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.
Stop Casting: Improve Your Downswing with Headcover Swings
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Understand when to activate your arms for maximum power.
- Develop the feel for proper timing to avoid casting the club.
- Improve your follow-through and arm extension for consistent shots.
In this drill, you'll learn how to time your arm activation in the downswing using a headcover. This technique helps you apply force at the right moment for better power and control.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120
This drill is called head cover swings, and this is to get the feeling of when
2
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.680
the arm
3
00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:10.560
should get in place, or when the arm should activate in the downswing.
4
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.320
So you may have been pointed to this because you're looking for a little bit
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.080
more power,
6
00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.320
or because you have the tendency of the club to come over the top, or you have
7
00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:18.720
a hard time
8
00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:22.720
getting your arm extension in the follow through, but either way, it means that
9
00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:23.560
you're applying
10
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:25.800
force with your arms too soon.
11
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.760
So what you're going to do is you're going to take a head cover, or a sock, if
12
00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.240
you have
13
00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:34.850
the kind of the modern magnet head covers, like I have on my driver, they don't
14
00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:35.160
work
15
00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:37.320
very well for this particular drill.
16
00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.290
So my three wood head cover has a little bit of a sock to it, but a longer sock
17
00:00:41.290 --> 00:00:41.600
makes it
18
00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.000
even easier.
19
00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.090
What you're going to do is you're going to take the head cover and you're going
20
00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:46.480
to swing
21
00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:47.480
it.
22
00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:49.560
This is the drill.
23
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.120
Okay, so here's what you're going to learn from it.
24
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.810
If we slow it down, you can start to become aware of the rhythm of when you're
25
00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:57.480
applying
26
00:00:57.480 --> 00:00:59.860
a force to it, right?
27
00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:04.000
It's kind of hard to tell, but there's still a rhythm when I'm at a fast pace.
28
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.760
I'm not just applying a constant force.
29
00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:12.620
So if you slow it down enough, what you'll see is I apply a force, boom, right
30
00:01:12.620 --> 00:01:13.480
there.
31
00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:14.800
Boom, right there.
32
00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:17.590
So the thing is swinging, the head cover swinging, it gets to the point where
33
00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:18.480
it's furthest away
34
00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.320
from me and then I take that momentum of the club swinging and I accelerate it.
35
00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:29.430
Where this shows up in the golf swing, if you cast or if you apply force to the
36
00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:29.920
club
37
00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.590
early, what it means is that when you come down, you're applying force right
38
00:01:34.590 --> 00:01:35.200
away.
39
00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:39.540
So I'm applying force when the head cover is still behind me and it'll make it
40
00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:39.960
swing
41
00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:40.960
funny.
42
00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:41.960
We're going to do that in a second.
43
00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:45.210
But what you want to practice doing is waiting until the club is the furthest
44
00:01:45.210 --> 00:01:45.720
point away
45
00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:49.960
from you, which would be somewhere around in here and then applying the force
46
00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:50.340
from your
47
00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:51.340
hands.
48
00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:55.060
So it'll kind of feel like it falls through transition before you apply the
49
00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:55.640
force with
50
00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.000
your hands.
51
00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:03.250
If you apply it early, it would be as if I was trying to swing it, you'll see
52
00:02:03.250 --> 00:02:03.800
it's
53
00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:06.280
kind of hard to do.
54
00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.200
If I was trying to apply the force while it's still facing me, but then kind of
55
00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:10.540
get the
56
00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:12.960
natural rhythm going, it just doesn't work out very well.
57
00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.420
The energy releases too soon and it doesn't make it all the way down to the
58
00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:17.120
golf ball.
59
00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.980
So grab a head cover, get the feeling of this timing of the force being applied
60
00:02:22.980 --> 00:02:23.280
and
61
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.280
that'll help you a lot with transferring energy into the golf club.
62
00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.760
Now if you start doing this and you start hitting the ball off to the right,
63
00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:31.200
review the
64
00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:35.710
motorcycle and review the wrist release stuff because you're probably, instead
65
00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:36.320
of squaring
66
00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:40.560
the club with the motorcycle and along the axis so that you can transfer energy
67
00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:40.880
to the
68
00:02:40.880 --> 00:02:44.960
club, you're probably squaring the club face by releasing early.
69
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.000
So pay attention to that, hopefully this will help you hit it long and straight
70
00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:48.040
.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120
This drill is called head cover swings, and this is to get the feeling of when
2
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.680
the arm
3
00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:10.560
should get in place, or when the arm should activate in the downswing.
4
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.320
So you may have been pointed to this because you're looking for a little bit
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.080
more power,
6
00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.320
or because you have the tendency of the club to come over the top, or you have
7
00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:18.720
a hard time
8
00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:22.720
getting your arm extension in the follow through, but either way, it means that
9
00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:23.560
you're applying
10
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:25.800
force with your arms too soon.
11
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.760
So what you're going to do is you're going to take a head cover, or a sock, if
12
00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.240
you have
13
00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:34.850
the kind of the modern magnet head covers, like I have on my driver, they don't
14
00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:35.160
work
15
00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:37.320
very well for this particular drill.
16
00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.290
So my three wood head cover has a little bit of a sock to it, but a longer sock
17
00:00:41.290 --> 00:00:41.600
makes it
18
00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.000
even easier.
19
00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.090
What you're going to do is you're going to take the head cover and you're going
20
00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:46.480
to swing
21
00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:47.480
it.
22
00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:49.560
This is the drill.
23
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.120
Okay, so here's what you're going to learn from it.
24
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.810
If we slow it down, you can start to become aware of the rhythm of when you're
25
00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:57.480
applying
26
00:00:57.480 --> 00:00:59.860
a force to it, right?
27
00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:04.000
It's kind of hard to tell, but there's still a rhythm when I'm at a fast pace.
28
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.760
I'm not just applying a constant force.
29
00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:12.620
So if you slow it down enough, what you'll see is I apply a force, boom, right
30
00:01:12.620 --> 00:01:13.480
there.
31
00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:14.800
Boom, right there.
32
00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:17.590
So the thing is swinging, the head cover swinging, it gets to the point where
33
00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:18.480
it's furthest away
34
00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.320
from me and then I take that momentum of the club swinging and I accelerate it.
35
00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:29.430
Where this shows up in the golf swing, if you cast or if you apply force to the
36
00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:29.920
club
37
00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.590
early, what it means is that when you come down, you're applying force right
38
00:01:34.590 --> 00:01:35.200
away.
39
00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:39.540
So I'm applying force when the head cover is still behind me and it'll make it
40
00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:39.960
swing
41
00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:40.960
funny.
42
00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:41.960
We're going to do that in a second.
43
00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:45.210
But what you want to practice doing is waiting until the club is the furthest
44
00:01:45.210 --> 00:01:45.720
point away
45
00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:49.960
from you, which would be somewhere around in here and then applying the force
46
00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:50.340
from your
47
00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:51.340
hands.
48
00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:55.060
So it'll kind of feel like it falls through transition before you apply the
49
00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:55.640
force with
50
00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.000
your hands.
51
00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:03.250
If you apply it early, it would be as if I was trying to swing it, you'll see
52
00:02:03.250 --> 00:02:03.800
it's
53
00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:06.280
kind of hard to do.
54
00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.200
If I was trying to apply the force while it's still facing me, but then kind of
55
00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:10.540
get the
56
00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:12.960
natural rhythm going, it just doesn't work out very well.
57
00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.420
The energy releases too soon and it doesn't make it all the way down to the
58
00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:17.120
golf ball.
59
00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.980
So grab a head cover, get the feeling of this timing of the force being applied
60
00:02:22.980 --> 00:02:23.280
and
61
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.280
that'll help you a lot with transferring energy into the golf club.
62
00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.760
Now if you start doing this and you start hitting the ball off to the right,
63
00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:31.200
review the
64
00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:35.710
motorcycle and review the wrist release stuff because you're probably, instead
65
00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:36.320
of squaring
66
00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:40.560
the club with the motorcycle and along the axis so that you can transfer energy
67
00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:40.880
to the
68
00:02:40.880 --> 00:02:44.960
club, you're probably squaring the club face by releasing early.
69
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.000
So pay attention to that, hopefully this will help you hit it long and straight
70
00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:48.040
.
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.
Stop Casting: Improve Your Downswing with Headcover Swings
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Understand when to activate your arms for maximum power.
- Develop the feel for proper timing to avoid casting the club.
- Improve your follow-through and arm extension for consistent shots.
In this drill, you'll learn how to time your arm activation in the downswing using a headcover. This technique helps you apply force at the right moment for better power and control.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120
This drill is called head cover swings, and this is to get the feeling of when
2
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.680
the arm
3
00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:10.560
should get in place, or when the arm should activate in the downswing.
4
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.320
So you may have been pointed to this because you're looking for a little bit
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.080
more power,
6
00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.320
or because you have the tendency of the club to come over the top, or you have
7
00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:18.720
a hard time
8
00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:22.720
getting your arm extension in the follow through, but either way, it means that
9
00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:23.560
you're applying
10
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:25.800
force with your arms too soon.
11
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.760
So what you're going to do is you're going to take a head cover, or a sock, if
12
00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.240
you have
13
00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:34.850
the kind of the modern magnet head covers, like I have on my driver, they don't
14
00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:35.160
work
15
00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:37.320
very well for this particular drill.
16
00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.290
So my three wood head cover has a little bit of a sock to it, but a longer sock
17
00:00:41.290 --> 00:00:41.600
makes it
18
00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.000
even easier.
19
00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.090
What you're going to do is you're going to take the head cover and you're going
20
00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:46.480
to swing
21
00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:47.480
it.
22
00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:49.560
This is the drill.
23
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.120
Okay, so here's what you're going to learn from it.
24
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.810
If we slow it down, you can start to become aware of the rhythm of when you're
25
00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:57.480
applying
26
00:00:57.480 --> 00:00:59.860
a force to it, right?
27
00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:04.000
It's kind of hard to tell, but there's still a rhythm when I'm at a fast pace.
28
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.760
I'm not just applying a constant force.
29
00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:12.620
So if you slow it down enough, what you'll see is I apply a force, boom, right
30
00:01:12.620 --> 00:01:13.480
there.
31
00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:14.800
Boom, right there.
32
00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:17.590
So the thing is swinging, the head cover swinging, it gets to the point where
33
00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:18.480
it's furthest away
34
00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.320
from me and then I take that momentum of the club swinging and I accelerate it.
35
00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:29.430
Where this shows up in the golf swing, if you cast or if you apply force to the
36
00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:29.920
club
37
00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.590
early, what it means is that when you come down, you're applying force right
38
00:01:34.590 --> 00:01:35.200
away.
39
00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:39.540
So I'm applying force when the head cover is still behind me and it'll make it
40
00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:39.960
swing
41
00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:40.960
funny.
42
00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:41.960
We're going to do that in a second.
43
00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:45.210
But what you want to practice doing is waiting until the club is the furthest
44
00:01:45.210 --> 00:01:45.720
point away
45
00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:49.960
from you, which would be somewhere around in here and then applying the force
46
00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:50.340
from your
47
00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:51.340
hands.
48
00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:55.060
So it'll kind of feel like it falls through transition before you apply the
49
00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:55.640
force with
50
00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:57.000
your hands.
51
00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:03.250
If you apply it early, it would be as if I was trying to swing it, you'll see
52
00:02:03.250 --> 00:02:03.800
it's
53
00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:06.280
kind of hard to do.
54
00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.200
If I was trying to apply the force while it's still facing me, but then kind of
55
00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:10.540
get the
56
00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:12.960
natural rhythm going, it just doesn't work out very well.
57
00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.420
The energy releases too soon and it doesn't make it all the way down to the
58
00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:17.120
golf ball.
59
00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.980
So grab a head cover, get the feeling of this timing of the force being applied
60
00:02:22.980 --> 00:02:23.280
and
61
00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.280
that'll help you a lot with transferring energy into the golf club.
62
00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.760
Now if you start doing this and you start hitting the ball off to the right,
63
00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:31.200
review the
64
00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:35.710
motorcycle and review the wrist release stuff because you're probably, instead
65
00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:36.320
of squaring
66
00:02:36.320 --> 00:02:40.560
the club with the motorcycle and along the axis so that you can transfer energy
67
00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:40.880
to the
68
00:02:40.880 --> 00:02:44.960
club, you're probably squaring the club face by releasing early.
69
00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.000
So pay attention to that, hopefully this will help you hit it long and straight
70
00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:48.040
.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120
This drill is called head cover swings, and this is to get the feeling of when
2
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:05.680
the arm
3
00:00:05.680 --> 00:00:10.560
should get in place, or when the arm should activate in the downswing.
4
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:14.320
So you may have been pointed to this because you're looking for a little bit
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.080
more power,
6
00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.320
or because you have the tendency of the club to come over the top, or you have
7
00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:18.720
a hard time
8
00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:22.720
getting your arm extension in the follow through, but either way, it means that
9
00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:23.560
you're applying
10
00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:25.800
force with your arms too soon.
11
00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.760
So what you're going to do is you're going to take a head cover, or a sock, if
12
00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.240
you have
13
00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:34.850
the kind of the modern magnet head covers, like I have on my driver, they don't
14
00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:35.160
work
15
00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:37.320
very well for this particular drill.
16
00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.290
So my three wood head cover has a little bit of a sock to it, but a longer sock
17
00:00:41.290 --> 00:00:41.600
makes it
18
00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.000
even easier.
19
00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.090
What you're going to do is you're going to take the head cover and you're going
20
00:00:46.090 --> 00:00:46.480
to swing
21
00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:47.480
it.
22
00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:49.560
This is the drill.
23
00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.120
Okay, so here's what you're going to learn from it.
24
00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:56.810
If we slow it down, you can start to become aware of the rhythm of when you're
25
00:00:56.810 --> 00:00:57.480
applying
26
00:00:57.480 --> 00:00:59.860
a force to it, right?
27
00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:04.000
It's kind of hard to tell, but there's still a rhythm when I'm at a fast pace.
28
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.760
I'm not just applying a constant force.
29
00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:12.620
So if you slow it down enough, what you'll see is I apply a force, boom, right
30
00:01:12.620 --> 00:01:13.480
there.
31
00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:14.800
Boom, right there.
32
00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:17.590
So the thing is swinging, the head cover swinging, it gets to the point where
33
00:01:17.590 --> 00:01:18.480
it's furthest away
34
00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:23.320
from me and then I take that momentum of the club swinging and I accelerate it.
35
00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:29.430
Where this shows up in the golf swing, if you cast or if you apply force to the
36
00:01:29.430 --> 00:01:29.920
club
37
00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.590
early, what it means is that when you come down, you're applying force right
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away.
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So I'm applying force when the head cover is still behind me and it'll make it
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swing
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funny.
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We're going to do that in a second.
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But what you want to practice doing is waiting until the club is the furthest
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point away
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from you, which would be somewhere around in here and then applying the force
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from your
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hands.
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So it'll kind of feel like it falls through transition before you apply the
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force with
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your hands.
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If you apply it early, it would be as if I was trying to swing it, you'll see
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it's
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kind of hard to do.
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If I was trying to apply the force while it's still facing me, but then kind of
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get the
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natural rhythm going, it just doesn't work out very well.
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The energy releases too soon and it doesn't make it all the way down to the
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golf ball.
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So grab a head cover, get the feeling of this timing of the force being applied
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and
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that'll help you a lot with transferring energy into the golf club.
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Now if you start doing this and you start hitting the ball off to the right,
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review the
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motorcycle and review the wrist release stuff because you're probably, instead
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of squaring
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the club with the motorcycle and along the axis so that you can transfer energy
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to the
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club, you're probably squaring the club face by releasing early.
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So pay attention to that, hopefully this will help you hit it long and straight
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.
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