By: Zach F on Sept. 26, 2025, 1:53 p.m.
I’ve had some light bulbs. Is this the right idea?
TIA!
Zach
PS speed from lowest to highest to see possible breakdowns, and apologies for the camera angle being a little off to the right.
Thank you!!
By: Zach F on Oct. 8, 2025, 6:16 a.m.
So that’s a tricky question for me, because any breakthroughs I have come from circling back to things you say that I hear again from a place of deeper understanding. First I really must credit yours and Lawrence’s site revisions, because the AI suggestions always seem to be what I need to see. In this case, the video that triggered the avalanche was the Sequencing Starter Kit.
Back when I was a member of another three letter forum, the instructors advised that practicing separation was not only functionally useless(because of the tiny window of time- the blink of an eye- during which said separation occurs) but potentially harmful(side note: separation and shaft shallowing are two of their biggest bugaboos, and they seem only lately to have come to acknowledge the merits of consciously practicing the release, albeit in a much less detailed way), and it was perhaps a holdover from that thinking that contributed to my initially glossing over your transition teachings. I had a similar conversion experience early on with the wipe move; those guys are yet unconvinced of the veracity of that concept.
That said, returning to your words with a fresh perspective and child mind, I found that the transition elements you describe are almost inescapable physical consequences of proper sequencing(especially shoulder blade shallowing for me). All of a sudden, things like my floating left heel and my spun open shoulders are silly, illogical… artificial.
Tl;dr the flow chart for my breakthroughs goes as follows:
Hm, that sounds funky- is Tyler sure about that? > much experimentation and testing > Tyler was right(again)
As always, I thank you for your massive patience and gentle guidance.
Your grateful student,
Zach
By: Tyler F on Oct. 11, 2025, 7:46 a.m.
Zach,
It's hard to speak for why other coaches promote the patterns and explanations they do. Most never show their work on how they got to the conclusions they did, so we have to just take their advice at face value. On that note, I can't really understand the argument to "not work on separation". I could support the idea that proper separation is hard, and consciously focusing on it might not produce it, so if you do a separation drill you have to monitor other pieces simultaneously. But it's much easier to explain why something is bad for everyone rather than trying to explain the nuances and how it could apply to some and harm others.
A couple thoughts. Just because transition is faster than the blink of an eye doesn't mean you shouldn't train it. It means you have to train it to be reflexive/automatic. "A single blink lasts for approximately 0.1 to 0.4 seconds, a duration so brief it's often described as a fraction of a second." The downswing is about .25 seconds.
By that logic you couldn't train anything in the downswing. Not what I suggest, or what they suggest. Seems a little hyperbolic to advise you can't train anything because it's so fast.
Second thought. I think the wipe is an interesting move. If you started with the puzzle that you wanted to create a high level of speed but with maximum control, how would you want to use your shoulders? I think it would lend itself to the wipe, but that type of shoulder motion is really hard to measure (impossible currently from what I've heard), so if your whole system is based on measurements, then you might be unaware of some of these keys.
Reminds of one of my favorite quotes, "follow those who seek the truth, run from those who've claimed they found it". I'm still searching.
Happy Golfing,
Tyler
