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[golfhackz] pod Episode 2 is live. Jim Doorley joins the show.

Olympic sports psych. Trained biathletes, ski jumpers, NBA free-throw chokers. His take on why you're stuck in your game? It's not your swing.

What we get into:

Why emotional regulation, not mechanics, is the real boss fight
Golf as a series of free throws (and why that's bad news)
How visualization rewires your nervous system before you ever swing
Why Andrew's remote students improve faster than his in-person ones
Kairo, the guided visualization app Jim helped build, that gives you tour-level mental reps when you're nowhere near a course

I couldn’t recommend Kairo more. If you like what you hear in this episode give it a try. Your game will thank you.

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~ Spencer

architect [golfhackz]

Three fixes for consistent ball striking

Knowing what I know now, if I wanted to become a consistent ball striker, here's where I'd put my attention. Three things. Start them today and your strike gets tighter faster than anything else you could work on.

1. Practice in pods of 10

How you practice matters more than how much. So pull aside 10 balls and work in pods. Every session, you improve your swing 10 balls at a time.

Tee up every one of those balls to start. You're making a swing change. Set yourself up to win while the new pattern is still forming. Easy reps first. Hard reps later.

2. Get your weight forward with two long arms

Most inconsistent ball strikers fail in two predictable ways.

The weight stays back. It never gets onto the lead foot (the one closest to the target) at impact or deep into the follow-through.

The elbows stay bent. Through impact and past it, the arms stay collapsed. Watch a great ball striker instead and the elbows sit close together, around 6 to 8 inches apart post-impact. That's two long arms extending through the ball.

So that's the target: weight forward, two long arms, through impact and beyond.

3. Rehearse it, then rate it

Take your 10 teed-up balls. Before each shot, rehearse the move. Halfway back to halfway through. Feel the two long arms. Feel 90% of your weight loading onto that lead foot. Groove the pattern, then step up and execute the same thing for real.

Now here's why it's 10.

After each pod, rate yourself. Out of 10, how many did you strike well with correct form? That number is how you track progress. Next pod, beat the last one.

The goal is proficiency: 8 or 9 out of 10, struck solid with the right technique. Hit that, pull the tee, and chase the same numbers off the ground.

That's the debug loop. Run it every session.

~ Andrew

fixer [golfhackz]

Kairo - Elite Visualization Training

There's only so many physical reps you can actually do in a day.

As a coach for the last 20 years, visualization has always been a nice idea, but a near impossibility to actually transfer to an athlete without an Olympic-level sports psychologist.

That’s why I was stoked to be introduced to the team at Kairo and have the opportunity to work with them as they developed their product, focusing on bringing more innovation to the world of golf.

If you’re serious about getting better, this a is must.

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