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Strel is the clap drill. So this is designed to work on a body-centered tempo. So many

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golfers who struggle with getting the hips in the cord, lead the swing, with who struggle

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with getting more of shaliness, tend to do so because of how they power the swing, especially

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in transition. So if you find that you can do slow motion drills and you have no problem

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shallow things out and then you go to try to hit the ball and boom you look on video and

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everything gets steep. Then there's a good chance that you're applying too much force to the club

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too soon or I should say too much muscle activity too soon because most of the muscles when the

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upper body really tries to apply force to the club, most of the muscles are going to steepen

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the path of the club. If you activate them it's very hard to have a natural shower. So this is a

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clap drill that I got from Stu McGill in his back pain program. He focuses a lot on throwing

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and striking sports and creating more of a feeling of a pulse of speed down at the bottom.

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I have referred to this as bracing but I like his idea of creating a pulse. So what we're going to

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do is we're going to do this clap drill where you're going to feel hopefully you've done some

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muscle activation you know some core exercises at some point in your career and now you're going to

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try to use that to create speed all at once down at the bottom. So I'm going to try and quite

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tighten my quads, my glutes, my abs and my lats. So there's a little just a pulse of tightening

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just like that. Now I'm going to put my hands about six inches apart like so and I'm going to pulse

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and create a little clap just like so. Now if I'm applying too much muscle effort then I'll push my

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hand like so as opposed to having a rapid contraction and a rapid relaxation. So spine is fairly

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neutral on this. I'm clapped and then I'm going to clap back the other way. Okay so that's the

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warm-up version. The actual drill we're now going to add a fluid motion and then try to apply that

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clap as late as possible. So now I'm going to get in my golf posture I'm going to make a slow slow slow

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quick slow slow slow pop and I'm going to have this slow little pop and this slow rapid acceleration

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through my hips, my core and my lats all at once. Once I have this feeling of kind of this slow, slow,

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pop now I'm going to add a little bit more speed and I do recommend wearing a golf glove when I do

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this demonstrating for students two or three of these and my hands don't like it. So now I'm going to apply

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a little bit more of a swinging but I'm not overly accelerating it until down at the bottom.

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Once you have this feeling of applying this pulse of speed down at the bottom you're then going to do

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a nine to three version trying to feel a little bit of a bracing at the bottom. So now I'm going to

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bring it back to here it's going to be slow slow. You won't see a dramatic acceleration on video

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when you're swinging the club but you'll probably feel one and when you do that pulse in the

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clap drill everything was stopping the relaxation happens so quickly that the club should pull you back

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into or pull you and bring the club helping into the follow-through position. But it's this pulse

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that you can sometimes see in half or in slow motion videos in especially lean golfers. So for

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example when you look at Roy Maccorroy and down near the bottom of the swing you see that right leg

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really start to extend because he's using that right glute and then through the ball his hips actually

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rotate the opposite direction that's a golfer really channeling this pulse to help

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create a little bit of stiffness last minute to get most of the speed into the club.

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So then once I've done a few of these nine to three then I can do either three quarter swings

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tend to twos or I can go straight to full swings trying to feel a really slow transition followed

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by rapid acceleration down to the impact. So if you struggle with getting really quick and active

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transition then work on this clap drill in order to get a feeling of more of a late acceleration

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that'll ultimately help you with the shallowing of your path the arm extension in the follow-through

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and overall your tempo which helps control low point and allows you to do the better risk mechanics

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to help control club face. So now quick demo if I don't pulse if I go really early you'll see

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I tend to get more vertical I even shank that one because that's what happens if I get to vertical

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in my transition. So then on the next one I'm going to let that really shallow out and I feel personally

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like my swing starts right about there. It's very similar to if I was throwing a ball the feeling of

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throwing the ball really happens between there and there all this extra motion feels very slow and

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doesn't feel like I'm accelerating the ball or accelerating my hand rapidly yet. So I'm going to

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try to apply that same principle getting a good clap feeling down at the bottom. That clap involves a

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rapid acceleration followed by a rapid relaxation through that follow-through position.