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day 4, broke my driver shaft yesterday and managed to find one (Diamana Whiteboard) in stiff with the correct mizuno-adapter in a shop 2 minutes away from my house.. last one they had as well, so I bought it and tested it out.. I wasn't in the best form myself, but the shaft did well. 
Once I was home I removed the standard grip and put a MCC plus 4 in midsize on. 

cheers Chris

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Welcome to the "5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge for 2018! Please read as the rules have changed! Yes, for all of 2018! I'm changing it up. Rather than do this monthly, we're going to hav

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3/31/18: Day 365: The post you've all been waiting for.  I did some more work with my A4 to A5 drills. I know it seems like it's monotonous and stupid... But yesterday after I posted I

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Well I'm at 276 consecutive days. 1/1/18: I did my path drill indoors today. For those of you who don't know what this is, it involves 2 to 4 water or soda bottles a club and a foam ball. I

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Day 148 (10 Nov 22) - Day of travel with wife, son and grandson to visit kids in BeantownUsed some of the idle time to work on swing mechanics (weight transfer, body rotation, finish).  It’s a good thing when you can comfortably do the weight shift to the lead foot without fear of pain.  These drills have helped overcome that fear. 

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day 5 - Thursdays I train at the pool, so no time for the driving range, but I did spend about 10 minutes on my putting mat at home. 

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Day 10, November 10, 2022

Practiced for a few hours downtown, then played 18 holes at Lake View with a friend. Definitely working on the right things (same as the old things).

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day 6 - spent 2 hours on the driving range getting used to the new driver shaft at first, then practicing on the toptracer, initially for an hour and then a friend showed up and we played the "old course" on the toptracer.. 

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Day 11, November 11, 2022

Slow motion stuff at home while watching some videos and getting some paperwork and other needed stuff done.

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day 7 - had 2 hours group lesson (the last one for this season) where we looked at some technical aspects. In my case it was focusing on the takeaway. I then still spent another hour on the range afterwards.

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Day 12, November 12, 2022

Hit balls for ten minutes after Junior Elite stuff. Really, really didn't want to as I got my COVID booster (#4 total) yesterday, and then slept about 40 minutes last night. I feel like 💩 right now. But I did hit some.

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day 8 - played 16 holes at a new (to me) course, which is relatively close by.. It went quite well, despite having made some stupid mistakes - could only play 16 holes as it then got too dark to finish the last 2 holes. The course is really nice, so I am contemplating getting a membership there and stay at the course where I am currently a member of just for the training (they only have 9 holes, but one of Europe's best training facilities, so different types of memberships)

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Day 13, November 13, 2022

Hit balls for 15 minutes after Sunday JEP. Still just working on the backswing and the transition into the downswing. Cuz that's what I do.

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day 9 - spent 2 hours on the toptracer again, doing some target practice and playing the London GC Heritage course. I can see from the distances that it's getting colder (we had 4 degrees Celsius today), as the balls definitely go shorter than when it's nice and warm.

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Finally feeling 100% and ready to get back to regular practice. Easy one today, had a lesson in the morning.

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Day 14, November 14, 2022

Worked for a little bit after a good GEARS session with a student. Same things: elbow folds (wrists hinge) earlier, throwing down and away without a ton of cupping.

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day 10 - went to the range for an hour before closing to do some drills.. focused primarily on impact position 

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Day 15, November 15, 2022

Light day today. Just a little GEM work while doing some video work and other stuff. The tweets I sent this morning took a longer amount of time than I wish they had, too. 😄

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day 11 - had a lesson and we focused again on the takeaway that we discussed last time, ensuring there are checks that I can do when practicing it..

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Day 1 (16 Nov 22) - starting over as I took several days off while vacationing with the kids and grands in New England.  Worked on the swing setup drill that I had been doing with the 7i and 8i, rehearsing takeaway and downswing, then making swings hitting hard foam balls.  

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Day 16, November 16, 2022

Worked for about 25 minutes hitting balls with an 8I today. Took a few breaks to film some content, including a weird one I put on Instagram Reels.

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