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Most golfers think they understand compression — but chances are, you’ve been taught it all wrong. In this video, I break down the truth about how compression really works and why so many players fail to achieve it.
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✅ What compression actually is (and isn’t)
✅ The 2 key moves all great ball strikers make
✅ Simple drills to help you feel pure contact instantly
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Real compression changes everything — start striking your irons like you’ve always wanted.
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00:00 Introduction
00:16 What is compression
01:32 Why compress the irons
02:30 Trail wrist move
05:58 Lead arm move
22 Comments
Unreal! Great explanation.
"The difference" between 4 and 18 degrees is 22? Assume you mean sum.
Simply adjust your focus point till your making flush contact on the sweet spot….
Well done Chris 👏
Great video! Never seen it explained like that before and arm across the chest is definitely me at impact 😮. I was told to feel like i keep the arm up at the top of the backswing and turn in to it. So i think I've done it well its just its the opposite of what i should do 😂. Thanks Chris
Great explanation Chris thank again Chris. Just a little confused by the fact that if you 18deg of loft and you effectively deloft the club 4deg by bringing the grip forward, won’t the resultant angle be 14deg not 22deg? Or, unsurprisingly, am I missing something?
I'll give these drills a go at the range today!
You mean 29 °
9 degrees lower because its a fucking different club ffs
im sorry but those teeth are blinding 😎
I think that your golf instruction video's are some of the very best that there are here, and you come up with a whole lot of things that other instructors apparently do not think of like you do. In this case you have made a bit of an error – not with the real content of this video at all – but with the numbers for "dynamic loft" that you show in it. The downward angle of attack on iron shots does further deloft the club presents in the swing to the ball – it doesn't increase the dynamic loft. The only way that it doesn't decrease the loft by the angle of attack (down) is if the player scoops and/or flips the club coming into the ball – and we know that is certainly not what we want to do. Assuming that the club shaft is perpendicular to the path of the club head (downward at the ball) at the ball and the lowest point on that path is beyond the ball by at least several inches – as you want it to be to take a divot – then the dynamic loft will be reduced by the downward angle of attack as well as by the delofting produced by forward shaft lean. For good players the latter is the much bigger factor typically, as it can easily be as much as 9-10 degrees and sometimes it is even larger than that. The downward angle of attack is typically only a few degrees or so, just 2-4 degrees in most cases. Draw a few pictures and it is not hard to see this. The super extreme case would be swinging downwards with an angle of attack that is larger than the static loft on the club, with the same assumptions as I just outlined. The effect of such a crazy steep downward angle of attack would be to make it impossible to get the ball in the air without scooping or flipping. That is, backward shaft lean would be required to get the ball up in the air. Without that the club face would be driving the ball into the ground!
Is what you're describing the same as Dynamic Loft?
Got some nashers on you now Chris lol
That’s the greatest piece of advice I’ve ever heard,learning about the sweet spot and where it should be presented, I feel you dont need swing mechanics’s just a better understanding ,,,
Thanks Chris! I like these tips. What effect, in your opinion, would a small press at setup vs. square have on delivery?
great video. Does that still apply to peripherally weighted irons
I agree with a lot of this but in my humble opinion the main reason why us amateurs can't get the shaft lean is because we don't use our legs properly and there is not enough pressure in to the front leg, and we have not moved the pressure forward past the ball. This what after 30 years of struggling to strike it properly has really help me play better and at long last feel like my sequencing is correct and then all these other things just seem to naturally follow on from that. If you've moved your centre of mass beyond the ball a little bit shaft lean just happens.
Well look at your teeth. You're half way there. GL🎉
Chris, this is AWESOME! It took me about 30 minutes looking and listening to this video and going back to video of my swing. Rewind, replay, back here, rewind, replay. Am I doing that? Yeah… yeah… NO! Actually, I’m covering that logo in my setup! Off to the range I go!
For me, the way to get that right wrist to “wave hello” in my backswing is to twist my left wrist. Michelle Low called it the motorcycle throttle. Instead of the throttle being on the right hand, think of it being on the left. And instead of twisting the wrist down to speed up, we want to twist it up as if slowing down (and who doesn’t want to slow down their backswing). By doing this during my takeaway, the club head stays more square to the ball and my left wrist stays bowed at the apex of my backswing. Yes, on video, my right hand is waving at the camera. But then, I need to think about keeping that left wrist bowed through impact.
I hope this helps someone out there. It would have been GREAT to learn this from one of my golf coaches when I first started playing thirty years ago.
Thank you for taking the time to put together these videos. Wish you were is our area.
This why "taking the arms out of the swing" doesn't work. That lead arm has to move off the chest or you're scuppered.
whats up with the bleached teeth bro?
Single best golf tip video I have watched with 2 great tips. Thanks.