160 yd Shots - GOAT Speed Sequence
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As you move from wedges to full swing iron shots, it's time to start understanding the sequence to create speed. Learn how the wrists and body work together to effortlessly accelerate the club to hit your 8 iron 160+ yards.
Let's talk about speed.
Speed in the golf swing, the way that you generate speed, the way that you generate power is everything.
The way that you're going to produce speed dictates every single thing that's going to happen in your golf swing.
What I want to show you real quick is a clip of the goat working on the range, getting a feel for what his hands feel like, because this is the visual I want to put in your head for you to help you understand how easy it is as we move into the 160 yard shots part of the swing, how easy it is to generate speed when you do it the right way.
Watch how easy.
He's letting his wrists move back and forth and letting them hinge and unhinge.
And then watch how smooth and effortless this 165 -yard 8-iron is.
As you just saw, Tiger's getting the feeling of his hands and his wrists moving like this.
He's opening the face very significantly and letting it close very significantly, which is a big exaggeration.
It's not actually how we're going to do it exactly in the swing, but the feeling of your wrists and your hands and your fingers and the club moving like this is exactly what the swing should feel like.
Most golfers never feel this.
They grip it so that they're pushing the club through or they're pulling the club through.
They're twisting their shoulders, trying to make the club move fast.
And it does not work like that you want to let the club work like a tool like a lever to work for you and the way that you want to start getting a feeling for this is starting with your feet together and doing this movement where you're letting the face open you're letting your wrist cup and you're letting it release on the other side get a feel for your hands doing this passively don't try and push the club through or try and lock your wrists up.
You need your wrists to move and hinge and unhinge, just like you saw Tiger doing in that video.
This motion is very important because without this, the swing doesn't work.
There's nothing you're going to do to make up for this speed.
And if you do, you're going to be putting so much effort into it, you're probably going to injure yourself.
If you want to swing freely, and as I show you, we're going to build up to 175 yard eight iron.
Now, I know right now all of you are thinking, there's no way I can hit a hate iron 175 yards.
My goal for everybody is to be able to hit it 160 yards, which even that seems unreasonable at first until you see how easy it really is when you go through this sequence.
And this is the goat speed sequence.
So it starts with your hands, letting the wrist be cupped, letting the face get open, so that you get the feeling of having something to snap on the way through.
You can see that my body right now is not really doing a lot.
I'm turning my rib cage, using my core, letting my wrists and hands swing as I go back and forth.
And I just want to get the feeling of a little whoosh.
You can see as the club snaps at the bottom, my arms and hands are very, very relaxed.
I'm not trying to do anything to try and accelerate the club.
I am letting the club snap with my wrist.
Now, the key to this is that you have to move your body correctly.
If your body's not moving right, then this won't work either.
So the way that I want to get you the feeling of how your body works is first, you've got to understand that you cannot pick the club up as you go back because you'll kill your turn.
And if you kill your turn, everything else falls apart.
But if I start understanding that I'm trying to rotate my rib cage, obviously I'm moving into side bend and extension as I go back, as I've talked about in other videos.
But what I'm doing is not trying to move my shoulders.
That's a misnomer in this swing.
A lot of times when people say, oh, I got to move my shoulders, they start moving their shoulders.
That is shoulder movement.
My shoulders are getting moved by my body, by my rib cage, by my spine by my core that is moving my shoulders which moves my arms which moves my hands this part of the swing is key because what you're starting to do is have something to move those wrists so that the wrist can be relaxed and snap through the ball and get that endless conveyor belt feel versus you trying to move it in a linear path so i've got to rotate to move my arms to move my club to move my wrists and now the trick is how do i rotate as i talked about in one of the webinars recently, I actually start with my knee kind of, I'm exaggerating this going this way, because this gives me a little base to rotate against.
Cause now soon, if I, if I start turning my hips like this immediately, then I don't build up any tension, any stretching across my core or this anterior oblique sling of those of you who are studying the fascial lines.
But if I do this first and I start to turn against this hip, now I'm starting to build resistance.
And as I keep turning my core, it pulls my hip back around to the lead side.
So now I'm already re-centered.
I'm back on this lead side.
Now here's the key.
As you start practicing this feeling, watch my left heel.
I want you to get used to the feeling of it planting like this.
Now this is a big exaggeration, but this will help you start working through this whole goat speed sequence that as I go this way and now I rotate my core against this braced right leg and it pulls me back around or re -center because as I keep turning this back, it pulls my hip back over here.
I plant my left heel this way because I want to feel in the downswing that my feet, if I was on a slippery floor or a piece of ice, that my feet are turning this way.
In the backswing, they're turning this way.
That's how you create torque.
So as I go back, as I do this with my hips, again, big exaggeration, my feet are actually screwing into the ground this way to create resistance from upper body to turn this way.
In the downswing, it's the opposite.
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So now I go like this and now I've got a nice firm base to rotate my core against and that's what moves those hands to get that feeling of the wrist snapping.
Now as I do this all together I'm going to do it in sequence and I'm going to do it in in chunks so that you can start to practice this as a speed sequence drill.
So my hands I'm going to do that little move that you saw the goat doing just softening up my wrists so that I can feel them start to swing freely.
Okay.
Now I'm going to, I'm going to exaggerate all these things.
So it's easy to see.
These are all very subtle moves, but it helps you start to feel it.
I'm going to move my right knee forward and plant into this right hip, turn my body, my upper body against my lower body, keep my wrists and hands nice and wide, plant my left heel this way.
And now start to rotate my core against that brace left leg and let my hands snap.
Now you can see I had a good amount of speed there, but there's no effort in it.
I'm truly doing just what you just saw.
This is the whole sequence.
Big exaggeration, plant into this, wrist nice and wide.
I'm not trying to pick the club up.
This is a death move.
You do this, you're going to start using your arms.
So plant wide.
I actually kind of exaggerate keeping my wrist deviated.
I'm going to exaggerate it all the way to the top, plant, brace, rotate.
That is the key to getting your speed where you know it should be.
The golf swing has to allow the wrist to snap through the ball to make it effortless.
Now let me show you a few swings where I've worked through this sequence and you can see as I build up speed, all I'm doing is these exact same moves, but it's really not hard to produce the speed that you're capable of.
So we'll start with the first one.
This is a 125-yard 8-iron at 76 miles an hour.
And these carry distances, the 125 yards, is at sea level.
I've got TrackMan set up adjusted to sea level here.
You'll see that as I swing, there's nothing in it, right?
You know, I'll loop this.
125-yard 8-iron is nothing.
And I'm being a little sloppy and loose and exaggerating here and letting my wrists kind of set a little bit more than they normally would but you can see that it's just smooth and fluid and effortless and if we slow it down for just a second you're going to see watch my right see my right knee moving forward that gives me a brace my right glute's going to activate my shoulders are turning my arms and wrists are just kind of swinging freely again this is kind of a sloppy exaggeration because i'm trying to exaggerate so you guys can see how the wrists are just going to snap through the ball right there not really doing much my arms and hands are just letting that club and those wrists release just like you saw Tiger doing.
Now we'll jump up to 145 yards.
Now this is where a lot of people probably are with their eight iron.
This is an 80 mile an hour swing.
It's a 145 yard carry.
It's again a nothing swing.
There's no real oomph into I'm just doing the exact same motion that you just learned.
You can see my right knee kick.
you'll see my arms and hands just kind of get moved through by my rotating upper torso this is key my shoulders i'm not trying to move my shoulders i'm moving my core which is moving my shoulders and then just letting my hands easily snap through the ball easy peasy now we'll jump up at 10 more yards we'll go we'll call it 155 yards all right same movement same sequence now club head speed has jumped up a little bit here so you're going to see i'm at 88 miles an hour but it's the same move.
I'm just moving everything a little bit faster.
I'm really just trying to rotate my core, my spine, my rib cage faster to move the club for me to let my arms and hands snap through the ball as effortlessly as possible.
You can see that my wrists are just being allowed to rip through the ball and there's nothing in it.
Let me wipe out these AI lines here for a second here and now the goal if we can get 160 yards out of the eight iron this is where i want to get everybody with their swing this is tiger hits his eight iron about 160 165 yards for a stock swing and you'll see again there's really nothing in it i apologize the computer's struggling to keep up here but uh you'll get the idea that there's really not a lot in these swings it's just the exact same movement and sequence that you just learned so if you can get the feeling of this whole goat speed sequence you're gonna see there's nothing in 160 yard shot it's the exact same sequence I just showed you now if we want to step it up a lit a little bit and we go to 170 yards this is again just a little bit more at the a little bit more rotational velocity It's also controlling the club face and things like that.
But you'll see that, again, there's really not a big difference.
You can see I went after a little bit more aggressively with my rotation.
But again, the sequence is all the same.
If we slow it down, you're going to see my right knee kick forward.
That gives me the brace.
And again, in all of these swings, I'm trying to exaggerate these motions.
I'm trying to exaggerate keeping my arms and hands extra soft so it's easier to see.
I'm exaggerating that right knee kick.
And I'm really trying to keep my arms and hands really relaxed.
That's getting the club going a little bit inside.
But again, you'll see that all I'm doing is rotating my rib cage.
You see my right arm is kind of behind my hip here because I'm not trying to move my arms in front of my body.
I'm not trying to do anything with them.
I'm letting them be ripped through with my rotation.
And that gets me all the way up to 170 yards.
Now, as I jump up to 175, for an eight iron, for me, that's hitting it pretty hard so this is you'll see my speed jumped up to 92 here make the ball a little bit higher and all i'm doing here is just speeding everything up right so you'll see my follow-through looks a little bit more aggressive i'm just turning with my rib cage with my core faster so everything here is just sped up but it is the exact same sequence that i started at 125 yards you're going to see that right knee kick forward my shoulders are going to begin to rotate.
My arms and hands at this point are relaxed.
And then all I'm doing is firing my core exactly like you just learned and letting my arms and hands rip through the ball.
The trick to all of this is the sequence.
So if you can get the feeling of counter rotation, you've got to kind of, I think the idea of turning your hips through the ball is not really a good picture i'm actually trying to feel like i'm twisting my feet this way in the downswing not trying to go this way now my upper body is but my upper body needs my lower body to resist and create torque and move in the opposite direction to create speed so work on this drill get your hands and wrists nice and relaxed so that they can snap through the ball i'm still holding on to the club tightly with my fingers because it's moving very fast but i'm not trying to push the club through with my arms and hands your arms and hands are relaxed when you're trying to create
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