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This concept video is training your ketchup speed. So one of the global

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concepts that people

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talk about all the time is looking at sequencing and trying to get out of kind

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of a stall flip

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pattern, especially for better players. So one of the discussions that I had

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with Ghee,

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he used a phrase that I really liked called ketchup speed, which is basically

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if you pre-stretch

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something before you fired, it's going to move faster. And in the context of

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the golf swing,

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it's going to move faster and later. A lot of good players describe when they

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're swinging

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really well that it feels like there's lots of speed at the bottom, but it's

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kind of slow

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in transition. That is the experience of more of this ketchup speed or

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basically these pre-stretches

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before activation. One little kind of exercise that I'll do is if you were to

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put the club

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across your shoulders and you were to actively rotate. So if I got up to the

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top of the swing

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and I just actively rotate my shoulders, you'll see that I'm able to create a

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certain amount

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of force and a certain amount of speed. But you'll see that when I do this, I

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kind of max out

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the speed early and then it's almost slowing down. Even if I try to do it

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really late, it still

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has this feeling of kind of being a little bit more slow down through the

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bottom of the swing.

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Now ketchup speed would basically be, instead of actively going this way, first

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I'm going

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to do a little bit of a pre-stretch. So I'm going to rotate my shoulders and my

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upper

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body that way as my lower body is going that way. Now I've got a stretch and

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now I'm going

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to time releasing that stretch with the pushing of the lower body. So if I do

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it that way,

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now what it feels like is it feels like the upper body is kind of catching up

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or being

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flung through impact rather than like muscularly actively hitting at it. And I

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think that is

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one of the experiences of having effortless speed, swinging easy. It's a sign

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that I kind

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of created this stretch on the way down and then I got this ketchup speed on

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the way through.

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So I think that the big key to the ketchup speed is the alignment of the

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shoulder. So

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I have the test where I help you feel your shoulders or your chest pointing

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more behind

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the golf ball. That is basically getting your shoulders into this kind of right

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ward rotation

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where it's pointing this way as my lower body is pointing that way. So my spine

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has basically

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been twisted like this. So then the upper body can ketchup through impact. When

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you do that

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you'll have a sense of swinging through the ball, you'll have a sense of a lack

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of stall

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and flip. It feels easier and potentially it allows you to get a feeling of

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more shaft

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lean, more compression. Lots of good things. So we have a bunch of drills but

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if you're

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training that ketchup speed I like to do it in kind of a transition or almost

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like a delivery

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and go where I'm going to get up to the top and then I'm going to get into this

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position

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here where I'm feeling like my chest or shoulders are pointing back there. But

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my lower body

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is turned but my legs are still kind of loaded or bent so that I'm in a

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position now if I

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was to pump it there's kind of that max stretch and then I would feel the k

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etchup speed kind

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of bringing me through. So it'll look, I'm going to get up there, get into this

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position,

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little pump and then feel that ketchup move or ketchup speed or closing to hit

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the ball

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rather than if I was going to get there and then just actively fire the upper

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body. You

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can see that it takes me into a very different finish position and it has a

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totally different

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kind of muscular feel. I didn't like that last one so let's reset and do a good

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one.

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So now we're going to get into this position and we're going to feel that kind

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of ketchup

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speed on the way through. Now the goal is to do it a little bit more

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dynamically and this

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is where the real magic is going to happen because most of you are going to

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feel like

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you're going to have to soften things in order to create this stretch. If you

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try to

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create this stretch too violently like if I try to actively try to just pull

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hard into

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that two-way stretch I'm going to basically blow through the ability to ketchup

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. I'm going

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to create too much tension and ultimately it's going to mess up my sequencing

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even worse.

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So this will force you to feel a little bit more soft in transition which tends

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to feel

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more body driven and tends to feel a little bit slower. So dynamically we're

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going to

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get up and we're feeling like during that transition they're going in opposite

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directions

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and then during the release we're feeling the body ketchup to create the speed

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rather

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than actively hit it.