Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Transition with Better Hand and Shoulder Connection
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how relaxed shoulders and elbows enhance your swing transition
- Understand the relationship between wrist movement and elbow position
- Practice the motorcycle movement to achieve better wrist flexion during your swing
In this drill, you'll learn how to connect your hands to your shoulders during your swing. This is crucial for improving your transition and ensuring a more effective release.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
This drill is connecting the hands to the shoulders for transition and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.480
release.
3
00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:11.560
One of the tricky things with golf is I've got these two, I'm swinging this
4
00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:12.320
club around
5
00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:19.960
kind of this somewhat stable center, but I've got these two or three joints in
6
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:20.920
between
7
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:22.680
me and the club head.
8
00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:27.800
They can do a lot of weird stuff, but often they're going to work together.
9
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.700
I have this little demo that I show people if you're working on transition.
10
00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:35.450
This will help you feel how the motor cycle, the throwers catch, all these
11
00:00:35.450 --> 00:00:36.040
movements work
12
00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.680
together and then how it relates to the release.
13
00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:43.610
If you hold your hand out in front of you just like this, and I want you to do
14
00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:43.960
your
15
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.280
best to try to really relax your shoulder, relax your elbow, and I'm not going
16
00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:47.600
to show
17
00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.900
you the answer yet, but I want you to try to extend your wrist, which is
18
00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:51.800
basically going
19
00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:56.520
in this motion kind of like so, so you're going to do it pretty quickly.
20
00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.210
If you haven't given it a try, stand up, hold it out like so, and then give it
21
00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:00.760
a try.
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:06.880
If I fully relax, and I go like this, the question I'll always ask is what is
23
00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:07.800
your elbow want
24
00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:11.890
to do, and basically if it was really relaxed, you'll find that that elbow
25
00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:12.720
wants to tend
26
00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.880
to go in front of your body kind of like so.
27
00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:19.640
Now I'll do the opposite, and I'll go like this, and if my arm was fully
28
00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:20.560
relaxed, it'll
29
00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:24.540
get easier if I go this way, so then I'll have you try to do the opposite, that
30
00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:24.960
feels
31
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:31.130
a little weird, or that feels weird, so typically when it goes like this, when
32
00:01:31.130 --> 00:01:31.960
my wrist goes
33
00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:35.090
into extension, the elbow will work in front, when the wrist goes into flexion,
34
00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:35.560
the elbow
35
00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.200
will go more out like so.
36
00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.130
So now in the transition, we talk about that left wrist flexing in that
37
00:01:42.130 --> 00:01:43.520
motorcycle movement,
38
00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:48.290
so that encourages some of this, and that right wrist doing that thrower's
39
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.560
catch encourages
40
00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.380
the elbow working in front of you.
41
00:01:51.380 --> 00:01:56.420
So combined, it ends up looking something like that.
42
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.920
Then when we get down during the release, the sooner that I really flex this
43
00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:02.760
wrist like
44
00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.600
so, the more that this elbow is going to tend to drift out this way.
45
00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:12.290
So what most tour pros do is in order to have that impact contact kind of more
46
00:02:12.290 --> 00:02:12.820
in front
47
00:02:12.820 --> 00:02:17.410
of their chest, instead of way back behind them, that elbow will continue
48
00:02:17.410 --> 00:02:18.300
leading that
49
00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:22.050
wrist, because the more that the elbow goes across like this, the more it
50
00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:22.400
delays that
51
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.620
wrist, and they'll ultimately get thrown out by that bracing and that push move
52
00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:27.840
of
53
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.040
the body.
54
00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.780
So if you're struggling on what your wrists are doing, check the elbows or the
55
00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:34.560
shoulders
56
00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.310
because they're tied together, if you're struggling on the look of more what
57
00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:39.200
the shoulders need
58
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:42.880
to be doing, then perhaps you can check the wrist and see if you're not getting
59
00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:43.880
some interference
60
00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:45.120
from one of those two segments.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
This drill is connecting the hands to the shoulders for transition and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.480
release.
3
00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:11.560
One of the tricky things with golf is I've got these two, I'm swinging this
4
00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:12.320
club around
5
00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:19.960
kind of this somewhat stable center, but I've got these two or three joints in
6
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:20.920
between
7
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:22.680
me and the club head.
8
00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:27.800
They can do a lot of weird stuff, but often they're going to work together.
9
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.700
I have this little demo that I show people if you're working on transition.
10
00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:35.450
This will help you feel how the motor cycle, the throwers catch, all these
11
00:00:35.450 --> 00:00:36.040
movements work
12
00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.680
together and then how it relates to the release.
13
00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:43.610
If you hold your hand out in front of you just like this, and I want you to do
14
00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:43.960
your
15
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.280
best to try to really relax your shoulder, relax your elbow, and I'm not going
16
00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:47.600
to show
17
00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.900
you the answer yet, but I want you to try to extend your wrist, which is
18
00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:51.800
basically going
19
00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:56.520
in this motion kind of like so, so you're going to do it pretty quickly.
20
00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.210
If you haven't given it a try, stand up, hold it out like so, and then give it
21
00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:00.760
a try.
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:06.880
If I fully relax, and I go like this, the question I'll always ask is what is
23
00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:07.800
your elbow want
24
00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:11.890
to do, and basically if it was really relaxed, you'll find that that elbow
25
00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:12.720
wants to tend
26
00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.880
to go in front of your body kind of like so.
27
00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:19.640
Now I'll do the opposite, and I'll go like this, and if my arm was fully
28
00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:20.560
relaxed, it'll
29
00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:24.540
get easier if I go this way, so then I'll have you try to do the opposite, that
30
00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:24.960
feels
31
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:31.130
a little weird, or that feels weird, so typically when it goes like this, when
32
00:01:31.130 --> 00:01:31.960
my wrist goes
33
00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:35.090
into extension, the elbow will work in front, when the wrist goes into flexion,
34
00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:35.560
the elbow
35
00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.200
will go more out like so.
36
00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.130
So now in the transition, we talk about that left wrist flexing in that
37
00:01:42.130 --> 00:01:43.520
motorcycle movement,
38
00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:48.290
so that encourages some of this, and that right wrist doing that thrower's
39
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.560
catch encourages
40
00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.380
the elbow working in front of you.
41
00:01:51.380 --> 00:01:56.420
So combined, it ends up looking something like that.
42
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.920
Then when we get down during the release, the sooner that I really flex this
43
00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:02.760
wrist like
44
00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.600
so, the more that this elbow is going to tend to drift out this way.
45
00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:12.290
So what most tour pros do is in order to have that impact contact kind of more
46
00:02:12.290 --> 00:02:12.820
in front
47
00:02:12.820 --> 00:02:17.410
of their chest, instead of way back behind them, that elbow will continue
48
00:02:17.410 --> 00:02:18.300
leading that
49
00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:22.050
wrist, because the more that the elbow goes across like this, the more it
50
00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:22.400
delays that
51
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.620
wrist, and they'll ultimately get thrown out by that bracing and that push move
52
00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:27.840
of
53
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.040
the body.
54
00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.780
So if you're struggling on what your wrists are doing, check the elbows or the
55
00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:34.560
shoulders
56
00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.310
because they're tied together, if you're struggling on the look of more what
57
00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:39.200
the shoulders need
58
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:42.880
to be doing, then perhaps you can check the wrist and see if you're not getting
59
00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:43.880
some interference
60
00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:45.120
from one of those two segments.
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Transition with Better Hand and Shoulder Connection
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how relaxed shoulders and elbows enhance your swing transition
- Understand the relationship between wrist movement and elbow position
- Practice the motorcycle movement to achieve better wrist flexion during your swing
In this drill, you'll learn how to connect your hands to your shoulders during your swing. This is crucial for improving your transition and ensuring a more effective release.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
This drill is connecting the hands to the shoulders for transition and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.480
release.
3
00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:11.560
One of the tricky things with golf is I've got these two, I'm swinging this
4
00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:12.320
club around
5
00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:19.960
kind of this somewhat stable center, but I've got these two or three joints in
6
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:20.920
between
7
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:22.680
me and the club head.
8
00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:27.800
They can do a lot of weird stuff, but often they're going to work together.
9
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.700
I have this little demo that I show people if you're working on transition.
10
00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:35.450
This will help you feel how the motor cycle, the throwers catch, all these
11
00:00:35.450 --> 00:00:36.040
movements work
12
00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.680
together and then how it relates to the release.
13
00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:43.610
If you hold your hand out in front of you just like this, and I want you to do
14
00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:43.960
your
15
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.280
best to try to really relax your shoulder, relax your elbow, and I'm not going
16
00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:47.600
to show
17
00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.900
you the answer yet, but I want you to try to extend your wrist, which is
18
00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:51.800
basically going
19
00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:56.520
in this motion kind of like so, so you're going to do it pretty quickly.
20
00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.210
If you haven't given it a try, stand up, hold it out like so, and then give it
21
00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:00.760
a try.
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:06.880
If I fully relax, and I go like this, the question I'll always ask is what is
23
00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:07.800
your elbow want
24
00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:11.890
to do, and basically if it was really relaxed, you'll find that that elbow
25
00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:12.720
wants to tend
26
00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.880
to go in front of your body kind of like so.
27
00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:19.640
Now I'll do the opposite, and I'll go like this, and if my arm was fully
28
00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:20.560
relaxed, it'll
29
00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:24.540
get easier if I go this way, so then I'll have you try to do the opposite, that
30
00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:24.960
feels
31
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:31.130
a little weird, or that feels weird, so typically when it goes like this, when
32
00:01:31.130 --> 00:01:31.960
my wrist goes
33
00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:35.090
into extension, the elbow will work in front, when the wrist goes into flexion,
34
00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:35.560
the elbow
35
00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.200
will go more out like so.
36
00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.130
So now in the transition, we talk about that left wrist flexing in that
37
00:01:42.130 --> 00:01:43.520
motorcycle movement,
38
00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:48.290
so that encourages some of this, and that right wrist doing that thrower's
39
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.560
catch encourages
40
00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.380
the elbow working in front of you.
41
00:01:51.380 --> 00:01:56.420
So combined, it ends up looking something like that.
42
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.920
Then when we get down during the release, the sooner that I really flex this
43
00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:02.760
wrist like
44
00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.600
so, the more that this elbow is going to tend to drift out this way.
45
00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:12.290
So what most tour pros do is in order to have that impact contact kind of more
46
00:02:12.290 --> 00:02:12.820
in front
47
00:02:12.820 --> 00:02:17.410
of their chest, instead of way back behind them, that elbow will continue
48
00:02:17.410 --> 00:02:18.300
leading that
49
00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:22.050
wrist, because the more that the elbow goes across like this, the more it
50
00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:22.400
delays that
51
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.620
wrist, and they'll ultimately get thrown out by that bracing and that push move
52
00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:27.840
of
53
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.040
the body.
54
00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.780
So if you're struggling on what your wrists are doing, check the elbows or the
55
00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:34.560
shoulders
56
00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.310
because they're tied together, if you're struggling on the look of more what
57
00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:39.200
the shoulders need
58
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:42.880
to be doing, then perhaps you can check the wrist and see if you're not getting
59
00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:43.880
some interference
60
00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:45.120
from one of those two segments.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
This drill is connecting the hands to the shoulders for transition and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.480
release.
3
00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:11.560
One of the tricky things with golf is I've got these two, I'm swinging this
4
00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:12.320
club around
5
00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:19.960
kind of this somewhat stable center, but I've got these two or three joints in
6
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:20.920
between
7
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:22.680
me and the club head.
8
00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:27.800
They can do a lot of weird stuff, but often they're going to work together.
9
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.700
I have this little demo that I show people if you're working on transition.
10
00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:35.450
This will help you feel how the motor cycle, the throwers catch, all these
11
00:00:35.450 --> 00:00:36.040
movements work
12
00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:39.680
together and then how it relates to the release.
13
00:00:39.680 --> 00:00:43.610
If you hold your hand out in front of you just like this, and I want you to do
14
00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:43.960
your
15
00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.280
best to try to really relax your shoulder, relax your elbow, and I'm not going
16
00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:47.600
to show
17
00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.900
you the answer yet, but I want you to try to extend your wrist, which is
18
00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:51.800
basically going
19
00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:56.520
in this motion kind of like so, so you're going to do it pretty quickly.
20
00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:00.210
If you haven't given it a try, stand up, hold it out like so, and then give it
21
00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:00.760
a try.
22
00:01:00.760 --> 00:01:06.880
If I fully relax, and I go like this, the question I'll always ask is what is
23
00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:07.800
your elbow want
24
00:01:07.800 --> 00:01:11.890
to do, and basically if it was really relaxed, you'll find that that elbow
25
00:01:11.890 --> 00:01:12.720
wants to tend
26
00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:15.880
to go in front of your body kind of like so.
27
00:01:15.880 --> 00:01:19.640
Now I'll do the opposite, and I'll go like this, and if my arm was fully
28
00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:20.560
relaxed, it'll
29
00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:24.540
get easier if I go this way, so then I'll have you try to do the opposite, that
30
00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:24.960
feels
31
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:31.130
a little weird, or that feels weird, so typically when it goes like this, when
32
00:01:31.130 --> 00:01:31.960
my wrist goes
33
00:01:31.960 --> 00:01:35.090
into extension, the elbow will work in front, when the wrist goes into flexion,
34
00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:35.560
the elbow
35
00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:38.200
will go more out like so.
36
00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.130
So now in the transition, we talk about that left wrist flexing in that
37
00:01:42.130 --> 00:01:43.520
motorcycle movement,
38
00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:48.290
so that encourages some of this, and that right wrist doing that thrower's
39
00:01:48.290 --> 00:01:49.560
catch encourages
40
00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:51.380
the elbow working in front of you.
41
00:01:51.380 --> 00:01:56.420
So combined, it ends up looking something like that.
42
00:01:56.420 --> 00:02:01.920
Then when we get down during the release, the sooner that I really flex this
43
00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:02.760
wrist like
44
00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:06.600
so, the more that this elbow is going to tend to drift out this way.
45
00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:12.290
So what most tour pros do is in order to have that impact contact kind of more
46
00:02:12.290 --> 00:02:12.820
in front
47
00:02:12.820 --> 00:02:17.410
of their chest, instead of way back behind them, that elbow will continue
48
00:02:17.410 --> 00:02:18.300
leading that
49
00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:22.050
wrist, because the more that the elbow goes across like this, the more it
50
00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:22.400
delays that
51
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.620
wrist, and they'll ultimately get thrown out by that bracing and that push move
52
00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:27.840
of
53
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:29.040
the body.
54
00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.780
So if you're struggling on what your wrists are doing, check the elbows or the
55
00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:34.560
shoulders
56
00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.310
because they're tied together, if you're struggling on the look of more what
57
00:02:38.310 --> 00:02:39.200
the shoulders need
58
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:42.880
to be doing, then perhaps you can check the wrist and see if you're not getting
59
00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:43.880
some interference
60
00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:45.120
from one of those two segments.
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