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Full Transcript- so just like you I would love to add some yardage to my game and I've recruited James Tay who hit 452 yards in the long drive finished was it third yeah finished third out 128 yeah third in the world long drive Championship he going to give me a few really really simple tips can I show me them off camera I know they're going to help you because they are unbelievably easy to apply for any age or ability would you say absolutely I think you know it's it it's really easy to add a bit of speed and distance it's just knowing how to do that and it's just you know there's a few simple things which we're going to go through today and you're going to see it yourself so yeah it'll be fun awes so before we get into the video look if you're new to the channel it's one of your first lessons of mine please consider subscribing I release videos just like this every single week to try and help you improve your game plus you'll never have to remember thing I'll always put a free download practice guide in the description box good Lu what do I need to do nice little height there what do I need to do to get a few extra yards um it's a number of things I mean we've we've talked at length um you know over dinner last night and you're someone who is you know very straight off the te just kind of basically rotates around that kind of Center axis right so if you're looking for a bit of speed we talked about trigger moves now I think trigger moves is a great one we've all stood in a par five where it's like straight down it's like I want to get one down there to give myself best chance of getting as close to the green as possible so how do we do that well if you take yourself for example yep if you're standing on a power five right now yep literally the whole world to aim at yep what are you what are you thinking what's in your head what I'm thinking I'm I I I picture of the shot I picture the Flight of the shot I picture where I'm going to land it in the Fairway and then my trigger generally is is in a sense it's kind of I I take a look I go back and then I go okay so what I what I would say is if we swap position and and pass pass club SW the B so what I'm trying to do here is just making sure I'm not feeling too tight a little bit free a lot of people have maybe a few kind of Waggles for me yeah I kind of almost want to be staying behind it as much as possible but I just get a little a little kind of this way first okay so just get my body weight a little bit more this way so some people are going to look at that and say but Dan i' I've been taught to uh not to sway off the golf ball so it's not swaying okay so that's the thing so a lot of people will look at it and be like oh you're swaying it's like I'm not way I'm just I'm moving my weight onto my onto my right side so if you think about how your feet move yeah I'm actually trying to pull my hips this way a little bit like a cork screw for example so all I'm doing if I put the club here I'm just thinking about kind of wind winding in yes I I refres pivot I take my left foot off y but that's because I'm trying to then right side load to left side load and then really basically screw my feet in the ground and use use the ground to my advantage okay but what that allows me to do is if I move just a little bit like this I know that I'm going to feel really free and swing freely through the ball okay so so so you're saying that the first start of this movement is you allowing yourself to move is kind of unlocking that sense of Freedom EX in the Motion versus somebody who's maybe static here and then swinging yeah exactly if I'm going to come in here now and and test that kind of first move out let's grab a te I'm stting up there let's say I've been a little bit static yeah as a golfer how do I initiate what do I start to feel what am I supposed to be doing here to kind of really kind of get this going I would probably just make sure you're feeling that you know you've got a few kind of like wag Waggles with the club your feet are kind of moving up and down you feel like you've got control of the the club face as well okay and when you said when you say control of the club face how do you mean so when you when you're kind of doing these kind of pre-shot Waggles yeah you're going to feel the club face being Square so you're not letting it kind of go limp so no not not not too loose so you want to make sure you feel like you've got control of that club face get it and then it's all all about really just making sure that you're giving yourself that kind of space that freedom to give yourself the time to get the club to the top of the swing and then literally just send it and just feel your arms nice and free through the ball so do what I kind of feel when doing this is would it would it be right to almost s like if I was having like imagine I've got a big sandbag yeah it's almost like if I'm going to throw the sandbag this way I feel like there I'm using my legs Norm you pick it out and you use your legs to is that what you mean adding that kind of like absolutely a great a great tip like if you're quite a big Avid gym goer pick up a medicine ball and just do some throws against the wall the same thing you you think you're you're trying to throw this ball through the wall you're essentially trying to do the same thing with a driver yeah but you have to move this way to go that way exactly yeah because you have to get that weight to throw the ball BAS getting L get some momentum into this right side yeah okay and I it's if I feel momentum in the club yeah you'll notice it straight away cuz you'll feel like all right my my right hip is just going this way and you know what it actually feels more stable it's weird isn't it yes so even though you kind of almost uh you move it feel there's a sense that you you've got more free more freedom it actually feels more stable it feels like I'm really this right side actually actually sticking to the ground W and give me something that I can push off from your right foot is basically gripping the ground like like that and you'll feel it very hit hit one and see see what you think have a couple practice swings first and just kind of get a real feel for it but you see how you're you're already right like getting that load on that side yeah I can really feel that yeah see what you

think it's a little bit bottom me the one the one thing I would say is well I I would I would try and just get your hand not so far forward okay try and just yeah perfect like that yeah yeah just a little bit more neutral okay A bit here yeah yeah so yeah like that a lot yeah

mhm little bit C that was a good strike my bad left it just left the first up a little bit yeah but what I like about it what what what are you feeling do you feel quite free you going yeah I do you know what I think like the timing is clearly clearly out a little bit out but what I like about it is but that's the thing if you so this is a massive thing so if you're chasing speed you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable because you're going to spray it yes yeah so all you're trying to do is if you for ex you you're saying you're swinging kind of like 11 18s right 120s if you're trying to chase like 125 you're going to hit the ball left right all over the place but then when you get to being more consistent at 125 it's like right okay how far can I go can I get to 130 and then your 125 all of a sudden becomes your stock yeah and it's it's just what I said to my students one of the things that we focus on first is like we're going to get you solid contact once you got solid contact we don't we ignore direction we ignore distance then we'll work focus on what we're doing here which is distance now you kind of get a sense of what the distance is then we'll get the accuracy afterwards you know 100% yeah I like that cuz we'll do a couple more of get used to it and then we're going to throw a little throw that drill a little drilling which will help you kind of understand the the loading and unloading of the of the body us the ground yeah so I would yeah I like that I I would almost this is going to feel weird y okay okay yeah so you're really hitting on the back of the ball that's going to take the spin off and you're going to be able to launch it higher as well so I've just gone from there I've just gone a little bit more this way yeah yeah yeah feels like I'm going to hit more up on it yeah

absolutely bomb look at that tight draw yeah that's lovely good good start and you've you've almost gone through the range which is 325 yards by yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no that that felt really really solid and and it feels you know what it feels as well feels like he's putting a smile on my face it feels it feels it feels natural there's nothing better than standing off On a par five or a par 4 which is straight down and you decide right I just want to send one down there but we're but we're going to we're going to throw in another element so we kind of talked about that kind of trigger move that that loading now we're going to talk about unloading and I'm going to throw something in here okay go on so for me I I use this to warm up now do you so were you using this when you hit your 452 yard Drive yeah so I warm up using a few different things now for me I'm kind of this allows me to get that feeling of that right side kind of winding up shall we say to then unwind through but it allows me to understand what my body is doing kind of at that moment of impact and you know through through the hitting and striking zone right okay so I'm getting my hands up here so I'm and when you say getting your hands up just for the people ni nice and high okay y cuz if you get your hands nice and high then you can you can really pull down hard into your left side to then use the ground so it's just it's you're using the ground effectively what do the hands just for people watching getting the hands height what's the what's the difference between keeping them low which I see a lot of amate to Golfers they kind of stuck they're stuck around here what's that doing to the them so if if you're keeping them low it doesn't allow you to be aggressive it allows you to rotate through it you're come from you're not going to get speed being low speed comes from here you look at any other the guys who hit an absolute country mile yeah especially you know guys min again I'm going to throw him in there his hands are high like seriously high and his ball speeds are crazy but if you watch his his action in slowmo you see his hands really come in like that yes because he's been so aggressive at the ball this essentially allows you to do the same thing it gets you to feel what your kind of lower half needs to be doing as well so for me when I get my hands up high here I can really push the ground like on my left foot and I can see that yeah really aggressive so everything kind of you're just working on sequencing so you really just kind of P pull pull down and and as I'm watching that what I'm almost seeing with the with the towel here is that there's a real extension of your body as that towel is like fully yeah you know it's almost lining up almost your your your left hip essentially is here and then you watch maroy Justin Tomas their foot's almost coming off the ground cuz you're using it so so aggressively but they're just maximizing and everything they have got it same thing but it's allowing you to pause and feel and this helps you feel it for me yeah it's a great warm-up tool anyone can do it we go it's literally a towel just wrapped and I put some tape on it nothing fancy how simple is that I know so how do I start with this so just so I I would start with we've talked about kind of like screwing that right foot in getting the hand hand High yeah so I'm going to from here I'm just going to from there just going to load it up pause and then you're just going to swing hard so what I would do is I always make sure that this is going to be here okay so that would you see how high your hands how high your hands have to go that's really good so from here up there Y and then just be really aggressive through impact and turn yeah so you'll feel the resistance of the towel trying to get your body to move yeah I really feel that so it's almost like it's forcing you to really accelerate because otherwise it's just going to be it's adding resistance so it's getting getting your body to move efficiently because if your timing's out with it or if you if you try and go too quick from the top and you don't let it set yes then your lower half doesn't have the time to kind of love that move the way you want it to so up here gets it there yeah and if you wanted to go nice and if you wanted to go one further go to the top yep all right I give you I give you permission to bring this left heel off the ground oh look at that turn beautiful and then smash that left heel into the ground you see that yeah yeah yeah it feels good and for for so somebody who's maybe a senior golfer you know just these tiny clearly we're not they're not going to have all this Mobility but no letting that go understanding that if they get their hands just a little bit higher than if they're only here just getting them up a little bit higher is going to really help to give them that rotation and that ability to down the thing as well is like you you can break your left arm if if you want to just to get up here because then you can really just kind of sink down into it if your back swing is like sure anyway yeah if you want to you want to just make sure you get it there you're going to reconnect when you that left left arm straightens anyway well this is one of the biggest myths I see in golf and if you're watching this and you've ever been trying to keep your left arm straight one of the things i' I've seen with so many players is they're they've been told to keep this left arm St but the reality is is you see like look at Brooks kka and what it um Jord speed and a lot of the guys they've almost got Flex yeah coming through impact here because this is you know this is powerful versus like Rod stra abely so I think what I want you to do now is tie in the two things together y swing that as hard as you can yep and then let's try and transfer everything into the driver okay okay [Music] yep so you what would you have a pause when you do this at the top just feel it absolutely you want to make sure you're feeling everything from the the takeway in the loading phase to unloading that's that just just getting just letting that go a little bit there felt like that felt easier what you're doing is you're create you're allowing your body to naturally turn yes like if you look at some of the great like if we go way back like you look at like Nicholas and like you know that generation Gary play like a lot of them were bringing this left foot this yes slightly off the ground just got taught out and and it's stupid well do you know cuz I didn't I didn't think about lifting that then M it was this really helped because in in a basically I needed to lift that in order to get my hands high andu it get the the thing of that's the only way I could do that was to let that go now it feels like so much easier to come but if you if when you when you look back back on this on camera you're going to see like the amount of turn yeah and how high your hands are is night and day like it's really impressive I'm Keen I'm ke let just a couple let's just s a smash a few yeah come on let's see it and this is this is the next stage once you kind of get these kind of SE sequencing bits in you then put it into into motion and yeah like we said you know when you're chasing speed you're going to hit a couple left you're going to hit a couple right but exactly you're on the driving range that's that's why you're there you're there to practice and you're there to kind of like see see what you can do especially with a driver so here I this is I'm not worried about Direction at this stage I'm trying to feel what's going to give me those extra yards and then later down the line we'll then start to kind of hun it in so if if you if you have a couple practice swings exactly what we're what we're doing oh yeah I like that a lot yeah and then just like you're going to you're going to time it and you're going to feel like you're being so much more aggressive especially at

impact and the one swing thought I want you to do when you hit the when you're looking at the ball is like I want to hit the ball hard I'm doing I'm doing I'm doing it I'm so hit the ball hard there's the difference between swinging fast and actually hitting the ball ball

hard look at that feels free feels free you've just flown it through the driving R really yeah yeah you've flown that bunker at the back Jesus how long's the wrench 325 bloody hell see that's so much more aggressive though yeah but if you can take that on the course and you're like right cool like you're going to give yourself an easier opportunity to get to that power five and two which gives you that two po prity exactly but Al do you know what though it doesn't feel out control it feels the body just feels naturally tighter funny enough in the sense that it feels actually more under control I feels like sometimes when I I'm being too careful I actually feel limp and loose and you just want to feel as as free as possible with the big stick in hand because if you start getting tight and uncomfortable that's when you start having your issues but if you're going to swing freely you're going to at least make decent contact with the ball it might go left it might go a little bit right yeah but if you feel more confident and free over that ball that's exactly you're you're going to enjoy just sending it down there I just want to smash it let's do one more one more finish off with one more up there you go nice

swing not quite that time so a little little low but it's still gone though isn't it it's still gone that's it's almost at the back back of the range and it's still straight as well that came out of the neck and look how far it's gone exactly hit one hit one more let's finish on the high so this time I'm going to te up a little bit higher y cuz it it means it's easier to kind of Stay Stay kind of a little bit behind it and launch it okay come on send it let's see it come

on didn't see that where's that got it's literally just kind of a slight Fades through the range awesome so you see see where see where that white the white stick is the left the bunker you can straight over the top of that and it's just bouncing the rough over the back James that was really really good fun I enjoyed that so much it's it's fun I mean that's what you want to make your rain s rain sessions like isn't it yeah exactly you just want to have fun you want to hit bombs like you want to take it onto the course you want to hit you know drivers long you want to out drive your friends regardless of what what handicap or what level you are it's like you could have the worst in the world and then you can be like yeah but I'll drove you on that exactly I love that I love that so huge huge Thanks James said go and check him out on on Star shs absolutely awesome maybe next year we'll be here and I'll be competing with you for a few extra was it 452 yards 452 yards I still got 100 yards to go I might have I might have a world championship belt by you might have you might have fingers crossed I hope you enjoyed the video If you give it a like if you did consider subscribing and until next week have a wonderful golfing week.

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