I have been working on gaining speed and what you were talking about is spot on with what I have found. I pressure left, pressure right then pressure left. The pressure right can’t come early enough, I start the right pressure well before P2. I have also found that letting my wrists hinge really hard in the transition by feeling like I keep them really soft and let the transition set them that is where I get my max speed. I’m now 53 years old and my max speed so far is 124mph with the swing speed radar. I also agree with feeling like you keep the “A” in your setup, if my hip sways out at all it slows the swing down, I try to actually increase the angle of my right leg by letting the hip turn and slightly straighten the right leg. Just because my max air swing is 124mph it doesn’t translate to 124mph swing with a ball but it does push it faster than what it was without the training. I have gained around 12 mph since I started training in the summer. I love these types of videos and have always enjoyed Dana’s insight going back to when BM had his golf message forum.
Damn dude I'm 53 and I'm swinging at 96 cruising speed down the middle. Whenever I try to swing harder, I'm all over the place. Do you hit it semi straight or are you spraying it?
@ Those are air swings, I’m about 10mph slower when I put a ball down. When I started working on speed I was just a little over 100 mph, now I’m cruising around 112-114mph, but have more in the tank if accuracy is not needed on the shot. The biggest thing I discovered that helped me was you almost can’t brake early enough on the downswing to get the speed out to the club. One downside as you probably know being 53 and the joints can get pretty sore when swinging hard, just wish I knew what I know now 30 years ago.
Woww 😀 Thanks for inviting Dana on this subject. Very, very precious and new insights for me here ! And congrats for your improvements every year, 118 is 🔥🔥
Great video, love a lot of your stuff. If I could suggest something that would make your videos more enjoyable it would be to interrupt less and let the guest finish their thoughts more often. Like many TV news hosts that are so anxious to get certain questions asked or to blurt out what they are thinking because they are under the misconception they are more interesting than the guest, so often the guest is just about to drop a pearl on us, the climax of a sentence or thought and you interrupt them, taking them off in a whole new direction and throwing cold water on something that was about to generate a real revelation. I've watched dozens of your videos and you do it consistently, but keep honing your craft, become a better interviewer and you'll gain even more traction than you have already.
It will really kick in when you tune into movement of the clubhead around you. Tell yourself that you "have time" and that you are actually trying to stop the handle end of the club dead in its tracks just before impact. This creates patience and forces the upper body to stabilize the club and the more patient you are the more time the club head has to build up speed and force. You should also be "throwing the club into the backswing" he he mentioned. The inconsistency comes into play when you don't keep the point on the top of your ball cap still. It must remain still even if your head makes a small swing like Annika Sorenstam's does. If that point on your ball cap doesn't move, your low point of you swing arc will remain constant and you can literally swing as fast as you want to on a given shot. It takes time for your legs and core to develop enough strength to deal with things when you begin to create more force so that is why you have to accept that for a time your performance will dip before it takes off. This is also why when you noted that the body posture will look line the letter "A" you are on the right path with that observation. Really good video Sir.
Funny wave pattern in the HM forearm rotation. Is that a sign of an aggressive transition as opposed to a smooth one? Like Dana's take on make the existing pattern more athletic. I dabbled a little with pulling the shaft hard down in transition to create more lag and sling it last minute. Instant +5 mph increase, but that makes it hard for me to avoid pulling the face open at the same time. i.e. that's changing a swing, not speeding up the existing one.
Imagine if Dana knew how to break the mental blocks. He’s pretty interesting to watch work with people. Usually a good eye and quick changes. The true secret is adding in the elimination of perceived barriers. Of course if your sequence is bad, then maybe work on that first… Pros can make huge improvements by clearing the mental/energetic blocks. Nobody does it, and it is mind boggling in a world (pro golf) where the differences between players is so small and you have an untapped area of potential. Keep doing your thing B. Alan
Yeah, it’s like a pulse and pass move. You don’t really let the push continue on for very long you just pulse the jump and then let the Swing pass you and then the swing pulls you into the finish.
@@BEBETTERGOLFmakes perfect sense to me... Harder = more energy in the system -> not able to make silly compensations -> you put more energy into club, so the club swings you (tells you where to go) and the body separates much better because of the greater stretch
The best way I ever heard it explained from a swing catalyst guy is that the top of the swing is the BOTTOM of the squat. your squat is complete at the top of the swing - the squat doesn't start at the top. That is too late.
Do you think the move at p2 to the left is more of a fall onto the left or is it more of a stomp onto the left? Or can it be both ways to different ppl? I’ve heard it described before as a weightless fall onto the left. Is that what you feel?
My lower body barely moves in my swing. Why I've lost so much distance. So . . . On the backswing, I should feel like I'm falling. On the Downswing, feel like I'm jumping. Thanks, I'll try this!
Semantics is always is important or there may be confusion. For example; if you’re trying to speed the club head faster you don’t slow the club down. The whole ‘deceleration’ movement is cool but a bit misleading. I see it in baseball swing talks about how deceleration is bad but we aren’t trying to decelerate the bat or club, we are stopping any forward movement at front heel plant. Very much like they are doing here. Sway kills acceleration and speed.
Could we say that as long as you are shifting your weight ( pressure) forward from p2 ,you cannot release the right arm soon enough as you push up with the left leg and rotate the left shoulder behind you.
If I just rotate, and the clubhead is behind the hands, the dynamics of the pendulum REQUIRE the clubhead to catch up. It's physics. Dahlquist's demo of rotate at 11:35 and claiming the clubhead is staying behind simply cannot happen. It must catch up because it's a pendulum. No argument with vertical forces discussion other than that (I'm a golf idiot, not a physics idiot).
There is no "JUMP" in the golf swing thats misleading - you see no pgatour golfers doing this because they have optimal movement patterns through their respective kinetic chain -Its being sold to amatuers to jump because they have poor kinetic movements patterns, lacking sufficient internal rotation. So far Dana's take on the swing and how to produce speed is by far the best across social media platforms.
@@gregthegoatostertag8579 Jump is the wrong word, they are extending, as in their hips are rising. Intent is way different. When you think of jump you go right for the knees, when you extend you think of hips. Subtle but it is key. The same with the "squat," what they are really doing is re-centering, which lowers the pelvis by about 1-2" but when you tell someone to squat they inherently overdo it.
If you're just talking speed and distance then you have to look at the long drive boys and they are all definitely jumping infact some are airborne at impact, Kyle Berkshire, Owen Meeds, Seb Twaddell, Justin James, all of them produce massive vertical forces probably pushing nearly 3x their own body weight into the ground when compared to only 1.9x for a pga tour pro, but what ever way you look at it they are all jumping to a certain degree
Thank you, Dana, for sharing your knowledge on this subject. I just wish the "Be Better Golf guy" would spend more time LISTENING to what Dana has to say, rather than interrupting Dana when Dana is explaining something. This has been his habit for years and it's really, really annoying! We're hear to listen to Dana, NOT to you! 🙄
Not only do they have the left and right mics switched, there is something weird wth the sound that makes them sound like they are talking into a bucket, especially the guy in white. Someone has been playing with some sound setting that they should not have. I wish I knew more about sound to be helpful instead of just complaining.
@@TomMoore-s2r you wouldn’t want to do a driver fitting and then immediately gain 10 miles an hour. You probably would want to get to your peak speed first?
I have been working on gaining speed and what you were talking about is spot on with what I have found. I pressure left, pressure right then pressure left. The pressure right can’t come early enough, I start the right pressure well before P2. I have also found that letting my wrists hinge really hard in the transition by feeling like I keep them really soft and let the transition set them that is where I get my max speed. I’m now 53 years old and my max speed so far is 124mph with the swing speed radar.
I also agree with feeling like you keep the “A” in your setup, if my hip sways out at all it slows the swing down, I try to actually increase the angle of my right leg by letting the hip turn and slightly straighten the right leg.
Just because my max air swing is 124mph it doesn’t translate to 124mph swing with a ball but it does push it faster than what it was without the training. I have gained around 12 mph since I started training in the summer. I love these types of videos and have always enjoyed Dana’s insight going back to when BM had his golf message forum.
Damn dude I'm 53 and I'm swinging at 96 cruising speed down the middle. Whenever I try to swing harder, I'm all over the place. Do you hit it semi straight or are you spraying it?
@ Those are air swings, I’m about 10mph slower when I put a ball down. When I started working on speed I was just a little over 100 mph, now I’m cruising around 112-114mph, but have more in the tank if accuracy is not needed on the shot. The biggest thing I discovered that helped me was you almost can’t brake early enough on the downswing to get the speed out to the club.
One downside as you probably know being 53 and the joints can get pretty sore when swinging hard, just wish I knew what I know now 30 years ago.
The sound is switched around. Messes with my brain when the sound is in the left ear when the guy on the right is talking and the other way around.
Now that is good! Understood all of it! Appreciate your willingness to be better!
@@cameronross3535 trying!
Woww 😀
Thanks for inviting Dana on this subject.
Very, very precious and new insights for me here !
And congrats for your improvements every year, 118 is 🔥🔥
Great video, love a lot of your stuff. If I could suggest something that would make your videos more enjoyable it would be to interrupt less and let the guest finish their thoughts more often. Like many TV news hosts that are so anxious to get certain questions asked or to blurt out what they are thinking because they are under the misconception they are more interesting than the guest, so often the guest is just about to drop a pearl on us, the climax of a sentence or thought and you interrupt them, taking them off in a whole new direction and throwing cold water on something that was about to generate a real revelation. I've watched dozens of your videos and you do it consistently, but keep honing your craft, become a better interviewer and you'll gain even more traction than you have already.
It will really kick in when you tune into movement of the clubhead around you. Tell yourself that you "have time" and that you are actually trying to stop the handle end of the club dead in its tracks just before impact. This creates patience and forces the upper body to stabilize the club and the more patient you are the more time the club head has to build up speed and force. You should also be "throwing the club into the backswing" he he mentioned. The inconsistency comes into play when you don't keep the point on the top of your ball cap still. It must remain still even if your head makes a small swing like Annika Sorenstam's does. If that point on your ball cap doesn't move, your low point of you swing arc will remain constant and you can literally swing as fast as you want to on a given shot. It takes time for your legs and core to develop enough strength to deal with things when you begin to create more force so that is why you have to accept that for a time your performance will dip before it takes off. This is also why when you noted that the body posture will look line the letter "A" you are on the right path with that observation. Really good video Sir.
So fascinating. Thanks for doing this.
Funny wave pattern in the HM forearm rotation. Is that a sign of an aggressive transition as opposed to a smooth one?
Like Dana's take on make the existing pattern more athletic. I dabbled a little with pulling the shaft hard down in transition to create more lag and sling it last minute. Instant +5 mph increase, but that makes it hard for me to avoid pulling the face open at the same time. i.e. that's changing a swing, not speeding up the existing one.
Imagine if Dana knew how to break the mental blocks. He’s pretty interesting to watch work with people. Usually a good eye and quick changes. The true secret is adding in the elimination of perceived barriers. Of course if your sequence is bad, then maybe work on that first…
Pros can make huge improvements by clearing the mental/energetic blocks. Nobody does it, and it is mind boggling in a world (pro golf) where the differences between players is so small and you have an untapped area of potential.
Keep doing your thing B.
Alan
Would love a follow up on the ‘jump’ piece.
Yeah, it’s like a pulse and pass move. You don’t really let the push continue on for very long you just pulse the jump and then let the Swing pass you and then the swing pulls you into the finish.
Yes can you explain the jump piece or "pulse and pass move"
I play in a lot of scrambles for work and end up going last swinging as hard as I can. Usually end up hitting it more centered and straighter
golf makes no sense sometimes
@@BEBETTERGOLFmakes perfect sense to me... Harder = more energy in the system -> not able to make silly compensations -> you put more energy into club, so the club swings you (tells you where to go) and the body separates much better because of the greater stretch
In scramble the ones hitting before you also make you swing more freely.
The best way I ever heard it explained from a swing catalyst guy is that the top of the swing is the BOTTOM of the squat. your squat is complete at the top of the swing - the squat doesn't start at the top. That is too late.
Do you think the move at p2 to the left is more of a fall onto the left or is it more of a stomp onto the left? Or can it be both ways to different ppl? I’ve heard it described before as a weightless fall onto the left. Is that what you feel?
If your speed changes your equipment might thats why there are soecific shafts for specific speeds.
My lower body barely moves in my swing. Why I've lost so much distance.
So . . . On the backswing, I should feel like I'm falling. On the Downswing, feel like I'm jumping.
Thanks, I'll try this!
Light bulb moment! Thank's a lot.
The Josh Koch/Dana Blueprint is fantastic if anyone is wondering. 🔥🔥🔥
Semantics is always is important or there may be confusion. For example; if you’re trying to speed the club head faster you don’t slow the club down. The whole ‘deceleration’ movement is cool but a bit misleading. I see it in baseball swing talks about how deceleration is bad but we aren’t trying to decelerate the bat or club, we are stopping any forward movement at front heel plant. Very much like they are doing here. Sway kills acceleration and speed.
Could we say that as long as you are shifting your weight ( pressure) forward from p2 ,you cannot release the right arm soon enough as you push up with the left leg and rotate the left shoulder behind you.
Thanks B...
What is the difference between this and early extension? Are you pushing down while somehow keeping in posture? When I jump I extend.
The difference is you're staying in posture and not humping the target line
This reminds me a lot of what Mike Malaska talks about
If I just rotate, and the clubhead is behind the hands, the dynamics of the pendulum REQUIRE the clubhead to catch up. It's physics. Dahlquist's demo of rotate at 11:35 and claiming the clubhead is staying behind simply cannot happen. It must catch up because it's a pendulum. No argument with vertical forces discussion other than that (I'm a golf idiot, not a physics idiot).
For an example, look up the physics of a Trebuchet, a medieval machine for throwing boulders over a castle wall.
There is no "JUMP" in the golf swing thats misleading - you see no pgatour golfers doing this because they have optimal movement patterns through their respective kinetic chain -Its being sold to amatuers to jump because they have poor kinetic movements patterns, lacking sufficient internal rotation.
So far Dana's take on the swing and how to produce speed is by far the best across social media platforms.
JT and Rory don’t jump at it? 😂😂 slow it down when they have their leg extension
@@gregthegoatostertag8579 Jump is the wrong word, they are extending, as in their hips are rising. Intent is way different. When you think of jump you go right for the knees, when you extend you think of hips. Subtle but it is key. The same with the "squat," what they are really doing is re-centering, which lowers the pelvis by about 1-2" but when you tell someone to squat they inherently overdo it.
This is so false
If you're just talking speed and distance then you have to look at the long drive boys and they are all definitely jumping infact some are airborne at impact, Kyle Berkshire, Owen Meeds, Seb Twaddell, Justin James, all of them produce massive vertical forces probably pushing nearly 3x their own body weight into the ground when compared to only 1.9x for a pga tour pro, but what ever way you look at it they are all jumping to a certain degree
This is money!!
"at end of the day" it does come down to TIMING......YUP
Another one ☝️
Thank you, Dana, for sharing your knowledge on this subject. I just wish the "Be Better Golf guy" would spend more time LISTENING to what Dana has to say, rather than interrupting Dana when Dana is explaining something. This has been his habit for years and it's really, really annoying! We're hear to listen to Dana, NOT to you! 🙄
If you compare bryson's swing in the US amateur to now they are a lot different.
good interview, but you interrupted him a lot when he was still talking.
I hope he talks about the gym
Teaching world, long drive techniques.
Learn to jump get vertical
Bro let the coach talk, stop interupting him every 8 seconds to change the flow of the discussion
can barely hear him
Not only do they have the left and right mics switched, there is something weird wth the sound that makes them sound like they are talking into a bucket, especially the guy in white. Someone has been playing with some sound setting that they should not have. I wish I knew more about sound to be helpful instead of just complaining.
yeah its something with the channels because I hear fine but on some devices it comes through weird because he is on the left and I am on the right.
What about starting with the correct driver fitting ? What golfers can afford the new $700 driver ?
@@TomMoore-s2r you wouldn’t want to do a driver fitting and then immediately gain 10 miles an hour. You probably would want to get to your peak speed first?