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Improve Your Impact Position with the Palm Strike Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand how to extend your trail arm for optimal club release
  • Feel the correct wrist position to maintain during your swing
  • Practice getting into a proper impact position for improved accuracy

In this video, you'll learn the Palm Strike drill to enhance your trail arm's release during your swing. This drill helps you develop the proper impact position for better ball striking.

Video Transcript
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This drill is the Palm Strike or Shaft Press drill and the purpose of this is

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to feel how the trail arm releases the club from delivery position. So if you

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recall from the last section delivery position is when you've got it kind of

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over here in the shot put breakdancer delivery zone and then from here what

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we're going to do is you're essentially going to extend your arm and let the

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forearm rotate but not collapse the wrist. So it's not like I'm throwing

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something this way it's more like I'm doing a shot put or slamming the ball in

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the ground if you remember from the trail arm throw drill. So one of the

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reasons why this is so critical is if you take a golf club right this is a

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this is my seven iron and you place it on the ground so that the sole is flat

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so

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as you can see if you sole the club you can see that the handle is ahead of the

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ball just like so if the club is sitting flat. Now if I was to go from this

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position and do that right arm throw shot put drill you can see how my

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hand is going to fit on to the club having a little bit of an angle like this.

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If I was to release like so you can see that it would now fit very very

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differently from how I normally grip the club. The other interesting thing to

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look at is this is my seven iron and you can see that the handle of the club is

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at a certain angle. If I was to take the pitching wedge and sole it you can see

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how it's at a little bit different of an angle it's actually intended to be hit

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with possibly more shaft lean whereas if I add a more complicated here's the

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five iron and I have that soldering you can see how it's just slightly ahead so

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it gives you a little bit of the spectrum. We've got five iron like so seven

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iron

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like so and then wedge like so it shows how these clubs are designed to be hit.

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So if I put the club in the position where it's supposed to be close to impact

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then I can practice getting into a good impact position and now practice

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delivering my arm in that shot put motion with the club right there and

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it's gonna your goal is to kind of get the hand to match up with the shaft and

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then once you've done that you can take a few practice where it basically goes

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back to that same position because I'm doing a shot put move I'm not doing a

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flip or a wrist extension or reflection move okay so this is the the palm press

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or shaft strike and it helps to learn where you're trying to get your hands

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to go during the release phase.
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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 Impact Position with the Palm Strike Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand how to extend your trail arm for optimal club release
  • Feel the correct wrist position to maintain during your swing
  • Practice getting into a proper impact position for improved accuracy

In this video, you'll learn the Palm Strike drill to enhance your trail arm's release during your swing. This drill helps you develop the proper impact position for better ball striking.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.520
This drill is the Palm Strike or Shaft Press drill and the purpose of this is

2
00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:10.480
to feel how the trail arm releases the club from delivery position. So if you

3
00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.680
recall from the last section delivery position is when you've got it kind of

4
00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:19.800
over here in the shot put breakdancer delivery zone and then from here what

5
00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:24.200
we're going to do is you're essentially going to extend your arm and let the

6
00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:29.280
forearm rotate but not collapse the wrist. So it's not like I'm throwing

7
00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.480
something this way it's more like I'm doing a shot put or slamming the ball in

8
00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:38.200
the ground if you remember from the trail arm throw drill. So one of the

9
00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:44.120
reasons why this is so critical is if you take a golf club right this is a

10
00:00:44.120 --> 00:00:49.320
this is my seven iron and you place it on the ground so that the sole is flat

11
00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:50.520
so

12
00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.000
as you can see if you sole the club you can see that the handle is ahead of the

13
00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.680
ball just like so if the club is sitting flat. Now if I was to go from this

14
00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:04.440
position and do that right arm throw shot put drill you can see how my

15
00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:08.920
hand is going to fit on to the club having a little bit of an angle like this.

16
00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.400
If I was to release like so you can see that it would now fit very very

17
00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:19.040
differently from how I normally grip the club. The other interesting thing to

18
00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.640
look at is this is my seven iron and you can see that the handle of the club is

19
00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:29.760
at a certain angle. If I was to take the pitching wedge and sole it you can see

20
00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:34.040
how it's at a little bit different of an angle it's actually intended to be hit

21
00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:40.680
with possibly more shaft lean whereas if I add a more complicated here's the

22
00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:44.840
five iron and I have that soldering you can see how it's just slightly ahead so

23
00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:53.000
it gives you a little bit of the spectrum. We've got five iron like so seven

24
00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:53.080
iron

25
00:01:53.080 --> 00:01:57.880
like so and then wedge like so it shows how these clubs are designed to be hit.

26
00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:05.640
So if I put the club in the position where it's supposed to be close to impact

27
00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:10.720
then I can practice getting into a good impact position and now practice

28
00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:16.000
delivering my arm in that shot put motion with the club right there and

29
00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.520
it's gonna your goal is to kind of get the hand to match up with the shaft and

30
00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:27.160
then once you've done that you can take a few practice where it basically goes

31
00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:31.560
back to that same position because I'm doing a shot put move I'm not doing a

32
00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:39.680
flip or a wrist extension or reflection move okay so this is the the palm press

33
00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:45.320
or shaft strike and it helps to learn where you're trying to get your hands

34
00:02:45.320 --> 00:02:48.600
to go during the release phase.
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