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Brian...

How much of teaching is experimenting with different things with the student?

How many times do you have to do things different ways....or different things period....before you find something that seems to fit?

How do you determine if a player should be using the pattern they're using....or if you need to get in there and do MORE than just minor tweaking?

What about better players who already are having decent to good results with a pretty good pattern?

Upgrades vs. changes vs. experimenting to find out what to do...etc.

I guess you look for things they're already doing well....and THEN.....

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Perfect Impact

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Every pupil requires a different approach BUT with the same basics/principles. So you aim for the same things but using different approaches, communication imagery, etc.

Teaching is two things: knowing what is right conceptually, and the hard part, COMMUNICATING it to eskimos, french [these are metaphors, y'all for the fact that we all have our own language], old ladies, engineers, and "I don't care: just show me what to do!" as though there is only one thing to do...

It also requires getting the pupil to hear you. THAT is the REAL big hard part.

I had a pupil a couple months ago who finished EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE I started: obviously she was the extreme of someone so invested in her own preconception that, in anxiety because she was "with the teacher himself," could NOT allow herself to stop her own train and just listen. I don't think her three days here gave her more than a couple tips and I can almost guarantee no changes in her swing. You try......................
 
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Here ya go Birdie...

How much of teaching is experimenting with different things with the student?

Depends on the student, but sometimes the answer is— a BUNCH!

How many times do you have to do things different ways....or different things period....before you find something that seems to fit?

Sometimes a lot.

I don't tell my students what I am doing, because they can "short-circuit" the whole process.

Sometimes, I am PURPOSELY putting something in I DON'T WANT TO KEEP, just to "blow something else UP" in the pattern.

Golf Swings are like GARDENS, not like buildings. —Brian Manzella

How do you determine if a player should be using the pattern they're using....or if you need to get in there and do MORE than just minor tweaking?

By experience. By feel. By what my EYE tells me.

It ain't in any book.

It is VERY MUCH like a designer, designing an interior for a residence or business.

What about better players who already are having decent to good results with a pretty good pattern?

Fix only what needs fixin. Even Homer Kelley said that.

These are great questions a may be a video spot at some point.
 
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a good teacher

an important part of being a good teacher is to be able to communicatesomething in many different ways. it is also important to remember that people learn in different ways i. e. feel vs. visual.
it doesn't hurt to have a good deal of patience either.

jimmy
 
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Another perspective is...

....when a student can be seen as a teacher then you can honor them with your desire to listen, look and understand. Once they show you how to understand then you may begin your communication with all your skills.
 
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bhoganfan

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Brian,

I sent you a PM about a lesson in early October in Louisville, and have yet to here back form you. Can you let me know what your schedule looks like?

Thanks
 
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