Click here and enter your email address to watch the full video
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America. Meet your new instructor.

Subscribe now to watch the full video.

Scrubbing For Details

Scrubbing back and forth, through a section of a video, can reveal details and intensities that can be hard to observe through high-speed video. This technique is especially useful for analyzing: backswing setting styles, power sources, timing relationships between movements, and bracing strategies. 

Tags: Fundamentals, Not Enough Distance, Concept, Intermediate

00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000
This analysis video is scrubbing for details.

00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:11,000
So scrubbing for details is a method that I use when analyzing videos and trying to figure out some of the details of different movements.

00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:18,000
So frequently when golfers come to me and we'll do a 3D and I can get the details there,

00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,000
but to show them on video or to show them so that they understand, I'll frequently use video.

00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:36,000
Now scrubbing for details is kind of like a DJ move where you pick a what you think is around the beginning of a move and around the end of the move and you just slowly scrub back and forth between the two.

00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,000
So while we'll see on the right with John Senden is there's there's some lower body rotation going on here in his power phase,

00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000
but you'll see that his arms are pulling off his body relatively quickly.

00:00:49,000 --> 00:01:01,000
If we compare that to an atom Scott, we can see during that same phase, most of the movement is happening for him between his ribcage and his knees.

00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:13,000
If we do the same thing again, which on Senden you can see a whole lower body activity and you can see an arms or upper body activity zone.

00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:23,000
So scrubbing for details can give you kind of some of these big pictures as to where golfers are organizing the movements and when they are organizing the movements.

00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000
There are a couple key times that I like to use this scrubbing for details technique.

00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000
One is during transition.

00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:39,000
Two would be during the release and from different views and largely from the face on view because it'll help you see bracing strategies really well.

00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:51,000
And then third would be the end of the backswing so you can kind of see what they're doing to load and get ready for or initiate the downswing.

00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000
For the face on view, I like to look at transition and during the release.

00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:05,000
So during the transition we can see if we scrub basically from the top of the backswing until right around hip height.

00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,000
Kind of scrubbing back and forth between those two frames and we can compare the difference

00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:19,000
or the similarities and what's initiating here so you can see how much lateral movement, how much rotation,

00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000
how much arm pole, timing of the right arm.

00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000
Lots of good little keys just by doing these little scrubs.

00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:32,000
Now one of the interesting ones to look at is the overall direction of the arm extension piece.

00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,000
So if I scrub kind of through the release, you'll see that it looks like

00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:47,000
his arms are basically extending kind of out in that general direction but you can get a sense of how they're at extending

00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:53,000
out in front of the golf ball. Now if we scrub through the same parts here with an iron,

00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:02,000
you'll see that as it reaches this part close to follow through position, you'll see that they're actually starting to

00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:09,000
kind of re-hing in absorb. So you'll see that a lot of his outward movement is really scrubbing through

00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:15,000
more on a line kind of like this where over here it was more like that. So he just gives some of the general

00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:23,000
timings and directions and control centers for some of these movements. The other thing you'll see is through this release.

00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:31,000
You'll see a lot more of an arm dominant swing you won't see nearly as much lower body action

00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:38,000
as if you scrub through with these movements or sorry with the driver. You'll see a lot more

00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000
hip action through the ball. So I use this scrubbing technique frequently when analyzing videos.

00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,000
I think it's very helpful to see where you're creating power, how you're controlling the path,

00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:55,000
and some of the key timings for the movements that make up either your backswing your transition

00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000
or your release. While scrubbing is great for getting the details of the the difference between

00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:06,000
torporos wings, it's also great for getting the big picture of amateur swings. So as I scrub

00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,000
back and forth you can clearly see that there's some intensity to this transition move and it's

00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:18,000
largely this aggressive chop move more from the upper body. So he's not really throwing with

00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:24,000
his arms but he's doing a big old lunge and crunch with that upper body in order to pull on the handle.

00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:30,000
Then during the release you can see some of the timings of the arm extension to help

00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:39,000
square the face and delayed body rotation to help control the low point. If we look over here on the

00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:47,000
left you'll see this is much more as a subtle little weight shift to get it going but then you'll see

00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:56,000
a fairly early movement of those arms and clubs. So it's very much a cast pattern where the

00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,000
arms are really controlling the speed generation part of this transition. So if you're having a

00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,000
hard time figuring out what's going on in your swing try this scrubbing technique to see where

00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,000
the movements beginning, where the movements ending and what the dominant kind of movements are within

00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000
that phase and that should help you unlock some of the keys into how you're controlling your

00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000
golf swing.

Subscribe now for full access to our video library.