Hitting 5 myths on how to generate power in golf swinging

You don’t have to look away from a power type. Players have always been obsessed after hitting the ball longer – if you are a club player, new competitor, tour pro or World -long competitor. Problems come when you choose from the large buffet of information and apply something that is incorrect, incomplete or out of context – means it doesn’t work for your body or swinging. You try things that look healthy and useful, but they are actually holding you back.

Times Time to handle five of the greatest myths of power and give you the true intelligence of swinging that will help you ramp your speed This season. Check below.

Myth no. 1: Calm and concentration produces better results

It stands to reason that following a soothing routine that makes you ready to play and focus on a swinging key thought would give you the best opportunity in a good car. But that attitude puts a permanent lid on your club speed. You will always play with a governor.

The reality is that a rhythm of energy with the driver is different than a precise oscillation with an iron, and must be treated differently. When you want to hit long shots, you have to increase your intensity, not reduce it.

My student Kyle Berkshire has won three world championships of the long car, and he is shaking 170 miles per hour with a heartbeat more than 150 beats per second in competition. This is definitely extreme, but your goal should be to get more key and energy for a big car, no quieter and more under control.

Even if you do not do specific training rapidly, just making a series of more aggressive shakes of practice will help your body begin rapidly instead of staying tight and discreet.

Myth no. 2: You need to “stay tied”

If there was a power hall of power, the “connection” would be one of the first induces. There are many tips there by rebuking the players to leave the path of the path to leave the body on their backs. Jack Nicklaus even caught grief to have a “flying elbow” while also one of the longest hittings of his era. Instead of actively try to keep your arms near your torso.

I want you to work to make a spine with more stretch on your arms. This stretch helps to increase the total trip of the club to your swing, which gives you more time to produce speed. What does this look like? If you stop returning with the high wings of the wings, your trail arm should last to reach the first part of the shaft where the syllable ends.

When I started working with Ryan McCormick, he had a relatively narrow attitude and a tight spine, and he was certainly much below average in the horses. Adding a width with this concept (and doing a lot of work in the gym), he won more than 20 miles per hour of the ball and made it in PGA Tour.

Let those wings lie down and do not be afraid to add a speed to your back early to create energy and momentum.

Myth no. 3: You need more twist

Think about the concept of turning turn as you will make a bottle of vitamins: there is a recommended dose and time and a point where you do more no longer benefits and is actually harmful.

The players tend to return very early and a lot to their backs, which immediately attracts the wings and club behind them. The wings do not rise enough, and the center of the mass body lies on the lead side. From there, you have effectively made the most severe club, presenting the challenges of the time and closing a lot of your speed potential.

Instead of returning everything together, use some of the extensions we talked about in myth no. 2. Take the club again with a little shoulder twist and more arm lifts. Leave your hips to respond simply to what shoulders and arms do. This is easy to check by sliding a stretch stick through the front strap loops in your pants. You will be loaded on to your side of traces without excessive movement of the lower body and without leaving your trail arm and shoulders dip below and under it.

By the time your arms go to the waist height going back, the stick should still be at the same extension that was to the address, meaning your shoulders are back and your wings are raised, but your hips have stayed quite square. If you can wait until the club passes your trail thigh before letting the lower body start to smell, you will have your upper and lower body working together properly to produce power.

Myth no. 4: You must mention the club

This is definitely her moment on social media these days. General idea: You need to actively shallow the club in a swinging swing plane at the landing start to make sure you do not come to the top and cut the ball.

Problem: When most players try shallow, they lower the trail shoulder too early and the club gets heavy and stuck behind them. Not only does this not resolve the basic issue with your oscillation, but it can also lead to damage from adding side flexion to your landing rotation.

Instead of thinking about appointing the club with your hands and dipping the trail shoulder, focus your attention on your lead side. Make your lead shoulder move slightly down to early landing. This will do two important things: improve your route of swing and put you in a more supportive position, where you can effectively use the Earth to get more energy in the club.

If you are bent and the club is stuck, you can’t get that early push about the transitions used by good players.

Myth no. 5: Hit on the ball to start the big drives

Large heads with long axes make it seductive to place the ball too ahead in your stay and a lot of sloping on your shoulders to really start. But that combination of configuration elements tends to promote the contact of the club that is the opposite of the explosives – the low impact on the face while the face is open. This is a combination for killing the distance of more Backspin and more sidespin, and a recipe for many high, short and right shots (for a right).

The excellent departure comes from a slightly upward strike, where the club stands in the long -term hit area and you are catching the ball in the center.

For this, place it on a ball that is lined up only inside your lead heel, with two other tees in front of it at the same height at one-in-case intervals at the target line. Your goal is to hit the ball in tee and catch both other teas with your swing, promoting a more neutral swing trail, solid contact and maximum speed.

You will have a better chance of catching the ball in the fastest part of the face while the face is square. This is how elite players get such a strong shock factor – the ratio between club speed and ball speed. How close can you reach at 1.5?

Bernie Najar is a Top 100 Golf teacher And is the Director of Instruction at Caves Valley Golf Club on Owings Mills, MD.