Ben Kruper taught us how to PAUSE

We never thought we could do it, but we learned how to pause in our backswing! Some results were positive, some not so. Either way, it’s an incredible way to swing and takes a lot of discipline and effort!

what’s up guys my name is Ben ker uh I pause a lot of you guys might know my swing you might have seen it I’m going to teach these Primo guys how to pause uh it’s difficult I’ve been doing it for about a year I’m curious to see how you guys do with it uh but you know it’s helped my game out a lot so maybe it’ll help one of you guys out let’s get right into [Music] it so I’m going to hit one with a driver but the main thing that I see a lot of people do when they pause is They Don’t Really pause they kind of hesitate a little bit gets a little stuck so try and feel like you’re holding it for a second I would say that’s what I started doing when I started pausing uh feeling like I was holding for a second 2 second because if you can hold it for a couple seconds and you can hold it for the you know you know what I mean it makes it easier so just I’ll take this one to the top and hold it honestly for a little longer that was probably the best Drive I’ve hit all day I mean it didn’t even curve oh my God that was money I don’t know how long I held that for but it felt like a good amount of time so so should we all try I think I think well you’re going to feel like you’re holding it forever and it’s only going to be a half a second so like it never it’s never as long as it really seems like all right that was pretty long how long was that pretty long you probably hit that 330 that felt really good [Laughter] well you take it past parallel so this is interesting I know yeah my swing is super you take it past parallel I’ll try to go shorter the common Miss I see is a little Healy cut just a little Y and and that kind of it’s why it helped me generally yes when I started pausing I was hitting a Healy cut all the time which I wasn’t that mad with because I wasn’t losing balls I which is exactly what I just did I had I had a big draw before I started pausing and then when I started pausing it like slowly turned me into a fader of the ball so if you’re looking at a fade out there then I I think you should try it I have the opposite problem MD I have really short okay see that’s an exaggerated the next one you do is going to feel really easy do one more do one more like a two a little yeah that was a little yeah do one more cuz you do have a shorter back swing so it’s harder to get power so how do you not feel like you just get cuz like I almost feel like I like like just I mean obviously I’m pausing but it just felt like I just stopped momentum was lost it’s like you can’t cheat it like you get all your power from like here but I I don’t know I feel like my whole body just Fires at once you really have to get your hips involved when you pause nice boom sounded good that was great gosh how was that how’d that feel best Drive of my day that yeah that was really nice and you held it there for quite some time the one thing I also say is it it some people tend to hit a little higher when they pause I don’t know why that is I think it’s just they get less lag so they’re not like compressing it as much I don’t know but it tend to hit a little higher so I like that ball flight though that was like what 5 yard cut yeah I need is a higher ball ball flight okay let’s see it excuse is I don’t have a glove this one’s really sweaty that’s gross look is that you see that a lot uh sure yeah I mean hey hey let’s first try I never seen one worse than that get it out of the way get it out of the way I think I saw something there I might be able to kind of lift it up to try and get your power drive your shoulders down to the ball flyer hips that wasn’t a pause was that not a pause no not really wow you like it it felt like a pause I think your swing is so quick usually that having a normal Tempo feels like a pause okay let me do a practice when Grant tried to pause he didn’t really pause for the first like 10 minutes and then he finally started to pause but he had to start taking it back slower and stuff and yeah he didn’t even really pause at first That Swing actually looked good I think you just was that a pause though that was a pause might I’ll call that a pause I want to hit one more I’m not hitting another one that was pounded dude that was nice yeah Maddie let’s perfect your pause here maybe the pause will be what fixes tis here here I I’ll I’ll watch it again I mean you do tend to take it a little past parallel which actually should almost help you because you got more time to I mean that was good striped that was awesome right how’d that feel good that was really nice started to pause it was it was a drill initially and it just kind of stuck it was a drill and then I started doing it in the middle of a tournament in the middle of a tournament yeah ninth hole state a.m. kind of Addicting it it feels good do what did you end up shooting in that tournament I well I was three over through nine and then I started on the back n so yeah the last nine and I was three under the back n and I never stopped I literally have the head cover from when that tournament started for that reason yeah yeah cuz that’s when it started I never looked back and just started as a drill few more sure I’ll show you a few more I don’t know if you guys have seen that video of Butch Harmon talking to Tiger about how they used to do that drill for hours and it was Tiger’s least favorite drill was the Paw drill and then I saw that and I was like I was like I’m going to try it cuz like I had a really quick transition and got the club lost behind me so I tried it and it kind of felt good but I couldn’t really like translate it to my swing as a drill so I just started I just went the full way and just like started do it in the course do you ever um are there times where you exaggerate the pause like you pause even longer yeah yeah like that one I did was a little exaggerated but when I do these like funny videos sometimes I do like 5 Seconds 10 seconds you know stuff like that but you know I do it to like train my body to fly at the right time too long no that was just like it’s subtle it’s subtle but like I also went at that one when I go at it I pause slightly less I would say just a long pause well can I show you a long pause yeah how long do you want to be what’s the longest pause you’ve ever done um 3 seconds no 30 30 seconds yeah yeah see like 31 seconds yeah there I’ve done I’ve done some crazy long pause but once get awward then no then you your body starts to like shut down you like start to shake and then you just can’t I think that longest pause I’ve actually had a good shot was probably like 15 or 10 I’ll do like I’ll do like a you need a lot of flexibility on you do and I’m not even that flexible which is the people always say like you must be so flexible tell me you do hot yoga I did Hot Yoga once I stay so flexible it’s a hot yoga don’t do it I I don’t advise you do it I almost died all right I’ll hold this for a little bit okay see I healed it but that’s in the Fairway yeah it’s still dead straight do you find that people the longer you pause the higher likelihood that people start talking during your back swing I couldn’t help myself I I tried I feel like I had to say something oh yeah no it’s um do you ever look at people like look at the guys you’re playing against while you’re at the top stupid stuff like that yeah if you’re like tied going in the last hole and you just look at your partner you’re just like talking and then you fire I’ve made jokes about that like like first hole in a tournament just like if there’s a crowd watching me just like look up at them and just see their reaction I think it’d be it’d be pretty funny it’d be pretty funny has anyone like actually adopted it like do you know of anyone that’s like from me yeah yeah yeah I get so many I mean none of my like friends my buddy Thomas actually like in the last week was like she’s striping at the range right now he’s having a hard time taking it to the course but he’s like really thinking about it he’s like really adop and he has a good he was a good golfer before he’s like a three handicap and uh but I get I get DMS every day on Instagram that say like I just started the pause and I love it like it’s the best thing ever blah blah blah so you know some people it’s not for but some people really seem to like it so I don’t know yeah it’s kind of cool though I kind of like cam young yeah his swing is like for me I love it he gets his hips firing so well he hits the ball like 330 with the paws it’s just ridiculous um so there’s a couple guys on tour like him and hii that I kind of model my swing after but but you know yeah well thanks for the lesson we’ll have to try it out a little bit more hey I I saw some success from you guys that was pounded that was pounded and Maddie that that second one you hit was really good so I would be curious to you guys hit irons we’ll do that maybe another time but you know irons would be interesting because driver it’s a bigger face you know you’re hitting up on it irons are different you got to be a little more precise and like contact wise it’s just a little different but you know I think he did pretty well so yep no problem [Music] [Applause]