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This concept video is since the swing, don't describe it, so I'm not a mental

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game coach. I'm more of a coach on the biomechanic side or on the physical side

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,

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but I've played my fair share of high-level sports and I like to pass on some

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of what I've experienced to my students. So one of the traits that I've heard

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mental game coaches describe and that I've experienced personally is that when

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you're in the play box or when you're over the golf ball executing the swing,

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it should be very sensory. If you are hearing words in your head, then you're

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more in the language centers of the brain and you're in the wrong part. That's

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not

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where movement happens. You're basically talking through a checklist instead of

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operating. The goal is to make it very sensory, which is more of a feel-based

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approach instead of a logic or cognitive-based approach. The example

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that I use quite often with my students is I'll have them run this little

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experience. What I want each of you to do, and I'm going to give you a little

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pause after this so you can actually do it, is what I want each of you to do is

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want you to think about and describe your favorite food. So describe or think

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of

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your favorite food, whatever that might be, whether it's pizza or Chinese food

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or

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pasta or whatever. A steak. Think of your favorite food and now describe why

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you

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like it. Describe, out loud, what it feels like or what it what you get when

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you

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eat it. Okay, so now what I want you to do is close your eyes, picture the food

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that's your favorite food and imagine eating it.

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Okay, now what I want you to do is close your eyes and imagine your favorite

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food

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and just picture yourself eating it and imagine just sense what it would be

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like.

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While you're imagining yourself eating it, can you experience everything that

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you tried to describe but all at once? In fact, the way I usually phrase it is

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if

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you take the description, think about how long it took for your brain to come

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up

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with that description and how long it took for you to express that description.

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That's more of a cognitive checklist but now when you're imagining that you

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were eating it, can you imagine that everything was happening all at once?

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Well, that's a much more sensory approach and you can kind of have much more

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nuance and the precision of the senses will be much better than the precision

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of your your description and details and it'll be much faster. So when you're

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over the golf ball, I want you to be feeling. So let's say I'm working on the

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motorcycle move. I don't want to think to myself in words, turn the wrist down.

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I

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want to think to myself in flavors or in senses, turn the wrist down right

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around here. When I do, it's kind of got this weight feel to it and when it

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does,

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it's happening while the lower body's doing this. Okay, that's all one feeling.

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Got it. Even though I had to describe it because the medium that we're working

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in, I can feel it and sense it. Once I have that feeling, I can just press play

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. I

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don't have to necessarily think about it as far as like, okay, do the

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motorcycle.

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It's just a feeling of when is that going to happen, how it relates to the

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other movements. So it's you're going to get bogged down and you're going to

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get

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very analytical whenever you're working on a new skill. But once you've gone

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through some of the early stages and kind of played around with that new

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new skill, your goal is to build it into a sense that goes into this whole

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feeling

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that you're going to execute from the very beginning of your swing to the end

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of your swing. Basically, if you can imagine your favorite food, imagine that

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first

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bite and then imagine the satisfying feeling of the last bite. You want to be

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able to sense that whole thing just like you can sense your whole golf swing

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and

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when you do, you'll typically have more consistent and repeatable performance

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because you'll be in the right part of the brain, not the language center, but

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more your movement centers deepen your brain.