Create Effortless Power By Slowing Down Your Golf Swing (Golf Drill)
Create Effortless Power By Slowing Down Your Golf Swing (Golf Drill)
Hitting the golf ball a long way has little to no secrets anymore but this golf swing tip will help you create effortless power by slowing down your golf swing. Sounds mad I know! Understanding hand speed in the golf swing is crucial for hitting the golf ball long with both irons and driver. Check out this golf drill to start hitting the golf…
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i think you mean, relax your muscles, slow speed means less head momentum, less ball distance
Very interesting to hear this. I teach something very similar in piano playing for what is supposedly just a drop on the keys. It's actually a slowing of the arm before contact to allow the hand to be thrown out (without the weight of the arm piling hard into contact). I use the same whipping example myself.
I always wondered about this similar issue in golf (I used to play a little but was useless) in relation to flex. I used to think you should accelerate through contact. It seems common to teach that. However, it certainly makes most rational sense that if the hands were accelerating at contact, you'd be bending the club head backwards and actively causing more lag between hands and clubhead. I suspected slowing before contact might be better, but I think this is the first time I've heard someone teach the concept. I was literally searching for slow motion films that might confirm it, when I landed on this video.
Any thoughts on other sports though? I'd imagine that cricketers and tennis players have to actively accelerate into and through contact. Presumably the difference in golf is just that the flex is so signficant that you really need to let the unbending provide that late acceleration. Would this be similar in any other sport? I'm unsure. I feel like cricket almost certainly needs active acceleration of the hands into contact (with the more rigid bat) whereas I'm slightly on the fence with tennis. Just maybe a tennis racket could have enough flex for the same concept to apply?
Another example is nunchucks. If you think of the connection between the two sticks as your wrist, then the only way to let the outer stick whip is to slow your arms down and let your wrists whip through.
Great video! This makes perfect sense and haven’t heard it this way before. The missing piece was the last “slow” and using the ground for brakes. Love it. Went down to the sim and tried it right away and increased speed on 6i from 85 to 92 in literally 5 minutes. Mind blown.
No no noooo! Let the club do the work. As soon as you try and control or steer the club you choke out the power.
Jim Venetos Golf academy simplifies this. Just saying.
Sounds easy… don’t it? 😳
Throw clubs
Brakes
Caution, pump drill can snap a graphite shaft. I broke my beloved 5 wood. 🙁
Good enough explanation that I will start working on it this afternoon. If it works, I'll be back. Thx.
Stupidest thing I've ever seen, and example misleading. You're jerking hand back to whip it, and gee, stopping hand does nothing. Duh
I'm 71. For my hands, I'm trying to create more width. And I'm working on club head speed with SuperSpeed. I'm at 91-93, hitting 230 total yards, and an occasional 250 when I hit a sprinkler head! I know that strength is an important element, but I think technique is King. Your thoughts on variation in hand speed and the work of the lead leg are an important part of it. Not too many people talk about hand speed. Thanks for your work.
Is this only for drivers? Or also irons?
Gary Player likened it to cracking a bull whip.
Where are the watches that measure your hand speed?
amazing vid!!! What are the hands speed tool apps you are refering to???
Too many swing thoughts for me this is! Athletic, waggle around, whip it down quick, then use the ground to put brakes on letting club head whip through. All in half a second. Nope I’m out 😂
This may be the best explanation I have ever seen on the actual reason squatting and ground interaction translates to club dynamics. Really great!
Very useful image created with the focus on hand speed. I have recently been able to create that feel with my driver (at 61 years of age actually hitting it further and straighter now than 10 years ago) I am playing to 13 handicap driving, chipping, pitching incredibly well with a horribly inconsistent iron game (fat, thin with rare incredibly feeling pure shots)…for some reason I feel all those good feels with my driver, 3 wood, hybrids and long irons but I struggle replicating that swing feel with my 7 iron 8, 9, PW…etc..I think the shorter club makes my swing more mechanical and less dynamic…loosening my grip pressure is helping. Thanks for an excellent lesson…Will let you know my progress.
Need more slow motion to show your biomechanics
Why..does…this….lad..talk…..like……….this?
Brilliant! I have been seeking an explanation of swing tempo as mine just didn't feel effective, and this hits the nail on the head. Will be practicing this weekend. Thanks for the vid.