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Streaming technology together with the instructional methods, terminology, writings, and videos of Chad Habluetzel allow you to have you own private coach, giving you Live VIRTUAL Lessons from your favorite place to practice and play. All you need is a smartphone.

Honed over thousands of hours of Live VIRTUAL Lessons, Chad's communicative and analytical abilities will guide you and your game. Having trouble in a lesson with a physical movement? Is solid contact eluding you? Is your ball flight off track? Would you like a putting, chipping, pitching, or bunker play lesson? Every part of the game is available through VIRTUAL from IncreMental Golf.

Note: All of the following took place using Live VIRTUAL Lessons with Chad Habluetzel. The player and the instructor were never in the same location for any of the instruction.

Right-handed male, early 20’s, 5’6”, 135 lbs, in good physical condition. Solid all-around skills. Capable of shooting even par on courses around 6,000 yards, but struggled to score on courses of significant length. Highly accurate iron player. Only averaged LPGA Tour length through the bag.

To increase his distance from LPGA Tour to PGA Tour length.

Using a Blast Motion Golf Sensor to measure clubhead speed, backswing time, downswing time, ratio of backswing to downswing, and total time of the swing for a 7 iron, the player was extremely consistent from swing to swing. He just lacked clubhead speed (average clubhead speed = 77 mph). Further video review of his swing showed numerous power leaks.

Because there were numerous causes for his lack of power production, the player was put into Power and Precision Motor Learning Workouts via SWING from IncreMental Golf. These workouts were implemented multiple times per week (outside of weekly one-on-one Live VIRTUAL Lessons with Chad Habluetzel) starting in early December. 

SWING from IncreMental Golf uses simple, relatively lightweight, non-golf equipment and can take place almost anywhere. These workouts were performed in the player’s living room of his apartment. SWING from IncreMental Golf breaks down the swing into eight different drill progressions involving targeted instruction. Load, lag, force, velocity, flow, timing, integration, and visualization make up the workouts with dual goals of increasing power and precision.

After reinforcing base fundamental movements through the use of SWING from IncreMental Golf, a unique series of cascading ball striking drill progressions were created just for this player to address his particular power leaks. Cascading drill progressions allow the instructor to use multiple drills as targeted instruction. The instructor is free to add, eliminate, or return to any drill depending on the skill-specific goals of the day’s instructional session. 

As stated, the player had numerous power leaks, so there were six drill progressions created involving between three and nine different drills per progression. The drill progressions dealt with: basic synchronization, proper gapping and rotation, providing depth during rotation, lower body stability, tension awareness, and speed development. As a group, these drill progressions formed their own power subset unique to the player.

A Blast Motion Golf Sensor was used intermittently as part of the warm-up for many of the instructional sessions. During these warm-ups, the player would monitor his clubhead speed numbers in real time. This provided the player with instant feedback as to his improvement toward his goal. What once was a swing filled with maximum effort to achieve a certain clubhead speed number soon became his initial swing that was part of just getting loose. Over time, this warm-up process developed into a game where the player competed against himself to see how high his clubhead speed numbers could reach. This feedback provided great confidence for the player.

According to TrackMan, the average PGA Tour professional has a 7 iron clubhead speed of 90 mph. Data taken by the Blast Motion Sensor in early March revealed that the player reached his goal of increasing his distance to PGA Tour length. In fact, he surpassed it significantly with an average clubhead speed of 93 miles per hour, a 16 mph increase from his initial 77 mph clubhead speed average. It should be of note that the Live VIRTUAL Lessons used to make this 16 mph increase encompassed three months in total. In addition to the increase in clubhead speed, the player was still able to maintain his remarkably consistent swing numbers. The player was able to reach his distance goals without sacrificing the consistency or accuracy of a solid strike through the implementation of advanced motor learning approaches (SWING from IncreMental Golf and cascading drill progressions) to gain greater fundamental control of his swing. Overall, the distance gains enabled the average par 4 to play 50 yards shorter for the player when the combination of a driver and an iron were taken into account.