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This concept video is discussing the two ways to learn.

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So I've got this site to help guide you with reshaping your golf swing or rebal

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ancing your golf swing.

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And you'll notice there's a lot of drills on here, there's a lot of concept

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videos.

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There are a couple of different ways that I've seen over the last 15 years that

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I've been teaching golf.

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There's a couple of different ways that I've seen people actually change their

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swing and make progress.

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And then there's some ways that I see people, you know, get stuck in a rut.

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We've all seen them golfers who've been at the same swing level, the same

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handicap level,

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hit the same shots for literally decades, making no progress whatsoever.

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So I'm going to help you avoid that pitfall by understanding how to use the

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drills properly.

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In my mind, there are two different ways to learn.

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And, you know, I can't break it down as to if you're, you know, if it's 50, 50,

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60, 40,

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but there's two common ways that I see people really get into using drills and

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shaping their swing.

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One, I call kind of the Tai Chi learner, they're super feel oriented and they

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do a lot of slow motion repetition.

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So they can watch the drill and then they'll do it in slow motion and they'll

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kind of have almost like,

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oh, they'll kind of have like this little aha moment where they get it and they

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kind of sense that's how I need to be pushing on the club.

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And then, or that's how I need to be using my legs or that's how I'm going to

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use my core.

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Basically, they have this aha moment that's triggered from doing really slow

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motion, almost positional training.

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They have a terrible time doing kind of tempo drills, but they'll do really

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well with some of the position oriented movements.

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And they'll kind of walk through and then once they have a feel, you'll see

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them take the swing and almost, they won't even look at contact.

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They won't even, they're so ingrained in trench with the feel that they'll go

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right back to know that was not quite right through their grab another ball and

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do it again.

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They tend to not be the golfers who do rapid fire style of practice.

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They tend to really take their time in between shots.

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There is kind of a small subset who's more rapid fire.

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They'll do like, you know, three to five reps and then think about it and do

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some practice swings and kind of work through it.

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They'll definitely, you know, work through the movement in this slow motion

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hyper feel sense.

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So Tai Chi is option number one.

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They love to do slow motion swings.

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They love to practice at home.

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They love to practice away from their golf game and really just work on the

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movement.

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That might not be you if that's not you.

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And you need to do option number two, which is more drill progressions, which

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basically means you have to lay out baby steps of what am I currently doing and

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then a drill that helps you get to feel.

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Or experience something different and then add length and speed until you can

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do it in your full swing.

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So these are typically the people who they don't get the aha moment the first

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time I show it to them.

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They see that the ball flight is different, but then they might have a

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regression every time they go back to the range.

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So what you have to do is you have to constantly kind of almost freshen up or

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tune in the brain sensitivity to the movement.

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Common place I'll work on this style is whether it's transition or release, but

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release is a really common one.

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So let's say I have more of a scoop style release, maybe even with a little

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buckle, and I'm trying to get a little bit better arm extension.

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So now I'd make sure I'd do a drill or two and make sure I know what it feels

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like to get arm extension.

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Then I'd do a drill or two doing let's say arm extension with just brushing the

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ground.

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Arm extension brushing the ground.

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Then I'd try to do arm extension just brushing the ground trying to get the

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same turf contact.

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That's the key to this drill style learning is I have to have some type of

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objective measurement.

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Whether it's a shaft somewhere, a pool noodle, lines on the ground like four

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square, turf contact, ball flight.

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I have to have an objective measurement so that I can or an objective form of

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feedback so that my brain can say, yes, I did that correctly.

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And then after doing a hundred repetitions, 500 repetitions, and getting a lot

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of correct reps, the brain builds the pattern and I'm able to make changes that

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way.

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But the key with that is let's say I did, I did the little nine to three, did

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it well.

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I go up halfway, I'm fine, go three quarter, I'm fine, and then I go to full

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swing and it breaks down.

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Most golfers would just hang out at the full swing and again fall into that

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pattern of just trying to think something different.

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That doesn't work.

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So what they have to do is they'll back it down to where they broke down and

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figure out what's the difference between those two.

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Was I going, was it because I went bigger and that pulled me out of position

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and messed up my sequencing and low point control or was it that I swung harder

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and the way I'm creating speed messed up my sequencing messed up my low point

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control.

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So you want to have these little drill recipes or drill progressions so that if

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you're hitting full swings and you happen to lose it, all you have to do is go

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back and run through your drill progression.

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And what will happen is the more times you do it, the easier it'll get.

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So the first time I go through, I might have to do ten nine to threes and then

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ten three quarter and then ten full swing.

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After I've done it maybe for a week or two weeks, I may just have to do one of

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each where I might only have to take a practice swing to re-dial it in and give

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my brain that sensation that I want.

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Let's do a quick recap of these two styles of learning, Tai Chi, where I do

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slow motion until I have that aha moment in every repetition.

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I'm comparing one specific part of the movement or how movements relate to each

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other. I'm very detailed into the feel.

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The other option, I'm not quite as strong with the feel so I'm going to use

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drill progressions that have checkpoints.

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The checkpoints are either going to be how the club brushes with the ground,

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where the club is so I could use a shaft alignment, I could use a physical

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alignment, where the shaft is at different checkpoints or ball flight and

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trajectory.

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And I'm going to do these little drill progressions adding difficulty or

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intensity or length of swing until I can take what I'm trying to do and do it

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at full speed in my full swing.

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That's one I know that I've really got it. So those are the two good options.

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The one bad option is if I just watch the drill and I'm kind of like, "Okay."

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Yeah, I can kind of feel what a little Jackson 5 is like. I'm not going to do

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50 repetitions a day. I'm not going to work on the actual training in my brain

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to do it.

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I'm just going to try and think Jackson 5 a few times. That's the style that

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tends to fail under pressure.

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You just kind of think a feeling, you haven't really trained it, or not even

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under pressure, but fails to build it into long-term memory.

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So you want to do one of the other two styles, either Tai Chi where you do a

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lot of slow motion or drills where you progress it.

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If you do those, I'm confident that you too will be able to have success in

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actually changing your swing, changing your ball flight and change the way you

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get to play golf.