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In this concept video, we're going to clarify the comment why trying to hit

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every shot perfect

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is the worst way to practice skills.

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So in a video on low point training, I talked about how trying to be perfect is

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the worst

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way to improve a skill.

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So we had a question about it from Jeremy and I wanted to take a second to kind

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of have

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a little discussion about it and clarify it.

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So this is more going to be in the category of kind of how to practice, not

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specifically

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what I want you to practice.

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In general, when you're practicing, there's three big buckets of like the

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family of drills

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that you could be doing.

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You can work on your technique, you can work on your skills, and you can work

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on your performance

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or transferring it to a pressure situation.

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When you're working on technique, it can be helpful to do drills where you're

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getting

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really solid feedback as far as precisely how well you're doing it and you can

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get good

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feedback when you're working on trying to do the same thing over and over.

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We call that block practice.

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When it comes to skill building, it's better to find the bandwidth of what is

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too much

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and what is too little.

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So one classic study that's frequently cited is one where they looked at free

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throw shooting

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in basketball and they had two groups.

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One group tried to make a swish every single time and the other group, they

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alternated

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trying to hit the front of the rim and then trying to hit the back of the rim.

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As you might imagine, when they actually had the free throw shooting contest,

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the group

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who had practiced front of the rim back of the rim performed better than the

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group who

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just tried to make swishes every time.

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If you think about how your brain is assessing the task or learning, basically

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what you want

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to do is you want to come up with a plan and then you want to execute and then

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you evaluate

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how well did you do on the plan.

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So if the plan is basically figuring out what's too much, what's too little,

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then you wouldn't

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want to just try to do it perfectly.

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You would want to try to do some of this what we call bandwidth training where

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you're trying

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to figure out the perimeter of what's the least you can do to have success and

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what's

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the most you could do to have success.

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That tends to be much better for skills and it gives you the adaptability to

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then handle

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if something isn't going right when you're on the course performing.

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So that's why in the video playing with Low Point, I talk about trying to do

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swings where

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you bottom out before the ball and then swings where you bottom out after the

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ball and then

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swings where you try to bottom out in the right location.

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And doing that as a practice will help you figure out how do I adjust Low Point

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, not

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just how do I get really good Low Point during this one practice session.

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So that's the predominant reason I said trying to be perfect can be a detriment

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if you're

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trying to build skills.

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But I'll add a little second discussion here.

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When you're trying to work on a specific movement and a specific skill when you

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're doing

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that first stage and working on block practice, sometimes when you add a new

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skill, you're

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not going to have perfect outcome.

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I give an example, I was doing a playing lesson and I had something going where

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I liked

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what I was feeling in my lower body and I liked the way it looked.

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But the second I started to try to add a little release thought to fix the ball

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flight, it

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messed everything up.

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So I decided for that playing lesson, I was going to keep focusing on the lower

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body action

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that I have and for the nine holes, I literally missed almost every single shot

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about 20 degrees

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to the right.

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And I told my student that this was going to happen.

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And I said, I'm just going to look at it as an opportunity for me to practice

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getting

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up and down from the right side of every green.

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Because if I do this movement correctly, I don't have the capacity to do

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everything perfect.

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And so that's where probably in my earlier days, I would have tried to add the

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release

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element and then I would have hit some good shots, but I wouldn't have been

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able to ingrain

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what was happening with my lower body quite as easily.

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So there's kind of a couple different elements where perfection or seeking

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profession can

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prevent progress.

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And especially if you're trying to work on skills, try to figure out the

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bandwidth of

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too much, too little to whatever skill you're working on, that will ultimately

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help you

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build a little better framework where you'll be able to adapt it, which helps

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you perform

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rather than just memorize it, which might not be as resilient day to day.