I got an awesome question from Bill. It's really how we learn and how can we not make so many mistakes. I guess that would not only help us in golf but all our life.
“Say we have this open face issue every once in a while after a lesson. Or any issue that's fixable doing things the PPGS way. How do we train our brains so we do our mistakes next to never? I took a lesson from Derek Hardy and he said that even top PGA professionals are unhappy with the results of their swings 25% of the time. What stops us from learning faster and why do we repeat mistakes?”
I guess that could be the million dollar question and I think I can give you the million dollar answer. I think, first and foremost, we know that the Peak Performance Golf Swing is all about the fewer angles the better. So the less things move, the less things can go wrong, the more consistent your swing's going to be, the easier it is to monitor your swing when you have less moving parts. That's one of the keys to the Peak Performance Golf Swing. So, when you get into a good position, maintaining the knee angles, your knee flex and the angles, the rest of your body will stay much more quiet.
But here's the key. I think were we all get in trouble is we get bogged down in mechanics. We're trying to make the swing step 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 on up. That's where we get into trouble. That's why many points in the swing that I teach I use visualization. I use images on our mind. In the mitt, up the tree, palms perpendicular to the ground. You can't be a huggy bear and have tucked elbows.
I create images that create feelings. My main mantra about swinging a golf club is that the whole purpose of making a practice swing is it must be perfect. It must be exactly the swing you want to make to hit that ball. So you make that practice swing and if it feels like the swing you want to make, you say OK. That's it. So when you step up to the ball, you swing the feel, not the mechanics. So in the practice swing you feel the swing, and when you like it you swing the feel. What is swinging the feel? It's feeling exactly how my body is set up, how my muscles are moving and in many cases I can monitor muscles in my fingers and up my hands and my forearms and in my legs and I'm feeling that the positions and the lengths that they're at and the muscle tone they have from where I start to all the way to the top and at impact and finish, don't change. I feel the same muscle tone. I feel the same muscle tone, the same movements, exactly what I did in my practice swing.
We get into connecting the dots, from point A to B to C D E F G. That's way too much. Take a good practice swing and if that's what you like you step up to the ball and swing the feel. Play by feel. It's the best way to make successful swings and hit good shots.
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