If you are like most people, you go to the range, dump out the balls and start whacking away. There usually is little or no conscience effort for understanding or learning. There is just blind luck and hope that the club hits the ball the correct way.
I usually see people stressing through each ball. With every shot, it usually goes like this: The player scrapes a ball forward onto the mat, looks at the range, takes a swing and hits it. If it goes bad, there is a quick dismissal of the result and a quick snag of another ball. If it goes good, the player stands there in hopes that someone saw a glimpse of his/her mastery. When I see players starting to hit the ball incorrectly and stress to get another ball, I know that the player does not know or is not interested in learning. My motto in my Golf Studio is "There is no Failure, only Feedback." This means that when a player hits a ball with an undesired result, he/she should be spending twice as much time in understanding mode (What was my goal? How far away from my goal did I hit the ball? What needs to be done to improve for the next shot?)
Learning takes place in between shots. It needs to be a struggle. Understanding of what JUST happened vs. what SHOULD happen needs to take place after each shot. Here is a short video that shows a little bit of how the Brain Learns and how YOU should be practicing. Thanks for reading!
Steven
Like it & so true!
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