It doesn't need to be true in this video

I'm going to show you first of all how you can improve the contact with each and every single club

But then I want I'm going to show you is want to give a recent student of mine once he got his contact

He was initially there making the mistake of swinging longer to try and generate power

But here's what we did initially. I got him actually to keep his very very small swing

Generate incredible speed with this simple short swing way before we try to go longer

He ended up adding 20-30 yards in no time at all with just a very very short backswing

We didn't even go into the full swing at this stage because I wanted him to perfect this it was so simple

He got his contact. He got a strike and he kept his direction. I want this for you, too

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So with my student George, I didn't jump into it. He wanted more power initially

But the problem was his contact was really inconsistent. So we dealt with contact first

It's what I'm gonna do with you right now

And then I showed him how to very easily start adding some speed to this and some distance so we contact

This is the biggest problem

I often see we contact

What George was doing is he was losing the angle in this trail wrist as he was coming into our impact here

This club was starting to kind of straighten here

Now the problem is in order to strike a ball

You have to strike the ball then the ground and you'll see with any top player

They're able to maintain this kind of lean in the shaft here where there's a bit of an angle George wasn't doing that

He was ultimately the club was being thrown all these angles have disappeared his trail arm. He was starting to pop out now

Occasionally was strike down and he was striking. Okay, but it was very very inconsistent

So all I did was change two things one thing in setup and then just one thing

I needed to to help him feel in terms of contact

The first thing was to give him a sense of strike

It's what I want to do for you is this get yourself set here

Start off with your trail arm here your elbow tucked in and this trail I'm pointing straight outwards

Then I want to want you to do is this I want to push

Downwards down and slightly my left just like download. I want to feel like you've got a

Strike in here. This is very down. I'm pushing down with the pad of my trail handy

I'm pushing this way now

This is super important because this is very different to when people normally push they push for their fingers and when you push for your fingers

What you end up doing is is you end up doing this?

This is you trying to throw the club or flick the club at it. Okay, you throw the fingers at it your pad

Now he's pointing almost upwards in this flicky position and your trail arm pops out and you lose all strike and all distance

So I got him to put his pad feel like he's pads pushing

Downwards onto this club then out what I did from here. So no boxing for a second from here

What I want you to do is with your trail side. I want you to turn the whole side down and

Through so you see how my trail side here is lit

All of my right side here is working through the shot and what you see here is this beautifully almost straight line

If you are struggling with contact

You won't see that most of the time people's bodies are kind of freezing

When the body stops the arms get thrown and we get this kind of flicky style motion

So we George all I did was get him to do one one drill

Feel that motion here

Push the club through impact. Okay, notice this not push it this way

Remember the golf swing is an arc and so of my hands my hands look work on an arc, too

They don't work pushing in a straight line. They work on an arc

So I got him to push on the arc here so you could really feel his right side turning down and through the shot

Then all I did is the right now you've got that sensation

Let's do a just a few small swings took that trail elbow in make a few little swings

Maybe quarter swings half swings. Maybe lead. I'm up to power

Whatever you want to do and we're gonna imagine now turning that face

Onto the golf ball and you're gonna push as far as you can

Through here keeping that trail elbow really tucked in don't let it pop out okay, so we started off like that nice and small getting to feel a

Beautiful look

Strike now, do you think he got that first time? Of course, he didn't okay

So what initially did he made the old adage his body stopped?

He held it for a little bit his body stopped and the hands took over. He had to learn the feel of this pad pushing

Through the impact area here. Alright, so the whole side so I gave him exercises one here

Just put your trail arm up to here and just a matter that the pad here turning down to the ground and pushing through

Pushing through where's my pad here?

Not flicked my fingers. I got him to repeat that once or twice to get this feeling here

Yeah, and now we started bit by bit to really get a more solid

Strile just like that

So George was already super happy because he had now improved his contact which had added a few extra yards

He wanted more and on these next few swings

He said I could see him getting this the swing was getting longer and longer and as he got longer and longer

His strike went and his accuracy went and actually his distance went and I said George

Did you know there's a way to hit the ball longer without?

Increasing the length of your backswing do that first make the current small swing a super efficient then if you can

Extend it but not before let me explain what I mean by this because it was really really useful

So I gave I demonstrated this with a putter. So I said George look at this

I'm gonna hit a couple of balls for you, right? We're gonna keep the backswing in the forward length pretty much similar

Okay, watch this and I'm gonna change one thing and see if you can spot it

Okay. So this is what's the backspring length?

Actually the forward swings gone quite a long way hasn't it right but watch this what am I gonna do to hit this ball further?

Am I changing the length of my stroke or my change something different

Look how much further that's probably doubled over double the distance. What do you see? I've changed there. What do you see?

I've simply just applied more force with a different rhythm to the back of that golf ball. So here's what I did with George

What I did was I got him to imagine this and I want you to do the same

This is a simplest way to add power to your game

If a ball goes further it travels faster off the clubface

So, what does this club need to do it needs to travel

Faster into this golf ball and I want you to spend time picturing this really really important if I move the club like this with a

Backswing and then copy the same backswing but add work on how I can change my rhythm to add more force into the back of that golf ball

You will hit the ball loads further. So let me show you I'm not gonna here

I'm gonna try to get this sense of rhythm. I've got George to do this

Find a rhythm that's going to add some speed to this

So I said don't change the length of your backswing

If your backswing is maybe going up to about nine o'clock here with your lead arm

All I'm going to do is make a swing. You've now got your strike at this pace

So let me hit a shot for you just to show you so I'm gonna swing up to about here

And I'm gonna apply a force into the back of that golf ball a certain force that ball there traveled 80.8 yards

Now all I'm gonna do is with the same length backswing

I am gonna do a few practices where I'm going to find a rhythm where I'm feeling a

Force into the back of this golf ball. Now. All I'm doing here. Look is this

I am NOT firing and losing the strike what I'm doing

Look at my elbow still tucked in and I'm rotating that forearm down if you're trailside dominant

It's just trail fire. I'm just straightening it and rotating down into the golf ball. If you're leadside dominant

I'm just turning my lead shoulder down onto this golf ball. I'm really applying the force to that shot and what I'm doing here is really getting a

Rhythm with this. I'm not just randomly smash it out. I'm finding a rhythm

So look at the length of this backswing just about nine o'clock and fire it down. Watch this

Now how far has that gone with just barely anything 80 on the previous one 120 so we've added 40 yards

With just a change in the rhythm now with George. All we did was spend time getting him to

Find this rhythm bit by bit a rhythm that kept his strike and added his distance

One final thing which really really helped with this and I gave this exercise to a recent student

I got him to kind of hold the club up like this for a second here. This is a same length backswing. Okay very very slow, but if I do this and raise this end I

Accelerate the club. I got him to feel this as he was doing this

Okay as a real sense of okay. So what is rhythm? It isn't it's wooden motion. There's a

Can you see this? I'm firing down. There's a real fire the body's allowed to move to

Fire this club and as I'm doing this with a short swing, I can apply a lot of force into the back of that ball

Shorter backswing fire it through and what's that get up to?

125 yards, I don't know

I cannot see the length of my backswing but that's traveled 125 rounds what feels like a real nothing swing total distance 135 so look do me a favor get your contact down first

And then before you even consider going longer really start to find a rhythm and start to count that rhythm so it's like one and

Two one and two one and two one and two and you can see almost as a movement here

Firing it down as I fire down my leaf side comes up get the rhythm and get the strike and then only then

Should you worry about extending that swing? So I hope you love this video

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Gave this simple exercise to a recent student of mine, which I'll put in this corner here

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