Martin Kaymer: Releasing for Distance
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In this video, I’ll show you how to build up your power and whip your club head at impact like U.S. Open champ Martin Kaymer. You’ll find out: 1) how to leverage your swing for more power and 2) how to release your power like a bull whip! Check out this video now to blast drives past your golf buddies!
- Keep a wide-narrow-wide swing shape for the club head speed to be maximum at impact.
- The angle in the right arm and right hand are sources of leverage and need to be extended at impact.
Hey everyone, I'm Rotary Swing Instructor Chris Tyler and your 2014 U.
S.
Open Champion Martin Keimer rolls over the field this week in stylish fashion.
I'm going to show you how Martin puts maximum speed in the correct spot of his golf swing, and that's at impact.
Let's go ahead and get started.
All right, so Mr.
Keimer, the 2014 U.
S.
Open Champion, steamrolls over the field at the Pioneer's number two, the newly renovated Pioneer's number two, actually a very, very difficult golf course that he made look really easy.
So congratulations to Martin, I know that he's going to be around the game for quite a while and he's proving himself to be a force out there.
So I know we just recently did an analysis on Martin, We talked a little bit about how he leverages the ground and how he uses the kinetic chain and moves the power up the body properly.
But I want to talk to you guys about how.
He prioritizes his golf swing in such a way that he's adding maximum speed at the correct spot, and that's at impact.
And I want to compare it to a bullwhip and the technique of a bullwhip.
So you understand where to release the actual speed and how to release the power at the right time.
So let's go ahead and take a look here.
And one of the things that you'll always hear us attribute to club head speed to is the overall swing shape, and you'll hear us say the wide, narrow, wide swing shape, You'll hear that talked about a lot in golf, and most of the golf pros that you see on TV today are all having the very similar swing shapes, where they stay wide, wide, wide all the way to the top part of the golf swing.
You can see Martin's got his left arm very straight here at the top and then as he starts to work in transition, he's going to narrow this arc.
So that arc is extremely narrow now where that shaft is very close to his right shoulder.
And what we're looking to do is club head speed usually comes in three feet prior to the golf ball.
And we see a lot of students that try to put speed in the golf swing too early on, where they try to either get speed into the takeaway, They even speed it up even faster into the backswing, and then they lose control of the golf club, or they get their wrist fully set at the top part of the golf swing.
And they really try to add all the speed up here and they release the right arm, They release the right hand and then, in turn, we run into casting problems.
And then the car just kind of runs out of gas before it even gets to the finish line.
So we want to make sure that we're building that power up, We're storing that power and we're putting the gas on at the correct spot so you can make it to the finish line.
And that's kind of the analogy I want you to think of here.
So if we take a look over here on the right hand side of the screen with the bullwhip, He's got an angle here in the right arm and he's also got an angle up here in the right wrist.
And both of these angles are going to be used for leverage and when he releases this angle, he's basically sending all that power, All that energy from those two levers.
And he's going to try to maximize speed at the end of the whip here, so he's going to move it down the chain here.
So you can see, let me go ahead and freeze Martin and we'll work over here on the bullwhip side.
You're going to see that as he goes into full extension, so he's fully extended, lost both of those angles and now out here where I've marked this little red X, That's where the whip is going to be at max speed, and it'll actually break the sound barrier and make that crack sound.
So you can see over here now with Martin's golf swing, He's going to start to release this right angle at the correct time, which is three feet prior to the golf ball.
The speed is really starting to increase.
Think of it this way, if a tour player goes from 22 miles an hour with a seven or an eight iron in their hands, It goes to about 92 to 94 miles an hour, right about three feet prior to the golf ball, and it's done through releasing that right angle, That right arm angle and then also making sure that you've pulled the power out of the body and all that stuff.
Working together is maximizing speed right at impact.
And then also take notice on how wide Martin stays post impact here, how the left arm stays really straight, both arms stay fully extended.
You can see that he actually keeps that left arm really straight to the top part of his golf, swing, into impact, and then well beyond.
And that makes just for a very fantastic move at it.
So again, Martin's prioritized his golf swing to where he's putting the speed at the correct spot.
And that's what I want you guys to work on.
Make sure that you understand the differences between power and speed.
Work on building power.
You don't need to move the golf club back really, really fast and get into a good position.
You can move it back slowly.
Make sure you have some good kinesthetic awareness in the body and then you'll put the speed on, You'll turn that gas on three feet prior to the golf ball, releasing that right angle, and you'll be able to bomb it past all your friends.
All right guys, so I want you to check out a couple of key videos.
The wide narrow wide video that's in the advanced, or I'm sorry, that's in the program section of the introduction.
So program introduction section, there's the wide narrow wide.
Now we have the advanced downswing section.
I want you to check out the slingshot release technique.
That's a video where Clay talked about basically feeling like you're ripping the grip right off the club.
And that's going to help you maximize speed at the bottom of the arc there as well.
And then always make sure you check out the lag and release videos, the lag and release speed drills from the nine to three section that's in the downswing as well.
So check out those videos, put those to use and make sure you're putting the speed in, Turning the gas on at the right time so your car can get to the finish line and you can bomb it past all your friends.
All right guys, I look forward to working more with you in the future.
I hope you have a great day and we'll talk to you soon.
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