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This concept video, I'm going to answer a member question about why does it feel weak when

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I use owner deviation.

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So owner deviation is the unhinging of the wrist and that's a common need for mid-singled

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digit handicaps to get into that next level of ball striking.

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It's one of the big arm shallower, it allows for good body rotation, it allows for good

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wipe, but when you're working through it, it can cause some problems.

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And one common one is it can feel weak at first.

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If that's the case, then here's a little checklist to kind of run through.

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One, if you're creating more of your speed from internal rotation of the shoulder,

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kind of from pulling and throwing the arm inward like this, then this is going to be one

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of the weaker feeling movements that I'm going to ask you to do.

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So if you're creating more of the speed with standing up or if you're creating more of

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the speed with a back extension, those two often go hand in hand, but if you're doing the

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back extension, even if the arm isn't going into massive internal rotation, it will also

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tend to feel weak.

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There are a couple release issues that can also relate to the feeling of being weak.

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If you are used to getting down towards the bottle bottom and having a really pronounced

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re-hing or kind of flicking the wrist past kind of like this, then keeping it out

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longer, almost feels like you're hitting the brakes and kind of slowing down through

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impact.

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So there are a couple pieces that those share in common, but those are the three most

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common causes for why owner deviation might feel weak.

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So too much internal rotation, too much back power or re-hinging on the way through.

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You might have to work through why you're doing one of those movements.

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But here's a couple ideas or ways that you can improve that pattern.

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One, whenever there's a sense of weakness, I almost always start with the impact bag.

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I don't really like trying to hit the impact bag as hard as you can, but rather feeling

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where in your body you're feeling tension and where the strength would come.

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The impact bag is great at giving you almost a little freeze frame at impact so you can

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diagnose it a little bit better.

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So if I have the impact bag here and I tend to do it more of the movement like this,

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or I'm keeping that owner deviation or, sorry, radial deviation and rotating through

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kind of like this, you'll see it come more over the top or steep down at the bottom.

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And what I'm going to have to do is feel this elbow in front, feel a little bit more

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down and I'm going to have to feel like the hit is happening more with my hips, my core

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and my body rotation, like that.

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The owner deviation is no longer part of the main power source.

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It's more of transferring the power source from my hips and my core into my arms.

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So the big paradigm here is if your arms are the main power source, then doing owner

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deviation which helps with club-based control, low point control and path consistency,

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that's going to feel weak or uncomfortable.

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So that's a sign that I want to do some movement work to get my hips and my abs to create

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more of the speed so that my arms can be more of the steering wheel or transfer that speed

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and control the club rather than be the main source of powering the club.

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So the next piece I would probably do after doing some impact bag is I would try and do

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actually, let's take one step backward.

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With the impact bag while working on this from a power source standpoint, I wouldn't just

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hit the bag, I would also do a couple of recoils because if I was doing it more with the

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arms than it's awkward to try to recoil it back, but if I'm doing it with the body,

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I can get a little bit of this hit and stop because my body is in a good bracing position.

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So then I would try and apply the same movement here where I'm feeling more abs and the

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arms a little bit more in front of my body to allow for that owner deviation to get the

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club down the golf ball instead of using that shoulder movement to get the club down the

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golf ball.

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If you're struggling with owner deviation feeling weak, take a look at this transition

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area to see how you're powering the swing and take a look down at the release area to see

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how you're delivering, that will give you a good insight as to why this key movement might

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feel weak to you.