Increase Clubhead Speed with Proper Release - Part 3 of 7
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In part 3 of the "Keys to RST" series, I am going to show you how to increase your clubhead speed instantly with a proper release. In the first 2 videos, I discussed some simple physics and how to work into a tour quality impact position. Now that you have control of the club in the hitting area, it's time to speed things up tremendously. If you want more distance off the tee without having to work so hard, then you need to watch this video now!
- 60% of your clubhead speed is generated through the release.
- Make sure you have control of the clubface in the hitting area before adding in the speed.
Hi, I'm Chuck Quinton, founder of Rotary Swing Golf.
In the previous two videos, I talked a lot about the physics of the impact position and release, and how it impacts how you get into a great tour quality impact position.
In this video I'm going to talk a little bit more about the release and its importance.
One of the things that's critical in the golf swing that we all know about, and typically most amateurs want more of and better players want to get rid of, is this concept of lag.
The lag is again, to redefine it.
Just the angle between the forearms and the shaft, whether you define it between the left arm and right arm is not important for our discussion point for now.
But this angle is potential energy, as I discussed in the first video, but that potential energy is useless if you don't release it.
So, in other words, if you have this great angle and you hold it all down to impact and you hit the ball like this, well, you haven't released it and it doesn't give you any more speed.
And this is critical because the release of this lagging, or the release of the angle from your wrist, accounts for over 60% of your club head speed.
Over two-thirds of your speed comes from just from the release of your wrist.
So to have this lag angle, to have this potential energy and then properly release it is the essence of the golf swing.
It is the most important part of the swing.
Most amateurs struggle because they release it incorrectly and start doing it too soon.
And as they do that, they get into this position because they're pushing from the right side.
If you watch the first two videos, you'll understand what that means.
And as they're doing that, the lag angle is getting thrown away and they get into the scoopy chicken wing impact position.
To understand how to release the club you've got to understand what the word release really means.
Think about that for a second.
You hear this term on TV all the time or for golf instructors or other golfers, oh I didn't release the club.
What does that mean literally to release something?
Well it means to let go.
If you really release something, that's when you let it go, and that's when it's going to accelerate the most.
The trick is how you release the club in the golf swing is everything.
So when we talk about that, we're talking about getting rid of this angle and letting the forms and clubface rotate over.
You can see the club can move very fast without my body doing much of anything.
That's getting me a lot of speed just because I'm properly releasing the club without having to do much with my body.
Now to do that correctly I want you to think about how you'd swing a hammer.
If you were to use a hammer, and we're going to use either hand for now, This angle that you create is what gives you the potential energy to get a lot of speed into that nail without a lot of effort.
You don't heave your body into it and hack at it with your arm.
You get the majority of your speed from the release of your wrist.
Think about that.
If you're holding onto a hammer really tight and your wrist is really tight, You can't get a lot of speed out of it because your wrist can't move very fast compared to keeping your wrist soft and letting it release with a lot of speed.
I have a great video that's going to show you a really cool trick that's going to help you pick up at least 20 yards off the tee.
If you're not releasing the club properly and don't have lag, this video, I call it the VJ release drill, is going to show you not only how to properly rotate and release the club, But it's going to show you how to pick up a tremendous amount of effortless speed, all from doing less in your golf course.
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