Overview - Tempo Killer

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In this concept video we're gonna discuss the tempo or sequence killers. So

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everybody

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loves that effortless feel of a good golf swing. I always say you can either

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have effortless

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power or powerless effort. Many amateur golfers tend to have more of the swing

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where it takes

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a lot of effort. Their muscles are tense, they're really kind of grinding down

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and trying

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to kill the ball. And they don't hit it very far where then we see guys like

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Fred Couples

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or Louis Eustace and look like they're swinging really easy and then hitting

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the ball a mile.

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So typically if you're struggling with your tempo, if you're struggling with

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your sequencing,

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this can come down to just a handful of major issues. The three most common

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ways to kind

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of address it have been talked about by Vision 54 and some other programs of

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balanced tempo

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tension. So if you stay in balance and you kind of think of more of a rhythm

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rather than

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more of a hit, and if you keep the tension in your arm, shoulders, neck, hips,

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legs,

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if you keep the tension more constant then you will tend to move very smoothly.

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In biomechanics

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with other sports, they use tempo words to help work on sequencing. And

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typically when

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you're using more of your body, it's going to feel slower or smoother. And when

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you're

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using more of your arms, it's going to feel faster or quicker or sharper. So

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one simple

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thing that works for a lot of golfers is just feeling the simple. I want to

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slow it down

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kind of more of a rhythm of a one and two, just kind of really slowing it down.

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But we

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want to give you a little bit more tools than just slowing it down. There are

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some reasons

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why golfers tend to get quicker in some areas or tend to hit it more with the

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arms. Some

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of the most common would be if you have a hit impulse from the top of the swing

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, if I'm

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just trying to fire right away versus having a little bit more of this gradual

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build and

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then getting the speed at the bottom, if I fire right away then I'll tend to

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get too

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wide too quick and then I have to have more of this bracing pull feel to avoid

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hitting

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the ground too fat. So learning some of this smooth transition and then speed

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down at the

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bottom can have a big impact on your sequencing. From a position-wise, if you

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're looking at

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your swing on video, especially if you're looking at the down the line, if the

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clubface

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is really open then you can't continue turning your body or else the clubface

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won't have

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a hard time getting closed. So sometimes if you have more of this feel of like

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a stall

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and flip, you want to look and investigate is it doing so because the clubface

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is open.

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One of the other common reasons would be if the path is a little bit steep then

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if the

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club is a little bit more outside like this then stopping and letting the club

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pass helps

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the club shallow out late where if I was steep like this and kept turning then

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you could

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see that the club would travel straight down into the ground. I'll demonstrate

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that first

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one because I forgot to but if the clubface was wide open and then I kept

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turning and

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I never closed it, it would basically be a flop shot like this where if I do

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that same

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clubface wide open and then stop down at the bottom, I can let the clubface

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close but it

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tends to disrupt some of my sequencing or timing to create more of this stall.

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So if

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you're working on balance, if you're working on tempo and tension and it's not

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cleaning

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up as fast as you want, then you want to check the path and the face

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relationship.

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This is also one of the reasons why a lot of golfers will say that they have a

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better

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practice swing than a real swing. 99% of the time whenever I've had someone who

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comes to

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me and say I have a good practice swing but it breaks down when I swing or when

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the ball

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is there, I'll have them swing without the ball and one of two things will

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happen. Either

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the clubface will be wide open like this so they'll be coming through like that

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or usually

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both the club will be bottoming out way behind the golf ball. So oftentimes

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some of these

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smooth swings where the path is really good, the clubface would be too open

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because you're

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just not used to twisting it or the contact point would be back because you're

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not used

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to kind of directing the arm extension and using the wipe to get the bottom of

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the swing

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more forward. So then your lack of tempo or your lack of sequencing is your

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brain's attempt

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to solve the clubface being open or the low point being too far back. So if you

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try the

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tempo drills and they're just not clicking for you, then I highly recommend you

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look

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at your swing on video to see if it's more of a path or a face issue that's

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preventing

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you from working on your tempo. If path and face are good, then tempo,

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relaxation, focusing

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on when the tension is building can often have a big impact on how consistent

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and repeatable

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your swing is going to be especially under pressure. So let's just say I'm

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trying to

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dial in, you know, right now my swing is pretty good. But let's just say I was

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trying to dial

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in a little bit more of a core feel. I could do one of those kind of stepping

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drills. In

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that I felt a little bit more core activity. And so now that I got a feel from

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the drill,

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I might have to do, you know, 10 or 20 those to actually get a feel. But now

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that I have

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a feel from a drill, let's just see if I do that same thing. And that actually

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felt like

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a even better strike. It felt more connected. It felt like my whole body was

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hitting it

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not just my arms. Or oftentimes I will get off and feel like I need to do a few

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of the

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step drill. So we'll do one of these. This gives me more of a feel of my body

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leading

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that transition leading the swing. So now it's going to be more of that feel

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there. And

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that usually helps clean up a little bit of my the timing of my lower body

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going too long.

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I have a tendency to to go too long with my lower body and not quick enough

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with my core.

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Doing some of those step drills gets my lower body action feeling a little bit

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faster on

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video. It tends to look more smooth when I do. So now we'll try to tie that

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together

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into one good, just smooth golf shots.

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I thought that was better.