 Fawr ydych yn y bod yn gweithio wedi'u cerdd, mae'n gymryd i'n ymwneud ydych chi'n gweithio'r ffordd ar gyfer i'w bobl i'w cael ei gweithio ddweud â'r ddechrau. Mae'r ddechrau sy'n cael ei gweithio i hybrid ac yn dweud yn gweithio'r gaelol i gweithio'r gawdd i'r gelfwyr. I want to make sure in today's video that you've got some basic fundamentals in place to make sure you're getting the optimum performance when you've got a hybrid in hand. Right so let me start by saying this video comes from the art of simple golf so if you want to see the full and detailed explanation then make sure you go and check out the link in the description below but for this it is my of course interpretation of that video tip and it's very very simple and straight forward and there's a couple of stages to it what we're going to do is we'll start off with the fundamentals very very basic is all about the setup now and it looks can be a bit boring at times but it's really important we get this bit right and particularly with hybrid where for me having watched the video it would probably change from where I would have normally had my ball position to start with and that's key as you know to making sure we get the most out of these hybrids because what we're looking to do we want to use the bounce on this club and we want to use the CG we want to use everything that we've got the benefits that this offers over a long guy in well it's good but you've got to make sure you're set up in the correct position to get the most out of that hybrid like I said we're going to start off with a ball position you're going to need either an alignment stick or a golf club laid down in front here we've got a good strong line that you can see there which is this yellow line which is centre of my stance and then you'll notice where the ball position is and I would say it's between the yellow line and my lead front foot so the halfway in between the two and if you're going off your lead foot maybe a couple of hybrid club heads back in terms of the width from my lead foot hope that made sense and I'm sure from the visual it will now I said that's a bit different because for me I'd have probably been a little bit more towards the centre of my stance and the second thing is also key and that's the hand position they want to be in a fairly neutral position so what that means is we don't want them leaning forward we don't want them leaning back and what that also means is we don't want a descending blow nor do we want to hit in this thing on the upswing it needs to be very much a neutral angle of attack using that bounce using that CG to get this ball launching airborne so what you're going to do is your hands are going to be positioned if we've got centre of my sternum is on the yellow line then we want our hands pretty much in line with the ball itself which is on my lead front chest my left chest and we're going to simply make sure that we're in that position there not forward not behind just sitting nice and balanced over my lead left chest all simple and straightforward like I said so far before we hit a ball we're going to do one more thing and this will certainly aid people who've got any sort of restrictions in their movements or their ability to get through the swing maybe for older golfers is just flare out that front lead foot then you'll see that on a lot of videos particularly if you want to try and help with your driving I've seen that on a number of occasions but what we're looking at here is the ability to again just rotate through this swing a little bit easier and make hitting hybrid just that bit more simple so quick recap ball two club heads back from the lead foot hands very much in front with the with the left chest not leaning forward not leaning back flare out the front foot and then we've got to do this no that's a real good strike in terms of the big thing I've noticed since I've been trying this off camera is my strike quality has improved significantly it feels very neutral in terms of when I've hit the ball well I'm not feeling any mat and I'm not certainly feeling either before nor after the ball I'm just clipping that ball nice off the top so dead dead simple but really important get those fundamentals right in terms of your setup that is stage one of making sure you start to strike your hybrids far better than perhaps you are currently right so very simple to start with and we've moved the alignment stick and I've actually placed the ball on a T as well for this next element I'm going to look at because although we talk about arriving in that kind of neutral position that kind of not hands forward nor hands back that's all good but how do we try and what can we take from this tip in terms of a way we can concentrate our efforts in doing that well first of all Alex explains that we've got to get those fundamentals right and we can't use the the benefit that you're finding our hybrid unless we get that sort of ball position right hand position right but once we've got there trying to find that low point and returning to that low point in terms of our strike location Alex talks which is a really good thing in my opinion he says he doesn't want the sort of hands to win the race and he doesn't want the club head to win the race and what he basically means by that is we don't want to be hitting a descending blow if the hands get there first and we start to smother the shot a little bit deal off the club and then vice versa he doesn't want to sort of flip in that ball trying to get it airborne and therefore the club head win in the race so what we've got to try and do is we've got to arrive at that impact location with a straight leading arm leading into the club face straight down so our low point being the point in which we impact the ball in very much a neutral position hope that makes sense the way we're going to do that is quite simple that's all we're going to focus on is trying to come back and arriving at the low at that ball with that left lead arm straight down into the club head into the ball impact before we start to come through so no flipping up don't be trying to get this let the loft on the club what a hybrid is really good at is getting the ball airborne because of the width of the sole and that cd right at the very back the club head will do it and you see a lot of golfers trying to help that ball up in the air and vice versa what you don't want to do is start coming down shifting your weight over smothering a club deal often and yet again negating all the benefits that a hybrid offers over a long guy in so let's just try that first of all with one concentration and that concentration being arriving sort of at the ball as neutral as possible in terms of our low point first of all that's a super strike so really pleased with what's just happened there in terms of with the camera being on i know for a fact that there was well there was no interaction with the mat whatsoever even before nor after what's really interesting if we go back and see the the first screenshot of what we got off trackman from just our alignment thing then we realise that you'll see that the the low point in the swing was absolutely perfect that zero zero number means that we've hit the ball in the exact position that we want it to so neither before nor after just a quick glance back at the screen there it's interesting because we've just it suggests a slightly descending blow so therefore my low point slightly one inch after the um the ball so what that tells you from trackman is although i feel really good and i felt us off hit that in a neutral position there's a slight descending blow so something we can certainly work on but the final stage is this i'll get another golf ball and the final stage is all about like sort of um through all the videos that we've done so far in terms of testing the tips what i've noticed is definitely a correlation between them all and there's some things that you're doing video a that you're doing video b and starting to understand all those elements certainly helps you to understand the golf swing throughout from the top right the way through the swing and this is another one where what we're looking to do in other exercises we're looking to get through that um through the ball impact and make sure that we get um keep that extension going through our our lead arms traveling through but of the club club head as far away from the body as we can be for as long as we can be another video that we've covered and what alex just talks about is making sure that we focus on really three things and that's our belt buckle our chest facing the target and then just a little bit that third one just a little bit of a push off with that um heel rear heel that is and making sure that we're just sort of uh propelling ourselves if you like through the shot and that's a final element and and that just makes that life a little bit easier i don't think on point b i flared my lead heel i don't think on the first one so we've got all them fundamental setups in place hands are in a very neutral position turning round and then i'm just going to push off and hit the ball and power a little bit through impact we'll try one more whilst we're on and again really solid strike i'm really happy with the strike and one thing i've noticed is just how you can just hear the difference first of all and i know that for me i've been advocate of hybrids over long lines for a long long time and i think it's really important that we understand as average golfers these can be a real help but i also note that a lot of comments where people say they just don't like hybrids now maybe one of the reasons is that you're just not getting those basic fundamentals in your setup correct which are going to help you make the most and all the benefits that these things offer over long irons anyway i hope that video helped i hope you enjoyed that one yet again don't forget art of simple golf if you want a more thorough explanation go and check out alex's original video link will be in the description below thank you for watching this one channel is going really well right now a lot of support you're clearly liking what we're doing so i would encourage you to carry on subscribing notifications bell give me some feedback below and we'll carry on producing these videos and hopefully along the 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