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Impact in the golf swing is the most important part. In this video, I'll show you how to get into a tour quality impact position.
- Use a tube of toothpaste to help determine proper grip pressure.
- When training impact, make sure the lead wrist is bowed so that your knuckles are facing the ground.
- Keep the lead arm relaxed when working on the release and let it swing under the lead shoulder as if it were a pivot point/pendulum.
Hey everyone, I'm rotary swing instructor Chris Tyler.
Have you found yourself struggling with getting into a really good impact position, or have you found yourself struggling? Working on the release? And never really been able to figure out if you're doing it right or wrong? Well, today's video is going to be perfect for you because I'm going to show you guys a lot of the common mistakes that we see day to day, I'm going to show you how to correct those mistakes, And most importantly, I'm going to give you a detailed list of checkpoints that you're going to look for that are going to help you through this process.
So that you can get into a good impact position and have a tour quality release every single time.
Okay guys, So, the first common mistake that we see when training your impact position or working on your release is the total amount of tension.
Now, tension can be our worst enemy when we're working on our release or impact position, because tension can actually slow the club down from doing what it's designed to do, and the club is designed to rotate, and if we're squeezing it really hard it makes it difficult for it to actually want to rotate, and it's also hard for it to square itself up.
So what we want to do is we want to actually have a good visualization, We want to have a good way to be able to translate how much pressure we want to be able to have through the hitting area, and I know we've heard a lot of crazy analogies out there like holding a baby bird, but we're going to go back to that old thought process of holding a tube of toothpaste.
What I want you to do is I want you to grab a tube of toothpaste, take the cap off, and anytime you're working on whether it be an impact position or if you're working on a release, the goal is, is that we don't want to squeeze the toothpaste out all over your floor, alright? So try this out, remember you want to be able to translate how much tension you're keeping in there, Slowly put the club back in your hands and you'll start to feel the golf club wanting to rotate like it's supposed to.
It's a great way to get into a better impact position, it's a great way to train your release.
Okay guys, so the next common mistakes we see have to deal with training the impact position.
Now, some of the things that we tend to see here from a lot of players is when they are starting to train, to getting into this good impact position, is that they tend to set the wrist too much.
Okay, so the first movement of the club is just setting the wrist, so you can see how far I've moved the club here.
This is going to be too much leverage, we would never want that much leverage in the golf swing, it makes it very difficult to get the club releasing and back to square.
Okay, so what we're going to be looking for, a good way to focus on this, and start without a club, and our goal is, is to get our lead wrist out past our trail thigh.
Okay, so focus on getting your lead wrist out past your trail thigh, and then what you want to do is, you want to let the arm feel like it's just kind of falling, and rotating.
And when you finish, what you're going to be looking for is, if you drilled a hole down through the middle of your palm, you can see down into the ground.
So you can see here that I've got some nice bowing to my lead wrist right here.
Okay, so train that first.
So outside your lead thigh, and then see down through your palm, and then you'll translate it, you put the golf club back in your hand, outside the lead thigh, and now I can see down here through my palm.
Okay, so those are two ways to fix the impact position drills, and a great way for you to start to understand what you're doing wrong.
Okay guys, So this next common mistake that we see is probably my biggest pet peeve when we're training the release.
And we tend to see a lot of golfers trying to get way too much out of this drill, like we're trying to hit the ball way too far.
So what I'm talking about here is that we'll see, when you're training a release, which should just be like a hip high to hip high area, we'll see the club go back nice and slow, and then they'll pull their arm through, and then you finish with your arm way up here like you're Jack Nicklaus winning the Masters.
Okay, what we're trying to do here is we want to keep things relaxed.
If you're yanking your arm through the hitting area, chances are the club face is going to be late to rotate, and you're going to hit the ball out to the right.
So what we're going to be looking for here, and a good try to feel what we're going to try to accomplish when we put the club back in hand, is think of your lead shoulder as a pivot point that's nailed to a wall.
And I want your arm just to swing from that pivot point.
So the amount of energy that you use to get your wrist out past your trail thigh is the amount of energy that I want you to use.
Getting it go to the other side.
So it should look really relaxed.
Okay, so what I want you to do is I want you to train that.
Think of your shoulder as a pivot point.
We don't want to pull the arm, you want to feel like it's a pendulum.
You can use a metronome if you want.
But there's apps that you can put on your phone, and just get a good solid pace going.
And then slowly put the club back in your hand, and you'll see how the club face wants to rotate and square up on its own.
Okay guys, so the next common mistakes we see talk about club face rotation.
And the best way for me to describe what the common mistake is, is that we try to get too much rotation going back.
So if you notice, if you're wearing a watch or a glove logo, When you get out to the 9 then you can see that this club face is going to be a little bit more open.
Now that's going to make you have to rotate the club face at an excessive rate, and that's what we're trying to avoid.
We want the club face to rotate at a constant, we don't want to have to try to speed it up.
So what you're going to be focusing on here, is if you focus on primarily getting your glove logo out in front of you, okay, and then your glove logo behind you, that's a great focus point.
For those of you that have had a hard time releasing, when you see that your club is passing in front of you, and you can hold a glass of wine on there, what you're going to want to try to do, is when you finish, you're going to want to see your fingernails over here.
Okay, And a lot of people that I've met face to face know that.
I'll draw pictures on their gloves right here to make sure that they see those fingernails or the pictures that I've drawn for them.
So glove logo out in front of you, glove logo behind you, if you've been a little bit late with your release, or if you've had a hard time doing it, then what you're going to want to try to do is overcook it and see your fingernails.
It would be very difficult for you to release a club this much when you have your right hand on it, so you want to try to over-exaggerate it for a little bit.
So again, glove logo out in front of you, glove logo behind you, make sure that you can see your fingernails over here, and you'll have a really well-trained release that's got proper rotation.
Okay guys, So in this final, common mistake that we see from a lot of students around the site has to do when we put that crazy trail hand brother back on the club.
And what we tend to see when working from a hip-high to hip-high environment, more of a 9-3 swing, is when you finish your swing, what you're going to notice is that your chest is open about 90 degrees here, and your right heel is up off the ground.
It's another big pet peeve of mine.
So what we're going to be looking for here is rather than allowing our chest to spin through the hitting area, we want to feel like the wrists are rotating over the top of each other.
Okay, so a good way to feel this again, And you're going to try to keep your chest or your buttons on your shirt, facing down to the golf ball while this is happening.
So stay wide, and now what you'll notice is, is that my chest is open about 15 to 20 degrees, my heel is down on the ground, and my shirt, my buttons on my shirt are now behind my buckle.
So if you've been shoulder spinning, you'll notice that the buttons are out in front here.
This is a great way to train yourself on how to allow the club, The hands and the arms to act independently from the body, so you can stall the body out and let the club do its job.
All right, guys, so now that you've seen all the common mistakes that we worked on through the release drills, it's time to put them to use.
And don't be ashamed of yourself if you have to pull yourself back and start with a tube of toothpaste.
The release and impact is a very, very important part of golf.
So be disciplined enough to train yourself.
If you have to start working on an impact position, do so.
Take your time, start without a golf club, and you'll be well on your way to having a really, really good release and a tour-quality impact position.
I wish you guys all the best, now make it a great day.
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