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This concept video is rhythm feels better than positions so there's a section

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that I go over in the book and I got an email question about it so I thought I

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'd

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expand on it a little bit for the website and the line in the book is

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something along the lines of basically that forcing the club into specific

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positions typically won't succeed or have the same level of efficiency as

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swinging a club through positions so one way to kind of look at it is if you

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get the club swinging if you can feel the weight of the club and you get it

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swinging through space your body will coordinate a lot of the timings to kind

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of match the rhythm of the the club swinging and so some of the fine details

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as far as low point control and face control are better synced up when the

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whole body is working in harmony or in unity or basically working together I

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liken it to if I was doing a squat movement I want to make sure that I have

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a tight energy transfer all the way from my shoulders and neck all the way down

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to my feet if for example I had tight in line in line in line and then I got to

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my knee and my knee was loose and sloppy and and not in connection with the

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whole

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movement then once I got under more load it'd be more likely that I'd hurt my

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knee well in the golf swing if I get to position focus what can happen is I

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lose the fluidity of everything kind of working together and what'll happen is

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even if I get into a good position my weight transfer might be off or my

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sequencing might be off or the timing of my arm extension might be off and all

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of these things affect the low point as well as affecting the face so if you're

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struggling and you're working through some position related skills it's natural

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that it's not necessarily going to feel quite as good as if you're working more

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on on sequencing timing or pivot and rhythm drills so it's common that you'll

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have to go back and forth between these two ideas if you're working more on

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position drills then I'm a little bit more lenient as far as quality of

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contact but I'm typically a little bit more strict in terms of ball flight

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face control and the amount of curve but if you're working more on the timing

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in the rhythm then I'm a little bit more strict on terms of quality of contact

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let's say pivot and where your body is finishing and I'm a little less kind of

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strict on the specific curve so when you're first working on some sequencing

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drills you might hit the ball better but it might fade just a little bit more

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or

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it might have more of a pull to it I'll usually work through that kind of get

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more comfortable with the rhythm and then cycle back may be a position

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reference

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but typically when you're working more on rhythm you'll have more solid contact

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rhythm or sequencing I sometimes use those interchangeably you'll typically

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have more solid contact better low point control and typically have better

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success with the driver in the longer clubs when you're working more on

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positions you'll typically have better face control and you'll typically have

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more success with the wedges and the shorter clubs so understanding how to

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use each tool will help speed up your learning process so you don't get too

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frustrated if you're having some sequence problems and you should be

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working on tempo and rhythm or if you're having some direction problems and

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maybe you need to work a little bit more on positions so let me give you a

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specific example so from this down the line let's say I have a tendency to kind

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of get some early extension get stuck on the inside well if I start to get a

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little bit better path I might get a little bit steep and kind of toe contact

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but I might have more of a straight ball flight so that would be while

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working on positions but let's say I was early extending and that was my main

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issue if I was able to hone in a really good rhythm I might be able to early

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extend and still play well in fact I might actually be able to play better

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early extending with rhythm in the short term rather than getting in the

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perfect position but maybe having the upper body overtake the lower body and

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not quite quite having as much rhythm and fluidity throughout the whole shot so

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that's part of the reason why working on rhythm is such a good warm-up activity

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because it'll take whatever pattern you have and tend to get you to perform as

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best as that particular pattern is capable of performing