{"id":6646,"date":"2022-07-05T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2022-07-04T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T14:25:35","slug":"practice-the-parts-not-the-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/practice-the-parts-not-the-whole\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice the Parts, Not the Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I posted a video lesson titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/how-to-get-good-at-golf-2\/\">How to Get Good at Golf<\/a>. This is probably the most important post I have ever made.<\/p>\n<p>The point I made is that a golf stroke is the sum of its parts. To learn the swing, you have to learn its parts and how they fit together.<\/p>\n<p>Practicing swing after swing as a whole does you no good. <\/p>\n<p>In my video essay, <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/six-fundamentals-of-the-recreational-golf-swing\/\">Six Fundamentals of the Recreational Golf Swing<\/a>, I described in detail six features of a functioning recreational golf swing. <\/p>\n<p>At the range, and in my back yard, I practice them, and a few other movements that are specific to me. I practice each one by itself, to reinforce each one in my unconscious mind&#8217;s concept of golf swing movement.<\/p>\n<p>I also practice them individually because several of them are not my natural inclination. I get lazy and my swing starts failing because one or the other gets left out.<\/p>\n<p>But because I practice them so much and am so familiar with them all, it&#8217;s easy for me to notice which one is missing, so just a few reminder swings makes my swing whole again.<\/p>\n<p>So, again: your task is to figure out the movements that make your swing work, what your fundamentals are, and practice each one, by itself, over, and over, and over.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how you get good. And stay good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I posted a video lesson titled, How to Get Good at Golf. This is probably the most important post I have ever made. The point I made is that a golf stroke is the sum of its parts. To learn the swing, you have to learn its parts and how they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/practice-the-parts-not-the-whole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practice the Parts, Not the Whole<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1Jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6661,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}