Hey everyone, Shawn and Mu, we're going to get moon and me, he even Chuck this sledgehammer, it's a six pound sledgehammer down there. So you guys need to understand why upright swings, not flat swings get to benefit from ground forces. Right You don't want to miss this one. Okay. So Mu yeah, presenting the sledgehammer. All right. You're going to let the sledgehammer hang under your shoulders. Yep. And, very important that you be forward enough that the sledgehammer is not going to hit you in the ankles or the toes.
Right. So now you're just forward enough that it can swing in front of you. Now, if you want it to take that and on a count of three, three swings, you're going to heave it down range in the direction that you're lined up on, which is basically parallel to this tee here, right Yeah. So let's see you do that. Alright. 1, 2, 3. Woo. Awesome. Yeah, Make sure there's nobody around when that happens. Now, if you look at the continuation, when mu is going back, the hammer is moving on a much more vertical plane. And if you get to the top here and the hammer starts to fall behind you. Yeah. There's no way you can return it and send it out there. Can, you know Right. Yeah. So let's say you take a driver in your hands. Okay. And the other thing I wanted to mention is notice the only way to heave the hammer out there, you can't use the arms. It's impossible. So the arms are just hanging on to the hammer and notice the squat of the legs, sending the hammer out there.
So if you were to take your set up with the driver, let's say, we're going to send the, this, the tip of that T in the direction that you want to go. Yeah. So let me see the top of your backswing and stop. So now look, removes arms are they're in a position that are going to be allowed to come back under, move through the tee and out there. So when the arms fall, the legs are basically falling with them. Do you feel that squat move So you're getting ready to use the legs to send the tip of the tea out into the wild blue yonder. Right. So let's see a couple of practice swings beside that. Okay. Pretend you're sending the tea out there. Okay. Wow. That was amazing. Did you guys hear the tip of the tea being clipped So Mo gets the top, the brain is preparing to take the tip of the T and sling it out into that wild blue yonder. So you notice that that timing of what he just did was exactly the same as the timing as he used to heave that sledgehammer out there. Okay.
Yeah. So if we look at, from face on, I'm going to show you face on and down the line now for the righty, just so you, you get the clear mental picture of what we're trying to do, and you'll see how important this is for you to, to acquire the proper skill set, to use the ground, to get that effortless power so that you can send it out there. And, you know, Mo and salve are now competing in long drive competitions. I'm sure that a couple of years ago, you couldn't even dream of competing next to who, who did you compete w was that, Ryan respect was up with you.
And what about, Justin James You were right there in front of Justin, James going neck and neck, and they were hitting the same distance, right. They were all between three 40 and three 80. Yeah. So that's pretty amazing. That's pretty cool. Yeah. And if you looked at move out there on the grid, he's one of the most consistent guys out there he's hitting four out of six and the grid on a consistent basis. So you really want to, you know, sink your teeth into what we're talking about here. Now, as a writer, if I do it face on, and I'm going to, I'm going to swing back and through he, even into the trees, he, even into the trees. Now you notice there's a heaving action that occurs both in the backswing and in the follow-through, it's a dual kinetic chain. So in order for me to hear that out there, I got to heave it into the back swing, notice how I'm using my legs. He, he, and it's such, a cool way to acquire that skill because the weight of that sledgehammer is so easy to feel. So I would go with a four pound sledge for the gals, six to six pounds.
Sledge is plenty because at the end of a nice long neck like this, that sledgehammer really feels heavy. And you notice how I'm not allowing the arms to fold, because if you let those arms fold and you perform a regular swing, it's really going to take you for a loop. That could be way too much downward snap, and that's going to really hurt. So you keep the arms nice and long, and you notice the only way to keep the arms long is by turning out of the way out of the way. So you see the rhythm and timing of that, ready to swing back under, swing, back under swing back under. There's only one way to do that. If I bring the hammer here, it's all over. If I try to get ground forces, I'm breaking a leg. So One out there, two out there, three out there, not as long as yours move, but you really see there's the only way to do that is through the legs.
You can't push with the arms. So if we go with the driver again, The only way that I come back through that ball, if I try to send my arms deep into the backswing, is this okay here, south. So when I go into my back swing, he see where my arms are. Now. It feels like when I go get the ground, my arms are falling in front of me. And through the ball. If I take my arms too deep behind me, and I try to use the ground forces, it's going to be impossible.
I'm going to lose my posture. The club's fallen behind me. It's going to be, you know, and, in the movies, when you see a helicopter kind of tip over, and the thing is kinda string all over the place, that's essentially what it's going to look like. So we got to keep the arm club unit out in front of us to really benefit from those ground forces. That's how it's done right there. Hope you enjoyed that and understood the concept and the principles behind it. Get yourself a sledgehammer and let's see you heave it in your backyard. Just watch your wife's flowerpots all right. All the best
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