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This video, we're going to discuss handspeating clubhead speed.

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So I've had a couple of questions this week about the X factor or why we want to sequence

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things from the ground up.

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How it relates to creating speed, you know, kind of what's the purpose of using your

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hips, what's the purpose of using your whole body, et cetera.

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So I thought I would try to simplify that in a video, helping you understand how all of this

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relates to handspeating and how handspeating relates to clubbed speed and ultimately

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clubbed speed relates to ball speed.

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So the simple answer is in the golf swing, if we're trying to maximize this distance,

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we're trying to get our hands moving as fast as we can so that we can get the clubhead

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moving as fast as we can.

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If we maximize the launch characteristics with the fast moving clubbed, that's how we maximize

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distance.

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So now the question is, well, why, you know, how do I create handspeat?

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How do I get my hand moving?

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So there's a couple principles at play, but basically the greater force we can apply

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to our hands in this rotational direction, the faster we're going to get our hands moving.

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Now I can use any part of my body to get my hands moving.

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So if I'm standing here, I can have my hand out in front of me and I can use my feet

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against the ground to get it moving like this.

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Or I could get my hips moving and use less of my actual foot flexors, foot extensions.

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I could use just my hips to kind of get my hand moving.

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Or I could just use my shoulder.

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So I can use any part of my body in order to get my hand moving.

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There's a general rule that the greater the volume of muscle, the more force I can create.

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So if I can use all the muscles in my body or at least the biggest muscles in my body,

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I can create more force and I can get that hand moving a whole lot faster.

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So then it gets into sequencing and why would I want to sequence from the ground up?

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Well, there's a couple different reasons why I'd want to use my hips and sequence from

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the ground up.

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The more that I can get the big muscles of my lower body involved, then my ribcage

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is already moving.

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So when I use the muscles of my ribcage, it's going to move it faster.

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So let's say I rotate my hips at 200 degrees per second.

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And my ribcage is kind of hanging out at 200 degrees per second just because it's tied to

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my ribcage or to my pelvis.

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Then when my ribcage goes, let's say it adds another 200 degrees per second.

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And now it's totally, it gets my hand moving at 400 degrees per second.

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Where if I just move my ribcage at 200 degrees per second without moving my pelvis, then my hand

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is only going 200 degrees per second.

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Those numbers are not very accurate to what's happening in the golf swing, but the principle

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is kind of a plot.

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So the more that I can use, the more that I can use non-armor-laden muscles to get my hand

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moving faster, then when I apply my arm-related muscles to move my hand even faster, I'm

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going to have an exponential gain.

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If I just use my arm muscles to get my hand moving, typically I'm using less volume, so

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I'm not going to have as much force to create the speed in my hand that I would want

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to hit the ball far.

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The other reason I want to sequence from the ground up is a topic that was once described

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as kind of a short-stretched cycle, but has now been kind of, it's more about a greater

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magnitude of force in the muscle when you start to activate it.

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So that one's a little tricky and I'll explain it, but just know that the sequencing

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helps create more muscle activity which helps create more hand speed.

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So the analogy that is frequently used with that is a vertical jump versus a running jump.

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So let's say I'm doing just a one-footed jump kind of like this, or you let me run

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up as fast as I can and then I'm going to jump.

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In the second one where you let me run up, I'm going to be able to jump higher.

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Now they've debated about why, but there seems to be a pretty clear answer, or at least

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a current theory that makes a lot of sense.

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So what'll happen is if I'm just standing here and I bend my leg and then I jump, what

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will happen is let's say I'm, let's look at just the quad.

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So I bend the leg and I go to jump as I'm bending down, I activate the quad and that'll

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help stop me from lowering and then I'm going to continue activating it, hopefully creating

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enough force that I get my whole body propelled up off the ground.

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So I'm able to overcome my body weight, overcome gravity and elevate my body.

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Now if I run and then plant this foot, the same muscles in my quad that are going to help

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me jump are going to help deselerate my body moving this way.

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So I'm going to activate those muscles and get them active, a greater percentage than

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if I just stood here and jump.

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So using the same muscles to deselerate and then activate is going to allow that muscle

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to activate at a higher percentage.

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So basically when it gets active, it's firing at a higher volume or it's at a higher intensity.

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So I'm using let's say 80% of my muscle instead of 60% of my muscle so I jump higher.

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So it's a little trickier when we get into the rotation of the golf swing, but basically

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what would happen is if I use the muscles in my lower body, I'm creating this stretch

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that's activating the muscles so that when I then go to fire them they're going to activate

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at a slightly higher rate.

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So if I can fluidly sequence my lower body upper body arms and club in theory it allows

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me to then create more handspeed easier because I'm activating the muscles in the proper

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order which gives me kind of more time and more force to apply at each segment and I'm

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using a great volume of muscles to help create that handspeed.

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So hopefully that makes sense.

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Something that you see about using your legs, using your hips, creating an X factor,

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creating shoulder leg, creating wrist leg, it's really all about creating maximum

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handspeed.

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The faster you can get your hands moving, the more you're going to contribute speed to

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the clubbed and the more you contribute speed to the clubbed the further you're going

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to hit the ball.

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So hopefully that helps clarify why we want to use a high volume of muscles and we want

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those muscles to activate at a kind of intense rate.

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We want them to be able to create a lot of force.

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That combination is going to create the clubbed speed that will help you hit the ball

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far.