Monday, February 15, 2010

Practice makes imperfect?

Practice is necessary.

The pros hit a thousand balls a day.

So why does practice make imperfect...?

Well, it doesn`t always. If your technique is good and all other factors are there, then repitition will re-enforce good form and function.

When practice makes imperfect is when we repeat mistakes without understanding how to correct them. We don`t always have the luxury of having a Pro helping adjust our swing as we play, so we continue to re-enforce less than optimum skill-sets into our game.

The naturally gifted amateur and professional player proceed seemlessly from swing to swing, re-enforcing good habits by endless practice, while most struggle with natural deficits and poor ideas about method, which never get better over time.

Most pros will admit that the game came to them by way of sheer hard work geared to the determination necessary to win.

Malcom Gladwell in his book "Outliers" wrote that it takes 10,000 hours to master a discipline. Simply put that is five years of full-time effort at forty hours a week to become proficient at something, whether it be the violin or micro-surgery or golf.

So. Here`s the thing. Are you going to begin your five years re-enforcing bad habits or taking hit-and-miss attempts at figuring out how best to do things, or are you going to get expert instruction?

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