Amen, brother! The longer we labor on The Way the less time we have for My Way. One of my toughest challenges has been not sorting out component variations etc, but rather the temptation to abandon work on developing more precision within a specific component when I am not immediately seeing positive results i.e. how am I hitting it. It is easy to abandon ship when it seems as though your ball striking is regressing. The good news is if you stay the course...the dawn will break! I believe the knowledge that I am in the process of developing and refining my own stroke pattern has given me the staying power to hang in there until it takes root. A quick fix approach mentality will set you up for TGM frustration. Although learning to trace a straight line helped INSTANTLY! I worked with the flashlights for a couple minutes...everyday...for 6 months. I have never consciously traced a straight line when hitting an actual ball...although it is traced more times than not. It taught me that the hands and the body go their seperate ways (lanes) and the idea of hands controlled pivot was partially revealed to me. That alone can change your game. All of this to say that if a cookie cutter instructor helps a player it was more accidental, than by design. They only build one kind of machine.
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