Slept in till 7:15am

I was up at 4:30. Felt some muscle recovery type feels in my calves.

Before bed I did a stretch and mini workout routine.

When I got home from work I seized up a bit. I think in part because I was hungry? Not too sure. But a little stretch and it goes away. And then we did the school tour which had several flights of stairs which I was ok with. And walked around fine.

I think maybe sitting in that chair at work could be some of the culprit. Did not walk around very much. Did do some stretching. But I’m thinking at home in the workout bench is better posture for my legs. And then I’ll be able to get my workouts and walks in. Definitely hoping I can feel comfortable enough on the walk, hope I can be getting out for a run maybe this weekend. Ugh. We’ve got the 20k I’ll need to do, which. Should be fine except that I will have done practically no long runs leading up for the like 3 weeks. The neuromuscular fatigue. Hence me opting for more sleep recently. Which does lose me hours unfortunately that I like to be up and moving.

11:58 — I got an epic golf practice routine part 1. Setup some new box targets. Actually pretty good to have multiple targets to hit at, keep you flowing into new shots you see.

I was able to draw on a new whiteboard and wowww was that an upgrade visually. And then I’ve got the magnetic balls. It was insane. And the results spoke for themselves. All of the sudden. Very quickly. I got to my peak ability. Fully dialled in. Versus hitting just off turf I was able to get to a certain level. Started off pretty tough! Which is the whole point. How to get calibrated quickly. So you can hit shots, do a super fast warmup before game and feel pretty good.

But then how do you improve? You get better by going deeper.

So I did the whiteboard. Which was insane.

Then I would do the strobes. Can even do strobes on the whiteboard. Then off turf for sure. Can get a lot of value just strobes on turf. But when you cycle in the whiteboard it’s just even a higher level you can achieve within a given session. Within a given day.

And then if you stack these days. Of these sessions and progressions within each.

You’re building incredible skill. To stack and stack and stack. But you’re stacking these insanely productive enlightening sessions. It’s not stacking nothingness. It all connects. That’s also the key. With the control room. You can notice any little differences. So you can see more vividly what does what. Helps you remember.

So there’s that. And then there’s the simple targets. The boxes. Having one super close you just do the little bumps.

And then the further ones that you need a carry. A softness with height. But it’s still super close. So you need a lot of touch. But a little speed as well.

And you need to do the left hand weak strong. Even better if you do the right hand as well.

I was able to learn this 58 degree. The 60 will be even more fun. But there’s value to changing the club. Learning the leading edge. And the sole of the club. And the soul.

But also on the topic of club. You can add weight to it. Which has another acceleration effect. Like a speed boost for your skill growth in that session.

And this is all a lot to try and keep straight. I agree.

I was having trouble remembering the different things I could do. As part of the perfect supermassive session. But then to remember when I can only do shorter sessions.

I condensed it into a cube. A cube is a lot easier to remember. To visualize.

So all you need to remember is that there are six sides to the cube.

I like to think sort of top down of a human. Starting with the brain and the senses, the eyes in particular.

1. Your brain
2. Your hands
3. The club
4. The ground
5. Your feet
6. The ball

Hands – Left hand right hand weak grip strong grip.

Nice. That’s also the most simple I’ve said those sides. Which means it means that much more clear for me as well. It was a relief when I put the cube together the first time.

2:11 — i tried to give chat gpt the journal entry to this point. it just has no idea what i’m doing. has not context for the objective… seeing how it interprets what i wrote… does indeed help me. i’ll ask it to generate a cube instead. and then ask to give me a 6 sided cutout for someone. with an icon for each side instead of the words

i ended up wrting a shpeel

give me an image as if this is a long lost artifact, like the holy grail but it’s a cube and it’s specifically for practicing golf. it unlocks a persons ability to practice (and thus improve) its kind of maybe like hte map and the compass for someone to navigate improving at golf, each side represents a different element, each of which you can manipulate like a science experiment. my specific supermassive session is done in a controlled environment, so i can experience each nuance of what works and what doesn’t, helpful to show up to the same thing the next session the next day. it’s a systematic protocol to guarantee the fastest skill grow, i’m levling up the wedge specifically, mastering the arc and the low point, learning the sole of the clubs and the soul of the clubs. creating a hyper realistic visualization in my mind with what the club and all of taht is doing through the strike zone in particualr. i’m building this skill each session each day, working towards mastering within each session each day, stacking on mastery peaks session after session day after day. and this in turn is also elevating every other club, it’s the pin point spot with the most leverage to get an asymetric return benefiting your entire bag of clubs, to use just wedges like 90% of my practice right now, because i’m doing it daily is out weighing my time at the outdoor range or the golf course.

>>>. Ah—my bad: I wasn’t able to generate the image just now due to an error on my side, so I didn’t produce anything yet.

If you’re up for it, I’ll try again as soon as you say “go.” Here’s the exact prompt I’ll use (tuned to your artifact vibe):

“Photorealistic, cinematic scene in a torch-lit subterranean sanctum. On a stone pedestal sits the Cube of Golf—a hand-crafted maple/bronze relic treated like the Holy Grail. 3/4 hero view. Each of the six faces is inlaid with gold sigils:

1. Brain/Eye (senses)
2. Two hands with weak↔strong grip glyphs
3. Wedge with arc + low-point mark, bounce vs leading-edge symbols
4. Ground textures and slope icons, whiteboard-style ‘carry/land’ windows
5. Feet with pressure arrows and stance markers
6. Ball with spin rings

Engraved lines connect the faces like a map/compass. Ethereal blue holographic swing-arc trails hover above the altar; chalky box targets etched into the floor. A worn 58° wedge leans against the pedestal. Dust motes in god-rays, subtle blue aura around the cube. Mood: sacred, long-lost artifact of practice that unlocks systematic skill growth. Ultra-detailed wood grain, slight wear on edges, crisp shadows, shallow depth-of-field. No text.”

it struggled to get me something good. this was close tho

You’ve built a simple, repeatable practice protocol that turns short sessions into compounding skill. In a controlled setup you cycle through whiteboard “windows,” strobes, turf reps, and near/far box targets to calibrate fast, then go deeper. The focus is wedges—mastering arc and low point, learning bounce vs. leading edge, even testing added weight—because this one lever lifts the whole bag. To keep it memorable, you distilled the system into a Cube of Golf with six faces you can manipulate like a lab experiment: brain/senses, hands, club, ground, feet, ball (e.g., weak↔strong grips, stance/pressure, ball position). Each session builds a vivid strike-zone visualization and stacks “mastery peaks” day after day—the cube as your map and compass for the fastest skill growth.

pretty good. it has no idea what i’m doing with the whiteboard. the first half the paragraph doesn’t quite understand what i’m doing. as i have it in my mind. the procedure is quite simple. i’ll have to do it in increments of time and show what a perfect routine would look like.

and then explain that the cube is what helped me build this routine in the first place… and then its whats there as my setup changes, each day as i take a look at the puzzle these are the things i can flip between, to create a session. a cheat sheet to build a practice session on the fly.

but i think what i want to do now. is build the recipe. the exact most optimal procedure. if you had infinite time. i can recommend when to take breaks. what a full loop would look like. then what session 2 would look like, if we add weight to the club, if we go left handed, if we manipulate the stance, ways to modify the routine to go deeper. it would be like a 1 week progression maybe. today we are going to use the weighted club, today some things you’ll swap daily i guess, or yeah i mean, you could do session to session. what’s a baseline first session look like, and then second session, and then third, you could do all these within a day.

you’re standing on turf. you’re in your control room. no wind, no undulations, your feet are the same level as the ball, you’ll be wearing footwear or barefeet.

pick up a wedge of. your choice, 56, 58, 60, pw. etc. something with decent loft on it.

you have a stack of balls in front of you. this is your warmup, this is your baseline.

hit a few balls into the closest box, the side facing you has been cut down enough to block shots that are too low, the idea is to use the ground which in this control room, is cement, you’re to hit the ball so that it bounces once and then into the box. do a few shots with two hands just like this. use your practice swings to see and feel where you’re hitting the turf, then try and feel that same feel and vision when you hit the ball, pick it clean as you’re imagining try to feel the club face and the club head while you see it.

now switch to one hand. i start with my left hand. go to a super strong grip with just that one hand. do the same as before, hit a few shots, maybe 5. i usually go until i feel like i’ve got the hang of it, but maybe you limit to a specific number of shots. or do it for a certain amount of time. could do 3 minutes just this one hand.

now switch from the super strong grip, and use a super weak grip, still just the one hand. you could easily do 3 minutes.

now switch to the right hand, strong grip, weak grip. 3 minutes each

now hit with two hands as you normally would. do this for another 3 minutes.

now move to the whiteboard. you already have your grid drawn out. use the left hand and the right hand, strong grip and weak grip. a full routine would have you erase like the entire board with just one grip. but i don’t think i even have the patience for that. instead. do a few swings with each hand, each grip. and try to erase the whiteboard on the marks you’re aiming at.

i currently have 7 magnetic balls. use these balls, place one at a time, hit them off the whiteboard and see the mark that you leave, and hit the ball into a short range box similar to the one you hit into off the turf, the ultimate would be hitting a few balls with each hand each grip and then with two hands. this is tough, this is tedious. but if you do then when you finally go to two hands you’re relieved, you’re like. wow this is easyyy.

now move back to the turf and hit your bump shots into the close box. do this for a few minutes.

what i would suggest next. you can target the box which requires a carry, the tight extremely difficulty target. go at this for a few minutes. THEN STOP. THIS IS the end of session 1.

it’s easy to just get lost in these shots. you will find value if you keep digging, but raking balls same target same lie etc is not suuuppper productive for your time… but its so addicting to do.

Start of session 2. if you’re coming in after taking a break, hit a few balls in the close box as before, do the warmup with left and right hand if you need to. this is your baseline again.

next, turn off the lights, turn ON the strobe light. now hitting off the whiteboard, left hand right hand. both hands. without a ball and then with balls. maybe go like 5 minutes for this and just progress through each iteration.

then with strobe light still ON, switch to hitting balls off the turf, left hand right hand, both hands. still just bumping into the close target.

then turn strobe light off and all lights ON. hit balls into the close box. hit balls into the further box that requires the carry with the very precise success feedback. go at this for a few minutes. THEN STOP, this is the end of session 2.

take a break or continue. if you take a break, then when you come back, start with normal lights on, hitting balls off the turf, left hand right hand. do this for a few minutes. this is your baseline.

next. add a weight to the club. do a few shots with left hand right hand off the turf.

next, with weight on the club, turn off the lights, turn ON the strobe light… go to the whiteboard and hit a few shots without balls. left hand right hand.

next with weight on the club, with strobe light on, hit golf balls off the whiteboard. left hand right hand.

next with weight on the club, with strobe lights on, hit a few shots off the turf, left hand right hand two hands.

next turn off the strobe light, take off the weight. hit a few shots into the close box

next aim at the super difficult target, see how you do. go at this for a few minutes, then STOP. this is the end of session 3.

10:00pm —- importantly. Today. I went for two walks. Up and down stairs. Allll the daily normal stuff. Plus some leg workout stuff. Annddd. We made it entire day without having a pinch or a pull. Massive. Super massive.