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0:00hey everybody danny right here thanks
0:01for joining us i just literally just
0:03finished an online lesson with a student
0:05of mine called colin
0:06um striking the ground behind the golf
0:08ball on a regular basis and
0:11what we noticed in his swing very
0:12typical of when you strike the ground
0:14behind the golf ball
0:15he's basically getting into this flicky
0:16position here the weights on the back
0:18foot
0:19now the problem is he'd often try to get
0:22that weight forward try to get the
0:23handle forward but for some reason
0:26he just keeps making apparently this
0:28mistake and
0:29certainly what we saw on camera so one
0:32of the reasons you might be the same is
0:33that sometimes
0:34you've been doing something so long so
0:36incorrectly
0:37that to do the right thing often can
0:39feel strange and it's sometimes
0:40difficult to feel
0:42so in this week's golf lesson i'm going
0:43to share with you exactly the feeling of
0:46what is a wonderfully
0:47beautifully struck iron shot about a
0:49strike that strikes the ball first
0:51then the ground then what i'm going to
0:53do once we've done that the first stage
0:55i'm going to show you then how you can
0:56start to add some speed and power to it
0:58so you don't just get
0:59the ball strike but you get the power
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1:20great so let's give you now a very very
1:22simple three-step process to help you
1:24strike your irons
1:25so much more consistently first stage
1:28look
1:28you might understand what to do but you
1:30struggle to learn to feel
1:31what to do right so let's teach you now
1:33the feeling of a great strike
1:35now the way to do this in my mind is to
1:37focus more on the
1:38end result rather than the strike itself
1:41you see
1:42if you are trying if you look if you've
1:43been strongly strike you're desperate to
1:45strike the ball well so what often
1:46happens is i go like you get ball happy
1:48you start to focus more on striking the
1:50ball
1:51but that then takes a strike further
1:53away because the more you try to strike
1:55the ball properly
1:56the still you stay here when you stay
1:59still
2:00your weight doesn't naturally go forward
2:02you don't in get this handle ahead
2:04because you're not intending to go
2:06this way you're more intended to to stay
2:08still
2:09your head stays still and you end up
2:11getting this flicky position sometimes
2:13you might find yourself falling back why
2:14could you get to the golf ball here
2:16there's no space
2:16so you fall back so we're going to start
2:19with the end in mind
2:20right so we're going to focus on getting
2:22you
2:23where you've got to be finishing here
2:25because watch
2:26if i focus on finishing here look i
2:29naturally get my handle ahead i
2:31naturally get my weight forward because
2:32i'm heading where
2:33over this direction just like as i was
2:36gonna throw a ball to you
2:37my body naturally spawns and i go
2:39through the shot and i get all the kind
2:40of necessary things
2:41for great ball striking just in golf we
2:44might need to learn a few little things
2:45first
2:46first thing is yes the weight is on our
2:48lead side
2:49but one simple tip to kind of get this
2:51initially right is just when you're
2:52finishing just make sure
2:53you get your shoulders a bit of a tilt
2:55at an angle when you're finishing
2:56through
2:57often when i've given this drill before
2:58people end up like this
3:00i'm going to finish through don't okay
3:02and they end up kind of like this we
3:03don't want that
3:04we want to get your shoulders just at a
3:05bit of an angle here right
3:07and what that means is when you come
3:08through look it means that you're going
3:10to
3:10use your torso all the way through just
3:12to finish in that lovely
3:14simple fold through position there from
3:17this angle
3:18just there right so now you've got that
3:20we just simply go now that feeling
3:23just get a bit of a rhythm backwards and
3:24forwards and see if you're gonna arrive
3:26on your lead side
3:27with the club out in front of you here
3:29nice and connected through
3:31simple as that just imagining your
3:33shoulders finishing that angle
3:34and then you get to the golf ball and
3:36you simply hit a few shots this is stage
3:38one we're going to
3:38add some speed to this in a second
3:40focusing on your target
3:42and finishing at this angle here
3:46shoulders a nice angle just pitching him
3:48down the fairway
3:49small little shot no big shots at this
3:52stage just literally find some momentum
3:54backwards and forwards just chipping it
3:56there now as soon as you start to try
3:58and follow finishing this position
4:00you're less likely to stay static here
4:02finishing like this
4:03catching the ground behind the golf ball
4:05okay start with that
4:07first then you're starting to learn the
4:10sensation of having that pressure on
4:11that lead side you get the sensation of
4:13being
4:14almost a bit of a head of the golf ball
4:15and driving through
4:18but it won't be the power yet what
4:20you're going to need with power and this
4:21is what that causes daddy says
4:23i'm often scared of hitting chopping
4:24down on the golf ball
4:26well to avoid this you've got to
4:27remember that the golf swing
4:29is a down motion yes but then through
4:32here there's a
4:33upper motion i call it it's almost like
4:35a spiral upwards
4:36yeah it's almost spiraling this way we
4:39don't just go down into the golf ball
4:40and stop because that will
4:41just chunk the shot so how do you learn
4:44the feel of that
4:45because you can get spiral you can keep
4:48the handle ahead and watch
4:49you can generate some speed too so watch
4:51this what i like to call is like the
4:54spiral the ghosting's like a spiral jump
4:56spiral jump this way so what we're doing
4:59is is when we're coming through it's
5:00like this
5:01the body goes down
5:04and spirals up this way as it comes
5:08through the shot now this is really
5:10important now you might find well
5:12you know danny i'm a senior golfer i
5:13don't have that i can't do that make it
5:15smaller
5:16just imagine the thing is this is you're
5:17trying to add
5:19a little bit of a motion into this shot
5:23and if you do this a little bit you'll
5:24get a feel of what the feet are doing
5:27how they work without complicating it
5:29seeing it as just a spiral jump this way
5:31will give you the sense of
5:34okay now watch this
5:37look at this we now invert we now start
5:40to
5:40put this motion into that little swing
5:44we've just done
5:45yeah that then starts to give us some
5:48power
5:49as well as the feels it's a stepping
5:51stone you feel where you need to be
5:53first
5:54that becomes just a bit too mechanical
5:55not very powerful then you start to make
5:57it more advanced a bit more tricky by
5:59adding some
6:00speed but how do you have speed well
6:02through the spiral jumps i'm feeling now
6:04i'm gonna
6:05spiral jump here now it gives you one
6:07amazing benefit which i'm going to go
6:09into a second
6:10but let's hit a shot just feeling a
6:11little bit more power
6:16just a little bit more power into that
6:18shot there
6:19using the spiral jump now
6:23that then is a great way now the one of
6:25the amazing benefits for this
6:27is it can simply get a rid of so many
6:30backswing thoughts
6:31because the great thing is is once you
6:33know the end result
6:34your body your brain knows the end
6:36results a little less if i
6:38know that i've got to do a spiral jump
6:40right to hit this shot
6:41am i going to sway side to side it
6:44doesn't make any sense does it
6:45would i just kind of people talk about
6:47things like early extent would i just do
6:48this
6:49no that's not spiral jump that's just a
6:50vertical jump so watch what happens my
6:52back swing can
6:53actually help me look to start to spiral
6:55up
6:57down and then up again you see that
7:00it goes up spiral up now look i'm
7:02getting myself ready to do what
7:05the spiral jumps your body kind of in a
7:07sense doesn't need to think so much
7:08about the backswing because
7:09once the intention's set of what needs
7:11to do ahead of the game which is spiral
7:14i'm automatically going to do this does
7:16that make sense
7:17so you start to add that into the mix
7:19and you set to really simplify it of
7:21course you have to learn the timing of
7:22some of these things yeah
7:23but start small learn the feeling of
7:26where it's going to be here
7:28do some small shots think gradually just
7:31even if it's just
7:32gentle motion just get a sense of what
7:35that is and then start to add that
7:37into your motion
7:46and you'll start to use the entire body
7:49to play the golf shot while
7:51simultaneously
7:52keeping the handle ahead because you yes
7:55you can now get the handle ahead here
7:56but you bringing it out of the turf with
7:58the
7:59jumping action so you get both so you
8:01don't get a horrible chop in
8:02all right so let's summarize we need the
8:05handle ahead
8:06we need that weight forward how do you
8:07do that well
8:09you've got to get the feeling first of
8:11all of where that's supposed to be
8:12at the end result don't make ball
8:14striking your goal
8:15make it the byproduct of what you're
8:18trying to do
8:19and i just said just to help you to
8:20finish in a great halfway position
8:22through just imagine the shoulders
8:24being a slight incline here right just
8:27there
8:27if you do that you everything naturally
8:30stays a bit more connected you're
8:31working as a unit just a simple thing to
8:32do
8:33right do some get some momentum going
8:35hit a few shots nice and simple to start
8:37with yeah
8:38then once you've got that sensation
8:40start to imagine without club maybe just
8:42what's the spiral jam
8:44feel how the whole legs the body work to
8:47create
8:48this motion then gradually
8:51start to add that into the whole swing
8:54you get the backswing for free
8:56because your body goes oh i've got to do
8:57a spiral jam oh it automatically does
8:59this
9:00yeah it makes sense so i really really
9:01hope this helps it certainly helped
9:03colin
9:04loved the idea didn't have to
9:06overcomplicate all these different
9:07positions in the backseat what's an
9:08absolute treat
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