Swing progress month 9. I want to work on my snap/speed on Driver but can’t seem to get faster even if it FEELS fast. Videos include irons & hybrid – what should I work on for my swings?
At this point you’ve already rotated your shoulders somewhat and your hands have come out instead of down behind you. Your left arm is laid hard across your chest. Your rotation then sort of stalls and you get separation from your body. Only then do your hands start to pick up speed. It’s also after you’ve come out somewhat and so steepened the swing so that may be contributing to your slice.
You should really be sort of dropping the hands behind you and keeping your spine angle so the left arm isn’t glued to the chest. Then you stomp the ground to catapult the weight of the club head and generate real speed.
Not sure I’m explaining what I mean very well. But what I would advise is just get loose with the club and no ball. Practice swinging the club back and forth a bunch and using your body to generate club head speed. Arms should be pretty loose and your body movement and foot pressure on the ground is where the speed is generated. Try not to let that left arm stay stuck to your chest as your turn.
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Swing faster. Sounds glib, but honestly you just need to teach your nervous system to move more quickly. Some ideas
– Try holding a club upside down and moving with the quickest tempo you possibly can. Like, comically fast back and through. Loud whooshes both ways. – Maybe get a metronome app and try to match the tempo back and forth as you crank up the BPM. – Put a pro swing on YouTube on repeat and do air swings matching their tempo. Pick someone “smooth” and you’ll be shocked how much quicker their tempo is than yours.
I honestly think you’ve been training positions in your swing to the point where your body has forgetting how to cut it loose when the time comes. It’s like you’re driving with the parking brake on.
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Start lifting weights maybe?
Too much connection between lead arm and chest in the downswing. Look at this:
https://preview.redd.it/9g867lv5hk0f1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=579b5d866ba144cc75ce8248261f53790b24def1
At this point you’ve already rotated your shoulders somewhat and your hands have come out instead of down behind you. Your left arm is laid hard across your chest. Your rotation then sort of stalls and you get separation from your body. Only then do your hands start to pick up speed. It’s also after you’ve come out somewhat and so steepened the swing so that may be contributing to your slice.
You should really be sort of dropping the hands behind you and keeping your spine angle so the left arm isn’t glued to the chest. Then you stomp the ground to catapult the weight of the club head and generate real speed.
Not sure I’m explaining what I mean very well. But what I would advise is just get loose with the club and no ball. Practice swinging the club back and forth a bunch and using your body to generate club head speed. Arms should be pretty loose and your body movement and foot pressure on the ground is where the speed is generated. Try not to let that left arm stay stuck to your chest as your turn.
Swing faster. Sounds glib, but honestly you just need to teach your nervous system to move more quickly. Some ideas
– Try holding a club upside down and moving with the quickest tempo you possibly can. Like, comically fast back and through. Loud whooshes both ways.
– Maybe get a metronome app and try to match the tempo back and forth as you crank up the BPM.
– Put a pro swing on YouTube on repeat and do air swings matching their tempo. Pick someone “smooth” and you’ll be shocked how much quicker their tempo is than yours.
I honestly think you’ve been training positions in your swing to the point where your body has forgetting how to cut it loose when the time comes. It’s like you’re driving with the parking brake on.