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This concept video is a feeling starting to emerge.

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So one of my favorite questions to ask towards the end of the lesson is a

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feeling starting

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to emerge.

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And usually the scenario is this, if we've done something that's very different

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, let's

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say they're used to kind of flipping like this, and we're working more on the

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motorcycle

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and kind of getting more width in the follow through.

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It could be a very different movement pattern than they're used to.

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And oftentimes students in person or some even through the website will ask,

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well what would

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it feel like if I do it?

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And my honest answer is I have absolutely no idea.

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I can offer suggestions as far as what other students have felt.

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But at least once a month, once every couple weeks, someone will describe a

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movement in

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a way that completely surprises me.

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And so I've given up on trying to guess what it's going to feel like, instead

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my goal

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is to get you to design a drill, to design a station so that you can do it

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enough times

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that a feeling will start to emerge.

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Usually that could take 70 balls, 100 balls, 300 balls.

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But if you do enough reps correctly, a feeling will emerge.

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And then what you can do is test out that feeling over subsequent practices or

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back to back

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days.

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If it's a really strong feeling, it will last multiple days.

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But no one feeling is going to last forever.

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So what's more important than having the right feeling is having the right set

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of drills for

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your game so that when something gets off, you can do a few drills and get a

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new feeling

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to accomplish the same position or the same movement pattern that gives you the

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right

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results.

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Because the positions and the physics of how we hit the ball, that's not going

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to change

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day to day.

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But your feelings can change quite dramatically.

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So instead of trying to guess what it's going to feel like, know where you're

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trying to

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go.

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So set up a really good station, focus on your checkpoints, some of these

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little details.

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And then after you do a bunch of reps, you'll start to get a feeling of what it

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's like

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to do it better.

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That's the first step in being able to take it to the course, especially if you

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're more

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of a feel golfer, is you have to do enough to let the feel show up instead of

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just thinking,

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hey, this is probably what it's going to feel like.

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This can almost be more important when I have golfers who I get to do the right

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movement

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and their answer or their first comment is, well, that doesn't feel right.

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It doesn't feel good.

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And so usually what I'll do then is I'll show them on video that, hey, look, it

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's doing

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what you were asking you wanted to do.

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We're making better contact or we're slightly off because of a complimentary

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piece.

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But we're making progress and it doesn't feel comfortable yet because you haven

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't done

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enough reps.

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So the general idea in this video is that as you do more reps, if you have

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proper feedback

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and you're in the right area, you'll develop feels that will help you to take

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what could

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be really clunky and kind of awkward and turn it into something very fluid and

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very efficient.

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One of my favorite stories about that comes more from the martial arts where

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they talk

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about making the punch the circle smaller.

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So when a beginner is learning to throw a punch, oftentimes there's a really

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excessive

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movement to coordinate all the muscles and deliver the blow.

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And as you practice that punch gets smaller and smaller to where it's no longer

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swinging

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over this big pattern, it's now a very refined movement creating the same

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amount of speed.

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As you do more and more reps, if it's a good drill for you, you will hit better

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and better

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until you have a feel.

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As you do more with that feel, it'll solidify into something that will help

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coordinate your

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overall swing.

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So don't get too caught up trying to find the perfect feel.

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Instead try to find the perfect drill where you're able to feel some of these

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key movements.

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Once you've felt these movements enough times, I promise you, a feel will

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emerge.