(golf club hits ball)
- Well hello, Adam Bazalgette here,
founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
Avoid this goal swing mistake is the subject
of this video, show you how to fix it,
I'll show you particularly, this is something just
so common among people, many people don't even realize
they're doing it, and if you can solve it,
it will really really help you have more fun
and make more progress in your golf.
I'll show you the damaging aspects of it
and then at the end we'll show you some great exercises
that can really help you overcome it.
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I think this is gonna be helpful to you.
Okay to improve in anything, especially in a motor skill
you have to have feedback, even if you're getting
directions on your phone, not only do you need to know
where you're going but that phone needs
to know where you are, that feedback allows
you to go somewhere.
Now gold swing takes approximately a second and a half,
let me go ahead and hit one here, this is an eight iron.
(golf club hits ball)
A reasonable shot there.
What happens is you get immediate feedback and stimulus
on the shot was it solid contact, did it go straight?
I give golf lessons all the time, that's what I do
for a living, you would be amazed the reactions people have.
I don't mean after the shot, I mean before its hit the apex.
Oh that was a good one, or don't count that!
Just strong reactions like that.
And the problem is, it takes away from what you should
be focusing on, so what we're gonna talk about here
a little bit in this video is two things,
two reasons that's so damaging and at the end
we'll give you the fix and some ideas as to how you can
do it better than the crowd which are mostly reacting
to just the shot.
(golf club hits ball)
Reasonably good shot there, maybe just a fraction heavy.
Here's the first real problem with just being
outcome oriented, a given swing, a given golfer,
hits all kinds of shots, the swing doesn't really
change that much.
People come in to me for golf instruction all the time
and sometimes they'll say something like,
look I've got these two swings I'm working on,
can you film one of each and we'll decided which is better.
Invariably they look just about exactly the same so,
people don't have enough feel to tell where their swing is
and again, that same swing can produce a myriad of outcomes,
consecutively if you like so it's unreliable feedback.
Just because you hit one solidly doesn't mean
you made a different or a good swing.
Now there's no question, if someone has better patterns,
better motions, simpler more functional technique
they will have better shot patterns in the long run.
That's why you wanna put your mind on your pattern
or the thing you're working on,
not just on the outcome, it's unreliable.
Right another reason this is so damaging.
It takes your conscious mind about a second and a half,
two seconds or something to effectively download
what just happens, you'll do a motor skill and it takes you
just a moment to evaluate and sort of, recreate the sense
of you did and make some sort of an evaluation on it.
The problem is people's reaction as I said earlier
is so strong to that immediate shot, then they see it land
they do what-not, by the time they come back
to what they should have been on, that imprint,
that sense of what you did is long since gone.
It does not last long, so you've gotta be aware enough
that sure you notice the shot, the shot is the shot,
but you can come right to what you should be focusing on
and paying attention to which is
the thing that you're working on.
If you like this content by the way I have a nice
three part video series, free for you down
in the description box, solid strike formula,
go ahead and pick that up.
Now here's the thing, couple of things you need to know
mentally as we get into this exercise:
First off, your subconscious mind in that one and half,
two seconds it takes to hit the ball,
does not benefit from you stabbing it with reminders
from your conscious mind, you don't wanna get to here
and then say, don't forget to drive your legs
or something like that, that isn't gonna help you.
So you wanna calm conscious mind, and let your subconscious
do what you've asked it to do, this assumes of course
you have a clear priority and you've rehearsed it
a little bit so, here's the thing, as I say
you don't wanna think about what to do,
you wanna be able to feel what happens,
so you've gotta train yourself to do that.
Now something you may feel in your hands or club is
it's not abstract but it's a little bit harder to sense.
So start by training yourself with something
that's really obvious and real.
Here's a couple of suggestions.
I can see when I look down on the golf ball,
the sparkle on top of the ball, the way the dimples
start to shade and move around, the shadow for example.
Those are real things that are down there.
There's a lot of choices, I could feel for instance
the warmth of the sun on the side of my face
or how my shirt collar feels rubbing on me, etc. etc.
Put your mind, practice, putting your mind
on one of these things and can you keep it there
with a nice quiet mind throughout
the act of hitting the ball.
You will be surprised how relatively elusive this is.
I'm gonna try a shot and my thought is gonna be
those couple of dimples that are partly shaded.
Let me try a shot, see how we do.
My only goal isn't a great hit, I'll notice the hit
but can I keep my mind there and keep it quiet?
(golf club hits ball)
mmmm, pretty good right, when I got to about here
I could tell I began to think about what I needed to do
and was I in the right spot, a little bit,
then I came back to the dimples there.
Hang out with it, as I say it could be anything.
Sun on the face, the better you get at that
the more you can get to where you can just stay with that
and not jump to your swing, or not jump to your conscious
mind the better you're getting.
Once you're good at it, then pick out the thing
you're working on, again there's a lot of things
you could be working on, and see if you can
be good at placing it there, as I say you'll notice contact
but don't let it bleach out what you're working on.
You get good at this and you train yourself
and by the way, you're gonna have to keep coming back to it.
I find myself getting antsy, have to go back to this drill
to quiet myself down, you will have a lot more fun
in your golf, you'll really play the game
and you'll make a lot more progress.
Well I hope that helps you avoid
that costly golf swing mistake.
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Hope this helps you.
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