Yesterday I posted an antique video of a lesson from Henry Cotton. The video centered on a drill that involved hitting an old tire with an iron. Cotton said it turned into to bolster the palms and forearms for better ballstriking.
I actually have a few thoughts on the drill and why you might want to try it. Here are numerous segments from scenes in the video, each displaying a pupil hitting the tire. In every picture, the club is both making contact with the tire (2) or is bouncing off after touch (1, 3). These guys are actually pounding the ones tires!
You'll be aware that in the most full of life hit (1), there may be no opposite pivot. Although the student is not shoving his hips ahead, the manner maximum modern teachers say you ought to (slide and turn!), he's genuinely shifting his weight to his lead foot. That's no longer as clean inside the different two pics because of the viewing perspective (plus the pupil's stance is slender), however there's no way the tire within the final photo is lifting off the ground if the student is shifting backward.
NOTE: "Using the ground" doesn't have to mean that you shove your hips toward the target. If your legs and hips are letting you apply force toward the target, you're using the ground. Just look at how strong the first student's stance is as he pounds that tire!
One very critical component you need to pay attention to -- in all three shots -- is that the higher a part of the lead arm is close to the chest. This isn't always something the students are looking to do; it's simply the result of using the arms and fingers to hit the tire solidly.
Many of you struggle with "chicken-winging" or just having your lead arm separate from your body at impact. The reason is that you aren't turning your shoulders into the shot. You can see that turn in all three photos. Again, using the hands and arms to hit the ball is creating that turn. The students aren't consciously trying to make it happen; it just does because IT HAS TO.
And inside the closing two images, you may surely see that the wrist of the lead hand hasn't flipped over. Instead, it's both flat or barely bowed. That's also a result of the use of the palms and palms to hit the tire.
All of these items show up AUTOMATICALLY whilst the students actively use their hands and palms to hit the tire.
When my teacher taught me a tire drill many years in the past, he didn't train me to hit the tire difficult. Rather, he used the tire as if it had been an impact bag, to educate me to square up the membership at impact. (It worked, via the way.) But it's clean that Cotton's tire drill will do that as well, as evidenced through the bowed wrists at effect.
As I stated in the previous day's publish, you want to ease into this drill or you can harm your self. It's a strengthening drill, so that you should give it time to work. (In the section of the video wherein I discovered the remaining pics, you can listen Cotton inform his college students to start gently.) But it is pretty clear that this drill may want to educate you quite a few correct swing motions with out you desiring to obsess over mechanics. I plan to paintings with this drill myself, surely due to the fact I just like the standards it ingrains.
And, as I additionally stated the previous day, it simply looks as if a number of fun!
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