Following a Beginner's Progress - The Mia Project

[nevets88]

Many moons ago, I chafed at some of the decisions made by a beginner who made his progress for all to see, the 10,000 hour hypothesis remember? Now I'm following someone doing something kind of the same, going by the Instagram handle of miaellax, there's no set goal, at least not that I know of, but from what I'm seeing, she's going about it every smartly. Figure I'll make a thread for it. The big difference between now and people who tried it previously like 10 years ago, is that online instruction is much more prevalent, although I think you could do the same things albeit not as great video quality, 10 years ago. Probably a larger percentage of instructors who know what they're doing as well. Definitely the tools to keep track of progress, remotely, are much better now, cheaper, easier to use, etc...

 

[mclaren4life]

Other than the condescending only one way to train and it’s ours beginning it looks like it might be an interesting follow. 

[Darkfrog]

Curious if using the shortened club is effective - I have thought about making one of these with some components in my garage and leaving it in my office, but not sure if the concept has merit or not.

[Killa]

On 8/14/2020 at 8:50 PM, Darkfrog said:

Curious if using the shortened club is effective - I have thought about making one of these with some components in my garage and leaving it in my office, but not sure if the concept has merit or not.

For me it really doesn’t. I have a club that was off off a kickstarter golf simulator project. It’s weighted and has a movable weight that clicks when the force exceeds a pre set point. I use it inside for drills and when you set me up to the ball I loose every notion of what I was practicing with the short one 🙂

[Grizvok]

It depends what you are working on. If I'm working on ingraining my new swing thought of beginning the transition with a left knee bump towards the target and down, does it really matter that the club in my hand is 2' long? Probably not.

[phillyk]

10 minutes ago, Grizvok said:

It depends what you are working on. If I'm working on ingraining my new swing thought of beginning the transition with a left knee bump towards the target and down, does it really matter that the club in my hand is 2' long? Probably not.

Depends on what stage of learning you are in.  In the beginning, it would be ok as you are learning a new skill/motion.  As you practice more, you want to make sure the motion is applied to a real situation, as in hitting a ball.  Then beyond that, applying it to playing a golf course.  It can be harder to transition to course if you never hit a ball while practicing a skill. 

[Grizvok]

29 minutes ago, phillyk said:

Depends on what stage of learning you are in.  In the beginning, it would be ok as you are learning a new skill/motion.  As you practice more, you want to make sure the motion is applied to a real situation, as in hitting a ball.  Then beyond that, applying it to playing a golf course.  It can be harder to transition to course if you never hit a ball while practicing a skill. 

Why do you see people like @iacas talk about using the mirror and the feedback it can provide? Surely he isn't inside hitting balls while using the mirror. Same goes for a lot of the earlier COVID-19 practice plan drills. Is it doing harm/no good at all to practice my takeaway to A3 and not hit a ball at all? I highly doubt it.

And who said anything about not hitting balls whatsoever? I don't think anybody (from this forum) said anything to that affect, although I guess the tiny little tidbit about being in lockdown from the IG post could be construed that way.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Grizvok

[phillyk]

26 minutes ago, Grizvok said:

Why do you see people like @iacas talk about using the mirror and the feedback it can provide? Surely he isn't inside hitting balls while using the mirror. Same goes for a lot of the earlier COVID-19 practice plan drills. Is it doing harm/no good at all to practice my takeaway to A3 and not hit a ball at all? I highly doubt it.

And who said anything about not hitting balls whatsoever? I don't think anybody (from this forum) said anything to that affect, although I guess the tiny little tidbit about being in lockdown from the IG post could be construed that way.

I meant don't solely work on feels/thoughts one way.  Do it multiple ways.  5min of doing drills at home is good so long as you can hit a couple balls every once in a while to enhance the work. Doing it every day for an hour or something without feedback, will make moving to hitting balls tough.

Drills without hitting balls is better than no practice at all, of course.  Even mental practice is better than no practice at all.  But, for the best practice, it's good to apply the drills.