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This drill is trash talk swings. So this is a little bit of a kind of a

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controversial practice that I'll have some of my players do and I've used this

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after watching a sports psychologist work with some players on the range and

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it reminded me a whole lot of how I played every other sport that I ever

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played. So basketball, tennis, volleyball, disc golf, I was very comfortable in

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the

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heat of the game while performing the skill to talk to my opponents or talk to

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the the playing partners, right? And that's because the the motion itself was

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that point more or less automatic so I could occupy my conscious brain with

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what

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I was gonna say to them and just feel and kind of kind of it was more of an

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experience to actually perform the shot or perform the ground stroke. I didn't

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have to think through every single piece. So if I have players who I feel are

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standing over the wall for too long and running a checklist in their mind or if

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I think that they're close to being able to go automatic where they could go

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with no swing thoughts then I'll give them this challenge and basically what

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I'll have them do. I call it trash talking but really any story will work.

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So the most common one is if it's coming up on a holiday I'll ask them to

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tell me about where they're gonna travel and you know just tell me all about

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the

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trip or if they just went on one I'll say you know tell me about your last

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vacation. So where did you go? Where did you sit on the plane? Where did you

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stay?

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Whatever you want just you're not allowed to break strides you're not allowed

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stop the story. If you haven't been traveling much then I'll usually ask okay

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tell me about the last meal that you cooked or tell me about what you had for

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breakfast. So simple little things like that but I will ask details while they

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going through trying to execute the swing. It's a good way for you to test if

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you can be aware of the feeling without hyper focused on the feeling. So one of

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the traits of a swing that will hold up under pressure is that the swing has a

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bit of unity to it that basically you have the same level of focus as Debbie

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Cruz calls it. You have the same level of focus all the way from the start of

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the

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swing until the end of the motion. So one of the advantages that I get when I'm

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filming these videos is that I often have to talk through the shot while I'm

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swinging. You could hear a little bit of pause through there just because I was

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replaying in my mind very quickly what did I feel? What didn't I like? But a

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sign that you're getting closer and closer to being more automated is that

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you could talk to someone you can talk to yourself and you don't necessarily

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have to stop yourself and run through the the logical checklist in order to

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perform the motion. Now there's a great chance that some of your technique will

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break down when you're experimenting with this drill but that's also

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incredibly valuable information because what is breaking down is typically the

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parts that you then have to train a little bit more so that it can become

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unconscious or more of a simple sense. So when I'm demonstrating this and I'm

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talking through while I'm hitting these shots right before I pull the trigger I

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'm

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feeling what the swing is going to feel like and I'm feeling the swing in its

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entirety. Unfortunately on that one I took it back at the end of a sentence so

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that pause was not me shifting into thinking checklist but it was a pause

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because I wasn't quite sure what the next line was gonna be. It's better when

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you're doing this if you look at the first two that I did that you're going to

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execute the swing and start the swing mid-sentence. It'll be a whole lot

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easier. So if you feel like you're getting too bogged down with details

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you're getting too analytical try to get yourself feeling more like an

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athlete and you can do so by talking while you're swinging.