Increase Your Clubhead Speed With Vertical Force
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- GROUND FORCE DRILL - PGA Professional Robin Symes shows how he used a GROUND FORCE DRILL to increase a student's clubhead speed by up to 10 mph.
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Robin here, with one of my recent lessons. I think this is a good lesson for anybody who constantly struggles with push shots, you find that you feel like you struggle to release the clubhead, but mainly players who are struggling to correct clubhead speed. You feel like you put a lot of effort into the swing, but you don't get much out. You feel like maybe your body type and your athleticism, you should be somebody who creates a fair amount of clubhead speed, but you don't, this might be a good lesson for you.
Now, I think most players understand some of the components which have an effect on clubhead speed. Maybe pressure transfer between right and left foot, rotational speeds of your body, the hinging and unhinging of the wrists, the kind of leverage you create in your wrists, and yes, those are all important components of how much speed you create. What many players don't realize is that there is also a vertical component too. There is a vertical force in the golf swing which will greatly affect how much clubhead speed you can create. This player is a great example of this. She's a good player. Obviously, somebody shooting in a round even par but struggles to create clubhead speed. Definitely, doesn't hit the ball far enough at this stage to compete on a higher level, but I won't go into huge detail there. I am focusing on the one area we worked on and the effects that had. But if I take you to impact, you can see how her lower body, a simple way to look at that, it was higher than...almost her knees look collapsed. They look too much down. They look too close to the ground. Her right knee is kind of rolling in towards the target, left leg still looks bent. It doesn't really look high enough. It's telling me she hasn't really got that vertical component in her swing, that vertical force, which is affecting her clubhead speed. So another thing, it will get a little bit more complicated, but because she doesn't have this vertical force, her hips don't stabilize, which doesn't allow her to release the club, so she struggles with push shots to the right as well for the same reason. All right, very simple. We just simply did some drills here. One leg only, this is the left leg only, whereas she put her right foot behind her left up on its toe, tried to make her backswing that is close to normal as possible but then simply learned to push up from her left foot. Used the ground, she used that force to push up. She feels like she's jumping. Now, maybe you might not believe me, but we tested this with TrackMan, and from this one-foot-only swing, she was actually creating more clubhead speed than her normal two-footed swing on the left. She was hitting the ball farther here on the right than with her normal swing, which instantly tells us that she didn't have this vertical force in her swing. That's a good way for you to test are you using the ground in the most effective way. Give it a try, maybe not in the first ball, but within 10 balls, if you don't have this component, you will be at least hitting the ball the same distance from this drill as you will with your normal swing if you don't have this force in your swing. Now, let's skip forward, and this is really only a few weeks later. You can see now, at impact, there's a little bit more thrust. Certainly, her knees don't look as collapsed. She's working up away from the ground, and on these swings, her clubhead speed, on average, was eight miles an hour faster. Now, that's a huge difference actually. It's almost 10%, so she went from somebody whose distance was a little bit below average to someone's distance which was a little bit above average. Actually, her swing speed in the right here was above the LPGA average. And I was really only thinking about one thing, that left foot drill and then repeat the same feeling during the shot. Let me show you why that will also have a little bit of an effect on the direction. So before on the right, right knee sort of collapses, everything collapses, so actually, here her right knee gets on the ball too early, but here you will see she is pushing up, so this stabilizers her hips. This one, her hips spins back more, so her hips don't stabilize. Her hips don't slow down, so she can transfer the speed into the clubhead. But yes, effecting distance, but also affecting the release of the club. This one, the club releases more freely, so it helps the clubface square up instead of...very commonly for her, the clubface would be left open at impact. The ball would start to the right. So simple but very effective lesson, and I think a lot of golfers out there can benefit from some of this in their game. I say simply trying that left-foot-only drill, you will soon work out whether you're using the ground correctly. If not, give this a try.
This is a great video, been working on this for a few days prior to to seeing this and not only helped my clubhead speed, but also squaring the face and contact. Weird how one drill can cure many faults. Thank you for posting Robin
one of the best coaches!
Hi Robin another great video,ive used this drill,i was told it was for using the right side more, but i felt it improved my left side stability and dynamic action! Luckily most right handers jump off their left foot,tho you may struggle with a pupil if theyre the odd one out!
But although this dynamic action does increase speed, it also makes space/helps timing sequencing for the major speed producers the muscles/joints of the hads arms and shoulders.I like many who learnt golf late in life, well after being good at other sports learnt golf the wrong way round!positions ,body action etc.Now at 63 im hitting it further and striking it better as the secret of golf,like all sports,is athletic anticipation! ie anticipate striking with the whole club through impact powered by the muscles that are directly linked to the end you are holding ! everything else just happens in sequence caused by athletic anticipation of this
Yes the vertical force is the "engine", the other things you mentioned are the "transmission" that deliver the power to the hitting area. It is very well masked in the swing, hard to see, but it is there
Great lesson Robin and what a beautiful student!!!
Thanks, and yes, great student, it does help make it easier:)
Used this drill for my shots today. Excellent tip; and it worked. Have perused some of your other videos, and they work for me, thanks.
i'm trying this drill! thanks for the lesson
Excellent coaching advice. Thank you
This is fantastic instruction!! Looking forward to giving this a go post lockdown!
Amazing!!! Very helpful and insightful. Thank you.
A+ instructor right here. Subscribed.
+Chase Reyes Thanks Chase
at 4:55 is awesome , i bet the ball strike was a lot better, i've been trying to stop my left knee collapsing in backswing recently and my ball striking has improved , but with this drill and swing thought of pushing my left leg off the ground i have gone to another level of ball striking. I think this video will help me get back down to four handicap
Great lesson Robin - thank you. I wish I had known this when I was 24 rather than 54.
Great video.
perfect drill for me....works like a charm!
Glad it helped, cheers
Great tip!
+Joe Yamsuan Thanks
Thank you- worked great for me!
Thanks Wayne
I wish you showed the front view of the one foot drill. Still a good advice.
I'll try this out 😃👍
Thank You!
Awesome 👍👍👍
Great stuff! Never heard this vertical component explained so tangibly.
Btw, did you have a chance to go to the Presidents cup?
+3rdgroove Wish I did, had some nice tickets, but just could not make it up
Do you think that if right handed people were to swing left handed when they initially start it would be more natural to use the lead leg to create vertical force - and also use it more powerfully ?
Not sure about that, but often players who struggle with this is because there upperbody is strong than lower
thanks
Take it to the range. It works. :)
+David Moore Good stuff David
Should I feel like I jump at the start of the downswing? Does it feel like an actual jump or more like just constant pressure in the ground? When I try and jump, I lose all control of the club and thin everything with the one legged drill. I can nearly dunk at 6’ tall so I am sure I have power leaks in my golf swing. My average ball speed is around 147 mph which is around a 235-240 carry for driver.
You did not explain in full. This pushing up is the correct way to hit the ball through parametric acceleration.
You have any other drills you recommend to fix this problem ... cause I'm pretty confident this is the problem with my iron swing. I can easy hit over 110+ with the driver but have a noticeably slower iron swing speed and couldn't figure out why until I stumbled upon this video. Any tips would be appreciated!
Does straightening the left leg at impact tend to cause you to lose spine angle too early?
In my opinion it helps maintain your angles as it encourages a good rotation of the hips.
Straighting the leg allows you to smash the ball
@@SwingStationgolf I feel the same, there is not consistent compression of the ball since I guess I am straigtening the left leg early. Any comments are appreciated.
Robin, great video and explanation ever. Can I ask you one question? Do you try to feel jump up or jump up and jump forward towards where the shoulder point at?
Starts at scratch and improves....
Coach,
Does this drill apply from Driver to Wedges??
Thanks
Roger, same movement, just a lot more force with the driver for 2 reasons, first you are hitting up on the driver, second the the driver is moving fast and therefore pulling you towards the ground more, you need to fight that
Robin, when i do this drill i am wobbling all over the place any help?
+kris bretz Tricky to say Kris, start by swing with in yourself, and try and make your speed with the force from the ground, not your arms
+RobinSymesGolf robin one more thing, i know this drill is supposed to help create speed from the ground. but wouldn't this drill make the hips lose their posture through the swing? it feels as though you are early extending.
Little complicated to explain but your left hip has to get higher through impact to maintain posture, so if done correctly it should help maintain posture, not lose posture
+Kris Bretz this has nothing to do with goat humping. This pertains to parametric acceleration.
Jim furyk's career disagrees with this swing philosophy
Sure, got to love the individual ways of doing things. Excepts to every concept ever talked about. But there will be a lot of players out there this can help