Using your Obliques for Distance Wedges

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This content video is using your obliques for distance wedges.

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So I remember reading that Sam Sneed once said that he felt like he hit his wed

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ges with

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his abs.

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I'm going to assume that he meant his obliques when he said that, but one of

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the traits that

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I see with good wedge play that tends to blend all three.

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Using the obliques tends to keep the upper body on top of the lower body.

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It tends to be more of a smooth action rather than a throw or kind of a kick

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out of the

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lower body.

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It's hard to turn really explosively or it's easier to turn kind of smoothly.

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So this helps with smooth force as well.

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The other thing is when I have my arms kind of more connected and packed in,

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which helps

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with the radius, then it's a really complementary power source to use the obl

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iques and use the

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body rotation.

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It helps with all of our goals and it tends to help with, if you are a golfer

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who has

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a lot of trouble taking some off and swinging smooth or taking some off and

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kind of flighting

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it a little bit, then it's likely that you have more of an arm pull and kind of

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more

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of a rapid acceleration down at the bottom instead of a smooth powered swing

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from your

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obliques.

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We have a bunch of drills on the full site as far as feeling the obliques,

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whether it's

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kind of the turtle shell or in this section, the trail side pass, the beat the

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drum, things

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where we're trying to get a feeling of the upper body rotating and side bending

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on top

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of the lower body.

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So not kicking to the side like this, that would be more of like a lateral hip

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movement,

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but rotating and covering and blending that into a little bit of extension

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ultimately

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in the follow through.

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So this is more or less a simple drill and a simple reminder.

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You can combo this with any of the arm connections, whether it's the towel or

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using a paint stick

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or something like that or a glove.

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And you can combo that with kind of your impact line and feeling a little bit

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more stacked

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or even doing the single leg drill.

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But what we're going to try to do is we're going to try to emphasize the

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feeling of the

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obliques.

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If you do that, we're going to add an exhale.

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So in a lot of sports, you'll use a breathing out as a way to engage the abs,

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right?

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You hear tennis players do it a lot.

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You see martial artists, when you're throwing a baseball, all that can help

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engage the core.

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So what we're going to do on this, we're not going for maximum effort, so we're

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going

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to do more of a smooth exhale.

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So we're going to bring it out or sorry, we're going to bring the club back and

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then we're

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going to feel a little bit of a breathing out through purselips or making an S

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or an

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H sound, or whichever one helps you feel like your abs get a little bit more

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involved.

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So we're going to bring it out or bring it up and we're going to start this exh

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ale just

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before the top of the swing.

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So it's going to be inhale and exhale on the way down, trying to feel like the

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arms are

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fairly connected and stiff and more of the motion is happening from the core.

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So we'll do that one more time, we'll go a little bit bigger, breathe in, go up

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to the

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top.

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It's a little late, but overall not too bad, pulled that one a little bit.

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I've spent my tendency this week, so hopefully the videos look fairly

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representative, but

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I find that focusing on feeling this swing in your core can help, especially if

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you get

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really kind of hand focused and ball focused and just trying to kill the ball.

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Having more of a feel of just the body smoothly rotating and the ball getting

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in the way is

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one way to feel the obliques, another way which we recommend in this video is

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using

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a little bit of the breath.

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In order to use the obliques, you have to do a good job of staying sacked, you

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have to

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do a good job of keeping the shoulders connected, and then you have to do a

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good job of just

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rotating through to your full finish.

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Master those and you will get really good contact as well as trajectory and

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distance control

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for your distance wedges.

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Close, get one there.