Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Get More Forward Shaft Lean | Online Student Before & After"

One thing I hear a lot from students is, “No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop flipping at impact!”

It kills your consistency and saps your power.

Today, Top Speed Golf certified instructor Michael Derr will share a drill focusing on the lead arm…

…which allowed his online student to stop flipping and finally get tons of shaft lean at impact!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 5:06

Video Transcription:

I'm Michael Durr, TSG Certified Instructor, and today I have a great before and after of one of my online students that I am very excited to share with you. This student was struggling with early release and breakdown of the lead arm, so these are some very common issues and can be an immense struggle.
Some things I hear all the time, no matter how hard I try, I can't stop flipping. My lead arm always collapses when I try to, and when I try to straighten it out, I hit it terribly. If these are even close to something you've been struggling with, I've got some great news. There's an absolute path out of this very common merry go round, and I'm going to show you how I guided this student to this beautiful release you see here in the after video.
Firstly, the reason this is such a struggle point with players is that we are dealing with impact. This is the fastest moving point of the swing. The downswing from the top of the swing is roughly half a second long. Give give or take from last parallel to impact is even faster. So because that's so fast, it needs specific attention and training.
So that's exactly where we started. As you can see here, we began drill work with a half swing. Paying attention and this is the key here to the extension of the club while simultaneously making sure we were staying within the mechanics that we should be using in the full swing. That's where I tell my online students to lean on me heavily to pay attention to that for them so they can focus in on the task at hand.
So if you're going to work on this at home, the idea here is to pay attention to the extension of the club while making sure that you're still hitting your stable fluid spine checkpoints. This stable fluid spine checkpoints are from the main top speed golf system. And the main ones here are making sure that when you stick at this half finish, as you see this player, um, executing right now is sticking this half finish with the nose behind the midline.
That'd be this line that you, that bisects the body directly in half. So a good rule of thumb is when you split the feet equal distance in half, you draw a line straight up out of the ground. So you're going to have the nose behind the midline, the belt buckle in front of the midline. So you want to get that thing in front.
And then if you draw extension, an extension of the club, the stick is outside. So the extension of the club is outside the front arm, giving a nice exaggerated fit. feel. So once we executed the drill, hitting all relevant checkpoints, re repeated the guided process through the full swing. Now here's the glue that put this all together.
While the student focused on hitting the checkpoints, we were able to go back and forth together and develop a feel. Now, this is the most important part within the mechanics that we were training. Developing. Uh, feel to use those mechanics at full speed in the full swing. It's, it's one thing to be able to do something slow, but to train it in such a way that you can train, that you can take a hard, fast swing and still do it correctly.
That's the magic and making real changes. So as you can see in the after video, once he's developed that feel with the guided drill work, We go from releasing the club roughly 18 degrees out in front, which would be very indicative of an early release to releasing the club about 38 degrees out in front, which is on par with tour average as far as where the clubs released out in front.
So if you're familiar with a straight line release, we go over a lot of drills to work on this as well. And as you can also see, The early breakdown of the front arm alleviates itself just as a byproduct and a result because it is a fundamentally sound and stable golf swing. So a very cool byproduct. So this is a very good example of a very good byproduct on working on the right things at the right time.
We never had to actually specifically work on straightening that front arm because it was alleviated by impacting the ball correctly. And again, the result is in yet another beautiful swing transformation of an online students. Simply from getting the right information in the right order at the right time.
Now, I really hope you enjoyed seeing how effective good information and guided training can be. Now, these drills and exaggerating impact will definitely help improve your early release, but I have to admit, this player does have a huge advantage. We all swing a little differently, and once I was able to see his specific tendencies, I was able to put together a custom program that allowed him to improve as quickly as possible.
With consistent feedback, this player never got off track, which allowed us to minimize the headaches. And maximize our time. I would love to do the same for you. Unfortunately, I can only take on so many players at one time in my swing review program. I usually open spots every roughly four to six weeks.
And in the past, they've almost always sold out on the first day. But if you're seeing this video, that means spots have recently become available today. I'm opening up just 10 new spots. So if you'd like to work together, make sure you don't wait, click the button below this video to sign up now. If spots are already sold out, make sure you join my waiting list and I'll reach out to you first the next time spots open.
I'm looking forward to seeing your swing and possibly working with you in the future.