Consistency: How you accelerate your arms in the downswing can greatly influence your ball striking.

Okay, golfers. One of the pillars uh that I talk about in the when I'm working with a student is consistency. Generally, that's the goal of of the student is how can I become more consistent. So, what I want to show you here is some acceleration rates that are important for consistency. And the reason why acceleration rates are important is if you think about anything we do as humans, we don't do at constant speed unless maybe like you're running at a pace. But the golf swing is definitely not about a constant velocity. It's not about velocity at all. It's about how fast we are either starting to move, slowing down to move, and then as a result of that, we have a velocity of our movement. So I like to look at acceleration profiles and really what is driving that versus let's just call it the kinematic sequence. So I have here couple tour players and I I actually just wanted to see what the difference was between these tour players. And so what I'm tracking right now and I'll take this one up to the top. Timing on these are a little bit off from the top as they get to impact. But what I want to do is take a look at acceleration rates of in this case the left wrist. And so that was just easy for me to to kind of get it. And you can kind of see that things are slowing up. There's a transition right there. The, you know, the hands are barely moving. I'm using the that left wrist or lead wrist as kind of our reference point. And same thing right here. Things get really quiet and [clears throat] then they start moving. And so we'll get to the slowest point. So you can see things are barely barely moving. And right now um I'll get with gears to see what the negative and positive is that really deceleration or negative acceleration when it's uh negative or is that an x y plane type narrative. So we'll dive deeper in that. But here's the first step in becoming more consistent is how you start the down swing. And in this case, I want to take a look at this player on the left. And we can see that, you know, there's definitely a peak of about 77.43 meters per second squared. You know, is currently his hands are moving at, you know, almost 13 12 and a half miles an hour. And we're going to continue to see this moving and gaining speed, but he's just not going to do it as fast. So acceleration is that rate of speed, the rate of changing speed. So you can see, I mean, his first, geez, halfway down. Not even halfway down. Okay. as we get to impact first third of the way down. He's already maxed out his his ex acceleration, you know, and we we'll compare this to the the the the pelvis. It's night and day. So, this there's almost a six times factor between your hand speed and your pelvis speed. So, this idea that the pelvis and the body are contributing energy into the arm swing is just [snorts] incorrect. So you have to be able to control your arm swing independent of your body but coordinated with your body. So that's some other consistency and things we'll get into. So let's take a look at this tour player and we can see still peaking still peaking peaks out at around 81.39 m/s squared. So he gets a little bit further down and you can see it's a higher rate of speed. So change in speed doesn't always relate into a higher speed per se because it's, you know, you can be changing from a a lower number and how quickly you change. But in this case, we see that the arms are really accelerating super quick in transition. And so this is one of the things that Gears shows us that we can measure that 2D video cannot measure is the is how the arms have to swing. and the timing of your arm swing and how fast that happens in transition. If you leave your hands alone and expect them to react to the body, they're going to get shifted offline. Plain and simple. They have to have a very specific path or trajectory that they're swinging on and they're moving in order to produce the shot. So, let's take a look. remember these numbers here. And we'll kind of work with this golfer on the left. And we can still see it's his hand speed's increasing. It's just not as fast as it was in transition. So, we still get up to 20. Then he peaks out right around 20 miles an hour. Looks like where his hand speeds peaks out. Player here on the right. And we see 20. Does it get much higher than that? Doesn't look like it. So when we look at this, we have two tour players that create the same amount of hand speed pretty much almost the same position, but they do it at different tempos. That's the acceleration. It's how fast that your tempo is changing. So, generally can accelerate slow if you expect to hit the ball really far. Okay. You may have to try to It's tough to do it later in the swing. We want to get those arms moving on the way down. Okay. So, let's take a look at We'll go take this back up. Let's take a look at this lead hip. And that's just another indicator. I want you to understand the difference between the speed and we'll just start with this. We're using just the marker speed right here of the left hip. And let's take a look at this now. So remember what their speeds were. And so when we get this working, you can see it slows down. And you can see We get a let's see his peak. Oh, I saw 19 in there. Maybe I didn't 18. So, there's this peak acceleration transition and it just shows you how fast that's happening in transition. So that is where the golfer starting to post up. Post up right away, you know, and is moving. Now, does there more speed have to come later on? Absolutely. But he's just not doing it as fast. So when we take a look at it, that was 18 meters per second squared and we were up into 77. So not quite six with this player. But a good four and a half. And you can just see the peak speed of the hips. And we'll get to that next is right there at 4 miles an hour. So again, considerably slower than what the hand speed is. So this idea and I'll get more into angular impulse and how that applies to energy transfer because that's really how we use our whole body to make this happen. What I want to point out is just how independent the arms must be relative to the pelvis and it's really the job of the pelvis is to position the lower body to post up. And we what we see here is a great post up and we can see the spine line kind of right going right into that lead leg. Let's take a look at the player on the right accelerating into the down swing. Yep. Peaks out at 10 or so. Continues to move. So, you can see speed's still increasing slightly, but it's not a quick jerky jerky motion. These guys don't ex highly accelerate their hips trying to accelerate their arms. It just flat out doesn't happen. Let's see where he peaks out at speed. So, he doesn't even get to four miles an hour with pelvis speed. [clears throat] And if you watch any of the AMG guys, you know who probably the player is on the right. They use him a lot. you know, grand slam winner. Um, and this is with an iron. And it just shows you that the pelvis speed is not going to generate the arm speed. We need that pelvis to move and start getting the body in position so that upper body can move. So, this is the first step. Understand when I talk about how important the arm swing is in the ABCs of the golf swing, this is what I'm referring to as the acceleration rate. This idea that the pelvis is pulling the upper body to pull the arms is not quite true. It does happen, but we see that the arms are working much faster than the upper body and and much faster than the hips independent of that. So that arm acceleration is definitely not being driven by this pelvis. I know this is going a little bit deeper, but this is where I want you guys to really buy into the system of utilizing the arms to control the transition, which will give us a smoother golf swing. And I'll do more videos on these consistency drills. Um, and actually, let me mention that real quick. Consistency drills are flamingo drill and feet together drill. Um, both trail hand and lead hand only swings. Those are great transition drills to kind of get the coordination between the arms and the body and we need that and that's a skill. It's not a reaction. The hands are moving to the body. They are working independent of the body. Thanks for watching. Check out kinetic golf. Kinetic doggolf as I try to go deeper in explaining this to you. Again, my goal is to help you with your swing and how to use this information and gears and the research to have you become a better golfer. Thanks for watching. Talk to you guys later.