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Swinging the orange whip can be very useful for teaching transition sequencing timing. If your transition is too powerful then you will add a steep component to your short game steep/shallow balance. In the short game, tempo plays a larger role for steeps and shallows than it does in the full swing. If you struggle with solid contact, especially diggy turf contact, then working on your timing can be a helpful component to your training program.
Tags: Chip, Intermediate
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The drill is orange-whip wedge timing.
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So with the wedge swing, we want to have a very different timing than we want to have in the
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full swing.
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In the full swing, we're trying to create a whole lot of loads so that we can create a ton
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of speed here in the club head.
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And that's actually what the orange whip is designed to do.
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But Johnson Claire is a great instructor in Texas, and he showed me a cool way to use
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the orange whip that I really like.
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And basically it's working on wedges, whether it's the finesse wedge or the distance wedge,
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but basically trying to swing the orange whip having as little bend and kind of wipiness
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as possible.
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So when you first get it started, you'll have to move it pretty slowly, but then you can
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swing it with a little bit of speed without letting it create too much whip action.
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So you'll see as it'll have a very kind of uniform tempo to it, and it will have that
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one to kind of pause at the top.
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If you're working on your wedges and you get to the top of the swing and you quickly
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change direction, that can mess up the sequencing and cause you to brace with your body
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instead of coast through impact, which tends to give you low point controls or contact
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issues.
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So if you're struggling with the finesse wedges or the distance wedges, and you feel
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like you're in decent positions, then you may have to look at the timing or the relationship
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of those positions and the movements.
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A great way to tie that in into one kind of uniform feeling would be using something like
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the orange whip.
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I think skills has a similar product that you could use.
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So again, just making those little finesse wedges almost feeling more of that cast pattern
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swing.
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Then once you have a good feeling with it, you can take your wedge and try to recreate that
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same change of direction.
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We're that same timing and tempo throughout the whole swing.
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You'll see that it will be very close to that slower one, two, as opposed to with the
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full swing where we would have more of this whip and brace action that tends to cause
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more harm than good in the full swing, or sorry, in the tends to cause more harm than
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good in the wedge swing, and this is a great way to feel what a proper tempo for these
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wedge shots should be like.
