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Improve Your Transition with the Drop-Then-Wipe Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how your arms should drop and reconnect during the transition
- Understand the importance of creating lag for improved speed
- Practice the wipe motion to enhance your follow-through and release
In this video, you'll learn the Drop-Then-Wipe drill, which focuses on the movement of your arms during the critical transition and delivery phases of your swing. This practice will help you enhance your swing path and create more lag for better ball striking.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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This drill is drop-then wipe and drop-then wipe is a way of focusing on what
2
00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:06.160
the
3
00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.640
arms do in blending from the transition through delivery position and as they
4
00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.040
move into the release. So I talk a lot about how this right elbow working
5
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:21.600
across your body does a lot of really good things for for the golf swing. It
6
00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.160
helps with the path, it helps create lag, helps with your angle of attack and
7
00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.120
allows
8
00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.680
you to create more side bend which ultimately helps you create more speed.
9
00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:38.600
So because it's such a critical piece and I find that a lot of amateurs have
10
00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.480
trouble with it, it's one of the big areas for a lot of these drills. So this
11
00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.080
one is going to help you feel what happens from the top of the swing all the
12
00:00:46.080 --> 00:00:46.200
way
13
00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.000
through pretty much until impact and I call it chop-then wipe because basically
14
00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.480
what's going to happen is from the top of the swing you're going to have some
15
00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:58.720
separation between your arm and your body it's going to be a little bit off to
16
00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:02.240
your side kind of like so and externally rotated if you remember from the back
17
00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.140
swing position or from the backswing stuff like jazzy Jeff and what the arm
18
00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:11.520
does in the backswing all those. So what's going to happen is first this arm is
19
00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:16.400
going to basically drop and if you've listened to a lot of golf golfers
20
00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.160
professional golfers they'll talk about the feeling of their arms falling
21
00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.040
during
22
00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.960
transition. Now I think that that relates to this arm reconnecting with the
23
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:25.200
body
24
00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.560
or going through this little drop. It's also because they're shallowing out the
25
00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.880
club with the forearms the weight of the club is just going to feel like it's
26
00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.400
kind of pulling the arms down. So that drop is basically bringing this arm down
27
00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:43.400
and then the wipe is imagine you have a kitchen counter in front of you and it
28
00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:43.440
's
29
00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:46.800
got a whole bunch of stuff on it and you've got to clean it really really
30
00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:50.970
quickly. But you're not allowed to use your body only allowed to use your arm.
31
00:01:50.970 --> 00:01:51.040
So
32
00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.920
you're going to bring your arm to your side kind of like so and then you're
33
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.520
going to try and bring that elbow across so that this whole thing works
34
00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.280
across the counter kind of like so. So it's going to be a drop and then a wipe
35
00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.730
across the counter. Now if I add the left arm to it it's going to look like
36
00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:08.000
this
37
00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.880
drop and then this wipe across just like so. So this is that arm working across
38
00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:17.840
your body and extending or the elbow working towards your belly button. If
39
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:25.600
you work on that that will help you with feeling the timing between this
40
00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:30.880
movement and that movement because we need them to be kind of one fluid
41
00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:35.160
movement which is why I call it the drop then wipe. What a lot of amateur golf
42
00:02:35.160 --> 00:02:35.320
ers
43
00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:38.400
would do is they would get to the top of the swing and that arm would just go
44
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.120
work straight out and in diagonal fashion towards the counter. We need to come
45
00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.480
down first and then work across so it kind of has this look to it. You do that
46
00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:53.120
in the swing and it'll end up looking there's kind of the drop and then
47
00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:59.680
there's the wipe. And that drop and wipe movement helps create some of the
48
00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.720
shallowness to the angle of the attack so the body can be a little bit more
49
00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:06.960
aggressive during the release.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.090
This drill is drop-then wipe and drop-then wipe is a way of focusing on what
2
00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:06.160
the
3
00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.640
arms do in blending from the transition through delivery position and as they
4
00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.040
move into the release. So I talk a lot about how this right elbow working
5
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:21.600
across your body does a lot of really good things for for the golf swing. It
6
00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.160
helps with the path, it helps create lag, helps with your angle of attack and
7
00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.120
allows
8
00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.680
you to create more side bend which ultimately helps you create more speed.
9
00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:38.600
So because it's such a critical piece and I find that a lot of amateurs have
10
00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.480
trouble with it, it's one of the big areas for a lot of these drills. So this
11
00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.080
one is going to help you feel what happens from the top of the swing all the
12
00:00:46.080 --> 00:00:46.200
way
13
00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.000
through pretty much until impact and I call it chop-then wipe because basically
14
00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.480
what's going to happen is from the top of the swing you're going to have some
15
00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:58.720
separation between your arm and your body it's going to be a little bit off to
16
00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:02.240
your side kind of like so and externally rotated if you remember from the back
17
00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.140
swing position or from the backswing stuff like jazzy Jeff and what the arm
18
00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:11.520
does in the backswing all those. So what's going to happen is first this arm is
19
00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:16.400
going to basically drop and if you've listened to a lot of golf golfers
20
00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.160
professional golfers they'll talk about the feeling of their arms falling
21
00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.040
during
22
00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.960
transition. Now I think that that relates to this arm reconnecting with the
23
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:25.200
body
24
00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.560
or going through this little drop. It's also because they're shallowing out the
25
00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.880
club with the forearms the weight of the club is just going to feel like it's
26
00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.400
kind of pulling the arms down. So that drop is basically bringing this arm down
27
00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:43.400
and then the wipe is imagine you have a kitchen counter in front of you and it
28
00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:43.440
's
29
00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:46.800
got a whole bunch of stuff on it and you've got to clean it really really
30
00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:50.970
quickly. But you're not allowed to use your body only allowed to use your arm.
31
00:01:50.970 --> 00:01:51.040
So
32
00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.920
you're going to bring your arm to your side kind of like so and then you're
33
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.520
going to try and bring that elbow across so that this whole thing works
34
00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.280
across the counter kind of like so. So it's going to be a drop and then a wipe
35
00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.730
across the counter. Now if I add the left arm to it it's going to look like
36
00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:08.000
this
37
00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.880
drop and then this wipe across just like so. So this is that arm working across
38
00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:17.840
your body and extending or the elbow working towards your belly button. If
39
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:25.600
you work on that that will help you with feeling the timing between this
40
00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:30.880
movement and that movement because we need them to be kind of one fluid
41
00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:35.160
movement which is why I call it the drop then wipe. What a lot of amateur golf
42
00:02:35.160 --> 00:02:35.320
ers
43
00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:38.400
would do is they would get to the top of the swing and that arm would just go
44
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.120
work straight out and in diagonal fashion towards the counter. We need to come
45
00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.480
down first and then work across so it kind of has this look to it. You do that
46
00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:53.120
in the swing and it'll end up looking there's kind of the drop and then
47
00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:59.680
there's the wipe. And that drop and wipe movement helps create some of the
48
00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.720
shallowness to the angle of the attack so the body can be a little bit more
49
00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:06.960
aggressive during the release.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
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 the Drop-Then-Wipe Drill
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how your arms should drop and reconnect during the transition
- Understand the importance of creating lag for improved speed
- Practice the wipe motion to enhance your follow-through and release
In this video, you'll learn the Drop-Then-Wipe drill, which focuses on the movement of your arms during the critical transition and delivery phases of your swing. This practice will help you enhance your swing path and create more lag for better ball striking.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.090
This drill is drop-then wipe and drop-then wipe is a way of focusing on what
2
00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:06.160
the
3
00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.640
arms do in blending from the transition through delivery position and as they
4
00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.040
move into the release. So I talk a lot about how this right elbow working
5
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:21.600
across your body does a lot of really good things for for the golf swing. It
6
00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.160
helps with the path, it helps create lag, helps with your angle of attack and
7
00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.120
allows
8
00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.680
you to create more side bend which ultimately helps you create more speed.
9
00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:38.600
So because it's such a critical piece and I find that a lot of amateurs have
10
00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.480
trouble with it, it's one of the big areas for a lot of these drills. So this
11
00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.080
one is going to help you feel what happens from the top of the swing all the
12
00:00:46.080 --> 00:00:46.200
way
13
00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.000
through pretty much until impact and I call it chop-then wipe because basically
14
00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.480
what's going to happen is from the top of the swing you're going to have some
15
00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:58.720
separation between your arm and your body it's going to be a little bit off to
16
00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:02.240
your side kind of like so and externally rotated if you remember from the back
17
00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.140
swing position or from the backswing stuff like jazzy Jeff and what the arm
18
00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:11.520
does in the backswing all those. So what's going to happen is first this arm is
19
00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:16.400
going to basically drop and if you've listened to a lot of golf golfers
20
00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.160
professional golfers they'll talk about the feeling of their arms falling
21
00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.040
during
22
00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.960
transition. Now I think that that relates to this arm reconnecting with the
23
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:25.200
body
24
00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.560
or going through this little drop. It's also because they're shallowing out the
25
00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.880
club with the forearms the weight of the club is just going to feel like it's
26
00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.400
kind of pulling the arms down. So that drop is basically bringing this arm down
27
00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:43.400
and then the wipe is imagine you have a kitchen counter in front of you and it
28
00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:43.440
's
29
00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:46.800
got a whole bunch of stuff on it and you've got to clean it really really
30
00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:50.970
quickly. But you're not allowed to use your body only allowed to use your arm.
31
00:01:50.970 --> 00:01:51.040
So
32
00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.920
you're going to bring your arm to your side kind of like so and then you're
33
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.520
going to try and bring that elbow across so that this whole thing works
34
00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.280
across the counter kind of like so. So it's going to be a drop and then a wipe
35
00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.730
across the counter. Now if I add the left arm to it it's going to look like
36
00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:08.000
this
37
00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.880
drop and then this wipe across just like so. So this is that arm working across
38
00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:17.840
your body and extending or the elbow working towards your belly button. If
39
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:25.600
you work on that that will help you with feeling the timing between this
40
00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:30.880
movement and that movement because we need them to be kind of one fluid
41
00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:35.160
movement which is why I call it the drop then wipe. What a lot of amateur golf
42
00:02:35.160 --> 00:02:35.320
ers
43
00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:38.400
would do is they would get to the top of the swing and that arm would just go
44
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.120
work straight out and in diagonal fashion towards the counter. We need to come
45
00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.480
down first and then work across so it kind of has this look to it. You do that
46
00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:53.120
in the swing and it'll end up looking there's kind of the drop and then
47
00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:59.680
there's the wipe. And that drop and wipe movement helps create some of the
48
00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.720
shallowness to the angle of the attack so the body can be a little bit more
49
00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:06.960
aggressive during the release.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.090
This drill is drop-then wipe and drop-then wipe is a way of focusing on what
2
00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:06.160
the
3
00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:11.640
arms do in blending from the transition through delivery position and as they
4
00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:16.040
move into the release. So I talk a lot about how this right elbow working
5
00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:21.600
across your body does a lot of really good things for for the golf swing. It
6
00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.160
helps with the path, it helps create lag, helps with your angle of attack and
7
00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:27.120
allows
8
00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.680
you to create more side bend which ultimately helps you create more speed.
9
00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:38.600
So because it's such a critical piece and I find that a lot of amateurs have
10
00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.480
trouble with it, it's one of the big areas for a lot of these drills. So this
11
00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.080
one is going to help you feel what happens from the top of the swing all the
12
00:00:46.080 --> 00:00:46.200
way
13
00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.000
through pretty much until impact and I call it chop-then wipe because basically
14
00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.480
what's going to happen is from the top of the swing you're going to have some
15
00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:58.720
separation between your arm and your body it's going to be a little bit off to
16
00:00:58.720 --> 00:01:02.240
your side kind of like so and externally rotated if you remember from the back
17
00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.140
swing position or from the backswing stuff like jazzy Jeff and what the arm
18
00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:11.520
does in the backswing all those. So what's going to happen is first this arm is
19
00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:16.400
going to basically drop and if you've listened to a lot of golf golfers
20
00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.160
professional golfers they'll talk about the feeling of their arms falling
21
00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.040
during
22
00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.960
transition. Now I think that that relates to this arm reconnecting with the
23
00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:25.200
body
24
00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:30.560
or going through this little drop. It's also because they're shallowing out the
25
00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.880
club with the forearms the weight of the club is just going to feel like it's
26
00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.400
kind of pulling the arms down. So that drop is basically bringing this arm down
27
00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:43.400
and then the wipe is imagine you have a kitchen counter in front of you and it
28
00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:43.440
's
29
00:01:43.440 --> 00:01:46.800
got a whole bunch of stuff on it and you've got to clean it really really
30
00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:50.970
quickly. But you're not allowed to use your body only allowed to use your arm.
31
00:01:50.970 --> 00:01:51.040
So
32
00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.920
you're going to bring your arm to your side kind of like so and then you're
33
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.520
going to try and bring that elbow across so that this whole thing works
34
00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.280
across the counter kind of like so. So it's going to be a drop and then a wipe
35
00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:07.730
across the counter. Now if I add the left arm to it it's going to look like
36
00:02:07.730 --> 00:02:08.000
this
37
00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.880
drop and then this wipe across just like so. So this is that arm working across
38
00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:17.840
your body and extending or the elbow working towards your belly button. If
39
00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:25.600
you work on that that will help you with feeling the timing between this
40
00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:30.880
movement and that movement because we need them to be kind of one fluid
41
00:02:30.880 --> 00:02:35.160
movement which is why I call it the drop then wipe. What a lot of amateur golf
42
00:02:35.160 --> 00:02:35.320
ers
43
00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:38.400
would do is they would get to the top of the swing and that arm would just go
44
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.120
work straight out and in diagonal fashion towards the counter. We need to come
45
00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:48.480
down first and then work across so it kind of has this look to it. You do that
46
00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:53.120
in the swing and it'll end up looking there's kind of the drop and then
47
00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:59.680
there's the wipe. And that drop and wipe movement helps create some of the
48
00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.720
shallowness to the angle of the attack so the body can be a little bit more
49
00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:06.960
aggressive during the release.
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