PuttingZone Learning Curve: Golf Smarter Tips Podcast November 14, 2008

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This short podcast tip on the What Does it Take: The Learning Curve for PuttingZone Skills aired on Golf Smarter Tips.com Friday, 14 November 2008.

COMMON NOTION OF LEARNING CURVE (smooth steady progress that planes off):



HALF-HUMOROUS NOTION OF LEARNING CURVE AS MANY MISTAKES AND LUCKY ACCIDENTS (but showing progress):



MORE REASONABLE VIEW (if a bit too straight and regular -- really should be a jump up at the very start and then a dipping and then a "takeoff" and then another plateau, a crisis of faith, a resurgence followed by incremental and small but steady progress, and then another plateau busted thru by virtue of specific-skill work and goal setting to get another "takeoff" etc. etc. with a generous sprinkling of mistakes and luck all along the way.)


Sports performance Learning Curve with Plateaus

We think our progress at acquiring as skill is linear with time but in fact it is made up of a series of improvements interspersed with periods of minimal improvement, the plateau. If we do not know about plateau, it can be very demotivating to the learner (and the coach).

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Optimum Putter Lie: Golf Smarter Tips 11-07-08

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This short podcast tip on the Optimum Putter Lie aired on Golf Smarter Tips.com Friday, 07 November 2008.


Mitchell Golf Putter Bending Machine

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Putting Preround Warmup: Golf Smarter Tips Podcast 10-31-08

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This short podcast tip on the A Putting Preround Warmup Routine aired on Golf Smarter Tips.com Friday, 31 October 2008.


The "Putting Clock", Miami 1905 (US Library of Congress)

The putting podcast is now available for free on the Golf Smarter Tips website and also is archived on the PuttingZone and in the iTunes podcast "store" (also a FREE download). Anyone wishing to pose a question for response on the Golf Smarter Tips.com "Fridays Free" program, please use the "Ask the Experts" link on the Golf Smarter Tips.com website. If your question is chosen for the air, you will receive a FREE gift from me, such as a free copy of the new book Optimal Putting, a free "PuttingZone" logo shirt, sweater, wind breaker or the like in your specified size, a "PuttingZone Preferred" training aid, or similar gift as Thanks!

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Golf's best putting instruction book: Optimal Putting: Brain Science, Instincts, and the Four Skills of Putting (published 2008, 282-pages, $34.95 hardcover with free shipping, $15.95 ebook download -- click this link for details and to order your copy today).

Golf's most advanced and comprehensive putting instruction -- you're either in the PuttingZone, or not.

Over 2.5 million visits -- 200,000 monthly from 50+ countries -- and growing strong.