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Do you want to hit the golf ball farther? There are lots of ways to gain club head speed in the golf swing… but one I bet you haven’t heard about is forearm supination. Sounds complicated, but in today’s lesson I’ll show you how this often overlooked factor can add serious distance to your golf swing.
We’ll take a look at how baseball pitchers use this same principle to add velocity to their fastballs, and then give you a simple drill to practice at home.
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This highlights how important it is to have the proper grip on the club. For years my right hand was too much on the side of the club instead of on top. Really improves striking.
Best employable explanation of the use of the right hand and arm I have seen. So clear, so doable.
This completely improved my swing.
Thanks Zach, good stuff. For me, who has always lacked rotation, along with your insightful use of the right arm/hand motion I also like to think of fingernails of left hand up through impact. Although this is never achieved it aids me in arm rotation.
Hi Zac . Thank you for your dedication in helping us battlers out here. Is this total supination of the right wrist a new thing. Just wondering why you havent mentioned it before in previou videos, or have you ??wr
"Skip a stone' across the pond is a great image.
So the lead arm pronates in transition and then supinates through impact? I’m having a hard time feeling these two different concepts.
It should happen naturelly, you can’t manipulate the club.
Best regards.Alain
The actual clubface upon actual swing is not so shallow as the instruction. If its too much from inside, one is creating a draw or top spin , right to left spin onto the ball.
Hi Zach – How much increase of swing speed do you think we could get when properly executed ?
From 95 to 105 or so ? Am I correct when saying this concept (achieving more distance) is more important for the driver than for the irons ?
Great video. so is this a right-handed or dominate hand golf swing?
Fantastic video, Zach. One question: Is left arm supination equally or more important than the right arm supination? . Is the idea of them working together or letting the left arm control it to avoid the right arm domination that leads to more problems? And thank you for your clarity on a really difficult, vital part of the golf swing. You did it masterfully.
So how is this different from opening the clubface up fully on the backswing???
excellent!!!
Thanks Zach, your explanations are on another level, really concise!
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You can't play below the swing arch, be careful with this move and getting the club behind and under, it will cause you to over rotate your body and forearms. Almost every tour player nowadays is doing everything they can to take forearms out of the swing, reducing clubface rotation. Although these moves can give you speed, it is one way to create speed, there are more efficient ways that will also keep the club square without face rotation.
There are two ways to play, Zach definitely demonstrates one very well here however, I would argue option 2 is more efficient and reliable.
This is gold, feel weird, but after try it makes sense
You da man…
Serigio is probably the best example of that
That's a new move for me and with a couple of simple practice swings, it feels like a more natural throwing & swinging motion…Now the Hogan toss makes more sense with relation to the golf swing. Thanks, Zach.
This eliminates "over the top" forever. Power in golf comes essentially from body rotation, not just the arms and hands. Timing this will square the club face when the rotation is continued, and is unconsciously learnt at the range when incorporating this forehand supination, producing the required feel. This action is one more component for adding effortless power.
I was pronating the left wrist and it was hooking too often. Working on calibrating my swing yesterday on the range I realized as I was pronating my wrist it was rotating to the outside (away from my body). This caused my club head to close too much. I tweaked the pronation so my wrist rotates towards my body which led to better club face at impact.
The lead wrist pronation inwards causes the non-lead wrist/hand to point straight up (palm facing sky) at the top of the bsckswing.
Please correct me if I am wrong. If I understood your video correctly, I am on the right track with the pronation and rotation inwards.
Lol ok 👌 much easier just saying bow your left wrist
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Would you recommend performing this action when doing speed training with sticks?
While I agree with everything you showed in this video, I was a tournament level tennis player and this is exactly how we hit a modern forehand, I would add that in golf, while this technique absolutely generates more speed, it introduces the 'potential' problem of more erratic face control through impact. The one thing I would add to you video, and I think it is extremely important, is that nearly all pros, as the clubs comes into Position 6, have the Toe of the Club slightly down, whereas most if not nearly all slicing amateurs, have the Toe of the club in a slightly toe open position – and the technique you are showing, on its own, is very likely to cause a further open face coming into impact. In fact, you can see many times in this video that as you are demonstrating the technique in slow motion, the club is open at position 6. I would thus add, that as a checkpoint when working on this technique, that it is critical to check the club's face angle at position 6 so that it is not open. The more you look to add to your source of power in this area of the swing using this technique, the more 'twisting' force you are going to have to apply to keep the face from being open while gaining the added power. When pros swings are compared to amateur swings using sensors, one of the many areas of big differences is the twisting force that they apply to the club in order to harness this increased lag – if you can't apply this type of force to offset the lag and control the face angle, you are not going to be hitting many fairways when you add this source of power. When I have shown this 'tennis' / baseball technique to people and shown them the position the club has to be in coming into position 6, and then had them hit 10 balls doing this, they all immediately will say that their right forearm is in pain – ie they have never used it to hit a ball before. Just found your channel – great video.
Great information Zack! Bradley Hughes has some great videos that I encourage golfers to check out. I watched a video of his in which he advocates the shaft drop behind the body on the downswing. I started using his swing tip and hit it very solid with a nice draw. Your suggestion to supinate the right arm creates the same position. Keep up the great instruction. Cheers
Hit the ball FARTHER not further. Okay.
Sounds very good in theory. I can see that I will be hitting the balls all over the place😅
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Thank you Zach! Best tip ever! I have searched for lag the last 30 years.. now with this swivel, which to me at first was the opposite to what I thought the right hand/forearm should do, I lag and speed up like a turbo! I had a very Good swing and decent power… but this is what I had been looking for. Thanks again. Mabye I will send you a before and after video 😁
Hope this video doesn't do too much damage to free lesson seekers on YouTube.
Great stuff Zach, just like skipping stones!
Obviously you dont understand that alot of people dont have the flexibility that you do. We cant get our elbow and hand to do what you can do.