Why You Need This: You're going to discover that "This Move Will Add Yards to Your Drives"

Today you're going to find out the best way to get tons of power and speed in your swing.

To begin, you need to know if you've fallen into the same trap that I've seen over and over again that zaps you of most of your power.

There are two key indicators that will let you know right off the bat if you've fallen prey to this very common side effect of most modern instruction.

Watch today's video and you'll learn:

• The 2 key indicators I'm talking about above,
• How to engage your entire body to add power to your swing (and why you're body fights this),
• How to know if you're fully loading your swing for effortless power, and
• Some awesome "cheats" to increase your flexibility.

All of this and much more is just one click away...

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 15:27

Video Transcription:

All right, that’s about as good as I’m going to hit one.

In this video, we’re going to talk about how to get tons of power, tons of speed, and the number one mistake that I see players making over and over again, and I get that you’ve fallen into this trap yourself, that’s shortening your swing, making your swing go all arms, not really using the body.

Man, that just kills your swing speed. It’s actually really easy. Once I teach you how to engage your entire body from your feet, your knees, your hips, all the way up to your shoulders, and then your arms, it’s going to make it very simple to get more swing speed.

First, let’s take a look at, we just saw a good swing, now let me go ahead and do a bad swing, or one of them where I let my arms take over. I don’t rotate my body, and I lose tons of distance.

So we can see I got some really good distance in that first shot, now let me do the opposite of that, where I just pick the club up all hands and arms, and really where this stems from is being worried to turn away from the golf ball.

So if I’m facing this golf ball, obviously I’m trying to hit this ball solid, and I’m really focused on making contact, good contact.

Naturally my brain is saying well don’t turn away from that ball. I want to keep my knees, my hips, my shoulders, everything facing this golf ball, which is going to increase the likelihood of me hitting it nice and solid.

So what happens is, when I turn all this off and I don’t want to rotate, now the only thing left is my hands and arms.

Now I start to pick this club up with my hands and arms, you can see my body hasn’t really turned very much.

I have to fold up my arms, maybe your left arm is bending a little bit in the backswing, that’s a key indicator that you’re really not rotating the body as well as you could be.

Maybe you feel like your hands are tight and your swing is quick, that’s another key indicator that you may not be doing this as good as you could in the golf swing.

When I turn off my body, now I’m having to go all hands and arms, yes, I can hit the ball pretty straight. Yes, that ball is in the fairway, but I probably lost a good 70 or a 100 yards just trying to swing all arms.

Today we’re going to talk about how to unlock the full body to unlock your full power and speed so that you can effortlessly hit it 20 or 30 yards farther.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

Let’s take a look at this swing where I lost tons of distance. What you’re going to notice is for my lower body.

Notice how my feet are very stationary, my left heel isn’t lifting. My knees aren’t moving a ton. My hips aren’t turning very much. Finally, my shoulders aren’t rotating back nearly as much as I’d like.

What happens there, is now like I talked about, my hands and arms have to completely take over in the golf swing, that forces me to lose a lot of distance.

Let me walk you through a step-by-step progression, going from the ground up to allow you to maximize every bit of power that you have without feeling like you’re swinging very hard.

If you can use your entire body, it feels very smooth and very effortless as you increase your swing speed.

So grab a golf club, even if you’re sitting right from your living room, grab a club right now, grab a broomstick, grab whatever you can, if you don’t have anything to grab just make slow-motion practice swings just using your hands and arms, that’s completely fine.

So let’s start from the feet up. Now most people are not very flexible, and one thing that you can do to test your flexibility is go ahead and stand up.

Keep your belt buckle facing forward, put your arms across your shoulders and see how much you can rotate without letting your belt buckle move.

You’ll notice it’s not going to be a lot. Now if you’re Adam Scott or you’re some PGA Tour player with crazy range of motion, maybe you can rotate quite a bit without moving your lower body at all, but you’ll probably find that you feel pretty limited there.

Especially if you get a little bit older, you get put a few pounds on, makes it even more difficult to rotate, that’s why this is so key as what I’ going to teach you today.

Do that test again, put your arms across your shoulders, don’t let your belt buckle move at all. I don’t want you to cheat and do this and let my hips move, keeping our hips still.

Try to rotate your shoulders. You should be able to see about a 45° shoulder turn. That’s about what I’ve gotten here.

If I put this club across my shoulders, have the tip of it on my shoulder tips here, my fingers on my shoulders.

Don’t move my hips, I’m going to rotate my shoulders as much as I can, that’s a pretty good amount there.

Now I don’t have a crazy amount of flexibility. I’m betting that you don’t either. You’re probably going to find you did about the same as I did in the test, or maybe even a little bit worse. If you did worse, this is really, really key to do this.

 

Now if I now use my lower body, let me do this same drill and I’m going to rotate my shoulders as much as I can here. I’m going to go ahead and not move my hips, rotate my shoulders, I’m only getting to there.

Now if I go ahead and let my hips rotate, you’ll see that I’m getting almost 90°. That extra 45° came from my hips and my lower body. If I let my left heel lift very slightly off the ground, now you’ll notice I can go more than 45°.

When I lift my heel very slightly you may not even notice this happening in my swing, but as I barely lift that up, that loosens up my knee, that loosens up my hips, that allows them to turn more, and now I can get this big turn.

So the key that I want to be able to get to, is I want to use the whole body, and if I can focus in on one thing, the end result is I want my left shoulder to get behind that golf ball.

As I’m making this backswing, what I’m feeling like is my lower body is really loose, and that’s allowing me to get this left shoulder behind that golf ball. If I can do that, I know I’ve really loaded up and I’m going to be able to crush the ball.

Let’s go ahead and take a look at one more at full speed here, and a slow motion one, notice from the ground up everything is very loose, and I’m going to get this left shoulder behind the ball.

There we go, and hit that one fantastic too.

So you’ll notice there, I was able to drive it over 360 yards. I’m a little bit downwind, I’m not going to lie, there’s a little wind helping there.

I was able to swing 120 miles an hour, and you’ll probably notice it didn’t seem all that quick, and rushed, and jerky. It was a pretty nice, smooth swing, went right down the middle of the fairway.

How was I able to do that? Well, in reality I’m probably a good 30 or 40 yards longer than I used to be playing on the mini tours and practicing eight hours a day.

That all came from properly loading the body exactly like I’m going to teach you here. Let’s go right from the beginning. This is a progression.

Again, you want to follow along right with these, don’t skip and go straight trying to hit a golf ball.

Do these practice swings so you can build a little bit of muscle memory, and I know muscle memory isn’t real, but it’s kind of what it’s doing is changing your neurological system to build the feeling of this.

Let’s start out by putting a club right across our shoulders. Again, the end goal here and what we’re trying to achieve, is we’re trying to get this left shoulder behind that golf ball.

Now if you imagine my left shoulder, my scapula, the back of my left shoulder, I want to imagine that my scapula or the back of my left shoulder is looking at the golf ball when I finish my backswing.

If you’re very inflexible, that seems impossible, but I guarantee, you follow this progression, you’re going to be able to do that. We’re going to test it right now.

Put this club across your shoulders, and the first thing that I want you to do is go ahead and rotate as much as you can in the backswing to get this club, the tip of this club pointing far behind that golf ball as you can.

Then we’re going to come all the way through to where now my right shoulder is going to go as far down the fairway as you can. Go ahead and just do a couple of them to get loosened up.

Now the first piece we’re going to focus on to increase that, is we’re going to lift this left heel just very slightly. If you’re looking from this angle, as I turn, that’s about as far as I can go.

But if I let my left heel loosen a little bit, and I left it lift up off the ground slightly, now I can go another 15° or 20°, maybe even a little bit more than that.

So here I’m locked with the left heel down, as I loosen up that left heel, now I can go even a little bit more. Now my left shoulder’s really getting far back there.

Do 10 reps club across the shoulder, loosen the left heel. Try to go farther back each time, and then come on through to a good full finish, getting your right foot or right shoulder as far down the fairway as you can.

Now when you’re doing the right shoulder down, you have to really key in on this right foot. If I keep my right foot down, no matter how far I try to rotate on through, I can’t rotate very far.

But as I let that heel come up, I let my foot swivel around, now I can get much farther down there. I’m not too worried about how far you can urn back, and how far you can turn through.

I just want you to maximize kind of your full range of motion, your full potential so that you can get as much as you can personally. If you’re super, super tight, you’re not going to get quite as much.

If you’re very, very flexible, you’re going to get a little bit more. Really doesn’t matter, no matter what you do if you turn more, you’re going to hit the ball a little bit farther than you do currently.

So don’t get too locked up in how much you’re doing, just try to get as full as you can.

So we’ve done those 10 reps, now I want you to focus in on the hips. Imagine this belt buckle has a laser shooting out of it, and as I make my backswing, I want to get my belt buckle facing behind this golf ball as far as I can.

That again allows my hips to rotate, that allows my shoulders to go even farther. If my hips don’t turn very much, the arms take over, your swing speed goes down the drain.

So here’s no hip turn, club across the shoulders, that’s as far as I can go. I let these hips rotate then all of a sudden I look like a PGA Tour player. I’m not very flexible, but that’s because I’ve allowed my feet and my hips to move.

Anybody, regardless of any range of motion, any flexibility, you can take your hips and turn those a bunch if you loosen up your left leg, if you let that heel and that knee relax.

So anybody can do this, just like if you were turning to face somebody and talk to them, you don’t have to be flexible at all to do that motion. That’s the same thing we’re doing here in the golf swing.

Another 10 reps, club across your shoulder to get used to that, to that feeling. Then make sure every single time you rotate all the way around as far as you can go, too. That’s very key.

So your feet move in the golf swing. This is probably one of the biggest misconceptions I’ve seen. People have been told that they need to keep their toes forward, you need to keep your feet locked on the ground and stable.

That is a biggest load of BS I’ve ever heard. The feet move in the golf swing, I promise you. Look at PGA Tour players, you’re going to see guys like Justin Thomas whose feet come completely off the ground, and his foot is almost 50° to 60° open when he comes in the follow through.

You’re going to see most PGA Tour players, feet move around, come off the ground, rotate a little bit, the feet have to move.

That doesn’t make you any less consistent, it actually makes you more consistent because as my feet move, now I can rotate very easily and I could smooth out my swing, and I can be more coordinated.

If I try to keep these feet like concrete blocks in the ground, now all of a sudden my hands and arms take over and I’m kind of lashing at the golf ball, I hit that one into the woods left, but there’s just no way to be consistent.

We have to rotate the body to allow this to happen. So 10 reps focusing on the hips, and then finally you’re going to get your final 10 reps focusing on the back of that left shoulder.

So again, if you’re looking at the back of my left shoulder here, what would be my scapula, I want to face that to the golf ball, or do my best attempt to face that to the golf ball.

So 10 more reps here, back, now my scapula could see that golf ball. My chin is going to be over my left shoulder.

You’re going to be noticing that your left eye will be able to see the golf ball pretty easily, but your head, it’s OK to get your head to rotate a little bit going back. Completely fine.

Again, the golf ball’s still going to be there when we rotate in the downswing, I promise you it will be completely fine when you make your swing.

So 10 swings, back of my left shoulder toward the ball, and then again, finish up the good, full follow through on every single one of those.

Now we’re going to go ahead and repeat that same three-step process. Heels, ankles, let those move, then my hips, then my shoulders.

10 reps each, the only difference here is I’m going to be swinging a club. So 10 swings focusing on the left heel, big a turn as I can going back, biggest turn as I can coming through, fluid swings, back and through.

Trying to create some speed when you’re doing this. I’m going to go pretty fast when I’m going through this. Then 10 more swings with your belt buckle, just like we did before with the club across your shoulders.

Get some speed, there we go, really trying to be aggressive while this is happening. Full turn back, full turn through, and then finally, left shoulder behind that golf ball 10 swings, really load up, and then all the way through to the good full finish.

So in total, you’ll have 30 practice swings club across your shoulders, 30 more practice swings without a golf ball, swinging the club.

Now you’re starting to get comfortable with this, and when you put the golf ball back down, you’re going to get better results a lot sooner.

All right, now we’re ready to put it to the test. Let’s go ahead and hit a golf ball, and when you go to the range, I want to do 30 swings, focusing on each of these pieces.

So my first 10 shots, I’m focused on the left heel just like we did in these practice swings. So here, let that left heel loosen up, let my hips and my knee turn, that’s going to allow me to be a bit more fluid.

Let’s go ahead and try one out here. All right, we can see there my heel lifted a little bit. Hit that one nice and solid. Your next 10 balls you’re going to go ahead and focus in on the hips turning.

Let me grab a couple more, I’ll hit some for you. On these again, same thing. Imagine my hips are turning as much as possible, that’s going to get me to the end result which is this left shoulder back, which is what I’m really going for.

So here, belt buckle moving as much as possible. My feet are going to be moving a little bit on the ground. Let’s go ahead and give it a rip.

Another one right down the middle of the fairway, hit that one well. Finally, let’s get that left shoulder behind the golf ball. Again, it doesn’t matter how inflexible you are.

You’re just trying to do the best you can personally. That’s going to add 10, 20, 30 yards to your drives by getting the most that you can. Another big key here, once I load up, I also have to finish my swing, really come on through to a good full finish.

If I don’t finish my swing, no matter how much I load up, I’m not going to get much swing speed. All right, hit that one really well, that may be one of the better ones.

The important key here as I mentioned just a second ago, no matter how well I turn back, I want to focus on getting this left shoulder back, but then I also have to finish the swing.

If I don’t finish the swing, I’m not going to get the speed through the golf ball. Now this is one of the things that I would say is a top five most important thing you can do in your golf swing.

If I don’t rotate my body, I really have no shot of having a smooth swing, of having power, all those things are going to go out the window.

If I really want to ingrain this forever, we have to go through the Power Turn section. That’s basically what I was talking about here today, is getting your shoulders to turn in the swing, both back and through.

That’s what I call the Power Turn in the Top Speed Golf System, and I have a full series to get you to ingrain that to where you never have to think about it again.

We got started on that here today, do these reps, and then jump over into level one of the Power Turn, start working through those videos.

Then jump into level two, level three, as you work your way through that system, what’s going to happen is, your body’s just going to feel completely comfortable turning more, you’re going to feel actually really weird, really awkward, or very powerless if you don’t turn a lot in your golf swing.

So you’re just going to grab a club, and the very first swing of the day, you’re going to be turning pretty dag-gone good as you’ve worked through these drills because it becomes ingrained and automatic.

So jump over to level one of the Power Turn, I can’t wait to see you there, I can’t wait to help you with your golf game. Let’s go ahead and get started.