In this video, Clay delves into the physics of releasing a golf club passively to achieve either a draw/hook or fade/slice. By manipulating the club’s position and swing plane, golfers can use natural forces to their advantage. Clay explains that pulling the club from above or from the inside influences the clubface to either open or close, respectively. Understanding these mechanics removes the need for active manipulation with the hands, allowing for a more natural and efficient swing. The video emphasizes practicing both draw and fade releases to harness these principles effectively.
What's Covered: Explanation of how swing plane and club position naturally influence the clubface to open or close without active hand manipulation.
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Alright, so I promised you in this course I was gonna go over some of the physics of talking about how to passively release that club. And that's what I'm training in these two releases, this hook or draw release, and the fade or slice release. I'm kind of getting the physics to work for you based on how I'm releasing the club here.
Let's go over this. So number one, what I want you to do is imagine we already talked about how when I yank the club forward, it makes the face want to open up. There's also a lot of that going on with swing plane. So if you grab a club and you take it with just your left arm and you put it to where it's way over here, if I swing down, so if I move my arm just straight down like a plane of glass like this, when the club face is way over here, what happens to that face is it actually wants to open up.
So if I just pull straight, I'm not, I'm not making the face open up at all. I'm just pulling in a straight line. It automatically wants to kick back in here. The face gets really, really open. Almost wants to hit me in the leg. Now if I take that club and I put it on the other side and I go way flat here, and again, I'm just gonna pull my hand straight down as I pull straight down on that club, it makes the face wanna close over that way.
So I can show you with the full size club here if I have the uh, club like this and I pull it this way, it wants the club shaft to kick that way and it wants the face to turn over. If I do it the opposite direction, it makes the club wanna kick this way and the face wanna open up. Long story short, when I get the club more over the top and I pull through it, it makes the face wanna do this.
When I get the club more from the inside and pull through the same way it naturally wants the face to turn on over. I'm getting the club set up in these positions for you when we're doing our two releases. So that's why when we do. Our draw release or our hook release. We set this club to the inside when we're doing this.
So now that the club's at the inside, as I naturally move the club forward, it's gonna want to kick in front and the club face is gonna want to close down a little bit. Then we keep it closing down when we do our, our hook release and let those forearms roll over each other. And you can see how if I just let this club really get more to the inside, kind of back in here, almost up in here.
It makes it easier to get the club face to turn on over. So if you imagine I get the club way over here, like I'm almost like chopping a piece of wood like this. I just turn as I'm doing that, get the club really shallow as I go through. It's easy to get it to turn on over. That's kind of the physics working for you.
It gets really difficult if I get the club here and then I try to turn it over that way. It's like the club wants to do that and I'm fighting it to try to get there. So really the more shallow, the more from the inside you get. The easier it is to get that draw or hook release, get the hands to swing out that way, get the face to turn on over.
You're kind of working with the physics there. Now, when we go into our fade release, we're doing the exact opposite. So the club being inside, it's outside, and as we pull through it, the face wants to stay a little bit more open and it stays open to the sky like that. And we're kind of ending up in this area.
Or if I face the camera this way, the club gets out here, I pull it toward the target. It wants to stay open. So there's some real physics going on there that make it almost impossible if you start mismatching those. So if I start coming down steeper more over the top, and then I want to hit a draw, the club's wanting to open up and I have to fight it the whole way.
If I start coming in real shallow and from the inside club back in here and I want to fade it, I have to, the clubface wants to release, I have to really hold it open extra to try to fade it. It doesn't really work out that way. So really, while we're doing these two releases, I'm just kind of explaining what's going on.
You don't even really have to think about any of this while you're going through this course. All I'm doing is letting the club work in here. I'm letting it naturally flow on over, and I'm feeling very passive with my hands as I'm doing this. So as I'm letting this club shaft turn all the way around, I'm not muscling through it to make that happen.
I'm feeling almost like I'm just swinging it freely. And moving my club and my body in a way where it could, it could turn on over for me. My forearms will really cross over like that and make that X kind of motion. Or if I'm going more on my fade side, I gotta get the club out here. So I feel like I'm very passive with my hands and that face is now wanting to close down.
So for me, when I'm doing both of these, I don't feel like I'm manipulating it with my hands at all. I'm just putting in the club in a position to where the forces work for me, either more outside and across. Or inside and letting 'em turn on over, and that does a lot of the work for you. So just wanted to throw that in there.
Thought you'd be interested in it. Really all you have to do is work on the two releases. All that stuff will get ironed out for you. Best of luck. I'll see you soon.
