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This golf smart insight is, am I doing it enough?

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So, frequently, members within the site will submit their video,

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we will do an analysis and say,

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"Okay, here's what you should work on."

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And after a few emails back and forth,

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they'll submit another video or just a picture to say,

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"Hey, am I doing this enough?"

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Frequently, we'll respond back with questions about,

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"Well, what's happened to your contact?

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What's happened to your ball flight?

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Has your distance improved?

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Has the turf contact improved?"

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We'll ask for some of these detailed questions.

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You can almost hear through emails

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that some golfers will get frustrated and ask,

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"Well, can't you just tell if I'm doing it?

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Am I doing this enough?"

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The analogy that I like to use to,

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"Am I doing a movement enough?"

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is that of stretching.

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So, I came from the fitness world,

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I'd teach people how to stretch.

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Let's say we were gonna try to stretch your hamstrings

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by having you bend over and touch your toes.

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If I sent you a picture and I looked like this,

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I would say, "Am I stretching?"

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Your normal reaction would be, "I don't know,

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where do you feel it?"

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And if I said, "Well, I don't really feel it,"

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then you would say, "Hey, you're probably not stretching,

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you gotta go a little further."

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Okay, so now I'm down to where my fingers

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pretty much touch my toes,

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and I'm feeling it a lot in my neck and in my shoulders.

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Okay, so that's telling me that maybe I'm rounding more here,

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I'm not actually stretching from the place

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that I'm trying to stretch.

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So, we can use this metaphor with the golf positions

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or with the movement training that we try to do

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with the golf swing.

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Let's say that you are working on shadowing the club

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and you ask, "Am I doing it enough?"

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I always ask, "Well, what's the mispattern,

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what's changed with contact?"

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Have you noticed anything different?

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That's similar to asking when you do the stretch,

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where are you feeling in your body?

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Based on that feedback,

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I'll have some more information that I can tell

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if you're doing it enough or if you still could do it more.

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Most of the movements that we train,

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there's really not too much, you can't really overdo it,

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similar to stretching.

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You could try and forcibly do it and mess up your timing,

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like if I was trying to stretch

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and I was holding my breath and really kind of grunting down,

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I wouldn't get the normal relaxation effect

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that I was trying to do in the stretch,

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but, or similarly, if I was trying to force a movement,

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more than my body was capable,

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I may mess up the timing of a subsequent movement,

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but ultimately, the movements that we teach,

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you can't really overdo them

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because they're kind of self-guided,

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as in, if I shallow, I can rotate more, if I brace,

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I can extend more, there aren't really magic amounts

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that you should be trying to fit within

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if you do them together and at the right times,

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they kind of all work out.

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So, if you're struggling with certain positions

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in your swing, it may be a movement that you're missing,

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we'd be happy to help coach you through it,

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or if you're just not sure what you should be doing

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with your swing, feel free to join GolfSmartAcademy.com,

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submit your swing, and we'll do a video to guide you

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through what you should be working on with your swing,

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and with a few emails back and forth,

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we'll have a really clear idea as to A, why it's working,

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or B, why you're struggling to implement the new change,

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by having that little feedback back and forth,

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we're usually able to overcome the barriers

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that have limited you and your golf instruction progress

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in the past.