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Tommy - more like 99.9% of average golfers are Ball Bound. And this is what triggers the destructive Impulses. It is also the foundation for eventually developing the yips, if one does end up with that horrible affliction. My concept is that anyone who is more than mildly Ball Bound is already in a pre-yip phase, it may not ever develop into full blown yips, (and usually does not) but the pre-yips phase does it's own form of damage to one's game.
I never start with Mechanics with a new student if I see that they have real issues with Hit, Scooping or Steering issues. Those are 100% mental and intentional by nature, so I start there, the root cause of their bad mechanics. The improvement is then much, much faster and much more dramatic and the student has a real "light bulb" moment of deep understanding. It is stuff you can take to the golf course right away as well and see some real score improvement.
You have convinced yourself that your pause is necessary. That is a belief - far from a fact. But I know that beliefs are often more "real" to those who hold them than facts will ever be.
Pausing like that can eventually turn into the yips - if it becomes involuntarily, and also results in sudden increase of tension that persists into the downswing, it is the yips. I see it all the time, Barkley being the poster child for a pause yip. You might consider testing it now by trying to hit a few balls without the pause. If you find that you cannot swing without the pause - well, you know what I think on that issue. You can also test by doing a non-ball swing - most golfers will not come OTT/steep/early release nearly as much - if at all - when the ball is not there.
I am working on a book about being Ball Bound, well not the whole book, but a significant part of it. A lot of teaching pros know about this issue, but the mind/body connection approach is still too new and revolutionary to have been widely embraced by the Golf Establishment. Although that is clearly starting to change. When it does, you will see a revolution in teaching that will make video and Trackman look like peanuts by comparison.
I never start with Mechanics with a new student if I see that they have real issues with Hit, Scooping or Steering issues. Those are 100% mental and intentional by nature, so I start there, the root cause of their bad mechanics. The improvement is then much, much faster and much more dramatic and the student has a real "light bulb" moment of deep understanding. It is stuff you can take to the golf course right away as well and see some real score improvement.
You have convinced yourself that your pause is necessary. That is a belief - far from a fact. But I know that beliefs are often more "real" to those who hold them than facts will ever be.
Pausing like that can eventually turn into the yips - if it becomes involuntarily, and also results in sudden increase of tension that persists into the downswing, it is the yips. I see it all the time, Barkley being the poster child for a pause yip. You might consider testing it now by trying to hit a few balls without the pause. If you find that you cannot swing without the pause - well, you know what I think on that issue. You can also test by doing a non-ball swing - most golfers will not come OTT/steep/early release nearly as much - if at all - when the ball is not there.
I am working on a book about being Ball Bound, well not the whole book, but a significant part of it. A lot of teaching pros know about this issue, but the mind/body connection approach is still too new and revolutionary to have been widely embraced by the Golf Establishment. Although that is clearly starting to change. When it does, you will see a revolution in teaching that will make video and Trackman look like peanuts by comparison.
