[Applause] Okay uh we just actually wanted to take a moment Jamie and I were actually just talking behind the scenes and we were saying um thank you to Derek as well as John and Craig and Doug for putting together such an amazing presentation it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen
Before and we know that’s something uh near dear to all of your hearts so thank you very much for that um we’d also like to thank um Randy Bill hbert and Bryce sver from the scpga as well as the teaching committee for putting together the beautiful book that all of you
Received earlier so let’s give them a round of applause please Fitness has become an increasingly essential component in our sport um which we have seen firsthand with our stable of touring professionals that play out of Virginia country club it’s something that they’re all working on every day
Which leads us to introduce our next speaker Leo Rooney is the Chief Operating Officer of urban golf performance it’s a One-Stop shop for golfers of any level to enhance their golf games health and physical fitness with personalized guidance Leo grew up playing National level table tennis in Stockholm Sweden and was an nc2a
Academic All-American at Cal Baptist University where he played on the men’s golf team following his collegiate career he played professionally and competed at the highest level in Long driving competitions he came to Urban golf performance as a fitness trainer in 2016 and currently oversees all locations in all aspects from recruiting
To managing promoting and programming he has coached and trained players on the PGA and LPGA tours including Colin morawa and Lilia Vu as well as many Elite Juniors today we will be fortunate to hear him speak on his 333 method and how to enhance your golf game through
Physio please join us in welcoming Leo Rooney up to the stage all right does this work one two one2 can hear me okay great well thank you so much for the introduction my name is Leo Rooney um grew up just outside Stockholm playing table tennis and golf and soccer and I
Was probably best at table tennis but then golf took over I have a a strong theory on table tennis for golf but that’s for a different talk um I grew up you know playing golf um and I don’t know if this is going to work I have about 100 clicks so we’ll
See how that goes um so right now I am running ugp together with a great team of 50 people um after uh hard when I don’t see this so I played both in college and and professionally I was recruited to come play in Riverside just an hour from here
Um 12 years ago so I came over here to play college golf and in college I started studying exercise physiology and got really into the body spending a lot of time in the lab figuring out um how can I combine my two biggest fat passions Fitness and
Golf and so when my playing career ended I started working with golf full-time training them figuring out how to improve their performance um and I also started to coach a little bit so I was a hybrid coach I did both coaching and fitness and so the goal
Today is to talk to you about how training can impact golf performance and also a little bit about the swing and Body Connection and making sure that we collaborate with coaches and trainers and fos together to set up the best plan for each player so Urban golf performance we’re
Based here in Southern California it was started by m Todd in 2013 so we’ve been around for 10 years we have a team of 50 people now working as teams in each location so we have coaches trainers Recovery Specialists fitters Builders mental coaches now we also have a tour
Department um so seven departments Under One Roof working together with each player so at ugp it’s all about the team not the individual so we help each player as a team and we work together instead of working individually with each player we work with any player so from complete beginners I’ve never touched
The club to Major winners like Lilia Wu Allison Corpus or col morawa and so as you can see that’s our Santa Monica location there each location has about 12 to 14 team members working together so we all dress the same we work on the same team regardless
Of our role we try to learn as much as we can about each department so that we can help the player the best way possible that’s what we believe will create the best results helping the Tour player was never really the goal of ugp it was to create an experience in golf performance
That was nothing like anything else over the years we got a better and better team to to the point where we started to work with better players uh we started with training the US SLA men’s golf team in 2017 um and then we started helping Colin in
2018 and so now we have 18 players or so on our tour roster helping them um perform better training them treating them coaching them uh we actually are now traveling full-time on tour with our PJ tour players Ryan who’s actually here he travel us full-time with our PG tour
Players uh we’ve had a pretty fun year with three majors on the women’s side and Kurt winning uh at Bay Hill um so that has been growing and growing but all we care about is creating the best possible experience for every single player that comes through the door it doesn’t matter who
They are or what they’ve done previously so the 333 model So today we’re going to go over the three basically fundamental topics that we talk about at a ug when it comes to training so the big three are the fundamentals of the fitness programs at
Ugp the three main goals is why we train and the three planes of motion is how we train so let’s jump into it the big three is a concept that we came up with maybe seven eight years ago um this is nothing new this is not nothing groundbre
Um but one question that I love to ask and it’s a great thought experiment for I think any coach is what are some of the universal truths that we believe everybody can agree on uh me and Mac have a podcast and we usually ask this question to coaches is there one thing
That let’s say this room of coaches could agree on grip lowo is there one un universal truth in golf coaching does anybody have the courage to raise their hand all right imp impact in what way impact yeah actually Carl weled that was probably the best explanation of a
Universal truth potentially but if but you see an argument for any type of different visual or style of swinging the golf club about there but it’s a great question to ask yourself what are your top three Universal truths in your coaching and the way I did this
Was a lot of times when we work with golfers we have to answer a question about anything with it depends depends on the player it depends on the person depends on the background but what if we can’t say it depends what if we’re not allowed to say that what do we
Do what type of training program would you put a hundred people on that you would never meet or never talk to let’s say you could only send them a letter what drill would you send them what concept would you try to teach them uh these are 100 individuals
And I think that’s a great question to ask yourself to see what you what you care about what your biases are in coaching and this is what we did and we really looked at the body and it was clear that the hip was very important it was clear that the
Trunk was important and the relationship between the hip and the trunk in this presentation we’re going to call a t-spine but it’s the trunk so I would encourage everyone all the coaches in here to ask that question what what are those top three that you would put in your
Coaching go for it athletic athletic fundamentals athletic fundamentals yeah how to throw a ball it’s not bad it’s not bad I don’t think we got a single similar or same answer from over 50 episodes on our podcast from any coach so it becomes sometimes arbitrary to
Coach and I’m sure you feel that as well you know because if you go to 10 different coaches you probably with the same player you might get 10 different prescriptions so we track all our fitness assessments so we do 22 tests and we have assessed probably well over
1500 players but this data set is well over thousand so what were the most common physical disruptors so we do those 22 tests to see how far away are you from your physical potential we just want to our goal is just to make sure that you can play at
Your potential so that we don’t slow you down in getting better at golf the most common disruptors are unfortunately also the most important so hip 78% X Factor which is the relationship between hip and trunk and the separation between the two and then t-spine or trunk rotation and when we talk about
The big three we don’t talk only about Mobility we talk about function we talk about Mobility stability control coordination and strength so if we look at see if I can go back to Rory can’t there we go so to go over that as you can see
Rory has one of the highest or biggest X Factor stretches in the world so if you’ve seen Rory live he’s not very tall but arguably one of the best drivers of the ball um maybe of all time eventually we’ll see but hits it really far too why
Because he has has a big X Factor stretch there’s other variables at play but you see how much rotation he gets in the upper body in the trunk and the reason it’s it’s called X Factor is because you see the separation between the hip and the trunk that’s it creates
An X if you look from above and then the hip as a golfer we need a lot of hip mobility to function well in the gos because we rotate a lot so so those are the big three those are the lowest hanging fruits those are that that’s what we found could improve
Those 100 people if we couldn’t talk to them we would give them a program with the big three and just leave them and hopefully they get better and let’s talk a little bit about the big three like improving it will it actually improve your golf game because that’s our
Goal and why is it important to work on the big three so if we start with the hip for example there’s a lot of high forces in the gos wi so we have the fastest object in sports I think the long drivers are up uh at 250
Or something crazy now um and the and you know the ball is the fastest in sports and the you’re swinging something faster than any anything else in sports as well but but we don’t the culturing golf is not really acting like it we don’t really warm up we don’t really
Prepare our body to do that why because it happens so quickly so the acceleration time in the downswing is less than a second so you don’t actually feel the forces that are happening that quickly so we have no idea whether the club is controlling you or if you are controlling the club
And I’m actually going to demonstrate who who in here hits it over 300 yards all right come up here come up here all right so what’s your name brenon Brennon brenon yeah nice to meet you so with us we have a 79 here but um the forces involved in the gos swing are
Pretty high so when you measure this we’re just going to use a simple number if you swing you know 115 20 milph there’s at least 100 pounds of force that you’re creating in the club so we’re going to talk about impact position here so Brandon if you hit your seven iron that
Way so set up Jesus well how big hands um so if Brandon lets go of the Club at impact at high speeds where is that club going to go this way right so the directional force is this way and let’s just say it’s 100 lbs sometimes it’s more sometimes it’s less
But imagine 100 pounds of force pulling the club this way so I’m going to do I’m going to pull it probably 20 lbs not even close to what it actually is and I want you to get into impact position okay I’m going to pull first go back
Okay so I’m going to pull make sure you can hold it stay back the big grip go come on you’re strong Brandon come on there you go all right so what do you what are you sensing what are you feeling in your body to stay back to
Resist that Force going this way feet feet what else hand okay what else in your body hip hip all right so the core the hip everything is turning on but the only reason he feels that is because we’re doing it slowly speed will mask that it happens
Like that so what so we have to create Force this way to resist that correct so this club is pulling him this way and this hip needs to be strong and mobile enough to stay back and resist all that Force going this way so another thing
For example is at 100 miles hour we need grip strength we need 88 pounds of grip strength if we don’t have that grip strength what’s going to happen well sometimes if you set up this is where we’re going to get into it later we have to ask ourself is it
Hardware or software if you’re a coach you’re working a lot on software if you’re a trainer you work on Hardware so if the hardware let’s say his grip pressure is not strong enough at 100 mph what’s going to happen to the club well and sometimes the body goes
Towards the ball we call that early extension why is that so common because not everybody as strong as Brandon okay but what happens if we don’t have the grip pressure well sometimes the swing plane can get high so hands come up high and if you work a
Lot with track men and know the numbers Pros have a lower swing plane amateurs have a higher swing plane than thank you so much appreciate it um so we have to assess whether it’s Hardware or software and we have to understand that we’re creating a lot of forces in the gos
Swing and so that’s how the big three can transfer into the gos swing improve the gos swing because if you’re not strong and mobile and stable enough in the hip you’re not going to be able to create force in that opposite direction now a lot of times it’s both
Hardware and software so the coach and the trainer need to work together because there’s not always the body’s fault and it’s not always the swing’s fault we we have to assess but if you look at Rory I don’t know how well you see the screens you see just how much he is
Creating separation between upper and lower body and for that hip to not move towards the ball there’s a a lot of strength and mobility and control required to do that at that speed and we obviously need to kind of show you how to work on it in training
There’s a lot of different ways to improve hip mobility for example so I’m just going to show you three examples because I want you to leave here with some actual uh takeaways things that you can start doing right away yourself cuz you we at ugp we’ll do this in the bay
Like we don’t have to do it in the gym we can do it right there in the bay we can start working on hip mobility and we can see is it improving is it transfering into the swing I’m just doing some simple 9090 here if you never worked on internal hip
Rotation when you do it you’re going to feel that you’ve never done it okay and you need internal hip rotation to turn in here and turn in there if you don’t have it you’re going to have compensations elsewhere in the swing t-spine again there’s a lot of
Different ways to do this this is just a half kneeling spiraling rotation so there’s nothing stopping you from doing this in the bay and then see how they feel after that maybe their back swing will feel better maybe they feel a little bit looser and X
Factor this is our level One X Factor keeping the upper body still and rotating the lower body and the thing with the big three you never stop working on it it’s not something that once you’ve passed the test okay we’re done we have have to continue to work on it a lot so
Here whoa 17 steps forward um we got to go back to uh quite a far am I doing that or okay can you go to uh after the videos so basically keep going once we have learned how to control the X Factor we have to continue to improve it how that
Happen so here’s Colin uh you doing our level four X Factor exercise so Colin is a very Advanced mover so he can do this movement um but but we’re essentially working on separating upper and lower body and he makes it look is pretty hard and he’s a great example of you
Know back in 2018 when we start working with him he was in college and he didn’t have very good hip mobility he didn’t have very good neck Mobility there was a lot of things we could improve and so we did the 22 tasks we figure out how can we
Improve and that’s our job as a as a trainer that’s all we can do doesn’t mean he’s going to get become a better golfer we can’t guarantee that so the big three it’s the low hanging fruit it’s the fundamentals you can trace almost any swing fall back to the viig three so
Whether that’s over the top early extension hanging back sway slide they usually Trace back to one of the three now we’re going to get into the three main goals of golf Fitness so we want to figure out like why why do golfers need to train like why why is that even important it’s
Becoming more and more popular and systematic but it’s still somewhat new so the first goal for us at ugp and this is just our philosophy there’s a lot of other philosophies but we want to ensure that physical disruptors does not slow down golf development that’s our
Only goal is to make sure that the coach and their swing is not limited by their body so it’s not necessarily about hitting it really far or getting super fit or a six-pack it’s about making sure that golf development can happen so how do we Define golf Fitness
What is golf Fitness there’s a lot lot of different definitions of golf Fitness if you look at the word Fitness it can be defined as the quality of being able to fulfill a task what is the task in this case well it’s not Fitness it’s actually golf
Right so we want to figure out how can we prepare them for the task how can we prepare the player for the task so we want to address the physical disruptors allow them to perform the task more efficiently over time so if your body is the hardware your brain is the
Software so as coaches you’re working a lot on the software how to work the hardware better but sometimes the hardware is limiting you as a coach so we have to be really good at okay we have an issue is a hardware or is a software because if we start working on
Only software and the hardware is not good or learn a little bit enough yourself to figure out how to improve those basic things those basic physical needs that you need to play a good golf so software Hardware very important a quick note here because I know it’s happening more and more more
In the golf industry so for example if we’re going to talk about enabling golf performance by limiting physical disruptors this is Kurt kitama we started working with him last year and um this was his um uh single leg low stability test okay so one of the longest hitters on
Tour but needs accuracy okay so we’re just testing how’s this knee tracking how stable is it and his one of his main goals was get getting more accurate he was hitting at 330 but it wasn’t always straight and it’s harder to hit it straight when you hit it long
So we started working on lower body stability right because the test showed us that he needs it and he needs it bad this was not long ago so now kurck can obviously do it no problem he can probably do it with a 45 pound dumbbell as well he’s very strong so here’s the
Question you saw the test and now you see the result of the training is that going to guarantee him getting more accurate maybe you can’t guarantee anything in golf there’s too many variables so as trainers we can never say if you do this you’re going to start
Playing better or if you improve your big three you’re going to shoot lower scores we can never do that because there’s a you know hundreds of variables in the score at the end of the day so all we can do though is control what we can’t control so we we
Want to do all the tests and we want to improve all the things that give us the best opportunity to play at our potential why would you leave that on the table when you don’t have to so just quickly on that just because you improve the hardware doesn’t mean
That the software is now going to start using that new hardware so Chris KO is Kurt’s coach we have to communicate really closely with Chris to ensure that the software and Hardware is actually communicating because sometimes you can improve something in the hardware but the software is not running that program
Yet and it sometimes it never will and that’s okay but what we can do is we want to control all the variables that we can so a quick note on on kind of when golf coaching merges with with Fitness training and you’ve seen this probably more and more on on social
Media um where a coach will start to maybe help the player rotate the hips or resist the hips or getting a little bit more physical with the player and I just want to talk a little bit about that because I think it’s great that coaches are getting more uh knowledgeable they
Start to understand Anatomy there some really fancy words being thrown out from coaches now um and a lot of the stuff that you see is basically arnt which is reactive neuromuscular training so if you have a student that wants to rotate the hips more what do we
Do well sometimes you’ll see the coach help the hips rotate but what does that do so in r&t training we actually want to feed the fault okay not the opposite um let’s let’s actually bring up someone here real quick for a demonstration who has great balance in
Their gos Wing you come out here real quick so very simply this won’t take long thank thank you for doing it no problem set up with the club there okay that’s in that’s fine yep so the grip I know we got to work on that so if we if for example he’s moving
Forward and he’s too much on his toes if we want to push him what direction should we push him to correct the fault this way right so that’s the fault we feed the fault okay let’s say we need more hip rotation and you see someone here helping the hip well that’s
Creating the opposite of what we want right because now in order to get more hip rotation we should actually resist the rotation right that’s it thank you so much okay nailed it so by the way if anybody has questions while I go please raise your hand because I’m I’m totally fine
Interrupting and answering so we want to make sure that if we’re going to get involved you know make sure you feed the fault to get the correct um movement because it’s super super powerful very powerful r&t training is I mean if you’re starting messing with the shaft you get very very powerful results
But if you’re doing in the wrong direction it doesn’t do much good so we don’t want to help the fault because it could worsen and the movement so the second goal is making sure that injuries does not stop golf demment obviously if we’re trying to improve the task an injury would
Basically stop you from practicing so we want to make sure that we address anything in the body that can potentially get overworked or stressed so we can’t improve our task if we’re injured can you prevent injury the research says basically no we have to just get as strong as possible
Mobile functional as possible to give ourselves the best chance to not get injured but we can’t completely remove the the the risk of injury for example the big three if we go back to that in a like for a second if the hips are tight the hips
Should be mobile t-spine is tight the t-spine should be mobile what’s in between those two things L back the low back okay so low back will now pay for the price because this can’t move and this can’t move and the modern lifestyle of sitting driving desktop watching TV
Whatever these hips uh these joints that are supposed to be mobile or now not that’s why and now we’re trying to swing at 100 miles hour around our body and the the and your joints don’t move you’re going to have issues so the the short answer we can really
Truly prevent injury but we can make sure we prepare the hardware as well as we can right and make it as functional as possible our last goal is to enable golf development with less swing thoughts or at least less internal swing thoughts so how does that relate to
Fitness because it sounds kind of like a coaching thing and that is true but we can actually improve something physically so you don’t have to think about it over the ball and this is a body of research that I feel very strongly about um attentional focus research that um
Michelle Michelle wolf uh started in the late 90s at UNLV amazing research that is still not mainstream basically and what’s cool is she did a lot of the research on golf in the beginning so we’re spoiled there but what basically the research says is the further away your attention and focus is
From the body the better the performance and the closer the attention the focus is on your body parts or body movements the worst the performance that’s just G generalized so we can actually make sure that we can like be over the ball and feel athletic and not have to think about rotating the
Hips or or keeping the head still or whatever you’re working on like there’s a lot of Swing thoughts that are ineffective but we know what flow happens when internal chatter is low so not only do we use the principle of attention in our training at ugp because really what it’s about is how
You cue an exercise or how you cue a drill but it’s also how you cue the the golfer when coaching so if we have a lot of internal chatter if we’re thinking about our body a lot it’s proven that we have more co-contractions so the goal is to automate athletic
Movement and by the way in the late ’90s when this re research came out they didn’t really understand why did the performance go up so much when we focus on something outside the body and then they started doing research on with EMG sensors and the simplest study that explains this pretty
Well I think is a basketball study and it was just free throws they put EMG sensors on the bicep and the tricep and one group was instructed to focus on the hoop essentially the target one group was um coached to focus on the wrist movement and this was the first time we
Really started to understand why is an external focus better for performance well they saw that the group that was focusing on the wrist movement now had co-contractions between bicep and tricep so what that is is when we extend the bicep need to relax but when you have internal chatter
They contract at the same time and that creates a choppy athletic movement so imagine then the biomechanical party that golf is and how many co- contraction that can happen in theory all over the place if we have one internal thought that hijacks the whole system again going back how can training
Improve this well you can improve the body the hardware so you don’t have to so the coach don’t have to talk so much about the body a lower neuromuscular interference is even more important under pressure when we’re under pressure we want to make sure that um we’re in flow we have an
External focus when Steph Curry is shooting three free or three-pointers he’s not thinking about his angle of his elbow I’ll tell you that but in golf we do it quite a bit this is uh JH Taylor he won five British opens and this is what I love about history is
They knew this stuff back then I’m certain that there can be no freedom and no natural swing in hitting the golf ball if the mind is occupied by instructing the body I mean essentially a very long time ago he summarized what the research was going to eventually show
Now to our last part here the three planes of motion we live in three dimensions I I think you know that um we actually happen to play golf in 3D as well but is Fitness done in 3D traditional weight training any type of Fitness training is it done in
3D well a lot of times it’s not so let’s talk about the planes first and then we’ll get into it so in exercise science we have three planes of motions is how we measure movement the sagittal plane is basically up and down the frontal is side to side and
Transverse it’s rotational so I’m going to show you three different exercises so you really understand and clearly can see the three planes of motion this is Marcus he trains Lilia Vu and Bo hostler um an incredible trainer and he’s simply doing an offset kettle bell lunge but he’s working
Primarily in the sagittal plane because he’s going up and down now he’s doing a side lunge working side to side that’s the frontal plane and then transfers very simple now he’s rotating right so when we train it would make sense if we train in all three planes
Right because that’s how we play golf it’s also how we are kind of functioning in life as well unfortunately most of Fitness is done in one plane so whether you’re cycling biking those are the same running squatting push-ups situps what plane sag of plane all right
So that’s uh you know a little bit of a problem when you’re not a cyclist or you’re not a runner because you’re not really working in all the planes that you’re playing your sport in so we live in 3D we play golf in 3D so we should train in 3D so
Um can we go back a couple so we want to make sure that every training session has all three planes it’s simply the most logical thing to do um and of course the sagittal plane is important but we do it so much anyways we are really ignoring the frontal plane and the
Transverse and you can make a good argument that in golf those are maybe the two most important planes single plane movers become one-dimensional players I don’t know if you’ve seen like a crossfitter swinging Golf Club it’s usually not beautiful but if we look at the next
Slide if we look at tiger back swing where is he going side right he’s loading up to his right side there’s a lot more forces than it looks and then he’s going violently to the other side side side side and I think we all know that we’re rotating
Quite a bit in the gos s so the primary two planes of motion frontal and transfers is key in our training we got to make sure that we get that in because a lot of times people are you know not sufficient especially in the frontal plane if they’re golfers
They usually can rotate okay because they’ve done it their whole life but the frontal plane is not good and you see all kinds of problems in the golf swing because of that so to to summarize the 333 model The Big Three the fundamentals really being able to assess the
Hip the trunk and the relationship between the two and understanding that it doesn’t have to be that difficult you as a coach can actually get into it start working on it and and see the improvements just for yourself and why not do some of the movements while you’re teaching them
You you know you can do that easily these are simple Mobility movements the three main goals of golf Fitness this is why we train we want to make sure we understand why how it can impact your golf and basically the cost of not doing it as
Well and then the three planes of motion really how we train making sure we create well-rounded functional um at you know athletes because the gos swing again such a powerful move we need to prepare the body for the movement that is literally our goal so if we’re not preparing the
Body then the coach will have a challenge to train the software to run that Hardware uh efficiently that is my time and um thank you very much [Applause] have for me yeah are you simar top so I’ve gone through TPI yeah and uh you know TPI are pioneers in our in our
Space so you know I know Dave and Greg really well and um so I’ve gone through TPI and love what they’ve done for I mean I probably wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for TPI right um what they’ve done for for Fitness in golf is unbelievable so um taking and stealing
Ideas from everyone I think if that was the question another yeah you know we we got four locations now we’re we’re building out a fifth location in Austin Texas right now um we are going to build 10 Loc in the next 5 years and so we’re always looking to grow and we are
Applying in a way what TPI created but we’re actually opening the locations and and doing what they taught and continuing what they started um and so um yeah if that answers your question yeah can you give us a couple different examples of some of the screens that you do
Yeah yeah so like for the big three for example because this you know a big takeway from today um you can literally simply just sit down and make sure that the knees are together and see how far you can rotate both ways I mean this is
A very basic TPI test um X Factor you can you basically check if they can rotate lower body without moving this by the way basically almost 100% of golfers will fail one of the three so the hardware is is a problem and if you if you stand and look at it
Like a charity event with 140 golfers hitting if you’re used to looking at golf swings all day you as coaches or trainers if you start looking and you’re like is it Hardware or software a lot of times it’s both but you can see that the path of the club is
Determined by the hardware and the software and then you can add genetics a little bit but that literally creates the path of the club that is what makes up how you swing the golf club and that is that will be their GNA like their DNA you can’t really almost
Change it you have to just improve it because their DNA is determin how you’re going to swing that club um and then the hip I mean TPI does a lower quarter test where you want to make sure you can go past 65 degrees we T we do a lot of other different tests
On the hip but that’s a simple one to do right so making sure you can get to 65 degrees here so those are the three tests that would be for the big three any other questions yeah Tenn versus oh I’ve never seen anybody go from let’s
Say a beginner to like five handicap in two years or go from 20 to a scratch in two years unless they played any like one of the racket sports hockey baseball or golf when they grew up so that means that sport history really matters I don’t think I would
Have been a great golfer without table tennis so so you learn spin Dynamics and because the paddle is so close to your hand you understand face control you also learn spin Dynamics right there’s a lot of spin in table tennis so you have to learn how to put
Spin on a ball and learn those types of Dynamics so hand eye coordination the list goes on but um you know I heard boy talk earlier today I love him I strongly believe that you know developing Junior golfers we have to make sure that they also play some other sports and if you
Want them to get really good at golf uh table tennis is a great sport I mean you can have any racket sport but really the transfer is pretty clear and it’s very very powerful so if you have someone doing gymn gymnastics and golf gymnastics is not going to be good for
Golf I mean there’s some sports are truly not good for golf um so because a lot of the Field Sports football basketball they teach you to not separate because you’re moving around like this right you don’t you don’t really do like this for example so that’s that’s my theory on on
Table tennis but yeah it’s and also it doesn’t have to be serious you know you just learn how to play it and get into it to learn those spin Dynamics to get hand coordination so you know and if you started Golf later in life why not reverse
Engineer and try and expedite your golf development by starting with table tennis because you have to like in order to get good at golf fast it’s so incredibly difficult so you have to do everything you can to condition your software to get good so you can’t so
There tricks to that you can reverse engineer so if you play some table tennis just a little bit on the side I believe there’s no research on this but I believe you can improve faster in the golf game there’s another question yeah I know the answer is obviously more time
With this I have some scho golfers they get matches super late they get the if you only have a couple minutes to warm up you have priority yeah so great question warming up and going back to what I talked about you know how forceful the golf swing is the culture in golf is
Just I mean we’re we’re we’re acting like it’s pool or something like that like we don’t warm up at all and then we have the fastest movement in sports so how is the body going to be like deal with that how how how you know how are
We going to perform at our highest level and so we always talk about a warm muscle is better than a cold stretched one so stretching cold before you’re teeing off I mean there you can find research that show your higher chance for for injury that okay so making sure that the the
Muscles were actually is warm warms up like the temperature of the muscle is the the main uh critical key right so um what you do you know do something in all three planes make sure you rotate move side to side up and down this is a really cheap way to get
Warm very quickly you can be very very warm using this for five minutes before starting hitting golf balls like the warmup should actually warm up the body and this and the ner nervous system like the neuromuscular system is not turned on if you don’t activate the muscles so if you start just cold
Hitting wedges like you are you haven’t turned on the lights in the building so we warm our athletes up more than probably anybody out there so bordering to sweat um probably sweat in most cases they shouldn’t get tired but they need to really be on before they go to the
Range because now they don’t now they come to the range and they’re ready to to to perform they’re ready to start to hit balls so all three planes basically the big three that we showed here today and the three planes those are like simple warm-ups that you can do and then
Add the band to it and if you’re short in time it literally only takes five minutes but temperature is King what other questions do you have yeaha like I I mean mention in the nervous system to almosta before they their warmer than just going out cold swing yeah yeah
Breathing is is is great I think it depends a little bit on the player uh if they like to be kind of high intensity it’s not the normal one you see in a golf course imagine likea absolutely yeah because breathing can change your heart rate breathing can change a lot of neuro neuromuscular
Stuff so it’s it’s it’s very important we would do probably that like in the hotel room um doing some breathing exercises um to elicit something depending on the player y any other questions anybody okay well uh I’m available if you have any more questions um we’re always
Hiring we’re growing so if you know anybody that wants to come work for us let let let me know um but I really appreciate Jamie uh setting this up and thank you so much for your [Applause] time [Applause] you
