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This concept video is discussing the keys to the hit hard stop short drill.

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So for whatever reason, in the last couple of weeks, I've had a handful of

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questions

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about the hit hard stop short drill, kind of the Tommy Fleetwood drill.

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So who are the players who are really able to make these swings where they can

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hit aggressively

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through the ball but still have a short follow through?

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There are some swing characteristics that makes that really hard and the ones

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that make that

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really hard tend to have more kind of timing issues down at the bottom of the

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swing.

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So we'll talk through the keys.

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There's keys from both the body pivot as well as the arm actions that allow for

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that hit

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hard stop short drill to be successful.

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So we'll see if we can nail it in one take, one delivery here.

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So almost a full back swing but more of a short kind of abbreviated follow

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through.

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And that's going to be just looking at where that carried, that's probably 90%

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of my full

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swing distance there.

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It's kind of a really aggressive, aggressive swing with a more of a punch or

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shortened

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follow through feel.

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In order to do that, I need to have really good, essentially, I need to have my

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body going

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into a really good bracing position.

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From the body's perspective, that means I need to be going into more of this

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negative

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portion or extension of the body blended with rotation.

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So making sure that I'm getting into a good rotation extension side bend or

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getting that

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rotation happening more from the backside of the body.

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If when I get down into the release, if I kind of give the club a lot of

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momentum either

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with my body or with my arms, it becomes very hard, almost impossible to stop

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short.

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So if I get down here and I was to kind of spin my shoulders or spin my hips,

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then what

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would happen is the club would have too much momentum and continue past that

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stop short.

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So from the body's perspective, it's getting more of this straightening of the

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legs, going

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into slight extension, the shoulder feeling like it's staying a little bit more

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back instead

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of getting on top of it.

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That combination from the body allows me to get into kind of this position here

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and if

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my arms are extending out, you'll see that I can easily stop short and I could

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handle

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a fair amount of weight.

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Again, if on the other hand I was just spinning my body on the way through,

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really aggressively

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going through, you can see how I'm going to fly through that stop short

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position.

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So that's more of the body's characteristics.

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Now from the arms, they're contributing factors from both sides.

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So from the left arm, if I'm doing more of a pull or a chop down, if I'm doing

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more of

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a motion where this is coming back here, then I'm going to be transferring some

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of the

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weight or some of the energy from my arm and flying through that stop short

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checkpoint.

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In order for the arm to get into more of that stop short checkpoint, my release

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has to be

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going more out this way accompanied with what my body bracing as opposed to the

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arm coming

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in this way.

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If I focus mostly on this left arm, I'm just going to have the right hand doing

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a little

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bit of support.

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If I get into that position, you can see it's possible this left arm is almost

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acting as

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a little bit of a break where if I was to pull this arm on the way through,

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then you

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could see it would be impossible unless I really truncated my body for me to

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stop short.

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But if I have my body go and the arm goes, I'm going to fly through that

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position.

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So I have to feel like this left arm is a little bit more up and in front and

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pointing

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out getting full ulnar deviation and extension more like this.

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From the trail arm, the two big keys I see are more of the wipe and feeling

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like the

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shoulder is staying down or this arm is feeling more connected and the wrist

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getting more into

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that shot put or stop sign position more of that flying wedge like this.

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So if I have that motion happening, then it's getting great shaft lean and it's

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delaying

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the club passing the hand.

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If the shoulder or the wrist tend to give a big kind of push at the bottom,

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then even

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if I was trying to stop short, again, I've put momentum in the system kind of

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too late

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for me to be able to absorb it or stop it there.

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So if I'm focusing more on that good trail arm mechanics, then it has more of

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this kind

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of shot put palm strike feel like that.

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So if I put it together, if I get more of my body going into it's good pivot,

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so more

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of this extension with the core and the legs going into more of this

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combination of rotation

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side bend extension, term we call negative torsion.

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If I'm doing that while my arms are extending out, then what's going to happen

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is I'm going

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to be able to get into a position where there might be just a little give of

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the club depending

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on how hard I'm hitting it.

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There won't be a big collapse of either my body or my arms.

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That means I'm getting into a really consistent or stable position through

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impact.

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I can add a bunch of speed and still have a lot of contact control as well as

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club face

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consistency.

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So if you're struggling with a little bit more of a flip buckle, just some what

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I call

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chaos at the bottom, the hit hard stop short can be a really good catch all

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drill, but there

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are a few keys you got to monitor.

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I recommend using face on video doing that drill.

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It will be the best way to get a snapshot as far as which of the pieces you

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might need

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to prioritize.