Cooney out Smith in

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Re: Cooney out Smith in

My opinion is that you can never weed out 100% of the old action and when you try to supersede it with a new one you get a blend of the two, and then uncertainty occurs when its not working for you.

Make the best of the natural one, with a few tricks and tips for improving it (i.e working on releasing the hand slightly later, head over the ball, don't roll the shoulders back through the action etc.

Imaginary laser lines from my boot to the goals worked really well for me with set shots, Steve Hocking when he was at Newtown FC showed me this one.

Golf coaches make a living off this stuff. You never reinvent a swing from scratch.. there are already embedded mechanics in every action that you can't force change on, things where forcing change would create more harm than good, damaging confidence and increasing potential of injury.

It's a matter of modifying existing mechanics so that the change feels completely natural. It also takes a hell of a long time to do properly, and things often get a lot worse before they get better.