This Compression Drill Makes You DANGEROUSLY Good!

Golfers need to feel where speed is. Very good. And to me, it's a lot about actually trying to feel that you have speed down through the bottom. And almost feels it's kind of faster over on this side of the golf ball. And then what I let a lot of people do is, okay, what I want you to do is make like your granny backswing, where you feel you've got plenty of time, you're under control, make sure you keep your body in a good spot. And then from there, trying to get fast as you're passing your left foot. Yeah, very good. So that way, I think a lot of people, because it kind of resembles like a throwing sensation. Yeah. Understanding, okay, how do we load and unload properly? So what you're saying is I should just stand here with my club and throw the club. And just launching it at the range. Don't hold us against that. No. So I would say, once you understand concepts of low points, let's say we're talking about an iron. Yep. As you know, we want to try to make sure we're striking the turf after the golf ball a certain amount. Correct. Right. Very important. Hugely important. I think that's what a lot of people misunderstand. Because if you look at studies and they're looking at tour players, let's say we're talking seven iron. Yeah. Low points are usually somewhere around four to five inches after the golf ball with a good player. Yep. We can try to demonstrate one for me. Yeah, let's just demonstrate that. So we can see the divots really in front of this reference line here. If I do that once more, pay close attention from that face-on view of where that golf club is really moving through the ground there. Yeah, that was beautifully executed there, bud. Yeah. So we can see we're creating a bit of a crater there thanks to the beautiful Ballyshea golf links for letting us come out and hack up their range. But you can see that the divots of all the shots that we've been hitting have been in front of that reference line. Yes. And I think there where what really comes to mind right now, once we understand where low point is, now here's our famous word, it's compression that we're trying to create. And if you create proper low point control, proper delivery of the club and your arms, you'll compress the golf ball, which is going to help you produce more ball speed. Yeah. Distance really isn't club head speed, it's ball speed. Which is interesting, right? Everyone gets their little launch monitor up and the number one speed that you see them put up is club head speed. But you can swing it at a slower speed. So we saw how far that last shot went, right? Now I'm going to swing it faster, but I'm going to have the bottom of my swing or low point behind. I'll still hit a reasonable shot. It'll get a little bit scoopy, but it's going to launch a lot higher. And I'm going to swing it faster, but it's definitely not going to go as far. Oh yeah, you're good at that. So yeah. Floss shots, haven't I? PTSD from the kids. So right there, that's gone a hundred meters with a faster golf swing with a full eight iron when I normally hit my eight. God, 160. Yeah. So looking at that, we can see that speed, club head speed does not equal ball speed. And we want to improve the ball speed. And you're saying that we need to get compression to do that, yeah? Perfect. So how do we do that? So basically what we just kind of talked about earlier on, right? So if you swing it back up to the top for me and I'm going to come to your side, just kind of help you a little bit with that. Earlier on when we had the other drills about the head movement, we talked about the ball throwing exercise. So what I want you to do is to create compression. We need the body to feel it's traveling more into the lead side as the arms are starting to slowly unload what you have in the system. And then from there, we're releasing everything over on this side. So you can see there, Karad's arms are fully extended and his wrists are fully released well after the golf ball. That's going to guarantee our compression into the golf ball and actually striking the turf later. And you can see how much more to the left you are and extended you are in your body and in your spine. Yeah. So again, that kind of throwing exercise to the wall with proper mechanics is really going to help you creating that. If you stay on your back foot or you just try to spin your body really hard to create a lot of force, you're not going to be able to do that. Feels incredibly powerful through the golf ball. And if I was to do the opposite, like let's say I demonstrate that weak shot. Now, I'll pause post-impact for us here. You can see that's very much the opposite to what we were just looking at here. And really, we would see a lot of players be a lot further back than that. Bunched up, chicken wing, all that good stuff that you certainly don't want to do. So, what is your favorite drill to get more compression post-impact? Right. I've done a million videos, probably a million one, of the hit hard, stop quick, right? Great. One of your favorites? One of my favorites. I think, you know, like Misty Mac, as we like to call him. I think he's demonstrated it really, really nicely. You look at some of the second still tough. Yep. Same thing. And once we start understanding, if we need to stop and accelerate through the ball, we need to have proper structure in the legs, the spine, and the pelvis. And we got to be in the left leg. Otherwise, there's absolutely no chance you're going to be able to stop through there. So, you're controlling the club rather than letting it control you. 100%. And when we say hit hard and stop quick, you can do this from really a variety of different swing lengths. So, we'll just demonstrate like a really small one for the players at home. Beautiful. And notice, so if you kind of point out some aspects to my body, that player should definitely hear what you want to see. You can see the alignment sticks on the ground and how Karat's pelvis is well ahead on the left side of this center alignment stick. See also lovely how he extends his spine back, sternum back, arms are fully extended in front of his chest. There's not a lot of flick or fold or backwards movement. Yep. So, that's what you're really looking for. And the more you understand that the golf ball is not your target, the better that is. If you want to get a bit of an idea of what this kind of feels like post-impact, it might look a bit weird if you're doing this by yourself in a public space. But at home, just rehearse a big uppercut punch. Yeah. And that same feeling, if I then put the golf club in my hands, that big, nice, tall, extended finish position, that's going to give them that sort of feel and look that they're trying to achieve there. We'll move this one here real quick. And another one that I like doing. So, let me demonstrate this for you, right? Most alignments have a pointy end on this side. So, you actually have the limestick center and you're holding it. Arms kind of close together. You leave about, you know, a little bit more than a tennis ball of space in between. Yeah. So, what we're looking to do here is same thing. Tilt that ear, extend up to the top. We're pushing forward. And now you can see the pointy ends actually starting to point back down, if I do this correctly. If I would start spinning, it starts pointing up to the sky. So, what I want you to do now is once you're here, open and extend that body and teach the arms to thrust this into the ground on the front, which is going to give you that same sensation of where we need that acceleration. It's kind of like same thing as hit hard, stop hard. Yeah. But a cool little visual, I think. I like doing this quite a lot. Dude, I've actually never seen that before. Let me give it a try. Let me give that a shot there. See, first time luck, right? So, setting up, we've got a golf ball in between. We're going to make a nice pivot to the top. And then I'm just rehearsing. I love that feeling of getting kind of that lead shoulder down over the lead foot in transition down. That really makes me feel that I can get it pointing down. You can see as a result of doing that, the arms do finish long and extended through. Now, mate, that's a fantastic drill to work on that. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take that exact same feeling, because I've done the hit hard, stop quick drill a lot. But now I'm going to take that feeling, which is a little bit more pronounced, I feel, because the weight of it was different. I had to really focus on the moving pieces of my body in such a way where I had to feel it rather than just see it. So, I'm just going to do a little one down there with a very similar feel. Nice. And you can see just a smooth little shot. Doesn't need to be anything big, especially because we'd probably kill the people out there. Kill the Range 4 pickers. But those little shots like that, really blending it together, are just going to improve your ability to strike the golf ball so well. And it's going to give you a lot more ball speed, which is the key factor to hitting longer golf shots.