In this video we will test your Straight Line Release on video and see if you are hitting the key checkpoints. For level three I give you several checkpoints to be sure to do correctly. Keep up the hard work on the reps!
What's Covered: In this video we will test your Straight Line Release on video and see if you are hitting the key checkpoints. For level three I give you several checkpoints to be sure to do correctly. Keep up the hard work on the reps!
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Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard
Video Duration: 2:41
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Video Transcription:
Hi guys, welcome back. We’re at the final piece of the straight line release. We’re going to start really compressing those shots, taking it to the range, hitting a lot of golf balls doing this, and fully ingraining it, that way we never have to think about this again for the rest of our life, we’re just going to nail it every single time.
So we’re going to do 3,000 reps in this one. Like always, don’t worry about it’s not a speed race. If it takes us a month, two months, three months, really doesn’t matter. All that really matters is that we’re doing the drills and working through them, that’s going to be the piece that really, really matters.
When we set up, let me go over a few key check points here, and then I’ll give you a couple of recommendations of how I’d work through this.
As we set up again, the very first time that the club splits the forearms, so whenever my club is angled out in front, that’s lag. The very first time my club gets split between my forearms, that’s when I would consider that to be the straight line release.
Now we want to have this about 45° in front, I can set a ball on the ground with another ball about four feet in front of that.
As I come down I’m going to contact this ball with forward shaft lean, and it’s going to release to where now the club would be splitting my forearms.
We’re measuring this 45° angle from the center of my chest. So I should see a line from the center of my chest right down the club, right out to that ball in the release, if I’m doing this correctly.
Also looking to make sure my hips, so as I set up to this ball -- actually we’re just going to g over here. My hips, my shoulders, my hips are going to be 45 open pointing to the ball out in front.
My shoulders are going to be pointing to the ball out in front, and I’ve maintained my posture just like we talked about in those first couple of check point videos.
Finally here, let me really re-emphasize, it’s not about doing the reps. The reps really don’t make any difference, that’s just to give you a general guideline of how long it’s going to take you to ingrain the muscle memory.
What it’s really about is making sure that you’re doing the motions correctly. Don’t be afraid to go back to Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, the actual videos, work through those if you’re struggling with this a little bit, and get the motion correct.
Once we get the motion correct, then we’re going to do the reps just to ingrain that. But if my straight line release is a little bit early, and I go ahead and rifle through 3-, 4-, 5,000 repetitions, well then I’m not really going to gain anything from this, because I’m just ingraining having my release a little bit too early.
I’ve got to get that release going really well by working through the videos and the sections, and then I’m going to do the reps to ingrain that. So don’t be in a rush to just knock out a bunch of reps, be in a rush to really get it right.
That’s where we really want to be, we want to get it right. Then we’re going to do the reps so that we fully ingrain it and we never have to think about it again.
So good luck to you guys, work hard, hope you all are doing great, and I’ll see you all very soon.
