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This video is learning tempo from dribbling a basketball.

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So two of the main sports that I played growing up were basketball and tennis.

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And I was actually a late bloomer when it came to golf.

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I didn't start until I was about 15, maybe a little bit before then, but actual

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taking

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serious, probably about 15.

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So I drew on a lot of my experiences from playing other sports and just kind of

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being

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aware of movement in general.

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And one of the things that I realized that I learned from basketball was rhythm

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and timing

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of acceleration.

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I find that many golfers who tend to struggle with more of an upper body swing,

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more of

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a cast pattern, tend to apply force to the club very aggressively, very quickly

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all at

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once right at the top of the swing, and then just kind of coast on the way

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through.

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What I learned from basketball was to get the object moving and then gradually

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build up

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speed and then apply the force much later to the object, in this case the ball

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instead

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of the club, but you can learn the same thing from bouncing a few balls.

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So I've got my kickball here, not quite as good as a basketball, but what you

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'll see

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when you get a good dribble of the basketball going is that you're going to

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stay in contact

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with the ball for, let's call it transition, you're going to stay in contact

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with the

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ball while you're speeding it up, but it's not really aggressive straight from

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the top.

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That would have a look, a more of a look of almost like slapping the ball or

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what we would

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call more of a Frankenstein dribble.

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You worked a lot on being able to accelerate late so then you could apply

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change of direction

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because you hadn't accelerated it too hard in one direction all at once.

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You still had some room in the tank, if you will, so getting that feeling of

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applying

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the force late is similar to what it feels like to me when hitting a good golf

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shot.

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So then what I usually do is I'll take the golf club and I'll say, okay, you're

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used

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to just kind of pushing on it like this, I want you to get a feel of pushing on

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the golf

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club or matching its speed and then applying the force kind of late at the

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bottom.

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So basically a feel of I'm matching and then I'm accelerating it way down late.

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That would be the same as kind of feeling those arms being relaxed through here

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where

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I'm not totally relaxed where I have no control, but I'm matching the speed all

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the way down

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until here, at least that's one of the perceived feels that a lot of golfers

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have.

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And then from here, I'm applying that force late through the ball with my lower

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body and

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core rotation as well as with my arm extension.

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So if you struggle with having a little bit more of a flash speed where you're

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really

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pulling on the club and feel a lot of tension up at the top, dribble a ball, or

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you can

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even toss a golf ball to kind of get the feel of applying for slowly and then

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quick

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at the end, slow and then quick, slow and then quick.

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This would be slow and then quick, slow and then quick.

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So if you're struggling and you're working on your tempo, dribbling a

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basketball can

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be a great way for you to uncover the feeling of proper tempo or acceleration

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late through

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the ball.

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So what that looks like is I'll try to exaggerate.

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It's a look of slow through here and then quick, more late through there as

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opposed to quick

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early, kind of like this, and then slow late.

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So quick and then slow versus slow and then quick.

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It's much easier to have the desired flat spot and low point control.

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If you go slow then quick, then if you go quick then slow.