How to Keep your Attention on Your Intention in Golf Part 2

Host: I am going to bring out a prop, that I have here in my pocket. This prop is going to help us give that organization and we call this the decision line. It's kind of like you maybe you had a decision line on the mound, what you stepped onto the mound. You were totally committed to the pitch you were going to throw and you didn't have any thoughts in your head about mechanics of that pitch. So what if you going up this way, what if you were to put this decision line down here. And now you were to organize yourself with your intention back here with your rehearsal swings, or like baseball your rehearsal pitches and decide exactly what you want to do here. I want you to step over the decision line, commitment to your target. Guest: And do it? Host: Yeah. Guest: Sounds good! Host: Okay, let's try. Guest: Alright. Host: So I didn't even watch the outcome, because I am not as concerned about that, I'm more concerned when you are able to make a decision and then keep it, keep the intension cleaner. Back there would swing up here with target. Guest: Right. Host: Were you able to do that a 100%? Guest: It was a lot better. It was a lot better. Because when I came here, I just hit rather than coming here and doing this, all of a sudden, my brain is still going and I should be just taken a shot. Host: Okay. Let's do another. It's interesting, because do you see people practice this way? Guest: Hmm... Host: I mean, if you are going to really try to take your game, you said work on the mental part and I think you said to me earlier, you want to be able to play without a lot of practice. Guest: I see the pros practice like this when they're playing but out here -- Host: You have all messed up. Guest: People are just hitting and changing gloves and -- Host: May I ask you this, if I want to tell you something you needed to do on and do something in your swing, okay, where should we be, here or over there? Guest: Over there. Host: Absolutely. Now here is a question. Do you need a golf ball to tell you, you are doing the right things in your mechanics? Guest: No. Host: Good! Host: I don't. Host: No, okay. What feedback mechanism can you use? Guest: I just try to focus on my leg movement, when I am back over there. Make sure we don't. My biggest problem is swinging. So that's my thought. Host: Good! There is where you would be concerned with that and you would have some way of either feeling it or sensing at that, you would know you did it the way you wanted to and I want you to step in here. Guest: Do it? Host: Yeah, exactly. Guest: Okay. Host: Good! Let's try another one. Guest: Alright. You're going to give me a tip? Host: No, I think, you know they all work out back step. Guest: Okay. Host: So did you do it? Guest: Yeah. Host: Like on a scale 1-5, 5 being I'm totally committed to my decision and I went through it. Guest: A good four-and-a-half. Host: Okay, good! So what would have gone it to a 5, what came in here? Guest: I think when I stopped here and some stuff started coming back in, it wasn't just see the ball and hit it. Still thinking about the legs a little bit. Host: So you being an athlete, why would you ever execute if there is a little bit of doubt in mind? Guest: It's a good question, it's a good question to step away and do it all over again. Host: Exactly. Guest: Yeah. Host: But an interesting thing is if you were to do that on a golf course, it might take you eight hours to play. Guest: Correct. Host: Okay. We're always stepping back over the decision line, but when you are practicing if that, you never hit a shot unless you're a 100% committed to it, 100% committed to the decision. Guest: Okay. Host: Yeah.