Jason Day - Elevation for Speed
Jason Day - Elevation for Speed
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Description
In this video, I'll show you one distinct difference in Jason Day's swing compared to Cameron Tringale's swing. This key move allows Jason Day to hit the ball further by more than 20 yards on average! I'll show you how critical arm elevation can be for speed and I'll also show you how to move your hands and arms into a perfect backswing position that is guaranteed to help you boost your driving distance. If you have been looking for ways to hit the ball further, then you must see how important this one key move really is.
Video Practice Points
- Elevate the arms as you are flexing the trail arm to complete the backswing.
- Keep the right elbow in line with the body and use the shirt seem as a reference point.
- Look for the hands to be above the trail shoulder at the completion of the backswing.
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Hey everyone, this is Rotary Swing
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Instructor Chris Tyler, and if you've
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been looking for more distance off the
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tee, I'm going to show you the one key
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move in Jason Day's golf swing that
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allowed him to hit it, on average, 20
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yards further than his playing partner at
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the Franklin Templeton Shootout. Let's go
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ahead and get started.
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Okay guys, so this past weekend Cameron
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Tringale and Jason Day win the Franklin
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Templeton Shootout, so congratulations to
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both those guys, both phenomenal guys in
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real life. And I want to focus in on one
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very key move that Jason Day has in his
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golf swing that allows him to hit it, on
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average, 20 yards further than his
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playing partner, and if you've been
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looking to get more power in your golf
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swing or more speed in your driver, then
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this is going to be something that you
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want to pay very close attention to.
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So let's go ahead and take a look here at
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both players. I'm going to get both
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players into a good takeaway position.
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We're going to talk about some of the
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similarities here.
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So here we are at about a completed
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takeaway position for Cameron, and we're
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going to go ahead and get Jason Day into
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a good completed takeaway position. So
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you can see both players look very
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similar here. You can see 45 degrees of
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rotation from the shoulder line. You can
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see that the club head is in line with
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the hands here, And you can also notice
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that the one difference here is that
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Cameron's got himself a little bit of a
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right arm bend, a little bit more than
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Jason Day does. Now, This is a big
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indicator, from an instructional
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standpoint, that we have that lead arm
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starting to push, and it can be a little
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bit more detrimental than some people
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think.
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Even though when we look at this on
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camera, It looks fairly textbook because
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of the fact that the club head is in line
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with the hands and we've got that
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rotation.
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But what can happen from this particular
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position? If you've been prone to pushing
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the golf club back, is you're going to
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continue to push further and further, And
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you're going to end up with a position
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here at the top where your right elbow is
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going to be very deep in relationship to
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the body.
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Also, take a notice of where his hands
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are in relationship to the right
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shoulder. You can see that they're very
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low in relationship to the right
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shoulder. They are above it, but they're
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very deep. His hands are very deep in
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relationship to the center of his chest,
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and they're very flat compared to what
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Jason Day is going to do here.
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So Jason Day actually gets through the
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takeaway. He's got a little less right
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arm bend here. He's going to go ahead and
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focus on right arm flexion and arm
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elevation, and he's going to move his
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hands into a much more vertical position
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here at the top of the swing. So you can
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see that the hands are much higher in
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relationship to the right shoulder.
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And then also notice the position of the
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right elbow. It's not deep and behind the
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shirt seam.
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So, now, from an amateur golfer
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standpoint, with the position that
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Cameron is showing us over here on the
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left-hand side of the screen,
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This position can be dangerous because
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nine times out of ten. We will see
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players try to reroute the club over the
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top to get the club back out in front of
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us.
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And over the top can kill you on speed,
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it can produce that big old slice, and we
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all know that's not fun.
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Or from more of a professional
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standpoint, You're going to have to spin
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really hard with the body to make room
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for the hands and arms to pass in front.
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So let's go ahead and get both players
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down into impact here.
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I'm going to go ahead and get Jason down
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into impact. You're going to see very
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textbook-like impact positions here with
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driver swings. You can see that his hips
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are open probably about 30 to 35 degrees.
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Shoulder lines are nice and square.
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You're going to see Cameron gets into a
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very similar position as well. Hips are
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open about 30 to 35 degrees. Very similar
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style impact positions. So you can see
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that as we started to look through the
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takeaway, they looked the same. But the
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big indicator that there was a big
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difference was the top part of their
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backswings. Now, Jason was able to use
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that elevation point as leverage for some
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more speed in the downward move and in
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turn, is making quite a bit more club
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head speed. So if you've noticed on
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camera that your arms are getting a
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little bit deep in relationship to your
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chest, then you want to focus on trying
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to add some shoulder elevation. And we've
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got some great videos on the website that
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will help you out with that. We've got
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the pool noodle shoulder elevation video
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that gives you two reference points. One
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throughout the takeaway, and then it
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gives you another reference point at the
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top part of your backswing. There's also
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a great video, five minutes to a perfect
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backswing. Chuck talks about the
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elevation and the flexion that happens to
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help move these hands into this position.
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So you're not getting yourself into this
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deep hands position where you're going to
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have to either reroute or spin really
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hard.
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Also, five minutes to a perfect backswing
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checkpoints video kind of goes through
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the movements of elevation and flexion,
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Kind of pre-setting those moves and then
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rotating to the top of your swing. To
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help give you a good understanding of
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where we're trying to look to get these
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hands. So the big thing is that
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understanding how important elevation is
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in your golf swing is going to, in turn,
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it's going to help you build more power
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and more speed. And I know we're all
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looking for that. We all want to hit it a
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little bit further. So if you've been
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struggling in those areas, let's take a
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look at those videos.
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Make sure that you're trying to not allow
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the hands to get so deep in your golf
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swing. And let's get out there and play
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better golf and hit it way further than
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we ever have before. All right guys, I
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look forward to working more with you in
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the future. If you have any questions or
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comments, please feel free to post those
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up under here under the video and I'll
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gladly help you out as well.
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