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The drill is three times slower down swing. So there's a lot of

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science behind doing slow motion training to help with

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repattoning your swing. The great news is you can do a lot of

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that at home. You don't actually have to be doing it while hitting

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golf balls, but it is helpful to hit golf balls while doing the

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slow motion training as well. Not a lot of golfers enjoy doing

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really slow motion training kind of like that Ben Hogan Tai Chi movement.

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So instead what I do is I ask them to take a swing where the

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downswing is going to take about three times longer than it normally

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does. I prefer that to try to hit it shorter because if I say,

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hey, just swing easy, usually golfers swing shorter, but then swing at

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the same intensity. So it doesn't really change the downswing

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firing pattern. Doesn't become more of a slow motion or Tai Chi

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swing. So you can do whatever backswing tempo you want, but then you're

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going to try and do a downswing motion that takes significantly

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longer than normal. And what you'll find is when you slow it down,

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you have to be really good with matching the pieces together, but you have

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more time and availability to do so. So in slow motion, I'm basically

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doing my good little Jackson five and delivery drill and then I'm doing my

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bracing and arm extension. You can see very little tension and very little

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stalling or very little jerkyness to any one particular part. What you may

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find or what I typically see is that when you try to really slow it down,

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you'll move kind of one part. There won't be a whole lot of rhythm or

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fluidity to the movement. So the goal is to get the same fluidity and

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they still get very solid contact. Now I'm doing these where I'm stopping

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at about waist height, but ideally you will do it.

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Where it takes three times as long to go all the way through the movement.

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I promise if you can do it at that level of speed, you'll have a much better chance

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of doing a lot of these movements at full speed so you can go from three times slower to

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twice as slow and then back up to full speed. It can be really helpful when you're working

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on pattern changes especially during the release or transition where things happen

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really quickly and sometimes it's hard to pay attention to exactly what's happening.

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So we'll go extra slow for the demonstration purpose.

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Again, trying to make solid contact with a slower downswing movement but taking the same amount of space.