Training aids

Hackmotion is an expensive training aid. It’s expensive and it can give very interesting feedback for your wrist conditions throughout your swing.

it shows ulnar and radial deviation. It shows flexion and extension, and it shows rotation. if you buy with the coaches version ($995), it can be used on either wrist. If you buy the player version ($495), it’s lead wrist only.

You Can compare your swing to other pro’s or to different swing patterns.

As an example, I compared myself to Bryson Dechambeau. My address position was very similar. I was extending my lead wrist (cupping) much more than he does. I was also coming into impact with less flexion (bowing). Finally, the biggest difference was that he had much more rotation through impact.

After some work, I realized what it felt like to keep my lead wrist much straighter to the top of my swing and also how to deloft by moving my wrist into flexion at impact. After one session I was able to consistently get a flat left wrist at the top and 20 degrees of flexion at impact. I still rotate my arms much less than Bryson so that's something I am working on.

Btw - this aid made it clear that I could increase flexion by using muscle strength to drive my hands forward, but that method was extremely inconsistent. 100% the best way to get more bowing into impact was to use the pivot, to transport the low spot past the ball.

it’s a really nice training aid to understand exactly how and why in the golf swing. However, I don’t believe it’s a training aid I would use very often. I see what needs to change in my release pattern abd when I do it properly, I see the ball launch and flight data. So, I know when I see the right ball data, I did the right motion.

Iwould say it gives amazing data and is useful, but not worth that kind of money for a player. For coaches, it could absolutely be worth the spend As you could use it with multiple students and work on making changes where the results are real.

it can also be used for putting. Again, for me, it’s pretty useless since I use armlock putting. My wrists and hands do very little on a putting stroke. However, if you have a traditional short putter, I could see this being super useful.

I will review the DeWiz next. I bought the dewiz and my buddy bought the hackmotion. We agreed we would swap back and forth.

New review coming soon for Dewiz! Can’t wait. Ordered an early Christmas present for myself. I expect it will work nicely with the plane swing as I am working toward backswing and downswing being exactly the same.

Have a couple more training aids to review, but before doing so, gonna throw a plug in for this little guy.

I will follow-up with a few more GPS reviews and rangefinder reviews too (I have the Skycaddie LX5, Applewatch with Arccos, Bushnell and Bluetees range finders, as well as the Bushnell Wingman).

This is my favorite GPS watch and it’s not crazy expensive ($200). For what you get, it’s well worth the money and honestly, has made my use of laser rangefinders to be very infrequent.

1. On the main page, you have the stock front middle back. 2. What’s different about this watch is the ability to see distances to and distances to carry hazards on the hole.

3. You can also click on the green icon and change flag position and that’s why the laser rangefinder has become pretty much useless.

4. you can click on fairway icon and see exactly how far to hit to yardages. in theory, this feature puts rings around your location to show where 100, 150, 200 yard shots will leave you in the fairway, or from the other direction, where do you have to hit the ball to be within the desired range. For this feature, the LX5 is miles better…I don’t use it. 5. when you click on the greens, not only can you set flag locations, you can also see contours of the green if the course you are playing has been surveyed. 6. you can check distances on the secondary page if you want to see exactly how far a particular shot went. 7. you can enable slope calculations to see a “plays as” distance. This feature isn’t nearly as good as arccos. Every once in a while, I have turned it on to see what it says, then turned it off. Since Arccos takes into account many more factors beyond elevation, I have found it to be far more accurate (Since it accounts for temperature, wind, elevation, barometric pressure, etc).

8. you can also keep your score on the watch which is pretty handy If you want to record scores va keeping scorecard.

For the money, this little watch is fantastic. Oh yeah, battery life is spectacular as It easily lasts a couple rounds Or if you wear the watch all day and then play golf, no worrying about batter life (unlike Apple Watch).

Hello, any Thoughts on the tour striker ball? I’m really collapsing on my follow thru. I use an Impact Snap occasionally, its good, but I think having something I can actually swing with would be helpful.

@Russell Hogue, PhD. What a cool idea Russell thanks! I’m going to give a shot. 😊

Great review @Russell Hogue, PhD ! I've been looking at getting some kind of "whippy" aide to help with my tempo and extension.. I'm not as focused on getting warmed up, but that might be a nice add on. I'd be curious of your opinions on the Orange Whip vs the LagShot clubs?

Have a great day!

9. Orange Whip This is a great training aid for two purposes. First, it’s a great way to warm up. That’s probably how I use this club most. I very regularly get to the course, chip and putt, then head to the first tee without hitting balls. The orange whip is a great aid for sequencing. Recently others have been talking about the whippy clubs (wedge, 7i, Driver). Certainly those other clubs have the advantage of hitting shots, but with the orange whip, you are simply swinging a club that will really load on the backswing and if you keep it smooth it will release through the hitting area. Great tool to help with sequencing and stretching out.

I'm excited to see your review of the swing easy. I recently bought one to help me keep my elbows together.

Thanks!

Awesome review, @Russell Hogue, PhD. Two thumbs up? 😎

Thanks!!

5. The Hanger This is indeed one of the simplest and best training aids for creating lag, holding the wedge (by releasing properly). Unfortunately for me, I use Jumbomax grips and the device will not fit on my clubs. However, for anyone using regular grips, this device is amazing. If you have the secret, trash it. Buy this one. When you swing, you can get the pressure of the hanger against your lead arm and make sure you maintain that pressure throughout the swing. If you do, compressed shots, lag, cheese wedge…they all show up. My favorite part of this aid is that you can hit balls with it and see the shot shape when wrist conditions are correct. One of the best training aids and it’s probably about $80. If you want to get by cheap, grab a regular plastic hanger and hold it against the club in your grip…feel the same pressure…but as you crank the plastic hangers…they will break. :)

Thanks for the added detail, @Russell Hogue, PhD.

Yes - the suspense is indeed immeasurable!!...........

Also, the idea of maintaining the wedge can happen because you try to hold it. Or it could happen because your release pattern matches up with the pivot and the hands show up to impact in the right conditions (trail wrist in extension)…but moving toward flexion. Reality is, even if you try to hold the wedge, the weight and momentum of the club will pull wrist out of flexion…even though a person who is trying to hold it might move back to flexion after…once the force subsides. There is a training aid I wanted to buy, but a buddy did, so I get to save the cash this time. It’s called Hack Motion. It precisely measures how the wrists work through impact and it lets you compare how your wrists work compared to professionals…I need to dig into it a bit more. I love the idea because it eliminates the feel and provides hard data. I will add hack motion to the items for review too.

I just got 3. Impact snap, so gonna hold off on the review until I get a little more time with it. 4. The secret - this, for me, might be the worst training aid I have purchased. I am not saying it can’t work for some people…but my opinion, it’s terrible. First, It’s impossible to get into a good address position with the secret in your trail wrist. Second, when you look at the biomechanics of the golf swing, no good players hold the right wrist back to that extent through impact. In fact, take someone like Dustin Johnson. He’s super bowed at the top of his swing, meaning the right wrist is bent way back (extension). However, through impact that angle of the right wrist is both uncocking and moving toward flexion…not being held in extension. I believe the secret is a terrible training aid because you should never try to hold an angle…rather, you should see where your wrist is moving from extension to flexion and if it’s going early (flip) then there is a problem…but the wrist motion isn’t the cause of the problem, it’s a byproduct of something else. Most often, I think this problem is caused by a poor pivot…see @GolfLivesMatter post on leading with lower body. If the swing sequence is wrong, flipping is the way for a person to the the club on the ball. That’s bad! But this training aid is bad too…thumbs down. :)

Oops I was referring to the Eyeline Speed trap. Confusing that the 1st pic is of the Eyeline and no mention on your list,

Awsome product I'm sure and really awesome that it's made in USA but $1K? Maybe $250 otherwise I'm gonna need a sponsor. 😂

1. Planeswing This is a training aid that is not for the feint of heart. It’s around $1000 and there are several other training aids that can give close to the same outcome. That being said, I have had this for a little over a month and it’s awesome. The most difficult part of the plane swing is determining exactly which plane you should be swinging on. I need to make a video for this aid because in reality, I can see three ways to use it. 1. Same plane back and through. Easy way to practice a one plane swing. 2. Could set hoop on correct downswing plane, take backswing (above plane) and lower to plane for downswing. 3. More subtle, if as prescribed in the s&t swing, the hands work in, the club stays outside of hands to the top…on the downswing, the club works in line with the lead arm and on the correct single plane downswing. This motion does have the club riding the plane, but if you trace the clubhead…it would be on a steeper plane during backswing and shallow out on downswing. The other benefit of this training aid is that it’s a workout. You really have to engage the core when swinging. The roller, isn’t a roller at all. It’s a material That creates friction against the hoop and requires a lot of force to move it fast. I will say that for me, the jury is out. I need more time to lock in the proper swing plane and then to practice with it consistently. Look forward to a future review with video.

Awesome, @Russell Hogue, PhD!! Thanks for starting this. I'll go ahead and pin your post to draw more attention to it.

Looking forward to your next reviews!