 Are you starting to lose some distance with your irons? Are you generally just not got the power that you would like to possess when you've got an iron in your hand? Well, if that's the case, today's video and tip could be just the thing you are looking for, because I can guarantee you by the end of this video, you'll be hitting these things further than before. So today's episode of Testing the Tips comes from Eric Cagorno-Golf. Now, we've not featured Eric on the channel as yet, and as ever, there will be a link in the description below to Eric's full and perhaps more detailed explanation than what I'm going to provide you right now. And as I said, it's very much my interpretation of Eric's video. But essentially, what he's looking to do is create more clubhead speed with less effort in what is effectively a three-stage drill. Now, it's a very simple drill, but it's also a very effective one. And we're going to start off with step one of making sure we get more clubhead speed and generating more distance with our irons. Guys, okay, now we're going to need something, a little bit of a prop to assist you in being able to carry out this drill. I'm going to do phase one and phase two of this drill in this next stage. Now then, what Eric talks about is how many of us golfers, average golfers maybe, look to generate a lot of power from the top of the backswing into that impact location. So you'll know yourself, you put a huge amount of effort into that right behind the ball. So from the top of the swing, we often rush that element as well. Now, what you're looking to do is get you to increase your clubhead speed through that impact location up to the top of your swing and the drill or the first phase of the drill you're going to do is look to place something just behind your address position. I'm using the T-Box here, using a basket of balls at the driving range, a head cover, anything like that that restricts you in swinging that club back because we're not going to use any backswing at this stage. And what we're going to look to do is move the ball out the way for now is we're going to look from our address position through to the top of our swing as fast as we can. So all you're looking to do is looking to push through and I'm going to again push through to the top of your swing. That feels very strange because you're automatically, first of all, what you want to do is from this position your brain is trained to go that way. So it takes a little bit getting used to. So just get your address position, realizing you're not going back and push through. Now, trust me, it feels very weird. It feels very odd indeed. But it feels very different because what I'm not doing is I know that in my full swing I have not got that feeling through that impact location. I know that I haven't. So I don't stay through the ball and generally hitting down and coming up a lot quicker. And that's the bit that interests me in the sort of real feeling, the full swing that it starts to develop. So all you're going to do is keep on practicing, flicking through, it's supposed to feel very rushed, very, a lot of energy and effort going into it. And I know that you might look at that and think it looks pretty slow, but trust me, getting from that standstill position into the top of your back swing, your top of your swing without any back swing is really difficult to do. So that's phase one. All you're doing is getting some practice swings in from your address position and through the ball. Right, then we're going to move away from our obstacle. We don't want that anymore because what we're going to do is we're going to take our club and we're going to extend the swing to what would be sort of waist height in our backswing. We're going to do it exactly the same. So from the address position, we're not using a ball by the way. Just step away from the ball a little bit, get into your sort of waist height in your backswing but then get that same feeling of increasing your club head speed through that impact into the top of your swing. So the drill goes where you get to there and then you start to really rush through. And this is where you feel a real difference. And for me, this now feels a lot more natural than what we did from having the obstacle in the back from just going from the sort of address position to getting from here to the top of there quickly, but it's kind of, it's that obvious kind of move forward because you, all you're doing is extending what you've just felt through that sort of, through the swing, through to the top of the swing. And you just, it's a weird feeling. I mean, probably see, I'm struggling to sort of even explain what I'm experiencing. You've got to go and try this because what we're going to do then is all we're going to do, eventually we're going to hit a golf ball, obviously, but we're going to hit a golf ball, first of all, with just this swing to the waist height and then through and let's see what happens. Now don't go anywhere because we've got to admit when I first started trying this drill, I thought it was really weird. I didn't think it was going to work, but trust me, it does 100%. Right, so out of interest, I'm using a seven iron. Let's get addressed the ball. Let's just first of all get to there and whip through. That's my few practice swings off and go. Let's put a ball in and let's feel that exact same things. Up there. Wow. Do you know what? I mean, the interesting thing is, I've just said off camera, it feels really weird because with a lot of these tips, what I do I generally experience them. I've had a little bit of a practice of this beforehand and I'm really surprised. I just, even with that half swing and I probably, my guess would be, watching that back on the other camera is I've probably extended that higher than my waist height because it's a natural thing. It's very hard to control. And what your mind thinks you're doing, often with the golf swing, you're doing something quite different. So my guess is I think I wouldn't have hit that ball that far unless I extended that further than what I was supposed to do. But just watch that one back. First of all, it's a great distance we've just traveled with seven iron in hand from what felt like half a swing, but it's a really crisp contact. And what it also does, like I said, it just focuses the mind on hitting the back of that golf ball. And more importantly for me, the feeling I'm getting is I'm staying lower through that contact position for longer instead of my normal swing, which would be very much sort of coming up and out of the shot. So that's been a real positive for me is not just the fact that am I generating more club head speed? Probably. Am I going longer in distance? Probably. But more importantly, I'm getting a much better, crisper contact onto the back of that ball. My advice would be just keep on trying that drill at a half swing, effectively, or a half back swing at least to make sure you get to the top of that backswing as fast as you can. Is two more shots that I tried, which in all honesty, weren't as successful on that first one that I put on camera, which to be honest with you, I couldn't have hit any better. The second two, I leaked out a little bit to the right, even though they were really crisp strikes. And I'm not too bothered about that because the next phase, if you like step three, is probably hopefully gonna eradicate that problem for me in leaking right. And that's all about sort of engaging the lower body a bit more and getting a little bit energetic in terms of moving into the ball, which perhaps on those two that you've seen, I'm just a little bit behind the ball in terms of my body. This is a bit of a sequence thing where what Eric talks about is when you're starting to get to the top of your backswing, you're gonna start to move your hips and your weight more towards the ball. So club heads go in that way and then hips are going that way just before we start to make that turn into our swing. And what that is really gonna do is start to get hopefully a bit of shaft lean. We're gonna get a much more penetrating ball fight. We're gonna make sure that our hands are ahead of the ball impact as well. So don't forget, let's get that first bit whipping through. And then we're gonna go to the full swing. And as we go to the full swing, we go that way and we start to move the other way. Now what I've got to, or let me rephrase that. Our arms get to the top of our backswing and as they're reaching that way, we're starting to move our weight slightly in terms of that front left lead foot back towards the ball and generate that kind of like I said, lag if you like it. That's what we're hoping to do. So I'm gonna give that a go and we're gonna see if we can get as good a contact as what I did off that first ball because that was so, so good. So I'm just gonna go to here first ball. That's a real good drill before you hit your irons. It's just that practice shot on the tee or practice swing really gets you in a good position. Now, a little bit closer to the ball. We're gonna go back. You can hear obviously a much crisper sound. I mean, again, that has still gone out right hand side. It's a lot further than the two we just seen previously. But you can see how crisp the strike is. And for me, it's a different feeling, a different sensation that I am used to completely and it's something you would have to work on. But it's a real good drill that you can take to the driving range and you can sort of, I think sort of that half swing if you like, or half back swing through to the top of your back swing, generating that extra club head through the impact location. Give it a go and see what you think because it's a real interesting one. I think it's not gonna be for everybody, but I think for a lot of golfers, you'll really start to understand why you're perhaps losing a little bit of power, losing a little bit of distance with your irons in hand. And this could be a really useful tip. Well done, Eric, I like it. And like I said, that's my interpretation. Go to Eric's channel, go to the link below and see what he has to say, probably give a better explanation than I did. Right, that's another episode of testing the tips. You seem to be enjoying these right now. It's certainly helping my game and hopefully it's helping yours as well. So keep on giving me comments down below. This came, Eric Cagorno had never heard of him before. It came from you as a comment that someone suggested we look at his channel. So keep on putting them forward and we'll keep checking them out and keep on giving my interpretation and I'll let you know what I think of them. Right, thanks for watching and I'll see you all soon. That's so crisp, really good. So basically, for me, it's a case of I've got to loosen up a little bit in the backswing and you can feel that explosion then through there. Again, just leaked out to the right hand side. There's just a couple more that we ended up filming and moved from the tee to where I landed on the fairway and it was just really interesting that for me, the one thing I've noted and just bear in mind yourselves and I was kind of like throttling the club, really got a tight grip to try and generate that power through and that sort of had issues, if you like. So I just loosened up, relaxed a little bit and then really starts to sort of maybe get a little bit of a firmer grip through that impact location. So for me, I'd have to work on it a little bit but there's no doubt you wanna go out and try this one. It's 100% a much crispest strike. My eyes haven't been great the last few days. I've been honestly the two days here. It's been the weakest part of my game. I've been okay but I haven't struck the ball anything like and I wish to record this video two days ago and I might have had some better scores here round Cardrona.