What many people would tell you about golf is that as long as you perfect the basics, you will always get better.
This ethos is the bedrock of Stryve, an app inspired by Rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward and online golf coaching sensation Dan Grieve.
Stryve is inspired by ‘The Power of Three’, a concept created by Woodward that helps you focus on following a fundamental process before every shot you hit, with the three stages being: Think, setup and swing.
The app allows you to capture videos and log coaching feedback to keep a constant tab on your game and, most importantly, to improve.
“The chip and run, for example. Any of us can take on any pro at that skill if we practise it properly,” Woodward told the NCG Golf Podcast. “There’s a clear process. You talk about visualisation, that’s really important, but there comes a stage where you go, it’s a clear process, and I’ve got it now, I know what I’m going to do.
“The setup is absolutely key, because the setup isn’t just one setup, there’s a multitude of setups, depending on the lie of the ball, the slope, all sorts of different reasons.
“I’m set up properly. Your thinking is done, (and) you just get it out of your brain. You know that you’ve got a world-class thinking process, you’re happy with what you’re actually doing shot-wise.
“You then go to swing, and this is where I call it my 1,2,3.
“Where I get frustrated with myself in my golf, I’ll hit a golf ball, and as soon as I’ve not done that process, I’ve been chatting away, and I’ve not done it. I’m saying ‘Crikey, you’ve got to get better’, and all of these things you can practice in your kitchen, and in your back garden.
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“You’ve got to learn what your 1,2,3, is on every single shot. You have to think, set up and swing. This is what the Stryve app does, and this helps you do it, because it’s yours. We’re not trying to copy anybody else, but I’m saying you have got to find out what works for you.
“When you know your 1,2,3, and you do every shot right, as long as you know you’ll think properly, you’ll set up properly. Then, when you come to swing, what’s your 1,2,3?
“I think you’ll play much better golf.”
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On the Stryve app, every basic has a coaching video that focuses on practical insights to help you learn. The app contains analytics that help you to understand trends and patterns based on your coaching, practice and challenge data.
You can prioritise your top three basics and focus your attention on key improvement areas, and you can measure your progress by completing challenges. Stryve logs all of your sessions and tracks your practice, and you can create your own sessions that fit your schedule, too.
Sir Clive Woodward: Stryve app should be used by players and coaches
“The app, when you first get it, it’s got Dan’s content on, just to be able to get some content in there, which Dan was great to provide to us,” Woodward explained, who first met Grieve at Woburn.
“Once you’ve got it, you can just delete all that, and put all your own content in. Or you may just work with your coach, and then you start to add your own in.
“My one has got very little of Dan’s stuff in, because I’ve just tweaked it as I’ve gone through. I learn something through a lesson with somebody else, or I see something on TV or in a magazine. There’s so much information on golf, it’s fantastic, there’s so much.
“The app is your app, you can change it, you can alter it. Every golf coach should have this with all his or her content on and they share it with their pupils. Then you as the pupil, if you want to tweak something and say, actually, that doesn’t work for me, it may work for you, I know this is working for me, (so) we change it on the app. But you keep it forever.
“If you think of modern technology now, you put your earphones in, so you’d be at home, or you’d be on a putting green. You can replay the whole thing to you. You actually add your own lesson yourself, because it’s replaying what the lesson was all about.
“You’re just creating your absolute basics, your key points. But it’s not just designed around Dan Grieve; every coach should have this – and every golfer should have it because you actually capture this information, and you put it into your language. Then you replay it yourself, and it makes sense to you. That’s how you get better at golf. That’s how I think we’re going to get better at golf.”
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