Ryan left a touch upon yesterday's publish with Annabel Rolley's extension drill. He questioned how a fowl wing would affect her drill, so this repost of an older (and really essential) publish approximately the L-to-L drill is a further study a way to address a chicken wing, in addition to giving you every other drill which could assist improve extension thru the shot. I'll upload some extra notes on the quit of this publish.
The past due Jim Flick turned into properly respected in the golfing network. He was one of those teachers who regarded capable of assist nearly everybody due to the fact he used such simple pictures to train the fundamentals.
In his book Jim Flick on Golf he gave a very simple explanation of how to use your hands and arms in a golf swing to create speed. I bet you've heard this explanation before but I'd also bet you didn't really understand it. Let's see if we can change that today. Here's how Jim put it in his book:
There are definitely pendulums at work. The first is shaped by using the fingers and wrists cocking, uncocking, and recocking. The 2nd is created through the forearms and higher palms swinging from the shoulder sockets.
My former colleague from Golf Digest school days Peter Kostis called them the first swing and the second swing. I think of them as two pendulums.
What allows the two pendulums to paintings together is the aggregate of the weight in club head, centrifugal force, the best vintage law of gravity -- and the golfer. These pendulums deliver about eighty percent of the distance for your golf shot -- supplied the swinging elements of your frame pressure the turning factors and not vice versa.
If your grip pressure is too tight, the burden on the stop of the membership is restrained from doing its job.
If you try consciously to show your shoulders and shift your weight, you destroy the natural harmony of these two pendulums.
If you try to accelerate at impact and follow through, well, you know what happens there. [NOTE: This is a reference to an earlier section in the book. If you TRY to accelerate, you interfere with the natural motion and actually lose clubhead speed.]
But if your posture is good, and your grip pressure -- fingers secure, arms relaxed -- is correct, you give those two pendulums a chance to work in harmony. (p58-59) Alright, the two pendulums are the one stretching from the clubhead to your hands, and the one from your wrists to your shoulder joints. Your wrist joins the two of them together, and act as the pivot point. When your wrists are fully cocked, the clubhead-to-hands-to-shoulder-joints stretch looks like an L shape.
No doubt you've heard of an 'L-to-L' swing. It's a common manner to study pitching technique. You swing your palms lower back to waist excessive (an L with the membership shaft pointing immediately up), then they straighten out because the clubhead hits the ball, and ultimately they form any other L inside the followthrough (again, with the shaft pointing instantly up). Here's Mike Malaska, who labored carefully with Jim, demonstrating how this works.
Please observe that Mike isn't always trying to force his lower frame when he does this. The membership's movement pulls his upper body around, and then his upper body pulls his lower frame around. As you gradually get out to a full swing you will begin to use your legs greater, but it is going to be a very herbal leg pressure -- you may not be thrashing at the ball. (Mike refers to this added force late inside the video while he mentions "the usage of the ground.")
Let me anticipate a question here: When you do this drill at waist high, your wrists will cock as your hands slow down at waist high. When you make this move in a full swing, your wrists will cock as your hands slow down near the end of your swing. It's the change of direction that creates the wrist cock. Got it?
Okay, right here's a bonus video with Malaska coaching you a way to use the L-to-L drill to learn shot shaping. I guess A LOT of you may be working with this one!
Using the L-to-L drill will help your swing in so many methods, such as progressed stability, higher footwork and weight shift, and sooner or later longer distance for less effort. This is a put up you will want to bookmark for your browser and come back to time and again.
Additional notes on 12/27/19:
Because the L-to-L drill uses a shorter swing than Annabel's drill, it's much easier to maintain the connection between upper arm and upper body during your swing, especially during the followthrough. If you try this drill with a glove or a club head cover held between them, as Annabel does in her drill, you'll find it's much easier to keep it from dropping out too early... and that will eliminate the chicken wing.If you operate Flick's picture to give an explanation for Annabel's drill, you can say extension takes place while the two pendulums shape a instantly line with every different, with the head of the membership being as far far from your chest as you may get it. But the usage of the L-to-L drill also makes it simpler to preserve 'soft palms' all through the swing, which helps you create greater clubhead speed because you don't disturbing up.
The great aspect about the L-to-L drill -- and the reason that I preserve recommending it in unique posts -- is because it facilitates you enhance so many components of your swing abruptly, while not having to recognition on every of those elements in my view. Fixing a chicken wing is just considered one of them. But including the pinnacle cowl beneath your lead arm can improve this drill's efficiency at disposing of that flaw.
Hope this helps, Ryan.
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