Guided practice is the most efficient way to spend your time on the practice field accomplishing your goals. Remember this… if we all were doing what we ‘felt’, then we’d all be Jordan Speith! So how do we get into these funky swing moves? Since what we feel is rarely what we do, if something goes wrong, we will find a way to correct the issue without knowing if this new ‘fix’ is going to cause additional problems. It’s then quite plausible that when the new problem pops up that we will find a new ‘fix’ thereby creating additional problems.
This searching fix for one minor issue has now caused many different problems when all we really needed was a coach’s eye for the first problem!
Guided practice is one of the biggest components of our programs because it helps ensure that you are continuing to work with the correct feeling. It also allows us to insert ‘game like’ challenges into your practice habits. These challenges are very much like the skills tests often found in the tv show, The Big Break. The pressure applied to the game and brain in these skills test will help develop your new skills faster so that they may be applied to the golf course.
In our new Guided Practice program, we will be relying heavily on skills tests to direct your practice focus and then validate your progress. For instance; we recently did a skills test for a player with their distance wedges from 100 yards. During this we noted that the player consistently missed their shots to the right of the target so we spent 15 minutes of block practice working on a fix for the right miss. This was followed up by another skills test with the exact same parameters where the player scored a much higher point total, thereby showing the player they’d practiced the correct things and proving that they could take this new skill to the course with confidence!
This searching fix for one minor issue has now caused many different problems when all we really needed was a coach’s eye for the first problem!
Guided practice is one of the biggest components of our programs because it helps ensure that you are continuing to work with the correct feeling. It also allows us to insert ‘game like’ challenges into your practice habits. These challenges are very much like the skills tests often found in the tv show, The Big Break. The pressure applied to the game and brain in these skills test will help develop your new skills faster so that they may be applied to the golf course.
In our new Guided Practice program, we will be relying heavily on skills tests to direct your practice focus and then validate your progress. For instance; we recently did a skills test for a player with their distance wedges from 100 yards. During this we noted that the player consistently missed their shots to the right of the target so we spent 15 minutes of block practice working on a fix for the right miss. This was followed up by another skills test with the exact same parameters where the player scored a much higher point total, thereby showing the player they’d practiced the correct things and proving that they could take this new skill to the course with confidence!