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See how Rory Mcilory injured his ribs and how to prevent the same injury happening to you! Video 1: Perfect Impact Position - Face On Video 2: Perfect Your Impact Position Drills
Hey guys, Chuck Quinton here.
I want to talk about today's big news in August 2017.
Rory McIlroy just came out and announced he's going to basically miss the entire rest of the season because of an injury.
A back injury, he actually quoted the rib injury, but they're actually directly related because guess where your ribs attach?
To your spine, believe it or not.
So, long story short, I want to dispel some myths and talk about why he got injured, but more importantly, I want to talk about how you can learn from it, How to keep yourself from getting injured?
Because the worst thing in the world is being in the middle of your golf season and having to sit on the bench the rest of the year.
Because you've hurt yourself somehow, all because of a faulty swing mechanic.
And that's exactly what caused Rory's issue.
So the first thing I want to do is dispel the myth that so many pundits out there on TV are going to come in there and just like they did with Tiger and say, oh, it's because he's lifting weights and that's how he he hurt his ribs.
That's the dumbest thing in the world.
Lifting weights and getting stronger does not make you injure yourself swinging a golf club, hitting a ball with a stick.
That's idiotic.
If anything, lifting weights, what it primarily does is going to make you stronger, which is going to help you prevent injury.
That's the number one thing that most people do when they go to rehab after they injure something is what?
They make a muscle stronger.
They make all the supporting muscles around that area stronger.
Why?
To help prevent injury.
You want to stabilize yourself and being strong is one of the best things that you can do to prevent injury.
Lifting weights will not muck up your golf swing.
Now that doesn't mean that if you went out and put on 150 pounds lifting weights, which would be virtually impossible, but let's say that you did.
Of course, you're going to lose some mobility and flexibility, which is not ideal for golf.
Rory didn't put on 150 pounds.
Being strong is the best defense, especially when you have faulty swing mechanics.
And that is the case with Rory.
The real key is understanding what he's doing wrong.
So that you don't do it, so that you don't end up missing any rounds of golf because golf is supposed to be fun.
It's a game that we all love to play.
And it's no fun when you're sitting on the couch watching all your buddies play.
So what did Rory do that injured his back or his ribs?
Very, very simple to understand.
If you studied rotary swing at all, you're going to understand this in two seconds.
Long story short, what rotary swing primarily does is, especially through the areas of critical stress in the swing, the impact area, the follow through, when we're trying to decelerate the club safely, we want to make sure that our joints are in neutral joint alignment, NGA, we call it on the site, or as close to that as reasonably possible.
Now, of course, it's impossible to be truly in neutral joint alignment with every joint in your body, because otherwise, you'd just be standing here like this, you couldn't move, you wouldn't hit the ball anywhere.
So there's obviously some give and take there.
But through the hitting area where the loads on the body, the loads on the spine, the hip, the joints are at their greatest peak is where we really want to make sure we protect that spine.
And that's a we're being really strong in your core is paramount, because it's going to protect your back, because your core, your gut, It's number one job, apart from holding your guts in, from keeping them from spilling out all over the place.
It's just to protect and stabilize your lower body your lower back.
Now what Rory does at impact.
Now first of all, let me say I love Rory, I'm a huge fan, I hate seeing that he's injured, especially knowing that any RST instructor could easily prevent it.
He's a great ball striker, he crushes the ball, it's super fun to watch, he's exciting, but he injured himself just like 81% of all PGA Tour players will do.
81% will have some sort of golf swing related injury that will cause them to miss about eight weeks of golf.
So you don't need to go through this stuff.
The simple answer is not to just try and get really strong to work around your flaws, it's to fix your flaws, you don't have to worry about it.
So at impact, Rory's hips are very, very open, like so many pundits on TV tell you that they have to be, they don't.
And so by being that open, his spine, his chest is forced to be also open at impact, which leads to this right arm being bent.
And his spine, you can see from down the side, I'm going to do what we call side bend.
This is side bend.
Just stand up and do this while you're standing there, just stand up and bend over to the side as far as you can.
It doesn't feel awesome.
Now, bend over to the side and rotate your hips open as far as you can.
How great does that feel?
It feels like crap because your body hates that position.
Two things your spine hates, shear force and compressive force.
Guess what you're doing by getting into Rory's impact position?
You're doing both.
It's a home run.
You're guaranteed eventually to have some sort of back rib problem.
Because it's unavoidable when you keep putting yourself repetitively into the same positions that lead yourself to injury.
So when you're in this position with a tremendous amount of shear force on your spine, because your hips are ripping open and your chest is open, your arms bent, and you've got all this side bend to try to get back down to the ball because, hey, if your right arm's not bent, how's the club going to get back to the ball?
You started like this.
He starts in a great setup position, but at impact, if he just opened his hips, how's he going to get back to the ball?
He has to bend down further.
Puts more compressive force on the lumbar.
So what do you want to do?
Well, it's really simple.
Our hips do need to be, excuse me, open at impact, but only about 30 to 45 degrees.
That's plenty.
That's going to bring your shoulders back to square, which is going to allow your arms to extend into a normal position.
Now, look at my body.
I'll put you, I'll put myself in Rory's position.
God, I can't even do this very long.
Ertz or rotary swing position.
My arms fully extended increases the radius of the swing arc, which is free speed.
For every half inch that you increase the radius of your swing arc, it's good for two miles an hour.
It's free speed.
You don't have to swing any faster and to try to do anything harder.
So if you stand really close to the ball versus being really far away from the ball, there's a point of diminishing returns here.
You're always going to swing faster with a larger swing arc, Which is, of course, why your six iron is going to swing faster than your seven iron because it's a half inch longer.
That's why all your clubs have a half inch step.
So with rotary swing, Want our arms to get fully extended to increase the radius and maximize the efficiency of the golf swing.
It's all about being efficient.
You don't want to have to work really hard.
We all want to hit those effortless, powerful golf shots, but if you're trying to work really hard, you're never going to have an effortless golf swing.
It seems kind of obvious.
If you're swinging like this, You have to swing your body really fast because you've shortened the radius of the swing arc as you narrow this space between your sternum and the golf club.
You want that to be relatively as wide as you can make it.
So if you're here versus here at impact, it's going to make a tremendous amount of difference in your club head speed.
Now, Rory swings really, really fast.
So how does he make up for the change in the radius of the arc?
He moves his body really fast, which puts a lot more sheer force on his spine.
You don't have to do that.
So, if you want to be in a proper impact position, where your spine is more closely stacked into a neutral joint alignment position to protect your back forever.
So you never have to worry about golf swing related injuries.
Again, you need to understand how to get into those impact positions, which is exactly what I'm going to show you in these two bonus videos.
So click the video links in the description.
I'm going to show you what your body should look like in impact position, both face on and down the line.
And we're going to show you how to get into those impact positions.
So you never have to worry about a golf swing related injury ever again.
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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