Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Secret to a Smooth, Powerful Swing"

Alright. So I'm going to go ahead and make a really smooth transition, get a great weight shift. So I'm not going to be rushed at all, but I'm going get some pretty good speed. So I've got a six iron here. Let's go and see what I can do.

Here we go. Hit that one really nice. Straight as a string. And you'll notice I was very smooth there, but I was able to get almost a hundred miles an hour clubhead speed with this six iron--99 miles an hour to where average is about 93-94. I got 192 yards of carry on that. So probably rolled out to over 200 and hit that really, really solid.

So how can we get that much speed but look so smooth while we're doing that in the transition, most players just have their weight shift totally wrong. And if you make the mistake of having an improper weight shift or more specifically a very light weight shift, it's going to look really jerky on the swing. I'm going to make the incorrect weight shift.

I'm going to feel like I get way too light of a weight shift on the backswing and the downswing, and you're going to see it. This looks all out of whack. So here's the mistake that I see a lot of players make. They don't get to the right early enough and then they don't get to the left early enough so they wait until the downswing to start their shift to the left.

It looks something like this. So now my body is kind of out of sync with everything else. And even though that went fairly straight, I just so happened to get the face squared up. It was thin. It was off the heel. It actually felt like more effort. And my swing speed went down probably 10-15 miles an hour.

Let's check it out here. Yeah. Went down 16, 17 miles an hour. The distance went way down and it looked worse while I was doing it. Looked even more jerky while I was doing it. So let's go over the wrong weight shift and the right weight shift and how to do this. The number one thing that I see is players get to the right way too late and to the left way too late.

What I mean by this is a lot of times players will set up with their weight on their lead foot and they'll wait until they're about back here before it ever starts going to the right foot or starts shifting to the right. Well, with the advantage of all these high tech force plates and all these measurements that we can take now, we know the best players in the world are getting that weight shift very early so they're going to have the most transition to the right of the most weight moving to the right almost before the club even starts to move.

For me, I kind of lift my left heel or lift my left toe excuse me and get my weight bumping to the right before I even move the club. So I want to feel like that weight is moving to the right before the club even goes and it's going to feel like it's pretty far on my right side when I'm right here.

So I get that weight shift very early, almost like in the first foot of the back swing. And that gets everything moving over there. If you tend to struggle getting to the right early enough, all I recommend doing is starting out with a little bit more weight on your right foot. So here I probably got about 55, 60% of my right foot and 35 40, 55, whatever it is on my left foot.

So I'm a little bit slightly toward my right foot is all I'm trying to say. There the number doesn't have to be exact. If you're 55, 45 or 60 40, it doesn't make any difference. It's just saying you really need to get it to the right very early. Don't get caught up in the exact percentage there. So if you want to feel like you start with a little bit more pressure on the inside of the right foot, I like to feel it on my toe right here.

Just on the inside of the toe, the kind of the ball of the foot. That's where I want to start out at. Now, from here you're going to see that's going to smooth out my transition because I'm already ahead of my weight shift. It's already going to the right this is a nice little draw. There again, didn't feel like I had to rush it.

Swing speed was high. Weight shift was really good. Now the next thing once you get your weight to the right early enough, you got to get it back to the left early enough. And here's the real kicker. There's two little moves that I like to do for this. What we found with the best players in the world is that when their hands get about right here, they're already starting to shift their weight to the left.

Here's the way I want you to feel like that. When your hands going about right here in the backswing, I want you to feel like you bump out your left knee and get your weight going to your left foot. And at the same time, you have the hands just kind of float back here. I don't want to yank down on my hands really quickly.

I want as I shift to the left, I want my hands to kind of float in the backswing. And I want my shaft to shallow out as that's happening. So that's going to look something like this. My hands are about chest in the backswing, kick out my left leg and bump to the left. And at the same time, my hands stay roughly in the same position.

But this shaft kind of shallows out as I'm doing that. So I get that little bump a little bit of open to the left. Weight's moving to the left. And at the same time when I'm doing that, I'm shallowing out that shaft. Well, I'll do that in a real swing. It's going to look something a little bit more like this, right?

So I'm letting that bump and shallow at the same time. I wait until I've got that little bump and shallow and then I swing down. The mistake that I see almost everybody make, they get to the right, then they start swinging down as they shift to the left. That's no good. You got to get to the left and shallow then you make your downswing.

So I almost feel like my hands are floating in the backswing. So they're not pulling down. They're floating in this direction as I get my weight shift. That's the move that I want you to feel. So let's go and do that one again and notice how smooth. So all in this area, it's going to look like my hands aren't even moving at all, but I'm still going to get a ton of clubhead speed.

I'm actually going to crank this one up and get a little extra. Let's see if I can get over 100 miles an hour clubhead speed, all while looking smooth. While I'm doing that now, there's no way I'll be able to do that if my transition was rushed at all. Let's give it a whirl.

There we go. Hit that one about as hard as I can. Nice little draw there. 102 miles an hour of clubhead speed. That's good for me. 200 yards of carry. All with a six iron. Really got to get that weight shift down to be able to get those kind of numbers and make it look smooth at the same time.

There's an issue with this.

You see, once players get this little weight shift and they start to shallow out the club, it actually opens up the face a little bit. So if I grab this ball, that magnet here that clips onto the face, shows where the face is pointing, what happens is I get this awesome weight shift I get my left knee turning out, the club kicking in.

It's in the slot now, but that opens the face. You can see that this club would be pointing more in front of me. And as I shallow it out the face is much more open. That's the exact same thing as having the face square and then having it open like this. You see, there's a different way that the pros are squaring up the club.

They get this club nice and shallow, but then they use their wrists in a specific way to make that ball turn over from right to left. So what I want to do from here to build on this is what I call the move. So a shallow it out, but from there I use my wrist in the way that the pros are doing it to square up the face and release it so that every single shot has a nice tight draw.

And that's really what you want. You want to set over top of a ball and the tee box are in the fairway. And no, it's going to start on the intended line and curve the direction that you want it to every single time. That's what the move course is all about. When you add that to what we talked about here today, it becomes a no-brainer.

So we get our weight shift. We get this club shallowed out. That's what we did in the video today. But then from there, we teach ourselves how to release the club properly by doing the move. So it always turns over from right to left. Now, what you want to do to get that is go over to the move courses on a handful of videos and walk through those one by one.

I challenge you do the video we did here then go to the instruction tab, top three golf system, go to the MOVE section and just do one video from that course this week. And I guarantee you you'll be playing some much better golf. You'll like that feeling of having that club turn over from right to left. Having the ball fly from right to left and knowing it's going to happen every single time.

So I can't wait to see you in the move section. Finish this video here. Head on over the move right now and I'll see you there. Let's go and get started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

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