I TRIED 30 Days Of RYPSTICK Speed Training

so if you don't hit the golf ball miles you might as well not play this game that's kind of the rhetoric that we're getting when we consume golf these days you watch golf on the PJ tour and it's just a oozefest of how far these guys hit the ball the big guys the small guys look at the ball speed look at the distance that they're hitting it you consume golf on Instagram or YouTube and it's just your favorite creators having pissing contests about who can get the most ball speed 180 190 200 even brands are getting in on it and promote this conversation we don't even care where it goes it's just about getting more ball speed and hitting it far to the casual golf fan it can be a little bit overwhelming and almost make you feel like holy cow if I don't hit it far I should go play soccer I mean for me I'm 40 years old and I live around 170 ball speed I've never been considered a short knocker but if I you know followed the rhetoric that's out there I'd feel like golly why do I even play this game I don't hit it any anywhere thankfully Technologies advance so much that we can optimize speed and all of that and forgiveness with modern drivers but there's also speed training so for the last 30 days I've been using the ripstick never trained with it before I've trained with other ones in the past I want to see if in 30 days with following their protocol can I gain distance speed ball speed all of those good things 30 days ripstick let's see how it goes so the entire month of January how much speed can I gain using the ripstick first things first I needed to check in see what where I'm at I did a check in with my gamer driver qi1 us mamia link white m40x five solid drives so I cleaned up the data I wanted to get five really good ones to see what we're what we're working with and ultim me it's four numbers we're paying attention to Club head speed ball speed carry distance and smash Factor so at my first check-in I had 118.7 Mi of Club head speed 166.173 of 1.4 and even the spin the spin is still good it's not like I'm spinning these things these are just solid drives definitely not the smash you you want out a driver though then it was a matter of getting into this whole thing and what is it well this package right here the the stick and the radar the radar is just a nice tool to have because it's giving you feedback as you practice as you go through the training and yeah some launch monitors out there rotto mlm2 Pro Mio plus there's other little radar things you can use so you don't have to get this but this is kind of their package deal I think if you buy them together they're better price than if you bought them individually but $338 there's codes out there it's not cheap but it's an investment into your game so is it worth it quality of it really really good I like the like removability of all the weights here they they slide in and out super easy and obviously you take them in and out depending on the training you're doing did notice right away when I took the wrapper off this thing the grip was so greasy so greasy I was afraid that I was going to like lose it but then after essentially like two sessions it got so nice and tacky that it actually feels really really good so training with a glove or without a glove it didn't really matter and then you have a nice counterweight here and that's something that some training doesn't have so that's just meant to kind of keep the hands strong from being too flippy I like that I really like the counterweight when you dive into it you have the app it's great like it was so easy to step through there's there's there's videos for everything if you have any questions there's training everything every movement you have to do there's a video to watch you do a little Baseline test when you start and my my Baseline was super low it was like 80 something I was kind of confused but I think maybe I just wasn't I was just kind of swinging it I wasn't sure and I think this little track is a little it's good but it's it can be a bit misleading like the gains you're making because when I did my Baseline test yeah it said my club head speed with two things was like 87 or 90 M an hour it's not that's why I opted for that to see what kind of speed I would be gaining over the course of this training and then day one of the training I really liked that it like counted me in there was beeps the timing of rest was really good cuz I've done speed training in the past where I've downloaded PDF protocols from the the Brand's website and some sometimes you're just kind of left swinging you're like okay I've got a train for 15 minutes just do this and you can kind of go too hard and you you don't give yourself the appropriate amount of rest so you don't experience you know the gains and the strides that you should be making the app counting you in when to swing when to switch really really nice touch and this was my first time using an app based swing speed protocol really really really like that and moving from that it locks you so you can't like go ahead head in the app so in my first day of this I was very very impressed with everything that the the product and the app had to offer in setting me on this this journey so then it was just like just do it every every couple days checked in at two weeks I wanted to see if halfway through this would I am I starting to see some progress so two we check-in same thing driver gamer five solid shot and I'm not trying to skew this anyway I just wanted five solid ones where you're seeing just good strikes not overly spinny the launches are good like the shot was good I was happy with it we don't see a huge jumping club head speed we see almost no jumping club head speed but we see a jumping ball speed and that's because the smash is better which is really really interesting so I'm hitting it faster hitting a little bit further carrying it a little bit more because I'm hitting it more off the center of the club face but it's not like the launch changed the spin really changed nothing really changed except for hitting it more off the center of the club face and I think a lot of speed training is just you're thinking oh it's just about going fast fast fast fast fast but clearly two weeks into sticking to this protocol I was seeing something clicking where whatever the waiting whatever it was doing it was allowing me to deliver that club Square more Square more off the center and you're seeing it like Club speed sure in two weeks I don't think you should expect a lot of gains but to see ball speed and smash and carry go up that was really interesting and very encouraging and I also wanted to like okay let's Max one out on week two I didn't do a max out on on day one I never really thought of it but I was like ah how how how hard can you go so I did a max out here 123.3mi of ball speed good launch good spin like this was awesome it was really fun to just be like can you just smash one that didn't spin off the planet and it was like yeah that was that was really good I was fired up I'm starting to experience some gains two weeks into this training but it's not all apple pies and rainbows it's tedious two weeks in it was the same movement it was the same freezer left and right and then you know leg up front heel up left and right then test it's boring I mean each one took like it was like 15 minutes but it it's boring there's nothing about like there's no way around that speed training is boring and using the app it's really great because it counts you in and all that but you can't run music sometimes it's nice to have some tunes playing while you're doing something a little boring you can't play music in the background while it runs definitely a bummer because I like to listen to music when I train when I practice when I work out when I run the fact that I couldn't listen to music because the app was going not fun I mean yes I could do this all without the app but the app I think really elevates the experience of what you're doing but not having music being able to play in the background just sucked it just sucked because it's boring it's boring and you want something to break that kind of monotony of it it was around session 10 all right it's session 10 day 20 finally hit 130 no weights left heel lift we got the 130 crossed off the list it was like okay I'm into week three definitely starting to notice plateauing but I was also starting to notice my form getting sloppy and that's one thing that speed training you have to be careful with cuz you can get sloppy because you can just start thinking like oh yeah just fire it fast use the lower body use the core but the thing that I was noticing is there's so much emphasis on kind of the the delivery the the release the fire I was losing my my form on the load I had to really kind of check in and remind myself like when you get to the top like really load into that back right hip that Trail hip then fire because it's easy especially when you're you're lifting that left leg or when you're freezing it's easy to just kind of lose your posture almost like have the hips curve a little bit under because you're really just thinking about speed from the hips that you forget the load and it was right around session 10 11 12 like the kind of last week of this where I started to notice myself Plateau but I had to catch myself because my form was getting sloppy and that's the last thing you want to have yourself gaining speed but your swing is actually getting worse and that's the the line you have to tow when it comes to speed training you don't want to lose your Technique you want to gain speed while maintaining good technique because what good is gaining speed if your swing goes to and now you can't even keep it on the planet so that was one thing that I had to be mindful of as I wrapped up my final week there you go my final week 12 sessions it locks I didn't like that all the PDFs all the training you can download for free on the website but if you want to use the app to like track you along and count you in you have to pay past a month you're already paying a lot for the kit feel like that's a bit nickel and Diamond that would be a drop off point like oh I did it for a month I got to keep paying to do it nah the easy way or the fun way the gamified way on the app oh I could download PDFs and have on my phone and follow them on my own timing and keep my own notes but if I want to put my uh my baselines in and check and have updates dayto day and my tracking I have to pay for that Beyond a month I think that's a little I I it should be free it should be free because it's keeping people using the product versus buying the product using it for a month and then just giving up on it I think that's kind of the rub of a lot of training AIDS they get people in the door but it's about longterm it's not just about quick hits so yeah all that all that being said it was day 28 let's check in and see what we've gained with a solid month using the ripstick clubhead speed up to 120 ball speed peeking over 170 carry over to almost 304 and the smash stayed up 1.42 I did a max out and this max out was pretty sweet 125 Club head speed 176 ball speed but then when we compare them all together you just see some really nice slow progression and ripstick makes pretty big claims of what three months will do and I would like to Embark upon that I know it's tedious I know it's boring but I know that it changes right when I have to start pain it changes again I could download it for free and follow it but I like the app I like I like the gamified I like the tracking I like the it's more involved then I got to pay for it don't like that but one month using the ripstick was really really impressive generally speaking it was quite fun it wasn't hard to find the time time whether it was after the gym in the morning or sometimes I had to do it after the family all kind of went down it was it was not difficult finding that 15 minutes every two or three days to get this done and yeah what are your speed goals because I think for me I'd like to get to 180 ball speed and if I could kind of live there it'd be nice it'd be nice to live there because like I said in the beginning I don't subscribe to that but it'd be nice to be hitting it off the center further straighter because then it's just like the game is a little bit easier it's more wedges it's better chances for scoring so yeah let me know what are your speed goals for 2025 and we'll see you in the next one