Moves Of Power
Lag/Power
- Lower Body Power
- X Factor Stretch
- Shoulder Lag
- Wrist Lag
I’m sure you’ve seen it before. You’re playing with a couple guys, one of which has a fluid beautiful swing and one of which has a short chopping swing yet despite everything you’ve ever heard, the short choppy guy is flying his 3 hybrid farther than the golfer with the slow beautiful swing. How could that be? Aren’t we supposed to swing slowly and easy? It’s time to apply some science to the confusion of how to hit the ball far. In this video we will discuss the ways that your body can create more clubhead speed, which could result in better distance.
In the same summer, there was an article that I was featured in called the “quest for 300” where we demonstrated how improving the timing of the movements of your swing could result in a gain 30 yards in one specific case. I’ve had students go through swing changes only to find themselves hitting 40 - 60 yards further in a matter of weeks. It’s too short of a time for me to actually make them “stronger” so this is a result of learning to maximize what their body is capable of when it comes to distance.
“Lag” is a prestretching of a muscle before firing. If you are at this point in the program, then you are ready for some of the fine polish and racing stripes in undersatnding lag. Muscles act somewhat similar to slingshots. For a slingshot to work properly, we need three things. A flexible rubber band, a stable anchor, and a reasonable timing between stretch and fire.
Getting back to golf and “lag”. Lag is a prestretching of a muscle before it fires and this can happen at virtually any part of your body, but there are a few common areas to see it. You can have lag in your hips, lag in your core, lag in your shoulders, lag in your elbows and lag in your wrists. Lag is typically looked at ONLY at the wrists, specifically, the angle between the club and the forearms, but it is really much more than that.
In the drill section, we give you ways to increase the speed transferred for each section of your body that can create more lag in the wrists.
Lag/Power
- Lower Body Power
- X Factor Stretch
- Shoulder Lag
- Wrist Lag
I’m sure you’ve seen it before. You’re playing with a couple guys, one of which has a fluid beautiful swing and one of which has a short chopping swing yet despite everything you’ve ever heard, the short choppy guy is flying his 3 hybrid farther than the golfer with the slow beautiful swing. How could that be? Aren’t we supposed to swing slowly and easy? It’s time to apply some science to the confusion of how to hit the ball far. In this video we will discuss the ways that your body can create more clubhead speed, which could result in better distance.
In the same summer, there was an article that I was featured in called the “quest for 300” where we demonstrated how improving the timing of the movements of your swing could result in a gain 30 yards in one specific case. I’ve had students go through swing changes only to find themselves hitting 40 - 60 yards further in a matter of weeks. It’s too short of a time for me to actually make them “stronger” so this is a result of learning to maximize what their body is capable of when it comes to distance.
“Lag” is a prestretching of a muscle before firing. If you are at this point in the program, then you are ready for some of the fine polish and racing stripes in undersatnding lag. Muscles act somewhat similar to slingshots. For a slingshot to work properly, we need three things. A flexible rubber band, a stable anchor, and a reasonable timing between stretch and fire.
Getting back to golf and “lag”. Lag is a prestretching of a muscle before it fires and this can happen at virtually any part of your body, but there are a few common areas to see it. You can have lag in your hips, lag in your core, lag in your shoulders, lag in your elbows and lag in your wrists. Lag is typically looked at ONLY at the wrists, specifically, the angle between the club and the forearms, but it is really much more than that.
In the drill section, we give you ways to increase the speed transferred for each section of your body that can create more lag in the wrists.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200
In this concept video, we're going to go over the movements that help you
2
00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:06.400
create power.
3
00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:10.370
So in the first concept video, we talked about how to maximize your speed just
4
00:00:10.370 --> 00:00:10.920
by working
5
00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:11.920
on your path.
6
00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:16.270
Well, it's really these movements that help you either create more elastic
7
00:00:16.270 --> 00:00:17.160
movements,
8
00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.440
create, transfer more energy into the club head, or potentially affect the path
9
00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:21.720
.
10
00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:26.020
So in the drill section, we'll go over ways that you can feel these different
11
00:00:26.020 --> 00:00:26.600
stretch
12
00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.360
shortens and things.
13
00:00:28.360 --> 00:00:31.650
But in this video, I'm just going to go over and highlight why we're doing
14
00:00:31.650 --> 00:00:32.320
these drills
15
00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.440
and what we're trying to accomplish.
16
00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:38.440
So let's take the example of a rubber band, right?
17
00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:42.000
If I was to create a 10-inch stretch with a rubber band and let it go, I would
18
00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:42.320
get a
19
00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:43.320
certain amount of power.
20
00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.850
Well, if I was to create an 8-inch stretch and then go 2 inches and then let go
21
00:00:46.850 --> 00:00:47.240
, I would
22
00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.600
get even more power going in the direction of the target.
23
00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:53.810
That's a funny way or a silly way of looking at a stretch shortens cycle, which
24
00:00:53.810 --> 00:00:54.200
is how
25
00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.440
we create the most amount of power in the golf swing.
26
00:00:57.440 --> 00:01:02.410
So if you set up to the golf ball and you go to the top of your swing, your
27
00:01:02.410 --> 00:01:03.080
maximum
28
00:01:03.080 --> 00:01:06.680
stretches should happen during the downswing.
29
00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.520
One of the biggest areas that they talk about is something called the X-Factor.
30
00:01:10.520 --> 00:01:14.820
And Jim McLean did the first research, and then it's been amended by Phil Che
31
00:01:14.820 --> 00:01:15.440
atham or
32
00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:16.440
Rob Neal.
33
00:01:16.440 --> 00:01:19.760
It's kind of evolved over the last 20 years.
34
00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:24.540
But basically, X-Factor is looking at, from the top of the swing, how much are
35
00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:25.360
you increasing
36
00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:29.120
the stretch on the downswing, and then how quickly are you closing it?
37
00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:33.570
Well, you can create these little X-factors or these pre-stretches at any point
38
00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:34.080
in your
39
00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:35.080
body.
40
00:01:35.080 --> 00:01:38.280
So you can create it in your legs, you can create it more in your hips, you can
41
00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:38.640
create
42
00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.640
it in your rib cage, you can create it in your shoulder, elbow, and wrist.
43
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.440
Those are the big areas where you can create speed.
44
00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:50.390
The biggest four are being your wrists, your shoulders, your core, and your
45
00:01:50.390 --> 00:01:51.000
legs.
46
00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.610
So we've got drills in the drill section, which go over a lot of the specifics
47
00:01:54.610 --> 00:01:55.000
of how
48
00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.800
to get that.
49
00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:01.930
But the concept that I want you to understand is you have to monitor how you're
50
00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:02.640
creating
51
00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:07.410
club head speed, or rather how much club head speed you're created, not based
52
00:02:07.410 --> 00:02:07.720
on how
53
00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:12.500
it feels, but with some type of objective measurement, whether it's one of
54
00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:13.280
those simple
55
00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.380
little radar guns on the ground for looking at club head speed, they have
56
00:02:16.380 --> 00:02:17.000
watches you
57
00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.780
can measure, something on the club to measure, or just how far the ball is
58
00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:22.400
going.
59
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.200
It is very problematic to measure it based on feel, because there's a saying
60
00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:27.640
that I
61
00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:31.910
like, and I forget where I heard it, but basically you want to create effort
62
00:02:31.910 --> 00:02:33.720
less power instead
63
00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:36.160
of powerless effort.
64
00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:39.950
Because there are lots of swings where you basically take it back and hey, if I
65
00:02:39.950 --> 00:02:40.160
feel
66
00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:44.200
like I swing harder, I'm going to try to create more speed.
67
00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:47.880
But very often does that create a significant amount of speed.
68
00:02:47.880 --> 00:02:52.080
What ultimately creates more speed is if you swing more efficiently.
69
00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:56.950
So if I create more leg, bigger stretch, shortens, weight longer and longer,
70
00:02:56.950 --> 00:02:58.160
more access till
71
00:02:58.160 --> 00:03:02.620
all these things that contribute to my path and angle of attack and contribute
72
00:03:02.620 --> 00:03:03.120
to the
73
00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.700
way that I transfer energy to the club.
74
00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:09.730
So pay attention in the drill section, because we'll go over how to create the
75
00:03:09.730 --> 00:03:10.320
lag in the
76
00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:12.830
wrist, how to create the lag in the elbows, how to create the lag in the
77
00:03:12.830 --> 00:03:13.440
shoulders, and
78
00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:19.830
how to create lag in your core, which all contributes to creating more power
79
00:03:19.830 --> 00:03:20.320
provided
80
00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:22.720
that you hit it in the center of the club.
81
00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:27.040
So when you're going through creating power, that's the other thing you have to
82
00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:27.600
monitor
83
00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:31.590
is you may be creating more speed, but if you're hitting it further out, out
84
00:03:31.590 --> 00:03:32.120
towards
85
00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:35.280
the toe, it might not go as far and you're going to tell me that my drills don
86
00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:35.840
't work.
87
00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:40.240
If the drills work, you just have to monitor why you're losing power, okay?
88
00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.690
So pay attention in the movements, pay attention to the contact, pay attention
89
00:03:43.690 --> 00:03:44.260
to the ball
90
00:03:44.260 --> 00:03:45.260
flight.
91
00:03:45.260 --> 00:03:48.080
If you do them right, you should see a dramatic increase in your distance.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for helpMoves Of Power
Lag/Power
- Lower Body Power
- X Factor Stretch
- Shoulder Lag
- Wrist Lag
I’m sure you’ve seen it before. You’re playing with a couple guys, one of which has a fluid beautiful swing and one of which has a short chopping swing yet despite everything you’ve ever heard, the short choppy guy is flying his 3 hybrid farther than the golfer with the slow beautiful swing. How could that be? Aren’t we supposed to swing slowly and easy? It’s time to apply some science to the confusion of how to hit the ball far. In this video we will discuss the ways that your body can create more clubhead speed, which could result in better distance.
In the same summer, there was an article that I was featured in called the “quest for 300” where we demonstrated how improving the timing of the movements of your swing could result in a gain 30 yards in one specific case. I’ve had students go through swing changes only to find themselves hitting 40 - 60 yards further in a matter of weeks. It’s too short of a time for me to actually make them “stronger” so this is a result of learning to maximize what their body is capable of when it comes to distance.
“Lag” is a prestretching of a muscle before firing. If you are at this point in the program, then you are ready for some of the fine polish and racing stripes in undersatnding lag. Muscles act somewhat similar to slingshots. For a slingshot to work properly, we need three things. A flexible rubber band, a stable anchor, and a reasonable timing between stretch and fire.
Getting back to golf and “lag”. Lag is a prestretching of a muscle before it fires and this can happen at virtually any part of your body, but there are a few common areas to see it. You can have lag in your hips, lag in your core, lag in your shoulders, lag in your elbows and lag in your wrists. Lag is typically looked at ONLY at the wrists, specifically, the angle between the club and the forearms, but it is really much more than that.
In the drill section, we give you ways to increase the speed transferred for each section of your body that can create more lag in the wrists.
Lag/Power
- Lower Body Power
- X Factor Stretch
- Shoulder Lag
- Wrist Lag
I’m sure you’ve seen it before. You’re playing with a couple guys, one of which has a fluid beautiful swing and one of which has a short chopping swing yet despite everything you’ve ever heard, the short choppy guy is flying his 3 hybrid farther than the golfer with the slow beautiful swing. How could that be? Aren’t we supposed to swing slowly and easy? It’s time to apply some science to the confusion of how to hit the ball far. In this video we will discuss the ways that your body can create more clubhead speed, which could result in better distance.
In the same summer, there was an article that I was featured in called the “quest for 300” where we demonstrated how improving the timing of the movements of your swing could result in a gain 30 yards in one specific case. I’ve had students go through swing changes only to find themselves hitting 40 - 60 yards further in a matter of weeks. It’s too short of a time for me to actually make them “stronger” so this is a result of learning to maximize what their body is capable of when it comes to distance.
“Lag” is a prestretching of a muscle before firing. If you are at this point in the program, then you are ready for some of the fine polish and racing stripes in undersatnding lag. Muscles act somewhat similar to slingshots. For a slingshot to work properly, we need three things. A flexible rubber band, a stable anchor, and a reasonable timing between stretch and fire.
Getting back to golf and “lag”. Lag is a prestretching of a muscle before it fires and this can happen at virtually any part of your body, but there are a few common areas to see it. You can have lag in your hips, lag in your core, lag in your shoulders, lag in your elbows and lag in your wrists. Lag is typically looked at ONLY at the wrists, specifically, the angle between the club and the forearms, but it is really much more than that.
In the drill section, we give you ways to increase the speed transferred for each section of your body that can create more lag in the wrists.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200
In this concept video, we're going to go over the movements that help you
2
00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:06.400
create power.
3
00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:10.370
So in the first concept video, we talked about how to maximize your speed just
4
00:00:10.370 --> 00:00:10.920
by working
5
00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:11.920
on your path.
6
00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:16.270
Well, it's really these movements that help you either create more elastic
7
00:00:16.270 --> 00:00:17.160
movements,
8
00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.440
create, transfer more energy into the club head, or potentially affect the path
9
00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:21.720
.
10
00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:26.020
So in the drill section, we'll go over ways that you can feel these different
11
00:00:26.020 --> 00:00:26.600
stretch
12
00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.360
shortens and things.
13
00:00:28.360 --> 00:00:31.650
But in this video, I'm just going to go over and highlight why we're doing
14
00:00:31.650 --> 00:00:32.320
these drills
15
00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.440
and what we're trying to accomplish.
16
00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:38.440
So let's take the example of a rubber band, right?
17
00:00:38.440 --> 00:00:42.000
If I was to create a 10-inch stretch with a rubber band and let it go, I would
18
00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:42.320
get a
19
00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:43.320
certain amount of power.
20
00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:46.850
Well, if I was to create an 8-inch stretch and then go 2 inches and then let go
21
00:00:46.850 --> 00:00:47.240
, I would
22
00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.600
get even more power going in the direction of the target.
23
00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:53.810
That's a funny way or a silly way of looking at a stretch shortens cycle, which
24
00:00:53.810 --> 00:00:54.200
is how
25
00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.440
we create the most amount of power in the golf swing.
26
00:00:57.440 --> 00:01:02.410
So if you set up to the golf ball and you go to the top of your swing, your
27
00:01:02.410 --> 00:01:03.080
maximum
28
00:01:03.080 --> 00:01:06.680
stretches should happen during the downswing.
29
00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:10.520
One of the biggest areas that they talk about is something called the X-Factor.
30
00:01:10.520 --> 00:01:14.820
And Jim McLean did the first research, and then it's been amended by Phil Che
31
00:01:14.820 --> 00:01:15.440
atham or
32
00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:16.440
Rob Neal.
33
00:01:16.440 --> 00:01:19.760
It's kind of evolved over the last 20 years.
34
00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:24.540
But basically, X-Factor is looking at, from the top of the swing, how much are
35
00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:25.360
you increasing
36
00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:29.120
the stretch on the downswing, and then how quickly are you closing it?
37
00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:33.570
Well, you can create these little X-factors or these pre-stretches at any point
38
00:01:33.570 --> 00:01:34.080
in your
39
00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:35.080
body.
40
00:01:35.080 --> 00:01:38.280
So you can create it in your legs, you can create it more in your hips, you can
41
00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:38.640
create
42
00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.640
it in your rib cage, you can create it in your shoulder, elbow, and wrist.
43
00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.440
Those are the big areas where you can create speed.
44
00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:50.390
The biggest four are being your wrists, your shoulders, your core, and your
45
00:01:50.390 --> 00:01:51.000
legs.
46
00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.610
So we've got drills in the drill section, which go over a lot of the specifics
47
00:01:54.610 --> 00:01:55.000
of how
48
00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.800
to get that.
49
00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:01.930
But the concept that I want you to understand is you have to monitor how you're
50
00:02:01.930 --> 00:02:02.640
creating
51
00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:07.410
club head speed, or rather how much club head speed you're created, not based
52
00:02:07.410 --> 00:02:07.720
on how
53
00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:12.500
it feels, but with some type of objective measurement, whether it's one of
54
00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:13.280
those simple
55
00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.380
little radar guns on the ground for looking at club head speed, they have
56
00:02:16.380 --> 00:02:17.000
watches you
57
00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.780
can measure, something on the club to measure, or just how far the ball is
58
00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:22.400
going.
59
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.200
It is very problematic to measure it based on feel, because there's a saying
60
00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:27.640
that I
61
00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:31.910
like, and I forget where I heard it, but basically you want to create effort
62
00:02:31.910 --> 00:02:33.720
less power instead
63
00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:36.160
of powerless effort.
64
00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:39.950
Because there are lots of swings where you basically take it back and hey, if I
65
00:02:39.950 --> 00:02:40.160
feel
66
00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:44.200
like I swing harder, I'm going to try to create more speed.
67
00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:47.880
But very often does that create a significant amount of speed.
68
00:02:47.880 --> 00:02:52.080
What ultimately creates more speed is if you swing more efficiently.
69
00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:56.950
So if I create more leg, bigger stretch, shortens, weight longer and longer,
70
00:02:56.950 --> 00:02:58.160
more access till
71
00:02:58.160 --> 00:03:02.620
all these things that contribute to my path and angle of attack and contribute
72
00:03:02.620 --> 00:03:03.120
to the
73
00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:05.700
way that I transfer energy to the club.
74
00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:09.730
So pay attention in the drill section, because we'll go over how to create the
75
00:03:09.730 --> 00:03:10.320
lag in the
76
00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:12.830
wrist, how to create the lag in the elbows, how to create the lag in the
77
00:03:12.830 --> 00:03:13.440
shoulders, and
78
00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:19.830
how to create lag in your core, which all contributes to creating more power
79
00:03:19.830 --> 00:03:20.320
provided
80
00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:22.720
that you hit it in the center of the club.
81
00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:27.040
So when you're going through creating power, that's the other thing you have to
82
00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:27.600
monitor
83
00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:31.590
is you may be creating more speed, but if you're hitting it further out, out
84
00:03:31.590 --> 00:03:32.120
towards
85
00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:35.280
the toe, it might not go as far and you're going to tell me that my drills don
86
00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:35.840
't work.
87
00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:40.240
If the drills work, you just have to monitor why you're losing power, okay?
88
00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.690
So pay attention in the movements, pay attention to the contact, pay attention
89
00:03:43.690 --> 00:03:44.260
to the ball
90
00:03:44.260 --> 00:03:45.260
flight.
91
00:03:45.260 --> 00:03:48.080
If you do them right, you should see a dramatic increase in your distance.
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