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Ben Hogan, or Tai Chi Swings, is a slow motion practice swing designed to challenge your understanding of the movements of the swing. If you do them slowly, but with the same timing, the club face and path will work the same as your full stock swing. Start with 30 seconds, but work up to 2-minute swings as you become more sensitive. See below for example, of Ben Hogan doing this drill starting at 1:40 mark.
Tags: Practice Strategies, Intermediate
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This year is Tai Chi or Ben Hogan's wings.
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So I like to call them Ben Hogan's wings because there's a great YouTube video of Ben
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Hogan doing one of these wings.
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But basically it's just a very slow motion swing to see where your brain might have what
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I call blackouts or black spots.
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So if you know exactly what your body should be doing and where the club should be during
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every part of the swing, then you should be able to speed it up or slow it down.
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And for most golfers slowing and down is the bigger challenge.
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So to start you're going to do 30 seconds swings, which is roughly going to be two or
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three breaths depending on how quickly you breathe.
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Or I should say it could be two to like 10 breaths depending on how quickly you breathe.
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But essentially you're going to get set up and then we're going to do a 30 second swing.
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And it forces you to work on your core stability and it forces you to really be aware
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of how you're controlling the club face and how you're controlling the club path.
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It's easy to kind of neglect the power sources here because your swing you're very, very
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slowly.
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But it's really good for helping you figure out your face and your path.
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And for figuring out where you might have to put a little bit more attention when you're
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training your stock full swing.
