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What is the secret to striking the ball pure every time? In this video, we're going to break down the step-by-steps on how to strike the ball pure and what you need to do to achieve it consistently. To strike the ball pure, you got to have a good understanding of perfect impact position and then good swing plane. And also, you got to know that every club has the different timing at the impact position. What is the best swing plane for pure ball striking? Swing plane is, remember we talked about the swing plane, is if I draw a line at my end of the shaft, that's the swing plane. So what is this called? Steep swing plane over the top. Over the top. So your swing plane is on top of the swing. Your club is on top of the swing plane and this is under the swing plane. So best will be at the swing plane. But depends on which club you're hitting. If you're hitting with your wedge, you want to be slightly on top of the swing plane when you're hitting a wedge and longer the club gets, you want to be a little bit underneath the swing plane. At what club should we perfectly be on the swing plane? Around, I believe like six iron or six or five iron. Okay. I think that's the club that should be on the swing plane. But every club can be on the swing plane. It doesn't really matter. It depends on the face angle. And the reason why we want to be on the swing plane, relatively close to a swing plane is because you have a higher chance of topping or shanking or chunking or hitting on the toe if you're off the swing plane. So let me show you an example. If you're someone who's going away on top of the swing plane, you see right before I get into impact, you see where my club head is? Above the ball. Above the ball and in front of the ball. So what happens is I have a way higher chance of shanking a ball. So 80% of the reason why people shank a ball is because of the over the top. But at the same time, you can still shank a ball when your club is way underneath the swing plane. If your swing plane is way underneath, this is what happens. So that's why we want to be relatively close to a swing plane to have a pure ball strike. And then same thing, if you're going too much underneath the swing plane, you have a higher chance of topping a ball because you're kind of scooping the ball. So when you're underneath the swing plane, way underneath the swing plane, naturally your club will come on ascending angle during the impact. So you have a higher chance of topping. And then also when you're coming way too much on top of the swing plane, you have a higher chance of chunking a ball. But also at the same time, you can still top the ball when you're going over the top. Right. So your swing is going to be very inconsistent. You're going to have a lot of bad misses when you're off the swing plane. So is the swing plane the best swing plane? If we were to draw a line, does it just look like 45 degrees? Yeah, it depends on the club. Yeah. Because wedges are here. So it's very steep. And driver or hybrids are somewhere here. So it depends on which club you're doing. So your main goal is to make sure do your takeaway and backswing on the swing plane and come back down to the swing plane. Okay. How much tension should I feel in my arms to strike the ball pure? You want to have less tension as possible. So you don't want to be adding too much tension to your arm and your wrist, and especially on your finger when you're hitting the ball. You want to be around 20%. 20% tension. So could you show us what 100% looks like and what 20% looks like? 100% will look like this. Here. You see my arms and the hands are kind of locked. And there was no release of the club. So it kind of looks like a Dushanbo. You know, you watch his swing. I love his swing, but he doesn't use too much of his arms. His arms are kind of locked like this. He swings like this. With his body. Yeah, with his body. So that is more with the... It doesn't mean that he has too much tension on his body. But it kind of looks like it is. But swing with no tension looks like this. Yeah, so loose. When you see my club starts to release and then naturally go to the finish. But yeah, so if you have too much tension on your arm and the hands, what happens is your club speed starts to decelerate. So if you want to accelerate the club head, then you're going to have no tension on your arm. Right. Especially with driver. Yeah. Irons are okay. You can kind of have a little bit of tension and kind of muscle it out. You can still get away with it, especially the wedges. But driver, if you have tension, you're not going to have any club speed. Right. So we want 20% tension so that we have enough flexibility to control the club face while still generating good power. Oh yeah, of course. So let me show you an example. Do you remember I talked about like body swing and the arm swing? So if you're someone who's using more body swing, you don't have to have any tension on your arm. Just arms relaxed, swing like this. You can still generate a pretty decent amount of power. But if you're someone who's more armsy, more like a 50% arm swing and body swing, you can use a little bit of wrist. You can have a little bit of tension on your wrist to have a little bit more control. So it'll kind of look like this. See the arm. I did a little bit of more wrist turn and then I turn after. So for every club is slightly different. I use more wrist with my hybrid and longer club. And with shorter club, I use more body like this. You see, you can tell by the result, right? First one, I just use more body. I couldn't release the club. My club face was, my ball was all going right side. And then this time I use my wrist a little bit. So it depends. You can use a little bit of more tension and more wrist rotation with the longer club. With the shorter club, I don't want too much wrist rotation. It depends on the club too. What is the correct timing of when I need to release my club? That too, it depends on the club. So with the wedges, you want to be releasing the club as late as you can. So release means this. Releasing the hands or rotation can be released too. But release. So with the wedge, we want your hands to be always in front of the club. And when you get up to an eight or seven iron, you want to be just slightly in the front. And then once you get to a driver and the wood, you want to be just a touch in front. So what happens is with an iron, you want to be releasing the club from your right pocket from right here. Releasing the club. And then with the driver, you want to be releasing it from your right shoulder. You want to be releasing it a little bit earlier. Because longer the club, it gets harder to release the club. That's why a lot of golfer, they slice their driver, right? Because their timing is off. They release it too slow. Some people, they release like this. They expect to square the club face. So they're always hitting it to the right side. So you want to be releasing it a little bit earlier with the longer club. Shorter the club is, you want to be releasing it a little bit later. Right. So the release point ranges from our hip pocket all the way to our shoulder. Yeah, that's kind of range where you want to be releasing. But yeah. If we were to break it down into the three sections of this range, the hips would be the wedges, right? Yeah. With the wedge, you want to be releasing somewhere here. More shaft lean. And with the middle to long iron, you want to be somewhere here. And then driver, you want to be releasing somewhere here. Okay. How does my weight transfer affect pure ball striking? Weight transfer. Oh, okay. That's a very simple one. So remember, if you don't do any weight transfer, do you think you're going to top the ball or chunk a ball? Chunk a ball. Yeah. So if you start here and then you do a weight transfer to your right side. And then if you don't do any weight transfer, you chunk it. And then if you don't turn your hips, you also chunk it. Right. So there's two ways to not chunk a ball. One is just make sure to do weight shift, like lateral movement. Another one is do a weight transfer. So your shoulder moves back and your club goes in the front. Usually in weight transfer, people struggle with lack of weight transfer, which makes them chunk. But people don't struggle that much with too much weight transfer, right? Some people do. Yeah. They top the ball. Okay. Yeah. And too much weight transfer and too fast hip rotation can cause you to top the ball. So another example is this. So you start your setup here. And if you do too much weight transfer, you have a higher chance of topping a ball. When that happens is you don't really have to change your swing. You just need to put the ball slightly more on the lead side. That's going to help you hit the ball better. And also too much hip rotation can cause you to go way over the top. So that's another thing that you need to think about when you're doing a weight transfer. Make sure too excessive hip rotation is not good. And excessive weight transfer is not good. So how do we know what the correct amount of weight transfer is? That really depends on how good your sequencing is. Because some people can still strike the ball really well with the hip turn like this. And some people can still strike the ball with minimal hip rotation. Minimal hip rotation and still hit the ball pretty well. So that really depends on your flexibility and also how good your sequence is. On impact, what should my spine angle look like? Spine angle. And it depends on the clubs too. But not too much difference though. So main thing you have to think about on the spine angle is on your setup you have a certain amount of hip hinge, right? Your main goal is to maintain this hip hinge and maintain the spine angle. If you talk about from the side view. Throughout the setup, backswing, and impact. You want to maintain the spine angle like this. You don't want any early extension or you don't want too much hinging of the hip. So your main goal is to maintain the spine angle this way. Another one is from the front view. You start with your, depends on the club. With the iron you have a little bit of spine angle tilt. And then driver you have a little bit more. So same thing with driver and iron. You want to maintain the spine angle throughout the whole backswing. Throughout your impact. So most common issue is the reverse spine angle. As soon as you start your backswing, you start lifting your right shoulder. And then lifting your right hip. A lot of people start to do this. You already lost the spine angle, right? But some golfers they come back to the same neutral spine angle. And then start hitting the ball. So it's okay if you can come back to the position. But I don't actually recommend it. Because once you do a reverse spine angle, it's really hard to have any rotation. You're pretty much doing this. Instead of rotating. So I don't recommend doing a reverse spine angle. Make sure to maintain this spine angle throughout your whole backswing. And then, so this is the, your setup position, spine angle, and your setup position is the most optimal impact position. Good spine position. How should people practice if they want to consistently pure the ball? First, you have to assess your swing. Go see a coach and see what your typical misses are. So if you're someone who chunk a ball or someone you top a ball, you got to work on not chunking or not topping. And also if you're someone who's hitting the toe or the heel or open club face or closed club face. Mostly people has one, usually one-way miss, like not like both-side miss. Find out what your misses are. And then just work on that movement first. Just trying to fix that shot. I mean, if you're someone who's chunking, maybe add more weight transfer or add more wrist rotation. Or if you're someone who's topping, you might have like early extension or you might going over the top too much. Assess your swing first and fix one thing at a time. Because a lot of people, they try to fix like two or three things at a time at the range. But even trying to fix one thing at a time is very hard when you're at the range. So just work on one thing at a time and please go see a coach. I think that's one of the most important thing. Go see a coach. And watch our YouTube videos. Yeah, that too.