I can’t tell you how important practicing with “extremes” is. Shawn, you started me on this path years ago, and it’s the single most important thing that hastens my improvement. It enhances awareness of the clubface, of the grip, setup and alignment, and swing mechanics. Every aspect of learning the golf swing can be improved upon and in a shorter period of time using “extremes” (aka “goldilocks”).

Training the brain to “predict” is one of the most underrated topics in golf in my opinion. Through this process I can now slice, push, pull, hook, top, skull, fat, thin, and, yes, even shank, a ball at will. Of course, though this process I can now make the necessary adjustments to hit the correct trajectory as well. And that’s where that flight plan is soooo important. Giving your brain the flight plan helps it to make a prediction much faster and more accurately. The brain compares the flight plan to the reality of the setup and predicts an outcome. Without the flight plan, the prediction works but not nearly as sharply and nor as immediate. But, as this lesson shows, you also have to have those other “feels” in your database to compare against. Those missed feels are so important to the process of predicting.

Thanks again, Shawn, Sav and Mu for another terrific lesson. Keep peeling that onion and talking about the things that others don’t. Cheers!