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I was in NYC for the last week on holidays and decided to head into Barnes & Noble bookstore to have a look at their golf book section for any curiosities or interesting books, when I came acroos a book entitled 'Tour Tempo', I had a brief read of the back and inside covers and found the author's theory and research on the swing interesting (I wasn't taken in by it's wild claims of an instantly better swing etc etc, but nonetheless was interested enough in the author's view to buy it). Anyway, I read the book pretty quickly (it's not a heavy read and he basically has one theory only) and was eager to try out his theory which is this...All tour players have a swing tempo ratio of 3:1 and when this tempo gets out of sequence they hit bad shots. He filmed swings from hundreds of players for years and viewed them in an editing software package and noticed that there were 3 main swing tempos which were measured in the film frames 21/7, 24/8, 27/9 (with a 1 frame allowance ±). ie 21 frames to complete backswing and 7 frames from start of downswing to impact etc. so therefore a 21/7 tempo is quicker than a 27/9 tempo. Nick Price & Jesper Parnevik would be examples of 21/7, Ernie Els & Padraig Harrington 24/8, Jim Furyk & David Toms 27/9. Anytime the players tempo was out on a particular swing, it usually ended up being a bad shot. He found footage of Al Geiberger shooting a 59 in 1977 and apparently his tempo all day was a perfect 27/9.
A CD with calibrated click tracks comes with the book, so you stick it on the ipod and bring it to the range and hit balls while listening and ingraining the tempo into your swing, 1st bleep takeaway, 2nd bleep set at the top, 3rd bleep at impact...SIMPLE. Now, my point is this, it doesn't work instantly as claimed in the book (I never thought it would tbh, it takes getting used to)....BUT....there is DEFINITELY something to this theory. I'm just back from the range where I tried it for the 1st time and when my swing positions matched up exactly with the bleep track I was hitting beautiful shots, it does seem to take time to get used to, but I believe it could be of huge benefit to really make a commitment to workout with this. I never realised how bad my timing actually was til I tried it, I always thought I had quite a good tempo! I also noticed how much it changed with different clubs also, my wedge tempo was completely different from my driver and the great thing about it is you forget about mechanics and just concentrate on timing and being smooth which can only be a good thing, right? I really think there's something in this theory and I'm gonna commit to it and see how it works out. Has anyone else bought this book or tried it out? I'd be interested to hear what you think or if it helped you to improve.
A CD with calibrated click tracks comes with the book, so you stick it on the ipod and bring it to the range and hit balls while listening and ingraining the tempo into your swing, 1st bleep takeaway, 2nd bleep set at the top, 3rd bleep at impact...SIMPLE. Now, my point is this, it doesn't work instantly as claimed in the book (I never thought it would tbh, it takes getting used to)....BUT....there is DEFINITELY something to this theory. I'm just back from the range where I tried it for the 1st time and when my swing positions matched up exactly with the bleep track I was hitting beautiful shots, it does seem to take time to get used to, but I believe it could be of huge benefit to really make a commitment to workout with this. I never realised how bad my timing actually was til I tried it, I always thought I had quite a good tempo! I also noticed how much it changed with different clubs also, my wedge tempo was completely different from my driver and the great thing about it is you forget about mechanics and just concentrate on timing and being smooth which can only be a good thing, right? I really think there's something in this theory and I'm gonna commit to it and see how it works out. Has anyone else bought this book or tried it out? I'd be interested to hear what you think or if it helped you to improve.
im now officially beating my dad
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