I tilt my shoulders because my hands grip the club at different points and I want to maintain my arms straight. If I were to maintain my shoulders even, I'd have to bend one arm or grip the club differently, both of which I don't want to do. I also address the ball with the club tilted forward.

Are you fighting this OTT move by trying to do the opposite? Instead, try going with the OTT move, try to exagerate it. It's a method that enables one to trust one's self. If I continuously fail at something, I'll lose confidence in myself. Instead, I build confidence by willing to do what I normally don't want to do. Instead of trying to do the right thing, I try to do the wrong thing for a change.

You could say it's like a trick of the mind but you wouldn't fool yourself into thinking you're doing one thing when you're actually doing something else. Instead, you'll be learning how to do something with confidence.

It's a change of perspective. Instead of thinking of right and wrong, I think of success and failure. It depends entirely on the comparison of intent and result. If they match, it's a success. If they don't match, it's a failure. It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong anymore.

"I know how to swing OTT repeatedly and with consistent results."

Instead of:

"I don't know how to stop swinging OTT."

It's a common problem that many people have. We are scared of failing therefore we never consider trying to fail on purpose to learn how we fail. Because we remain ingnorant of the cause of our failure, we can't avoid it and continue to fail.

Instead, I learn how to fail so I know with certainty that this move, this method will produce failure. Then, I can learn how to avoid it in the future.

That's what we mean by we don't learn anything from winning.


Martin Levac