Troubleshooting a Practice Session
Let’s say you’re practicing along doing reps successfully or creating shots, playing games or experimenting. Let’s say you are pretending it’s the most important shot of your life. Things are fine. You are hitting solid shots. Confidence is high and you are feeling good.
Then things start to go poorly. You start mishitting and spraying the ball all around. You have the driver in hand and the practice session is now in trouble. Now what?
Here’s the deal. “When in trouble, go back!”
Go back to a 5 iron. Go back to a 7 iron. Go back to a wedge. Go back to 1/2 swings.
Do NOT spend time trying to figure out what you are doing wrong. This is almost always a total waste.
Going back is like following a trail of breadcrumbs in the wilderness back to known territory. You get a little lost, but you have a way to find your way again and get feeling good again.
This single point may be the biggest reason amateurs don’t get better.
Be willing to say to yourself “This practice session is in trouble. I am getting frustrated. I am not getting better at this point. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. I am not going to let it continue.”
When in trouble, go back.
