Pushing vs. Pulling in Putting
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Understanding the difference of pushing vs. pulling in putting will change the way you think about the entire golf swing!
All right guys listen up because if you're like everybody else that's seen this video this is going to completely change the way you think not only about your putting but about the entire golf swing in general that's how important this is so I know it seems like I have a toy truck here but this is really the most important golf training aid that I have in my arsenal because it helps really illustrate it helps you understand why you're struggling with your swing and how to really change the whole concept of the way you think about the swing because what most golfers do is the opposite of what I'm going to show you when you are if you've ever pulled a trailer or push you know try to back a trailer up into the driveway you know exactly how finicky these things can be if you're trying to back it up if I push from the front of this you'll notice that the the trailer in the truck wants to jackknife right away but as soon as I pull it straight notice how the trailer falls in a straight line now as soon as I start backing it up it wants to rotate really quickly and I'm not doing anything to cause it to do that that's just the nature of how this works but when I pull it notice how the trailer even though it's you know at a 45 degree angle here as soon as I pull it it instantly aligns itself with the truck how weird is that but now why when I push the truck does the trailer jackknife like this now if I take the trailer and move from the trailer side watch what happens the truck it just follows along but if I push from the trailer all of a sudden the trailer jackknifes now what's different here the difference is the force of movement and what I mean by that is what's causing this stuff to move in this case I am the force of movement and it's where I'm applying my force that causes this trailer to do two completely different things depending on where I am moving the object from your golf swing abides by these same laws all movement is a push or a pull when you think about it everything that you're doing in life can be boiled back down to a push or a pull and in a rotational movement like a golf swing this is still true because we have two different pushing and pulling forces the pulling force in a golf swing is what we call centripetal force and the result of that which is a pushing motion moving out away from the force of movement is called centrifugal force now when it comes back to our putting stroke what we have to understand is that what most golfers do is they try and push the putter head through the hitting area and they do the exact same thing in their golf swing which is what rotary swings completely built around is this concept of pushing versus pulling when you take your right side your dominant side which most all golfers are right-handed playing from the left side of the golf ball that they use their right side because it's the most coordinated hand in their body and so they don't want to use the left side it's not trained very well it's not coordinated very well so they use the right side but this right side is a pushing force because it's behind the object you're trying to move just like I if I'm the trailer and I'm moving the truck from the trailer it wants to jackknife because the force of movement is behind the object that I'm moving versus if I am in front of the object that I'm moving if I pull it stays straight now in the golf swing what do you have that you can pull or push with well it's pretty simple I can only pull with the lead side or in most people's cases right-handed golfers I can only pull with the left side of the body and I can only push with the right side of the body during the downswing at impact when it really matters so what you're really doing in your golf swing and in your putting stroke if you're using your right side and in a conventional putting stroke to move the putter you are equivalent doing the equivalent of trying to push this trailer down the highway not gonna work out real well as soon as you start backing up it wants to jackknife because the two centers of gravity of these two objects have to be perfectly in line in order for them to travel in a straight line as soon as the center of gravity gets moved to one side or the other from the opposite from the other center of gravity they want to rotate rotate around themselves and so in this case we have a pivot point which is the trailer hitch and it wants to rotate around this trailer hitch because the two centers of gravity aren't aligned when I pull it by the nature of pulling these two centers of gravity align themselves automatically it's just part of the nature of it in the golf swing and in the putting stroke guess what you need to be doing so in this next video I'm going to show you how you actually start ingraining this movement and learn how to move your body in this pulling motion to get rid of this jackknife in your golf swing so that you can start having a much more consistent stroke in your putting stroke and in your golf swing
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