How do I Own My Swing ?

Owning your swing is about shifting your concept into alignment with a more efficient movement, practicing with awareness and then being able to do it without thinking about it through repitition. As you automate your BASE level movements you can start to automate your Mid Level extensions and stabiliites and really focus your practice to be effective and deliberate.

Understaing this process is essential in being able to own the new movement you are making that is built from a shift in concept.

Owning your swing is about accepting the concept, understanding the steps and applying yourself to the process. This is how we get from thinking to doing to FLOWING!

Ground 0. CONCEPT -

Shifting a concept is the first step to owning your swing and the reason for shifting concept needs to be understood. This shift in concept will align you to the greater good of MID level and ADVANCED level movement that you will/may work on in the future

1. Visualise it-

Next you need to be able to create a visual with your eyes in order to be able to see the change from old to new.

2. Feel it-

Now you need to find a feel that is related to the move you are adding. The feel is yours to find and it needs to match the visual and the concept and start to produce a shot that reflects improvement

3. Drill it -

A drill is a smaller, low speed movement that is designed to isolate a specific part. Its intention is to get an exaggerated visual and feel to better understand both. The drill should be ball flight orientated, always done with a lofted iron and performed at a swing speed 20-50% less than maximum

4. Rehearsal -

A rehearsal is what you do without a ball and can be done anywhere. The rehearsal is a movement that should exaggerate the visual and the feel, done in components or at a swing speed at least 50% less than maximum. The rehearsal is a movement without DYNAMICS so it should look very noticeable when you watch it. We understand that adding dynamics to the swing will completely change how it feels and it looks but our objective is to maintain a small element of the feel that we were trying to be aware of.

5. Awareness -

Awareness shoud be practiced at every stage, although when you get to the awareness phase you are trying to see or feel the movement whilst you are hitting a ball at normal speed. If you cannot yet see or feel the new movement when you hit the ball and/or it is not creating a shot matching your ball flight expectation, this is highlighting that more work needs to be done within the first 4 phases.

6. Over the Ball focus -

You are now close to moving the new movement into the the automatic zone. Where you have your focus as you strike the ball in practice is critical to doing this. Each ball you hit in practice FOCUS needs to be on either the visual the feel or a combination of both. Every time you hit, try and notice (awareness) that you did what you tried to do. As your eyes see and your body feels the positive outcome of the ball flight which matches your expectation, you are only moments away from not having to think.

7. Repitition -

Simply keep practicing maitining this formula of FOCUS on visual or feel, be aware of it when you swing and reflect back on it after the shot to comfirm a positive outcome was becuase of the new movement you’ve added.

8. Automatic Response/FLOW -

When you have arrived in the FLOW state you will be able to switch your Over the Ball focus outside of your body and the body will move as you have trained it. When this happens you know that you have now moved the new movement into the automatic zone

Congratulations - you now own that part of your swing!