Learning from Pain
I love practicing in the winter season. Love it because the driving range that I go to provides discount on balls. For the regular "Eagle" size basket, I could get "Albatross" size during the winter season for the same amount of money.
That is a whoopy 250 balls at one shot. For a weekend golfer like me, this is a lot of practice balls. If I pre-swing averagely one swing per ball, I will easily swing 500 times during that practicing period. Swinging these many times only lead me to one result: Extreme exhaustion and muscle pain all over.
Muscle pain has become a routine that I live by on most weekends. Depending on what I am working on, I will get pain from different areas. Of course, this includes pain in areas that is not suppose to be but caused by improper golf swings. I have learned to notice that it is such a good indicator to inform myself if I have done something correctly intended or something wrong unconsciously. For instance, if I am working on spine angle for the first time, I will feel tremendous pain at the lower back afterwards. If I am working on the weight transfer, I will feel pain from the knee areas.
After some time of pain torturing every week, I start questioning what is the point of punishing myself with consistent pain and no immediate result? I was asking this until I read Tiger's thoughts in Golf Digest today: "My whole idea is I will outwork you, so that in the end, I will be better than you." It is then I get to realize the truth behind "No Pain, No Gain." I need to out-pain myself, so in the end, I will be better than myself yesterday.
This is really a painful lesson, literally.
There is nothing logical in the name of golf
3 comments:
Jack Nicklaus didn't practised that much in range rather he emphasized on pratice rounds. I guess is to find what fit you the best. Regardless it's painful process and that I agree. Even with pains, gain is no guarantee.
Jack, Tiger and the rest of these elite players played golf at every young age. In fact, Tiger started at 1 year old. I started couple years ago. Even if I want to compare to these elites in term of efforts, somewhere, somehow, I have to make up the time lost. The only way is to "make up" the opportunity and time missed in short time.
"Making up" is always a extremely painful process.
I do not quite agree to use word Like "Make up" , it is similar to "work smart" instead of "wrok hard". My pal ! Are you working hard or working smart?
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