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This video is using rope swings to identify your power source.

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So I'm going to talk a little bit here about the difference between iron and driver.

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We're going to use the rope as kind of an experiment to help you feel and train the different

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timings of how we want to pull on the club.

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And this is one of the best ways I know to replicate a hands-on drill that I do with a lot

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of my students where I have to get in there and kind of pull on the club in specific

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ways and help them really feel what's going on.

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So the drill itself is really simple.

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You're basically going to swing a rope.

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So this is, let's say, about a five-foot rope and I'm just doubling it up.

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A lot of guys have used this, Rob holding Dr. Quan.

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I know Sasha is a big fan.

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And part of the reason is because there are two major ways I can swing the golf club around

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me because it's a rigid object.

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I can use either twerking the club where basically I just get the club to rotate or I can

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pull along the club and if I pull different than the direction it's pointing, I can get

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the club to kind of swing that way.

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The way some conversations with Sasha and Mackenzie, the better players tend to pull along

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the rope longer or pull along the shaft of the golf club longer.

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The neat thing is with a rope you can't really do anything but pull along it or else it

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will lose that angle and it will lose that lag and it will release.

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So when we take the rope, you're just going to take a little backswing, let the rope kind

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of collect around you and then you're going to take your through swing working on whatever

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good mechanic you're working on.

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The thing that I want you to pay attention to is the direction that you're pulling compared

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to the rope.

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So when I'm up here and my pulling it down, if I do, you'll see that it will tend to release

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kind of out towards the ground or if I got up here and I pull down, you'll see that

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it will release behind the golf ball.

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The other option would be, as if I was pulling it, the classic example that I've heard,

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I know Brian Menzel is used it recently but I'm not sure where it originally came from,

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is the pulling on either of like I have a quiver of arrows and I'm trying to pull an arrow

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out.

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Basically by using my body turn, I'm going to be pulling this club or pulling along the shaft

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of the club or along the end of the club kind of like this.

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So it's not that you really need to feel like you pull it out that way.

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It's that if someone was holding on to this, I'm going to use my body to kind of feel

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like I pull that out from wherever it's attached somewhere to my towel pull model.

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So I can get up there and if I was to pull straight down, even if I use body turn,

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you'll see that it tends to pass there where if I pull along it, I can actually get

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it to whip all the way up through there.

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I can get it to whip well after impact.

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And that's where the two different patterns for the two different clubs tend to come in.

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With the iron, I can get away with kind of pulling down and having it whip right through

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there where I'm pulling more perpendicular to the rope instead of along it.

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But with a driver in order to get the club load of the ground and not bottom out or not

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hit the ground behind it in order to develop this flat spot, I have to pull along it

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longer so I'm going to pull all the way through well past impact.

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So that model if I was to then take a driver, go up to the top of the swing means that

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I'm basically going to be pulling along the direction that the club is pointing, which

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basically just means I'm not going to pull with my arms.

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So I'm going to pull with my body.

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So if I pull with my body, you can see right around here it looks like I'm going to be pulling

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that way, right around here it looks like I'm going to be pulling that way.

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Right around here if I'm pulling along it, it's pulling more that way.

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So the longer I kind of pull along the club, the more I'm using my body to pull along

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it, the more that I get up here and I pull down that creates a ton of lag but then

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it's going to tend to force this kind of releasing of that lag which is going to tend

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to cause that high to low steeper angle of attack which tends to struggle with the longer

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clubs.

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So if I'm using the rope to help train my driver swing, then I want to make sure that I'm

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getting this thing to release as late as possible or I'm pulling along the rope for

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as long as possible.

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So I'm going to try and basically get it to pull all the way through here.

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So I'm pull, pull, pull, pull and then you'll see that my arms don't actually release

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until right around there.

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Then I can do it looking where I would be looking so kind of looking in the direction

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of the golf ball and then once I have a real good feeling of it instead of having the rope

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or doubling it up, I can do it in one long position which now it just takes a little

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bit more kind of discipline and timing to kind of feel exactly when to pull.

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Once I have that good sensation then I can get, I can take my regular grip and set up

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and I can feel like I'm going to pull, pull, pull, pull, like I'm going to release out there.

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So we'll move that bucket, I think it was safe but better safe and sorry.

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So up to the top and then I'm going to pull, pull, pull, pull and it's going to feel

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like I'm basically snapping that towel all the way through there as opposed to if I

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got up here I pulled more down so pulling this way instead of along it using my arms.

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Now I have this steep angle and it's going to cause me to use that torque of the club

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in order to get it out.

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So I would pull down and then I would use my hands to kind of throw it there.

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You would see that the path isn't going to work for a driver, I could make it work with

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it for an iron if I have a little bit of a upper body lunge but overall that pattern is not

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going to work for the longer clubs.

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The more I can use my body to pull, the better it's going to work for the longer clubs

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and a good way for you to experience it as well as the train it is by swinging four or

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five foot rope.