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This video is Goldilocks Drills for skill building.

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So there are two major phases to taking whatever you learn and turning it into

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something you

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can use on the course.

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First, you've got to build a technique, and then the second piece is taking

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that technique

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and creating a skill with it.

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So for example, let's say I'm playing basketball, the technique to shooting a

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jump shot, I'm

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going to push with my legs, I'm going to push with my arms, and the last thing

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that's going

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to move with my wrist.

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Pretty easy technique, right?

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I can teach someone how to do that movement in probably about five minutes.

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In order for them to shoot a high percentage from the field in an NBA finals

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game, they're

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going to have to put in lots of reps in order to train that technique and build

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a skill.

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Now when it comes to precision activities, one of the best ways to build skills

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is with

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Goldilocks Drills.

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So doing something that is a little short, a little long, and then just right.

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So this can be applied broadly to either ball flights, contacts, or it can be

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applied specifically

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to movements.

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So for instance, let's say I'm working on my ball flight, I could hit one, let

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's say

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I want to hit a little draw, I could hit a shot that goes pretty much straight,

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then

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I could hit a big hook, and then I try to hit one kind of right between the two

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.

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So that we call them Goldilocks Drills because you do one that's a little too

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hot, a little

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too cold, and then find the one that's just right.

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You can do this also with movement training.

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So you could do a Goldilocks drill if you're working on kind of that lateral

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shift during

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transition.

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You could do one that's too much, you could do one that's not enough, and then

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you could

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do one that's kind of right in between the two.

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If you're working on shallow movements, you could do super shallow as much as

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you can,

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you could do not shallow at all, and then you could kind of find that midway

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region.

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So using Goldilocks Drills is going to be much more beneficial for long-term

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skill building

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than just trying to put in rep after rep after rep of doing it perfectly.

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I know for a lot of you that's going to sound counter-productive or counter-

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intuitive.

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But there have been numerous motor learning studies where they've shown that

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this gives

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you a better chance of developing that skill.

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So there's some famous ones with wedge shots where golfers were going to be

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tested at hitting

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90 yards.

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If you have two groups of golfers, one group hits 100 yards and 80 yards, and

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then the

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second group of golfers only hits 90 yards for their practice.

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The group that hits 180 is going to tend to have better proficiency at hitting

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90 when

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they get tested, even though they've hit fewer shots at 90 than the group who

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did nothing

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but hit 90.

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And part of it is because the brain basically has no reference.

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So if you're only hitting at 90 and then you hit one that's 95 and you hit one

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that's

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85, the brain doesn't really have a whole lot to calibrate on.

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Where if you're hitting some shots at 80 and then you hit some shots at 100,

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you have

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these two different reference frames and you know it's kind of in the middle.

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You can apply that globally to any of the skills or any of the techniques that

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I talk

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about here in this program.

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And ultimately that'll help you develop your own memory bank so you can take

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these techniques

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and build some skills that you can use that will hold up on the course.

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Some great, some of my favorite places to use Goldilocks drills are contact

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drills.

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So hit it a little thin, hit it a little fat, try to hit it perfect, doing

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tempo training.

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So swing too easy, swing as hard as you can, swing kind of your normal stock

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move of 90%,

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80% whatever that may be.

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Make the backswing so do a little too short, a little too long and then find

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that one that's

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just right, extension on the way through or amount of bracing, amount of slide,

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amount

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of shallowing, amount of motorcycle.

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I like to use Goldilocks drills with a lot of the techniques that I do when we

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've established

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the technique and now the student has demonstrated that they can do it let's

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say five times out

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of 10, once I want to start turning that technique into a skill, I'm usually

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going to challenge

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them and one of my favorite ways to challenge is with Goldilocks drills.