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This concept video is rhythm feels better than positions.

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So there's a section that I go over in the book and I got an email question about it.

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So I thought I'd expand on it a little bit for the website.

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And the line in the book is something along the lines of basically that forcing the

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club into specific positions typically won't succeed or have the same level of efficiency

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as swinging a club through positions.

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So one way to kind of look at it is if you get the club swinging, if you can feel

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the weight of the club and you get it swinging through space, your body will coordinate

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a lot of the timings to kind of match the rhythm of the club swinging.

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And so some of the fine details as far as low point control and face control are better

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sing up when the whole body is working in harmony or in unity or basically working together.

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I like it to if I was doing a squat movement, I want to make sure that I have a tight energy

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transfer all the way from my shoulders and neck, all the way down to my feet.

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If for example I had tight in line in line in line and then I got to my knee and my knee was

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loose and sloppy and not in connection with the whole movement, then once I got under

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more load it'd be more likely that I'd hurt my knee.

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In the golf swing, if I get two position focus, what can happen is I lose the fluidity

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of everything kind of working together and what'll happen is even if I get into a good

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position, my weight transfer might be off or my sequencing might be off or the timing of my

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arm extension might be off and all of these things affect the low point as well as affecting

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the face. So if you're struggling and you're working through some position-related skills,

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it's natural that it's not necessarily going to feel quite as good as if you're working more

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on sequencing, timing, or pivot and rhythm drills. So it's common that you'll have to go back and

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forth between these two ideas. If you're working more on position drills, then I'm a little bit

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more lenient as far as quality of contact, but I'm typically a little bit more strict in terms

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of ball flight, face control, and the amount of curve. But if you're working more on the timing

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in the rhythm, then I'm a little bit more strict on terms of quality of contact. Let's say pivot

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and where your body is finishing, and I'm a little less kind of strict on the specific curve.

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So when you're first working on some sequencing drills, you might hit the ball better, but it

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might fade just a little bit more, or it might have more of a pull to it. I'll usually work through that

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kind of get more comfortable with the rhythm, and then cycle back may be a position reference.

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But typically when you're working more on rhythm, you'll have more solid contact,

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rhythm, or sequencing. I sometimes use those interchangeably. You'll typically have more solid

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contact, better low point control, and typically have better success with the driver in the longer

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clubs. When you're working more on positions, you'll typically have better face control,

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and you'll typically have more success with the wedges and the shorter clubs. So understanding

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how to use each tool will help speed up your learning process, so you don't get too frustrated

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if you're having some sequence problems, and you should be working on tempo and rhythm,

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or if you're having some direction problems, and maybe you need to work a little bit more on positions.

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So let me give you a specific example. So from this down the line, let's say I have a tendency to

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kind of get some early extension, get stuck on the inside. Well, if I start to get a little bit

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better path, I might get a little bit steep in kind of toe contact, but I might have more of a

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straight bulflight. So that would be while working on positions. But let's say I was early extending,

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and that was my main issue. If I was able to hone in a really good rhythm, I might be able

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to early extend and still play well. In fact, I might actually be able to play better,

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early extending with rhythm in the short term, rather than getting in the perfect position,

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but maybe having the upper body overtake the lower body and not quite having as much rhythm

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and fluidity throughout the whole shot. So that's part of the reason why working on rhythm is

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such a good warm up activity because it'll take whatever pattern you have and tend to get you

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to perform as best as that particular pattern is capable of performing.