Sequencing and Tempo - Troubleshooting

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All right, in this last class, we're going to talk about troubleshooting, tempo

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, or power,

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or sequencing.

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So historically, golfers have used a lot of sequence type language, you know,

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swing

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really easy, swing the club, swing slowly, slow it down, try not to get quick,

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all those

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are more sequence terms, in like the movement sciences, typically those slow

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down speed

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up, those are ways to influence the order in which you're using your body.

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In general, when you use your arms, it's going to tend to feel fast or quick,

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and when you

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use your body, it's going to tend to feel long or slow.

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So in general, getting smooth, slow, that's usually a sign that you're using

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more of your

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body to power the swing.

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So the big killers for your tempo or your power can come from having too much

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tension,

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because if you have too much tension, that creates stiffness, and when you have

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stiffness,

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it deprives you from getting speed.

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Having too much of a hit impulse too soon, so if I activate my arms and kind of

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really

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try and hit the ball versus getting more of the slow swing through the ball,

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that can,

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for some people, it actually helps them swing a little bit faster, but maybe

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more less consistently,

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where for most golfers, if you take out the hit impulse and you get more of the

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swing,

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you gain both speed as well as consistency.

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So in general, it's something worth exploring.

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We do that with more of throwing and rope swings and whoosh drills, and things

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where we're

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getting the speed to kind of build up and get later as opposed to getting that

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speed in

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the arms early.

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We'll try to get some speed in the body early, but that's going to feel slower

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rather than

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if you're getting the speed in the arms.

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Oftentimes, if you're really struggling with your sequencing or your rhythm, it

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's a compensation

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for either the path being too steep or way too shallow, or the face being too

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open or

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too closed.

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And the stall movement, the ketchup movement, your brain trying to correct

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things is ultimately

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what you're seeing as the lack of sequence or what you feel as kind of a

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tension or a

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flinch or a stall, any of those movements.

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So if you're struggling with, let's say you can do the rope swings and all

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these things

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and you have this really good feeling of smoothness, then please take a look at

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your video to

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see if the reason you might be breaking it down in your actual swing is because

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of the

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face and path.

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If that's the case, then go back through the hitting the ball straight classes

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where we

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go into the details of how to control that.

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Also if you're not using part of your body, in general, to hit the ball furthe

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st the easiest,

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we're going to use the whole body in a connected way.

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The places where most golfers break down is either they don't use their legs,

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their hips,

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so their connection with the ground isn't very good.

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They don't use their core, so maybe they use their legs and they use their arms

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, but

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it's not really integrated.

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The pelvis and the rib cage aren't working on the same team, or they stiffen

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their arms

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and they don't use their wrists.

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I see this as a common issue for golfers who played a lot more kind of strength

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-based

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sports, whether it's like a rock climbing, or I've had ex football players, but

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rock

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climbing, mountain biking, potentially race car driving, kayaking, things where

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you're

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used to having a lot of tension in your arms can disrupt your sequence.

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So we'll look again at video and how to analyze your sequencing, but this is

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one of the magic

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glues that help both create distance, as well as create more consistency.