Ready to revolutionize your golf game? We’ve got Mike Romatowski, creator of the Mach 3 Speed Training System, joining us today. A certified personal trainer, golf fitness expert, and post-rehab exercise specialist, Mike is here to arm you with insights on how to shift your focus from the ball to the finish area for a more efficient performance. Let’s explore the world of post-impact acceleration, and how it’s been the secret weapon of the golfing greats all along.
Get set to dive deep into the world of speed training. Romatowski emphasizes the importance of this aspect, especially for those over 50. His innovative Mach 3 System is designed to build speed safely and efficiently, paving the way for a dramatic change in your game. But the benefits of Mike's training system don’t stop at efficiency. He's here to show us how his method, with its unique tools and strength exercises, is changing the way golf is taught and played. It's a universal approach that transcends age, gender, and ability level, while keeping the whole process enjoyable and motivating.
We wrap things up by talking about the ultimate goal for every golfer - efficiency. Mike is passionate about helping golfers perform better by increasing their awareness of the entire swing motion. He enlightens us about the key role of the driver in competitive golf and the importance of speed in achieving golfing success. With Mach 3, he's not just coaching better golfers, he's inspiring a legion of athletes who are stronger, faster, and more efficient. So tune in, and let's get ready to make some serious strides in your golf game!
Make sure to go to www.mach3speedtraining.com to access this powerful program. Any questions that you have, do not hesitate to reach out to me. The easiest way is to dm me on Instagram @flaghuntersgolfpod.
Ready to revolutionize your golf game? We’ve got Mike Romatowski, creator of the Mach 3 Speed Training System, joining us today. A certified personal trainer, golf fitness expert, and post-rehab exercise specialist, Mike is here to arm you with insights on how to shift your focus from the ball to the finish area for a more efficient performance. Let’s explore the world of post-impact acceleration, and how it’s been the secret weapon of the golfing greats all along.
Get set to dive deep into the world of speed training. Romatowski emphasizes the importance of this aspect, especially for those over 50. His innovative Mach 3 System is designed to build speed safely and efficiently, paving the way for a dramatic change in your game. But the benefits of Mike's training system don’t stop at efficiency. He's here to show us how his method, with its unique tools and strength exercises, is changing the way golf is taught and played. It's a universal approach that transcends age, gender, and ability level, while keeping the whole process enjoyable and motivating.
We wrap things up by talking about the ultimate goal for every golfer - efficiency. Mike is passionate about helping golfers perform better by increasing their awareness of the entire swing motion. He enlightens us about the key role of the driver in competitive golf and the importance of speed in achieving golfing success. With Mach 3, he's not just coaching better golfers, he's inspiring a legion of athletes who are stronger, faster, and more efficient. So tune in, and let's get ready to make some serious strides in your golf game!
Make sure to go to www.mach3speedtraining.com to access this powerful program. Any questions that you have, do not hesitate to reach out to me. The easiest way is to dm me on Instagram @flaghuntersgolfpod.
Hello, this is Jesse Perry, one of the flag hunters Golf Podcast. Bring you another great addition to further your developments in becoming a better player. This week our guest his name is Mike Wormitowski. Mike, notably, has created a speed training, speed and power training program called the Mach 3 Speed Training System. Mike is a multi certified personal trainer and he's a golf fitness expert on top of that, and he's also a post rehab exercise specialist. He's created this system. It is a year round speed training protocol that has produced an average gain in clubhead speed of 11 and a half miles an hour roughly. The tools in this system are very cool. I can't wait for you to hear what Mike has to say.
Speaker 1:This really plugs along with what we are intentional about, in particular with advanced ball striking and Bradley Hughes with post impact acceleration. The greats had it in spades. The greats really focused on hitting through the ball. The great martial artists have always told us to punch through the target. This speed training system that Mike Wormitowski has created really parallels this phenomenon hitting through the golf ball, having the fastest part of your swing beyond the strike and up. If you go on to mach3speedtrainingcom, you'll find all different types of cool tools that he uses to help the practitioner get strong where the body needs to be strong and to get fast where the body needs to be fast. In comparison to other speed training protocols, this particular protocol really does promote post impact acceleration. You are continuing to accelerate into the strike and beyond, and that is what martial artists would tell you hitting through the target.
Speaker 1:You can find Mike, excuse me, I just mentioned his website before, mach3speedtrainingcom. You can also find him on Instagram under mach3. You can find me, jesse Perryman, at flag hunters All one word flag hunters golf pod on Instagram Easiest way to get a hold of me. I'm super pumped that you get to listen to this. I'm going to thank Mike. It took me a while to track him down. He's such a busy guy. He's traveling, he's working with all different kinds of people everywhere in the nation. He's centralized in Texas for those who want to further their speed development. He's got a gym there and you can find him on his website.
Speaker 1:As far as training for speed, it's really an interesting thing these days because the game has changed, as everybody knows. Now you're looking at producing speed, you're going into the gym. It's becoming much more of an athletic sport versus where it was 20 years ago and beyond. I think I'm okay with that. I'm all about evolution. I think athletes are getting better because as we evolve as a species, we gain and garner more knowledge. Sometimes that knowledge is good. Sometimes it's not so good. In this case, I believe the speed training knowledge to be excellent. That will help you to get strong in the areas that need to be strong.
Speaker 1:This isn't a dig on any of the other speed training protocols at all, because bottom line is the game. If you get longer, all the metrics have proven you get longer You're going to. Basically, it could be a great and a quick pathway to better. I'm all for it. I just align myself personally more along with Michael's philosophy and how I've been trained and taught by Brad Hughes, billy McKinney and John Erickson at Advanced Ball Straying. This is what the greats did and this is what this speed training protocol will also teach you to do.
Speaker 1:His name is Mike Romitowski. He is the inventor of the Mach 3 speed training system. Go on and check him out. I know that he's helping a ton of people. He's working with a bunch of pros. He's working with a bunch of people that want to get strong, want to hit the ball better, want to hit the ball further.
Speaker 1:What's interesting also in closing to this long-winded intro, that when you focus on acceleration versus just flat-out speed, the body tends to find ways to generate the set acceleration that you're looking for. I think it's fascinating. It's a fascinating process. It's a great conversation. Enjoy this conversation. Once again. This really helps me out a lot. It helps all the metrics, it helps the algorithms and all that good stuff. Go ahead and, wherever you listen to your favorite podcast, give me a follow or a like, a review, a subscribe all of that good stuff. I'm not on YouTube yet, but I am very close. I assume, or I presume, or I see myself by the end of the year getting onto YouTube. This is a really good one.
Speaker 1:As we come into wintertime, some of the parts of the country and the world are closing up shop for golf. This is a great way to get a leg up on the competition. Go on there, check out his products. He has a recommendation. He's got several recommendations when you're getting started on dynamic warm-ups and how to get your body prepared to accept the commands that you're going to give it for acceleration. His name is Mike Romitowski. My name is Jesse Perriman, thank you for listening and cheers everyone. I hope you had a great weekend and I hope your week is going fantastic.
Speaker 1:Hello and welcome to this very special edition of the Flag Hunters Golf podcast. I am your host, jesse Perryman. Justin is somewhere on the Lessen Tee in Singapore right now, so it's just going to be my self-lying solo on this episode, and we have a man today on that I've been trying to chase down for a while. He's incredibly busy. He has an amazing, amazing product and it's called Mach 3 Speed Training. Mike Romitowski is his name. This program I was made aware of by Brad Hughes and he was a big supporter of it and, as everybody who listens knows, I'm a student of Bradley's and a big fan of his teaching and really the crux of it is post-impact acceleration, so we don't believe in slowing the machine down at all, and that's really what got my attention with Mach 3 Speed Training. Mike, welcome to the podcast, thank you. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:So Mach 3 Speed Training, there's a few out there. One of the really great things that attracted me to your program, mike, was your post-impact accelerative intentions and, quite frankly, it seems to be a holistic program You're really building, building the golfer physically in the right places to have these protocols in place and for a safe way to get in better shape playing the game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. The speed is the hook, it's the fun part, it's the cool thing Underneath that, we're training for the whole game. So it's very comprehensive in terms of preparing you to play a real golf course under real conditions and hit all the shots that you need to be able to hit.
Speaker 1:That's fantastic, especially in the landscape of today's game. Today's game is for better or for worse we all have our opinions out there A lot of its distance predicated, you know, when you're watching the guys out on tour or the gals out there on the LPGA tour or the European tour, it shows them their swing speed, it shows them their carry, it shows them their launch angle and these are kind of sexy ways to really draw those of us who watch and listen in. And when it comes to building speed, especially for those of us who are over 50, this program really hits where it needs to hit. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about where you build.
Speaker 2:Sure, the biggest demographic in our gym in San Antonio is 50 and older, and it's really the most gratifying to me, because, if you think back, speed training always had a stigma about it. You know, especially for the senior guys don't do it, You're going to get hurt. It's a waste of your time. The only window for speed is when you're 12 years old that kind of thing. So it has been gratifying to show them and I think the reason they keep coming back is because they quickly understand we're not going to hurt them.
Speaker 2:And you know, the thing about speed is it's not a difficult thing to achieve, it's actually easy. And the way that you make it easy is understand. Okay, at the base level, we're just going to show you how to access something that you already have. So we don't need to change your body. At the first level, the base level, we just need to show you how to find that. Once you do that, then you can train. You can train in our style, with our tools, and you're going to get more gains. But it's not a hard thing to do and that's important to know. You know, and there's two reasons why people are afraid of speed training. One is they think they're going to get hurt, and one is they think they're going to hit it sideways. But if you do it properly in my view of properly those things aren't going to happen.
Speaker 1:Well, let's talk about the Mach 3 speed training viewpoints here, and what makes you a little bit different than the others that have come before.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that, to put it concisely, we're not asking anybody to swing as hard as they can and we're not asking them for some kind of maximum effort. We're going to do it through efficiency. And so, if you think about this now, we can measure so many things in the swing. So how many things can we measure? Is it 100, 500, 1000, whatever it is? How many things do we want to ask the golfer to do, to intentionally do? And so to us, it's one one thing we want you to try to maximize your speed out in front, meaning pass the ball more closer to the finish area. So notice, I'm saying try to do. It's your intention that drives everything, and a purposeful movement, like a golf swing, something you're doing on purpose, that's driven by its destination. So the first question to ask is where is the finish of this move? Well, it's out in front, it's up a little bit, and if you're right handed, it's a little bit to your left. So you have to understand that area, and so we'll just call that general area the finish. All right. So now that we understand that we want to orient all our movements to there, not to the ball, and in fact it's not only to the finish. It's from the finish. So to there, from there, to there, from there. It's like almost like a continuum of energy.
Speaker 2:And so, notice, the ball becomes irrelevant, because the ball is just kind of this random halfway point. So we don't want to, for example, we don't want to draw our backswing from the ball, we want to draw it from the finish. So let's imagine you have one bolt of energy, okay, where are you going to send it? And the answer is straight to the finish. It's not down at the ball, and then somehow up at the finish, because that's almost like you think you can turn a corner with your energy. And once you drive it down toward the ball, it's going to stay in that direction until you labor to change it. But we don't want to labor, we actually want to feel easier.
Speaker 2:So again, we erase the ball from the equation and we take that old focal point which was the ball, and we move it. We move it forward, upward and a little to the left. Now what does that do? Because now I'm going to orient all my movements to there. So I'm going to be more efficient, I'm going to strip away any wasted motion, not because I'm thinking about it, but what else would I do? You told me a new place to go where. If I'm a new golfer, hopefully it's the first thing you showed me, right? If I'm a new golfer, I want you to show me where the finish is, and in fact, for any sport if it was a tennis cross, court forehand, or how to shoot a free throw or how to throw a right cross I want you to show me the finish first.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because once I know where to go, I'll create a path to there and from there that eliminates all the sticking points. And not only that, I won't be intellectually trying to think what to do or even intellectually understanding it, you're just showing me an easy way go there, and so my movement will be very efficient right from the beginning. So once we have the path of the greatest efficiency, that's faster, efficiency is speed and speed is efficiency. And so in doing that, we can allow people to speed up without any chance that they're going to get hurt, because I didn't say swing harder, I said let yourself be faster. Straight to that point. And so it's something you've already got in you At the base, foundation level. You've got it. We show you how to find it.
Speaker 2:We show you some drills with one of our tools that is worth historically two to eight miles per hour, right there, understanding speed out in front and understanding what it feels like and I'm literally quoting our numbers from a couple thousand golfers that have been to our gym, plus 100 and whatever workshops we've done around the country where we're speed checking. Everybody that's there. So it's probably six, seven, 8,000 people, right. So that's worth two to eight. Now you can train, that's going to be worth another two to eight. How do I know? Because that's what the numbers have shown. So here we have four to 16, with the average being about 11. Eventually 11 miles an hour, club head speed, a little bit higher ball speed. So now we've got a window of four to 16 that pretty much everybody will reach, if only for the fact that you've got it in you already. You know, nobody said be explosive, swing as hard as you can, anything like that. We said look, orient your movements to there, let yourself be faster out in front, and everything's going to speed up.
Speaker 1:That's with that intention alone. I mean that's very powerful, mike, and I could not agree more. I mean, as you were talking, I was thinking about, you know, baseball players are always they're trying to hit the ball out in front of them. Does that make sense? I mean, there's the adage of hitting through the ball or hitting through. You know that. That's basically explaining it.
Speaker 1:But also to Bruce Lee, in all of the great martial arts people you know, hitting a brick if they're hitting a layer of bricks, they're not hitting at the first brick, they're hitting to the seventh brick. First brick doesn't even exist in their mind, right, and that's and that's why they have incredible power and they can. Just with that intention alone, the post impact stuff to me is very interesting, very interesting. Those of us who are Brad students, brad Hughes or John Erickson advanced ball striking, you understand this very well. Part of our frustration within that community is some of the other protocols where they're going to get you to swing a little bit more from the top. So there isn't that forward orientation. You're just trying to swing the thing as hard as you possibly can, right, but with that forward orientation. That's a different intention there.
Speaker 2:Absolutely yeah. So you know, and I'm not ever going to sit in judgment of another method, because that's not my job, you know.
Speaker 2:Of course I get asked a lot. You know who are your main competitors. Well, I don't think in my mind that I have competitors. I'm just doing what I do because I know it works, sure. And so even if I knew a lot about what they were doing, it wouldn't change what I'm doing. I already know that I'm on the right path and that you know, if you put me in a workshop with 30 golfers who I've never met, 29 or 30 of them are going to go up in speed. I know that because it happens over and over and over again. So I'm confident that I'm on the right path and I don't feel like I compete with anyone.
Speaker 2:And, to be honest, I don't study other methods that are out there that much. I'm kind of probably aware of a few of them, but it doesn't matter to me that much because I know that what I do is going to work and a big part of it is look, can you do this without hurting people? Yeah, so if a method is going to be based on brute force or maximum exertion, then that person better have a body that can handle that. But I don't think there's any need to go there. You know, in our gym we don't really do any explosive training, like we don't jump on boxes, we don't run sprints with parachutes attached to our belt, and it's not necessary. If you understand speed out in front, you're going to go up and you're not going to get hurt and it's not difficult to do. And then all we're asking is like hey, do you want to be part of this community that trains in this way, with these tools and in this particular style? Because, to be honest, it's really fun. It's a really fun way to train and anyone can do it.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean, we had a woman in the beginning in our gym. Her name was Gloria and she was from Mexico and she was 58. And she was the girliest girl I have ever met. There was not a single athletic molecule in her body, she's just a sweetheart of a lady. And she went up 14 miles an hour. And I said to my business partner, jeff, I said if we can do that with her, that's probably the greatest achievement. Well, we may never surpass that achievement that we took this lady who, with no athleticism but why did it happen? In retrospect, she's capable of it she was only starting at 58 miles an hour, right, that's like watching a video in slow motion Right and she got up to 72.
Speaker 2:So all it all it took was somebody to show her how to do that, and she had it in her, she just didn't know it. But for her as well as anyone else, 14 miles an hour times let's call it two and a half yards is 35 yards, right? Well, think how thrilled was she that, you know, all of a sudden she's got 30 or 40 more yards. So she's kind of the baseline I always think back to. We did that with Gloria, we do that with anyone. And you know what the surprising thing is? Because we've had, I think, seven long drive champions come in, I believe four in the open class and three in the masters, the guys that won, right.
Speaker 2:So, of course, the first time a guy like that comes in, you're thinking, jesus, like, can even he go up? You know, am I going to be embarrassed that he doesn't? But all of them went up between six and 11 miles per hour. So the same method works for everybody, right? The same method. It doesn't matter who the person is, or male or female, or how old they are. I would say 11 years old and up would be the age range. It's not going to matter, it's going to work because it works for everyone and it's a fortunate thing obviously.
Speaker 1:Well, what's cool about it is the post impact intentions, or you know the space after impact, if you will, and to keep accelerating. And what's cool is, if anybody who's listening has gone on to Mike's Instagram, mock three, you have all kinds of little cool tools and things that you can use to really drive home these points. So talk about, like, give me, give me one of the toys that you guys use to really help folks, because the fun factor is definitely alive, which I love.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So, believe it or not, we only have one tool that we swing as fast as we can and that's called a jet stick, and everything else I would call strength and relevant patterns. So very little of the overall training is actually at top speed I'm going to say 5% and everything else is just working in a pattern that will help you on the golf course and getting stronger throughout that entire pattern. So a lot of our tools have long ropes attached and they have various types of handles, and what those ropes do is they add a conditioning effect, but they also provide tremendous feedback, so that as you're using them because if you think about this, let's say you're in the gym and you're doing 10 cable rotations or something like that every rep is exactly the same. Pretty much. You know, the cable is the cable, the resistance is the resistance, the path that moves on is the path that moves on. But a rope is like a live wire and it never travels exactly the same way twice. So if you're slinging the rope out in front of you 10 times and you were to video that and then start looking at screenshots of each rep, you go, wow, like the ropes never in exactly the same place. So what's happening is you're creating the motion, but you also have to react to the motion, microsecond by microsecond. So you're creating and reacting. Creating and reacting and it's a very athletic way to train because that's how sports are played is instantaneous reaction to everything that's going on. The rope also gives you feedback because you start internally processing what body movement allows the rope to fly the farthest and to fly the cleanest, and so a poor body movement with most of those tools will just cause the rope to hit the ground right in front of you. But any fish and body movement will send it kind of sizzling quietly out in front or flying through the air and never even touching the ground at all. So there's just tons of feedback and also anyone watching someone use one of those tools, it will instantaneously click oh, I get that, I see that, I understand that right away.
Speaker 2:But if you go back to the gym okay, so you told me to do planks, okay. Well then I'm trying to figure out how the plank helps me on the golf course or a kneeling cable chop or whatever it might be. So Mach 3 is a reflection of how I like to train, which is big, broad, sweeping, circular movements and a lot of action and reaction, right, and so it's just a. It's very athletic and it's very intuitive and it's fun. So people like coming back they're like, wow, that was fun, that's what I want to hear In the gym. I don't want to hear like, wow, you killed me, I'm exhausted. I want to hear that was great, that was fun, I'll see you Thursday, right, I'm not trying to make anybody tired. I really want them to feel amazing and to intuitively know all those patterns I understood Well that's, I mean, what's fun is also motivational and inspirational at the same time.
Speaker 1:If you're having fun in a process and you know that you're directing forward, you're going to go through whatever peaks and valleys that you need to go through as a part of the process, and that's what really attracted me, mike, as we were talking earlier.
Speaker 1:Just looking at some of your Instagram videos, I see some kids, some high school kids training, some adults training and everybody is looking like they're having a genuinely good time. I really liked the training part without a golf ball or without a simulated golf club, because, for some strange reason, us as golfers, if we swing a club in a golf swing type way or we have a golf ball prevalent, a lot of times we start going in analysis mode analysis mode, excuse me, critical mode and the mind gets in there and basically blocks out a lot of those intuitive impulses that we have as a part of the feedback, and we need that feedback. We really do so. There's not. What's cool about what you're saying is there's not a ton of thinking, but a lot of observation and entrusting your words and your teaching and trusting the fact that the body knows how to generate it when it needs to. It just needs to be directed. That's what's cool.
Speaker 2:And the easiest students basically are newbies, novice golfers or beginning golfers, because they don't have a backlog of information to bring to the table. So when we get a brand new golfer in the gym, that's my favorite thing, because that person is going to be moving like a golfer in the blink of an eye without teaching them the golf swing. Sure, right, because we're using the commitment to the finish and the intention out in front to create the motion. And that's by far the easiest way to do. It is to let the finish create the motion. And I've heard instructors say well, the finish doesn't mean anything, nothing matters after the club has struck the ball. But I'm saying the finish creates the entire move, without a doubt. Yeah, your intention and your perception of how to finish, and I don't mean what it looks like, I mean what does it feel like to be at the end of the swing or past the ball with a ton of energy still alive. And that's where professionals are far superior to amateurs. Sure, it's how much energy they have alive past the ball.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, if you think about the grades, I mean you think about, I mean, goodness gracious tiger man, you think about Earl Palmer, he had so much energy. I mean the club's still twirling Right To finish, seve Biasteros, just those come to mind where they've got. Oh man, I mean it's still going. If they were to let go of the golf club, I mean the golf club would fly 100 yards down the fairway Right.
Speaker 2:So, really, when a golfer first comes in and we get them warmed up and then they hit five balls and we're measuring, then we show them the concept, sure, and what I normally do is I'll have a line on the floor that depicts where the ball would be teed with your driver and I'll say, no, look, here's what I'm asking you to do.
Speaker 2:I need your speed out in front, your strength out in front, your energy out in front, your focus out in front, and I need you to experience the entire game out in front of that line, so that there's not only is there no talk about, let's say, the backswing or even the transition, but you're just envisioning and imagining and experiencing the whole game out in front. It's the far easier way to go about it and, in my mind, when you start feeding somebody intellectual requirements, that's where they start to fall apart. Nobody falls apart out in front. You always fall apart behind the ball, trying to figure out what to do. And I mean here's another example I don't know about you, but I learned how to drive a car in one or two days.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Probably one, yeah, so how is it that you can teach a golfer? Start teaching them at age 15, and they're 65 and still trying to figure out how to swing a club? Because driving a car is way more neurologically demanding than swinging a golf club. Amen to that, so. So part of it is the way that we present it. If somebody tells you the golf swing is this unsolvable mystery and you're going to work on it your whole life and you can never really master it, well, what kind of message is that? I'd rather, I'd rather be able to say with them after the first session you understand, you got that right. And I don't mean it's perfect, and I don't mean that maybe it doesn't need to be tweaked here and there or whatever, but I mean the gist of it. Like if you show me how to throw a right cross through the back of somebody's head, that's all I need. No, I actually just got 99% of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, that's the this. The main thing is where am I going with this motion and where does it all maximize? So part of it is the message that you know, the message that golf is hard, Golf is an unsolvable challenge. Why are we not saying great job, you got that. Next time you come in we'll go to something else, so to speak. Right, and that's not a message that some people want to hear, because they kind of want to feel like it's a lifetime endeavor to master swinging a club.
Speaker 2:But if you talk to elite players, we've probably had 12 or 15 golfers come to our gym that one on the tour, maybe even one majors, one on the champions tour, maybe they won senior majors, right. So those are great opportunities because, believe me, when they come in, I'm looking to learn from them more than they could ever learn from me. So at some point I always say why are you so good? And it always takes them aback. They go what? And I say why are you so good? Like, why did you win as a junior and you won in college and then you won on the tour and now you're winning on the champions tour, Like, what is so special about you?
Speaker 2:And zero of them have ever mentioned their swing. It never comes up. What it almost always is is some version of because I can fashion a 72 and I'm hitting it like 77, you know, I can figure out how to get around and I'll fix my swing later, that kind of thing. That's always the message, some variation of that, or I'm just really good under pressure, that kind of thing. But nobody ever even brought up their swing, much less described it. So to me that tells you something that maybe there's just too much emphasis on a intellectual biomechanics approach and you've got to let people do this as an athlete and you've got to give them something that they can feel as a whole, not broken into parts, not trying to figure it out piece by piece, but experiencing the whole motion as a whole and driven by. Where are we going and what does it feel like to be there with a lot of energy.
Speaker 1:Sure, well, that absolutely makes sense, mike, I think of you know Tiger again, boy. I mean, tiger has hit some phenomenal recovery shots in his career. I mean just that are forever etched in our memories. It comes to mind, I think, what was it? The second shot out of the bunker on 18 in Canada where he won? He had a six iron 200 yards over and he had to hit a high cut and I remember his finish. It was exaggerated, in fact, to really emphasize whatever he was trying to do. So throw out the theory of post impact, that it doesn't matter, right? That's just complete nonsense. And I love the fact that you're talking about using this as a focal point in the training, because the body, I think, knows that intuitively. Based on my own experience and all the years that I've been playing the game and been involved in the game, you know and, like I said, it's similar. I mean, I don't think boxers are aiming, I think boxers are trying to punch through their target, right? Yeah, I think that really holds true. So this is the same principle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it also it's even a little bit bigger than the actual swing motion that we're trying to speed up. So again, professional golfers are great resources and it always pay their eyeballs to the ball. Professional golfers experience the game from the ball outward Right. They lens through which they view the game as different. It's all out in front. They play the game out in front. They don't play the game up and down from the ball, but amateurs do, because they're not confident, they know how to hit it Right and so they're relying on to focus out in front right away, so that they never actually get stuck, you know, with up and down from the ball thoughts.
Speaker 2:So the way that we're increasing speed is just a part of experiencing the whole game out in front. So, yeah, we are trying to feel like we speed up out in front. That's the whole basis of getting faster and it's so easy. It's almost embarrassing how easy it is to speed up when you do that, but also you then extend that to how do I experience the whole game? I actually want to experience it out in front, right. I want the game to draw me toward the target so that I don't get stuck from my eyeballs down to the ball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, boy, so many folks are ball bound and it's unfortunate that it really is. When I got this principle with what exactly what we're talking about my own game, my game, my ball strike we went to another level. Control over the golf ball went to another level. With these, with these particular thoughts through Brad Hughes and John Erickson Does, have you found Mike in your, in your studies of golfers, professional golfers, golfers that have come into your gym? Have you found an improvement in overall basic swing motion as a result of doing this work?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in our gym, I have always wanted to only measure two things, and that's club head speed and ball speed. However, when we do workshops around the country, we do meet a lot of coaches who are very much more high tech, which is great. So they often send us their information. You know they'll send us a video of a student and the full track man spectrum or if they're using, you know, body track or something that measures pressure, shifts and whatnot. And here's what happens pretty much when you really master speed out in front, anything you want to measure is going to be better, including impact alignments, and why so? Why is that If we're not actually teaching that? Why does it improve? Because we're moving more efficiently. That's all it boils down to. So stripping away wasted motion and making the whole move more efficient. And we had I'm going to say about four years ago, maybe five One of my most memorable workshops here in San Antonio.
Speaker 2:We had six instructors from all over the country and all six of them were, conservatively, a hundred times smarter than me. They were brilliant guys, all pretty much high tech guys, and it was an amazing day for me because they were many levels above me in understanding biomechanics. And at the end of the day, one of them he went up like 16 miles an hour, I think it was. So he said OK, I admit that it works, but I don't understand why it works. And I said it's efficiency. It's nothing more than that. It's you putting your focus and intention of speed out in front creates a more efficient move and therefore it's faster. And that's all it is. It's that simple. Now you all could explain all the swing stuff way better than I can, but my language is it works because it works. It's more efficient, and I've never forgotten that day. And then all six of them were top, I think, top 50 instructors. I was going to say top 100, but I think they're all like top 50 and some of them were top 10. And I don't know how much they've used it since then. Some of them probably have, and maybe some have it. I'm not sure, but I just remembered that day because we were sitting at lunch and they were talking to each other about this launch monitor versus that launch monitor, and I'm sitting there eating my salad going on. I have no idea what you're talking about, but at least I could show them a simple way that a golfer can speed up and it'll work every time.
Speaker 2:And sometimes I get people say well, that doesn't make sense. How can the finish create the move? And I say it's the only thing that makes sense. Why wouldn't it? You create the motion because you're going somewhere and if I change the somewhere, you'll change the motion right. So if I put the focal point still ahead of the ball, but two inches above the ground, you'll change the motion. Why? Because the finish point is different, the destination is different. So the destination is the most important thing. You got to know where you're going. And then I'm saying I'm giving you the freedom to go straight to it, straight at it. You don't have to. It's out in front and it's up and it's a little to the left. I want you to go straight there with no thoughts. And here's a tool, the jet stick, where you can listen. It's going to make a sound and just make the sound out in front. It works every time. And then we can go on to all the fun workout tools that are intuitive and have a conditioning effect.
Speaker 1:And then really this whole thing. Just it's great yeah.
Speaker 2:Really, really, sometimes you have to say to a student OK, you just went up eight miles an hour, so you prove to yourself that it works. So here's my question to you Are you going to accept that or are you going to start trying to complicate it Because you just proved it? So now the choice is yours. Do you accept that or do you now go? Well, what about this? What about that? What about this? What about that? But there's no, what about? You just did it?
Speaker 2:So the more open-minded the golfer is which tends to be believe it or not women are more open-minded than men. When they succeed like that, they don't ever question it again, they just keep going up, whereas the guys sometimes are more prone to starting to intellectualize it. Then, of course, and so I call them the what abouts? What about this, what about that? And to me there's no. What about? I just showed you an easy way to do it and you just did it. It's not like I'm making it up, you just did it right in front of me and there's the numbers right there. So, and if I were to have taken a video of their swing when they first come in and then a video of their swing while they're producing the faster numbers. I can show them screenshots and biomechanically they're better. Why? Because it was more efficient.
Speaker 2:Take, let's take, usain Bolt. He runs 200 meter races and one is a 9.8 and one is a 9.3. The 9.3, by definition, was more efficient and if we analyze his stride, it probably shows up quite easily. Right, you can probably see it. But point being, speed is efficiency, efficiency is speed, and that's how you do it without getting hurt or without having to be an explosive athlete. Obviously, an explosive athlete has even more advantage.
Speaker 2:Sure, these long drives, drive guys come in, like we were talking about Justin and James before we started. Okay, that guy's a great athlete, and so is Martin Borbmeyer, and so Vannett the ball, 425 yards, right, but yeah, whatever we're doing, we can add 20, we can add maybe 30. And it's been proven what that's worth. You know, we've got. We've got 18 years of data now of what it's worth. And knows me, knows I'm a total treat. I wish we were still playing persimmon and the lotta and blades. That's the game I loved, right, but it's not. The reality is it is a power game now, and the reality is I'm talking about competition, competitive goal. The reality is that? So let's take two seasons ago on the PGA tour not the season that we just finished, but the one before that the average driving distance on the tour was 300 yards to 99.8. So I'm going to call it 300.
Speaker 2:Yeah of the top 30 money winners, 28 of them were longer than the average and 88% of the tournaments were won by golfers who were longer than the average. There was one guy who won at 290 and one guy who won at 285. Everybody else was over 300. So you look at that, I mean that's hardcore. It is what it is Right. So when I say the driver is the most important club, which which I actually, which I actually believe, but that's no big deal, I'm just one guy, my opinion is not any more valid than anyone else's, but I believe the driver's the most important club. Now when I say that people hear he just said putting is not important. He just said short game doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:I didn't say that at all I said.
Speaker 2:If you can't drive it well, you will not compete at the highest levels anymore. It just can't be done. Right, you know you could have this short game of SEVI, but if your average driving distance is 260, you'll never see the PGA tour. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's. And also to even across every era, the longer players have all had a distinct advantage yeah, tiger was long. Jack Nicholas was long. Greg Norman, bobby Jones Hogan was long. Sam Snead was long.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were all longer than average, so all at each level there's a threshold.
Speaker 2:So, for example, on the LPGA, you can win at 252 to 258. Examples being Lydia Ko, jin Young Ko Danielle Kang. You know a lot of girls can win in the 250s on the LPGA. So there you know what the threshold is. Right, you don't have to be the longest one, you just need. It really, really helps to be longer than average. It's a statistically proven thing. And so it is important that, whatever your level is, to, maybe if you're a competitor, to know what is the average, and then I need to be longer than that and then you're good to go. Like that's where your short game really will come into play once you're longer than average.
Speaker 2:And you know the other objection I get sometimes I've actually had a coach say to me all those kids you're training need to stop with the speed training and get out and start practicing short game. And I said, okay, well, three times a week, times half an hour. Our speed training is an hour and a half and there's 168 hours in a week. So there you go, you have 166 and a half hours to practice your short game. Speed training by its nature is relatively brief.
Speaker 2:So our golfers, including the tour players, they are practicing their short game more now because they don't have to hit as many balls, because the training is taking care of a lot of that.
Speaker 2:So the you know the days I believe the days of the elite men's players hitting 500 balls a day, that's, that's going to the wind. You know it's much more now about physical training and preparing your body and understanding how to recover and things like that. And so the practice time really of all the golfers we have is very heavily weighted to short game, because the workouts, the workouts are handling the swing motion and you know people don't understand speed training is strike training right. We're not saying swing as hard as you can. We're not saying give me maximum exertion. Those are the things that can have the club face pointing. Who knows where we're giving you greater efficiency. And so now your strike is going to be more optimal, you're not going to have to hit so many balls. You can put more time into other areas of the game wedges and short game especially and just let the physical training part handle to a large degree the driver Sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that makes complete sense to me, like in. In fact, when you think about that actually makes a lot of sense because I mean, goodness gracious, the guys and the girls out there, no matter what tour they play, on the top ones they are really good with their wedges, really good. And so this falls really in alignment with what you're saying, mike. How can people find you, how can people find Mach 3 and get a little bit more information?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so our website is mach3speedtrainingcom. That's where you could find all of our training tools, and we also have virtual courses and even an online certification program. We have a YouTube channel, mach 3 Speed Training, and we're on Instagram, mach 3 Speed Training. So basically any of those avenues. When people buy tools from our website, they get an email straight from me and it gives them a warm up video and a video describing our concept and, for whatever tools they bought, they get a video of the drills so they can work out on their own. We do hold workshops all over the country. Most of the time those are at private clubs. Sometimes they're at public facilities. So we have a workshops tab on our website where you could see what's coming up, and we hold workshops here in San Antonio also. So all of those are avenues, yeah.
Speaker 1:Great conversation, massively enlightening. I love the paradigm shift leaning toward post-impact intentions. I think that's very important. I think the greats knew that. Thank you for bringing that into a training protocol. That's going to be fun for anybody, and especially those of us, myself included, who were plus 50 years of age. This is huge. I can't overstate this enough, because those of us who have lost some speed, there is hope, and that is Mach 3 Speed Training. I can't thank you enough. Mike Romitowski, everyone, Mach 3 Speed Training. Thanks for coming on, pal.
Speaker 2:I'm happy to be here. I'm really glad you asked me to do it.
Speaker 1:Hopefully we can do it again. I'm going to be a practitioner this off season. I'm definitely going to keep folks updated and once again, Mike, thanks for coming on. Mach 3 Speed Training mach3.com, Is it right? Your website? Mach3.com?
Speaker 2:Mach3SpeedTrainingcom.
Speaker 1:Mach3SpeedTrainingcom. Thank you, mike, thank you.