Distance Wedge Wipe

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This concept video is the distance wedge wipe.

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So one of the common questions that I get is, is there a wipe in the distance

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wedge?

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And yes, there is, but it's a little different than say with your driver swing.

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So with the driver swing, one of the big reasons to get this elbow in front is

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to combat the

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effect of having axis tilt.

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Well, with the distance wedge swing, we're not going to have a whole lot of

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axis tilt,

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so you might think that we don't want to have any wipe.

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But it's more of like a straight arm wipe.

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It's more of we want to try to get the arms still working across your chest,

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but it's

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not going to be led purely by the elbow with the arm bent like this.

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It's going to be more of a movement of the arm across, kind of like this.

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So I'll have people give me a, I'll have you keep your chest facing the camera

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or facing

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me and then I'll have them give me like a high five kind of over there.

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So if I have this straight and I just kind of work it across my body, it looks

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a lot more

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subtle, but what we'll see from the down the line or sorry from the face on

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view is on

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the way through.

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You'll still see the elbow passing the hip.

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It's just not going to be quite as narrow as it would be in the full swing

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because you're

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going to be a little bit more stacked over that front foot.

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So I kind of like doing it as almost like a triangle move where you're feeling

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like

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your right arm is moving across your chest towards your left arm.

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There's a little bit of feel of squeezing the elbows, kind of like the flip or

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hug,

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although it's more of the right arm kind of coming to meet the left arm instead

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of the

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left arm coming across.

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So we're going to do a couple of different styles here where we're going to

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feel kind

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of the level one or the hip height, belly button height, chest height, just

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focusing

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on a feeling of this arm squeezing or the pec squeezing as the arm works more

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across your

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chest or in front of your belly button kind of like that.

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Now it's going to feel a little weird as you're casting or as you're keeping

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the width of

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the club to keep that radius more constant to have it working across.

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You might feel like it's even kind of more shoulder driven, but as long as you

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're doing

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that movement and your core continues to rotate, you'll still have that smooth

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force

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and you'll avoid kind of getting your centers unstacked.

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Okay, so quick demo, we're going to do kind of a triangle type movement where

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we're going

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to bring the club back and then we're going to feel a little pump where the arm

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is working

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towards the left arm.

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We're going to pump, pump with that wipe kind of like that and you'll hear a

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nice clean

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contact and everything comes through together.

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Now we'll try to do it with no pump.

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So we're going to form that triangle and then keep that triangle, get that good

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arm extension

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as we're going through.

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Now as we go to the bigger one, this is where I think it becomes more of a

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challenge because

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as the arm bends, it can be natural for some people to want to pull it in and

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create some

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lag or bend the arm somewhere we would do in a full swing, especially if you

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have a tend

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to get kind of really violent in transition.

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So we're going to do it first as a pump where we feel not only is it getting

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wide by the

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arm straightening, but it's coming across.

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It's kind of a blended movement more like that that helps engage the core for

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this movement.

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So we're going to go a little bigger, blended movement, kind of like that, it's

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a pretty

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good contact.

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Although we just aerated and replaced our driving range mat, so most of these

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contacts

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feel pretty good.

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All right, so now let's try and do that without the pump.

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So we're going to do more of a cast, but a wipe wasn't too bad, a little bit

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bigger

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there, and then we'll go up to the full one, which has the most tendency to

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want to kind

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of pull down.

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So I'm really going to have to force the width as I'm feeling that peck squeeze

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.

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So a little bit of that full swing pump wipe, feeling that arm getting in front

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as I'm coming

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down, kind of like that, felt like pretty good width, and now we'll do it

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without pausing.

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So wide at the top, good feeling of that arm kind of coming across.

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So yes, there is a wipe in the distance wedge, it's just more kind of driven by

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abduction

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like this, a lot less of this big external rotation kind of lag feel like we

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might get

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in the driver's swing.

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So you're struggling with a little bit of contact issues or trajectory issues.

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This can be one of your big go-tos learning how to get that wipe while keeping

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the arms

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pretty straight and maintaining that constant radius.