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This video is the easiest way to gain distance.

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So many golfers come to the site, obviously, wanting to hit the ball further,

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because the

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long ball is a whole lot of fun.

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The challenge is most golfers that come to the site say that they want to hit

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it further,

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so they need to pick up some club head speed.

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Now the standard math shows that for every mile per hour of speed gain you get,

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you can

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gain up to about 2.8 yards, somewhere around there.

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In order to gain, let's say, 30 yards, that means that I'm going to gain 10

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miles per

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hour.

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And while we've had students going through this program pick up 5, 6, 7, even 8

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miles

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per hour in club head speed, gaining 10 miles per hour is actually quite a bit

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challenging.

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What's easier to do is to maximize your launch characteristics.

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So a lot of the movements that we teach in the program will help you improve

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your spin

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loft or your compression and get more out of the speed.

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So the times when golfers rapidly gain 40 yards, 50 yards, 60 yards, that

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happens more

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from improving your launch characteristics, not from gaining 20 miles per hour

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in club

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head speed like that.

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It's pretty unrealistic to imagine that you could gain 20 miles per hour in

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club head speed

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just from one quick tip, but it's possible to change your launch

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characteristics and

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actually hit it that much further pretty much overnight.

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So if you're working on trying to find the easiest ways to maximize your

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distance and

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you don't have access to a launch monitor, you want to try to look for a ball

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flight

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that's going to be tending to launch higher but flatter so it'll kind of come

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off more

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like this as opposed to launching lower and then spinning up.

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When you start getting that launch low high spin shot, you're losing a lot of

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distance

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to the field.

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The other way to look at it is if you play with a lot of people and you hit

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your irons

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about the same distance but then they hit their drivers significantly further

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and you

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notice that trend, their driver is a little bit flatter, yours is a little bit

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more spinny

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kind of like that.

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You know that your angle of attack is probably a little bit too steep and your

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face to path

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relationship is probably a little bit too open.

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Those two will produce that low launch high spin combination where in order to

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produce

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the high launch low spin combination, you need to have your upper body working

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away from

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the target or behind the golf ball and you need to deloft the club to the path

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so that

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even though the path is going up, the club face is closing compared to that

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path and

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so it hits this higher launching ball but has a lower spin profile.

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To visualize that, we can take a look at something called spin loft where the

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amount of spin

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is roughly the difference between this angle, the loft of the club at impact

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and the angle

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of attack.

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So if this driver stays the same, this is going to have a lot of spin and that

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's going

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to have virtually no spin.

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These are some exaggerated angle of attack numbers but if you have more of a

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downward

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strike kind of like so, the goal is to get to an upward strike kind of like

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that to help

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maximize your speed.

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That's a whole lot easier than trying to find a way to pick up 10 miles per

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hour in actual

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club head speed.

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So maximize your launch characteristics first and then if you need a secondary

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approach,

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I would work on face contact.

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It's only after I maximize those two that I would then start looking at trying

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to develop

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either bigger swing, faster swing, more explosive trying to actually gain club

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head speed.

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The second point that I mentioned is looking at contact point.

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So using something like the Dr. Scholl's foot spray to be able to look at

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contact location

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because if you're contacting it three quarters of an inch and inch off the

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sweet spot, you

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can easily be losing 30, 40 yards just from contact, obviously depending on

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your club

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head speed.

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So maximize your launch characteristics, maximize center face contact and those

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two

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combination will help give you the easiest speed gains.

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If you gain some distance from working on your sequencing and working on your

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energy

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transfer, that's great but it's rarely going to be more than 10 to 15 yards.

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When you're looking for those 30 to 50 yard gains, it's going to come from

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those first

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two characteristics of just maximizing your physics.