Martin Kaymer: Releasing for Distance
Martin Kaymer: Releasing for Distance
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Description
In this video, I’ll show you how to build up your power and whip your club head at impact like U.S. Open champ Martin Kaymer. You’ll find out: 1) how to leverage your swing for more power and 2) how to release your power like a bull whip! Check out this video now to blast drives past your golf buddies!
Video Practice Points
- Keep a wide-narrow-wide swing shape for the club head speed to be maximum at impact.
- The angle in the right arm and right hand are sources of leverage and need to be extended at impact.
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Hey everyone, I'm Rotary Swing Instructor
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Chris Tyler and your 2014 U.S. Open
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Champion Martin Keimer rolls over the
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field this week in stylish fashion. I'm
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going to show you how Martin puts maximum
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speed in the correct spot of his golf
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swing, and that's at impact. Let's go
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ahead and get started.
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All right, so Mr. Keimer, the 2014 U.S.
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Open Champion, steamrolls over the field
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at the Pioneer's number two, the newly
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renovated Pioneer's number two, actually
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a very, very difficult golf course that
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he made look really easy. So
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congratulations to Martin, I know that
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he's going to be around the game for
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quite a while and he's proving himself to
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be a force out there.
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So I know we just recently did an
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analysis on Martin, We talked a little
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bit about how he leverages the ground and
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how he uses the kinetic chain and moves
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the power up the body properly. But I
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want to talk to you guys about how. He
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prioritizes his golf swing in such a way
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that he's adding maximum speed at the
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correct spot, and that's at impact. And I
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want to compare it to a bullwhip and the
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technique of a bullwhip. So you
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understand where to release the actual
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speed and how to release the power at the
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right time. So let's go ahead and take a
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look here. And one of the things that
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you'll always hear us attribute to club
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head speed to is the overall swing shape,
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and you'll hear us say the wide, narrow,
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wide swing shape, You'll hear that talked
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about a lot in golf, and most of the golf
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pros that you see on TV today are all
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having the very similar swing shapes,
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where they stay wide, wide, wide all the
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way to the top part of the golf swing.
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You can see Martin's got his left arm
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very straight here at the top and then as
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he starts to work in transition, he's
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going to narrow this arc. So that arc is
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extremely narrow now where that shaft is
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very close to his right shoulder.
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And what we're looking to do is club head
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speed usually comes in three feet prior
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to the golf ball. And we see a lot of
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students that try to put speed in the
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golf swing too early on, where they try
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to either get speed into the takeaway,
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They even speed it up even faster into
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the backswing, and then they lose control
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of the golf club, or they get their wrist
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fully set at the top part of the golf
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swing. And they really try to add all the
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speed up here and they release the right
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arm, They release the right hand and
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then, in turn, we run into casting
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problems. And then the car just kind of
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runs out of gas before it even gets to
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the finish line. So we want to make sure
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that we're building that power up, We're
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storing that power and we're putting the
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gas on at the correct spot so you can
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make it to the finish line. And that's
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kind of the analogy I want you to think
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of here. So if we take a look over here
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on the right hand side of the screen with
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the bullwhip,
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He's got an angle here in the right arm
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and he's also got an angle up here in the
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right wrist. And both of these angles are
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going to be used for leverage and when he
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releases this angle, he's basically
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sending all that power, All that energy
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from those two levers. And he's going to
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try to maximize speed at the end of the
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whip here, so he's going to move it down
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the chain here.
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So you can see, let me go ahead and
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freeze Martin and we'll work over here on
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the bullwhip side. You're going to see
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that as he goes into full extension, so
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he's fully extended, lost both of those
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angles and now out here where I've marked
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this little red X, That's where the whip
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is going to be at max speed, and it'll
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actually break the sound barrier and make
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that crack sound. So you can see over
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here now with Martin's golf swing, He's
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going to start to release this right
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angle at the correct time, which is three
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feet prior to the golf ball. The speed is
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really starting to increase. Think of it
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this way, if a tour player goes from 22
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miles an hour with a seven or an eight
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iron in their hands, It goes to about 92
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to 94 miles an hour, right about three
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feet prior to the golf ball, and it's
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done through releasing that right angle,
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That right arm angle and then also making
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sure that you've pulled the power out of
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the body and all that stuff. Working
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together is maximizing speed right at
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impact.
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And then also take notice on how wide
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Martin stays post impact here, how the
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left arm stays really straight, both arms
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stay fully extended. You can see that he
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actually keeps that left arm really
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straight to the top part of his golf,
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swing, into impact, and then well beyond.
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And that makes just for a very fantastic
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move at it. So again, Martin's
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prioritized his golf swing to where he's
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putting the speed at the correct spot.
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And that's what I want you guys to work
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on. Make sure that you understand the
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differences between power and speed. Work
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on building power. You don't need to move
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the golf club back really, really fast
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and get into a good position. You can
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move it back slowly. Make sure you have
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some good kinesthetic awareness in the
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body and then you'll put the speed on,
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You'll turn that gas on three feet prior
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to the golf ball, releasing that right
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angle, and you'll be able to bomb it past
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all your friends. All right guys, so I
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want you to check out a couple of key
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videos. The wide narrow wide video that's
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in the advanced,
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or I'm sorry, that's in the program
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section of the introduction. So program
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introduction section, there's the wide
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narrow wide. Now we have the advanced
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downswing section. I want you to check
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out the slingshot release technique.
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That's a video where Clay talked about
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basically feeling like you're ripping the
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grip right off the club.
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And that's going to help you maximize
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speed at the bottom of the arc there as
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well. And then always make sure you check
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out the lag and release videos, the lag
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and release speed drills from the nine to
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three section that's in the downswing as
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well. So check out those videos, put
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those to use and make sure you're putting
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the speed in, Turning the gas on at the
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right time so your car can get to the
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finish line and you can bomb it past all
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your friends. All right guys, I look
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forward to working more with you in the
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future. I hope you have a great day and
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we'll talk to you soon.
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