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In this concept video, we're going to go over troubleshooting the release.

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So if you remember from the release, we're basically going to talk about from when the club

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is about waist height on this side to waist height on the other side.

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There's three common errors that I tend to see.

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One would be a scoop or flip, which I'll discuss the reasons why.

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Two would be standing up and three would be bending those arms or letting those arms separate

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through impact.

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So let's talk about them one by one.

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First we have the flip.

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Now one of the major reasons that I see players flip is to square the club face.

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Now a lot of golfers will tell you, or a lot of golf instructors will tell you that most golfers

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flip in order to get the ball up in the air, I don't think that's the case.

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I think the case is that's what squares the club face for them.

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And here's what I mean by that.

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If I were to rotate my body a ton and keep my palms facing up like so, the club would

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come in pointed 60-70 degrees off to the right.

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Well my only options for squaring a club that's coming in like this would be the motorcycle

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move, this rotation, this screwdriver force that I'm so big on, which would now bring

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the club face in pointed at the target or what we call square.

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So when I say square in this video, I'm just referring to its pointing roughly at the

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target.

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So that would be option one would be there, it's coming in way open, so I just rotate my

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wrist.

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It's actually harder than it seems and it's not very intuitive for a lot of golfers,

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so very few of them actually do it.

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The other option would be, well, once I get to here, if I stop my hands and I release,

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look, now it's pointed in the direction of the target, but I have no saffling.

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So if you remember from the solid contact with a compression video, without that shaft

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lean, I can never hit the golf club in the sweet spot unless the ball's sitting up.

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So that's what gives the appearance of flipping in order to help the ball up, but most

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of the time I think it's a result of trying to get the club face square.

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So I'll demonstrate from here the two ways that you could get the club face square.

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So let's say I'm in this position where the club face is a little bit pointed right

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of the target or a little bit open.

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If I were to use my wrist like that screwdriver movement I've talked about, that now

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square is the club face, so when I continue turning, that's now pointed in the direction

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of the target.

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All right, you can see that.

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The other option is I get in that same open club face position and now instead of continuing

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to rotate, I just release my hands and now that's pointed in the direction of the target

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as well.

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One of those is better than the other.

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If you're the type of golfer who has tried to get your body more involved and you hit

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big blocks or even shank the ball, that's a good indication that you have no idea how

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to square the club face with just rotating the hands and so you use this flip movement

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as a way to square the club face.

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So that's the major one that I see in the release or that shows up in the release.

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Second error would be standing up through release.

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Standing up actually kind of helps out with this squaring in the club face, because

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as I stand up, that's going to cause everything to line up, which will get the club face

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pointed in the direction of the target.

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I'll show you what I mean.

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So as I get to about here, the more that I stand up, the faster the that gets everything

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in line, which gets things pointed in the dark, the direction of the target, but in an

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ineffective way.

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So if you stand up to square the face, when you stay down, if you end up blocking the

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ball or shanking the ball or hitting the ball away right, it's a very good indication

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that you need to train this release.

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Often times a player who stands up is really suffering from a poor transition.

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Either I've already started straightening my arms and so therefore if I stay down, I'd hit

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way behind it and therefore I need to stand up to avoid hitting the ball fat or the standing

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up and straightening my arms is kind of so geared to my power source that is happening

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way too soon.

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So you can check the cast sequences, the early extension, the power videos, they all

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kind of relate to this release.

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But the big piece of the release is if you understand how to do this little motorcycle

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move, screwdriver move, it helps set up a lot of the other factors because it's very hard

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to not stand up, not flip if you haven't scored the club face early.

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The last piece is having the arms or the last common problem during the release, it's

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having the arms bending around my body as opposed to extending out.

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Now this can either be a result of an overly steep path and so you bend your arms in

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order to avoid hitting the ground really, jarringly or it can be a concept issue that you

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think the club is supposed to swing across your body as opposed to going more out.

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So a good release would be here's delivery position and then my arms straightened as they

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work across.

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You can see that that's really my arms working more away from my body as opposed to going

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across my body like so.

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The across is going to come from the body speed.

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You can see that as my body's turn now when I release it out, that goes in the direction

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of the target.

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Here I'll show it from this side.

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So if I get into delivery as I turn my body and then release my arms out, they'll be

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extending out in front of my body and it'll look like it'll go straight.

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If I were to initiate my golf swing or my downswing with my upper body, I can't continue

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extending my arms or else I do that.

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So I will quickly bottom out or bend those arms in order to avoid slamming the club

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into the ground.

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Both of those that transition air in the release air, I think are driven mostly by the

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release problem and so you'd want to work on that before you'd work on the transition.

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But you would have to get around working on both of them at the same time because they're

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so interrelated.

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So those are the big issues.

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You've got the arms bending on the way through.

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You've got the standing up and you've got squaring the club face by flipping the club as

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opposed to releasing or rotating the hands to square the club.

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Those are the major issues that we see and we got drills all to cover every single one

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of them.