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Use the SAMI to hear when your trail arm straightens. There are a few useful times for listening to the straightening of the trail arm; at the top of the backswing, during transition, or during the release. The SAMI can help you feel the movement and correlate it with sound at times when you may not be able to accurately feel it.
Tags: Drill, Intermediate
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This is right arm extension timing with the bootleg Sammy.
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So the Sammy is a cool little spatial awareness trainer through
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retourshraker or you can make one by ordering a alligator clip badge
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retractor and then attaching a rubber band to it.
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I'm actually prefer the rubber band to the fixed loop that comes with the
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Sammy and having the badge retractor and allows you to attach multiple
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things like T's that could go in the club or different attachments like an
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extra alligator clip.
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But what we're going to do in this one is we will train the timing of this
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right arm extension.
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So basically what I've done is I've taken the badge retractor attached to
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my shirt sleeve up at the shoulder and then placed it around my thumb.
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So now if I was to make a backswing I can hear a little bit of shortening as
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that arm bend.
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Now if I got to the top and I really straighten my arm I can hear the timing of
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when this badge retractor is getting pulled out.
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Hopefully you can pick it up on this microphone.
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What I want to do is I'm going to keep that pretty much the same until I get
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to about here and then extend later and later through the downswing as opposed to
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trying to straighten it earlier and earlier.
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So if I'm aware of when this timing is happening what I'll find is that I
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I may create a new challenge for my brain to figure out.
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If I'm delaying the arm timing and I'm hitting it really thin it means that I'm
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probably standing up and stalling and so if I do delay the arm timing the club's
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not getting all the way down to the ground or if I delay the arm timing and the ball
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is hitting it relatively solidly but it's going way off to the right.
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That means that I'm using the early timing and the right arm to square the club
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face.
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Using this little retractor as auditory feedback can help you work on the timing.
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If you then find that when you have good timing at the arm extension but the ball is
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either not being hit solidly or it's going off to the right then that gives you a
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new problem that you need to solve but stick with the arm timing because that's
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going to be really helpful for helping you build this body dominant pivot.
