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This is the Impact Bag Pop.

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So the Impact Bag Pop is a drill for working on delivery position down to

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impact.

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I find a number of different swing patterns causing golfers to feel weak in

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doing delivery

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position drills.

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Specifically with my students, I'll tend to find golfers get into this position

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and when

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they do that on their own, they tend to fire quickly and I'll ask them, "Do you

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feel like

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you're ready to strike from there or do you feel like you've slammed on the

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brakes?"

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And they'll usually say, "I feel like I've slammed on the brakes, I got nothing

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left

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to hit with."

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So if we take a step backward, that issue usually comes up when you're used to

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hitting

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it with more kind of linear push against the club as a port more of an angular

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swing down

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the bottom.

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What I mean by that is, there's two big ways that I can move the club.

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I can move the club linearly in space or I can rotate it.

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If I'm, let's say, early with my arms and more of a cast pattern, if I go like

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this,

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I've released all the angular and so now all I have left to do is push on the

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club linearly.

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And so what will happen is you need space to be able to apply that linear

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movement where

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if we're looking at the angle, here, I still have a pretty significant angle

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with my arms.

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So from here, I can deliver the club angularly, but if I wanted to try to push

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the club linearly,

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it feels very, very weak.

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So the delivery pop is helping get the timing of the angular change happening

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much later.

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Basically, not throwing the club with your arms, getting it down late and then

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delivering

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the speed down into the impact zone.

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So I'm going to take an old shaft here and we're going to do the delivery pop.

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So we're going to get into this delivery position and then from here, we're

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basically going

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to strike the bag like I was hitting an old carpet trying to knock dust off it.

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So I'm in this delivery position and then I'm going to extend the legs to help

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pull and

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I'm going to extend the right arm and wrist to help push and that creates more

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of this

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angular movement instead of more of a linear hit.

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You can see if you're used to getting the arms way back here, that's usually a

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sign

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that I'm trying to do a linear hit and you can hear the difference between that

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and that

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second one.

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That second one has a lot more pop to it, which is why it is called the impact

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bag pop.

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And you'll notice one other trend that you'll tend to see is if you're more of

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a linear

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guy, then when you get down into this position, when you go through, you'll see

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that your

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arms have a fair amount of drift after impact kind of like this, where if I'm

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more of this

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angular pattern, you'll see that my hands tend to stop rated impact.

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In fact, if I'm doing this really well, I can strike the bag and bring the club

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back because

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I'm not really pushing towards the target.

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I'm releasing the angles down into the golf ball, kind of like this.

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One other thing that I will do is I will do this one arm or the other.

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So I will do this left arm getting down into position and I will do this right

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arm to see

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if the pattern is kind of matching up on both sides.

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Sometimes that left arm would be pulling in in the bad pattern or the right arm

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would

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be way behind the golfer in the bad pattern.

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So once I have this feel, then we can go into drills like delivery and go and

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the delivery

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pump and we'll feel like we have a little bit more to hit with down at impact.

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Let's give that a try.

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We're not going to do the hit and recoil with the golf ball because the club

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head will have

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too much momentum, but I do like to do more of a breaking style swing where I'm

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going

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to get into this good delivery position.

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And then from here, I'm going to release and kind of stop the club soon after

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impact.

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So we'll do that again.

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I'm going to get into that delivery position and then pop just like I'm hitting

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the bag.

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And so you'll see I'm still able to hit this from a relatively short swing

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close to about

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100 yards or so with this eight iron.

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So into this position, a little pop feel.

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So that is a feeling of releasing the club angularly where in contrast, if I

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tried to

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do this more back in this cast, you'll see A, I tend to hit those fat and B,

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even if I

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make contact, this is probably going to go no more than about 50 yards down

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there.

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So that's easily going maybe up to 60 yards.

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So almost half as far as the angular version with a lot more effort.

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So now that I have this feeling of the pop down at the bottom, I can work on

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getting into

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that delivery position.

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And now hopefully I'll feel like I'm spring loaded where before, if I needed to

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push on

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the club, I would feel like I missed the window and I'm actually already

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slowing the

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club down.

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So now let's do a nice little delivery pump up to the top, into position, into

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position

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and then release that angle down to the bottom as a pretty good strike with

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very little perceived

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effort.

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This is where one of the feelings of effortless power versus powerful effort

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can be developed

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in the hands and the wrists.

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All right.

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So now we'll do one without the pump.

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This will just have a later firing pattern if I'm used to that push kind of

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like that.

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So if we do one quick comparison, this would be more that earlier pattern where

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I feel

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like I'm pushing the club through impact.

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And then this would be more of that pop pattern where I feel like I'm getting

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the arms into

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position and then releasing all the energy with speed at the bottom.