Golf, Tennis and Pickleball Training in Austin: Swing Power Starts at the Ground

Swing power builds from the ground up, through the trunk, and out to the hands. When a link upstream is weak, the arm and shoulder make up for it. Kinetic Blueprint is a Functional Patterns movement and biomechanics training studio in Old West Austin. We film how force travels from your feet to your hands, find where it leaks, and train the chain, then film it again.

A golf swing, a tennis serve, a pickleball drive, a pitch and a punch look like arm movements. They're whole-body movements that finish at the arm. This is the throwing pattern, one of the four patterns Functional Patterns builds its training around.

What we look for

Force for a swing or a throw starts at the ground. The feet push, the hips turn, the trunk passes the rotation up, and the arm delivers it. A 2012 framework on the kinetic chain describes it the same way: force builds from the legs and trunk out to the arm, and a weak link upstream shifts load onto the shoulder (PMID 22666599). It's a theoretical framework, not a trial, and we present it as that. It's also the logic of every video we take.

What we watch for on camera:

• how you load and push off the ground before the swing,
• whether the hips turn ahead of the shoulders or with them,
• how the trunk passes rotation up instead of bending to fake it,
• and what the arm has to add at the end to make up the difference.

How we measure it

We run one method: Measure, Map, Move.

1. Measure. A movement assessment: movement video from the feet to the hands, through your swing or throw.
2. Map. We connect where force leaks to what the arm and shoulder are doing to cover for it.
3. Move. We train the rotation from the ground up, then film you again so the change is visible.

Who this is for

Golfers, tennis and pickleball players, padel players, baseball players and boxers in Austin who want more from the swing without more strain on the arm. Players whose shoulder or elbow complains after a long session. Anyone whose coach keeps fixing the stroke while the power still isn't there. There's a pickleball player's video among the stories on our results page.

If a shoulder already hurts, read our shoulder pain page first. It covers when to see a doctor before training.

Frequently asked questions

Are you a golf or tennis coach? No. We don't teach the swing itself. We train the body that makes it: how force builds from the ground, through the hips and trunk, and out to the hands. Your coach works on the stroke; we work on the chain underneath it.

Can training add power to my swing? We can't promise a clubhead speed or a serve speed. What we do is find where force leaks out of the chain on video, train that, and film you again so you can see whether it moved.

My shoulder or elbow hurts when I swing. Can you help? If it's been checked and you're cleared to train, yes, we'll look at what's loading it, often from below. If it's a new or sharp pain, see a doctor first. Our shoulder pain page covers when.

Where are you located? 507 Pressler Street, Suite 100, Austin TX 78703, in Old West Austin. You can reach us at (512) 215-8106.

See every sport we train on our performance page.