[grosqueneen]

I think it's a pretty good article.

I like the way they covered a variety of learning modes and techniques and even though I think the article leans a bit towards lessons (I mean, it IS a golf industry magazine), they don't harp on lessons as being the only way to learn something. I have no problem with lessons, but I've met people who seem to be taking lessons forever and never seem to improve all that much and I like the fact that the article addresses that too.

I do have one issue with something they wrote which is: "Unsupervised instruction rarely leads to increased motorskill learning"

For the record, I think that being shown something by someone who has become expert or nearly expert in a given discipline is important and can save someone from a lot of frustrating trial and error and can help in establishing the fundamental skills needed to achieve success. That said, I do however think that a certain amount of unsupervised experimentation is necessary to learning because finding out on one's own what works and what doesn't is often a more memorable learning experience than anything that could be said or shown to them.

Overall, I think that this was a good article and the points it raises as well as the way those points are addressed was very broad-minded and didn't focus on any one thing as a "solution". Backing everything up with "The Science" was little overkill and I would have agreed with what they were saying without it, but it grounds everything in "fact" and that can never be a bad thing.

Good stuff!


-JP