Sean one of our more popular Pros versus Ames video is where we talked about the difference between AMS and Pros is that Pros are great at generating hand speed early in the downswing and we had a lot of questions about how that's done so in this video we're going to cover the four really pretty simple steps and how to create more hand speed as you start them and those steps are having the elbow and the trail elbow in the right position at the top of the Swing having the correct arm Bend at the top of the swing and then both of those elbow position coming down and the arm Bend coming down combined with your rotation so for most golfers it's their dominant hand that kind of messes this up right so if you're right-handed play right-handed most often going to be your right hand you can imagine what the left hand does but we're primarily going to talk about how the right hand should move in this video so the first is making sure the right elbow gets in the right position at the top yeah so that that's a huge one right that really dictates how that thing is going to start down how much speed you can put in it so the first step is getting it high enough right because if I'm going to throw a ball I've got my arm up here elevated off my chest the only people that throw down here are right fielders when you did leak they can't throw it very far apologies all right fielders get your arm up in the air like you're gonna throw well if I do that bent over in a golf swing what we really like to look for is this elbow being up off the body enough so the bottom of this arm here is kind of level to the ground yeah so from this down the line camera angle you just want to see that tricep area being fairly level with the ground now all that is so this is where we are at address so if I stand up there's about a 45 degree angle to my arm that's just moving it there it's about 15 degrees for most golfers you know it's not getting it way up there like that so it's just a small lift but there is lift there happening exactly people are definitely afraid of this sometimes because they feel like oh I can't lift my arms and they start getting in here with their arm really pinned well the problem with that there's nowhere to go to kind of create the speed right the solution for poor arm movement isn't no arm movement that's right right it's like you know want to lose weight you don't stop eating you just learn how to eat better that's right so you've got to move the arm correctly first if you're going to generate speed just like if you're going to throw a ball fast you couldn't like you said you couldn't tie your arms to your body and and rotate your way through more speed again there's not a million ways to do it right I mean I can't throw down here I can't throw here I can't throw up here there's a sweet spot in there that's exactly for a throwing technique and it's very similar with golf if you want Club at speed there's a kind of a sweet spot position for your Trail arm right so how you do that is literally here at address you're just going to lift this arm up now you're going to do that obviously as you turn which brings us to the next point about elbow position is it stays pretty much in front of my body it's lift like this there's about a 10 degree window where golfers abduct right but we see so many golfers pull that right arm again it's a dominant Move Motion is to pull that right arm behind them so from face on or down the line it would be pulled behind me now I'm in serious trouble for generating hand speed because what's going to happen is that hand is going to move like that yeah you've got kind of two options in there if it gets too far behind either it kind of drops behind you and like mine takes deepens and then the opposite is you might have to try to drive it forward that causes another whole host of issues yes nothing that's hand speeds in the wrong direction at that point so the first two checkpoints you want to look for is make sure there's some elevation all right top of your backswing just look for that arm to be fairly level and make sure that you're keeping that arm more in front of you not letting you we call this the backswing chicken wing right where you pull the backswing out just keep the arm right in front of you it's a pretty simple motion in the back so in conjunction now with getting the elbow in the right spot we've got to look at below the elbow so we got to look at the arm Bend and make sure that we're not getting way too bent because that's going to undo you're going to spend a lot of energy out here to get that undone rather than what we want to do exactly so you know we've got a lot of tour players in our gear system right when we look at what they're doing with different aspects of their body you know we love to see the trail arm no more bent than about 90 degrees the vast majority of the database is 90 or less right and when they do that that puts the arm in a spot that when they do lower it the club kind of shallows with it so if it gets narrow this right arm doesn't get super narrow and you pull on it that's usually a steepener right because when we talk about hand speed a lot of golfers will try to add hand speed by just yanking by just yanking on it and pulling the arms in and all that so and speed's useless it's not accompanied with the right shallowing movements of the arms right so and again this is something everyone watching this video can do if you can get your arm bit 90 most of you are bent way back here so you're overdoing what good players do and that's predominantly what we see with amateur swings compared to Pro swings is the M's are often doing more than the pros are doing and when you start to stack all those things together then you really start to create some inefficiencies this being a big one if you can keep your arm bent 90 or less you're going to be in a great shape for adding a lot of hand speed to your swing now we do that by making sure there's almost you don't want to keep it dead straight dead straight because then you're going to get a rebound here at the top so you want to make sure it's a little soft here to start and you can feel like you push away as you enter the top up and away we talked about that give me some resistance there we talked about feeling like my right shoulder goes back rather than pushing this way with it great point the other part about this is it's important too you know when you do get your arm up here and we'll talk about this in a minute when you start to to lower it if it's nice and wide and you lower your arm the club shaft isn't going to go in this direction right and because if you as we all know if you do that no my arm speed is going all right we're going to get to that I'm trying to get to that sorry Jump Ahead let's talk about a drill to tie those first two together okay so simple drill we love doing it okay so we do this all the time so take your dress position good grip good stance and I'm gonna tell you you know the thing people do wrong with this drills they go too fast so separate touch every drill separate these steps and do them correctly okay so set up one two set the club on the shoulder just above the grip maybe a hand width above the grip so it's going to sit kind of just on your shoulder tip where your shirt seam is and for the face-on view that he's just like it's not out here and it's not just snatching it up like that it's just very comfortably just laying the shoulder right there on your trap and when you do it you might have less than 90 but we'll change that in a minute so you're going to turn make a good pivot and you're going to lift your arms up and widen your right arm out so you're at the same time you're going to push up and away so you're going to get some depth push the hands up and away so they're deep enough it's going to be level to the ground and you want to make sure you're wide of the nine and a good way to check that make sure I can put my fist in there if I'm like this I can't get my fist all the way to the Elbow that's exactly right so the keys there and this is where the movement of the golf swing starts to compound the confusion right so what we're doing there is we're stripping away the arm movements from the takeaway because a lot of you are so used to getting to the top of the backswing not by turning but just literally by pulling the arm behind you that's already the killer for hand speed so this is going to train you I mean some for some of you it's going to be part stretch part learning the right movement get yourself right and then you're getting this arm level now some of you are going to want to feel right here because it may be tight so you know what to work on some stretching to get some Mobility there in the shoulders but if you can get it up here then again I love the fist idea right there you're going to be in great shape now to start adding a lot of hand speed announcement all right so you're set up at the top of the Swing you've got width you've got depth you've got everything where it needs arm up arm up right so we're ready to go now let's talk about where the elbow needs to move in the downswing this is really where the speed comes from it's making sure that there's lowering of this arm back to the ribcage exactly right and you know we're talking about this independent obviously there's rotation that adds to this as well adds to the speed but independently of that if you just learned what the arm does it's going to go a long ways to increasing your hand speed so from the top of the Swing if I've got my arms up here from the drill I'm going to lower my right arm to reconnect it to the body that's the motion that you want to start with when I do that I'm not narrowing I'm not driving the elbow in front of me going into external where you see a lot of that out there on the internet I'm just low if it's in a good spot I'm just lowering it and kind of reconnecting the upper arm to the Torso I'm not driving my elbow in either I'm just kind of lowering it down in this manner right here while keeping this wide what's interesting and we talked about this in a previous video there's 15 degrees of arm lift on average right some guys a few more degrees more some guys few degrees less depending on where they start at address that first move down from the top to just left arm parallel the lower 24 degrees okay so they're lowering it more than they're lifting it in the backswing and again that's that reconnection because we don't address it with our arm connected to our 100 that's such a noise like a magnet just click yep right back to the rib cage yep so you know the the rest of the Swing From There is kind of I am using that momentum but if you can get this first part down correctly and just kind of training that and we talk about a yo-yo a lot it's I wouldn't do a yoyo up here right I wouldn't hold it and try to do it at the ground I would just naturally kind of lower it and straighten it kind of in one bam like that you also wouldn't do it this way exactly right it's just that lowering motion I definitely wouldn't do it this way right I would just lower it and if I do that combined if I do that motion combined with the rotation and the shift boom I've got myself in an absolutely perfect spot and I've utilized my whole body and my arms together to generate hand speed and this Cameron Smith Cameron young DJ Rory you name it they all do this movement it's that reconnection back now this will lead us into the second one but there's also something huge happening as that's happening that creates the shadowing and we'll talk about that in just a second all right so the final piece to this puzzle right this kind of completes the speed and this is going to combine a couple elements certainly all the ones we talked about so far it's as this arm is reconnecting to your back to your rib cage there's some straightening happening all right right that's the shallowing piece yeah that's that's the that's the important part of the yo-yo well exactly right and and as you reconnect and straighten the right arm as I'm you know obviously the hips are starting to turn the Torso starting to hurt them straighten that out that's what keeps the club in a playable position if I don't straighten the right arm look how much steeper that is without me doing anything else this is the eye opener for people in lessons if I show them this if I don't unfold the arm it stays like this and the club is way too steep if I straighten it some look where it ends up in the playable walking back to the bit or if you try to drive this elbow in front of your rib cage well that's a massive opener now you've got yourself another set of problems but again you're you're killing the speed these can move which they have to generate have to generate speed early to transfer that speed out to the club yeah and I have to mention this and we have videos on this we're going to get questions well don't the hips lead yes very slightly you know just in in reaction to knowing you have to move something fast your hips are going to start to rotate the Torso is going to rotate at the same time though basically right the arm is reconnecting and lowering to the body that creates a shallow wire turn on all those other speed producers exactly right but as far as hand speed goes it's this lowering right and straightening yep lowering and straightening that lowers the club in position that's the shallowing and it's also the speed part of it trying to keep them up trying to put them forward trying to do any of those will kill them kill the speed yeah it's everything combined it creates this golf swing that gets the hands moving but the real secret get it up in a good spot so you have somewhere to go with it and a lot of golfers when we're doing this in lessons it's a hard mental hurdle because they associate straightening this arm with casting it's very difficult for people to get beyond that you don't create lag with elbow bin you create lag by what the wrists do not the elbows well and if you can let your right arm straighten as you're doing all this it'll actually assist in keeping the club head back more but if I'm holding this elbow angle and I start to rotate like everybody does that's usually when I cast the worst well casting will come from up here right it's just a straight cast of the wrist or straight bending of the arm but you see where this elbow happens now if I did all that down here perfect spot no it's not okay so it's the sequence of when that happens and it's the fact that it's all happening and not just one piece of that that's what you got to look out for so make sure the elbow is in the position at the top make sure there's the right amount of Bend at the top 90 or less and then make sure that elbow is dropping and straightening as you lower the club your body is going to turn and that's kind of the cherry on top for that extra bit 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