Follow Through Power In Golf? Accelerate & Gain Control
The follow through is truly the bread and butter of consistent, adequately powerful golf. It puts you on top of your motion if you will since it allows you to complete the journey.
Follow Through Intentions affects Impact
The mind and your intentions are kind of strange in the golf swing. Ben Hogan’s statement “do the opposite of what you think” holds more merit than you think.
In the downswing you need to act much sooner than you think to achieve the desired results. For instance, I release my golf club much earlier than you would think to actually make it happen in time.
The follow through works the other way around. You intent your actions after the ball and it affects the zone before the intentions. Strange right?
Follow Through Speed Acceleration
Whatever you wish to do in the follow through can actually affect your speed. It works roughly like this – It takes you downswing input speed and accelerates it.
My preferred way is to think about the follow through as a centripetal hand move that makes both club and body react. It’s a the core of my teaching and it involves that you perceive your power system as mainly a big swing arc and make it dominant to your body’s reactions.
Follow Through Feelings – Putting You in Charge
Ever target practiced throwing rocks at something? Well if you haven’t it kind of works like this. If you just through without any finalization and focus of the throw you’ll be very inaccurate. If you aim your attention to the finalization of the throw and zero in on the target you actually create much less dispersion and way more accuracy.
But here’s the thing. A golf swing isn’t like throwing a rock because we have a tool in our hands. The finalization of the “throw” in golf is to finalize the clubs journey instead of getting your hands towards the target like in a throw. Do you see the difference?
The more I can focus on finalizing my motion (with follow through intentions), the more consistency I can create in the motion. Consistency in the motion = Consistency in shot making.
It puts me at the top of my motion so to speak.
The follow through intentions of the old greats took somewhere along the lines of ten years to understand and I teach it in the FMM Project.
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