Originally Posted by drewitgolf
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Nice job Ted. Anything specific that help him with the "Over-Acceleration issue"?
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This guy is a type AAAAAAAA personality. He's very successful in business. He usually comes flying in the gate of the range in his Porsche, on two wheels. He jumps out of the car with 30 seconds to spare before the lesson starts, ties his shoes with the phone still stuck in his ear, and grabs the clubs from the trunk. None of these things prepare him well for a slow Start Down. When he played football, his dad told him to hit the opponent as hard and fast as he could, before he was hit.
He took that same aggressive nature into golf, to no avail. So the hardest thing I ever asked him to do was to hit a Total Motion PW 20 yards. To him, it felt like it took two weeks to get to the ball. Success wasn't immediate, but he was finally able to hit it about 50 yards. In doing the drill enough times he acquired the ability to start slowly in the Start Down. Then, I had him trying to reach greater speeds AFTER Impact. When he did so, he was able to feel the heaviness of the club. It was something he had never felt. He's had a couple of practice sessions since the last lesson, and he can't believe how heavy Impact is feeling. He now has a kinesthetic understanding that acceleration is different than speed.