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Lag in the golf swing is key for clubhead speed. In this video, I'll show you how to add more lag for effortless power with a simple 30-60-90 drill.
- Swing into the takeaway and set the wrists. Club shaft parallel to the ground.
- Working into the backswing until lead arm is parallel to the ground.
- Set the wrists so the club shaft is not vertical.
- Allow your weight shift to increase the angle for lag.
- Post up and release it with speed.
Hi guys, I'm rotary swing instructor Chris Tyler and welcome back to the Perfecting Your Impact video series number four.
I hope everybody's made some really good progress through the first three videos, and in today's video.
What we're gonna be doing is we're gonna be really kicking it into high gear and adding a lot more speed through some more leverage with lag.
Lag is a big component of speed in the golf swing, so if you're ready to really start to ramp your speed up.
And you've got good control of the clubface and you've worked through the other three videos, let's go and get started now.
Okay, gang, so here we are at week number four.
I know we've put in a lot of hard work together and we've gotten reps accomplished right working from an impact position then adding a little bit of weight shift to the mix and then obviously we added a little bit of rotation a little bit of ground leverage last week and I've seen a lot of great progress I've had some students send in some videos we've seen some good comments post up people are starting to get more compression starting to feel some of that effortless power that they've always wanted and this week we're gonna add a little bit more that we're gonna come up with a drill here that's called the 30-60 -90 drill that's gonna teach you how to develop lag in your downward move and lag is such a big component of the golf swing it's a big component of speed and if you look at what a tour player does tour players typically with a six or six or seven iron move the golf club between 22 and 24 miles an hour through the takeaway into the backswing and then in the downswing it's still moving 22 to 24 miles an hour and then three feet prior to the golf ball it speeds up to about 96 miles an hour so you can see there's a big increase of speed and that's what this drill is gonna be designed to do so I encourage you if you're not overly comfortable with either your impact position or if you feel like you've got too many moving parts at this point to just pump those brakes again take your time make sure you get comfortable with it and then slowly work your way up into this new drill all right so let's take a look at the 30-60-90 drill and the objectives behind it and are still our focus point here is to be able to get that thousand reps so you can see that there's been a level of progression throughout this entire process and what I mean by 30-60-90 is we're just going to be talking about the total percentage of wrist set that you're going to be trying to achieve at each one of the positions of the golf swing all right so if I were to have my wrists in a fully set position here or fully cocked much like I were hitting it with a hammer and trying to hit a nail into the wall you can see here that I've got a pretty sharp angle between the club shaft and my forearms so we would call that about a hundred percent what we're going to be trying to achieve is not getting everything fully set very early on in the golf swing we want to allow the weight shift to move your wrist percentage to ninety percent so our drill is going to look like thirty percent into the takeaway so we're going to call club shaft parallel to the ground this week is thirty percent okay club shaft parallel to the ground thirty percent and as I work up to the top of my swing where my lead arm is now going to become parallel to the ground okay and the right arm starts to flex to help add some elevation to the golf swing here as my lead arm gets to about parallel the club shaft should be vertical okay but end of the club down to the ground so you can see that this would be sixty percent of my my wrist set this would be a hundred we're going to work to go thirty sixty and then as we start to feel our lead arm working to that parallel position we're going to shift our weight into that lead side so you're going to shift and allow the momentum of the golf club moving in this direction and the weight shift going in the other way to help increase your angle to ninety percent so we're going to go thirty sixty we're going to shift and because we're not moving at full speed here you're not going to see a drastic increase in my angle this is only going to happen when we start to work up into full speed so let's go ahead and do that now I'm not going to go at a hundred percent speed here I'm going to go right around forty or fifty but I want you to see that my weight shift is now allowing the angle to increase okay I got a little steep on that one I got a little out in front of it but the idea is is that we want to use the other three videos and add this little component in so you can see that we're taking the club back a little bit further now we're focusing on making sure that our wrists don't get fully set early on and we're allowing our body to help increase that angle so that when you get down into the hitting area what you're going to be looking for is that the club shaft should be at least parallel to the ground when your lead hand is approaching in front of your trail thigh here you can have a little bit sharper of an angle don't go too drastic here that'll be too much lag you'll never be able to get rid of that angle in time and then you'll have a messy ball striking situation in your hands and that's generally what we work on with tour pros we try to help them get rid of lag it can be a double-edged sword for for those of you players that didn't know that so we are focused point here is as your hands are getting pulled down to the hitting area and you're posting up on that lead leg just like we talked about last week is that at least have the club shaft about parallel to the ground if you can achieve that then you've got tons of angle there you've got tons of leverage to be able to fire and get rid of and that's going to help ramp your speed up pretty drastically so let's go ahead and take a look at this again 30 60 okay club shaft parallel I generally drill this a couple times so I can feel where my arms are my hands are trying to keep my wrist really supple as I get to that 60 percent spot okay and then you can see that I shift my weight as my arm get to the top of the swing start very slow okay feel these positions and make sure that you have 30 60 make sure you feel like the wrists are really relaxed your trail hand needs to be very very relaxed in the golf club if you go to a fully wrist set position up here early now you're putting yourself in a position with your thumb on your lead hand can start to push the club and then you'll lose that lag and you're also start to use that trail hand that we we never really want to use that much anyway so again let's look at it from speed here okay so you can see I'm starting to get a little bit more club head speed guys so you see the increase in angle now and now my clubs really starting to pick up the speed what you want to do is make sure that you start out slow okay make sure you spend your first maybe hundred to three hundred reps at about forty to fifty percent of your normal speed once you get comfortable that you're checking your impact positions on camera in a mirror with an impact bag if you need one but make sure that you're checking yourself on camera to see that you're hitting your weight into your lead side like we've worked on make sure that you're getting this angle to start to increase and then what you'll do in your next three hundred to five hundred reps is you'll slowly ramp up that speed and then you'll finish off almost feeling like you're at full speed again going back to what I was saying before the ultimate goal is to feel like you're swinging about eighty to ninety percent of your normal energy and the golf ball is going further and you have much more control of it because we trained what that lead wrist is supposed to be doing down in the hitting area okay gang so it's time to graduate now it's time to get out there and put it to use I encourage you all to start posting up your results in the comments I've seen a lot of great videos come in post up your results we'd love to see that kind of stuff we'd love to be able to help you along the way now let's get out there let's perfect your impact let's add some speed to it let's play some great golf next season
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