We don't start with the ball.
We start with
you.
.
Six analytical layers. One mental core. One training methodology that crushes the myth about high volume. All built on Dr. John Hellström's research — and measurable from day one.
"We don't believe there is one way to swing a club, we believe there are an infinite number of ways to swing a club. But we do believe there is one efficient way for every player to swing and it is based on what they can physically do."
TPI Certified — WAUW Performance Lab
We agree with Dr. Greg Rose.
Infinite ways to swing. One efficient way —
ditt.
There is no ideal model. No preference. We don't coach based on how your swing looks — but on how efficient it is based on what your body can actually do.
"What you don't measure, you imagine."
Dr. Greg Rose — TPI
We map your mobility, your strength, and your forces through the ground. Then we build your development on that data. Specific. Measurable. Individual.
Six analytical layers
Body
Force
Movement
Equipment
Ball Flight
The sequence is causal — each layer explains the next. Based on Dr. John Hellström's research on golf performance.
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Layer 1 — Physics
Your body's unique capacities set the frame.
Mobility, stability, strength — what does your body allow and what compensations is it forced to make? This is where it all begins.
Vertical force, lateral force, rotational moment — invisible to the eye but controls everything that happens above. Timing and magnitude decide.
Smart2Move 3D Force Plates · Kistler-sensor technology
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Layer 3 — Movement
The technical execution that force results in.
Sequence, velocity, position — movement is the consequence of forces. Change the forces, change the movement.
Sportsbox 3D AI · Markerless 6-DOF motion capture
04
Layer 4 — Equipment
The tools that must harmonize with your movement and force.
Club, shaft, putter, wedge — everything is matched to your biomechanics, not only to ball data. The right equipment amplifies what your body already does.
BioSwing-profil · GRF-data · Mizuno · Srixon · Wilson
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Layer 5 — Ball Flight
The final result.
Velocity, spin, launch, carry — ball flight confirms that all layers deliver together. Symptom or result? The data decides.
TrackMan iO · Synchronized with force and movement data
You've seen the six layers — what we measure. But there's a dimension that determines whether measurement actually becomes change. Dr. John Hellström's research shows the way.
The WAUW Total Performance System
Five measurable layers. One mental core. Each ring influences the next — from within and out.
The invisible layer
Your mental state guides every layer beneath it.
The mental side is not a separate part of performance — it's the operating system running the hardware. Stress signals uncertainty, your body responds with tension, and the force chain breaks before the club even moves.
A
Utveckling
Self-awareness and cognitive acceptance. Old patterns feel safe — even when they're what's holding you back. Growth requires you to release that safety and build a new, causal chain from the ground up. That's the hardest step. And the most important.
B
Performance
External goals and trust. We teach you to disconnect the analytical loop — the six layers — and instead let the optimized movement happen automatically. Your body already knows. Let it go.
Lower heart rate and lower cortical activity just before the swing may mark an optimal performance state. Pre-shot routines relate to performance — but whether the consistency of the routine itself causes the improvement is unclear.
Hellström, Sports Medicine 2009;39(10):845–855
From range till bana
Understanding the layers is half the battle. Rewiring your body is the other half.
High-volume practice creates a false sense of skill. You become good at hitting that ball — but you don't learn golf. We train differently.
Random Practice
Constantly switching targets, clubs, and conditions. Your brain is forced to plan, execute, and evaluate each shot. Harder in the moment — the only way to build a swing that holds on the course.
Constraints-Led
Instead of technical instructions that create analysis paralysis, we change the environment, equipment, or task. Your body organically finds the most efficient movement.
Transfer of Learning
We measure force and movement under conditions that resemble play. If your technique changes when it becomes "important" — it's not robustly encoded in your nervous system.
Measurable Feedback
Deliberate practice requires immediate and accurate feedback. We show you in black and white how your force development and ball flight have changed. The absolute proof.
There is no winning personality. Personality traits produce ambiguous results, and the effect of mood on score appears to be individual. What does relate to success in competition is task focus, patience, one shot at a time and automatic execution.
Hellström, Sports Medicine 2009;39(10):845–855
Practice Efficiency Index
It's not about how many balls you hit. It's about how many decisions you make.
Most golfers suffer from empty repetitions — shots without cognitive load or proper feedback. We measure the density of quality learning.
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Kognitivt engagemang
Random practice or block practice?
02
Representativ design
Does the moment resemble an on-course situation?
03
Feedback-precision
Omedelbar data — eller gissning?
04
Constraints Challenge
Is the body forced to find new solutions?
Traditional Training
Feel on rangeHigh
Transfer to courseLow
Lasting ChangeMinimal
"It feels good on the range."
The WAUW Method
Feel during sessionChallenging
Transfer to courseHigh
Lasting changeSignifikant
Harder in the moment. Robust enough for competition.
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The Scientific Foundation
The Frameworks We Build On
Two certified frameworks and a body of peer-reviewed research that together define how we map your body, identify your optimal swing, and measure where improvement happens fastest. TPI's screening has been validated through research on over 60,000 golfers. BioSwing Dynamics builds on anthropometric analysis and is used by leading coaches globally. Hellström's doctoral work includes two reviews published in Sports Medicine — the research we build on, not a model he published.
Titleist Performance Institute
is the world's largest golf-related research organization. Since 2003, they've screened over 60,000 golfers and built the largest database of connections between physical limitations and swing faults. TPI screening is not a fitness test — it's a mapping of your "hardware".
Level 1
identifies 16 mobility and stability tests that directly correlate with specific swing characteristics.
Level 2 Power
measures your explosive capacity — how quickly you can generate force. Together they show not only
vad
what you can do, but what limits you and why your swing looks the way it does.
Our certified specialist interprets your results against TPI's database and links them directly to what we see in the force plates and 3D movement.
TPI Certified — WAUW Performance Lab
Titleist Performance Institute · 60,000+ players screened · Research database since 2003 · Used by PGA/LPGA Tour
BioSwing Dynamics
Archetype & movement pattern
What type of swing suits your body?
BioSwing Dynamics
, developed by Mike Adams, E.A. Tischler, and Terry Rowles, is built on a simple but powerful insight: not all bodies are built the same, so not all swings should look the same. By measuring your anthropometry — proportions, joint mobility, muscle length — BioSwing identifies your
archetype
: the movement pattern your body naturally favors.
Instead of forcing you into a universal swing model, we use your archetype as the starting point. That means the recommendations we give are tailored to
how your body wants to move
— not how an ideal model says it should.
The BioSwing analysis complements TPI screening: TPI shows what limits you, BioSwing shows what's optimal for you.
BioSwing Dynamics Certified Coach
Mike Adams (PGA Teacher of the Year) · E.A. Tischler · Terry Rowles · Integrated with Swing Catalyst GRF data
The Performance Model
Dr. John Hellström (PhD) & multidisciplinary research
Where do you lose strokes — and where is the fastest improvement?
Dr. John Hellström's doctoral work — Expert performance in golf, Örebro University, 2012 — spans five constituent papers, two of them peer-reviewed reviews in Sports Medicine. Together they cover technique, physique, psychology, statistics and equipment, and it is that breadth we build on. The thesis does not put forward a finished performance model; its closing sentence calls for future studies to test the validity of models of that kind. Our six-layer sequence is our own construction, not his.
Hellström's review finds greens in regulation, scrambling and putts per GIR to be the statistics most strongly correlated with scoring average among elite players — and in the same breath calls them too blunt, asking for statistics where the distances to the target are known before and after each stroke. That is Strokes Gained, which we use, developed by Mark Broadie at Columbia Business School, to compare each shot against average from the same position — and precisely identify where you lose strokes.
Physical testing shows strong correlations: Counter Movement Jump and sprint ability correlate directly with club speed. Hellström's stability study — prone bridge, single-leg squat, supine hip extension — connects reduced stability with upper-body sway away from the target and with greater backswing rotation. It is a conference paper on 18 players: direction, not a norm. Among mobility tests, shoulder 90/90 rotation stands out — but that finding comes from the Senior Golfers Movement Assessment, a protocol developed for senior golfers (Martin et al., International Journal of Golf Science 2025; 19 players, mean age 67). Its reliability is high and verified (ICC 0.99 intra-rater, 0.97 inter-rater). The correlation figures come from a conference paper we have not read in full, so we do not quote them.
Behind every WAUW analysis lies additional research: Smart2Move GRF data shows that vertical and lateral forces correlate positively with club speed — and that lateral force timing (0.0–0.15 s before impact) initiates the entire kinetic chain. X-Factor Stretch research confirms that dynamic separation (pelvis rotates toward target while thorax still rotates backward) distinguishes elite from amateur. Putting science via Quintic Ball Roll and Capto Gen 3 measures face angle (90 % of ball's starting direction), launch angle, and roll quality with 0.1° precision.
It's this breadth — biomechanics, force analysis, kinematic sequencing, statistical validation, and putting diagnostics — that means we measure with validated instruments and interpret results against published research.
Research-based methodology — WAUW Performance Lab
Dr. John Hellström (Örebro University) · Mark Broadie / Strokes Gained (Columbia) · Smart2Move GRF · SGMA (senior protocol, ICC 0.99) · Quintic Ball Roll · Capto Gen 3 · TPI research database: 60,000+ screened golfers
Hellström's thesis — five domains
Technique
Kinematics
Physical
Strength & Mobility
Psychology
Pre-Shot & Focus
Statistics
Strokes Gained
Equipment
TrackMan & Fitting
GIR = strongest predictor of score. Scrambling = second most important. Strokes Gained compares each shot against average from the same position.
Physical Tests — Correlation with Club Speed
Counter Movement Jump
Strongly Positivee *
10–20 m Sprint (Mean Power)
Strongly Positivee *
Grip Strength (Dynamometer)
Positivee
Left Shoulder 90/90
SGMA — senior protocol
* Hellström, 2012 — the domains his five papers cover, not a model he published. The SGMA reliability figures above (ICC 0.99 intra-rater) come from a separate source — a senior-golfer protocol — and do not validate his work.
GRF Reference Data & Kinematic Sequence
~200 %
Total Peak Fz (downswing)
of body weight, PGA Tour average
25–35 %
Peak Fx (Lateral)
initiates the sequence
40–60 Nm
Peak Torque (Tz)
rotational moment
GRF sequence: Lateral (0.0–0.15 s before impact) → Rotary (peak ~0.1 s) → Vertical (peak at impact). Kinematic sequence: Pelvis ~484°/s → Thorax ~725°/s → Arm ~1,005°/s → Shaft ~2,277°/s (Cheetham, 2008).
Putting Science
90 %
Face angle
of ball start direction
< 0.5°
Elite face angle requirement
on 4.5 m putts
400 Hz
Capto Gen 3
data points/sec
Quintic Ball Roll measures launch angle, side spin and roll quality at up to 1,080 fps. Capto Gen 3 (9 sensors, 400 Hz) detects neuromuscular instability via Jerk parameter — distinguishes focal dystonia from performance anxiety. RAGB system classifies consistency: Blue/Elite < 0.50°, Green < 1.00°, Yellow < 2.00°, Red > 2.00°.
The only thing you need to bring is your curiosity.
You don't need to be perfect. You don't need to have the answers. Book a 1:1 session — your coach listens, measures, and shows you what your data says from the first visit.