Transition - As Fast As The Blink Of An Eye
Seeing the timing of transition may help you think about how you want to train it. It may also help explain why a swing "thought" is a bad idea but a swing sensation can be helpful as long as it's clear. If you need more clarity for transition, then doing drills that give you more exposure time is very beneficial.
Seeing the timing of transition may help you think about how you want to train it. It may also help explain why a swing "thought" is a bad idea but a swing sensation can be helpful as long as it's clear. If you need more clarity for transition, then doing drills that give you more exposure time is very beneficial.
Video Transcript
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This video is transition is as fast as the blink of an eye so we throw around
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terms like the golf swing happens really quickly you don't have much time to
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think about it but sometimes it can help be helpful to actually visualize how
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little time you have to actually think about what you're doing while you're
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trying to do it. So in this video we're going to compare my golf swing and how
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long it takes and compare that to the blink of an eye. Now let's take an actual
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look at the timing of these two events. So here on the left we've got my golf
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swing and then over on the right filmed with the exact same camera at the same
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settings. We've got me blinking and then looking to make sure that I caught the
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blink. With the blink I'm going to try to get it just to the frame right where
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my
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eyelid starts to move right around there and then with the swing we'll take it
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up
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until the club head starts to change direction. Now I've got them synced and
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what we'll do is we will play them both together. I'm going to watch the blink
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of the eye and right about there is the end of the blink of the eye. So what
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you'll
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see is that the transition in my golf swing took about the same amount of time
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as the blink of an eye. You can see on the left I met about delivery position.
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It'll vary a little bit depending on the length of your swing. You can see it's
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roughly about the same timing. If you're trying to run through a major
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checklist
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it's not going to happen because you're not going to have enough time to
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process
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all that information. You need to take any swing thoughts or things that you're
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working on and either train it or put in the rep so that it becomes a single
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feeling. So while you're in this transition, while you're in this transition
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section and you're looking at the different pieces, whether it be the the
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weight shift or the bump or whether it's a kind of the sequencing and delaying
30
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rotation, whether it's the arm shallowing, how you pull on the club, there's
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lots of
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things that you can get into as far as the initiation of the downswing. Now it
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's
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important to keep this concept video in mind when you're training these. So as
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a
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little experiment I want you to blink your eye. You can exaggerate it, you know
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,
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blink and I want you to think about how many of those swing thoughts you could
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actually think about during that time. So it's important to have some part of
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your practice as more of a transition into a feeling or a sensation or an
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image. So I might not be able to say to myself bump into left hip,
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shout out the arms, start the motorcycle all while I'm blinking my eye. But I
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could probably get a feeling, yeah, okay, it's gonna feel kind of like that.
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And as
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long as that feeling can pull through my body or course through my body in less
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than the time it takes for me to blink my eye I could actually focus on that.
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So
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make sure that your focus is something so tangible that you can experience it
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within the timeframe of a blink of an eye, whether it's with the transition or
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with the release, because both of those happen very quickly. So if you find
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that
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you're a little lost in transition, that's where it can helpful to do slow
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motion or pump or drills that give you a little bit more time to experience
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some
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of these key movements and relationships. I promise that if you put in the time
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and build those movements into a feeling, it'll be that much easier for you to
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transfer it into your stock full swing.
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Seeing the timing of transition may help you think about how you want to train it. It may also help explain why a swing "thought" is a bad idea but a swing sensation can be helpful as long as it's clear. If you need more clarity for transition, then doing drills that give you more exposure time is very beneficial.
Seeing the timing of transition may help you think about how you want to train it. It may also help explain why a swing "thought" is a bad idea but a swing sensation can be helpful as long as it's clear. If you need more clarity for transition, then doing drills that give you more exposure time is very beneficial.
Video Transcript
1
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This video is transition is as fast as the blink of an eye so we throw around
2
00:00:04.600 --> 00:00:07.980
terms like the golf swing happens really quickly you don't have much time to
3
00:00:07.980 --> 00:00:12.360
think about it but sometimes it can help be helpful to actually visualize how
4
00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:16.100
little time you have to actually think about what you're doing while you're
5
00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:20.320
trying to do it. So in this video we're going to compare my golf swing and how
6
00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:24.720
long it takes and compare that to the blink of an eye. Now let's take an actual
7
00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:29.380
look at the timing of these two events. So here on the left we've got my golf
8
00:00:29.380 --> 00:00:32.960
swing and then over on the right filmed with the exact same camera at the same
9
00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:38.720
settings. We've got me blinking and then looking to make sure that I caught the
10
00:00:38.720 --> 00:00:44.880
blink. With the blink I'm going to try to get it just to the frame right where
11
00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:45.040
my
12
00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:49.320
eyelid starts to move right around there and then with the swing we'll take it
13
00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:49.360
up
14
00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:55.240
until the club head starts to change direction. Now I've got them synced and
15
00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:59.420
what we'll do is we will play them both together. I'm going to watch the blink
16
00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:08.050
of the eye and right about there is the end of the blink of the eye. So what
17
00:01:08.050 --> 00:01:08.300
you'll
18
00:01:08.300 --> 00:01:12.980
see is that the transition in my golf swing took about the same amount of time
19
00:01:12.980 --> 00:01:16.860
as the blink of an eye. You can see on the left I met about delivery position.
20
00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:20.460
It'll vary a little bit depending on the length of your swing. You can see it's
21
00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:24.220
roughly about the same timing. If you're trying to run through a major
22
00:01:24.220 --> 00:01:24.460
checklist
23
00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:28.230
it's not going to happen because you're not going to have enough time to
24
00:01:28.230 --> 00:01:28.720
process
25
00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:32.720
all that information. You need to take any swing thoughts or things that you're
26
00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:37.400
working on and either train it or put in the rep so that it becomes a single
27
00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:43.280
feeling. So while you're in this transition, while you're in this transition
28
00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.800
section and you're looking at the different pieces, whether it be the the
29
00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:50.920
weight shift or the bump or whether it's a kind of the sequencing and delaying
30
00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:54.980
rotation, whether it's the arm shallowing, how you pull on the club, there's
31
00:01:54.980 --> 00:01:55.300
lots of
32
00:01:55.300 --> 00:02:00.770
things that you can get into as far as the initiation of the downswing. Now it
33
00:02:00.770 --> 00:02:01.180
's
34
00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:05.910
important to keep this concept video in mind when you're training these. So as
35
00:02:05.910 --> 00:02:05.980
a
36
00:02:05.980 --> 00:02:10.000
little experiment I want you to blink your eye. You can exaggerate it, you know
37
00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:10.020
,
38
00:02:10.020 --> 00:02:13.580
blink and I want you to think about how many of those swing thoughts you could
39
00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:17.620
actually think about during that time. So it's important to have some part of
40
00:02:17.620 --> 00:02:23.460
your practice as more of a transition into a feeling or a sensation or an
41
00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:29.560
image. So I might not be able to say to myself bump into left hip,
42
00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:34.840
shout out the arms, start the motorcycle all while I'm blinking my eye. But I
43
00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:39.920
could probably get a feeling, yeah, okay, it's gonna feel kind of like that.
44
00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:40.360
And as
45
00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:45.160
long as that feeling can pull through my body or course through my body in less
46
00:02:45.160 --> 00:02:50.010
than the time it takes for me to blink my eye I could actually focus on that.
47
00:02:50.010 --> 00:02:50.500
So
48
00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:56.920
make sure that your focus is something so tangible that you can experience it
49
00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:00.200
within the timeframe of a blink of an eye, whether it's with the transition or
50
00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:04.040
with the release, because both of those happen very quickly. So if you find
51
00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:04.200
that
52
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:07.820
you're a little lost in transition, that's where it can helpful to do slow
53
00:03:07.820 --> 00:03:12.910
motion or pump or drills that give you a little bit more time to experience
54
00:03:12.910 --> 00:03:13.180
some
55
00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:16.960
of these key movements and relationships. I promise that if you put in the time
56
00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:21.320
and build those movements into a feeling, it'll be that much easier for you to
57
00:03:21.320 --> 00:03:24.960
transfer it into your stock full swing.
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