I'm Recommitting Myself To The WORK | Practice with Purpose Episode 1

let me catch you up to speed for those of you that haven't been paying attention i'm in canada right now i've been up here for a month i'm going to be up here for a couple more months not ideal but it's ideal for one thing i'm going to start competing again and uh i know what that takes i know the dedication the commitment the focus the practice the work that it's going to take to actually compete because for the last two years when i played two tournaments i wasn't dedicated or focused or committed to the preparation to the practice and the results showed that these next five weeks this entire month of april is going to be a practice series about practicing with purpose i've teamed up with my friends at modern golf because the weather here is still not perfect so they've given me access to their facilities to get that good work in so that's what we're doing today gonna dive into my basically my first dedicated practice session in a long time so uh yeah let's get to work [Music] this is it this is modern golf i'm in one of the bays here pretty cool little private area i've got the range set up just going to get to work now it's cold outside i don't want to do this work on the range so going to go through a little practice routine here for 45 minutes an hour and get that smart dedicated focused practice [Music] uh i'll tell you what my swing feels awful see what happens to me after a bit of inactivity is i really start to kind of dump the club and basically spin it too much lose yardage hit it high into the right my focus is basically in here doing some drills getting that kind of shaft lean back at impact getting that spin down with the irons really compressing it hitting it like this it's never going to be good so i've got drills i can do feels i want to accomplish in here but that's one of the cool things where i actually kind of refer this to being outside because hey it was a little chilly windy you can get distracted by ball flight or what's going on around you whereas here i've got no distractions i've got no reason to get distracted or lose focus so it's like really dial that focus the intention the purpose and make the most out of it in an efficient hour is really better than a lazy two hours so i'm sitting down with basically the head honcho paul fisher like president managing partner modern golf for a little kind of backstory it's been around since 2012. when i actually moved down to toronto and worked for taylormade and was roommates with the now vice president of modern golf best man on my wedding stu who you're going to see in another episode so it's it's a family here there's a third one coming in gta right there's actually so there's three more coming in the gta oh wow we've got to party here first we're gonna we're going to expand the family a little bit more so then there's also calgary vancouver which called it and then potential some other ones that's some potential plans for outlets so it's really cool because modern golf when i first became you know part of the toronto golf area scene if you will there's one and now it's like it's a canadian it's not just a toronto thing it's a canadian [Music] there's so much that you can do on this property with our trackmans that's when we when we started thinking about it hey what can we do with this business we're like a hotel we wanted to have the facility as busy as possible we wanted to have as many people come in and enjoy it we definitely understand that club fitting you know canada is still a seasonal climate yeah we're not going to be fitting equipment all winter you know we had great space we had the trackmans practice was a natural thing for us to get into like a membership feel a club that you know all year round that's where it's like you can go in practice hang out with your buddy obviously cove it aside and cover is different you can hang out with your buddies absolutely treat the have a beer yeah work on your game and enjoy it like that's just why i think it's so cool what's happening yeah yeah and it's these things are expensive but trackman you're you're talking major money for one of these a membership here uh it's almost like owning one at that point right for a fractional cost yeah so we're excited to expand on it golf's in a completely different world right now where um you know post covid i think there's going to be tremendous amount of demand for even more practice for corporate events the social side of indoor golf is going to be massive getting the data from each shot i'm i'm reacting and kind of feeling it and figuring it out but then when i get with my wedges the clubs that i care the most about have worked the hardest on controlling the launch i get to see it right there so it's just this efficient no guess work data after each shot still visualizing targets still trying to be as feel as i can but i've got some work to do so i'm feeling different things getting a little bit of feedback feeling different things getting a little bit of feedback good starting point for the next five weeks of work [Music] [Music] i think what's most exciting though is living in a gta or you know either big cities like vancouver some of the stuff you take for granted you know that there's a facility like this there's trackmans or we're excited to go to different markets where this is maybe not it's maybe not there yet i have the halifaxes of the world and the winnipegs of the world you know these are great golf cities and like die-hard die-hard golfers that are you know they're they're desperate for this type of practice with purpose and club fitting and all of these services that's where i think that this gets really exciting is it's not just the focus on the big cities the you know the calgary's in vancouver's and toronto's of the world it's to go to some of these other you know they're not small cities but uh comparatively compared yeah right now they are but yeah golf is by no means small [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] when i was playing full-time it was practice all the time and my results were a lot better but still some bad goal i got the ability to play some really bad golf but that's what i'm doing right now is i'm dedicating serious committed work to getting better so that when competition rolls around i'm not kind of hoping wishing willing myself to play well i can trust my work because that's when i play my best golf is when i trust my preparation and if i'm being brutally honest the few tournaments i played last year and the year before i trusted myself but i also knew the likelihood of playing consistent and consistently well was pretty low so that's what i want to change and that's what hopefully this series can help you know teach and help you knowing you know what you got to do if you want to be better the best players in the world are there for a reason not because they don't put in [Music] work [Music] you know what time it is we're gonna dive into the whoop from that practice session hour 9.7 strain for an hour of practice yeah i'm saying this practice is efficient and when you're focused man you're going and look at that my average heart rate was 128. so the heart rate was up the intensity was up 469 calories max 155 that's what we want we want to simulate things that are intense when we're on practice versus you know getting us ready for the golf course but team aj let's let's dive into team aj and see how everybody's doing we're going to give away a whoops wrap to one lucky member uh april what we we did sleep last month let's do recovery let's see who's been the most recovered today sam spadafor 98 man where you at usa 23 years old ice hockey horseback riding coaching man you're doing a lot of stuff and that recovery hell yeah remember since october 2018 sam you the man sliding into the dms you just got yourself a new whoop strap for being the most recovered today on team aj if you want to get on woop if you want to join us on loop use the code com aj golf and if you want to get on loop you can use the code aj golf for free month or aj 15 for 15 off your membership solid practice session there i'm tired got a bit of a sweat going i hope you enjoyed that i hope you you learned a little bit about where i'm going and why i'm choosing to go where i'm going i hope you can kind of share that with your game down below let me know some of your goals and the dedication you're going to put into your game this spring if you are new here and there's a red button right there please consider subscribing it would mean the world it would actually really make a difference if you like the video give it a thumbs up thank you to modern golf for giving me the access they're linked below we've got so many great things coming i can't wait to keep working and see just you know how it pays off in the long run yeah we'll see the next video peace [Music]