Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
I OFTEN hear my students say such things as ‘I swung too quickly’ or ‘I need to slow my swing down’. I find this amusing – it’s like telling the world long driving champion to slow down, you don’t need to swing it that hard. I believe what people believe is swinging too fast is actually a lack of co-ordination or poor sequencing of the body segments.
I can’t remember which tour player told me that he used to hum throughout his swing and try and hold the same note throughout - if the humming changed a chord it meant he had sped up during the swing.
Seve Ballesteros used to say his name throughout the swing to help improve his rhythm. He would say his full name and aim to complete those words before he had hit the shot.
If our body creates the correct kinematic sequence we can swing as fast as we like but as soon as we lose the correct sequence it is very hard to hit the ball far.
