IRON COMPRESSION 101

Here I unpack the two key components in compressing your irons as well as give you 3 drills to get you hitting your irons like the pros!

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Chapters:
0:00 – 1:24 (Two Key Components In Compression)
1:26 – 5:37 (Tools Needed; Finding Center Face)
5:38 – 8:52 (Lead Foot Lift Off Drill)
8:55 – 10:48 (Jump The Fence Drill)
10:49 – 14:53 (Optimizing Dynamic Loft)
14:54 – 16:03 (Outro)

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oh flushed that is like a hot knife through butter like the golf balls of marshmallow getting squeezed compressed off the club face and rocketing out there that’s the feeling of compression and that is going to help you find let’s go iron compression it’s built off being able to do two things really really well I plan to help you achieve those two things and we’re going to have three drills to help you achieve those two things what are those two things set into contact is the Cornerstone ability that’s going to give you that feeling of compression because you’re hitting it the golf ball dead out of The Sweet Spot of the club head and then you get no reverberation up up the shaft that’s that feeling that Blissful feeling of hot knife through b as I expressed as if a ball was a marshmallow lack of rever reverberation up the shaft through your hands into your body tells you you struck that golf ball solid so I’m going to help you improve your sener of contact is number one and number two if we can improve the dynamic Loft that we’re striking the golf ball with so rather than amateur golfers letting the club head travel underneath the handle coming into impact presenting a lot of Loft producing less ball speed than a lower Dynamic Loft environment where the handle leads and the club squeezes the ball more because of this lower Loft I’m going to help you with lower Dynamic loft sance of contact and improve your iron compression first up we’re going to need some tools and then we’re going to develop an understanding of what we mean by S of contact think that one’s obvious and dynamic Loft and we’re going to unpack these things together because they’re inextricably linked one has to happen with the other for us to produce that experience of compression that sweet spot contact so the tools you’re going to need two fiberglass rods we’re going to take those fiberglass rods the alignment sticks and we’re going to make a channel that’s three bowls in width you’re going to take the outside ballls away leaving a very tight Corridor that’s going to be a challenge point for you to deliver the club return it down and through ensuring that you can control the horizontal aspect of the contact but the horizontal aspect of the contact meaning are you striking it in the middle of the face versus the heel of the club and the toe of the club that’s only one aspect of sness of contact the other aspect of sness of contact is the landing location of the club so I do I touch the ground with the base of the club at the back edge of the Bowl before the back edge of the bowl or after the back Edge edge of the ball well ideally it’s in a very tight window starting at the back edge of the ball and ending at the front edge of the ball and that’s a skill in and of itself that we’re going to unpack in conjunction with the horizontal aspect in addition what you can see down here is we’re also going to need uh towel that towel is going to be placed one full Club head behind the back Edge over the golf ball this towel is going to serve as feedback and therefore disincentivize me touching the ground before I get to the golf ball so my arc shape needs to land back edge of the ball between those two sticks and then travel down Target line to some degree to ensure I’m striking the center of the face also what’s helpful is foot spray Dr Sha’s odor eaing foot spray sprayed on the face is going to leave the after effects the remnants the evidence of success and evidence of success or lack thereof provides us an ability to know what we did and then to be able to read and react to the errors that we ultimately may make if you’re practicing Outdoors off grass and especially when the grass or the surface heating off is wet foots spray is no good that’s when we get into a dry race marker I’m going to put a dot on the back edge of the golf ball all right so the dot since it’s dry race marker this will come off when it hits The Grass out there or at the very least in the bowl washer as they’re washing the golf balls we get that dot facing back where the club face is going to be meeting it again one Club head in front of the towel okay Center contact there’s the evidence so feedback being important this what I call a lowo laneway or an arc laneway allows me to read and react and control the horizontal aspect of the contact that rubs off most of the dot came off on the club face a little bit’s left on the ball again it’s going to come off the very least in the ball washer so practice practicing inside this Lane we is going to help you with the horizontal aspect of contact but what if what if the feedback has already told us that the horizontal aspect and the vertical piece is an error that we’re making such that we’ve touched the towel let me show you that error so I’m going to land the club early and we’re going to rough up that Taw here okay I saw the tow it drag through with me I would advise you make sure the flat section of the towel is really low to the ground here okay so what I’ve got there there is knowledge that the club got to the grounds too early I fatted it and just as a reference a normal ball speed with a seven ey is about 117 to 120 M an hour and that one given I fatted it came off at 109 M an hour and it didn’t feel great right we lost the feeling of compression that Blissful feeling of hot knife through butter here’s what we go to so what I know about that swing is my AR got to the ground too early and it got to the ground too early because I leaned into making the era that most amateurs make I hung back on my right side I didn’t move my body mass enough from my right side or Trail side to my lead side there so then a drill that we can go to is the following that’s called Lead Foot liftoff we make a back swing and then without moving our column our body column that is our pelvis and our rib cage at all I lift my foot off the ground and you can see because I have all of my body mass on the side of my base of support my basis support being my single leg what does my body want to do it wants to fall to the left and that’s the Sensation that dynamically to a small degree or when applied to a small degree moves our body mass to our lead side and so we can perform that drill now back swing Lead Foot lift off and on through and what you could probably see there and what I certainly could tell based on the feeling is my AR was moving to the left if you have trackman or a launch monitor’s feedback you’ll see it in a data point called Low point which is the bottom of the AR which when you’re hitting an iron is down in the ground is some number of inches after ball contact in fact that one was 5 in so the width of my hand out to the left of first touch or ball contact in addition what you might be able to tell is that the attack angle that’s the angle of descent that club takes as it’s traveling and making contact with the ball was measured at 6° down now it’s a fairly sizable downward angle of attack but I play with enough Club head speed to cause that to be okay right so the evidence there is you can have some feedback with a launch monel that tells you whether you’re successful in landing your Arc or moving your Arc more to your lead side so that’s Lead Foot liftoff as a drill that can help you move your Dynamic Arc to your lead side so what we have now is an ability to assess contact using foot spray or dry erase we have an ability to it’s really leaning on a principle of if like imagine this imagine you were driving your car and the only let’s say indicator of the accuracy you’re driving your car with was the White Stripes on the road whether they’re dotted or solid white stripes that’s great kind of we pay attention to driving our car in our own lane right but now what happens if you go on like a h lane or a Tollway where there’s concrete barrier on one side or sometimes if it’s a single H Lane you have concrete barriers on either side all of a sudden we start to pay much more Earnest attention and concentrate on making sure that we’re driving very straight the same principle applies here when we’re using these alignment rods to form our laneway we heighten the level of concentration to the delivery of the club back to impact should you still be hiding some level of inaccuracy in contact and then an inaccuracy in contact preventing you from experience that compression is biased to one side then you can start to do a drill called jump the fence and it works in both ways so if you’re a toe contact player I’m going to demonstrate that one but if you’re heel contact player even a Shanker you just reverse the rules of this jump the fence exercise here’s how it works so the first shot here I’m going to demonstrate the toe contact that we’re going to use similar to the first shot that I hit as our experience of the normal contact location that felt horrible and the Reas there’s a reason it felt horrible and that’s because I towed it right so it cost me ball speed and cost me that feeling of compression what do I know about the toe contact similar to the first experience where I was like did I drift backwards no I didn’t feel that so I just must have pulled my arms in just a little bit too much and not having enough extension the radius of my swing wasn’t wide enough so here’s what jump the fence drill encompasses imagine this first white stick my alignment Rod as a fence I start with my club on the same side of my stance and I make swings extending my arms such that I touch the ground on the opposite side of the fence touch ground on the opposite side of the fence there in lies the name jump the fence start with Club on one side land it on the other then what I do is I take that feeling that sensation and apply that station that I just used which is arm extension to this next shot and I should be at a migrate contact location horizontally some amount and yes I did I migrated that contact location a good inch towards the center in fact I cross the center ever so slightly slightly into the heel so there’s like an and one for you if the low point of the arc laneway isn’t helping you refine that contact and you have a certain tendency then apply that tendency using jump defense in the correct let’s say manner now the one thing that we haven’t explored yet is that Dynamic Loft concept which takes Senus of contact and then produces a lower lofted impact such that we get more ball speed from that sentus of contact let’s look at that one okay Dynamic Loft the 7 it’s got 34° of Loft on it so if that’s the static Loft in the club at 34° we’re going to make impact ideally with some of amount less than that static Loft Dynamic Loft most AMS come into impact adding Loft and the reason they add loft is they’re pushing the bottom end of the grip the end of the grip that has the logo on it down towards the ground using the trail hand too early and then the club head races underneath the handle and they produce this lofted environment this face stick is a really good indicator of that here we go I’m going to push on the bottom side of the handle and voila I’ve got less handle travel to the Target so my hands are on my trail side the club heads past underneath now I’ve got a high Dynamic Loft what we want is we want the opposite of that we want the handle to travel travel travel we want the club head to meet the ball where the handle wins the race it’s over the lead side of my body while the club head is behind it or over the trail side and you can see the effect on that face loft there it’s much lower so what what’s the impact of high dyn Dynamic Loft I’m going to show you okay there’s High Dynamic Loft and thin cuz I was a uh trying to avoid that fat contact high Dynamic L produce 108 mph of ball speed and therefore the carry distance was only 151 I can typically get 170 yards out of a seven arm now how do we produce that low Dynamic Loft environment well some part of it some part of it will be learned and earned by Lead Foot lift off by shifting our body along what’s called The frontal plane from Trail side to lead side but here is yet another drill that we can use so again I didn’t mention this tool on the front end but just a second toil and so rather than the first tow being underneath the alignment rods this one is going to be sitting up in front and on top of the alignment rods now what’s this distance it’s about two Club heads out in front of the golf ball so we’ve got one tail one Club head behind and then this front tail sitting up on top of my alignment rods one two Club heads out in front now here’s the rehearsal and the objective if I’m creating a low Dynamic Loft environment or impact then in all likelihood the handle’s leading so much and the club is going to stay low to the ground for a long period of time that it’s going to miss this Taw and collect this Tow on the way through so that becomes the objective I want to go through my rehearsal I want to shift with a feeling of lead foot LIF off and then I want to stretch my handle long and low down Target line to collect the blue tow if done correctly and I’m hopeful track man still tracks the golf ball enough then I should have a much lower Dynamic Loft situation let’s check these out now launching it lower indeed I did so the prior shots up here at 27° that one’s over here at 19° my ball speed went from 109 to 115 and truth be told the 10 yards of carry difference was a function of because I was stretching Chau far I actually thinned it so the impact height was a little low but the principle applies that in feeling what I just felt I I led the handle longer the handle won the race I just didn’t quite get the arch height low enough to the ground to strike it super solid so let’s give it another shot here so we got one club I’m going to imagine that towel is still forward of my golf ball I’m going to try and stretch my handle left of my left foot and flush there’s that Blissful contact that hot knife through but and I’ve got 122 M hour ball speed I’ve got 22 degrees of dynamic Loft and I’ve got 176 yards of carry so if you can work at your golf game with some feedback tools and also the drills that we’ve just discussed that enhance your contact location both across the face and also up and down the face producing a lower Dynamic Loft even for the same Club head speed we haven’t discussed increasing Club head speed here you will start to strike up more solid you will achieve that elusive compression and you will start to hit your irons even further and play better golf all the best St