I have a bunch of training aids and figured I would start a thread so we could go through and discuss training aids that work…and those that don’t work.
i will start with one of my favorite training aids.
Eyeline Golf speed trap 2.0. This is a great training aid to work on both swing path and hitting ground after the ball.
I never use all four posts. I remove the front right and the trail left. With just two of the posts there is a clear inside out path.
Personally, I never want my path to do anything other than being inside out (Even for hitting a fade). I prefer to hit a push draw or a push fade.
When my swing path starts to get off, this is the first training aid I pull out.
if you wanted to accomplish something similar without buying a training aid, you could simply place two tees in the ground similar distances (Or throw a couple head covers on the ground to create a similar path.
The advantage of this aid is that it will help with both hitting the ground before the ball and swing path. Thumbs up.
Next training aids to review:
planeswing
swing jacket
Impact snap
the secret
The hanger
Callaway swing easy (izzo smooth swing)
Tour striker
tour striker smart ball
Orange whip
tally mindset
swing extender
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.