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We had this conversation around what it means to get better
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Here's what you get. Yeah, we just had someone that
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Well, I don't think it's realistic that we can come out
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today. Are you?
A comes from Fantastic golf instructor Derek Hooper, and he
loves the book and had a few questions for y'all.
So, I thought we'd ask when we talk about him here and we're
going to start with kind of this analysis question and talking
about skills testing. So he writes do they do skills
testing on the Range or do they ever watch players on the
course? And kind of a second part to
that is, do they ever use rounds analysis rather than skills test
for that portion? So what do you guys think?
I think those are great great questions, Cordy and I think the
the short answer is, it depends on specifically who that player
is what our relationship with them is to this point and if we
even have one with them. So for instance, when we wrote
the book, I mean the whole entire vision for it was it was
something that that person could do independent of a relationship
with us, still get some valuable information about their game,
and start putting them in direction of sort of a path to
Mastery, so to speak. But if we're looking at Our own
students, specifically ones who are really, really focused on on
scoring better and playing better and have significant
goals when it comes to their their scoring ability.
We definitely take them on the golf course.
There's there's no better test than the game itself and looking
specifically at Stats also help us to inform some of the goals
that they or we might set in conjunction with them with
regards to this big of specific outcomes that they're trying to
achieve from the practice plan. So I would say it's more of a
360°. Ooh, look the tests, give us
some nice information, but in order to sort of fill the
background. So to speak round by round
analysis, things from golf stat, lab shot-by-shot shots to hold
things like that are incredibly important for sort of monitoring
progress and the initial establishment of goals.
And then also just seeing how they get around the golf course.
You might see, I guess a Quantified level of performance
in one particular area, but if you don't really see how it
happens, you don't get the whole story and you might be misled
that they could be somewhat deficient.
Maybe technically in a certain area when in reality it could be
a strategic issue. So there's there's a number of
different things that play. So I would say we take a pretty
comprehensive approach to skills analysis and assessment.
So it was the reason that you used kind of the on the Range
analysis assessment in the book just for Simplicity sake.
That that's a lot easier than having someone track five rounds
of golf and then come back and go through that.
Yeah, I mean I think that realistically if we if it were
up to us we would be on the golf course.
Looking at this because We, as Matt says, we get the most
realistic view of what's going on.
But the challenge that we have in the one that we try to tackle
with the book, is we realize that there's constraints and
that not everyone has the time and the access to a coach to do
this. And so when possible, you it's,
when it's not possible to go out there with a coach and and see
these skills in real conditions. This is as close as we can get
to give us a snapshot of where the skills are so that we can To
develop a plan that that can improve the most important areas
or the most pressing priorities, Joshua.
Gotcha. So if someone's reading this
book, if you know, if they're trying to get the most out of
this, they go through this assessment on the Range.
How accurate do you think that's going to be like the assassin
you go through in the book of what your skills are on the golf
course? Have you found it to be 80%
accurate? 100% accurate, 50 percent
accurate. Yeah.
I think for what it's designed to do is to let us Us, look at
the skills and then the layers of that skill.
So say for finesse wedges, the first layer of that is, can you
make solid contact? And then from there, can you
control your distance? Can you control your trajectory,
can you control your spin for? So for that aspect, it's 100%
effective but it doesn't take into account, some of the
tactics, some of the decision, making some of the softer skills
to actually playing golf just because it's impossible to do
and we're in this environment or when you don't have someone that
Can provide a little bit more nuanced, observation of
performance. So it's for what it's designed
to do. We think it's very effective.
Yeah, it certainly as Corey alludes to sort of serves as as
that Compass their kind of starts pointing Us in the right
direction but as again, other to doesn't necessarily provide a
perfect picture of what's going on because a lot of those game
elements so to speak, just aren't necessarily.
There are very difficult to recreate in a Range environment.
So I'm just looking in the book here.
We've got the 21 ball test, we had all these different shots,
draw fade, Lohi, Etc. And you kind of analyze that and
rate yourself using some of these, these plans you've guys
laid out. It's awesome.
It's really cool question for you.
My buddy is a let's just say 15 handicap doesn't really have
much control of his ball flight, right?
How does he go through something like this?
He doesn't really know how to hit some of these shots, right?
So he's is he Going to not do out this assessment and then be
led to a different place or how do you deal with that?
Not so great golfer. That's why there's different
areas that were grading on that test.
So it's not just did you hit the shot?
The intended shot. You were looking at each layer
of that skill. So the first one is, did you
hit? You hit it solid.
And your, you're having this little moment of reflection
after each trial where your if you had a poor shot, you're not
just raking over another ball. You're trying to evaluate well
what aspect of this skill, am I struggling?
The most with. And so for the 15 handicapper
that may not have as good enough concept to be able to hit
different kinds of shots, they're going to be pointed
towards the most pressing piece of that skill, which is going to
be, am I hitting it solid? Most likely and then from from
the results of the test, they'll be pointed to a practice plan
that is designed to attack that directly just sort of building
on what Corey said. I think when I know we work with
higher handicap golfers or middle handicap golfers their
concept of why they're struggling to have more control
over their ball is often absent and by going in, as Corey said,
and looking at the layers of the skill, specifically contact
start line curve at cetera, they start to get a better
understanding, a more clear picture of a really what it is.
They need to do and having that laser-like focus on that one,
critical variable stands to serve them them quite well over
the long term and more so we menacing as they go through
those plants. I want to kind of dive deeper
into this question. He asks, do you ever use round
analysis rather than skills test kind of getting into that?
I'm guessing the answer is. Yes.
You guys do some analysis tools to look at to look at rounds.
Is that right? Yes, absolutely, yeah, yeah,
with all of our clients, whether they be professional or
Collegiate, or high-performing Juniors, or even recreational
players that are committed enough to input rounds, we use
golf stat lab, which you know, outside of PGA Tour where you
have shot. Hot link and you're able to
really dig into this robust set of performance metrics golf.
Stat lab is one that we found that most closely duplicates
that. And so, yeah, I would say that
more important than a skills assessment is the stats and
being able to look at what's really going on in the golf
course, which areas are holding someone back, perform
performance, and we've talked about the title of the book
better faster. I think that if there's one
thing that can accelerate Your improvement and how efficient
your practice time is. You would have to look at Stats
and what is actually occurring on the golf course.
And what areas present the, the largest room for improvement.
And on that same note, perhaps on a different line of
reasoning. It's also really important to
know what you're good at. And I think even in light of the
book, often people should say, in light of the title of the
book being better faster. A lot of people don't
necessarily recognize that paying adequate attention to
your strengths. It is really important.
Portent because if you compromise a strength at the
expense of improving a weakness, you just end up in the same
place. So it's important to identify
both what you're doing. Well, and that area of
opportunity that has the greatest potential for growth
for you and and attacked both with bigger and focus.
How do you guys tease out what someone is actually?
Because I know that stats can sometimes be misleading.
Is one thing leads to another thing, making it look like it's
worse than it actually is. And there can be some level of
complexity there and not just saying, Go, you're not hitting
greens, you need to go practice your irons.
Like, how do you guys tease that stuff out?
And that's a great question Cordy.
And I think it goes back to what Corey mentioned in terms of.
There's there's layers of skills within a skill.
And if we see someone who doesn't statistically hit, a lot
of greens, and we take them through a 21 ball test, for
example, and they do incredibly well, that's sort of a big, big,
big alarm Bell or a big light bulb for us saying, you know,
what this particular Essentially is really far from a technical
Challenge and I think it's important for us to look at
areas of opportunity and extending Beyond just that
technical clarify my concept bit and that's what we go into.
All these different quadrants sort of throughout that book and
the task design Matrix which underpins the book and it's
looking at the execution of the skill, not just from that
technical perspective, but from the others as well.
Yeah, just to add to that. I think that it would depend on
two different factors. One, the quality of your stats.
So as Referred to as golf's at lab, we have strokes gain
metrics for each area of the game.
And so by Nature that's isolating certain parts of the
game. So they're not combined with any
other area. So when we're looking at your
Strokes gained putting, it's a true look at.
What's the quality of our, how good is the performance on the
greens and then we can tease that out even further.
We know what you're won. Putt percentages from four to
eight feet. How that compares to a PGA Tour
player or a player of similar ability.
And then the other part of that is, This stats analysis has to
be coupled with a really good debrief with the client.
So the first usually, 10 minutes of a session with the player is
digging into the stats because as you say, it doesn't tell us
everything. And there may be circumstances
that were not aware of that are contributing to to the the
scores. And so we want to combine that
with a really good evaluation with them.
And often times it creates this really good opportunity for for
a player to reflect on around in a way that that's more.
Meaningful than they may have done otherwise and they kind of
figure out some things on their own and it just points Us in the
right direction from from there. If you combine stats with a
really good debrief of recent performance, it's really easy to
know where we should be headed and which areas we need to put
most of our attention on gotcha. So what I'm going to hearing is
that maybe you know just one of these things by itself, there
could be some holes in that and by combining a few of these
processes, whether it's round analysis with the skills
assessment with the debrief. Like Like you can really start
to put the picture together and find out what's actually going
on because it could be something that that's hiding in.
Just one of these, these ways to assess people that can write.
Yeah. I think it also, just depends on
everybody has these constraints, whether they be time,
constraints, facility, constraints access to a coach
that can guide us towards these, these secret areas I guess is,
as you refer to. So, you know, it would be great
to have all of these but it's just not always realistic.
And that's part of the reason why we wrote the book Is we
wanted to keep in mind those players that may have a
constraint on time. It's not their full-time.
Job to play better. It's something that's a hobby
for them. And the time that they do have
and that they are able to allocate to getting better and
we want them to be able to make the most of it.
And so to give them a few different tools at their
disposal based on, you know, whatever constraints that they
have, and what they're able to do, to give him the best shot at
getting better. That's an example that we put in
the book of an eight-week training.
Training program but it's not always the one that we would use
and I've used a few different ones and it really it's based on
how much information a player is going to have during that time.
So we may choose, if we know they're only going to play one
time a month. Eight weeks may not be the most
appropriate time period because we want them to have some info
and some data that shows some progress towards the goals that
we've set. And so if we're working hard on
our game and we only were able to put it to test, Two different
rounds. Then we may get discouraged or
we may affect motivation when we don't show a lot of tangible
progress towards those goals. And on the other side, we may
have players that are involved in a lot of events, a really
dense tournament schedule. And then if that's the case, we
would we would shorten that feedback loop down to a week.
And so it really just depends how often the player is playing
in able to put some time towards their action, steps that we've
defined for them in that and that practice plan, that makes
sense. Corey and it make sense of that.
Changes, depending on the player, depending on what
they're up to. And that kind of leads into this
other question that Eric had here in was.
How does that eight-week plan differ for an average player
verse and Elite player? Was that a hard question to
answer, like, because they just, they're completely different or
are they somewhat similar? I wouldn't pose that question as
average player or better player. I think it's a function of how
committed they are and how much time they have at their
disposal. So I wouldn't make a
differentiation based on skill. And how I put together that
practice plan, because essentially, that practice,
plans function is to create a goal, a clear sense of purpose
when they go out to practice. Some very defined action steps
that they can follow that will contribute towards that goal,
and then just ongoing feedback for how they're doing.
And if they are making progress you know that provides this
motivation of I want to continue if they're not making progress
towards that goal, the feedback tells them hey you may need to
change something about how your attack.
Aking this. And maybe we redo their practice
plan, so that wouldn't change based on ability level, it would
change based on my being realistic about this golfer and
their ability to actually go through these steps.
So more than likely someone who's not all that committed and
who I don't feel like has the motivation to or maybe the time
to really dig into one of these practice plans.
I may condense it down to something that better fits what
they're what they're actually able to do.
Yeah, I would say a golfer is a golfer as a golfer, and as Corey
said, it's really sort of the time commitment and motivation
of that player that determines how content-rich that practice
plan is because ultimately it will have a pretty similar
structure but it just might have goals that are more aligned to
really what is feasible as far as what can be obtained from
from that golfer based on their time commitment and motivational
resources. So that's one of the questions.
If you are going to create a practice plan for me, we'd have
we have some type of assessment Set of skills but also an
assessment of how much time I have and what the facilities are
at my, you know, that I can use. That's part of that, that
questionnaire that happens before you create a practice
plan for sure. And then on that is also like
availability of time to play golf.
You don't want to in my opinion, sort of take away that that time
because ultimately that's what they're trying to do is is play
golf and play as an incredibly important role in their
Improvement. And so it's really looking at
how much am I playing how much do I want to play?
How much time and energy do I have available to spend on this?
And those are two really honest things that we make sure that we
work with people really upfront and in that whole process before
we sort of dive into that practice plan.
So to speak, how much does a practice plan change?
Do you think and like, what are some of the factors that
dictates that that plan changing?
Is it if someone is really struggling with a, you know,
with with something, if they, you know, if they don't have a
lot of time or they suddenly had a lot of time and they More time
than you thought, like, what are some of the factors that will
commonly change change of plan that you set for?
Let's just say, like, they weeks?
Yes. So, let's just take the time
Point. Let's say we've got a player in
front of us, that doesn't have a lot of time.
Typically, our practice plans are going to include some, some
tasks that are going to touch on a variety of different skills.
So if we know that time is an issue.
Well, then we're just going to pick a primary goal and the one
most Urgent pain point that that golfer has and we're going to
design, you know, three or four tasks that they have to do every
single time you know. And we're also really careful
and making sure that these practice plans.
Our task-based and not time-based so we're not going to
tell them to go practice for two hours.
We're going to say hey these are the three to four things that
you need to check off the list every time you go to the
practice facility and once you're done, you're done so
that's one way that they would change the other way that they
would change is if we weren't moving the needle.
And this happens, you know, this happens with with good players.
We've set a primary goal, supporting goal in a secondary
goal and we're just not moving the needle enough.
So then as coaches we have to step back and say why is this
happening? A is the player really going
through everything with the kind of detail and in structure that
we need them to and if they are and we know that they're doing
all the right things and we've got to take a hard look at the
plan that we created and try to figure out why it wasn't
effective. So then we go back and we headed
it. And, you know, that because we
have we're keeping kind of real-time stats with through
golf stat lab, and we're able to look at at each round and what's
getting better or not getting better.
Then it allows us to kind of change that on the fly.
So it's as coaches, that's a big part of our job as we're
monitoring that and changing it as we see fit.
Yeah. It's just boils down to this
correlated to being responsive and adaptive to the needs of the
person going through it in real time.
It might be dialing up. The difficulty might be dialing
down the difficulty of might be removing a task adding a task.
It's sort of this open jar into which we put or take things out.
How do you make sure that you're not being reactive though?
If you have all that communication all that feedback
from a player and and the practice plan isn't just based
on you know, their feedback in that might be emotional or you
know, just reactive to what happened that day when there are
ups and downs like how do you make sure that it is processed
kind of focused? Yeah, and and I think that's
where you have to Really look closely at what is what is
variability like what's the noise brought on in the
fluctuation? That is just literally accounted
for in terms of just normal variability and then what is
actually a physical change which is difficult to do and it takes
time which is why things like stats are so important and then
sort of having that good Baseline of information and
typically when we see variation that is sort of less than 30% of
what is normal? Then that would be considered
just just noise but anything over and beyond that would be
sort of the effect of that training.
And so really looking at it and sort of a spouses to the need to
have that ongoing statistical component to Once training and
play. And then also having some
baseline which is what we tried to provide every golfer through
this book by that they can go back to to sort of determine the
ultimate effect that that training has had on the only
thing that we would add I kind of have a in the book, there's
this choose-your-own-adventure kind of mind that it has the
answer a few different questions which are designed to point you
to the right area. And hopefully you know by tree
answer to that to your question was you've got to depend on an
expert coach? That's not going to be reactive
and is has enough experience to know when to pull the plug on
certain things and when to make those edits, but in the absence
of that we tried to provide in the book, a tool that you can
use that would Almost answer the questions that we would be
asking as a coach to point us to the right direction to know,
okay? We need to go this area with our
practice plans, and this is how we would edit because we didn't
want the book to be. You read it once and then you're
done, we wanted you to be able to recycle it and go through the
the assessment and the those kind of mind maps over and over
again, to because our skills and our confidence in different
areas are always fluctuating. It's just a reality of golf so
we want it to be something that will conserve you over a long
period of time. Got it.
If we're looking at this, you know, and kind of just
theorizing on how people learn and how people practice, what is
your guys thought on that? That idea that people are
reactive in their, in their practice, the reactive in their
training and do you think coaches fall into that trap as
well of, you know falling into that when a student comes to
them and says I'll man you know we got to work on my driver.
I just you know I hooked it out of bounds there and on 18 in the
reality is they're doing just fine they just happen to hook
one out of bounds. Like we all do.
I'd say 100% guilty as charged have been definitely reactive
on, probably more occasions than I'm proud of.
But I think that's, you know, part of learning and partying,
you're getting better. But I would say as a, whole
golfers for the most part are reactive.
They're very very quick to abort Mission and generally just try
something different on every shot.
And while we speak to the importance of conceptual Clarity
and conceptual understanding and having the ability to detect and
correct errors, I think it's also a pretty fine line there
where Become very quick to do that.
And consequently something that just maybe again, normal
variability within a round of golf could stand to be a turning
point, that that may take things off the rails.
And so, I think it's just important to have that sort of
measure twice cut once approach. And making sure that the course
that you set for yourself is the limit that you stay on such that
can accurately assess, whether or not something is just normal
noise or actual It. If it is really almost as simple
as what is variability, like, what is a normal fluctuation in
performance, which is 30% of within 30 less than 30% of what
normal variability would be. So if you took an average in a
standard deviation, anything, greater than 30%, of your
standard deviation would be training effect and that would
be grounds for intervention or the justification to suggest
that an intervention worked. Anything less is noise obviously
need a really Data set to be able to do that but that's the
difference between noise and effect.
Is this variation within third 30% of what is normal.
So standard deviation of an average to the basically the
degree of the variance around the mean, so that determines
whether or not it is in effect or if it is, just again noise.
So how do I explain this to my to my men's league buddies that
we play together twice a week and they're 10 handicaps and I
mean, how do they understand this concept of of not being not
being reactive in their, in their practice, not being
reactive in there and their thought process?
Yeah. And so I would say, I would say
if you hit balls on let's say the side of a football field, so
you get on on one of the one of the boundary lines and you hit
20 shots, how many of those shots would go on the boundary
line? Probably not.
And so let's take out some outliers.
So, we'll take out the, what's so I guess a normal distribution
is what? Percent.
So you take out your three worst and so would we look at sort of
that cluster so to speak? That should be your expectation.
So to me it all just boils down to expectation and then your
goal with trading is to gradually make that a smaller
cluster and so that's making your bad balls better more than
anything. It's sort of tightening and
making that variability around average much smaller and to me,
that is the value of better faster, is that it provides
golfers with that. Tway in a systematic fashion to
sort of reduce the variability of the outcomes, they produce by
through effective training. Yeah, it's add-on.
That is the the part that is assumed here is variability and
there is some degree of it deciding on what that number is.
While Matt may have a good formula for us, that's in
handicap buddy in your men's league is probably not going to
have a sufficient data set to determine that.
So he just needs to know that there's variability, that's part
of this process of getting better.
And I think that Mindset and just that realization is a
helpful thing to keep in mind, so that that they aren't too
reactive and changing up a practice plan.
But in maybe even a Cordia a better answer to all this.
Is that having a plan? It makes it a lot easier.
Not to be reactive because if we don't have a plan at all, we
don't have these clear goals that were chasing after.
Well, then every time we go to the range where reacting to the
blast range performance or the last round but when you've got
Got a really clear-cut practice plan that's organized.
And based on what our goals are, I think it can be.
It can save us from from changing around plans and going
through that cycle of just reacting to the last shot of the
last poor performance. Did that plan, as course,
eloquently stated definitely serves as an anchor.
Let's try to make this as real as possible, maybe and let me
get honest. So I went to the range today for
let's say, 45 minutes. Then I played a quick nine holes
and I'm trying to figure out what is a plan, right?
And in, to be honest, I don't feel like I have a plan, and I
feel kind of like an idiot, because I know a lot, and I
probably should write, like, I'm kind of a hypocrite.
And so, like, here's the, here's the thought is, I'm working on
Tempo, training lately, so hitting shots of 60, 80, 100
percent, Or even less working on balance, and working on feeling
pressured, in my feet. And so, I have these kind of few
things like that, I work on when I have time.
And then I think about, is that a plan or what is a plan?
I think those are tactics. Those are like, what are you
working on those things to, what end?
So what are you trying to improve by using?
What sounds like are really effective tactics.
So what I would ask you is, well what ball-striking metrics?
Are you looking at that? It's going to provide you some
signal as to your progress or lack of progress.
That would then indicate that maybe you need to mix up your
tactics a little bit. So again, it goes to some kind
of Baseline. It doesn't have to be a stat
program. It can be, you know, it could be
the, the ball striking skills, snapshot where you're just
looking at, okay, I'm going to take a look at what my Baseline
was, and where I'm going now and that's going to determine if I'm
actually making. If I move the needle at all, you
know what I mean? And just to build on that, it's
like, what's the overarching? Why, what's the compelling
reason to go about using his course of those tactics?
What are you working towards? What's that vision of the future
that you're striving to attain by going through, X, Y and Z and
I think that's a really clear and really important factor that
sort of not only ignites but also keeps that motivational
fire burning that keeps you sort of moving on that path and I
think if you don't really have that overarching wire, if it's
very Broad and Not very specific.
I think it's easier to get off course, or maybe beyond the
range as you say, Cordy and not really feeling like you're
really accomplishing anything. What I think it's nice to say
having a wire having a goal but like I just, I'd like to win
more money on Thursday nights. That's okay.
So like, that's why unpack that what's going to allow you to win
more money Courtney? Yes, that's how come goal.
What are your what process goes with support that?
That would be shooting a lower score, getting a higher.
Handicap one of those two great and so which of those is of more
interest, probably shooting lower scores.
Great. So based on your game where our
sort of your, your five buckets currently sitting.
We'll call that puting short game.
Wedge play approach, play the t-ball tactics psychology where
do all those elements said, I don't know, I feel slightly
panicked right now that you just say all those things because I I
have no idea and I don't even know how to write.
I mean does that if only you had an assessment tool that would
help you have an objective view of where those certain skills
are if right answer. And so really the, the book
plan, the plan is basically, after you sort of peel the onion
back onto all those layers and really look at.
Okay, this is, this is what I want to do.
This is why? This is kind of where I'm at.
Oh man, I'm actually pretty good at this.
I'm not so great at this. How do we make sure that I can
stay? At this level and skill X, and
really just build up skill, why? And if I can link those two
things to the desired outcome, I have the recipe for satisfying
work. And if I have satisfying work,
I'm going to feel a little more compelled to go about and go
through this whole practice plan because I see the value in it.
Our scores a good enough assessment plan.
What do you mean by score is like looking at scores, right?
So I shoot a shoot at 36 of 42, a 3940 of 34 like and that's
over the course of Month, let's say, right?
Like I and or does it have to be some type of actual stats?
Some type of assessment Beyond score to be able to look at
these with? Yeah, we've got to know what's,
what's making up the score? Why is the score when it is?
And so, I think it's obviously, that's our ultimate measure of.
Are we making any progress has, are we shooting better scores?
That's a result we're worried about.
But if we're looking at how we're going to affect it, we've
got to unpack it a little bit more.
We've got to know the layers that make up that score and If
we're going to go practice like you said in my, do I have a
plan? You've got to know that you're
working towards something and I think that's, that's as Matt
said, that's huge for the motivational element 2 is.
I know that I've got a structured plan that is designed
to show me. Tangible tangible results of my
of my effort, I think of it this way and it's just something we
have to do for sport in Canada. As we have certainly at the high
performance level, we have a Podium pathway which is
basically constructed of two things we have Our results
track. And then we have a gold medal
profile. And so basically that results
track determines my progress relative to a medalist.
So to speak. Where do I sit on that?
Continuum. And then the gold medal, profile
are the attributes that allow me to perform at my best and would
their current status are. And so while we love to see
progress relative to that curve, we can't really have that unless
we're addressing those elements held within sort of that
technical tactical psychological physiological environment.
It's sort of standpoint and so score is one, measure its one
measure, but I think understanding the layers that
produce that score in those individual attributes.
Those are really what the plan seeks to address.
If you hear this, in the podcast, that means I've decided
to be completely transparent if you don't hear this.
Well, it's not in the show. And but I mean, my question, is
this, like, I have a lot of tools at my disposal and, and I
spend my time thinking about all this stuff.
If and like trying to help people and like, share these
conversations with you guys and all these, all these incredible
tools. And I'm not even doing this
myself when and I play a couple times a week, right?
So I worry about my friends that are these 10 handicaps, right?
I worry about them because they're definitely not doing it
right? And so what needs to happen like
what how do we make this available to them?
How do we make this more friendly to them?
So that some of this soup Can change their mindset and kind of
change the way that they go about looking at this.
That's the whole reason why we wrote the book is to address the
challenge that you just mentioned is the fact that we
want to make this as accessible as possible.
For a recreational player that doesn't have the time to devote
to getting better. It's not their full-time job.
So we want to provide them with an efficient way to make the
most out of their practice and I hate to plug the book so
aggressively, but But that was our whole mission.
What you the the issue in the obstacle that you just described
was our whole mission with the buck when we don't have access
to the type of coaching or the time to really, you know, that
great players that high performers have what's our
recourse and that's why we try to develop a skills assessment
and a practice plan that's designed to grow with you and to
change over time as your skills change.
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