It seems to help with confidence but I am not sure how it will translate back to playing, but will see. I am getting closer to moving back from where I normally am comfortable, but every few times i will have one "Bad" Round.
It's to build it into a "natural no effort no thought" motion. Which is why you do it with your eyes closed as well.
So you dont think about it, you just do it.
This is 20 feet, step up, throw 20 foot putt, dont think about it. You already know it inside. You did it with your eyes closed.
I see some debate over rapid fire. I can say for me, as a newbie, rapid fire for sure helps me. Helps find the smooth motion that works best for me, builds confidence, and builds muscle memory on how to make them. Getting a rhythm for making my putts, rather than throwing single misses, helps me improve. As my putting gets warmed up, I can do more single putts, etc. Also, as my game evolves, as I become a good putter, maybe rapid fire will be less helpful - I can't say from here what will happen there - lol.
The only time I encourage rapid fire is to either warm up your arm, or to find your stroke.
The problem with rapid fire is people trying to constantly make arm corrections while standing in one place, which makes your putt bad and inconsistant.
Your stroke with your arm and body should always be identical, you should aim with your feet/stance. If you make corrections with your arm rapid firing putts like most people do, you'll have to practice way way way more than necessary tiring yoruself out.
I watched Sheep's video. 20 minutes - I was like, ugh, too long…. Well, glad I watched. He is a very good putter! I had wondered since I got my MVP Black Hole Pro about setting up distance markers in my back yard. Watched his video yesterday, got motivated, and today set up semi permanent markers (half buried golf balls) at where I set the basket, and every 5 feet up to 50 feet.
Well, its 10 minutes, and the last 10 minutes is me putting. People will watch a 25 minute Robby C video where he spends 90% of the time telling stories about nothing then giving you information that he didn't even come up with, but he got from Mike. hahaha. I digress.
The biggest problem with this topic is it's important to talk about all the important things about why and how and what it does. And people just want magic pills and magic drills.
This is both. It helps to understand the why, so the how connects with the drill.
Thank you.
And, the baskets hold up really well, both of mine have been outside for 3 years straight. I think my wife is currently using one of them to hold plants?
50' - 1 of 10 I was tiring some, and many putts were coming up short).
Never ever ever ever putt while fatigued or tired ever ever ever.
This is one of the biggest issues I see with people practicing. They want to practice, then they start practicing tired and the 20 minutes they just spent practice putting is ruined by 2 minutes of putting while tired.
I will use my main take away from Sheep's video - putt 1 disc from 5 feet, if you make it move back 5 feet, if you miss it move up 5 feet (in my words, his point was go back to a putt you made/make, kind of rebuild confidence). Once you determine your first distance that is not mostly makes, you can focus on it some if you want. Anyways, with my 5 feet markers set, now I can mix this game into my various methods of practicing, as well as check my make percentages at various distances any time I want, plus have an easy distance gauge to start learning and getting used to "what distance am I from the basket?" - and all right here in my back yard. All good! Thank you, Sheep, for the tips, and for motivating me!
Welcome!
I don't usually suggest focusing on that "one distance." What I usually suggest is when you start teetering back and forth in the one spot, lets say 20-25 feet.
Take a break. Come back 10 mins later and do it again. Then build the drill out and see where you're at again. The best part is, it just lets you know where you suck at that current point in time. Some days it might be 20 feet, some days it might be 50.
1 - find a stance, grip, and putter that feel good. In my group, we mostly agree we like heavier putters better when going for chains.
2 - don't aim at the chains - aim at one particular link of chain (for me that was huge).
One of the things people wont agree with me on is putters.
Most people find a putter and try and force it into their putting. Vs finding a repeatable stroke and finding a putter that will help them putt better with that stroke.
People are way to overly concerned with handfeel or plastic or whatever other bs.
Match a putter to what you can most consistently do that also feels good and throw the plastic you like, not what you're told. (I dont' putt with baseline plastic, its garbage)
Also, the whole "aim for the link" thing. I personally strongly disagree with this. The main reason most people miss putts is because they aim for the basket, not through the basket.
So they short putts all the time.
you got a huge target to throw to, if you're not throwing a hyzer chop putt, your miss radius if you're pushing through the basket is absolutely massive.
