The Most Important Video You'll Watch - Learning

The most important part of learning the golf swing is understanding how to learn!

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Learning is a biological process.

And what do you think I mean by saying it's a biological process?

we're physically making changes in your brain now what are some other biological processes that you may have everybody always I don't know why it goes there it always goes straight to digestion the first thing digestion it is a biological process so I'll work with digestion digestion how much control and influence do you have over digestion a little bit okay so you can influence it right to some degree or another but you can't make that stuff move through your small intestine any faster than it's going to move through your small intestine you have zero control over that it's a biological process that's written in your DNA it is what it is how about when you have a cut if you have a cut how long does it take for a cut to fully heal?

About 7 to 10 days, depending on the depth of the cut, right?

7 to 10 days.

Now, how fast can you make that cut heal?

Can you change it, make it heal faster?

You can make it heal slower by rubbing some dirt in it, right?

Put some Neosporin on it, keep it from getting infected.

But realistically, from beginning to end, it's going to take about 7 to 10 days, and you have very little influence over it.

It just is what it is.

Your brain learning a new movement, it is also a biological process.

It is not a measure of your talent or your coordination or your ability to be a good athlete.

It's a biological physiological change that you're trying to implement in your brain.

So if you understand that, first of all, you should understand that you need to be patient with it because just like a healing cut, you're going to learn that some stuff takes a couple weeks and i'm going to explain what that is in just a moment but i want you to understand that this is something that you must abide by and you must understand why it takes the time it does to learn something and the first one is this one and this is one of the things that impacts why you've taken lessons and why your lessons have failed even if you were given the best information in the world maybe the golf instructor gave you the right stuff but he didn't help you learn it in a way that your brain actually learns and that's why that lesson was a waste of time and money.

So how do you learn?

It takes about a hundred to three hundred reps for you to physically construct this pathway in your brain and you have zero control over that.

It just is what it is and let's explain, let me explain why this pathway is important.

A pathway, this is kind of an image of a brain cell here, it's not that cool looking in your head, but a brain cell, when you group a chain of these together, that's what represents in your body a movement pattern so a movement pattern could be anything a movement pattern could be flexing your bicep muscle and moving your forearm bones at your elbow joint closer to your body that's a movement pattern when you were born how coordinated were you with this not very coordinated at all right babies suck at moving they can't move at all they're all over the place right so as you move as you do this over and over and over again how good are you at doing this now if you took a fork a sharp instrument and moved it closer to your face would you ever stab yourself in the face with your fork or would you hit your pie hole right try to put a piece of steak in your mouth would you get it in there every single time you couldn't do that when you were an infant right how did you get good at it kept doing it over and over until you stop stabbing yourself in the face and stop throwing your food all over the place but you were terrible at it at first learning is learning your brain does not discern between wrong or right at the subconscious level it doesn't care what you're telling it so if you're telling yourself you want to do a takeaway and you're not watching yourself in front of a mirror or whatever, and having any type of feedback loop, and you're doing this as your takeaway, well, your brain is learning this as the takeaway.

It doesn't care that that's incorrect.

That's the problem with it.

If you're not learning with a mirror or a video camera or an instructor who can help you do this, you're completely wasting your time because you're relying on feel instead of what's really happening.

Feel is not real.

You've heard that a million times, and it's completely true when it comes to the golf swing.

The best training aid that you can ever ever buy and the best amount of money that you'll ever spend on your golf swing is a mirror and you probably already have one in your house.

We will not teach on this driving range without a mirror.

It's completely pointless.

You need to see exactly what you're doing in order to get proper feedback to know what you're doing is correct or incorrect.

So many of us rely on what as our feedback mechanism?

Ball flight.

That's right.

I can manipulate.

I can swing like a complete monkey and still hit the ball straight, I can cheat and do all kinds of stuff with my hands or whatever to create the ball flight that I want to see.

It doesn't mean I'm doing it correctly.

And so all you're doing is ingraining bad habits.

So yes, you're right.

If without feedback, proper feedback, it's a complete waste.

I'll get back to that in a second.

So 100 to 300 reps to create this first initiation of a pathway.

So when I learned to flex my bicep and move my arm closer to my body, I had to keep doing that over and over again and correctly and I had to do it at least a hundred to 300 times before my brain said hmm he must be wanting to do this over and over again in the future so I'm going to go ahead and get off my lazy butt and I'm going to go ahead and start physically constructing this pathway and create this neural chain in my brain and that is what learning that's how it begins now when you take a golf lesson how many balls do you think you typically hit in the typical hour-long golf lesson?

You think you hit 100 balls?

50 if you're lucky because you're taking a lesson, right?

So you're probably getting feedback.

You hit a shot, you look at it, you evaluate it.

Your instructor says, hey, you did this or you did that or whatever.

and how many balls could you hit in a minute maybe one so maybe you'll hit 50 balls maybe in a lesson.

Now how many of those if you're hitting balls at full speed did you do the movement correctly?

So you're better than me maybe none maybe you did one or two exactly right you just happened to stumble on but nobody can learn at full speed nobody can how many of you learned how to drive a stick shift transmission when you learn how to drive the old-school manual transmissions all of us pretty much did right when I learned how to drive a manual well let me ask this where were you when you learned how to drive a manual we on the 405 in LA parking lot How about you?

Anybody else?

Backcountry road somewhere.

All right, I learned in a parking lot and then I went to a backcountry road and then I went and drove the Indy 500 the next day, right?

No, of course not.

It doesn't make any sense.

What did I do the next day?

I kept doing what I did before until I could do it right.

Now, when you first learned how to drive a manual transmission, how hard was it to figure out how much to give it gas and slip the clutch?

Shockingly hard, right?

God, I'm never going to get this.

The car's lurching.

You keep stalling it.

that's why you learn in your buddy's car not your car right and they don't care if you tear up their clutch when you first learn how to do it is insanely hard now how easy is it for you now even if you haven't driven one in 20 years you could drop drop right back in it and slip it out of here and have no issues maybe you stall at once but you're gonna it's like riding a bike right you've heard that old saying this is what riding a bike is once you physically construct this pathway in your brain and you keep nurturing it by doing what?

More repetition.

It's just like watering the little seed that you've planted.

That is how you master a movement pattern.

Now, the problem is in a typical golf lesson, they're not set up this way because you go and pound balls because you're using the wrong feedback loop, the flight of the ball to determine your level of success.

That's why in a typical rotary swing lesson, unless you happen to be far along and advanced, you hit two golf balls.

And that's it for an entire lesson.

One hour, you get to hit two balls.

So for me, that's 250 ball, 250 bucks per ball that you hit.

It's not a very good deal if you want to pound balls.

For the next hour, guess where I'm going to have you?

In front of that stinking mirror and doing the reps.

And I'm going to be instantly giving you feedback.

Do this, feel this.

I'm going going to be having my hands on you, pushing on muscles so that you can feel how to contract them and moving you, physically grabbing you and moving you, which is what I'm going to do for the next two days, and getting you to move correctly.

Now, here's one of the things that frustrates me that if you do it this weekend, I'll kick you.

When I pull you in front of the mirror and you're doing this, where should you be looking?

At the mirror.

That's right.

It seems really commonsensical, but nobody does it.

I don't know if it's a shy thing or a vanity thing or what.

If I put you in front of the mirror, I want you to look at the mirror.

I'm not putting it there to reflect the sun on you to help you with your suntan.

I need you to look at what you're doing so that when I tell you something and I say, look in the mirror and what's wrong with this picture, that you can look at it and say, oh, I tilted my shoulders or whatever it may be.

You must look at yourself in mirror that's the best feedback that you can get because our goal is not just a hundred reps but it's a hundred what kind of reps correct ones it doesn't do us any good to do them wrong if you want to be really slow and inefficient at learning golf don't do it in front of a mirror go out and pound balls all the time and never look at your swing and keep doing it really really fast you've got to learn how to slip the slip the clutch and give it gas first and once you can do that and you can do that correctly a hundred times in a row, not necessarily in a row, but in a sequence, your brain says, hmm, I think this must be important information, and maybe I should keep it, and I'm going to go and put this pathway together.

Now, if you do 30 correct reps, what do you think your brain does with that information?

Your brain only learns movement patterns through repetition, and it needs enough repetition to get its attention to actually deploy these little legal dendrocytes, and stuff we're going to talk about in a minute, to actually make it do something.

It doesn't physically want to go and create this pathway because it's insanely lazy.

Your brain has one job that it's really good at, and that's maintaining homeostasis.

It just wants everything to stay the same.

How many of you ever worked out?

You lift weights.

If you go to the Ritz-Carlton gym today and you do 1,000 push -ups, how different are you going to look tomorrow?

you may be bruised you may tear a peck you may be a little purple but you're not going to physically look like Arnold Schwarzenegger tomorrow how come think about the volatility in our life if our brain didn't work really hard to maintain homeostasis think about the lunacy we'd have if we noticed every single little thing around us all the time instead of discarding information that's irrelevant how many of you notice this the vent blowing it makes a little a bit of a vibrating noise.

Hear that?

Or a pin crack?

I wasn't going to bring it up.

I know it's too soon.

Too soon.

Sore subject.

There's tons of information that's useless information that your brain is constantly discarding.

It happens all the time.

People walk by here all the time.

The wind's blowing.

The stuff is happening and your brain is taking it in at the subconscious level, and then deciding whether or not it wants to keep it tonight when you go into REM sleep.

This is when you actually learn, is when you go to bed.

And when your brain goes through all this information and starts processing it, which is what REM sleep it says, do I want to keep this information or I want to discard it?

And if you didn't do it enough, your brain discards it.

So that whole lesson that you went out and took and you pounded 50 balls and you did 10 of them right was literally a complete waste of time and money.

And that's why when you wake up the next morning and you go out and play golf, you're exactly where you started, other than being more confused and more frustrated.

There's one way your brain learns and one way only, and it is through repetition and it's correct repetition and you can't do it right if you're not in front of a stinking mirror or a video camera, at least at first.

At first you've got to see whether or not you're doing it right, and once you see whether or not you're doing it right and you've got the proper feeling established, then you can go outside and be trusted to know whether or not the feeling is correct.

But this is one of the things that drives me nuts all the time on the site.

We have somebody come on the site, they go through and they watch a gazillion videos, and they say, that didn't help me.

I'm like, okay, well have you submitted your swing for review so we can see what's going on?

Well, Okay, well, you know, maybe you've got a really good grasp on it.

Tell me how you've been practicing.

Well, I just, I watch the videos and I go out and play.

What, seriously?

Like, how do you expect that that's gonna, you're not learning through osmosis.

Watching the videos doesn't do you any good.

Me telling you everything I know about the golf swing isn't going to do you any good until you physically get up and do it and do the repetitions that's required to communicate with your brain effectively.

That's the only way you learn.

It's that simple.

If you ignore all of this stuff, and if you ignore everything else I say the rest of the weekend, if you remember just this, you're going to be okay.

It takes about three to five thousand repetitions to create and really master a new movement pattern, and that's generally about three to five thousand when you already have an existing pattern that you're trying to overwrite effectively.

That that existing movement pattern doesn't disappear.

It's still there.

Now if you stop doing it for a long time, if you've heard the term use it or lose it kind of thing, you will slowly start to degrade that neural pathway.

And if you're continuing to reinforce the correct one during that phase, your body will start wanting to revert into the correct one as a default instead of the bad one.

Now So how many of you have been trying to kind of do the reps and stuff on the website, right?

And you go out and play, what typically happens?

What's been your experience?

You go back to the old one.

That's pretty common.

And the reason is very simple.

It's a mathematical equation.

Let's say that you've done 500 really good reps, doing it right, and you're on the right path.

You're like, I'm doing it.

I'm going to go out and play today because I've got to play in a men's scramble or whatever, my Wednesday night men's game.

But you've done 50,000 of the wrong way.

your brain under pressure when you're not making it forcefully do what you want it to do what do you think it's going to do when you turn off the gas and you're like all right i'm going to trust you to do it on your own what's it going to do of course it's going to go back to the old way because that's the one it's comfortable with and it knows how to do that pattern right so your brain if you're not making yourself do this infant one that's only got 500 reps which you've got 50 000 over here the math just doesn't add up you've got to keep reinforcing this one and at first that means really having to be focused when you're going out to play or practice or whatever you're doing because your brain will instantly go back to the old one.

It'll happen this weekend.

I'll generally give you about four or five reps if you're doing something and you're really struggling with it before I make you stop and start over.

And what I mean by that is you'll go out by the end of tomorrow.

You'll be able to, if we're outside, you'll be able to hit kind of getting close to like three quarter to full shots depending on where you're at.

Some of you may only be doing half shots.

It just depends on where you're at with your practice.

And we'll be hitting balls, but I'll be telling you to do drills, reps without hitting balls in between.

And I want you to generally do at least five for every ball that you hit.

Now, not everybody listens to me and they start hitting five balls for every one drill they do.

And so I watched this happen.

I let you kind of stumble and fall on your face to teach you a lesson because I know what the outcome is going to be.

And after about the third ball, it completely starts falling apart.

And everything that you had been focusing on, when you could do it at the level that you were at without all the distractions of the ball the club the speed etc starts degrading and you start by the fourth and fifth rep you're absolutely doing it the exact wrong way doing the way you're doing it before everybody does that because it's very simple math again your brain unless you're making it do exactly what you want it to do will go revert right back so to answer your question that is the simple answer when you're going out to play and learn and whatever you must be super focused on what it is you're really trying to get your brain to do in order for it to do it otherwise it'll revert right back.

Now again if you stop doing that for a long time eventually that pattern will degrade and you'll stop using it and it'll fall back to the new one.

If you're gonna go out and play and I'll give you a story where I've gone through the same stuff, if you're gonna go out and play you must be a hundred and ten percent committed to every single shot doing a few reps in between each shot reinforcing the correct feeling and over that ball when you go to hit it come hell or high water no matter what the result or the outcome may be including hit it into the water slicing it into the trees hitting it out of bounds it doesn't matter you're trying to do the movement pattern that's when you're really learning and so to give you an example of this I went through this process about four years ago because throughout my whole life I've always missed as a cut so even when I got rid of my big cut that I hated in college and tried to hit it further I still as a miss would bail out to the right and that worked out fine especially at a high level because generally that's going to go less far offline for a better player.

And so if I miss it, it's going to be a little bit into the rough.

I'm not going to snipe hook one into the trees kind of thing.

Now, when I moved to Idaho, where the golf club that I play at up there is built by a guy named Jim Anybody played any Jim Ng golf courses?

He's really popular out west in Colorado and stuff.

Jim Ng designs every single golf hole right to left.

It's like Nicholas's classic left to right thing.

Jim Ng is a good buddy of mine.

He lives out in Idaho where I'm at.

And every single shot he hits goes right to left.

I don't care if it's a pitching wedge, it goes right to left.

And that's just how he sees golf holes.

So every single hole in the golf course, if you miss to the right, you're completely screwed because he doesn't see holes like that.

So I started saying, well, if I want to play really well at this golf course where I'm spending all this time at during the summer, I'm going to have to change my predominant miss to be right to left, which I haven't done ever in my entire life of 20 something years of playing competitive golf.

I've always missed in one way.

So it's just as a subconscious bailout, I'll just hold my shoulders open a little bit, miss it out to the right, no big deal.

Done it a million times probably at this stage in my life and I can do it pretty precisely.

To go back and change something that I've literally done probably a million times in my career, not very easy to do.

So it took me about three months.

Now how did I go about doing that?

In Idaho, like many of you, it's a seasonal club.

so I'm only there for about four months and I'm there with all my buddies and we play every single day together and there's all kinds of gambling and stuff going on and so it's just a good fun time that's what everybody goes out to play golf for right I want to go out and have a good time with my buddies I don't want to go out there lose a bunch of money to these knuckleheads so and unfortunately at my handicap level I'm giving everybody a lot of shots whether I'm playing good or not so for three months I spent time making myself on every single day that I played every single hole no matter what missing it right to left and I got down I played in all the tournaments out there I played in our club championship and we've got some really good pro golfers out there that are members and in the club championship I went I got down to the 16th hole in the last day with one ball left in my bag because I had lost all the other ones it's not not a good round okay on that 16th hole I had I hit a pretty good drive and I had a long shot over water and I just dumped one in the water to get home in two because I chunked it and I had one ball left in my bag and I still was either I could lay up now and wuss out and bail out on my whole goal here or I could try to hit that shot over the water again which I knew I could execute if I could just really focus on what I was trying to do but if I lose this ball the tournament's over so I committed to it I hit the shot on the green I made the putt and got out of there and I finished the last two holes managed to not lose the ball but that's the level of commitment even in the middle of our club championship no matter what come hell or high water I was going to do the movement because I knew that if I just forced myself to get through this and it wasn't smart playing every single day but like you guys it's seasonal and I want to be there with all my buddies I want to go out and play I don't want to go you know do drills inside all day when I'm at my summer club so I stayed committed and by the end of the summer things turned out a little bit differently for me so I lost the club championship but then I brought our buddy Craig Morrow if you guys ask questions on the forum you see Craig RST instructor answer your questions that's Craig he's a great golfer he played professionally for about eight years and the student of mine for a long time and now he's a certified instructor on the site and I brought him up for our member pro tournament so I was the member he was the pro in this case and then we have a lot of again a lot of really really elite level golfers out there and the first day that we went out and played things are starting to really click now i don't have to force myself to think about it so much it's starting to become more natural for me to hit this ball right to left and i went out and the first day had three eagles and i think i shot a 62 on my own ball and then we ended up winning the two-day tournament by about four i think which is against guys like duffy waldorf and freddy couples and all these big named Tour Pro.

So, but it took three months of fighting through this stuff to be able to do it because I was trying to play every day.

Now, I probably could have done it in a month if I stopped playing because it's inevitable, even if somebody that understands this process as well as I do, to still not go out there and play and end up reverting back when making mistakes and so on.

You're just trying to fight too many distractions, which again goes back to my driving analogy.

When you first learned how to drive a manual transmission, you didn't do it on a busy street because there'd be too many distractions.

You're having to focus on something that is now so simple to you, but at the time was very complex of slipping the clutch and giving it gas.

Once you could handle that distraction or that amount of information, then you challenge yourself and you did it on a street.

And then you challenge yourself, you did it in traffic.

Then you did it on a highway and so on until now it becomes natural for you.

Golf is the exact same way.

Learning is learning.

it doesn't matter what it is that you're doing.

Any movement pattern is going to abide by these exact same laws.

How many of you play musical instruments?

Anybody?

Nobody?

No musicians in here?

I learned how to play the guitar a long, long time ago.

When I learned how to play the guitar, I did not start out with Beethoven and Metallica and Bach and all this different stuff.

I learned out with like Mary Had a Little Lamb and stupid stuff, learning how to play basic chords because learning a movement pattern, which is all playing the guitar is, is just coordinating movements is the same as learning how to swing a golf club or whatever it Does it make sense?

So now, one last thing I want to cover on this stuff is once we build this pathway, I already talked about it briefly earlier.

What do we have to do once we build that pathway?

Reinforce it.

That's right.

How do we reinforce it?

More correct repetition, right?

your brain doesn't if you're doing it wrong you're just learning another wrong movement pattern now how long does it take for this whole process of reinforcement to happen so let's say that you do something today let's say that you're coming here and you've already done some of the drills you have a pathway established and you're trying to reinforce them this weekend how long does it take for your brain to start myelinating this pathway and that's what we mean by reinforcement.

We're talking about this fatty substance that's on the axon, which all it does is it allows this electrical impulse to travel faster.

And when it travels faster, you can do the movement more quickly, which in the golf swings, things are happening really, really quick.

So you may be able to do this movement, like learning how to do the takeaway correctly, really slow, really well at first.

But if I ask you to do it really fast with the golf club, stuff starts breaking down because the myelination isn't there yet, that electrical signal can't physically travel fast enough to keep up with all the things you're asking it to do.

So we keep doing these repetitions over and over again, and that's the process of myelinization.

How long does this process of myelinization take?

Any ideas?

It's about two to 14 days.

Okay.

So what that means is you're, let's say you've come here, you've already learned your takeaway.

We're going to keep reinforcing you it this weekend to teach you how to rotate correctly so you're already if you've got this pathway established you're just trying to reinforce it that process of what you're doing is going to take two to 14 days from what you do today so what that means is the reps that you're doing today are really you paying it forward for tomorrow kind of thing I like to think of it the best simple way I can think of it to explain it to people is like diet and exercise if you went out and you restricted your calories today and you went and ran six miles and you worked out the gym all day will you look any different tomorrow?

Of course not, right?

But if you do that for three weeks, will you look different in three weeks if you did the exact same thing over and over again?

Yeah.

It's not going to be radically different, but are you going to start to notice a difference?

Absolutely, but it takes that amount of time for you to get past your body's defense mechanisms because remember homeostasis, it's number one job.

It's trying to just keep everything even keel all the time because again, if you think about our ancestry, there were lots of times where we feast or famine, right?

We couldn't eat for a long time.

And so if your body just went through and tried to chew up all its fat reserves because you decided to run for a few miles, and then all of a sudden you don't get to eat for two weeks, what is going to happen?

You're going to die, right?

So your body's just trying to keep you alive, and so it's become very efficient at that stuff.

That's why you don't want to get rid of fat, because it's part of our DNA of this whole feast and famine survival method that's in our body.

And your brain, because it's, again, it's another biological process it just doesn't happen that fast and you don't have any influence over this 2 to 14 days there's a big range because everybody's a little bit different but the trick is the only thing that you can do is communicate with it by continuing to do correct repetition and know that in 7 days 10 days 14 days that's when you're going to start to really see a big difference now the difficulty that i see all the time is people go out and they do for two days maybe or even three days they start to do some practice at home they do a hundred reps a day like I'm really getting it I'm doing the movement really well and they go out right away and start playing and then they don't do any of these drills for the next week and they just go out and play for five days and then what do you think happens they're gonna revert right back and they go back to right where they started that's why if you're going to really make a huge impact quickly now again you can go out and play like I did and it takes longer to do it that way or if you really want to do it fast you think about how many reps it's going to how many days it's going to take you to get this number this is really kind of your goal if you're really trying to master something new 3,000 will be a really good target so let's say you're trying to learn how to rotate correctly because you've always just pushed your arm across your chest lifted your arms and swung over the top so that's a big change that you're trying to learn how to rotate now if you got 3,000 reps of that you'd start to really tell your brain, like, I really want to do this movement, it's going to start to revert into your new movement pattern versus the old one more frequently, even when you're not telling it what to do.

How long is it going to take you to get 3,000 reps?

Okay, if you can do 300 a day, it's going to take you about 10 days.

How many of you do 300 a day?

Maybe if you're a tour pro, that's about what I used to do when I was trying to make big changes to my swing, and it would take me about an hour and 45 minutes to do 300 reps 300 good reps and that's all done in front of a mirror so I'm literally watching myself every single rep that I do it's not I didn't do any of that stuff outside back then so to really get the big picture stuff and change my swing I would do about 300 reps well hour and 45 minutes a day most of us just don't have that or aren't willing to put it in there a hundred a day is a little bit more realistic right a hundred a day you can get maybe in 45 minutes, depending on what you're doing, maybe 30, maybe an hour, just depends on how complex the movement, how slow you're going, etc.

So if we do 100 a day, we're trying to get to 3,000, how many days is that going to take us?

It's going to take you a month of doing it every single day.

Realistically, that's what you should expect as a typical guy with family and kids and jobs and obligations and just life and stuff.

It's going to take you about a month to master a new movement.

Now, first of all, understand that that movement can be multiple things, right?

I can make my movement going all the way to the top if I want.

That's my whole backswing.

As long as I'm doing it correctly, I can group these things together.

If you've noticed, everything on the website is designed to be stacked on top of each other.

So it doesn't mean that you can only do your setup, get into your setup 300 times.

That's crazy.

I want you to stack these things and challenge your brain to be able to do them and you keep stacking pieces on there until you screw up and your brain can't handle that much information because now you're trying to drive in traffic with slip in the clutch and the whole thing right so if you can group these things you may be able to group them going all the way to the top and then all the way to impact that's one rep might take you a little bit longer because you're doing a bunch more but you can group those things as long as you're doing them correctly it doesn't do you any good to do them wrong it does more harm than good right so this 3,000 reps.

You might be able to do a lot of the golf swing in that whole month, but it's going to take you about a month.

During that time, can you go out and play?

Sure.

Just go buy yourself a box of pinnacles and don't keep score that day.

Don't worry about what you score because your goal, the measurement stick of whether or not you're successful that day is not the ball flight or your scorecard.

It's, did I do the movements correctly?

And if that's how you're scoring yourself, going out and playing can be productive because you're still teaching yourself how to move correctly but you've now added the extra challenge of being on a golf course which has all kinds of distractions now you are going to be worried about ball flight you are worried about the bunker hitting somebody in the head hitting one out of bounds etc so you're giving yourself extra challenges as long as your brain can do it knock yourself out because at some point that's exactly where we want to be able to do this movement pattern we can't stay inside forever at some point we've got to be able to face these extra challenges and distractions and we just want kind of do it slowly you don't want to go from driving in the parking lot to the indy 500 in one day and that's what a lot of people do and that's where they make a mistake because this gap trying to jump from one piece to the next is too far you're never going to make it you're going to fall down in the middle somewhere does it make sense any questions on anything on how the brain learns because this is the key to improvement everything else that i'm going to say is secondary to this.

If you're not communicating with your brain the way that it learns, it's not going to do you any good to know all the information in the world about the golf swing.

Understanding the physics, the fundamentals, how to move, the takeaway, the position of the club, perfect impact position.

You're never going to learn it.

You're never going to be able to implement it unless you follow this very simple process.