So happy to have you on the channel and happy to be helping you with your game. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions if you run into any issues at all.
Timestamps for those that don't like entertainment:) 0:00 Intro 1:44 How The Drill Works 2:12 Step 1 - Impact and Post Impact 5:11 Step 2 - Adding Movement 8:28 Step 3 - Picking Up The Pace 9:47 Step 4 - Adding Stability 11:17 Step 5 - How To Practice
Chris , good to see everything is working out for you now you are on your own. I have had the pleasure of a couple of lessons in person with you as well online reviews whilst you were with RST. Keep being you and don’t let the negative comments affect your plans. Are you still at Hawks Landing
Hi Ian! Always great to hear from you. Hope you’re great and you’re playing some good golf. Thank you for the support and encouraging words and yes, I’m still At hawks landing. Shoot me an email (email is in description) sometime. Would love to catch up even further.
Great instructive video. Thanks Chris. I would also like to work on keeping the trail wrist in extension at impact (around the 10:00 minute mark in your video) and then release it. Could you do a future video on that important part of the swing or is there a drill I can do to practice that movement and the timing of it? Thank you!
Thank you! I can and will do a video on this topic for sure. I have videos on the channel that talk about the lead wrist function, which does theoretically force the trail hand to behave BUT that doesn't mean everyone can feel it the same way. I'll get to work.
The shoulder will move ever so slightly closer to the ball but what I’m trying to get students to do is to steepen the shoulder plane quite bit. Keeping the shoulder back and extending the arms will force the shoulders to do so. Hope that helps clarify.
Well, I can’t now because the video is published. However, the trail shoulder will get a very small amount closer to the ball. I want you to keep it back and extend the arms. In order to do so, your secondary tilt has to increase which steepens the shoulder plane. I’ll do a video on this topic asap as there seems to be some confusion on it.
When doing this drill where are your hands relative to your toe line when fully extended at the 3 o’clock position? If I try and keep my right shoulder back,but hands at the toe line, I feel really crunched up. If I rotate a little more and have my hands in line with my heals it feels less crunched up and doable . At speed my body won’t go into that crunched up full arm extension and my lead arm just breaks down
My hands are on top of the toe line. You’ll definitely feel some crunched up feelings in the trail side from the side bend created. If the hands are over the heels, your hand and arm path may be too much to the left and you can run into strike and curvature related issues. The lead arm breaking down would be from a lack of humerus and wrist and forearm rotation post impact. Sounds to me like you’re substitute wrist and forearm rotation for a little more body turn through the hitting area. That’s common and not a bad thing for players that have too much hand activity through the bottom. It’s not as efficient but can still be productive. It’s a player to player sort of scenario really.
Hey Chris loving this video! Covering a lot of great info in one video, working through it slowly. Really appreciate your work thank you!
Thank you so much for taking time to post a nice comment and very happy to hear you’re loving the video. Hope you join me for more in the future.
These small incremental drills have done more for my game in days than any other instruction has done in 10 years.
So happy to have you on the channel and happy to be helping you with your game. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions if you run into any issues at all.
Timestamps for those that don't like entertainment:)
0:00 Intro
1:44 How The Drill Works
2:12 Step 1 - Impact and Post Impact
5:11 Step 2 - Adding Movement
8:28 Step 3 - Picking Up The Pace
9:47 Step 4 - Adding Stability
11:17 Step 5 - How To Practice
Chris , good to see everything is working out for you now you are on your own. I have had the pleasure of a couple of lessons in person with you as well online reviews whilst you were with RST. Keep being you and don’t let the negative comments affect your plans. Are you still at Hawks Landing
Hi Ian! Always great to hear from you. Hope you’re great and you’re playing some good golf. Thank you for the support and encouraging words and yes, I’m still At hawks landing. Shoot me an email (email is in description) sometime. Would love to catch up even further.
Great instructive video. Thanks Chris.
I would also like to work on keeping the trail wrist in extension at impact (around the 10:00 minute mark in your video) and then release it. Could you do a future video on that important part of the swing or is there a drill I can do to practice that movement and the timing of it?
Thank you!
Thank you! I can and will do a video on this topic for sure. I have videos on the channel that talk about the lead wrist function, which does theoretically force the trail hand to behave BUT that doesn't mean everyone can feel it the same way. I'll get to work.
... excellent. Many thanks. John @JWfit
Thank YOU for the support.
A bit confused by don’t let trail shoulder come “in” to ball during impact and post impact, can you expand on that? Thanks
The shoulder will move ever so slightly closer to the ball but what I’m trying to get students to do is to steepen the shoulder plane quite bit. Keeping the shoulder back and extending the arms will force the shoulders to do so. Hope that helps clarify.
Can you show a down the line view of the shoulder works to not get closer to the ball?
Well, I can’t now because the video is published. However, the trail shoulder will get a very small amount closer to the ball. I want you to keep it back and extend the arms. In order to do so, your secondary tilt has to increase which steepens the shoulder plane. I’ll do a video on this topic asap as there seems to be some confusion on it.
When doing this drill where are your hands relative to your toe line when fully extended at the 3 o’clock position? If I try and keep my right shoulder back,but hands at the toe line, I feel really crunched up. If I rotate a little more and have my hands in line with my heals it feels less crunched up and doable . At speed my body won’t go into that crunched up full arm extension and my lead arm just breaks down
My hands are on top of the toe line. You’ll definitely feel some crunched up feelings in the trail side from the side bend created. If the hands are over the heels, your hand and arm path may be too much to the left and you can run into strike and curvature related issues. The lead arm breaking down would be from a lack of humerus and wrist and forearm rotation post impact. Sounds to me like you’re substitute wrist and forearm rotation for a little more body turn through the hitting area. That’s common and not a bad thing for players that have too much hand activity through the bottom. It’s not as efficient but can still be productive. It’s a player to player sort of scenario really.