Use This Effortless Swing Tip To Hit Irons Further — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, a lot of my students, they want to
2. 0:01hit the golf ball longer, but they don't
3. 0:03have the ability to swing longer because
4. 0:04of injuries and what have you. So, I
5. 0:06show them this. I give them this simple
6. 0:08drill.
7. 0:14And we visited that what, 170 yards with
8. 0:17probably what you saw was a very, very
9. 0:19tiny looking golf swing. And I said to
10. 0:21them, there's two things that you need
11. 0:23to be pretty good at if you want to hit
12. 0:26the ball longer with what you have. The
13. 0:28first thing is you need to know the
14. 0:30destination you're going to. Right, this
15. 0:32is really, really important to know the
16. 0:33destination. The more you can start with
17. 0:36the end in mind, know where you're
18. 0:37supposed to finish, your body can
19. 0:39organize itself very naturally and very
20. 0:40powerfully around that. The second thing
21. 0:44you're going to need to know is this,
22. 0:44you need to notice how to in a sense
23. 0:47accelerate the club at the right time.
24. 0:50And the feeling that you need to achieve
25. 0:52that. If you can really feel this club
26. 0:54accelerate, or I I like to call
27. 0:55catapulting at the right time, you can
28. 0:58start to create this effortless looking
29. 1:00golf and that actually hits it a little
30. 1:02bit further than you're doing right now.
31. 1:03Without having a longer swing. So,
32. 1:06here's the drill. Now, this is a drill
33. 1:08that
34. 1:09you can I would recommend you do over
35. 1:12and over and over again. It is not a by
36. 1:15the way, before we start, it's not a
37. 1:16magic fix. You don't do the drill once
38. 1:18and you're suddenly going to be
39. 1:19brilliant. This is a drill that is
40. 1:22um if you do it consistently, it's
41. 1:23tricky to start with. It can feel a bit
42. 1:25strange. It can be tricky to get handle
43. 1:27of, but once you get it and you repeat
44. 1:30it over and over again, your body starts
45. 1:32to kind of really get it and it's
46. 1:34something you can transfer to the golf
47. 1:36course with not just your irons, but
48. 1:38your driver, too. So, here's how you set
49. 1:40it up. Stage one is simply this. I get
50. 1:43myself set up here, ball position, you
51. 1:45know, maybe just a little bit head of
52. 1:46center. I've got seven iron like I said,
53. 1:47but we can apply this to driver and and
54. 1:49your fairway woods. Put a little bit of
55. 1:51weight, just favor that lead side just a
56. 1:53little bit here. And from this position,
57. 1:56and this is a drill I'd love to say that
58. 1:57came up with myself, but I didn't. I It
59. 1:59was a friend of mine, Andreas Kelley,
60. 2:00that gave me this. It's called the
61. 2:01longest putt. It's just brilliant.
62. 2:03So, what we're going to do here is this.
63. 2:04Stage one of this process is this. I
64. 2:06want you to know where your destination
65. 2:08is. We play golf with angled golf clubs.
66. 2:11So, we need to make sure that when we're
67. 2:12swinging through to about halfway, we
68. 2:14are swinging on an angle. So, what I'm
69. 2:16going to do here is this. You'll notice
70. 2:19as I swing through here,
71. 2:20and I'll weight on my front foot here,
72. 2:22my trail shoulder is down at an angle.
73. 2:24My eyes are at an angle, my ears are at
74. 2:26an angle, and I'm finishing just like
75. 2:28this. The other thing you'll notice here
76. 2:30is you'll notice my lead arm here is
77. 2:32higher than my trail arm. This is
78. 2:34proving that I swung my body on an
79. 2:37angle, on a circle, like this. Okay?
80. 2:40Very important. So, knowing that you've
81. 2:42got a destination to go to is just
82. 2:44brilliant because your body goes,
83. 2:46"Ah, that's what I'm going to try to
84. 2:47achieve." You're less likely to make
85. 2:50some of the faults I see on my uh my
86. 2:52swing coach app where you see a lot of
87. 2:54players that are lunging at the golf
88. 2:56ball like this, where the shoulder stays
89. 2:57too high, the eyes are kind of, in a
90. 2:59sense, very level on the way through
91. 3:01here. This leads to tops, poor strikes,
92. 3:04loads of um loss of distance. Whereas,
93. 3:07this really helps you to improve the
94. 3:09quality of your strike, and naturally
95. 3:11increase your distance.
96. 3:13So, that's the first thing. Set up,
97. 3:16knowing that you've got a destination.
98. 3:17Just No backswing start. Just do some
99. 3:20rehearsals, and just practice this
100. 3:22sensation for for when you watch
101. 3:25probably find this will feel strange to
102. 3:27you because for most people, that like I
103. 3:28said, this trail shoulder stays way too
104. 3:30high. See this a lot in the app.
105. 3:33Everyone lunging forward here. What I
106. 3:35love about this is this. You're going to
107. 3:37now feel this right shoulder turning
108. 3:39towards the target, but from a very low
109. 3:41position
110. 3:43here versus most people when they swing
111. 3:45long to start with,
112. 3:47they're swinging from a high position.
113. 3:48This is the over the top. So, from it,
114. 3:49swinging from a low position. So, she's
115. 3:51on an arc here. So, spend a bit of time
116. 3:54just feeling that motion there. The
117. 3:57shoulders all turning, eyes, ears all on
118. 4:01an arc
119. 4:02through impact, okay?
120. 4:04That's it. Nothing more complicated than
121. 4:05that. You're starting to kind of in a
122. 4:07sense get that sensation. Like I said,
123. 4:09if you do have my app, look at the app
124. 4:11from face on. It will give you that
125. 4:13feedback. It will tell you whether
126. 4:14you're doing this correctly or not.
127. 4:15The second thing
128. 4:17now is this. And this is the thing that
129. 4:18I would say doesn't exist in most
130. 4:20amateur golfers. It exists in most
131. 4:21decent players, but amateurs not.
132. 4:23Is we've got to remember that we are
133. 4:25Golf is very much a throwing action,
134. 4:27right? We want to be catapulting this
135. 4:29golf club. So, the cool thing about this
136. 4:31drill is is it's a longest putt. We're
137. 4:33only going to swing
138. 4:35to around about here. Now, the reality
139. 4:37is is everybody, including me, always
140. 4:39swings back a little bit longer. And
141. 4:40that's absolutely fine. But, the intent
142. 4:42is to swing only to a short distance.
143. 4:44Now, from here, what I want you to do,
144. 4:47the club is behind you. I want you to
145. 4:48imagine from here
146. 4:50that club
147. 4:52is going to catapult around the corner
148. 4:55to that place.
149. 4:58Can you hear that noise?
150. 4:59I'm catapulting, look,
151. 5:01to that place we've just gone to.
152. 5:04There.
153. 5:06There. Catapult, okay? You can use If
154. 5:10you struggle to do this,
155. 5:12you can use
156. 5:14sound. Grab an alignment stick or just
157. 5:16turn your club upside down. Here.
158. 5:23Hear that noise? When people do this for
159. 5:26the first time, they can't create that
160. 5:27noise. It looks more like this.
161. 5:30So, you have to learn
162. 5:33to feel
163. 5:35the catapult through impact, okay? These
164. 5:38two things together
165. 5:40will really help you sense, first of
166. 5:42all, how your body is working
167. 5:45beautifully and turning beautifully to
168. 5:47catapult that club around. Now, let me
169. 5:49show you now
170. 5:50hitting a golf ball.
171. 5:52So, I get myself set up here.
172. 5:55We start slowly and we try and initially
173. 5:57do some rehearsals, see if you can hit
174. 5:59balls just to start with. Can you
175. 6:01actually hit a golf ball
176. 6:03and check your position here? So, we're
177. 6:04going to swing, imagine we're going to
178. 6:05finish, we know the destination here.
179. 6:09And we do this.
180. 6:10And we look here and we go, "Right,
181. 6:12where am I finished?"
182. 6:13And I go, "Yep, angle perfect, pretty
183. 6:16good. I felt like my weight maybe have
184. 6:19just drifted back a little bit there. I
185. 6:20didn't quite keep it forward." These are
186. 6:23the feelings, right? So, what you do is
187. 6:25is you check then before you start
188. 6:27accelerating. But once you've done a few
189. 6:29of them and you start to find that
190. 6:30you're swing you're striking it quite
191. 6:31nicely and you feel like you're
192. 6:35finishing at this angle here,
193. 6:37then you can gradually
194. 6:39same thing, not don't extend the length
195. 6:40at all,
196. 6:41see if you can start to catapult that
197. 6:44club
198. 6:45faster on the arc
199. 6:48here to finish again in that place. Now,
200. 6:51as I'm doing this, I personally feel,
201. 6:53but these are my feelings from this
202. 6:55drill, I feel my right shoulder
203. 6:58is back here, nice and low, and it's
204. 7:00accelerating that club
205. 7:03around the corner like this in a very
206. 7:05smooth [snorts]
207. 7:07and effortless
208. 7:09way. And you can see here, I have
209. 7:10probably gone a little bit longer there,
210. 7:12but look at how far that's gone.
211. 7:14With a really, really small swing.
212. 7:17So, I love this drill because
213. 7:19it's training one of the vital parts
214. 7:22that you need to feel.
215. 7:24From here
216. 7:26to here. Because you're only here, your
217. 7:28right shoulder here, trail shoulder is
218. 7:29already low.
219. 7:31So, you're now training it to stay low,
220. 7:34work here. I love that because most
221. 7:36players, like I say, poor players are
222. 7:38coming down from a very high right
223. 7:40shoulder, okay? This is where a lot of
224. 7:42problems come from. Now you know that
225. 7:44feeling, you can then start to keep
226. 7:45extending it so it goes to a high place
227. 7:47naturally as far as you physically can.
228. 7:50Now you know where it needs to get to
229. 7:52here for it to now
230. 7:55fire
231. 7:56through the impact area. So it trains
232. 7:58some great feelings, great starting
233. 8:01points that you can use to then extend
234. 8:03into that full swing. So
235. 8:05you may be a short swinger, but this you
236. 8:08can see here, you can start to generate
237. 8:10some effortless power if you do this
238. 8:12correctly and get your body supporting
239. 8:14this motion. So I hope you enjoyed this
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