Relax Your Arms To Maximise Your Golf Shot Distance (Video) - by Pete Styles
Relax Your Arms To Maximise Your Golf Shot Distance (Video) - by Pete Styles

One thing I hear an awful lot from my clients as I’m teaching them and they’re hitting the ball in the lesson if they’re not hitting the ball particularly well. They just say, "I need to relax Pete, I need to relax," and sometimes that’s the advice I give them. They’re coming in for less and they’re desperate to show me how good they’ve got. And then they get a very tense, they get very tight in their performance steps. And I often think that golf is what I experience that themselves that they got on the first tee bit of pressure a few extra people watching them. They don’t feel like they can relax very well. Very few golfers will perform better when they’re tense than when they’re relaxed. And particularly noticeable in that sort of tensed or relaxed state are going be the hands, the arms, and the shoulders. So if you set up to the golf you have that little waggle that should be quite a relaxed position.

Most golfers would play better with this relaxed position here rather than the tension. Now it’s difficult for the camera to see the tension, occasionally when I’m close in to a golfer I can see white knuckles across the back of the hands while they’re squeezing the club. If they’ve got bear arm I can actually see the veins almost popping up their arms as they squeeze to the club quite tightly. And we see the shoulders rise up in the golf, so they get very tight here. Just quite important for you to understand how that tension is not going to help you and how keeping relaxed will. And in the easiest way to understand the difference there is to imagine your golf swing is effectively cracking the whip. So we’re swinging back slowly and then we crack the whip. The faster we can crack the whip down here at the golf ball, the further that ball is going to go. Now you imagine a whip is very flexible, very soft and one that overtakes the other and it cracks. If we have a stiff whip, and then we whip it, it’s not going to whip very fast. So we’ve got to keep this part of our whip particularly soft and then we can create the power. So make sure there’s maximum relaxation through the forearms through the hands cracking that whip is going to help you in your game hit the ball further and hit the ball more consistently. 2016-07-18

One thing I hear an awful lot from my clients as I’m teaching them and they’re hitting the ball in the lesson if they’re not hitting the ball particularly well. They just say, “I need to relax Pete, I need to relax,” and sometimes that’s the advice I give them. They’re coming in for less and they’re desperate to show me how good they’ve got. And then they get a very tense, they get very tight in their performance steps. And I often think that golf is what I experience that themselves that they got on the first tee bit of pressure a few extra people watching them. They don’t feel like they can relax very well. Very few golfers will perform better when they’re tense than when they’re relaxed. And particularly noticeable in that sort of tensed or relaxed state are going be the hands, the arms, and the shoulders. So if you set up to the golf you have that little waggle that should be quite a relaxed position.

Most golfers would play better with this relaxed position here rather than the tension. Now it’s difficult for the camera to see the tension, occasionally when I’m close in to a golfer I can see white knuckles across the back of the hands while they’re squeezing the club. If they’ve got bear arm I can actually see the veins almost popping up their arms as they squeeze to the club quite tightly. And we see the shoulders rise up in the golf, so they get very tight here. Just quite important for you to understand how that tension is not going to help you and how keeping relaxed will.

And in the easiest way to understand the difference there is to imagine your golf swing is effectively cracking the whip. So we’re swinging back slowly and then we crack the whip. The faster we can crack the whip down here at the golf ball, the further that ball is going to go. Now you imagine a whip is very flexible, very soft and one that overtakes the other and it cracks.

If we have a stiff whip, and then we whip it, it’s not going to whip very fast. So we’ve got to keep this part of our whip particularly soft and then we can create the power. So make sure there’s maximum relaxation through the forearms through the hands cracking that whip is going to help you in your game hit the ball further and hit the ball more consistently.