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Winter Golf Training Program - Downswing
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While it's cold outside you can start heating your downswing inside. Do these drills in the house to get your golf swing in shape for Spring.
all right guys you should be in a perfect position at the top of the backswing now we should be loaded up on this right hip we've made a good turn we've swung our left arm up into a good position at the top we're no longer steep and across the line all this crazy stuff the right arm creates so we should be able to get down from that position really easily using some of our transition drills and that's what we're going to focus on now is we're going to get ourselves to shift our weight back to the left letting the left arm fall and release while we do a couple other drills to help speed this up and give you a good sense of what it feels like for the club to naturally shallow out from the top of the swing and get into a good release and impact position so here's what we're going to do now again we're revamping what we did or continuing to build on that so you're going to start from your good setup position please don't ever come to a rotary swing golf lesson with no axis tilt again we'll beat you so we're going to get into a good set of position with axis tilt we're lifting the heel stomping and rotating letting it help swing our arm up to the top we're in a great position here now what i want you to do is i want you to lift your left foot take a step and let your left arm fall and that's it based on this and start to make a little bit more sense so again set up good position take a step stomp and let it release the club left arm only this is critical what i want you to start feeling here when you stomp your heels i want you to hear it i want you to feel what it feels like to activate the muscles in your hamstrings your quads your hips to in order to feel the muscles that you would use to post up you need to do this before you start bringing the club down this is critical so it's going to help you understand the transition so we go to the top from here i'm going to break this up into chunks go to the top i'm going to stop make sure my position is still good if i'm indoors looking at it in the mirror i'm going to lift and stomp you'll notice just by doing this little lateral move and stomp where my hand came down to i didn't try to move my arm here but just due to a little bit of unwinding from my hips and letting gravity start to take over because i'm getting tired holding this club up here as i do that brings me all the way down close to a hitting area so what do i need to do here let the club release we spend a ton of time five minutes perfect release video it's all in there just letting my wrist rotate notice that i'm not unwinding ripping my shoulders not pushing from the right side i'm not trying to rip my arm down i'm using my big muscles my trunk to bring the club the majority of the way down and then my only job is to release it you get these three pieces of these videos that we've talked about good setup rotate pivot shift over here get your arm up to the top shift your weight back to the left release the club that's everything if you can do that right the rest of it's just details so if you've taken the time to get a good setup and weight shift and rotation at the beginning you've got your arm up to a good position at the top now this is the home run for you you can put all of the stuff together now all in one piece and have a great golf swing and you'll notice from down the line as we do this i'm going to lift my heel up club shallows out perfectly on its own it's all you have to do so i want you can't do this drill enough is what i end up telling most of my students if you're very right arm dominant which so many of us are and unfortunately golf is a lead side dominant sword as you keep working these drills the more practice you get swinging with your left arm only the easier all of the stuff is going to work out for you so do this drill again 15 20 25 minutes a day and then i'm going to have you stack one piece on it after the first week of doing it left hand only i want you to start introducing your right hand to it and the trick to this is just putting your fingertips on it because i want your right hand to come off so if you wrap your paws around it and you start holding onto it tight we're going to go right back to our old bad habits so fingertip it to the top take your step let it come off your goal is to not interfere with the club and the natural movements that you're creating here with your right right hand the fact of the matter is once you put your right hand back on there because you've probably already been overusing for so many years it's pretty well trained it already knows what to do and typically knows a lot of bad things to do so just by the fact that you put it on there you're going to use it more than you realize so at first just work on fingertips step release and let your right hand come off and then as you keep working on this your goal is to start keeping your right hand on there longer and longer so there i kind of held on into impact there i kind of went all the way to follow through but as i did that i let kind of the bj release through i let my hand really release and almost come off and pull me around to follow through your right hand is going to do way more than you think it is so just try and practice not using it so first week drills left arm only don't even let your right hand touch the club cut it off if you have to don't do that for real then week two fingertips only let the hand come off later in the week when you start getting better at it hold on to it a little bit longer and a little bit longer until you feel like your swing still feels 100 left hand dominant body dominant but your right hand is starting to stay on more like a normal golf swing so this piece if you get these three pieces of the swing together this is the the culmination of it the last thing that you can do if you want you can take a medicine ball this one's kind of heavy so it's not really ideal for this but you can still use it to get you to the top you won't go to hold the ball up there but the thing that's nice about having a medicine ball like this is it really helps pull you into a follow-through position and pull your arm down into impact instead of you trying to muscle it with a golf club you can kind of yank your arm down with a medicine ball it's really difficult to do so you tend to use your body and gravity more to do the majority of the work so if you want a light medicine ball even a light one two three four pound dumbbell will also help start training some coordination and some strength in this left arm which is probably lacking in your swing right now so again two weeks 20 25 minutes a day give it as much as you can give yourself a rest day but after these two weeks at first it's going to feel impossible to swing club left handed but i promise you in two weeks you'll be a pro at it
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