 Welcome back to another episode of testing the tips. This is all about how you start your right arm and then how it plays a part through that impact position. How by doing things wrong, we can start to lose power and distance and also the quality of strike. And there's some very simple drills that we're gonna look at today. Three phases effectively, two that are really about setting that position and that elbow in the right arm in the correct position at the top of the swing and then how we start to release and straighten our arm, where we straighten our arm through that impact position. The video comes from the man at the top of the tree in my opinion, Danny Mord. And like I said, three very simple phases as to what we've got to consider. First of all, what are the problems? Well, it's about sort of the first problem apart from our setup, which we'll go through very shortly and how it's gonna help is how we start releasing the ball as sort of amateur golfers, average golfers, the bits that we do wrong. And we'll often sort of, our arms will straighten and we'll release very early and we often get that topping effect. We certainly don't hit down on the ball and compress and that's that kind of different position. You'll see my elbow is tucked in and that's something we're gonna work on in today's video. Instead, what we tend to do, maybe a little bit behind the ball, start to straighten our arms early. We get that sort of flipping motion. It can have all kinds of negative impacts on your swing. But the fact is, how do we get that elbow into that sort of tucked in position to make sure that we are compressing the ball? Well, it's about a couple of fields really we're gonna start with and phase one is all about the setup. And I was gonna say it's about your grip. I'm gonna roll up my sleeve because it's something that Danny does and I think it's important as a visual. If I adopt my sort of standard grip, this is it. And my two forearms are very much facing each other. It's just something that I'm struggling to adopt this technique about what I'm about to tell you. What Danny asks us to do is start off a bit differently and that's with our palm and our forearm facing up to the sky. Now, instead of rotating our arm in and getting a very sort of tucked in position and adopting the grip, we're gonna just rotate the wrist and then we're gonna adopt the grip. Now, what that also does, it sets my shoulder again, a little bit open to allow for that rotation rather than this position, which again is very close, makes it very difficult in terms of restrictions on that backswing. So very simply, I'll explain that one again. Palm and forearm to the sky. Rotate the hand and your wrist, but keep the forearm where possible facing to the sky. And like I said, get that feeling of that right shoulder being a little bit set back and open. And what that does, it allows us to go from this sort of setup position and address into a very good position at the top of the backswing. Elbow's in a nice position. It allows freedom of movement. Rotation is good. That's phase one of the drill. We've got to the top of the swing, but there's another little bit of a nugget. If that one doesn't sink in, then we're gonna use phase two. There's another little bit of a thought process that might help you get that shoulder opened and get that forearm opened and get you into good position with that right arm before we start to look at the downswing. So the next little drill that Danny talks about has me a little bit confused. Danny uses a dumbbell. Now, I don't own dumbbells, never will do, but what he looks at is a bicep curl. And he talks about this movement. So I'll get the kind of forearm to the sky bit. Then he turns his wrist in. So that's a bit more like the position we've adopted. So if you think about it, forearm to the sky, dumbbell in hand, that's the kind of curl that you're gonna look to do. And then what you're gonna do is simply from this position, imagine that you're taking that dumbbell up to your top right hand. So this is the kind of movement that you're making. So it's the same kind of principle, the same kind of effect as what we've had from that current position, arm up, and we're getting into that position. But if you want to visualize something, then that idea of dumbbell, turn the wrist in, and then what you're gonna simply do is look to turn, turn that dumbbell into that top position there. So if I was holding a golf club, that's exactly where we'd end up being. So two simple drills into getting us into the top of that backswing with that sort of elbow in a good strong position. Now we've got a look to do is how we sort of get that elbow through, club head through, and what our hands play a part and how we generate power pushing through that shot. And Danny uses a very simple analogy. And I like this one. He's got some video footage of him splashing kids, and his kids in the swimming pool. So if you're taking some water off the top and looking to soak them as best you can, the way you would do that is you'd have your elbow tucked in and you'd use your hips, your full body to generate that splash. That's the feeling that we're looking to adopt now from this top of the backswing with club in hand. We've got to get that same feeling of generating, let me pick up a club to sort of get better demonstration of that. So let me go through that. I'm in this position and now what I'm looking to do is drill with that right elbow tucked in and then I'm looking to turn and rotate. So the visual is you've turned and you're splashing your kids, absolutely soaking them. How would you do that? Would you use your hand but to generate the most amount of power if we were throwing a ball another same sort of concept. That's what you do. Elbow tucked in, look to turn, push off with the right heel and then you'd be looking to generate as much power as you can through that impact position. And that's what we're going to get and hopefully leads to that compression on the ball. So all that said, all I need to do is put those pieces together and try and hit a golf ball with it. Right, first ball you see me hit was a, it was okay but a much better strike and a quick look down at the ground again and it's been ball then turf which is that compression element that hopefully you're seeing through either of these cameras anyway which is great to sort of drill down. The difference between shots one and two for me was just a real effort to get that elbow feeling like it was sort of tucked in when I started to make the downswing. And then it's important as well to generate that power that splashed through and they're great visualizations in my opinion. Love that idea of splashing water off the top of the pool or throwing a ball. I feel like if you don't get that bit right and you're just a little bit too tentative with it you could have some negative effects. And I'm talking about possibly even sort of delivering a club with a very open club face. That's my thoughts anyway. So what I'm really concentrating on is making sure elbow tucked in and I'm starting to get a chest belt buckle push off with the right foot. Everything facing that way and that club bed is coming along with me. So superb drill in my opinion. Another great video from Danny Mord. As ever, you know, my explanation is this. I'm an average golfer just like you. They're my interpretation of what I consider to be the best tips out there right now but sometimes there might be little bits that I get wrong or don't quite explain to your liking. So always go down to the link below check out Danny's video because we'll always provide that. You can see here's maybe more thorough explanation and between the two of the videos, hopefully, help improve your golf game in some way and make it all a little bit more enjoyable. Right, that's me done. As ever, thanks for watching. I'll see you all soon.