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sternum and speed equals flight and distance. [Music] In this video, I’m going to talk about how you can use your sternum and where your speed is to create different flights and good distance. If I get my speed over the left side of this golf ball opposite my left foot, I am hitting more down on the golf ball and out to in. So that would produce something that launches a bit lower with a bit more fade spin. And with a wedge in my hand, that might be quite a good place to be because I’m hitting down on the wedge more. I’m going to get a little bit more spin and I’m going to get a little bit more control into the green. We’ve got just a little drift of a fade there. drop and stop into the green over 11,000 spin because I’ve put my sternum over that left side of the golf ball so I can access down into that golf ball because that’s what a wedge really likes in terms of control. As I go into my irions and I grab a seven iron, that can still work. If we want to hit a little bit of a fade or we don’t want to hit a bit of a fade, we can get our sternum a little bit further back because if I have my sternum and my speed down here, I’m hitting down and across the ball. I’m more likely to fade the golf ball if I get my sternum over the right hand side of the golf ball. I am coming more into out and I’m more likely to get more of a draw shape because the club comes into the ball at a different angle when we move this top half of the body. And I’ve had a few videos around this idea with a driver specifically. If we get our sternum with a driver further back, I can go down to the point that I’m choosing. I can get my speed through that point and then it goes up to the golf ball. So it’s that upward blow on the golf ball is built into this idea. But when the ball is on the floor for a wedge and an iron and a hybrid, we don’t have that room. We don’t have the ball teed up as much. So with a driver, the ball is teed up. So we can come down here and up to that golf ball with our sternum pointing to the right. When the ball’s on the floor with every other club in the bag, we want to be a bit more at the ball and through the ball. But we can lean either side of it just to control flight, to control distance. So with a wedge, I’m more on this side of the ball so I can hit down to get more spin. With an iron, I am more at the ball because I want to be a little bit more neutral through the ball so I don’t get as much shape on it. So that’s quite a neutral flight. And then generally with a driver because the ball is teed up more. If I get my sternum to this right hand side of the golf ball, I come down to this point. I get a low point before the golf ball and then it comes up from that low point into the golf ball. So I can get that ball working up to there with a draw on it more often than not. But we can mix and match. We can get a bit shallower into the ball with a wedge if we put our stern and back. We can get a bit steeper on a driver if we put our chest forward. We can play around with it a little bit to create different flights. And yes, that last strike was awful cuz I’m trying to multitask. So, if I put my sternum over this left side of the golf ball, I’m going to come down to that point here, and I’m going to try and make some noise here and make some speed in that bit. Give myself enough room away from the ball. I’m presenting myself there, and I’m trying to go through that point. I get through that point and I get a low launching left to right moving flight. And again, that’s because I’m coming more down and across the golf ball, which will grab it and spin it. So, I get more spin. and I get that fade spin working out to the right hand side because of that access I get from where my sternum and my speed is. But when I need the ball to move that way, I can go to this and create it, but it doesn’t go as far as a draw on the driver. So the opposite side of the fence is I get my sternum further back. I’m going back here about 7 in or so. And I’m going to try and create my speed around this area here. Get my speed through that area there. and I get the ball launching up with more draw on it because I’ve gone the other side of the fence. And generally people prefer one side to another. If people are so used to getting ahead of the golf ball and hitting down and across it, it takes a bit of time to kind of adjust what they’re doing. But once you get it and trust it, they’re all right. In the next video to this, I’m going to talk about experimenting with doing this idea too much, doing it not enough, just to see what comes out of it and talk you through how to implement that on the golf course in video three. So, in a way, I’m getting you to swing your swing through a different place on the floor. I’m trying to get your attention to change where you’re getting that zip and that energy in the golf swing and that noise in the practice swing. And when I’m coaching any golfer, my job really across the board is to get someone from their current comfort zone into a new comfort zone. And the only way you can do that is to learn something new that creates something different and then go, “Oh, okay. I can trust that.” So, if you can trust what’s happening and what’s coming out of that new technique or that new thought process, we can move our comfort zone up to a different level. If you stay stuck in your current comfort zone, you’re going to find it a little bit harder to make the change on the golf course. But again, I’m going to put my speed after this golf ball with a seven iron. And I get that ball moving with not quite a fade. That is a fade. So the carry I should get is 191 and I’ve got 185. So I’ve lost a bit of distance because I’ve got more spin and a bit more resistance in the air. So it does change the distances that I get out of the shot as well. And for me, I lean towards the drawer a lot easier. So, I don’t get as much change in that flight when I go to the left side. Maybe because I just nudge back a little bit and I don’t get as far as I thought. If I go over here, I’m changing the ball position to kind of allow me to access the ball still. So, if I say I stand here and I hit a big old slice and I’m trying to get my chest back. If I get my chest back, I’m so far away from the golf ball. We need to move the golf ball in line with the sternum so we can get that early speed and get that ball working right to left. If that’s the thing you’re trying to adjust or discover. The problems that I tend to find with this idea initially is that because it’s outside of someone’s comfort zone, we start getting a little bit more defensive on the golf ball. If we change our sternum, so say we’re over here and we’re used to going over here and we get down and across and we move our sternum back here. If I find someone that kind of like is trying that new idea and they go, “Oh, okay. Oh, I tried the idea, but we just get stuck in it and then they go, “Oh, the idea doesn’t work.” That’s more to do with that person’s reluctance to make a change and fear of failure, maybe. So, in a practice swing, I want to move the sternum over and give it some speed. Get used to making noise in a different place. Do what you do naturally. Maybe we get the noise over there. and then go, okay, can I move that noise back? Even if you move it back a little bit, we might not quite move it back all the way across to hit a draw if you hit too much fade, but we might get less fade. So, the more practice swings, the better. Getting used to making noise in a different place. Point your chest there to make that noise. And then we get a little bit more freedom in the idea. We get a little bit more fluency to the club going through the ball so we can start hitting the target in a different way. So, some things that have happened to people that I’ve been teaching this in the studio is that they start hitting the ball a bit freer, they launch the ball a bit further and they go, “Oh, I’ve just flown the green.” That’s a good problem cuz then we just want to kind of like learn and if you can on something like this, measure how far each club goes. It’s much easier to get a measurement when you’re a bit freer through the ball and you’re launching the ball a little bit further. If we try and steer steer and control the ball and try and guide it during the swing, if we get a little bit stuck, we’re not getting the most out of the motion within your golf swing. So, to summarize, ideally I want to get left side of the golf ball with a wedge so I can hit down on it a bit more, get a little bit more spin. And then with your irions, we’re going to be a little bit more neutral to the ball. We’re not going to be as far over. So, I’m going to try and get my sternum at the ball. I’m going to try and create my speed through that golf ball. And then I’m going to get something a little bit more neutral. And then with the driver so I can hit up on the golf ball. I want to get that noise nice and early. I want to get it opposite my right foot. Sometimes if I really need to exaggerate it. If I get that noise before the golf ball on a driver, I’m then hitting up on the golf ball and I’m going to encourage it to draw with a bit more freedom and ease. But if we get stuck in that speed element of it, that noise making ability, we might be trying to guide it. we might get a little bit stuck.
