This One Drill Takes You from Amateur to Pro Ball Striking in 5 Minutes!

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⚡ 0:00 – Introduction to the ultimate ball striking drill for consistent contact
🎯 0:34 – Why the hit hard, stop quick drill works for all skill levels
💪 0:57 – Benefit #1: Radius management and improved arm structure
🏌️ 2:26 – Benefit #2: Proper downswing sequence for maximum distance
⚙️ 3:12 – The science behind hand speed and energy transfer
🎯 4:31 – Live demonstration showing improved ball flight and direction
💥 5:32 – Why shorter follow-through can actually increase distance
🔄 6:02 – Benefit #3: Club face control for predictable shot direction
🏆 7:36 – Why tour players use this as their go-to practice drill
⬆️ 8:56 – Progressing the drill with longer clubs (3-wood demonstration)
🚀 10:05 – Advanced version: Adding the recoil technique for maximum power
📈 12:16 – Long-term practice strategy for transforming your ball striking

This comprehensive tutorial reveals the hit hard, stop quick golf drill that transforms amateur ball strikers into consistent players. Learn the exact golf swing sequence used by tour professionals to increase club head speed while maintaining perfect contact. The drill addresses all three fundamentals of golf ball striking: contact quality, distance control, and directional accuracy.

What you’ll learn:
-The complete hit hard, stop quick technique for all clubs in your bag
-How proper arm structure creates consistent radius management through impact
-The downswing sequence that transfers maximum energy to the ball
-Why slowing down your hands at impact actually increases club head speed
-Club face control techniques for predictable shot patterns and tighter dispersion
-Progressive training from short irons to drivers for building advanced skills
-The advanced recoil technique demonstrated by tour professionals
-Long-term practice strategies for permanent improvement in ball striking quality

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If you struggle to make consistent contact, you’re frustrated by your inconsistency, and you’re looking for a ball striking drill to help you improve your golf, then look no further than the hit hard, stop quick drill. This really is the ultimate ball striking drill. And in today’s video, I’ll break down the three main benefits of this drill that will help you to hit the ball better than you ever thought possible. And I’ll also share with you the additional advanced version of this drill demonstrated here by Charles How III. This final piece of the puzzle can help elevate this already great drill to a completely new level. As the name of the drill suggests, hit hard, stop quick requires you to swing hard and then to stop the swing as quickly as possible after impact. Why does this help with not just ball striking, but also distance control and directional control? Well, that really taps into the three main fundamentals of the swing. The first one being contact. So, here’s the first benefit. By trying to stop quickly, you’re required to absorb some of the swing’s forces through your arms and your body. And in order to do that, you really have to keep the arm structure much more constant and stable in your swing. If you allow your arms and wrists to flex excessively, you won’t be able to slow this club down. In fact, many of you will watch your arms and club get flung into the follow through because you’re not able to control those forces. So when trying to do this exercise and having an intention of stopping very quickly after impact, you’re required to really retain good arm structure. The arm and wrist structure is really the stable of the radius management. It’s really the foundation of a good swing. You’ll see that among good players, how they keep their arms and wrists quite stable through impact. So this hit hard, stop, quick drill at the very first level improves that benefit. The benefit is radius management or said more simply, contact. the ability to strike the ball more consistently by swinging fast and stopping quickly. And for many of you, that will be enough of a benefit that you’ll wonder why you ever practiced in any other way. This drill drives the skill of contact to such an extent that you’ll start striking the ball out of the center of the club face more often than you could ever have believed. So, hit hard, stop, quick. First benefit, contact. Improve the strike and you’ll improve your ball flight. The second benefit of this drill would be to help you with the down swing sequence and ultimately the distance portion of the swing. You might think that a shorter follow-through would automatically equal less distance, but often times it’s the opposite. Golfers who do this exercise start to learn how to sequence the arms and the wrists and the club more instinctively through the ball, which helps to actually throw more of the energy of the swing, more of the club head speed, if you like, out to the golf ball. And yet, you might think, and as I said, quite often times golfers expect to hit the ball less distance. They end up hitting it further. Why is that? Well, the intention of stopping this swing just after impact has the effect of slowing down the hands at just the right time. Now, if you understand this next point, you’ll be well on the way to helping yourself to hit the ball much further. In the swing, the part of the swing where the hands are actually moving the fastest is in the initial down swing. So, as we start down, the hands are driving the swing and they’re really moving at their quickest. But they don’t just keep moving the fastest because if they did, if the hands just kept speeding up, there’d be no transfer of energy out to the club. So when I talk about the sequence of the swing, what I’m really referring to is training the hands to speed up in the first part of the down swing, but then to slow down through impact. And it’s the slowing down of the hands that throws the energy and the speed out to the club head, which is ultimately where we want it. So how do you do that in a simple way where you don’t have to think about 20 different things? Well, quite simply, you do the hit hard, stop quick drill. You have the intention of swinging as fast as you can and then putting the brakes on as quickly as you can once you’ve hit the ball. So, swing fast, stop quick. That one wasn’t too bad. I hit it a little bit, just a fraction heavy. I kind of caught the mat just a touch before the ball there. You’ll see how high and straight that’s flown, though. That’s this is another benefit that we’re going to come on to shortly. This also tidies up direction. But first, let’s keep talking about the distance portion because again, I think this is really the reason a lot of golfers might try this drill, get better ball striking in the first instance, but worry that they’re not hitting the ball as far as they need to to play golf. And I appreciate that comment and that question, but I promise you, if you practice this enough, you’ll actually learn to get that sequence in place. And I put it to you that even if you just hit the ball the same distance that you currently do, even if I promised you no distance increase, but a better quality and better consistency of ball striking like we spoke about with the first benefit of this drill, then that alone would make you a better golfer. Because if you hit the ball the same distance more often, you’d already be playing off a lower handicap. You’d be shooting lower scores. So if you notice no benefit in distance here, that’s fine. But a lot of you will get that if you learn to get this sequence part correct. So remember, swing fast, stop quick. Slightly better strike that time. What I’m really feeling there as I do that is how I’m able and using my body to really absorb a lot of the power and forces in the swing that allows me to throw this club past me while still retaining that good structure in the arms that we talked about in benefit number one. So I’m doing this right now with a short eye and this is a nine eye. And I’m going to talk about benefit number three and then I’ll show you how you can transfer this drill across every single club in your bag. The third and final benefit of this exercise is controlling the club face so that you can control the shot direction with more predictability. What does that mean? Well, most golf swings that have little control in them will have this club face flinging around through impact. It will be rolling and changing its position very violently. Whereas the drill I’m explaining, the hit hard stop quick drill will not only have that radius management and that contact under control from a low point perspective. When we look at this front view, we get the weight forward. We get the arm straight. That type of delivery with the arm structure and the wrists in place also helps to preserve a much more stable club face through impact. Meaning, you’re able to deliver a more predictable club face to the ball. So, your shot shape and your shot pattern should become more predictable and more importantly, the dispersion should decrease. You should hit the ball straighter with all the clubs. Once again, that’s another skill or a fundamental task that the swing’s supposed to perform. So, if doing this drill helped me to number one, make more consistent contact, number two, transfer sufficient speed and in many cases more speed to the ball to help me hit the ball far. And in the third instance, help me control that distance. So, I was able to control the direction of my shot more accurately. you can start to understand why we really refer to this as the ultimate ball striking drill and why tour players would use this exercise as well. If it’s good enough for them to be practicing, I guarantee there are so many benefits for you regardless of your golfing ability right now. Whether you’re a beginner or an improving golfer, you’ll get so many benefits out of this exercise. So, let’s do one more here with the nine iron. We’re going to hit hard. We’re going to stop quick. And for the final part of this video, I’ll show you what this would look like with a longer club. This is my fairway wood. This is my 3-wood. I could do this with the driver. This drill literally works for every club. You can try this with all of the clubs, but just understand that as the club gets longer, the swing gets faster naturally, and therefore there’s more force at play. You have to manage and absorb the force of the swing with your body more. That requires more intent and more skill on your part to be able to do it. So, you may find if you go for the longest clubs first and try this drill that when you try to stop, you really can’t do it without being pulled around. That’s a sign that you haven’t done enough of the drill at a slower, lower level yet. And that’s why I always encourage you to start out with the pitching wedge, the nine iron, and build up. Remember, golfers really often overestimate what you think you can achieve in a week, but underestimate what you could achieve in a month or two. If you really stuck at this drill for the next two, three, or even 6 months, I would imagine your ball striking would be better than you could ever believe. So, you have to play a little bit of the long game here and see the longerterm benefits of this exercise, as well as the immediate short-term benefits that I think you’ll get when you try this with the shorter clubs. Let me show you the fairway wood. In fact, in the video that Charles was practicing, I think he’s hitting a fairway wood. Um, so it shows it can be done at the higher speeds. And I’ll also add that last little bit of the drill that he was demonstrating shortly to give you a little bit more to think about. But this is just my first example or first attempt at the 3-wood. Hit hard, stop quick. Going to try and swing fast. And I’m still going to try and stop immediately after impact knowing that I’m going to go a bit further here cuz the swing’s a bit longer. Pretty good strike. Felt solid off the club face. Not my usual little curve to the right. That was 240 yards of carry. 240 yards of carry with a 3-wood. Club head speed was just under 100 mph. There’s some evidence that swinging short doesn’t mean swinging slow. And it’s for that reason I mentioned earlier, that transfer of the energy and the slowing down of the hands. And just as we speak about that slowing down of the hands, you’ll notice in the version of this drill that Charles is demonstrating, he does the hit hard, stop quick, and then he has a little recoil. He pulls the club back. That’s an extra level of this drill. It’s a more advanced version of this drill, but again, it’s about getting the club to come down for the transfer of energy to be strong. And the recoil or the pulling back of the hands is really just ensuring that those hands get to slow down as fast as possible. It’s almost like hitting a a quick punch. You’d punch and pull back. You wouldn’t just keep going. It’s that stopping and breaking and almost pulling back that adds more energy out to the far part of this swing. So, we’re going to do that. We’re going to hit hard, stop quick, and pull back. For me to pull back, I’ve really got to put the brakes on and I’ve got to encourage my muscles to pull my club in the opposite direction. As I say, it’s a little bit more forceful. You’ve really got to be good at this exercise to sort of try this. But if you wanted to try the recoil version of this drill, I’d encourage you once again to start at the lower end of your bag first. You should start to get even greater transfer of speed. That’s speeding up the hands in the down swing, slowing them down through impact so the club can get thrown out to the ball, and then pulling them back, which helps to even add another level of the braking to this shot. So, I’m going to give that a try with the 3-wood. Hit hard, stop, quick, recoil. It really gets this feeling of that club getting thrown past my body. That one went a bit higher. 220. I didn’t quite hit that one as solid as the first one. Speed was still decent. It’s hard to It’s really hard to manage those forces. I can feel how effortful this swing is. And I think a lot of times golfers don’t appreciate the level of effort required to really do this drill at the highest speed, which is why you might give up on this drill once you reach a certain point. And that’s okay. You can as long as you get some benefit out of this exercise even in the lower clubs. As I said to you, the the the upgrade that you’re going to see, the improvement you’re going to see just in the ball striking element of this drill will be enough for 90% of you watching to just stick with this drill and do it every single time. Remember, you often overestimate what you can do in a week with this drill. But underestimate what would happen if you stuck with this for a longer period of time. Give this a month, give this two months of practicing like this, warming up every time you practice and really see the quality and the consistency of your ball striking improve. Really feel like I have to slow my body down and get that energy thrown out to the club. Again, about 100 miles per hour, 240 yards a carry. Those are decent numbers for a 3-wood and an exercise that I feel really tidies up my ball striking, helps me to hit the ball more consistent distance and tightens up the dispersion as well. I would encourage you to try this as soon as you go to the range. Very next session you have, grab a short iron or a pitching wedge and just start out with some short hit hard, stop quick drills. Try stopping as soon as you can and getting that sense of the arm structure through the ball. If you found the drill in this video useful, then you might be interested in checking out my tour quality ball striking video series. This is 16 videos and over an hour of content that walks you through a step-by-step systematic approach to improving your swing and with it your ball striking. There’s a level of detail included in these videos that you just won’t find anywhere else on the internet. I’m going to put a link down in the description. If you are interested, click it and you’ll be able to watch the first three videos of that series for free. And if you’d like to learn more about how to transfer from this hit hard stop quick drill into a longer fuller follow-through that you could take to the course, then the video I made here on the three releases is going to explain exactly how to do at.