The Rule Hold | The Quiet Edge

This is Step 1 only. The Trust Cue belongs to your athlete. This tool is the hold around it.

When the motion starts and a technique sentence forms, you do not finish it. Nothing, or one line that hands the rep straight back.

Masters, R. (University of York). Explicit rules put back into a skilled motion under pressure make the putt worse. The cue that survives has to come from inside the athlete.

1. What not to say

All five sound like help. All five are a second lecturer, arriving while the motion is already committed.

Keep your hands back!
Follow through!
Don't drop your shoulder!
See the ball!
Loose! Go! (their cue, from the rail)

2. What you say instead

Try one of these. You do not need all three. Or say nothing at all.

Or write yours

3. Sit with this one

You do not need to answer it out loud right now.

Next time you catch that sentence forming, who, if anyone besides you, is going to hold you to actually letting it die in your mouth?

If you want to name it

4. If it is worth talking through

If there is a partner or a spouse helping raise this athlete, that is a real conversation: what each of you does in that live second. You will not always hold it the same way.

Or take it to the coach. They are watching that fence line too.

What you might take there

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