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To get more distance in golf, you've got to get maximum speed from your arms and not let your body overpower them. This video has the drills to amp up your speed!
- Review the Throw the Ball Drill
- Set up to one ball & hold another in your right hand; turn back, shift weight to center of left foot, then throw the ball at the ground
- Make sure your chest still points at the ball after you throw, and that your shoulders stay level
- Review the 9 to 3 Lag Building Drill
- Make small swings into an impact bag, focusing on building lag by throwing the right arm and keeping the wrist soft
- Build up to larger swings as you become comfortable
Hi my name is Aaron Maness from Rotary Swing.
We're gonna go over some quick drills to add some extra speed and lag into your swing to maximize your distance in no time.
Hi my name is Aaron Maness from Rotary Swing.
If you're having trouble getting that extra clubhead speed, we want to take a look at a couple of things.
One, It probably turns out that the harder you feel like you're swinging, the slower things are happening, and and the more difficult it feels for everything to unfold.
So when we're at the top of the swing and we're ripping our body open, essentially what's happening is we're hitting the ball with a check swing.
We end up releasing when the hands finally catch us but the ball's long gone.
What we actually want to do is swing slower in a way to swing faster, and there's a couple of drills that we're gonna work on to make that happen.
You want to check out the throw the ball drill.
That's the first thing that we're gonna work on.
But that really incorporates how do we use the right side and how do we get into the appropriate movements.
With our right wrist in our right arm in the downswing to add speed.
We want to add quickness.
We don't want to add power in a sense.
We really want to add more quickness to our speed or to our golf swing, and that's what we're gonna do today.
So as I mentioned before we're gonna talk about the throw the ball drill first.
You want to take a look at that video on the website rotary swing .
com.
It goes over it in a lot more detail.
But I want to mention a few major pointers that we're going to talk about.
And what we want to do to get our speed back to where it should be.
So you're gonna practice this throw the ball drill.
And just to recap a little bit.
We want to get into a position at the top of the swing, where our arms extended in a right angle.
We're getting into a turn and we're really keeping our body passive and our shoulders passive as we come down.
We're not gonna throw like this.
We're not gonna rip our body open and keep our hands back here.
Instead we're gonna incorporate the arms and the wrists to throw the ball down very quickly.
You can get a ton of speed as we're going down into the swing.
What I was doing there is using my hands to just hold the ball.
My wrists are very supple and loose.
I'm not tightening.
I'm not throwing the ball with my wrist.
I'm just straightening my left arm essentially bringing that ball down and releasing it at impact.
Our arms are straight at impact.
They're not held on and stuck here where we're not getting maximum extension.
So we're bringing that ball down and we're we're getting into the ball.
The other thing you probably meant or notice was that I'm shifting my weight.
Just like you're about to throw a ball at the top of the swing, I'm shifting into my left side, loading into that left glute.
You can watch the load into the left side video or the Tiger squat video to incorporate those drills.
But we're loading first and then throwing down.
You probably noticed that there's no rip open of the body.
That's not going to help for consistency and it's not going to help for power.
So you want to incorporate the throw the ball drill first.
The next aspect to the swing, or this drill to gather a ton of speed, is we want to incorporate the club.
So, in the essence of the throw the ball drill, we're going to have the club in front of us.
Or in our right hand, in our trail hand.
And we're going to try to incorporate that same motion.
After we do that a few times, we're going to add the left hand to it.
And if you want to take a look at the 9 to 3 lag building drill, that's exactly what we're going to be doing here.
So as we go to 9 to 3 there's a few things I want you to feel.
I want to feel.
Our hands are so loose and our wrists are so loose that the momentum of the head continues on its way as we get to the top of the swing.
That's a great timing mechanism for the weight shift.
I like to feel like I'm shifting into my left side as that club is still continuing up into the backswing.
So as we're here notice my hands stop but the the club keeps on going at this point.
So now I'm going to incorporate into the left side as that momentum switches.
So once that happens now, we can slowly bring everything down, bring our hands down.
The momentum still going this way.
We always talk about increasing lag as we come into the downswing that's how that occurs.
So now as we come here and then swing into the downswing we can have a huge amount of lag.
If you can accomplish that, the 9 to 3 lag building, you are about 90% completely done with your entire swing.
So in conclusion we want to use the throw the ball drill.
Make sure you check out that video to really practice what the right arm is doing.
Keep that wrist supple.
Keep the arm extended.
Don't rip the body open.
Shift your weight to the left side.
Then you want to incorporate both hands to a 9 to 3 drill, allowing the momentum to continue.
Because your wrists are so loose that it builds a ton of lag and release as you come down.
Keep your body passive and slow, and you'll find that by swinging easier, you might actually gain a lot of swing speed in your swing.
Alright so go practice.
Practice with some purpose and I'll see you soon.
We're gonna go over some quick drills to add some extra speed and lag into your swing to maximize your distance in no time.
Hi my name is Aaron Maness from Rotary Swing.
If you're having trouble getting that extra clubhead speed, we want to take a look at a couple of things.
One, It probably turns out that the harder you feel like you're swinging, the slower things are happening, and and the more difficult it feels for everything to unfold.
So when we're at the top of the swing and we're ripping our body open, essentially what's happening is we're hitting the ball with a check swing.
We end up releasing when the hands finally catch us but the ball's long gone.
What we actually want to do is swing slower in a way to swing faster, and there's a couple of drills that we're gonna work on to make that happen.
You want to check out the throw the ball drill.
That's the first thing that we're gonna work on.
But that really incorporates how do we use the right side and how do we get into the appropriate movements.
With our right wrist in our right arm in the downswing to add speed.
We want to add quickness.
We don't want to add power in a sense.
We really want to add more quickness to our speed or to our golf swing, and that's what we're gonna do today.
So as I mentioned before we're gonna talk about the throw the ball drill first.
You want to take a look at that video on the website rotary swing .
com.
It goes over it in a lot more detail.
But I want to mention a few major pointers that we're going to talk about.
And what we want to do to get our speed back to where it should be.
So you're gonna practice this throw the ball drill.
And just to recap a little bit.
We want to get into a position at the top of the swing, where our arms extended in a right angle.
We're getting into a turn and we're really keeping our body passive and our shoulders passive as we come down.
We're not gonna throw like this.
We're not gonna rip our body open and keep our hands back here.
Instead we're gonna incorporate the arms and the wrists to throw the ball down very quickly.
You can get a ton of speed as we're going down into the swing.
What I was doing there is using my hands to just hold the ball.
My wrists are very supple and loose.
I'm not tightening.
I'm not throwing the ball with my wrist.
I'm just straightening my left arm essentially bringing that ball down and releasing it at impact.
Our arms are straight at impact.
They're not held on and stuck here where we're not getting maximum extension.
So we're bringing that ball down and we're we're getting into the ball.
The other thing you probably meant or notice was that I'm shifting my weight.
Just like you're about to throw a ball at the top of the swing, I'm shifting into my left side, loading into that left glute.
You can watch the load into the left side video or the Tiger squat video to incorporate those drills.
But we're loading first and then throwing down.
You probably noticed that there's no rip open of the body.
That's not going to help for consistency and it's not going to help for power.
So you want to incorporate the throw the ball drill first.
The next aspect to the swing, or this drill to gather a ton of speed, is we want to incorporate the club.
So, in the essence of the throw the ball drill, we're going to have the club in front of us.
Or in our right hand, in our trail hand.
And we're going to try to incorporate that same motion.
After we do that a few times, we're going to add the left hand to it.
And if you want to take a look at the 9 to 3 lag building drill, that's exactly what we're going to be doing here.
So as we go to 9 to 3 there's a few things I want you to feel.
I want to feel.
Our hands are so loose and our wrists are so loose that the momentum of the head continues on its way as we get to the top of the swing.
That's a great timing mechanism for the weight shift.
I like to feel like I'm shifting into my left side as that club is still continuing up into the backswing.
So as we're here notice my hands stop but the the club keeps on going at this point.
So now I'm going to incorporate into the left side as that momentum switches.
So once that happens now, we can slowly bring everything down, bring our hands down.
The momentum still going this way.
We always talk about increasing lag as we come into the downswing that's how that occurs.
So now as we come here and then swing into the downswing we can have a huge amount of lag.
If you can accomplish that, the 9 to 3 lag building, you are about 90% completely done with your entire swing.
So in conclusion we want to use the throw the ball drill.
Make sure you check out that video to really practice what the right arm is doing.
Keep that wrist supple.
Keep the arm extended.
Don't rip the body open.
Shift your weight to the left side.
Then you want to incorporate both hands to a 9 to 3 drill, allowing the momentum to continue.
Because your wrists are so loose that it builds a ton of lag and release as you come down.
Keep your body passive and slow, and you'll find that by swinging easier, you might actually gain a lot of swing speed in your swing.
Alright so go practice.
Practice with some purpose and I'll see you soon.
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1.7 Trail Hand Putting Drill
1.8 Tiger Woods Tee Drill
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1.10 Skills Assessment Challenge: Putting
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4.5 20 Yard Wedge Shot Basics
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