RotaryConnect Chipping
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Fix your bad chipping habits and ingrain perfect technique with the RotaryConnect.
- Many training aids offer a "Band-Aid" solution that frequently solves one problem only to create another
- The RotaryConnect teaches you what correct movement feels like - it can't be overused or create new problems
- Many golfers use their arms too much in the chipping stroke, pulling back or flipping the club
- The RotaryConnect helps preserve proper arm position through the swing so you learn how the movement should feel
- The RotaryConnect is adjustable - be sure to fit it to your body size so your back is not rounded
hey guys Chuck Quinton here founder rotary swing and you guys have been asking me how do I use the rotary connect with chipping stuff can I use it with my short game stuff and the answer is absolutely and the area that it applies the most to is one of the areas that most golfers struggle the most with which is just this basic little bump and run kind of chip shot so I have here my seven iron and I want to show you how you can use the connect to teach you how to synchronize the movement of your arms and the club with your body because in the short game stuff we're not trying to build a lot of power and accuracy which is when we want our arms to start moving independently of our torso because we need them to create leverage and create a big arc chipping is all about accuracy and precision and control and consistency so we're not trying to hit the seven iron 180 yards we're trying to hit it seven yards and so the requirements for the shot are very different so what I want to show you first is what so many amateur golfers struggle with and what they do wrong when they chip is they try to do it all with just their arms and hands and so what we see all the time is stuff like this where the right arm bends a lot the left arm bends a lot and even in a chip shot it's easy to start seeing a lot of pushing motion because so often we'll see this left arm breaking down into a chicken wing like you see in the full swing the cause is exactly the same that's the beauty of the rotary swing stuff you can start looking at cause and effect relationships and understanding where movement is coming from which part of your body and it creates the same look from the other side so if I bend my right arm a lot and try to push through really hard my left arm is going to be bent you'll notice that my chest is still pointing at you and so now I'm really relying on my coordination and my hand eye coordination with my right hand to hit the ball and what happens more often than not is that people because this right arm allows you to push down makes the club continue to travel on a tangent down and allows you to do this which is the most embarrassing thing in the world you've just hit two shots 400 yards and now this next shot to hit it seven yards takes you three more attempts because you keep laying the sod over it there's no reason to do that and if you understand what you're really trying to do with the chip shot what the requirements are then this is going to make this shot really easy so what are the requirements really that we're trying to do well number one is we actually want a really shallow angle of attack I want you to think of the bottom of your chipping stroke like this not like this think of an airplane coming into land we want to come in nice and shallow like that you don't want to be dropping straight to the ground and have to pull up really quick that's what you're doing when you chip with your right hand instead of learning how to chip the way I'm going to show you in just a moment so the first thing understanding requirements we want that club to come through really shallow and to be relatively upright with the shaft and address this is another major mistake that people make all the time and a lot of instructors teach this to actually set the ball way back in your stance and get a ton of shaft lean and turn this seven iron into a three iron and now what what think about what's happening here what you're forcing yourself to do is bring that airplane down really steep and you're going to risk yourself laying the sod over it you don't want a lot of shaft lean at address or at impact in a chipping shot that's a fallacy I'm not saying you can't do that but you're going to tend to chunk it all the time so what we want is a shaft that's pretty upright now what this does is it builds in margin of error nobody's perfect especially in golf we're all going to make mistakes all the time what we want to do is mitigate the results of that mistake by building in a big margin of error if I come down really steep I have to hit that ball just perfect or I'm going to hit the ground first or hit the ball and not the ground and come down too steep and blade it which is another embarrassing shot to blade one across the green so what we want is to come in really shallow so that even if I do get a little bit of grass between the clubface and the ball I'm still not going to lay the sod over it I'm going to use the bounce of the club effectively so that it's going to keep the leading edge from digging into the turf and if the leading edge digs into the turf that's when bad stuff happens the leading edge digs into the turf when your angle of attack toward the ground is too steep and the leading edge hits the ground before the trailing edge we actually want that trailing edge to do its job it's designed to hang below the leading edge for a reason it's to protect you from the club digging too deeply so how do we do that well first off we've got to make some setup adjustments so when you're chipping what I want you to do is get comfortable with the ball being more up in your stance because what is that going to do to my setup I'm still going to have some shaft lean but I don't need 30 degrees 20 degrees of shaft lean that's way too severe so now as I have a little bit of shaft lean and I rock my shoulders back and forth you'll notice that I'm going to come through the grass really clean and really shallow I'm not going to be taking any dirt I have no risk of ever chunking this shot and that's where the connect starts to really come in handy is that as I put this in I can start to feel the mechanics of the shot not just the setup so now as I put the connect in I want you to move it up to your chest where the bar is touching your chest so it's going to be very high on your arms and what I want you to practice at first without a club and even with your arms across your chest is moving the connect back and forth like this again the opposite of what you're doing in a full swing because again the requirements are different we don't need power so we actually want our chest to rock back and forth because that's really the primary mover of the golf club in the chipping stroke only different set of requirements so it's going to be a little different than what you do in your full swing rotate my chest back think about rotating the bar back rotate the bar back to impact and in the release now with the club the club makes it not any different right I've gone back impact release all done by just focusing on the core movement of moving the connect back and forth so that my arms and chest stay in sync if I start moving my arms all over the place independent of my chest the bar is going to start sliding against my chest I don't want it to turn I don't want the bar moving its relationship to my chest I'm just moving the bar back and forth and everything else is staying the same so now when I come up to hit a chip shot ball a little bit more up in my stance versus having an open stance like this and really slamming the club shut or de -lofting it now all I have to do is rock my shoulders back and through and hit a perfect simple little chip shot my hands didn't do anything my arms didn't do anything I just focused on moving this connect back and forth and it makes it so much easier because now I don't have to worry about whether or not I'm going to blade it worry about whether or not I'm going to chunk it because I'm not adding any angles if I all of a sudden set my wrist really hard move my arm bend my arm now I've got all these angles that I've got to get rid of in a short period of time it's too difficult to time that and get consistent contact so we want to take all those variables out rock our shoulders back and forth simple little chip shot every time so practice with the connect you can do this indoors you don't need to be out here hitting balls practice just with the connect and get the feeling of your chest rotating back and rotating through and watch your chipping improve dramatically
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