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This concept video is choosing a starting drill.

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So periodically I get asked, you know, I'm new to the site, there's just a z

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illion videos

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on here, where do I start?

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I often appoint you in the direction of learning how to analyze your own video

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or how to read

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the feedback.

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But once you've identified a benchmark or a performance factor that you want to

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work

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on, I'll walk you through how I usually work with my students to kind of figure

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out which

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drills are most appropriate for you.

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So the first thing is we're going to try to figure out what we're trying to

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improve,

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whether I'm trying to make more solid contact, I'm trying to hit the ball stra

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ighter or more

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advanced stuff, I'm trying to hit the ball further, I'm trying to hit the ball

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a specific

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distance, or I'm trying to control my trajectory.

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So it really boils down to trying to create better impact alignments, better

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kind of release

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zone or better movement of club here by either working on some of my setup

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fundamentals,

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my backswing, my transition, my follow through.

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Usually I'll start with impact and work my way backwards or forwards, I'll

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either work

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to follow through position, or I'll work more to delivery position.

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And I'll try to figure out what feels weird in that zone.

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So it's important to have a rough idea about some of these kind of benchmarks

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of where

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you're trying to get to, because oftentimes what we'll do is we'll start with,

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let's

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say we have a classic issue where I'm kind of like hanging back and getting a

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little

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bit more of a scoop.

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So then I might say, okay, we're going to do a drill to kind of feel a little

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bit better

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impact position.

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So we might start with something like the merry go round, getting into a good

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impact

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position.

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Then the first question I'm going to ask is what feels different?

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And you might say, oh, it feels like my hips are more turned.

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It feels like I have more space, feels like my arms are a little bit more ahead

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or high.

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Whatever zone your brain keys in on, I'm probably going to start with a drill

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that emphasizes

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what's happening in that area.

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So if you said, oh, I feel like I have a lot more space, I might put a spatial

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thing like

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a bucket, I might use a band, I might try to do some things to help increase

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that feel

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of what's different there.

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If you felt more like a difference in the hand positions, we might do a single

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arm drill

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focusing on that wrist movement.

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We might put a shaft extender or the hanger and we might use some feedback like

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that.

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So we're going to focus on the area that your brain says feels weird.

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If everything is feeling okay there, but then as we start to do a drill, you

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have a hard

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time getting back into that position, then I'm either going to pick a different

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position.

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Like I might get you into the follow through and I do the same thing.

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What feels different?

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Oh, I feel a little bit more crunch.

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I feel like I'm a little bit more in this left hip.

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I feel like my body is a lot more turned.

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I feel like my arms are straighter.

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Whatever that feel is, once you've put yourself in a pretty good position, that

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usually is

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going to lead to what drill series or drill focus you want to work on, whether

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it's more

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of the body that feels weird or more of the arms.

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Sometimes you have to go back and forth in order to compliment the body and get

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in it

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in a really good position.

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The arms have to work pretty well as well.

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And sometimes it helps to train where you want to get to.

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And sometimes it helps to train how you're going to get there.

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So I might do a slow swing and let's just see if you can get there and what

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will happen

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is even in slow motion, you might see one part of the body or one part of the

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arms looking

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like it's getting out of timing or out of sequence or out of position very

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early.

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So then I would focus on drills related to that position.

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So it's a long-winded way of having a system, which is basically you're going

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to start with

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a performance factor of what you're trying to improve, either quality of

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contact, the

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improvement of the flat spot or consistency at the bottom of the swing or the

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club face

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and path control or how you're creating speed.

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Then you're going to work to what benchmark in my video looks like it's the

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most off.

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If I get into a better position, what feels weird?

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What feels weird might require a visual or a station.

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It might not require a feel, but what feels weird will usually point to what

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part of the

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body I'm trying to influence while I'm training and then ultimately after I've

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grooved that

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for a week or two, then I'll revisit it and try to pick a complimentary issue

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if the performance

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factor hasn't improved enough and just like a good system in business where you

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come up

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with a plan, you execute and then you review it or plan, do review, we run that

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same recipe

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here at Galsmar Academy with your swing, it's play, diagnose, train.

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If you work on something for a couple of weeks, you go out on the course and

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either it didn't

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change or it changed, but now you have a new issue that will point you into

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what you want

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to look at next time you're doing a swing analysis of your own game and that

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will point

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you to the next step or the next bread come you want to follow as far as

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working on your

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swing.

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If you keep doing that, you'll keep eliminating your worst misses and make

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gradual steady progress

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to until you reach your kind of physical induce limit.

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That's our goal here at Galsmar Academy to build your version of your own stock

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tour

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swing.

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So right now I have a couple kind of feels a little bit kind of in my core and

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my right

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shoulder.

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I have some good therapy that opened that up so I have a little backswing

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improvement

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that can complement it and then a little transition feel.

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And overall it's been pretty good.