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This content video is how to make a change.

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So when you start working on your golf game, there's really two options.

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You can either work to own your swing as it currently stands, or you can work

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to balance

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your swing.

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Now I'm assuming that because you're a golf smart academy member, you're

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frustrated with

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some part of your game, or you're just passionate enough that you want to try

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to reach your potential.

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And so at some point, you're going to try to make a change.

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Now making a change is going to involve a little bit of this balance of risk

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versus reward.

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So right now I have a swing that I am comfortable with.

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If I make any change to the system, something else is probably going to adjust.

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One of my friends, Grant Waite, has a great saying that I love where he says

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nothing happens

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in a vacuum.

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So if you get to the top of the swing and you change the amount of pressure in

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your pinky

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finger, it may change the way your lower body responds to the shot.

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It would be really easy if we could keep everything the same in just the just

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one variable at

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a time.

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But unfortunately, that's not how movement, that's not how humans work.

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So I usually talk about their three main drivers to building a golf swing.

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One is how am I creating speed?

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Two is how am I controlling the path of the club?

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And then three is how do I organize that club face to the path?

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So is the club face pointing right of the path, even with the path left of the

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path?

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All those things.

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So nothing happens in a vacuum.

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Let's say I'm working on getting the club face to close.

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Well, to close the club face early, my shoulders are going to work differently.

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Because my shoulders have worked differently, my ribcage is going to work a

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little differently,

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and my hips are going to work a little differently.

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Now, some of those may be much easier for you, some of those may be harder for

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you.

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But it's important to understand that when you're changing one thing, it might

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not work

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unless you change another thing with it.

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So there's always this little balance of kind of risk reward, because whatever

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your swing

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is right now, even if it's hitting a 50 yard slice, it's relatively consistent

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and your

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brain knows it pretty well.

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So especially if you've been playing for a few decades.

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You know your swing well, so making a change, there's always a little bit of a

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risk to reward.

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There is the chance that your missed pattern is going to change and you may not

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be comfortable

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with that.

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So I think that we can always decide on what to work on that minimizes the risk

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of having

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really big drops.

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But occasionally you're going to have a little one step backward before four

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steps forward.

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So let's go over the criteria for how you should decide what to work on.

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Once you've identified your pattern and you've figured out the few movements

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that you know

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you need to work on in order to improve, how do I decide which one of these

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movements

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to work on?

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So the first thing is going to be what's the most impactful?

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So what change could I make that is going to make the biggest effect?

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If I have a swing where the club face is wide open and I'm hitting a slice,

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then closing

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the club face or working on that motorcycle movement is going to be the most

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impactful.

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It also might be the most challenging where working on something small in my

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setup may

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have minimal impact in the short term, but it also might have kind of, it might

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be one

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of the more easier gradual changes.

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So one of the other ways when we're working on these, we figure out what's the

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most impactful,

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we figure out what is the shot you fear.

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So if you're hitting a slice, that means that the club is swinging outside to

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end where

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the club faces is pointing right of that path or pointed open, right?

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So I have to make a change if I want to hit this ball straight or even if I

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want to draw

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it.

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The path is going to change in the face to relation, the path relationship is

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going to

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change and potentially I need to use different power sources in order to do it.

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Ultimately we're going to come up with one or two things that control

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everything, but

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at first it may seem like you're working on a couple of things.

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So one of the ways that we can decide which one we want to work on kind of as

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our primary

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is what shots do you hate?

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Let's say you're a slicer and you hate more than anything the shot that goes

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off to the

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right and slices more to the right.

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That shot just drives you crazy, right?

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And so I know that if I hit that shot, it's going to pull me out of working on

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it and

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I'm going to start tensing up and questioning it.

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So I know that if I were to strengthen my grip and if I were to work on this

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motorcycle,

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this two in combination are going to keep the face more close to the path,

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which is going

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to make it virtually impossible to hit that shot way out to the right that goes

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further

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right.

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So I know that may be the better avenue to work on first because it's going to

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not really

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affect my feared shot.

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Conversely, if I hate the pull more than anything, my home course has nine

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holes and

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they all have problems on the left side and I hate just hitting this big pull,

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well then

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what you may have to do or what your brain may prefer to do would be to work on

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getting

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the path going more out to the right first and then work on closing the club

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base.

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Just know that if I get the path going out to the right first, then hitting

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left is probably

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unlikely.

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We're hitting that pull is probably unlikely, but I could hit it way right.

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I could hit right of right if I don't also close the club base.

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So we like to take this thought process of just laying out a logical plan of

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deciding

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what to work on based on what's most impactful, what shots do I fear and we'll

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give you a

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couple others.

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So one of the other things that I like to look at is your sport history.

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This will go into a little bit of what's going to be the most challenging for

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you to

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work on versus the ones that are the easiest.

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The ones that are going to be the most challenging are the ones that are rev

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olved around really

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deep patterns.

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So take my personal example.

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I tend to drift towards early extension and I tend to drift towards a little

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bit of a

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shut face takeaway.

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Now part of that is because I played a lot of tennis especially as a kid and I

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was really

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weak in my upper body but pretty strong in my legs.

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So I developed this pattern of jumping through every shot to create topspin.

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So if you know that your patterns are kind of built around this chop, that's

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going to

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be something that's a little bit trickier to change, but then again it may also

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be more

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impactful.

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It's going to be hard for me to quiet down my lower body, but if I'm working on

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my finesse

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wedge shots, that may be the most impactful even though it's the most

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challenging.

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So it really depends on how much you're willing to kind of go through some of

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the growing

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pains versus how quickly do I want to feel comfortable.

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So that brings us to the last point which is the schedule.

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If I know that I have to play next week in the most important round of my year,

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I'm probably

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not going to work on anything new.

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I may work on something that helps refine my setup, that helps refine my tempo,

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things

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that have smaller impacts as far as making it go bad, but could potentially

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help kind

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of just zeroed in for right now.

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So there are all these different factors for deciding what to work on, but at

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least it

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gives you a logical approach to deciding of the movements that you've

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identified that

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will help balance your patterns, what are you going to work on as your primary,

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what

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are you going to work on as your secondary, and what's kind of the icing on the

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cake.

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Once you figure that out, it makes the learning process very logical and it

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makes the learning

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process a lot more tolerable, which means that you'll ultimately be more

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comfortable

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and you'll get there faster.