A lot of the research I have seen shows that telling someone HOW to do a task is a terrible way to get them to retain and own the task. In the research the idea of teaching by "corrections" (fixing a golfer and telling them to swing to a model) is very low for retention or for motor learning in general. I started to wonder, what would a golf lesson with ZERO corrections look like?
After teaching for years using a conventional "faults and fixes" method, Golf Coach Marcus Bell from Doncaster, England now teaches without explicit instructions. Meaning that to get someone to fix a swing fault or just generally improve he will change the constraints of the practice, introduce more chaos to the challenge and have the golfer self organize a better motor solution. Never telling the golfer HOW to overcome the constraint.
After teaching for years using a conventional "faults and fixes" method, Golf Coach Marcus Bell from Doncaster, England now teaches without explicit instructions. Meaning that to get someone to fix a swing fault or just generally improve he will change the constraints of the practice, introduce more chaos to the challenge and have the golfer self organize a better motor solution. Never telling the golfer HOW to overcome the constraint.
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