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This video is crucial for teaching you how to conserve energy in the early stages in the swing and then learning to unleash some serious speed with minimal effort through impact.
- Speed is only needed at impact - speed generated at the top of the swing is wasted
- For the drill, hold a club upside down in the right hand and use elevation, flexion, rotation to get to the top
- Squat, bring the arm in and snap through impact to bring the club down
- The right wrist maintains lag then snaps at the bottom
- Stop & check position at impact - once that's correct, go ahead and complete the swing at speed
- Listen to the club cutting through the air - you should hear speed through the impact position
The most important concept of the golf swing to understand when it comes to speed is that it needs to happen in only one place in the golf swing.
And that's right here at impact.
Any speed where most amateurs typically produce it early in the swing up high at the top of the backswing is completely wasted effort.
So it's very hard for golfers to understand that.
Often times, they feel like they've got to swing so fast and so hard and so early from the top of the backswing.
To try and produce speed.
That they don't realize how inefficient that is.
And so it helps to have a very simple drill to help kind of teach you where that release needs to happen and how it needs to happen.
So what we're going to do here is I'm going to give you a very simple drill that you can do every time you're on the golf course.
When you're working on your release.
And all you need is a golf club, so you should have one of those with you anyway.
And you're going to flip it upside down so that you've got the handle down.
What this is going to do is it's going to take a lot of the weight out of your hands.
And so you start learning how to release the golf club without needing a lot of muscular effort, and it teaches you how to produce speed.
It's not power in the golf swing that you're looking for, muscular effort, it's speed.
Notice I'm not a very big guy but I hit the ball a long ways purely because of technique and speed.
I'm able to produce speed in the right places in my golf swing and that's the key.
So what we're going to do is we're going to stack a couple things on here.
One, we're going to try and get ourselves into that right position at the top of the swing with just our right arm only.
So we know elevation, flexion from our five minutes to the perfect backswing video.
And now as we go to the top we can turn and just keep that right hand off or the left hand off of there.
And what I want you to try and do is at first come down here and snap the club at impact.
And I want you to stop at impact each time and try and produce some speed but feel the right impact positions.
Once you can get into that and start to produce speed here you're going to feel how that right arm, the right wrist maintains a lag and then you snap it at the bottom.
If you're doing this from the top and you're throwing the club here you won't be able to get back to impact without the shaft passing your hands.
So what you're doing is you're conserving, maintaining lag and then snapping at the bottom.
It's not build speed as fast as I can.
The sequence is sitting, bringing the arm in and then snapping the wrist as you come through impact.
Once you can get into that right position and you notice that your hands aren't back here at impact, you're in the right position, your hands are back in front of your body.
Now we're ready to start getting a lot of speed.
Notice how slow it looks like my body is moving.
I'm not moving very fast with my body.
But you can hear the club has a lot of speed at the right point.
This is the only point that it matters.
If you can snap the club here with that right arm drill, so this is coupling the throw the ball drill, the right arm only downswing drill, our backswing drill, so we're starting to stack a lot of pieces on there that we've been working on.
We can get a great deal of speed.
Having this club flipped upside down is critical both for you to hear it and hear that you get speed here.
You don't want it out here and you don't want it here.
Now try and do the same thing with the club in the normal position here.
Same deal.
You're going to notice that, especially if you're one of those golfers who never really used their right side or right arm in the golf swing, it's going to be very hard.
The club's going to kind of want to jerk you around all over the place.
You're going to want to release it early, especially if you don't shift your weight, you're going to have this motion going.
So we should be able to snap it and get around to a full follow through and maintain lag all the way down here.
We're pretty slow to here, we're gradually building speed until our hands get about right in front of our thigh and then we snap it and let the club release.
If you can do that with this drill upside down, You'll start to be able to work on your release and get the release point at the right point in the golf swing.
So that you get a lot of speed without a lot of effort.
That's the key.
You can tell that my body's not really moving too hard here, but because of good technique, I get a lot of speed at the right point in the swing.
So work on this drill.
You can do it between each shot when you're working on your release.
Flip the club upside down, start snapping and you'll get a lot more speed with a lot less physical effort.
And that's right here at impact.
Any speed where most amateurs typically produce it early in the swing up high at the top of the backswing is completely wasted effort.
So it's very hard for golfers to understand that.
Often times, they feel like they've got to swing so fast and so hard and so early from the top of the backswing.
To try and produce speed.
That they don't realize how inefficient that is.
And so it helps to have a very simple drill to help kind of teach you where that release needs to happen and how it needs to happen.
So what we're going to do here is I'm going to give you a very simple drill that you can do every time you're on the golf course.
When you're working on your release.
And all you need is a golf club, so you should have one of those with you anyway.
And you're going to flip it upside down so that you've got the handle down.
What this is going to do is it's going to take a lot of the weight out of your hands.
And so you start learning how to release the golf club without needing a lot of muscular effort, and it teaches you how to produce speed.
It's not power in the golf swing that you're looking for, muscular effort, it's speed.
Notice I'm not a very big guy but I hit the ball a long ways purely because of technique and speed.
I'm able to produce speed in the right places in my golf swing and that's the key.
So what we're going to do is we're going to stack a couple things on here.
One, we're going to try and get ourselves into that right position at the top of the swing with just our right arm only.
So we know elevation, flexion from our five minutes to the perfect backswing video.
And now as we go to the top we can turn and just keep that right hand off or the left hand off of there.
And what I want you to try and do is at first come down here and snap the club at impact.
And I want you to stop at impact each time and try and produce some speed but feel the right impact positions.
Once you can get into that and start to produce speed here you're going to feel how that right arm, the right wrist maintains a lag and then you snap it at the bottom.
If you're doing this from the top and you're throwing the club here you won't be able to get back to impact without the shaft passing your hands.
So what you're doing is you're conserving, maintaining lag and then snapping at the bottom.
It's not build speed as fast as I can.
The sequence is sitting, bringing the arm in and then snapping the wrist as you come through impact.
Once you can get into that right position and you notice that your hands aren't back here at impact, you're in the right position, your hands are back in front of your body.
Now we're ready to start getting a lot of speed.
Notice how slow it looks like my body is moving.
I'm not moving very fast with my body.
But you can hear the club has a lot of speed at the right point.
This is the only point that it matters.
If you can snap the club here with that right arm drill, so this is coupling the throw the ball drill, the right arm only downswing drill, our backswing drill, so we're starting to stack a lot of pieces on there that we've been working on.
We can get a great deal of speed.
Having this club flipped upside down is critical both for you to hear it and hear that you get speed here.
You don't want it out here and you don't want it here.
Now try and do the same thing with the club in the normal position here.
Same deal.
You're going to notice that, especially if you're one of those golfers who never really used their right side or right arm in the golf swing, it's going to be very hard.
The club's going to kind of want to jerk you around all over the place.
You're going to want to release it early, especially if you don't shift your weight, you're going to have this motion going.
So we should be able to snap it and get around to a full follow through and maintain lag all the way down here.
We're pretty slow to here, we're gradually building speed until our hands get about right in front of our thigh and then we snap it and let the club release.
If you can do that with this drill upside down, You'll start to be able to work on your release and get the release point at the right point in the golf swing.
So that you get a lot of speed without a lot of effort.
That's the key.
You can tell that my body's not really moving too hard here, but because of good technique, I get a lot of speed at the right point in the swing.
So work on this drill.
You can do it between each shot when you're working on your release.
Flip the club upside down, start snapping and you'll get a lot more speed with a lot less physical effort.
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