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Effortless power in the golf swing is a difficult concept for many amateur golfers. In video 2 of the perfecting your impact series, I'll show you how to add some speed with just a bit of weight shift.
- Start with a narrow base.
- Gradually widen the base and allow the shift to create momentum in the club.
- Right heel down on the ground.
Okay guys, So here we are at week number two of perfecting your ball striking and turning you guys all into a bunch of ball striking geniuses.
I hope everybody had a fantastic week last week and got in their thousand reps and had some really good progress.
And felt what it's like to strike the golf ball nice and solidly.
Now this week, what we're going to do is it's still going to seem like we have our training wheels on, But all we're going to do is we're going to add in a small piece of weight shift here.
And we're going to give you a little bit of a checkpoint to look for with these next thousand reps.
And then weeks three and four we're going to really start to push you, We're going to ramp your speed up and by the end of it, you'll have your training wheels off and you'll be striking the golf ball, really, really well.
So game plan wise again is going to be a thousand reps this week, but we're going to start out by adding a little bit of weight shift, but I'm going to do it with a very narrow stance.
So you're going to see me stand about six inches apart.
And what my goal here is, is just to feel like I'm getting a little bit more pressure in my right side, so you can see my weight's way over here in my right leg.
And I'm going to swing my arms out to my nine o'clock position again.
You can go a little bit further if you need to, if you feel comfortable with it.
Then what I'm going to do is rather than pulling my arms down, is I'm going to just shift all my weight back over to my lead side.
So you can see, now I'm just a little bit out past neutral joint alignment, and that's just because my stance width is very narrow at this point.
So again, I'm going to shift over to my right and then I'm going to shift my weight to.
So now what you can notice is that the weight shift, if I'm standing over here on my right side and then I shift my weight, you can see that that's moving my arms.
That's helping you create momentum to this.
So a lot of people want to get up to their right side and they want to pull their arms down.
And that's the exact opposite way we want to do things.
We want to allow the body to pull the arms into the hitting area and allow you to release it with some more speed.
So again, we're going to start out slow, shift to the right, shift left, let the club release.
Make sure you feel like your wrists and your forearms are really relaxed.
You shouldn't have your feet coming up off the ground.
So my goal today is I'm going to get 200 reps of that in.
Then what I'm going to do for my next 200 reps tomorrow is I'm going to slowly start to widen my stance.
So I'm going to go from about 6 inches to about 10 inches.
So now my goal at this point is to make sure.
When I shift over to my right side is that my right leg is going to go into neutral joint alignment here, okay?
So shift, swing out to 9, shift, and now you're going to see that my left leg is in neutral.
So I'm going to shift back into the left with my forearms and wrists rotate very relaxed.
Then after I get 200 reps of that, I'm going to widen back up here, almost to where I've been my proper stance with here about 2 inches outside of neutral joint alignment.
And I'm going to spend the remaining part of my reps.
So the next 3 days are going to be done at normal stance with.
So I'm going to make a small shift over to the right, okay?
Just about a 1 inch shift here, so you can see that I haven't got my right knee all the way in neutral.
But just a small shift, out to 9, big shift left.
So now my left leg is in neutral and then we're going to let it release.
Now, a very, very important checkpoint for this week is to not allow your right heel to come up off the ground.
If your right heel comes up off the ground, you do 100 pushups to alleviate this.
We do not want this right heel to come up off the ground.
That's what can cause the body to rotate.
That's what can help bring your hips forward.
So, when you make your reps, small shift right, big shift left, release.
Right heel needs to stay down on the ground.
And as another checkpoint for you, when you get out here to the release point, I want both arms really relaxed, okay?
Both forearms should feel like they're really relaxed, almost touching each other.
And the toe of the club should be up to the sky or just slightly left.
So start slow this week.
We're just going to start out with our feet close together.
We're going to feel our weight starting to shift.
We're going to see how the weight starts to move the arms, starts to create some momentum for you.
And then you're going to go to a little bit wider, a little bit wider until you're in full stance width.
And then you're going to see that you can start to hit it a little bit more crisp and a little bit further than you did last week, just by adding a little bit of weight shift.
We're not changing anything else.
We're not adding a ton of rotation to the body.
We're not adding a ton of width.
If you feel like you can make the arms go back a little bit further, so be it.
Just make sure you're watching your impact positions.
Make sure that you're still getting that crisp contact, and we'll check in with you guys next week.
All right?
So get out there.
Get to work.
Good luck.
We'll see you guys next week when we start to really ramp this speed up.
Now let's make it a great day.
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