I Dedicated 30 Days To More Driver SPEED & DISTANCE

so 30 days ago i filmed a video where i hit all of my drivers over the years and just compared when i was going through the data and editing that video i was reminded of at the start of this year i told myself man it'd be great to have 180 miles of balls i've never achieved that i thought i'd be a cool little series to maybe put on the channel but for yourself it'd be really cool to achieve that milestone here we are six months later and i've done nothing absolutely nothing to gain any speed i saw my current driver have me right at 170 miles of ball speed and i basically said to myself dude you've done nothing so why don't you ramp it up these next 30 days and see exactly how much speed you can gain and if you can get to 180 miles per hour of ball speed so i set myself with basically a speed plan i used my super speed i used my gabe golf swing trainer i use my elastic bands i just kind of said you know just do this a little bit and see how it goes so a week into this i checked in nothing changed i was kind of hit in the face with the reality of like dude if you want to get these gains you've got to work really really hard just doing two sessions of speed work for 10 or 15 minutes was clearly not enough i was trying to kill it i thought maybe in one week i was going to achieve this goal so i was trying to hit it really really hard trying to power it be strong and and tough and and tight and it didn't do any good the numbers didn't change ball speed still maxed out at just over 170 club head speed 117 big lesson i learned was i was trying too hard i needed to try less and just trust the work but i also needed to work a whole heck of a lot more so week two of the journey i prioritized my speed work in the garage i made a point of doing it every day whether it was super speed whether it was working with my resistance band whether it was my gabe golf swing trainer i prioritized my speed work so that the next check-in hopefully we would see some gains another thing i did was i turned my loft down to eight degrees when i filmed that video with all of them i had it at eight degrees but i've been gaming it with eight and a quarter but maybe just turn it back down to eight let's see how that goes i also forgot my mevo plus at home so thankfully the mevo never leaves my bag i could plug it into my speaker to keep it charred they were still reading the same and we actually experienced just a little bit of gains clubhead speed got up to 119 which was awesome and then ball speed we got close to 173 172.9 so feeling some reward in the work was really really encouraging especially taking what i learned from week one and implementing week two during this speed this check-in i wasn't trying so hard i felt the arms being a lot looser and lo and behold it allowed me to get a bit more speed and kind of inch my way towards our goal so then in week three there was one thing that i was really prioritizing and it's one thing that i see a lot of people struggle with when they're working really hard on speed you're trying to swing so so fast you lose a little bit of your technique so i was really prioritizing maintaining good technique with my sessions in the garage so in between the super speed swings or the wrist assistance bands or whatever i was doing i would grab a wedge and i would just hit some shots just to make sure my technique wasn't getting sloppy because it's very easy to get very sloppy just when you're trying to kill it essentially another thing i was doing was i was trying to just crank irons i grabbed a 7 iron 8 iron and i would just try to hit them so solid and so fast because there's there's no room for error if you thin it your ball speeds crap and you feel it but if you hit it really hard really solid your technique was good your speed was good and it will show in the numbers and the ball speed and the carry and being able to get a 7-iron pretty close to 200 yards carry was showing me i was on the right track so it was check-in time this was very encouraging checking almost every shot i hit was above 170 ball speed so i wasn't trying to kill this i was just getting into my flow and i was being like rewarded like essentially the work i was doing now for almost full 21 days was showing itself and just my smooth warm up into the high speed was above 170 and like that's where i was at the start of this hitting something at about 90 so i was super super encouraged and in this one let's throw caution to the wind and let's just try to destroy these so the end of this session i went full tilt basically taking some of the stuff i've watched in bryson when he's just doing his speed work and i was just trying to destroy it feeling like a lifter breathing man we got the ball speed up 178 just about 178 club head speed over 121 so we were really really on to this and one of the things that i found to be the most beneficial was my resistance band work where i would put it under my left foot pull it tight at the top and just let the arms kind of fall and the body falls so it's i'm using the ground well and my arms aren't too tight trying to power speed with the arms because if you do try to power your speed with the arms you got none and that's what happened to me in my week one check-in i was learning things as this went now it was like okay i need to refine this so that full out swing that got me to 121 club head speed 178 ball speed with range balls no less this has all been done with range balls just because i don't have access to a ton of my balls so just smashed into the range so i've been doing this all with range balls thinking if i achieve 180 with a range ball i sure as heck will be able to get 180 out on the golf course with a regular ball not trying to destroy it or hit the cover off of it into my last week but there was some hurdles i spent three of those days basically on the road i had to travel to boston to film so my speed worked my my plan i couldn't do it oh and let me add i've done nothing in this time in the gym i haven't done any specific extra work in the gym to gain strength flexibility mobility i just been doing my regular old thing if anything i've been getting less in shape this last month then more in shape so this whole process has simply been a technique thing a speed thing in the garage golf swings but a big thing that i was learning in this process was was the mentality sure physicality of it is important i think it was week three when i started to see my baseline being kind of into the 170s mid low 170s it was like man this goal was achievable i just started thinking faster losing a bit of time on my training up in boston even when i was swinging on the golf course up there i felt faster i felt like this goal was completely attainable so here we are day 30. it's time to see how we do warmed up i'm feeling loose i'm feeling fast now it's time to grab the driver and just dive into this and see if we can cross off 180 miles of ball speed [Music] going through this session was difficult i started off kind of slow felt like i was swinging it fast and hard but the numbers just kind of right around high 160s maybe into 170 club head speed 115 114 116 so these felt like really fast swings but they weren't registering as that so i kind of had to think back on what was working what what did i do to achieve the gains i did last week emphasizing more on that kind of resistance band on the way up really feel it and then just let the arms drop the body rotate in and off the ground and just stay loose just stay loose as i started kind of progressing through this i started to see it i started to get into the mid 170s club head speed was getting a little bit higher a little bit higher a little closer to 120. last week i was trying to kill it and i did i was smashing it but the strike wasn't imperative whereas this week working on a bit of that refinement in the strike i was showing myself okay the club head speeds down a bit but the ball speed is kind of up where it was when you had a 118 clubhead speed two weeks ago so the strike was getting better so i was super super encouraged getting so close with the range ball i kind of had enough i was like you know what we've done this all with range balls let's go do it with a real golf ball put the dot on it and let's just see what [Applause] [Music] happens [Music] 181 oh look at that oh my gosh look at that 121 club head speed high fade 181 ball speed 300 carry 304 total not a lot of spin or roll wow did it i put everything in that one so i got there but hopefully i can kind of get to that just with a smooth swing through more work keeping this going strengthening the rotation flexibility and all that good stuff so i hope you've learned from this i hope you can implement this and get some speed in your game and let me know kind of what are your speed goals and yeah see you in the next one peace [Music]