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Catch Up Speed

This video delves into the importance of pre-stretching your muscles for a faster and more effective swing, helping you achieve that effortless speed and power. 

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This concept video is training your catchup speed.

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Um, so one of the global concepts that,

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that people talk about all the time is looking at sequencing

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and trying to get out of kind of a stall flip pattern,

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especially for better players.

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Um, so one of, uh, the discussions that I had with,

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with Gee, he, um, used the phrase

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that I really liked called catch up speed, um,

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which is basically if you pre-stretch something

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before you fire it, it's going to move faster.

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Um, and in the context of the golf swing, it's going

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to move faster and later.

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A lot of good players describe when they're swinging really

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well, that it feels like there's lots

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of speed at the bottom, but it's kind of slow in transition.

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That is the experience of more of this catch up speed

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or basically these pre stretches before activation.

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Um, one little kind of exercise that I'll do is if you were

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to put your, uh, the club across your shoulders

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and you were to actively rotate.

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So if I got up to the top of the swing

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and I just actively rotate my shoulders, you'll see

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that I'm able to create a certain amount of force

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and a certain amount of speed.

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Um, but you'll see that when I do this, I kind of

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max out the speed early and then it's almost slowing down.

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Even if I try to do it really late,

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it still has this feeling of kind

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of being a little bit more slow

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down through the bottom of the swing.

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Now, catch up speed would basically be, instead

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of actively going this way first I'm gonna do a little

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bit of a pre-stretch.

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So I'm going to, um, rotate my shoulders

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and my upper body that way as my lower body is going

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that way, now I've gotta stretch

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and now I'm gonna time releasing that stretch

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with the pushing of the lower body.

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So if I do it that way, now

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what it feels like is it feels like the upper body is kind

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of catching up or, or being flung

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through impact rather than like muscularly

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actively hitting at it.

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And I think that, um, is one of the experiences

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of having effortless speed swinging easy.

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It's a sign that I kind

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of created this stretch on the way down,

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and then I got this catch up speed, um, on the way through.

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So I think that the big key

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to the catch up speed is the alignment of the shoulders.

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So I have the, the test where I help you feel, um,

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your shoulders or your chest pointing

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more behind the golf ball.

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Um, that is basically getting your shoulders into this, uh,

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kind of rightward rotation where it's pointing this way

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as my lower body is pointing that way.

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Um, so my spine has basically been twisted like this.

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So then the upper body can catch up through impact.

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When you do that, you'll have a, a sense of,

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um, swinging through the ball.

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You'll have a sense of a lack of stall and flip.

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Um, it feels easier, um,

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and potentially it allows you to get a feeling

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of more shaft lean, more compression, lots of good things.

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So we have a bunch of drills,

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but if you're training that catch up speed, I like

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to do it in kind of a transition or almost like a delivery

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and go, um, where I'm gonna get up to the top

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and then I'm going to get into this, uh, position here

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where I'm feeling like my chest

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or shoulders are pointing back there.

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Um, but my lower body is turned,

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but my legs are still kind of loaded

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or bent so that I'm in a position.

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Now, if I was to pump it, there's kind of that max stretch,

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and then I would feel the catchup speed

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kind of bringing me through.

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So it would look, I'm gonna get up there,

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get into this position, little pump,

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and then feel that, uh, catchup move or catchup speed

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or, uh, closing, uh,

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to hit the ball rather than if I was gonna get there.

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And then just actively fire the upper body.

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You can see that it takes me into a very different finished

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position, um, and it has a totally different kind

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of muscular feel.

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I didn't like that last one.

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So let's reset and do a good one.

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So now we're gonna get into this position.

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We're gonna feel that kind

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of catch up speed on the way through.

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Now the goal is to do it a little bit more, uh, dynamically,

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and this is where the real magic is gonna happen, um,

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because most of you are gonna feel like you're gonna have to

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soften things in order to create this stretch.

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If you try to create this stretch too, dy uh, too violently,

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like if I try to actively try to just

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pull hard into that two-way stretch, I'm gonna, uh,

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basically blow through the ability to catch up.

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I'm gonna create too much tension,

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and ultimately it's gonna mess up my sequencing even worse.

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So this will force you to feel a little bit more

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soft in transition, which tends to feel more body driven

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and tends to feel a little bit slower.

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So dynamically we're gonna get up

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and we're feeling like during

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that transition they're going in opposite di directions.

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And then during, uh, the release, we're feeling the body

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catch up to create the speed rather than actively hit it.

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