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Train Your Swing Vs Think It

If you think you can just understand what is supposed to happen and then go out and perform, you are sadly mistaken. ANY movement takes repetitions of focused practice in order to train it to the point of automation. Breaking a skill down into manageable chunks, training the chunks in isolation and then in an integrated fashion is a recipe for building a movement. I stress that you put in ample reps before you judge something as "good or bad" but also, make sure you have clear feedback as to if you are doing the reps well. Nothing is more frustrating for both teacher and student than to have a student put in time and not get better. Know what you are training, and this possible frustration will be less likely.

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in this insight video I'm gonna stress

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the importance of training your golf

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swing versus trying to think it so I I

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do this this three-hour clinic called

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the consistency clinic where basically I

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wrote a lot of information at these poor

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unsuspecting golfers and we start off

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with twenty minutes talking about

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contact ball flight and then essentially

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what we're trying to do with impact so

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what positions we're trying to get to

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how we're gonna get there it's on a very

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high level though after this little

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introduction we always go out to the

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range and I give them about 15 minutes

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to get warmed up and it just process the

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information that I gave them and I have

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yet to have anyone make significant

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improvement from just hearing that

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introduction of okay here's how you're

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gonna interpret contact here's how

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you're gonna interpret ball flight

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here's how I want you to get into impact

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just by hearing what to do they go out

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there and I can tell you I've never had

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someone have significant improvement

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just from that 20 minute part what then

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happens as we come back in and we go

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over all these drills to help break down

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the key movements so that they can then

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start training them and as they put in

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repetitions throughout the clinic their

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swings tend to get better and better and

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then they start to be able to use that

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information appropriately can also with

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my students I tend to find anytime a

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golfer comes in and they're struggling

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with a specific movement my first

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question is always going to be well how

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have you been training it and they'll

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tell me well I've been thinking about

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doing this and I've said okay show me

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what drills you've been doing to try to

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break it down and they'll you know give

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me that deer-in-the-headlights look like

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well no I've just been trying to think

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it and I can't stress enough that even

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if you understand it just trying to

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think your way through a golf swing is

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never gonna work you have to train it

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you have to do the whole mr. Miyagi the

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daniel-san thing you know if this whole

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wax on wax off thing is a very simple

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movement right if I told you hey all

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you're gonna do I'm going to

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throw a punch and you're just gonna go

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like this and it's gonna block it right

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sure sign me up for a fight I know what

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to do I'm ready for it probably not I'm

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gonna get my butt kicked but mr. Miyagi

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was smart he had Danielson do ten

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thousand repetitions of each of the key

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movements that he was trying to train so

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that when he was able to just say the

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movement he could recall it very very

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effectively that's the purpose of my

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isolation drills and the drills that

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you'll see in the different sections of

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the setup and the release and the

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backswing and the transition and the all

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the key pieces I've broken them down so

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that you can train each piece to then

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put it back in together which I've found

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works really well for performance but if

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you're just gonna watch the videos and

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try to think your way through it I can

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guarantee you it's gonna make you more

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confused and probably have you

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performing worse so watch the drills and

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then when you have questions either

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submit your swing the the submission or

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fill out the decoder let us know what's

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going on so that we can help guide you

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as to where you might be missing out on

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that last key little ingredient

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