Today we're covering some really interesting research on grip
pressure, how tightly you're gripping the club.
And we're not just talking about like it's set U like how tight.
Your grip should be but. All throughout the swing.
Like what about a transition at the top of the back swing?
What about an impact? We have a really great study
we're looking at with Liam Mucklow.
We're talking about his work that he's done with pressure
sensors into grips. I looked at high handicappers,
people that hook the ball, slice the ball, and pros.
So really good data. I'm super excited to dive into
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OK. Yeah, all.
Right. OK, so here's like, I think the
biggest thing, biggest simple thing is like, oh, but I was
supposed to hold it as a three out of 10.
Like, OK, well, there's a lot of layers to feel back there, but
what I've got here, this graph on the right, this is showing
percentage of maximum grip pressure for that golfer type.
OK, so we got our legend up here with you, right?
So we have our playing professional.
We've got the person that chronically fights a Hulk.
We've got the high handicapper that just struggles with contact
in general. And then we've got, you know,
like your classic slicer. Yeah.
So first thing I want to do is take a look at at setup.
So if we look at the height kneecapper and the slicer, well,
First off, they're way below 3 out of 10.
They're like below 1 out of 10. They're barely holding it.
OK, so they've got a little overboard there.
Even even the the hooker here is like below 25%, they're below 3
out of 10. Now we get here, it's like a
four 4 1/2 out of 10 for the Tour Pro.
So this is to me, this is where it gets interesting.
Take a look at the grip strengths over here.
So this is from the PowerPoint. So the average combined grip
strength of those two hands is 276 lbs.
Now we times that by the actual, you know, amount of pressure,
you know, the percentage of Max pressure.
And I got like 124 lbs OK, like not too far off a three out of
10. But what I don't think amateur
golfers ever take into account is the person who's saying they
feel like it's a 3 out of 10 hits golf balls all day every
day and hits them hard. And like, this is what they do.
So they've got if anyone out there has ever actually shook
hands with a tour pro, they got a pretty serious grip.
Yeah, within group 2 we had we had one guy who competes in long
drive, which to be honest, I think it kind of skewed the grip
strength a little higher than what we would normally see.
The other thing I'll notice so when you see this differential
13.4 lbs, that means on average the lead hand, the left hand for
the right-handed golfer was about 13 1/2 lbs stronger than
the right, huh. So anyway, we're let's go let's
go back to this 124 number. OK OK now we're down here at
our, you know, high handicap or poor contact player.
Well, their Max is only 147, so if they actually wanted to match
what, you know, what the tour Pro is doing from, I'll call it
like a global perspective, not a three out of 10, but 124 lbs.
They'll be way up here at like a nine out of 10.
Got it. So got it.
Yeah, like obviously there's a lot there to digest, but I think
to me the simple basic is like 99% of amateur golfers would be
better off to squeeze the club tighter in a dress.
Got it. So we've got, we've got this
aspect of obviously our professional golfers are
swinging harder than the amateurs that you're, you're
talking about too, right? Like I swing faster.
In there, they're gripping it harder to to set up.
Do you think it's, do you think they swing faster because they
grip it harder or they grip it harder because they swing
faster? Man, that that's the toughest
part about this study of pressure because there's also
like this thing you don't know, I'll put that grip pressure
graph back up and we'll start to talk our way through it.
But it's like there's certain points where the golfer is
applying pressure to the handle of the club and there's certain
points where the handle of the club is applying pressure to the
golfer. OK, so, yeah, so it gets, you
know, there, there's some Gray area now.
I, I, I think you know, to me, I think, you know, there's a,
there's a couple things at play. What, what I've noticed now
since having this information, starting to have dialogue with
amateur players about it. I think one of the most
important things is that there has to be a match between the
grip pressure application and the resultant body movements of
the player. So I don't think you'll be able
to make an exact match to the pressure distribution pattern
unless you move your body in a similar way.
And if we look into some of the individual swings, we can kind
of dive a little bit deeper into there.
But if, if we're not changing body movements, but we're
changing grip pressure, it's quite likely that the club will
be out of sync with the body and we won't get that increased
performance. I do feel, you know, again, for
these amateurs, 99% of them, we're going to be better off
squeezing it tighter. It's so loose that it's like
they're losing energy created by our body.
And it's the last, you know, it's our only connection to the
club. And if that's not secure, we're
going to have energy that we generate with our body leak out
and not transferred to the club, you know.
So I think, I think that's one of the most important for the
conceptual things, I guess. So is it that we're we're doing
so much work with our body to try to swing hard, but then
we're gripping it too lightly? So the club is is the club is
actually controlling it instead of our hands?
Is that a way to say it? Yeah.
No, I, I like that, especially when we look, I'm going to throw
up another. I'm going to throw up another
image here. Let's look at the let's look at
the high Handycamper. OK, now this is getting so this
is getting a little heavy here. Let me just get the slideshow a
little like, so here's like the latest round of I don't know,
process and we'll call it there. There is there's so much data in
this study from the swing catalyst motion plate to the
full body gears. We use Forsythe GC quad for this
one, plus the sensor grip. So this to me is super
fascinating. It's overlaid with the kinematic
sequence. And so we've kind of put these
little body position avatars to try and help people that don't
look at this stuff every day understand where we're at.
And I think this is super fascinating.
So the orange line is showing me the rotational speed of the
club, OK, when it's down here where my, I'm not sure if can
you see my cursor right now? Yeah, there.
We go. I can, yeah.
So when it's down here, that's the club is rotating away from
the target, OK, It's up here, it's rotating towards a target.
And so we see this, you know, super, super, super low growth
pressure. And as the club starts to
accelerate to me, and I'm just telling you how I read this, I
can't tell you if it's right, This is just what I'm kind of
the way I see it, the group pressure starts to ramp up a
little bit as the club picks up some speed.
Now right here where we get, you know, that line farthest down
below the horizontal axis, that's the fastest the club is
rotating back away from the target.
And I'm like right at that moment in time, it's like this
high handicapper just grabs on for life and they're along for
the ride. OK, you know, And then if, you
know, we look transition to the downswing, Well, whichever line
is highest up here is rotating fastest to the target.
Well, right from the beginning, that club is rotating the faster
the target than any other part of the body.
And it's like, yeah, they're gloves leading the way, and
they're just squeezing on for dear life, hanging on for a
ride, you know, kind of like, I don't know, maybe your first
trip on a roller coaster when you were 12 years old.
I'm just hanging on trying to stay in the car.
OK. So it's just, yeah, really high
pressure from like kind of, I don't know if it's arm parallel
on the backswing. Give or take somewhere between
shaft parallel and arm parallel in the backswing, yeah.
All the way through impact, it's it's kind of just grip.
Then then they decide to grip. Yeah.
And then it's like then they they lock on like, you know,
this, you know, with their maximum grip pressure.
And what's also interesting, we'll look at a couple other
ones. This it kind of the circular
dotted line, that's the trail hand, the right hand, because
this dash line, that's the lead hand, the left hand.
The high handicappers were also the only group that had higher
pressure was the bottom hand. Every other group had higher
pressure with the top. Hand.
Interesting. Do they have the most rotation
happening? They had the least amount of
body, well that impact, they had the least amount of body
rotation. OK, the the slicer you want to
you want to look at hooker or slicer next?
Let's. Look at hooker.
OK, so so the hooker started, you know, with the grip pressure
that was closest to the amount to the professional.
Remember the professionals were way up here, still about double
and it's a little bit more controlled.
But again, we see this same thing keep happening when this
club is it maximum rotational speed away from the target.
It's like within every group, there's this little spike in
grip pressure. Now what what we noticed and
it's it's pretty difficult to tease out of this grass there
was. So well, First off, let's take a
look. This dotted line right when the
golfer starts down, this hooker really starts to squeeze hard
with the left hand. The right hand goes up a little
bit, but not nearly as much as the left.
OK, So what we saw was a real ramp up in left hand grip
pressure, but very low pelvis rotation.
So it's like they're squeezing the club, dropping it down this
way and instead of rotating, they're kind of just sliding the
hips forward, you know, side bending away from the target,
which makes sense for, to me anyway, for the club being, you
know, dumped behind. Yep, yeah, it's.
Way behind them and now, you know, in here you can see we're
coming up on impact with shaft parallel on the way down and
it's again just this is the way I read it.
I'm look, it's like the golfer knows I got the club stuck so
far behind and it's going so far inside out.
It's like, Oh my God, I better flip it back to square with the
right hand right. You see that, you know, I got
ourself that my whole life so. Got it.
So, you know, kind of interesting there.
I'm sorry, I guess I need I need a clarification.
Could you define? Total pressure again cuz cuz the
total pressure of the high handicap was higher.
So I'm missing I'm missing something mentally here?
Total pressure. No, no.
So that we'll talk about I got AI, got a baseball back here.
So so we take the sensor grip club.
Yeah. And then it's like, you know,
the software prompts, squeeze it as tight as you can in the left
hand. OK, OK, yeah.
And then squeeze it as tight as you can in the right hand and
then squeeze it as tight as you can with both hands.
Got it. And that, that and that's what
determines the 100%. That's also what sets the split
location for lead, hand and trail.
OK. Pretty important stuff.
Now we'll go just because this is not complicated enough, we're
going to go back to this high handicapper because I want you
to notice, Yeah, they actually get up above 100% here with the
right hand. OK, Yeah.
And, and that's what I was talking about is there's periods
in time when the club is pushing back into the player.
And so that's how they're able to get a higher pressure than
what they could actually just stand there and squeeze it with.
Interesting. OK.
That makes sense. I I get it.
Yeah, Yeah. Especially if they're, you know,
as I kind of put it along for the ride.
And that's that's not a good thing though, like being able to
produce more than 100% of force that that's not a helpful thing.
Well, we didn't see it happen with any good players in this.
OK, OK, so. Yeah, yeah.
Now, you know, the other thing I think is important for people
out there to know too is like, this is brand new technology,
you know, And so as we use it more, there may be ways we could
do more effective calibration. So one of the things we're
playing around with now, this came from Sasho when we were
talking over in England, is actually to put the the club at
a gripping vise. So I can not only grab it, but I
can kind of twist it. And I think that might get that
100% up a little bit higher. Got it.
So, So yeah, with the, you know, with the with the player that,
you know, fights the hook, we saw, you know, very low body
rotation in the first half of the downswing and an increase in
lead hand pressure. Yep.
So that that was kind of a common trait across the sample
size. Yep.
When we get here to the slicer, you know, again, it's like
starts with lower pressure. This is more of kind of a steady
ramp up throughout the whole backswing.
And then when I, you know, when we're looking at both of the
body movements and the grip pressure, we see this right
hand, the the circular dotted line, we see it really kind of
ramp up and I'm, and we saw a lot of pelvis rotation.
So again, I just start picturing A golfer spinning quickly with
their body and pushing hard with the right hand.
I'm like, Oh yeah, OK, well, let's slice all day.
That makes sense, yeah. And they're doing it too early,
right with the right hand they that's why that bump is early
with the. Gets it out early.
Yeah, you got it. So now hopefully this one starts
to make a little bit more sense. So you know, again, my
interpretation of this is we've got much higher growth pressure
to start with and compared to the other groups, relatively,
even relatively constant as it go throughout the backswing.
Now they're the the professionals, the only people
in the group that we saw. Oh man, Holy smokes.
I just realized I have this slide title wrong and it's a
slicer. It is not a slicer.
Sorry, folks. We see this little peek right at
transition and I believe the peak is because the golfer has
to squeeze the club in order to stop it and have it get ready to
change direction. And then we see, you know, the
only group, this was the only group of all of them that had a
reduction in grip pressure early in transition.
So when I think about it, that's what allows me to rotate the
body and kind of let the club, it's all behind the body.
You know, there's a million different things.
If you want to call it leg or shallow, I'll leave that up to
whoever wants to put those labels on it.
But that's just kind of what I felt like I saw.
And you know, once we get to around, you know, with the
different people, it varied a little bit.
But between lead arm parallel and shaft parallel, we see a big
ramp up in the grip pressure again.
Yeah. And then for the last little bit
on approach to the ball, we see it fairly neutral, fairly calm,
which also makes sense. You know, I think about how good
those professional players are maintaining, you know, minimal
club face rotation through the striking so.
Interesting. It's so different than the other
golfers, the professor, it's so flat.
It's so. Yeah, yeah, very different.
That's where we, you know, this latest round was trying to
visualize it over the course of the Gulf Point, you know, like
in in time, not just in kind of like, you know, because the the
time between each of these positions is definitely not
created equal, you know, our P1 to P6, whatever you want to
look. Yeah.
So, yeah, like there's, there's a lot of differences.
There's a lot going on. You know, this is kind of back
to the normal visualization. I think the big thing like if we
look at we look at the high handicappers, the first thing I
look at is how they're the only group that's trailhand dominant.
So like if I'm, you know, if I'm a high handicapper, what do I
make of that? Well, the first thing I would
start to do would be maybe just take your wedge and go do some
left hand only swings, you know, and because it could be #1 get
the left hand grip strength higher.
So in that, in that group, when we tested grip strength on the
dynamometer, the right hand was stronger to begin with.
So let's get the left hand grip strength higher and let's learn
how to rotate our body and use it that way.
Yep. When I think about stuff for the
the slicer here where in transition I've got that real
spike, early spike with the right hand, I think about
Hogan's three finger drill. Well, let's just take them right
off the club, you know, and if they're not touching the club, I
think it's probably harder to apply pressure to it.
That would make sense. Yeah, yeah, right.
And you know, they're already rotating the body, so maybe that
gives the club the chance to kind of fall behind the body
instead of get thrown out in front of it.
If I'm if I'm here with the with the hooker, I would say this is
gets tricky. It's kind of two things.
First, if we look at their right hand grip pressure right here
and then we look at the pros right here.
I would want to see them kind of do it the opposite right.
They're increasing left hand grip pressure decreasing right
hand as opposed to the pros decreasing left hand increasing
right now It can be a mind melter for sure, but I would
squeeze it tighter with the right hand in your hips early.
Remember they they had low hip rotation sliding back this way.
Yep. So turn and squeeze it with the
right hand. You might stop dumping that
thing so far back behind you. A lot of graphs, man.
A lot. Of no, it's, it's super
interesting. OK, so I guess we all can grip
it harder at setup, right? That's pretty universal.
I am very comfortable with that, yes, OK.
I guess you you gave some interventions there of like
things that you can think about. Have you seen is working on grip
pressure like does that work as an intervention?
Does that change movement patterns or is it difficult that
going that direction? It can for sure.
You know, I think I think a lot of it for the coaches out there
is gauge the athletic skill and coordination of the client.
If that person hasn't played any other sports, if their body
awareness isn't great, you might want to develop that stuff first
before you, you know, start trying to ask some of these
complex athletic movements that are all going to be kind of
internal cues. The analogy I used when I was
presenting this stuff last week is my partner in in the baseball
stuff, Mikey Gibbs. Played professional baseball,
college national champion, third round draft pick, highly
coordinated, high level of body awareness.
We're about to play golf a couple weeks ago and he just
said, yeah, I'm just going to feel like my right hand is kind
of relaxed. It drove it as straight as I've
ever seen it. Gave up a couple yards, played
eighteen holes with 1G ball is pretty impressive.
Nice. My wife helps him proofread all
the articles and stuff that I write.
So just after we finished the article for Golf magazine, Wendy
went over to the range to try and apply some of the grip
pressure stuff. Her background is in sailing.
I think she shanked 3 balls, accidentally threw her club once
and then came home upset and said this is crap, I'm not
getting this. Yeah, you know, you kind of got
to gauge who you're with. And I think, you know, to me
what, what I find fascinating about is we've just never had
this intro, you know, And so the, the, the purpose of this
study was really just to try and gather some information.
See, is there any common tendencies, you know, in these
golfer subsets, which I I was quite surprised in the
similarities, you know, and then, you know, from there,
Yeah. Like, let's just get this
information out there to as many coaches, as many golfers as we
can start to collect thoughts from, you know, their thought
leaders in the industry and see how can we use this?
Can we use this to, to move things forward?
For sure. Is it?
Yeah. What what is the new tech or
what like what do you? What's this new sensor that
allows you to measure it? So it's called, it's called
sensor grip. Let me get let me get a picture
of him up here. OK, kind of show you guys what
it looks like here. Because the problem has always
been measuring this, right? Like that's always been the,
yeah, always been the issue, yeah.
So you can, you can kind of see a little bit here.
We use a, it's a grip Master leather wrap grip that goes over
top of the sensors. So if you're familiar with how
those grips are kind of like a wind or a lizard skin grip, they
have like a like a foam rubber core that goes on and then it's
wrapped on top. So the foam rubber core goes on,
they wrap the the sensor wires around and they put the grip on
top. And then you have a wire that
comes out. In fact, the new one that they
just released, instead of the wire going all the way back to
the computer, it goes to a little thing on your hip and
then transmits via Bluetooth and the wire is a lot thinner and
lighter. So, you know, they're making
some pretty good, pretty good advancements there.
And this is just the rest of the tech we use.
So it was taking all four of these and then manually
collating the data. This is an idea of kind of sort
of what you can, you know, their standard interface.
So it it links in with a webcam. So for us, you know, the sensor
grip is very accurate in denoting impact time.
So we match the impact time on the sensor grip with the impact
time on the gears and use that as a time stamp to work back.
OK, so you can see here, it'll give you your, you know, it'll
give you your distribution at various points in the swing, top
of the swing, lead arm, parallel shaft, parallel impact.
You know, they're also now working on some calculations of
being able to extrapolate the net forces and applied to the
club as well. So it's, you know, like I said,
it's it's still not ready for the masses yet, but it's getting
much closer to where I think you're going to start to see
this popping up in more golf academies for sure.
So when we're talking about the pressure applied, it was based
on your Max pressure that you could apply.
So what did you find? You mentioned that you did
measure just like strength with one of the, I forget the name of
it, what you call it. Yeah, the dynamometer.
Yeah, what did the pros have? Also the greater like strength
overall as well. Yeah, they did.
So it was, let's pop this back up here.
So. So the professionals, whoopsie
professionals did have a higher overall grip strength.
Like I said, that was. The hook grip was closer, but
again, it was like I said, just total transparency.
It was a little skewed from a long drive competitor, you know,
who happens to hook it, you know, And then as we get down,
the slicer was a little bit weaker.
Even though you don't see same age in here.
Obviously the age went up for the poor contact, which does
contribute to the grip strength going down.
But yeah, it's a pretty, in this small study, pretty linear
relationship between group strength and handicap.
And you know, there is a lot of other, you know, studies, I know
super speeds put some stuff out there.
They talk about the same type of relationship they've seen for
group strength and club speed, which makes sense.
You know, I, you know, in the physical testing world, you
know, if I only had one test to do to try and gauge the overall,
I guess strength, health, whatever of a person, I would go
a grip strength because it just tied to so many other things.
Interesting. It is that 276, is that a good?
I'm not. I don't know these numbers very
well. Is that a good number?
Is it really strong? Is that just like an average
person or? Yeah, I mean, it's not bad.
I guess like, I guess for context, that's pretty much
where I'm at, OK, which I'm around £140 per hand.
I'm 45 year old former golfer that has been quite lazy and
sedentary the last couple years. So, you know, it depends on
where you're starting out at as well.
When we're looking at, you know, I would expect a competitive
long driver to be more in their 350 to 360 LB ratio.
Yeah, yeah, OK. You know, that's kind of where
Micah lives, you know, a cruise control club and speed around
128 without training for golf. So you know, a lot of power
there. You know, I think within reason
for, again, for like 99% of the amateurs out there, I think more
is better. Yeah, like I like I, I don't.
We're a long way from being so rigid with it.
It's set up and in the backswing that it's going to impede the
golf swing. You know, I also start to think
about other stuff. I remember reading more things
from Doctor McKenzie about how I believe he's proven that
increase in backswing speed results in more downswing speed.
And I feel like, OK, well if I'm going to swing it back faster,
the first thing I got to do is squeeze it tighter.
I got to activate these muscles up through the forearm, upper
arm, and even in the shoulder girdle and let's get everything
connected and working together. Yeah.
You know, instead of the 0 grip shankle, let me just take it
back with my wrist and I was going to start chasing the club
down with my body the whole way. Yeah, what?
What do you? Think is the impact.
Of like grip size and grip like texture as well like on these
because because obviously they they couldn't use their grips,
right? So they're using the the sensor.
So yeah, what is then size? Well, and you know, trying to do
the best we could then charge was great.
They they put grips on two different flexes of shaft for
each driver, 7 iron so we're able to get them as close as
possible to their own shaft. We adjusted the lie loft of the
iron heads to match, you know, their current spec and we only
brought people in that were using a standard size grip.
So it does grip size matter. Absolutely can't tell you how.
I definitely think it'll be the next one.
Anecdotally, years and years and years ago at the lab, we started
taking long drivers and testing their grip strength at
different, you know, different diameters on the dynamometer.
And then wherever they had the highest grip strength, we would
do our best to build grips to match that size.
Oh, cool. I think in general, I think most
people would perform better with larger than standard grips as it
as we get a little bigger than a Golf Club than the standard Golf
Club. Most of the people we test are
able to actually just put more force through it.
It you know, we're seeing, we're seeing in the world longer
afterward. We're seeing pretty good
adoption rates into various sizes of jumbo mats, OK.
You know, we're seeing a little bit more of that on on the
professional tours as well. So here's here's what I
anecdotally know about larger grips is that like we've
traditionally been taught that they're going to go right
because you can't turn them over right?
Like that's probably, I don't know, old, yeah, old, old
stereo. OK.
And then the second thing is that they.
Do that. Because they add weight.
So you just change the, the weight of the the club is why
they do that. So that's like that's what I
think about when I think about larger, larger grips a little
bit. Well, in the in the grip size
testing that we've done, I could say a couple of things.
One was we actually found and we weren't talking about pressures
before that technology was around.
We found that there was no correlation between hand hand
length and the grip size. That created maximum consistency
directional control on average the thirty person amateur
population. And that was able to reduce
dispersion by 34% by just changing the grip size.
Wow. For some people it was going
smaller. Looking back now, for example,
we had one individual that had very, very, you know, the
largest hands in the study. He performed best with the
smallest grip, I think now total guess.
But because it was so tiny, he had to squeeze so hard just to
keep it in there. If you stabilize the sweet spot,
I had better connectivity may better contact.
Interesting. Yeah, the, the weight is a thing
for sure because, you know, if you go to a heavier weight grip
and don't adjust swing weight properly, you're going to see,
as most people do, a reduced closure rate.
You know, you lose a little bit of wrist mobility and a
reduction in swing weight is kind of a double wing that can
create an excessive brightness. I got it.
Oh man, I got to order. I'm ordering a diameter right
now and that. 25 bucks on Amazon man.
And we're swapping. We're going to do that.
I love that test. That seems so obvious.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it. I mean, yeah, you just make
stuff up and try it. And as people get better, keep
doing it as they don't apologize and do something else.
Are you going to do that again? We got to see that test come
back. We got to.
Yeah, no, no, no, no. The boys up at the lab are still
doing it. Absolutely OK.
Oh yeah. So do you have a protocol then
is it like you'd go different lengths and you test the
strength and then you? Yeah, so different dynamometers
are a little different. You know, they have like this
little wheel where it kind of adjusts and scales the width of
the the gripping component. Just kind of eyeball it with
some golf grips there, OK, you know, so you can do it that way.
You know, the other thing we've done in terms of our fitting
protocols is, you know, within our testing, we'll go with the
length and then we go with the weight.
And then we if we need to reduce flex and then optimize the head
and if we still feel there's opportunity for improved
control, we actually have 5 different size grips on the same
driver fitting shaft and the same iron fitting shaft.
So we're able to do some testing with the person, at least get
some objective data. OK, so I think that's one, you
know, other one if it's amateur golfers that are, you know, just
out there going Oh my God, there's there might be something
valuable here, but I don't know what to do because I got no one
to go to. You know, if you got a week or
whatever where you're not playing go like go throw a jumbo
grip on your 9 iron in the mid South on your 8 and leave
everything else standard and just go dig it out the dirt at
the range and see what you see. I like it.
How do you, if someone's doing
that, how do they make sure it's not a weight, a weight issue
that causes that well? You know, you could go online to
the manufacturer website and check the weights.
So like just on the weight. Then I think this is like this
will be my my PSA for the day. OK, white grips are heavy.
So if you if you wear like the golf pride tour wrap and then
the white golf pride tour wrap, it's like 10 grams heavier.
It makes a big difference in swing weight.
I guess I have to put so much white dye in the rubber.
It makes it heavier. So they'll go white and then,
you know, Yeah. Check the manufacturer website
at most places. Like there's Redwood Watch just
down the street from me. Yeah.
And they got a little club building set up.
They got a gram white scale. So, you know, just ask the guy
to weigh the grips for you so you can see what you're dealing
with, you know, and ideally if they have a swing white scale
and maybe they need to slap a piece of lead tape on the head
to keep the overall balance the same.
OK, got it on it. I'm on it here.
I'm going to share my screen and so you can so dynamometer I'm I
need to order right now. So we're just, we're just
throwing one of these on there. Yeah, yeah.
Like those two on the left are kind of our normal ones.
If you want to go all out, we do for all of our research stuff we
do use that one on the right. It's 300 bucks not not necessary
for the at home user or the golf Academy.
OK. Got it.
All right, we'll grab. We'll, I'm going to grab one of
those. I'm not.
Man. OK, so we, we've got everyone
needs to grip it more at setup that is for sure.
And then maybe depending on your your Swing type, there could be
some some interventions you could try to help make some
changes. And it's like the most general
blanket statement possible. You know that we're pretend
we're back in Scotland like a few years ago and we're you
know, we're out at a pub having to be going, oh, I don't know
about this golf thing. You just tell me how I squeeze
it like, oh boy, well, squeeze it pretty tight, like a like a
good firm handshake. And I start try and feel that
stay constant through the backswing.
Try not to try not to feel an increase.
OK. And then in transition when
you're changing direction, feel like it's, you know, it lightens
up if anything. So it's like, start strong, stay
constant, relax when I change direction, and then hey, from
there whatever else happens, happens.
Sergio had the regroup, right? He always did.
Or who did? Who does the regroup at like?
Transcript. I mean he would regroup it like
100 times at setup, you know, in transition.
Didn't he do it in transition? Where he kind?
Of he might have. You could see.
Yeah, I think, yeah. Yeah, when he get I've seen a
ton of images of like when BJ gets contact and is
right-handed. So I plan off the club.
Yeah, see that a lot in baseball too.
Yeah, it's it's interesting, man.
Like, I think we're just scratching the surface when you
know it's going to be 3 to five more years before we really have
deep, valuable insights. Yep, Yep.
Sweet. All right.
Thanks for sharing, man. Yeah.