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This video is the test for determining your preshot routine.

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So in this video, we're going to go over a way that you can kind of get a guess

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or at

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least determine or try to determine what's your best performance style.

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Now, this is a little bit of an art more so than a science, but I'll give you

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three different

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ways that I like to use that I've learned from Dr. Bill Campbell and they seem

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to work

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fairly well.

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So the first test that we're going to go through is the eyes closed test.

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Now as it sounds, you're basically going to set up to the golf ball and then

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when you're

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about ready to swing, you're going to close your eyes and you're going to swing

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So if you want to, if you're trying this on the range and you're watching this

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on your

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smartphone, go ahead and try hitting a few balls with your eyes closed and

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press pause

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and then come back and kind of learn the answer.

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So assuming you hit a couple balls, I don't really care how well you hit them.

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That's not really the purpose of this, the purpose is to figure out what part

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of your

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brain you're trying to access.

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So the important question is how did you know where the golf ball was?

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What you'll find is that visual golfers will tend to actually say, you know

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what?

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I could see a clear picture of where the golf ball was and I just tried to hit

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it.

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Field golfers will kind of almost try to, they'll either say that they trust

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their positions.

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They'll say I just trust where my body was or they'll actually, you'll see them

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kind

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of touch the ground, you'll see them maybe even nudge the ball, they'll kind of

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really

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be engaged with what they're feeling that way.

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Rhythm golfers will tend to say, hey, I just kind of went one, two and trusted

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that the

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ball will get in the way or they'll basically, you know, they'll say that, oh,

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I just trusted

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the ball will get in the way, something like that where they make it sound like

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it's

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just a one motion that's got no start and no end and the ball is just going to

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be hit.

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So field golfers are very aware to what they're feeling, you know, pressures as

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far as what

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muscles are active, where their joints are, all that stuff, and on visual golf

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ers they're

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just, they're seeing it, they're painting a picture.

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So the next one we're going to do and we're going to use a couple different

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drills that

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will help us identify what your pattern might be.

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So the next one we're going to do is the stillness drill.

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So basically there's two different versions of this, one, you're going to get

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over the

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golf ball and then you're going to try to go from a complete stop.

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So nothing moving, just one moment of calmness and then you're going to try and

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swing.

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The other version is you're going to tie in your breath.

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So you're going to get perfectly calm, you're going to take a deep belly breath

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and then

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you get towards the end of the exhale, you're going to go ahead and swing.

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Now if you are a field golfer, this will tend to feel very, very comfortable

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because

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it kind of creates that moment of calmness for the sensations in your body to

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yell a little

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louder.

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If you're a rhythm golfer where you tend to kind of go off of counts and

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feeling tempo

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and sequencing, this is going to be torturous.

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If you're a visual golfer, what's going to happen is you're going to start to

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feel

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a little bit anxious like you've lost sight of where your target is.

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So you may even find yourself glancing to look back at the target.

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So again, we're just using these as pieces of information, so you've got your

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eyes closed

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drill and then you've got your stillness drill.

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Now the opposite is going to be continuous motion.

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So basically what you're going to do is you're going to have everything kind of

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moving.

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So you're marching, you're waggling, everything's moving and then you're going

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to swing without

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stopping.

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If you're a field golfer, this is going to feel terrible because you're going

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to want

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that little moment of calmness.

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If you're a rhythm golfer, this will actually feel pretty good.

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Maybe not the part of marching, but you'll feel pretty loose and free swinging

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from something

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that's already in motion.

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And then if you're a visual golfer, again, you will tend to glance a lot at the

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target.

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So you'll be kind of going like this and then you'll swing out of look or

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pretty much while

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you still have a clear picture.

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So all this marching is going to be a little distracting for you.

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So basically, the eyes closed, you're going to pay attention to how did you

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know when

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the ball was there or where the ball was.

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With the stillness drill, if you like it, there's a good chance you're a field

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golfer.

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If you don't, depending on why you don't like it, you could either be visual or

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rhythm.

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And then the continuous motion drill, you're probably a rhythm golfer if you

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like it.

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If you're visual, again, there'll be different reasons than if you feel as to

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why you don't

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like it.

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But factoring that in, you can then design your pre-shot at routine for the

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part of your

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brain that you want to use the most.

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And I've found this to be really helpful for golfers holding up under pressure.