Yes, the Orange Peel Balance trainer is an awesome upgrade to the swing trainer. It has a concave surface so your stance will adjust to the center and balance your course. It will help create all possible slope conditions that you will find on a golf course.

In the ABC sitcom Happy Endings episode "The Girl with the David Tattoo" the bartender asks Max and Jane if they'd like Orange Whips after they talk. The show takes place in Chicago and this is likely a reference to the Blues Brothers. You can improve your coordination between arms and body. Any deviation from a smooth swing that is out of synchronization will result in you losing your balance and hitting the ground. It is advisable to do some drills with the Orange Whip Swing Trainer to improve your golf swing and conditioning. Orange Whip DrillsIs grip a golf fundamental? Depends who you ask. We say, not really since there are so many variations, most of which you’ll see on the tour. The device is intentionally designed to be slightly longer than a normal golf club. The extra length helps exaggerate the motions made while swinging your driver. It forces you to adjust your tempo so that your entire body stays connected. If you’ve struggled with tempo, this device could be a gamechanger. Over time, he began to realize how difficult this aspect of the game was to teach. The majority of his students couldn’t quite get the correct feeling. So he tested a lot of training aids to create a “tour pro motion.” The result is the best-selling, Orange Whip swing trainer. What is the Orange Whip swing trainer?

The Lag Shot is the best overall training aid right now. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a ‘whippy club’, akin to the Orange Whip, with the big advantage being that you can actually hit balls with it. The Lag Shot is great for working on your tempo and timing, will stop you rushing transition, and will help to promote a ‘delayed hit’ with the hands leading the club at impact. Overall it will help you ‘feel’ how to swing the club correctly without having to focus on mechanics. While we opted for an affordable hitting net, we feel it’s worth spending money on a high quality hitting mat. Not only will you get an impact that better reflects the real thing (properly punishing mishits), the fairway like give in premium mats will also protect your wrists from injury. The TrueStrike mat (available in various size combinations) continues to be the best on the market. We recommend (and use) FlightScope’s Mevo+ for a variety of reasons that we breakdown in more detail in our full launch monitors guide.

The Orange Whip does indirectly help many golfers shallow their swing plane. Using less arms and more body rotation early in your downswing will flatten your swing plane. Does Orange Whip increase swing speed? Some people may find it useful to have both. For example; an effective use of both may be to practice with the Lag Shot, and carry the Orange Whip as a warm up tool on days when you are going to play. However, when you consider that there are affordable sets of irons you could spend some of your money on instead, having both training aids feels like overkill.

The cheapest (and perhaps simplest) training aid on our list is this tournament legal grip training glove from Me and My Golf. A good grip can fix a lot of problems in your swing, and the True Grip will show you exactly where to grip the club across the fingers of your lead hand and where to position it on the club (it promotes a strong grip). All golf training aids featured in this guide were tested by our editorial team. All photos are our own, and were taken in our testing setup. Best Golf Training Aids 1. The Lag Shot It also feels a bit more polished than SuperSpeed (both the product and the training), but we should point out that it’s also more expensive. It’s got a similar flexible shaft, but instead of an orange (or other colored) ball on the end has an actual clubhead. Get your timing wrong with The Lag Shot and instead of slamming the ball into the ground like the Orange Whip, you’ll just mishit an actual golf ball. But for smaller spaces (you’ll need a room at least 16ft in length for the Mevo+) we’d go for a SkyTrak+.

Conclusion

Kind of. I’ve owned a set of SuperSpeed since early 2020, and when I worked through the program during the pandemic (there wasn’t much else to do) I saw some solid improvement to my distance and speed. They worked well then, and they’re still going to work well today when combined with SuperSpeed’s training program. Learning how to control the tempo of your swing and staying in balance are key factors to keep the golf ball in play. These skills will allow you to reduce your scores and handicap. That said, if you were to choose one or the other, the Lag Shot would provide more benefit. Does a Orange Whip count as a club in your bag?