Teaching to learn
 

I had an interesting experience at the range today. I was working on my swing, and struggling a bit, as has seemed to be usual for a while :( . There was a young man there who was being given a WHOLE BUNCH of wrong stuff from another well meaning individual. After the other guy left, I walked over and told him about the free lesson clinics that the school puts on on Wednesdays and then offered to help him. He is a RANK beginner, and was swiping at everything. I gave him the drill of the chip/punch routine with the hands in the correct position. This is something I can do easily. BUT as I tried to explain it to him without inundating him with the flying wedges idea (which would have just lost him completely), all of a sudden the FEEL of how that translates to a full swing came into my hands. I have been struggling with this for a while, and apparently explaining it and the incubation period coincided beautifully. I went back to my own bucket of balls and when I could generate that feel (not always but a LOT of the time), the ball was JUMPING off the clubface with that beautiful squishy feel that you get when you hit it flush. The act of trying to explain to someone how to do this was enough to trigger the proper responses in my hands. :p :p :p

Anyway, just thought I would let everyone who is struggling a bit know that there IS light at the end of the tunnel and it is NOT an oncoming freight train....

Walk in Beauty,

Obi WunPutt

The Teacher Student
 

"We teach what we want to learn."

So True
 

and the other part of this is that we never truly understand anything until we can explain it to someone else so that THEY understand it.


Moving forward :p

Obi WunPutt