Med Ball Slam vs Side Arm Throw - Power Sources

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This concept is med ball slam versus sidearm throw.

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So I talk about the three main skills on the site

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that we're trying to create speed, control the club face,

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and organize the path.

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This video is more about how you create speed,

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but understand that it influences how you control the face as well as how you

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control the path.

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From a big picture perspective, there's really only two options

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that you're going to use when applying power to the club.

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And to look at it, we're going to use the idea of throwing a medicine ball

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two different ways. So I don't have a medicine ball, we're going to use this

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little spiky ball.

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Come back to the club here in a second and how it relates to the swing,

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and what you can see on video and how it reveals which of these two patterns

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you're using.

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So the first pattern would be more of a slam down towards the golf ball.

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So it would basically be like picking the medicine ball up and then slamming it

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into the ground.

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You can see that that would have much more of a vertical chop

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or motion body going down just like this.

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Now the second option is I could bring the club back

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and then I could throw the ball out towards the target.

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I'll do this in kind of slow motion because I don't want to have to chase it

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before I do the second demonstration.

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So I'm going to instead of slamming it down towards the ground,

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I'm going to turn my body and extend it out towards the target.

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Okay, now here's the tricky thing.

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The difference between those two isn't really going to show up through this

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part of the swing.

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It's more going to show up through this part of the swing.

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If you have more of the medicine ball slam idea than when you get to about this

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part of the swing,

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the club is going to start dumping and you'll start to see more of a scoop

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style or a cast style

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or an earlier more aggressive arm action.

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If you have more of the second option where you're doing more of that side arm

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throw,

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then through here you'll see more of the wipe action.

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You'll see more of a retained leg.

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You may even see a little bit of increased flex in that trail elbow as the club

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works across

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and then the arm extension will happen through the ball instead of at the ball.

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The key is looking in this zone here and it's easiest to see from the face on

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camera right through here.

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Some of you may benefit from practicing medicine ball kind of horizontal chop

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style exercises.

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The key here is making a backswing and then blending it into that horizontal

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chop or side arm throw.

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Most of you will feel that when your arms are up like this, they're more loaded

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and firing down.

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But you could imagine letting the momentum kind of build through here

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and then really turning it into a side arm throw.

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It's part of the reason why nine to threes work so well.

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Or I should say this difference is part of the reason why nine to threes work

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so well.

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When you're doing a nine to three, you're bringing it back to about this height

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here.

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I'm not really, I'm not really powerful.

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I haven't loaded a whole lot of vertical height so I'm more in a position where

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I would do almost like a medicine ball throw up that way

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or across as opposed to a medicine ball throw down.

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It's why often in nine to threes, it's much easier to get a better power source

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, a better sequencing, more shaft lean, a better release pattern

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and then if you then start breaking down when you take it up to full swing,

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that's probably a sign that you may be using more of this vertical energy

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pattern as opposed to more of the rotational pattern.

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So when you do these side arm throws with a medicine ball, and I would

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recommend a lighter medicine ball,

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let's see if you can get a full backswing and then wait long enough so that

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down here you can turn and take that momentum

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and turn it into momentum towards the target instead of momentum straight down

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towards the golf ball.

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That would look something like this.

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Now there are a few barriers that you might come up against if you're trying to

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do the same pattern of more of that side arm throw.

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If you have not shallow the arm, so if the arms are working very steep and then

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you try to throw it in front,

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you'd be very outside in and very steep.

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You'd have chunky leading edge contact.

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If also you're bringing the club down and the club is getting pulled into more

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of a narrow clubface open position like this,

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well then if you continued rotating the clubface would be wide open.

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So you do have to balance your path and how you're balancing your steeps and

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shallows in the clubface,

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but I use this general concept for training your overall power sources and make

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sure you're getting more of that rotary sequence

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instead of quite as much of an upper body pull.

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If you find that you are more of an upper body pull, then you have to work with

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the pattern that you have

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and know that you're going to struggle a little bit with the driver or anything

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that's longer with low loft

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and you may struggle with toe contact and certain predictable inconsistencies

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in clubface control.

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But if you get your rhythm on and you're using more of that upper body throw,

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you can still have a pretty successful golf outing. It just tends to not be as

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consistent day to day as golfers who have more of this side arm rotational

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pattern.

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Again, you can reveal that or you can see what that's going to look like based

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on this part here between there and there versus there and there.

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That will help you see what direction you're applying the force to the club and

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how it would ultimately relate to this overall style of how you're creating

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energy.

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So this would be more of the wipe style, more of that rotational pattern.

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The energy is going out around more like that and then this next one will be

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more of the vertical pull.

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So both of those shots would have been acceptable. They finished about five

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yards apart.

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So with a seven iron it's not going to cause that much of a dispersion

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difference or inconsistency pattern.

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You saw the first one I had better ground contact, little better flat spot.

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That would show up more when I'm hitting the longer clubs.

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So if you struggle with your longer clubs, take a look at your video and see if

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it could be related to your overall power source and sequencing.

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