Ryan Smith

[JakeLovesGolf @OffCueDaily]

If you only have 20 minutes to warm up, don’t waste them hitting ball after ball. Use that time to find your rhythm, timing, and contact before the first tee

[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

Amazon Prime costs $139/year.

Most members use 2 features: free shipping and Prime Video.

That's a $139 subscription doing the job of a $5.99 delivery fee.

J.P. Morgan estimates the actual value of Prime benefits at approximately $1,430/year more
than 10x the membership cost. But most of that value sits unclaimed behind tabs, menus,
and pages 200 million members have never opened.

And 4 of those benefits expire monthly. If you don't claim them by the end of the month,
they're gone. Amazon resets the clock. You paid for them. You lost them.

Amazon is counting on you not knowing.

Here are the 12 Prime benefits most members have never activated including the 4 that
vanish every 30 days 🧵

[Lou Stagner (Golf Stat Pro) @LouStagner]

Benchmark your putting with this 15-minute combine.

Bookmark this so you don't lose it.
🔖🔖🔖🔖🔖

Run this combine often, compare your number to the benchmarks below, and you'll know exactly where your putting stands.

How it works:
Putt from nine distances. From each one, keep going until you hole out. Count every stroke. Do the whole thing twice for 18 total "holes."

The nine distances:
3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, and 42 feet.

No tape measure needed. Just pace it off (one step = 3 feet). Practice your step against a tape measure a few times first so it's dialed.

In steps, that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14.

Two ways to run it:
1⃣Sequential. Start at 3ft, work back to 42ft, repeat.
2⃣Random (better). Mix the distances up every round.

The part most people skip: go through your full routine on every putt, same as you would on the course. If you can, putt to different holes during the combine so you're reading new breaks and speeds. Then add up your total putts across all 18 holes.

The benchmarks (total putts over 18 holes):
0 index▶️32.1 putts
5 index▶️33.1
10 index▶️33.9
15 index▶️34.7
20 index▶️35.4

Here's how to read it. Say you want to compare yourself to a 15 index and you took 34 putts. You just gained 0.7 strokes against a 15 index. If you took 35 putts you would have lost 0.3 strokes.

One run won't tell you much. The value is doing this on a regular basis. Same test, same distances. Track it.

Data from Arccos Golf.
(DATALOU15 saves 15% on Arccos.)

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

A supportive family gives you the foundation of thriving in a world built for survival mode.

Do you agree? Share in the comments...

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

If you repeatedly flip a coin, which sequence is more likely to appear first: HTT or TTH?

Believe it or not, one is 3 times more likely to appear first!

[Ryan Smith @otherRyanSmith]

@adamyounggolf H1

[Adam Young Golf @adamyounggolf]

Want to hit longer #golf drives? Read this 🧵thread🧵

Bookmark for later viewing. A "like" and "R-t" is also very appreciated

The LAUNCH ANGLE of our drives is very important for distance.

Launch angle, or LA, refers to the initial launch of the golf ball.

[LongevityLab @LxngevityLab]

Two neurologists who run the largest brain health outreach program in America just exposed how to slash dementia risk by 60% ( without meds or supplements)

Your brain will thank you for reading this:

(1/11) A 25 minute walk reduces Alzheimer's risk by 40%

[MYGOLFSPY @MyGolfSpy]

I wish someone showed me this 10 years ago.

This chart is probably more important than your driver.

Most golfers are playing the WRONG shaft flex…
and it’s costing you distance and accuracy.

This chart makes it stupid simple:

[Ryan Smith @otherRyanSmith]

@zinn_nicholas @spittinchiclets Really? Sid has one embellishment penalty in his whole career and that occurred in this game. You obviously don’t follow hockey much!

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Probability puzzle

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

No, going from $600 to $10 is not a 600% decrease

[Dr. Bryan Pearlman #MaslowBeforeBloom @DrP_Principal]

For over 30 years I have worked where behavior, learning, and mental health collide. Teacher. Principal. Therapist. Adjunct professor of Educational Psychology. Author. Keynote speaker.

And if there is one thing I believe deeply, it is this:

There is no single silver bullet for student behavior.

The students who struggle the most do not need one program. They need the best of what we know, woven together with consistency, compassion, structure, and brain science.

Here is what lives in my toolbox and why it works.

Maslow Before Bloom.
If a student does not feel safe, connected, regulated, and valued, academics will always come second. Behavior is often a signal of an unmet need. When we prioritize belonging, predictability, and emotional safety, behavior improves because the nervous system settles. A regulated brain can learn. A dysregulated brain survives.

Trauma informed practices.
Many behaviors make sense when you understand the story behind them. Trauma narrows the window of tolerance and increases fight, flight, or freeze responses. When we respond with calm and curiosity instead of shame and escalation, we help rewire stress responses. We move from asking what is wrong with you to asking what happened to you.

Emotional regulation and sensory strategies.
Some students are not defiant. They are overwhelmed. Teaching breathing, grounding, movement breaks, and sensory tools gives students real skills. Calm is not something we demand. It is something we teach and model. We calm the body before we coach the mind.

Collaborative Problem Solving.
Challenging behavior often reflects lagging skills, not lack of will. When we involve students in identifying problems and brainstorming solutions, we build executive functioning, ownership, and trust. Students are more likely to follow plans they help create.

Restorative Practices.
Accountability matters. But repair matters more. When harm is done, we focus on impact, empathy, and restoring relationships. Students learn that mistakes do not define them, but they do require responsibility. That builds character and community.

Love and Logic and natural and logical consequences.
Punishment may stop behavior in the moment. It rarely teaches replacement skills. Logical consequences connect behavior to outcome in a way that makes sense. They preserve dignity and avoid power struggles. Students learn responsibility without humiliation.

Boys Town Social Skills.
Some students truly do not know the skills we expect. We must explicitly teach what following directions looks like, what respectful disagreement sounds like, and how to problem solve appropriately. Direct instruction, modeling, practice, and feedback matter.

The 7 Habits.
Helping students see themselves as proactive, capable, and goal driven shifts identity. When students learn to think win win, begin with the end in mind, and seek first to understand, they build internal leadership that supports long term change.

How do we incorporate all of this without overwhelming staff?

Start simple.
Create predictable environments.
Teach regulation explicitly.
Use logical consequences instead of punitive ones.
Build relationships before correction.
Involve students in problem solving.
Repair when harm occurs.
Teach missing skills directly.
Hold high expectations with high support.

High expectations plus high support equals growth.

Combining these approaches is not being soft. It is being strategic. It aligns with brain science and human development. It builds skills instead of demanding compliance.

As a former principal, I learned that tightening rules alone does not transform culture. As a therapist, I see every day that behavior is communication. As an educator, I know students rise when they feel safe, seen, and capable.

The goal is not to control kids.
The goal is to build humans.

-Dr. Bryan Pearlman

[Kyle Niemis @KyleNiemis]

I’ve shared a handful of sheets I’ve been proud of… but nothing like this! 😀

Here are 50+ of the most popular YouTube channels for teachers, all on one sheet, with free activities connected to their most popular videos 😎

https://t.co/SdYBkNx2Jp

Huge props to everyone who helped bring this one to life. Thank you!

@waygroundai #edtech #edchat #teachers #letsfindaway #wayground #quizizz #teachertwitter

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Plot twist: 67 was a mathematically significant number long before it became a meme.

Here’s what makes it cool:

It is a prime number (can only be divided by itself and 1). But it’s not just ANY prime number. 🧵⬇️

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Norway is once again dominating the winter Olympics.

And this is their youth sports program:

Participation trophies for all kids.
No keeping score until 13.
No national travel competitions in youth sports.
No posting youth results online.
Motto: “Joy of Sport for All.”

They let kids be kids. And it works.

But…it’s the winter Olympics,right? Recently, they have had tremendous success in summer sports.

Karsten Warholm demolished the 400 meter hurdles world record. Kristian Blummenfelt broke the Ironman triathlon record and won Olympic gold. His training partner, Gustav Ivan, won the 2022 Ironman World Championship. Casper Ruud reached world number two in tennis. Viktor Hovland is a top ten golfer in the world. Erling Haaland set the record for the most goals in a season in the Premier League. Beach volleyball champs, a surge of elite runners. By any metric, Norway’s elite athletes are achieving on a global stage. Yet, if we turn to their youth sports, their programs are the opposite of the US.

Norway doesn’t allow for official scorekeeping until the age of thirteen. They dissuade early national travel teams in favor of local leagues. You can’t even post the results of youth games online without being fined. And almost sacrilegious in certain American circles, Norway doesn’t allow trophies unless everyone gets one.

As Tore Ovrebo, Norway’s director of elite sport, told USA Today writer Dan Wolken, “We think the biggest motivation for the kids to do sports is that they do it with their friends and they have fun while they’re doing it and we want to keep that feeling throughout their whole career.” Their youth sporting model can be summed up with their chosen slogan, “Joy of Sport for All.”

But not keeping score, giving out trophies, not being “win at all costs”...that’s anti-American! How can they be competitive?

Research backs their approach up.

1. The fire has to come from within

If you look at ​research​ on prodigies who eventually become standout adult performers, a deep intrinsic drive is paramount. Researchers found that intrinsically motivated football players were 3.5x more likely to make it to the next level, and athletes in general 2x more likely.

The problem is that early success often pulls young people away from this inner drive. Kids start playing soccer (or violin or chess—this isn’t just about sports) because it is exciting and fun. As they improve, they gain accolades and praise from their parents, coaches, and teachers. They start winning trophies or seeing their names in online commentary. Without even realizing it, their intrinsic drive gets replaced by external validation and a need to please and impress others.

The quickest way to kill that internal motivation? Hype achievements and be a crazy controlling parent or coach.

The best way to create and maintain intrinsic motivation is to let kids dabble, explore, and find something with which their interests and talents align. Then, let them enjoy it without an undue emphasis on success. Praise effort, character, and teamwork, not results. This is easy to talk about but hard to do. Find ways to reward and incentivize the values you want to instill. That means not taking the easy road and talking about who set a new mile best or scored the most points, but instead highlighting who hustled during the fourth quarter, rallied after it seemed like the match was over, or displayed exemplary sportsmanship.

2. Go Broad over Specialization

Even if the entire point of youth sports was to create future champions (which it’s not), we’d still adopt something similar to the Norwegian model. An ​analysis​ of over 6,000 athletes explored what separates athletes who reached world class and those who came up short.

Those who reached world-class had during their youth:
-More multi-sport than specialized practice
-Started their primary sport later
-Accumulated less overall formal practice
-Initially progressed slower than national class peers

Those who performed well when young, but didn’t progress:
-Started their primary sport earlier
-Specialized, engaging in more practice in one sport
-Made quicker initial progress

Norway doesn’t have 300 plus million people and an NCAA system to funnel talent. They have to develop theirs. And they realize the best way to do that is keep as many people in the system as possible.

Why? Because you can’t predict talent development very well! Just go look at the age group record books. It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking early performance equals talent and potential. The kid running a 6-minute mile at 10 looks way better than the one running 6:45. But if the faster one is at track practice 5 days a week and the slower one rolls out of gym class in jeans and runs it off “fitness” from just playing, well I’m betting on the slower one!

When we assess performance early on, we’re not measuring talent, we’re looking at training age and opportunity. And we’re crowning winners based on who started grinding first.

America gets away with the insane achievement model because we can burn out 9 kids to get 1 survivor. Norway can’t afford to do that. They take the longer, more sustainable model.

Rethinking Youth Sports:

The whole point of youth sports should be for kids to learn, develop, have fun, and want to come back and play again next season! The best chance of developing a D1 scholarship athlete is essentially to do the exact opposite of what our current youth sports fiasco promotes. Even the poster child for early specialization, Tiger Woods, ​acknowledged​ it’s not a good thing for parents to push their kids too hard: “Don’t force your kids into sports,” he says. “I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Keep it fun.”

While youth sports in America aren’t going to adopt the Norwegian model anytime soon, we can rebalance the equation. As I outlined in my book, it’s not getting rid of competitiveness, it’s rebalancing the equation to make sure that crazy mom, dad, or coach don’t extinguish the fire that makes great competitors (and sport fun!).

In research on performance orientation and grades in school, a teaching environment that supported and emphasized mastery[PA1] , where students focused on the process of learning and comprehension instead of a comparison to others, was also linked to better grades. But it wasn’t the direct relationship that an outcome orientation had. Instead, in one study on college students, a mastery approach was linked to challenge-seeking, which in turn predicted end-of-the-year grades. In another study, mastery goals predicted higher levels of interest and enjoyment. Mastery works on our approach system without activating avoidance. It frees us up to take on a challenge and pursue our interests without getting bogged down by the pressure or judgment that often comes with an obsession with outcomes. The same findings hold true when looking at sport or the workplace. In a large meta-analysis that analyzed the impact of goal setting in sports, process-orientated goals had a large effect on performance. Outcome goals had little to no effect.

These two paths represent a fast versus slow road to success. Both a mastery or outcome focus can lead to better performance, but the latter is akin to taking a shortcut. Obsession over outcomes is the most direct path to improvement, but it comes with some downsides that shift us toward avoidance. The slow path takes a longer, indirect route. It helps improve our performance not by focusing on the results themselves but by supporting the foundation that ultimately leads to better performance. It stokes the fire of enjoyment and interest to sustain our curiosity and work ethic over the long haul. It pushes us toward challenge-seeking so that when we inevitably hit a roadblock, we’ll take it on instead of trying to protect our ego. Both approaches work. One is more sustainable, providing success with less angst. Society has thrown us so far out of balance that we can’t even see the slow route right in front of us.

We can either instill a love of sport in our youth, or we can turn sport into a burden where kids are exhausted, stressed, and scared. We’ve seen this go both ways, and the results couldn’t be more different. One leads to happy, healthy, and better young athletes. The other leads to burnout, family tension, mental health challenges, and quitting. As parents, volunteers, coaches, and community members, let’s all do what we can to minimize the latter and champion the former.

-Steve

[Conor Harris @Conor_Harris_]

The World’s Greatest Stretch is one of the most popular mobility exercises out there, but the problem is, it’s too demanding for a lot of people to do it properly.

Here’s an alternative you can use to get the same benefits and work your way up to doing the stretch effectively 👇

[Craig Brockie @CraigBrockie]

Stanford scientists may have just killed the $65B knee and hip replacement industry.

They made a breakthrough that could regrow aging cartilage and reverse arthritis.

Here's the breakdown:

[Fit For Golf - Mike Carroll @Fit_For_Golf]

Build Leg Strength From Home

You can use a sofa, cushion, and golf club in place of what I am demoing here.

Level 1: As shown

Level 2: Remove stick

Level 3: Hold weights

3 hard sets on each leg
3 times per week
Repeat for life

Your legs will be transformed

🙂

[Conor Harris @Conor_Harris_]

Your tight quads and hip flexors aren’t the problem - they’re the symptom.

Instead of stretching them constantly without long-term relief, let’s ask why they’re tight in the first place.

Here’s what you need to know 👇