Education
What the Best Amateurs Get Right About Biomechanics
1) Sequencing is distance insurance. Most club players chase speed via bigger backswings or harder effort. The longer you swing
without optimised sequence, the more the body protects itself by standing up, stalling, or flipping through impact. Efficient players
organise pelvis → thorax → arm path → wrist conditions so energy transfers forward without a fight. The force plates show when
you’re late; the motion suit shows where you’re late. We retime both.
2) Ground forces are the silent governor of club delivery. When verticals peak too early, the club steepens; when braking is
mistimed, the handle outruns the body and you drag. Good players learn to push, post and brake in a corridor. The result is a shallower,
later, more powerful delivery — with less strain on the lead wrist and trail elbow.
3) Spin loft, not clubhead speed alone, decides your driver flight. For many 10–12 handicap golfers, a 2–3° change in attack
angle and 2–3° in dynamic loft (spin loft window) adds 12–20 yards without chasing swing speed. We map how your mechanics create spin loft,
then tune it with feels that survive pressure.
4) Psychology changes movement. Threat makes muscles co-contract. Under scrutiny, you squeeze, tempo spikes, the ribcage
locks, and your carefully built mechanics collapse. That isn’t weakness; it’s protection. We therefore couple each mechanical edit with
a state cue: nasal exhale at set, peripheral gaze to lower forearm tone, one intention (“through the window”) to free the release.
Your brain learns the new movement is safe at speed.
5) Identity is the final stabiliser. Golfers sabotage themselves with stories: “I’m streaky,” “I can’t drive it under pressure.”
We write a new identity that matches your training: “I’m the player who resets fastest,” “My driver delivery lives in one corridor.”
With identity aligned, your movement isn’t battled by your self-image; it’s supported by it.
Injury Resilience: Speed Without Cost
Injury-aware mechanics save seasons. Force-time curves and motion mapping reveal where joints are absorbing load rather than transmitting it.
Common examples: persistent lead-wrist pain from excessive handle-drag and late loft; trail-elbow irritation from steep, arm-dominant
transitions; lumbar fatigue from early extension. We change the loading strategy and give your tissues room to recover while
performance improves.
Iron vs. Driver: Same DNA, Different Windows
Your swing is one organism. But the task differs: irons need a descending strike with stable low-point; driver needs an upward,
speed-efficient launch. We teach windows — not tips. You’ll learn to keep the same sequence while adjusting setup, intention and
spin-loft windows so the club does the job by design.
On-Course Transfer: The Missing Step
Range success without transfer is wasted time. We script variable practice (shape/height/speed triads), consequence ladders
(restart on a fail), and one-intention routines so the movement shows up in chaos, not just in peace. A short round might include:
driver to a 25-yard window; iron to a strike band; wedge to three pace buckets; putter to start-line gates — all scored via a Mental
Scorecard so you track behaviour, not just strokes.