Fantastic Video. You do such a great job explaining the concept in very easy way to digest and learn. Going to try this from now on in my practice sessons.
Cerebral yet practical and digestible advice here. Supercharged content, Matt. Awesome stuff, makes me want to get a better picture of my swing action using the mats. I agree that the technical side often outweighs plain speed (unless you just have it in your pocket already). Cheers!
This video is mindblowing, I am amazed at how huge an effect this method had on Matt's swing. Those numbers are totally ridiculous and well beyond what I thought was possible. Truly impressive. Groundbreaking and game changing! Awesome stuff.
Your feed recently popped up and really liking it. Years ago, spent some some time training to drive my left hip back instead of just pushing up to improve my hip action/clearing. That reduced my early extension (goat hump) and created more SS with what felt like less effort. You're probably the only guy I've seen talk about it and demonstrate how effective this is.
Matt, In the early 2000's I studied Tiger's swing and my biggest takeaway was what you're demonstrating here. I didn't have the video to support you have but knew from how things felt that I was doing exactly what you naturally do. I studied Tiger's positions and developed feels for the changes I needed. After 18 years away from consistent golfing I've had to re-learn everything and at 56 yrs old my body quickly lets me know when I'm doing things wrong (many aches and pains).
Love it. When I initially started with speed training, I developed bad tendencies...in an effort of speed. I've been trying ever since to get back to before levels.
Matty, thank you for all the great content! Ive mentioned this in a comment on some older txg vids but our swings are pretty similar. Im a lefty also, same speed as well. I fight lateral slide of pelvis in downswing. Trial hip fires way to hard, i get tilted too early and basically stall flip. Battling over draws and pulls/pull hooks for a few years. I feel like maybe some band work reaieting the bad motion might be the cure! Slow swing with a ball i can do the proper motion. Once i add power, trail hip fires into ball 😂.
The tight draw pattern with that lead leg action is a thing of beauty. It's nearly my exact issue. And I find when I do the proper pattern it feels so wrong lol. But on video it's way better. Just used to slowing to save it. And when I played 70 times a year before kids and was a scratch to 2 handicap it was fine. But now with kids and playing time is drastically less it's harder to do.
I struggle and have been working on this exact thing. Too much continual lateral movement and no matter what I did or how much extra effort i put into it I couldn't get club speed up even after some speed training and a bunch of work in the gym. Discovered this a couple weeks ago with a great coach and saw an immediate uptick in speed when I do it right. Still working through it and getting it to feel normal. Always hard to undo years of a bad habit.
I have the same resistance band set up at home. I repurpose my Tethrd Phantom tree saddle and attach the band to that instead of my belt loop. You should look into getting one.
Crossfield and Dr Scott Lynn do some great stuff on this with forceplates. Would love to see you do some work with them. With how much speed you already have, would be super cool to see how much more they could get out of you!
Hey Matt, love the look of this drill as moving forward is something I struggle with. Where I practice I can't fix a band Infront can you suggest an alternative drill to give the same feel? To preempt the question, yes I have lessons and yes my coach has pointed out this fault.
First part was big for me. I've only heard about swing catalyst from people who talk about "ground force," and they always talk about the "verticle force." I had a hard time taking that seriously, because I knew from experience, theory, and proprioception that the forces that they call "horizontal force" and "torque" surely are also important. Turns out, Matt confirms this, and he's definitely smarter than almost everyone else in the golf space.
This is a great video... I have the same issue, way too much lateral, hip gets over my lead foot and then I can't really rotate well. I think I will try the drill with the object outside my knee and see if that helps
I do this type of resistance band work with my patients all the time. Pull them into their weakness so their body can resist it and build up strength where necessary. Smart way to incorporate this concept into the golf swing. Conversely, you can use resistance bands to help in the direction they need to feel so their body knows what it's not doing correctly.
Maybe the “rally cap” needs to come out when you go into pursuing a speed goal mode Matt. Impressive gains. My dispersion has cleaned up to acceptable levels. Want to tighten it up a bit more and then move to getting some more speed involved. Definitely some stuff to keep in mind while sliding my goals to increasing distance some.
Hey Matt, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and repurpose your long videos into highly engaging shorts? I can also make high CTR thumbnails for your channel
Sequencing and kinematics are everything. To piggyback on your comment at the end of the video, when you "try" to swing harder, what's happening is that you are engaging muscles in your arms. Whenever you engage a muscle group, your sense of balance will force you to subconsciously move other muscles in the opposite direction in order to stay balanced. So when you try to "swing harder" with your arms, your torso will actually engage in the opposite (read: wrong!) direction, causing you to slow down and get out of sequence. Conversely, when your body movement is fluid, there is no countervailing muscle engagement, which enables you to swing faster. Essentially: when you "swing harder", you're actually fighting yourself, it's just that the muscles that fight you aren't the ones you think they are.
Impressive speed - wow! Fun to watch. What would you use as a trigger to incorporate this same movement pattern into your swing if you are on the range (or on course) without the resistance? Do you just feel yourself press down hard with your lead foot to initiate your backswing?
@@GolfLiberty Thanks for the update! Similar stuff to what I'm working on, reducing horizontal. The hard part is when you do that but don't increase vertical/rotational you end up just swinging a bit slower till you figure it out!
Damn, man.... that's some speed bro. Very cool content, not the usual BS all over YT. Speed training has to go hand in hand with actually delivering the club head to a ball.
With irons, you only need enough horizontal movement foward to move the bottom of the swing just in front of the ball. Once you are at this point you must "throw the brakes on". This allows you to release the clubhead and creates the clubhead speed.
Watching that front side sequence is going to help me so much. I can generate a lot of club head speed but it is taxing. would love to be able to do it with proper sequencing and hit it more consistently. Where did you get the band? Thank you
How would you correct someone dumping their arms to their side and almost behind themselves in the downswing? My backswing is finally in a really fantastic position, but my previous compensation was trying to combat the over the top move because of my backswing being in the wrong position. Now that my backswing is good,the move to still drop my arms to my side and leave them behind myself (instead of keeping them in front of myself and in good positions) still happens. It’s a difficult adjustment so would love any feedback or drill!
I have days where I’m 96 with my 7i and days where I’m 101. How do you keep consistent? I don’t workout really, so I’m sure that has something to do with it. I’m working on improving my stretching routine to help this.
Would love to see you collaborate with Mike Adams or Terry Rowels! It looks like lateral movement may be your power "superpower" and something to emphasize!
You are achieving proper "internal rotation" what we call "post" in the golf swing. Being able to properly "internally rotate" instead of this "jumping" that TPI advocates is sufficient. Internally rotating is the foundation and crucial for efficient shift of GRF. Matt if you can be stronger through your right internal obliques this will help in internally rotating naturally. The internal obliques help for rotation of ribcage as they help to initiate, accelerate and slow down of the golf swing. A symptom of this - looks like you pull the handle which could delay how efficient you internally rotate. If you had the left arm elbow in front the body instead of behind as you pivoted 110 would be a cake walk. Your pivot should release the arms right through the ball. A lot of golfers cant achieve this because their right and left halves are out of sync. Amateurs cant get into their right and struggle to get back into their left side - that is fault of not properly internally rotating. If you don't have connection (GRF) and naturally suffer to open up efficiently causing the shoulders to be overactive: this all is direct symptom of not using internally obliques which would cause you to overly use the left arm by default - when you have strong internal obliques your arms are relaxed and feel like a whip. Thus speed increase by default. TPI advocates a push from front of lead foot backwards to simulate jumping motion, which causes you to spin out. For high handicappers this can cause a lot of shit to go wrong. It is easy to misinterpret - they also base a lot of their findings on the measurement* of tour pro's but those tour pros have achieved their own success without them. So you tell me what's really good.
So there are a couple factors to go along with your hypothesis Matt… In your initial swing you have turned your chest quite a bit less than when your coiling away from the makeshift cord which allows you to actually have more width a bigger chest turn and more time to actually turn out of the way of the shot… from down the line I would bet your lead arm on the swing with much more lateral force is higher which is also caused by less pelvic turn and less loading of the trail hip which will make you slide more to hit the inside of the golf ball which your brain k owes how to do cuz your a good player…. If you were to make the same backswing in the second swing as you did in the first and then try to use the ground the same as the second you would have hit it worse and probably chunk hooked it…. Just my 2cents but might be worth a dollar
Interesting. Just the other day, the great teacher Tom Saguto of SagutoGolf made a video on this entitled You MUST Do This to Play Great Golf - End of Story. The thumbnail to that video says Break the Wall!
Crazy that it really looks like the same if not less effort than the first swing. Do you feel like you're actively pushing into the ground with force or just trying to resist the band?
Looks like launch crept up and AoA decreased on the swings with the less lateral movement, which seems to make sense. Did it move too much in that direction though (i.e., is -3 AoA with 7i too little?)
Matt: dont watch this and go do this right away... Me: definitely doing this right now! Feels great! 😂 I'm also a horizontal pusher so worked a new muscle there 😂 ill throw it in the pre-round warm-up tomorrow too
Not that I don’t agree with you, but isn’t this kind of like standing up or thrusting the hips toward the ball versus what I’ve been told is but going backwards
Are you trying to feel the motion being smooth even tho the speed? I have a tendency to be snappy/aggressive when trying to implement this type of movement, and I can feel it in my knee after to many reps and that to me means it's not the correct way to do it.
How would I show that in a short video? Accuracy measured by greens in regulation would take many rounds of golf to quantify. I explained the type of common miss I get with my old pattern, and how the swing change helps me start the ball more on line.
Seriously, is there a functional purpose of swinging a 7i at 105 and carrying it 210yrds? Many people will probably be working on Driving it farther and having a short 9i or even GW into the green, which certainly makes more sense and easier to achieve, then to break your back and try ripping an iron 2 clubs longer than what is necessary.
I'm working on a technical change to the swing. I don't recommend people do most drills using a driver, at least initially. Has nothing to do with trying to hit my irons farther independently of my driver, the technique will add sequencing and speed across the bag
I mean, the functional purpose of being able to repeatedly and “effortlessly” swing a 7i 105 and carry it 210 yards means approach shots from 175 180 are being hit with a 9 iron. Or a short par 4 that needs precise ball placement is two mid irons rather a 3 iron or wood then a 6 iron in. And well yeah this speed translates to other clubs obviously
