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Seeing the timing of transition may help you think about how you want to train it. It may also help explain why a swing "thought" is a bad idea but a swing sensation can be helpful as long as it's clear. If you need more clarity for transition, then doing drills that give you more exposure time is very beneficial.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Transition, Concept, Intermediate
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This video is transition as fast as the blink of an eye.
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So we throw around terms like the golf swing happens really quickly.
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You don't have much time to think about it, but sometimes it can help be helpful to actually
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visualize how little time you have to actually think about what you're doing while you're
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trying to do it.
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So in this video we're going to compare my golf swing and how long it takes and compare
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that to the blink of an eye.
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Now let's take an actual look at the timing of these two events.
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So here on the left we've got my golf swing and then over on the right, film with the
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exact same camera at the same settings.
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We've got me blinking and then looking to make sure that I caught the blink.
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With the blink, I'm going to try to get it just to the frame right where my eye lid starts
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to move right around there and then with the swing, we'll take it up until the clubhead
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starts to change direction.
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Now I've got them synced and what we'll do is we will play them both together.
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I'm going to watch the blink of an eye and right about there is the end of the blink of
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the eye.
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So what you'll see is that the transition in my golf swing took about the same amount
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of time as the blink of an eye.
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You can see on the left I met about delivery position.
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It'll vary a little bit depending on the length of your swing and you can see it's roughly
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about the same timing.
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If you're trying to run through a major checklist, that's not going to happen because you're
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not going to have enough time to process all that information.
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You need to take any swing thoughts or things that you're working on and either train
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it or put in the rep so that it becomes a single feeling.
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So while you're in this transition, while you're in this transition section and you're
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looking at the different pieces, whether it be the weight shift or the bump or whether
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it's sequencing and delaying rotation, whether it's the arm shallowing, how you pull
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on the club, there's lots of things that you can get into as far as the initiation of
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the downswing.
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Now it's important to keep this concept video in mind when you're training these.
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So as a little experiment, I want you to blink your eye, you can exaggerate it, you know,
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blink.
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And I want you to think about how many of those swing thoughts you could actually think
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about during that time.
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So it's important to have some part of your practice as more of a transition into a feeling
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or a sensation or an image.
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So I might not be able to say to myself, bump into left hip, shallow out the arms, start
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the motorcycle, all while I'm blinking my eye.
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But I could probably get a feeling, yeah, okay, it's going to feel kind of like that.
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And as long as that feeling can pull through my body or course through my body in less
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than a time less than the time it takes for me to blink my eye, I could actually focus
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on that.
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So make sure that your focus is something so tangible that you can experience it within the
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time frame of a blink of an eye, whether it's with the transition or with the release,
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because both of those happen very quickly.
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So if you find that you're a little lost in transition, that's where it can help
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for to do slow motion or pump or drills, they give you a little bit more time to experience
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some of these key movements and relationships.
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I promise that if you put in the time and build those movements into a feeling, it'll
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be that much easier for you to transfer it into your stock full swing.