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My keys to success for a perfect golf backswing - how to make the backswing simple and repeatable. If you struggle with either your takeaway or the backswing, then this video is for you. It contains my two most important fundamentals for making a tour pro quality backswing in an easy to understand "mantra". If you focus just on making these two moves, the backswing will be easier than you ever imagined. However, if you start adding your extra movements and don't take the time to break these bad habits, you'll make it impossible for you to make a sound downswing.
I've been teaching for a little over 20 years now and in that time I've seen a little bit of everything the good the bad and the very very ugly when it comes to the backswing stuff it's mind-blowingly simple to do the backswing correctly following the RST fundamentals but without fail when somebody goes through a clinic or lessons or they've watched all the videos on the site I still see a ton of extraneous extra movements in the swing that don't need to be there and it dramatically complicates the backswing so I'm going to talk about today just how simple the backswing is I'm going to show you some of the secrets and things that I've used over the years to help me help my students make a simple consistent repeatable backswing because that's really what it's about if the backswing is doing the same thing every time and not adding extra extra movements to the club the opening the face too much or close keeping it closed or moving it off plane or path or what have you then the back the downswing has a much better chance to get off on the right foot literally so what I want to talk about now is kind of the secret things that I've used to help beat things into my students heads to help them understand how to make a proper backswing so the first thing that I want to talk about is body rotation if I had to put a number one priority on something in the backswing it'd be two things but the number one would be body rotation the second would be weight shift but these two go hand in hand so I can't really separate them because as you're turning your body you need to be shifting your weight if you're not focusing on doing those two things as your primary directive in the backswing something is going to go wrong I guarantee it typically if you don't focus on moving your body rotating it and shifting your weight to the right for right-handed golfer you're going to use your arms and hands to move the club when you use your arms and hands to move the club you instantly start creating a lot of extra angles and rotation in the club face that doesn't need to be there and it makes it impossible for you to be a consistent ball striker so instead take all of that stuff out literally imagine that you can't move your arms and hands and the only reason that golf club is moving is because your body's turning and your weight is shifting when you put those two things together weight shift and rotation that gives you some momentum to move the golf club if you don't do that you're going to have to use your arms and hands to get that golf club moving so think about it this way it's a great little mental trick imagine that your job is to leave that club there and the only way that you can move it is not from anything up here but just using your core what would you have to do well if I shift my weight that's going to get the handle moving and as long as I keep my hands a little bit you know in control of the club that's moving the club a little bit but also I'm starting to turn instinctually as I do this so now if I just focus on turning and shifting the club is starting to move but my hands and arms and wrists have moved this much and my body's moved this much and that's the big mantra that I try to really beat into the slides in the in the clinics that I do is big body turn tiny little arm swing and I can't emphasize it enough because nobody ever follows it correctly huge body turn tiny little arm swing your arms should effectively almost do absolutely nothing during the backswing now of course that's an overstatement but it's an overstatement because everybody tends to do way too much with their arms and hands and not nearly enough with their body so if I had to give one thing the thesis statement is big body turn tiny little arm swing and put that right ankle into the ground while you're turning if you can do that together then all of a sudden the backswing becomes incredibly simple then all you have to do is focus on the stuff we talk about in the five minutes of perfect backswing video which is arm elevation right elbow flexion let this arm rotate as you do this then this is it this is the whole movement of the arms in the backswing it's the most important backswing secret that I can give you is that if you focus on turning your body and not moving your arms try to leave the club at address while you focus on pushing that right ankle to the ground and pulling that right shoulder behind your head the backswing will be something you never struggle with again
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