Impact Bag

[mhenrickson]

What exactly is an Impact Bag? How does it help your swing?

[Paz]

I've seen impact bags used to promote keep wrist cock until parallel and to hit down on the ball. by placing the bag 2 feet behind the ball the bag prevents digging because you will hit if come into impact to shallow.

[WUTiger]

You can make your own! Just take one of those give-away gym bags in you closet, and fill it with foam wrapped in a couple of old, beat-up beach towels.

Impact bag - or smash bag - helps you get the feel of impact. Check internet for drills using the bags.

Note: home-made impact bags make nice Christmas gifts for that golfer who has everything.

[Jcp907]

What exactly is an Impact Bag? How does it help your swing?

An impact bag is a bag typically made of vinyl or similar material that you fill with towels, rags, or blankets, etc. It can be used to absorb the blow of the golf club, so you can swing into it.

It can be used a number of ways. Watch this video for an example: At about 3:50 into the video, he shows you one drill that you can use it for. It's worth watching the entire video. Check out his other videos as well.

[mhenrickson]

I like that video. Thanks for posting that.

[Ole_Tom_Morris]

Related to the impact bag is the use of an old tire. (Rednecks like me always have old tires lying around, along with old toilets and auto chassis. and washing machines from the 1930s.) They can be used to hit against, and there is an exercise performed by putting the clubhead inside the donut hole of the tire and tapping it back and forth real fast. Warning: don't try this with an inflated tire or a BIG truck or tractor tire, and it can be awful hard on bones, joints, tendons and ligaments.

(There are schools of conditioning, strength training or power lifting that use tractor tires, either to flip over, hit a sledgehammer against, or to drag around the block with chains. So don't throw those big old tires away. They have their uses.)

I sometimes practice a wrist release from about a foot or two from the tire to see how hard and fast I can hit over that distance. Old steelhead driver, or just a length of iron pipe.

Seems to me I recall that Carol Mann in a SI article in the late 1960s said that she did this and other exercises until her hands bled.