Hi guys it's Aimee. Today I'm going to
help you guys compress the ball better and talk about the position right after
the impact, the post impact position. If you understand what the post impact position
is supposed to look like, it actually helps you go into your impact with more power and with
more speed and better squareness. Your impact looks like this. Well 89% weight in the left.
Shoulders are open. Club is leaning forward. This is a correct impact position. From here,
the post impact position would look like this. If you compare to the impact position, the lower
body hasn't really moved much. It's more mostly your right back right shoulder blade and right
hand that extends the club through. So there's about 90 to 100 percent weight in your left foot.
And the Y right here, the Y I always emphasize, is facing forward. And the club face is somewhat
facing the target like this, okay? So this is what we want. But out on the golf course, we see a
lot of different post impact positions right? So some of them I wanted to show you today.
We
see a lot of people that hit it like this, both arms bent this way. And we see a lot of people
that actually spin out and their Y is facing the sky. And we see a lot of classical kind of release
flip, so the Y looks a little crooked like this. So I'm going to go through them case by case. So
the first example when the arms are bent. If you don't shift your weight properly into the left,
you will hit it fat.
So to avoid hitting it fat, you're going to have to kind of pull your arms up
this way and your both your arms are bent in the impact. So if you do this what happens is, you're
not shifting all the way in to the left so you're going to lack distance. And plus because you're
kind of scooping your hands upward this way, you're going to create side spin so it's kind of
goes not straight sideways a lot.
So if you look at long hitters, I don't think I've ever seen one
person that actually goes in with their hands bent this way. Just cannot you have to have your arms
extended for a lot of speed and power. And the second example is the hip spin-out movement. So
if you look at it from the side if your hip spins what happens is that you kind of come over the top
. If you release from this point you're going to hit it left. If you don't release and hold off,
it's going to slice. So basically those of you who spin out, you're kind of holding off with
your lie so you're steering the direction so the Y ends up facing the sky like this. And you
can't really fully swing through the ball without worrying about the direction, right? So we don't
want to spin our hips either. Lastly the flip is more the classical swing the 80's style. If you
flip the club face moves around a lot so it is inconsistent when it goes into impact.
So modern
swings we don't flip. So to explain this you kind of have to have a lot of imagination. So kind
of follow with me. Pretend like you're laying down a clock on the ground. So where the club head
is it's 12 o'clock, behind my feet is 6 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 9 o'clock, right? So the clock
is laying on the ground. So the toe of my club head is pointing at 12 o'clock. And when I
take it back it goes into 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock. And then when I come back to the golf
ball it goes 11 o'clock, 10 o'clock. This is where I want you in the post impact, pointing 10
o'clock with the Y facing forward with the weight about 100% on the left leg. But if you flip you're
going to be flipped, and then your toe is going to point backwards around 7 o'clock/ 6 o'clock ish.
From this position you're probably going to exit flat or you're going to go flat and then you end
up lifting up. So that right there is going to create more side spin as well.
So you're going to
hit it more sideways. So modern swings you get it into 10 o'clock and then it goes into like 9
o'clock or 8:30-ish and it goes up. See that looks more like a normal swing, right? We want to
make sure our club head doesn't flip. If you have either one of the three post impacts, I have one
drill to fix that into the correct post impact, very simple, ball pushes. What you're going
to do is.. I have a 7-iron here you can use anything. But to make it easier let's grab a
7-iron. You're going to not make any backswing and you're just going to push the ball forward,
get into your post impact like this. Push. So you feel the pressure in the left thigh about 90
to 100% right there, and the Y is facing forward, and your toe is pointing at 10 o'clock.
Okay so
if you keep pushing some of you actually end up pushing this way and then end up with the pressure
in your left shoulder as opposed to your left thigh. So if you feel it that means you're not
pushing low enough. So really try and get 100% of pressure in the left thigh as opposed to your
left shoulder. Once you get used to it and you're pushing the ball really nicely let's go ahead
and add some backswing. Just a small backswing. You're going to go to 8 o'clock ish. And then
from here you're not going to pull through, you're not going to try and kill it, you're just
going to feel the push. You're going to use your right thigh hip back shoulder blade right hand
to push through and get into the post impact. And once you are able to control the push and
really finish on your left leg like this.
Push. Once your push gets better, let's go ahead and
make a full swing. So we're going to concentrate on pushing in to the left so the Y is facing
forward and the toe is pointing at 10 o'clock. I want you to really figure out what
your post-impact looks like and really drill this ball push into your body so
you can get that post impact going. So from now on I expect you guys to
compress the ball like you have never before. Thank you and I'll
see you guys in the next lesson!.