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!±8± Slow Motion Golf Swing

I make lots of slow motion swings.

Is this helpful? I believe it is. The typical golf swing happens in less than a second. How can you see what you actually do in that amount of time? You cannot.

I make it a big part of my practice to do slow swings so that I can stop in various stages of my swing and "feel" the position. I may simply work on a very abbreviated segment of my swing over and over in slow motion until it feels right . Then I pick up the tempo a bit and repeat again over and over. I continue to speed up only if I am retaining the feel. If I lose it I go back to slow.

Here is an example:One day last week I was trying to develop more club head speed because I wanted to try to add another twenty or so yards to my drive. I knew that my current restriction to that gain was my wrist action at impact. I began taking very slow swings and concentrated on the final 18 inches of my impact zone. I practiced slowly swinging through the impact and watched my hands and wrists, working on my release. I did this over and over in slow motion. Then I began hitting balls with the same abbreviated, slow motion concentrating on the impact. I gradually increased the tempo until half an hour later I felt like I was producing the same positions at high speed. My distance did increase. I'll continue this drill the next few times out until I feel it is automatic.

The fact is that I noticed and corrected several things that I never could have seen or felt at high speed.

Try doing slow motion swings when you practice and you will find it helpful.