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This concept video, we're discussing slowing it down.

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So I often get questions about or comments from my in-person students about

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when they

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play bad they feel like they get quick or they feel like they play better when

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they

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slow it down.

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So I thought I'd kind of discuss that idea for especially those of you who are

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more

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kind of rhythmic and feel the tempo of the swing.

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So one of the big components to tempo is sequencing and what part of your body

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is moving.

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So I often use this example if I brought my arm out to my side and I moved kind

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of just

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from my shoulder kind of like this, this will feel somewhat quick.

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Now if I was to then hold the arm up and here we'll do it horizontally so it's

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a little

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more apples to apples.

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So if we did this in front and I'm doing this with my arm, this takes a fair

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amount

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of effort and feels like I'm moving from my arm.

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Now if all I did is I hold my arm out in front and I turn more my belly button

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and my core,

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this feels much slower than if I'm just moving with my arm.

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Now from a kind of anatomy point of view, if I go to stretch my arms, if I'm

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doing just

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a kind of a shoulder based exercise, I can get into that position pretty

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quickly.

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If I was to try and use my core and I wanted to stretch my obliques or my lats

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or some

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of my bigger muscles, then it feels like I kind of have to like ease into it or

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kind

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of crank into it.

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Like it feels like I have to move more and stay in that position longer in

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order to get

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the stretch compared to if I did it with my arm.

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So often what happens is when golfers feel like they slow down their swing,

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what they

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end up doing is they end up moving more from their body and less from the arms

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and that

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sequencing can help create better depth, it can create a little bit more of a

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flat spot

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and better club face control down at the bottom.

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It does lots of things that help improve our overall geometry.

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One of the big ones is from sequencing and creating lag that can help you stop

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pulling

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the ball.

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Oftentimes golfers who describe that they get quick, what usually happens is

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they're going

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early with their arms, potentially they shorten their swing a little bit and

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the early arms

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tend to cause the club to get closed and the hands a little bit back, more of a

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flip like

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this.

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They tend to struggle with pulls and maybe chunk shots because of the early

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action of

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the hands.

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So if you're more rhythmic, then I highly recommend using the feeling of

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swinging slower.

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Now I would advocate, you don't actually want to swing slower if you're

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measuring your club

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head speed on launch monitor, you don't want to actually see that club head

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speed go down.

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What you want to do is you want to double check and if you feel like you're

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swinging

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slow and you start to get a sense that you're using more of your body, what

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will happen

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is the club head speed will maintain the same or even go up and it will feel

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like it's a

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little bit easier, wider, more rhythmic.

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So if you're one of those tempo golfers, understand why slowing it down might

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help you

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and why if you start to feel quick, your first go to should be trying to feel

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just slowing

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it down.

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If that doesn't work, then you might want to go after a positional thing of

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basically

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feeling like it's a little bit more lower body and core rotation and a little

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less early

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arm action that will help clean up some of the overall geometry and low point

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control

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that ultimately gives you more consistency.

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So if I were to demonstrate kind of my interpretation of a more of a quick

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swing, it would be more

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of kind of a throw of the arms and you'll see that my arms overtook my body,

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felt kind

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of jammed there at impact and I hit a giant pole, even a pole draw where now if

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I was

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to feel a little bit slower, smoother and more body in transition, that helps

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stop the pole

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and it makes my arms feel more like they're falling and like I'm getting more

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of that

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speed at the bottom, good tempo feels that can help kind of align your version

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of your

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stock tour swing.