Hi guys, my name is Aimee.
Today I'm going to talk about the tempo of a golf swing.
I don't know what your golf swings look like.
But if we give it a good tempo to it, it's actually going to look fantastic.
And with a good tempo your shots are going to get more consistent.
So let's go ahead and get you a really good tempo.
So when it comes to tempo, people with a little bit faster speed tends to go in
two counts like this, one two.
And usually everyone else goes in three counts like this, one two three.
Both of them are correct.
But the most common tempo we see on the golf course is slightly different.
What we usually see goes kind of like this, one two.
You lift it up, yank it down with no finish.
That's what we see mostly on the golf course.
That is wrong. There's two things wrong with that tempo.
One is that you're not using the body, you're using the arms to hit the golf ball.
Number two is that it's too quick.
I mean you see the pros on TV, they swing very fast.
But the most important thing here is that
they actually use their body to take it back, and they use their body power to
bring it down, and the hands are following the body's lead.
And when the body is changing directions,
the hands look like they pause a little bit at the top.
Nothing ever completely stops. You're constantly in motion.
It's just the hands look like they're paused a little bit,
because they're following the body's lead.
So if you have a two count tempo or a three count tempo, it really doesn't matter.
Everybody pauses at the top.
It's just that if you have a faster swing and you have a two count tempo,
then your pause at the top is going to be very short compared to
a slower tempo person whose pause at the top is a lot longer.
But must remember you have to pause at the top.
Okay, so in order to pause at the top, you have to use the body to swing
instead of arms to hit the ball.
If you're not sure if you use the body correctly
or if you yanked down with the arms, I have a simple test here you can try.
What you do is you set up to the golf ball, you're going to go to the top
of the backswing, you're going to count to three, and then you're going to hit it
as hard as you can, like this.
Boom! 1 2 3
So if you use the body correctly like I do, what's going to happen is
you're not going to have any problems stopping at the top of the backswing,
and then on the way down you'll hit it fine like you always do.
Whereas if you actually use your arms to hit the ball, you're going to have a
very hard time stopping at the top of the backswing like this.
And once you hit you're going to feel that tension in your shoulders.
You're going to feel like you're holding it super tight, right?
So if you figured it out and you realize you hit the ball with your arms,
I prepared a simple drill so I can relax your arms and I can get you to
use your body more so we can get that tempo going.
It's called a Step drill.
So what you do is you set up to the golf ball,
you're going to take your left foot and step it in, so your stance is smaller.
You're going to take it back,
without moving anything you're just going to step
the left foot back into the original place, step like this,
and then you're going to use your hips to swings not your hands.
So watch! You're going to turn, step, hip.
Like that.
When you step the one thing you have to be careful is
when you step people tend to kind of do that.
Your hands aren't supposed to move at all,
you just step your left foot and then the hip.
Once you're comfortable with the step drill, let's go ahead and hit the ball.
Okay, so you're going to go turn, pause, body.
To get your tempo going you have to remember two things.
Number one is that you cannot use your arms to hit the ball.
You have to use your body to hit the ball.
Number two is that you have to pause at the top.
If you remember these two things, your tempo is going to become fantastic.
I hope you were able to follow along.
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