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Keys To Transition
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When students are struggling with transition, I will often ask them what they are feeling. Their responses will usually be grouped into (2) categories; tempo or position related. For those who say they feel quick in transition or even "stalled" at impact, I will have them focus on (1) simple, but effective swing thought. Specifically, I will have them focus on a slow and deliberate transition, followed by a fast and explosive turn of the body & release of the club. Ultimately, this tempo related swing thought is very effective for getting players who "fight" their body or club in transition to allow for a more natural and free-flowing downswing. That is, feeling slow at the start of the downswing will allow for the arms to shallow naturally and the body to pivot and move into a powerful delivery position. Then from there, a player can release the club as fast as he/she can manage without any unnecessary compensations or loss of speed.
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Not Enough Distance, Transition, Drill, Beginner
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This tempo drill is slow to fast or fast to slow.
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So I always ask golfers which do you feel when you're when I'm looking for feedback?
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I'll ask them, do you feel more of a position like was the club outside or inside or did
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you feel more of a sequence like that was quicker, that was slow or that was long and
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seropy or tighten compact?
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Those that I kind of group golfers into, are you more sensitive to the tempo or are you
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more sensitive to the position?
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So this is more of a position feel.
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So fast to slow or slow to fast is looking at transition into downswing.
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What typically happens is golfers who feel really quick early on or through the start of
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transition will tend to feel almost slowing down or bracing as they have to recover and
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make some adjustments.
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Where golfers who tend to feel really in sync or slow during the first half will then be
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able to feel a lot of speed later and later.
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So one drill that all have golfers do is basically you're going to do a slow transition
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as you can do and then try to hit it hard once the club gets to about a shaft parallel
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or a little past delivery position.
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So to feel a good one we're going to go up to the top we're going to come down and slow
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motion and then once we get to right about here we're going to try and accelerate into
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a really good release.
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So we'll do that with just a touch more speed that was the kind of exaggerated slow version.
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So now it will look close to normal it's going to still feel like it's in slow motion.
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So slow quick and it's still trying to exaggerate that feel of from right about here
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having the arms going to more of their acceleration phase and not trying to get it too fast.
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Now what I'll usually do is I'll ask all first to do the opposite just for comparison
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because it's helpful for the brain to see what it feels like to do it well but then confirm
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that it knows what it feels like when it does it poorly.
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So now on this one I'm going to try to do this part of the swing is fast as I can and
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then have it kind of coast through impact.
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So this would be the fastest slow version.
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And sometimes I shake it when I do that one.
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So this is where you'll see that it's the tempo in the positions.
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So just by getting a little bit fast it totally threw me out of position.
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So now we'll do another one of the slow motion in transition and then fast through the release.
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So slow and then fast through the release.
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If you have a hard time feeling the fast through the release then I recommend doing the pelvic
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punch where basically you're going to go to about waist height and then from here you're
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going to try and hit the ball a reasonable distance.
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I'll usually say as hard as you can but a reasonable distance.
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So I'm not just going for control here.
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I'm going for speed.
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So from about waist height until into the follow through trying to really accelerate through
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there.
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Now I'm going to take it back up to the top of the swing.
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Feel slow in transition and then speed through the release.
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Tiny bit fat on that one.
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Felt it get evolved maybe a touch too soon where I got most of my speed with my arms instead
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of the body.
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But it's a little sequence details that if you are more of a rhythm player will be extremely
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helpful.
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So slow fast that was a pretty good one.
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So if you struggle with getting quick in the transition, experiment with the timing of
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what happens right around here whether you go from slow to fast or from fast to slow.
