How to DROP DOWN the Correct Way and to NOT Fall into The PULL DOWN TRAP

0:00 There is no pull down. And the traps that [music] you could fall into if you do that, you would have heard me say exaggeration a lot of times. I pull the toilet [music] chain. He helped the one thing that cures for. You don't have their golf swing. >> [music] >> You can get away with being a little bit over the top. One's a body rotation. And one's a more of a hand and wrist release. Hi everyone, welcome back to another video here on the channel. Thank you very much for joining me. My name is Warren Bennett. It's my old Trev back there. Yep, right in the way as per usual, but with his tennis balls, surprise, surprise. And welcome to a video called there is no pull down. So you would have heard me say on many videos about the

0:45 gravity drop, but how this club and hands need to come down in the transition. But there is no pull down, and I'm going to tell you what the differences are, because it can be confusing about how these hands want to be working down, but you don't want to be pulling them. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about that, and the traps that you could fall into if you do that, and tell you how to then get out of it. I'm going to show you more importantly about how we can drop this club and hands down correctly in the downswing. So I'll just get the front camera set up. Trev's definitely in a danger range there. I'm going to tell you all about it. Okay, everyone. Thanks very much for joining me for another one, and with Trev taken care of, pretty chill this

1:30 morning. So like the title says, there is no pull down in the golf swing. There obviously is a down. The hands and arms, and especially club, want to be dropping down in transition. But there is no specific pull down. I'm going to show you the negative effect that that has on your swing if you do pull down in the downswing. So the trapdoor potentially you could fall into is the top of the backswing. If I pull this handle straight down into my right hip, the more you pull this handle down, the more this club wants to get shot out. It's exaggerated. And then from the front view, the more I pull down, the more my right elbow wants to go high. So, there's a difference between allowing my hands to drop down and the

2:17 club or pulling the handle straight down here. So, you might have heard the old expression back in the day. I think I read it in Golf World in the '80s. Uh pull the toilet chain. Now, that's great for golfers, let's say like Sergio Garcia, who has mentioned about his feeling is pulling the toilet chain. But, you got to imagine his swing is this way. He has too much of this drop and lag and under. So, be very careful of someone's feeling because you don't have their golf swing. But, remember for a majority of you golfers, you want to be able to drop this club in the slot. And pulling down is not an effective way to do that. Because you want down with the hands

3:03 and down with the club head as well. Right, okay. So, that's the negative. Let's get on to the positive. And what can we do to feel this to feel your hands dropping down and the club as well. So, top of the backswing, a good feel is if you've got a glove logo or I've got my Garmin S15 now I'm using. Um my watch face is going to be wanting to point towards the sky a little bit more. I think an overlooked area is the wrists, what they do in transition. Because even if my hands go out slightly, which is a hard thing to try and fix if you're an over the topper. If you're if the back of your right wrist goes towards your right forearm, the club can sit back behind you. You can get away with being a little bit over

3:49 the top. In a perfect world, yes, we need a bit more Adam Scott. We need to be dropping your hands down and the club to be following that with this right wrist angle kinking behind you. My watch looking up a little bit more. What my watch doesn't do, it doesn't now face towards that front camera. So, if you've got a watch or a glove logo at the top of the backswing, you can see it pointing kind of 45° from that back camera. It never goes horizontal. You always want to to keep that 45° in a perfect world. You might want to feel a little bit more. Want to feel that glove logo pointing up. So, basically, my right wrist angle, and I've shown you this before in few different videos, the back of my right wrist is now

4:35 getting closer to the back of my right arm. And it's a great feeling because it's one feeling that can really help, the one thing that cures for path, better natural lag. Yes, your right elbow is going to be the main driving force and the steering wheel behind that. No question about it. Like I did a video a few videos ago. But, you can get away with it just with your right wrist angle, too. Right. So, let's break the swing down like we normally do and then glue it all together at the end. So, backswing just a half backswing just with your left arm parallel. Kink your right wrist towards your right forearm. Keep it there and then just turn through. Your turn through might look different to mine. I'm feeling it more in my body rotation. You might feel a little bit

5:20 more head still and release the club past you if you're a hooker, which potentially, if you're a pull down steep over the top, you might need that. So, let's try one of those. Backswing only a half one. Don't rush it. Kink that right wrist towards. Beautiful. From here, I'm going to stay nice and passive. Kick my knee in and release it through. You can see the difference in the two swings there. One's a body rotation and one's a more of a hand and wrist release. Basically, one for a draw and one for a fade. Remember, we're feeling exaggerated to feel neutral, so I'm not saying every golfer should feel like this or every golfer should feel like this. There's a neutral we always need to find, but to find that neutral we need to feel a

6:05 little bit exaggeration. You would have heard me say exaggeration a lot of times, but I think it's a really good one cuz I don't think a lot of golfers do it enough when they do exercises. Kink it back. Right, don't throw it over the top. Keep the right wrist as it is. Okay, a little bit of release there. Beautiful. So, now we can blend a little bit of down in the downswing, which I'm not going to stop at the top, but we're just going to stop halfway down. So, we're So, that looks something a little bit like this. So, backswing, we're going to drop the hands down as well as the wrist doing this. You can see my right elbow's much more in that kind of in position touching my body. Keep it there. Turn through. Ooh, thin that one. It's not really result-based, to be fair. You're just practicing body parts

6:52 moving. Okay, little bit of hinge helps on the backswing, but don't worry too much about that. Okay, wrist back whilst the hands go down. There's your proper drop down. Beautiful. So, we are now dropping the hands down, but the club is coming with us as well, as you can see from that replay. Off backswing, don't rush it. Don't look as well. Don't want you looking whilst you're doing it. Always keep looking down at that ball. It's harder, but it fast-tracks you. Drop, stop. Don't rush. Okay, release. Turn everything through together, as well as the wrist release, too. We do down and wrist. Ooh, lovely. That

7:39 That puts that right elbow in that position. I've exaggerated this now. In that position where I showed you with that don't hit behind the ball video. Oh. We're just doing it nice and subtle. Down wrist through. Small pump, small shot. There we go. That's what my wrists are doing. Basically, the club is just dropping behind me. So, you imagine the club is just doing this. My wrist just need to do this. Watch face is now looking up. Club logo behind one is looking up whilst my hands go down. That is the secret. And then release. Oh. Remember, different types of release. A bit more hand release, nice and passive for you slices of the ball. Or if you want to rotate a little bit more, which I need to do if you hook it.

8:26 But, we're going to work on phase three. Not a full swing, just a half swing still. Let's do a practice swing to rehearse. Okay, beautiful drop. So, the secret now is to allow these hands to drop. But, obviously, I'm guiding it with my right wrist here. I'm allowing my club to drop behind me. And then release. Whatever that release looks like for you again. Nice and light. Nice and short. And it's never probably going to be as much as the drill. But, sometimes when you're gluing it all together, especially if you're doing it soft like this, sometimes it's a little bit easier. You might start to think about result now. And I'm talking about kind of strike and where the ball starts, not spin in the air necessarily. Okay, nice

9:13 and light. Not trying to hit it too hard, maybe two or three out of 10. Lovely. It's always going to be more difficult to feel in movement. That's why we take the pace off these swings. I'm going to say it for as long as I play golf. If you want to introduce some changes, you've got to take some pace off it to start with when you're doing exercises and drills. Don't get sucked into hitting it too quickly, cuz you've got to give yourself the awareness to feel this drop, not the pull down, the drop and the club to drop behind you. This wrist position. Nice and light, maybe a three or four out of 10. I don't have the problem. I don't have the over the top problem. But you can see in the transition what

9:59 my wrist wants to do there. The more you ramp the speed up, the harder this is going to be, cuz the centrifugal force, or I think it's called cent- centripetal force, wants to throw it out. So, keep it back behind you. Keep that right wrist for as long as you can, and then layer the release that you need on there, either body or hands and arms. Nice and light still. Ooh, that was my best one. And that's one of those things, like I said, I think in the video earlier, the one thing that cures for. Just doing this with your wrist, obviously with feeling a little bit of a drop as well, but just doing this can sort your plane out, can sort that natural lag out, can sort the strike out, can talk about talk about where the low point is.

10:45 So, just doing that with your wrist here, the glove logo pointing up, watch pointing up, club dropping back, back of the right wrist is towards my right forearm, then it can sort all those other ingredients out without you feeling it. So, one question you might have is is it the same with every club? Um, I always say the swing doesn't change. If you've got a wedge or a driver, yes, there's different different characteristics, but you don't try and do anything different with those two clubs. You allow the length of the club and the distance away and the ball position to take care of itself, but the swing stays the same. Anything you hit full out. Obviously, if

11:31 you're hitting little half shot, little punch shot, or any different spin you're putting on the ball, yes, there's different feels, but generally the swing stays the same, no matter what club you're using. So, if you're feeling like you're pulling down and it's not working, or something's not quite right, find this little feeling. Find this little wrist feeling here. Allow everything to go heavy. Allow the club to drop down. Remember, it's not just the handle to be pulled down, it's the club needs to fall back down behind you as well. So, hopefully this video will help. So, please let me know if it has, or any specific feelings that you've given, or any specific feelings that you've layered onto this to help you as well. Not to help me, to hopefully help people reading it as well. So, thank you very

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