and the other group, um, they alternated trying

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to hit the front of the rim and then

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trying to hit the back of the rim.

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And as you might imagine,

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when they actually had the free throw shooting contest,

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the group who had practiced front of the rim, back

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of the rim performed better than the group who just tried

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to make switch switches every time.

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If you think about how your brain is assessing the task

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or learning, um, basically what you want to do is you want

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to come up with a plan and then you want to execute,

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and then you evaluate how well did you do on the plan.

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So if the plan is basically figuring out what's too much,

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what's too little, then you wouldn't wanna just

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try to do it perfectly.

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You would want to try to do some of this,

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what we call bandwidth training, where you're trying

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to figure out the perimeter of what's the least you can do

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to have success, and what's the most

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you could do to have success.

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That tends to be much better for skills,

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and it gives you the adaptability to then handle

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if something isn't going right when you're

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on the course performing.

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Um, so that's why in the video, playing with low point,

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I talk about trying to do, uh, swings where you bottom out

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before the ball and then swings where you bottom out, um,

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after the ball and then swings where you try

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to bottom out in the right location.

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And doing that as a practice will help you figure out, well,

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how do I adjust low point, not just

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how do I get really good low point, um,

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during this one practice session?

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So that's the predominant reason I, I said, trying

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to be perfect, um,

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can be a detriment if you're trying to build skills.

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But I'll add a little second discussion here.

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Um, when you're trying to work on a specific movement

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and a specific skill when you're doing that first stage

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and working on block practice,

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sometimes when you add a new skill,

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you're not gonna have perfect outcome.

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Um, I give an example.

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I was doing a playing lesson

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and I had something going where I liked

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what I was feeling in my lower body

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and I liked the way it looked,

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but the second I started to try

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to add a little release thought to fix the ball flight,

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it messed everything up.

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So I decided for that playing lesson I was gonna keep

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focusing on the, the lower body action that I have.

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And I, for the nine holes,

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I literally missed almost every single shot,

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about 20 degrees to the right.

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Um, and I told my student that this was gonna happen.

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I said, I'm just gonna look at it as an opportunity for me

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to practice getting up

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and down from the right side of every green.

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Um, because if I do this, if I do this movement correctly,

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I, I don't have the capacity to do everything perfect.

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And so that's where, um,

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probably in my earlier days I would've tried to

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add the release element and then I would've hit some good

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shots, but I wouldn't have been able to ingrain

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what was happening with my lower body quite as easily.

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So there's kind of a couple different elements

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where perfection or seeking perfection can prevent progress.

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Um, and especially if you're trying to work on skills, try

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to figure out the bandwidth of too much too little

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to whatever skill you're working on

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that will ultimately help you, um,

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build a little better framework where you'll be able

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to adapt it,

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which helps you perform rather than just memorize it,

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which might not be as resilient day to day.