The 4 Pressure Shifts of the Modern Golfer
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Want your golf swing to feel natural and athletic again? Learn the 4 pressure shifts of the modern power player.
All right, Today's video is going to be super important for you to start to feel how to move dynamically and athletically in your golf swing again.
I call this theory my theory of golf swing dynamics or rotary swing dynamics, Which is really an exploration into how the modern power player is generating speed effortlessly in the swing, and more importantly, how you can learn how to move like the best players in the world, the fastest players in the world, the longest hitters, not through position -oriented mechanics, but through a simple sequence of dynamic movements.
I'll talk more about that later, but let's talk about the pressure shift first.
In general, the golf swing, and I've been guilty of kind of oversimplifying it as well, Trying to make the golf swing simple is thinking there's a backswing, pressure shift or weight transfer, and a downswing, weight shift or pressure transfer.
Now, the reality is in the modern power player, there's actually four pressure shifts that happen before impact, believe it or not, and there's actually even a fifth one after impact.
And that's what we're going to look at today.
So if you feel like your swing just has kind of gotten mechanical and stiff and robotical, This is going to be a game changer because you're going to start to feel what the modern power player is doing in their swing.
So I'm going to have you swing with a club in just a moment, but you don't need it just yet.
What I'm going to have you feel first, in the previous video, I talked about how most golfers who are really athletic and dynamic in their swings from Hogan on, push into that left foot to increase the pressure, and then use that ground force to push back into the right leg.
Now, some of you may be thinking, well, how am I going to not reverse pivot?
How are my hips not going to slide if I'm pushing back this way?
You've got to direct that energy and use that energy as load.
And so think of it this way, instead of thinking pushing, and then how am I going to not go lateral?
Think about how you're going to use that energy to build more energy.
And what I mean by that is if I push off my left foot, and then I use that ground force pushing it back against me to move into my right side, to give me a dynamic start to the swing, instead of letting that energy go this way, let that energy go this way.
This is a key to starting to turn properly in the backswing, especially if you're a person who struggles with not moving off their head moving off the ball.
This is going to be huge.
So as you do this, pushing this way, and then as the energy goes back, instead of directing that energy this way, laterally, that gets me rotating.
Now, you don't need to overdo this.
I know a lot of people are.
As soon as you feel it, you're like, oh, I got to get my hip deep.
And then they're going to look like this.
It's obviously too much.
And this is happening, remember, super fast in the swing.
So I'm going forward, back, letting that energy go back this way.
And now look how much I've turned already.
I'm already facing the camera.
Watch again from this angle.
A little bump to the lead foot to increase pressure.
Use that to rebound me back.
Now look how much I've turned.
I've almost made a full turn here.
Can you see that?
Look at how simple it is.
Now, I know so many people struggle with getting a proper turn in the backswing.
And this is just a simpler way to think about it, is that I use that energy this way.
My right hip goes deep and my shoulders go steep.
Now I didn't, I don't feel any strain or even any real rotational load in my spine at this point.
I just feel that I've used that energy that I've created from the ground, my little pressure shift to help me move my whole body this way.
And now I've made a full turn, almost a completely full turn here with zero strain on my back.
Now, How do I get the rest of that little bit of turn that I need to get into a really powerful, dynamic swing?
And what's cool about this, this next move actually initiates the transition.
So watch what happens.
So a little, little bounce.
Again, I'm exaggerating this.
This is really a small movement, just a pressure shift, but I'm going to exaggerate it.
So it's easy to see left.
I use that quickly to rebound this way.
Now I'm here.
Now watch if I'm inflection, I'm going to be really flat, but if I take my spine and go into extension, Hey, look at this extension.
Now look how much I've turned all by simply getting myself into extension.
Now what happens when I get into extension?
What happens to my pelvis?
What's going to happen to initiate the transition?
So I'm re pressure, rebound, deep, steep extension.
Now when I go into extension, watch what happens to my pelvis.
Do you see how?
Finishing that little bit of turn and getting into that extension forces my hip back this way and gets me falling back onto the lead side?
That's the transition in a simple, simple way to feel the entire golf swing by the time that you get here.
And you start to get into extension.
Notice that my spine and my hips are rotating back this way to initiate the downswing.
So it's starting to happen automatic.
Now, again, if you're just doing this slow, you don't really feel how quick this move needs to really happen and how dynamic it really is.
It's really happening super fast in the swing.
But if you need to feel the sequence of movement, that's what it is, but it should happen very naturally.
As you move into extension, Your pelvis is going to move the other way because you're extending, actually kind of feeling you're extending your entire back.
Now from there, I'm going to go right back into flexion.
That's what pulls everything down in the downswing.
And we'll talk more about that in a minute.
But as I go back, I'm in extension, which gets me falling back to the lead side.
And now as I go back into flexion, look where my arms are.
And all I got to do is release from there.
Let's talk a little bit more about the arms.
So how do you feel this dynamically, not just static and positions and all of this stuff?
How do you get it to feel where your downswing just fires automatically without you having to think about it?
This is where you're going to need a club.
You can do it at first without, but I'm going to do it with a club to demonstrate.
So as you're going back, what I want you to feel, and this is important to exaggerate this motion, Because what it's going to do is get you loaded dynamically in such a way that everything should start to fire in sequence the correct way.
Without you having to think, okay, how do I bring the club down?
So here's all you need to do.
What I want you to do at first, so you're going to shift left, right, start to fall back into that lead side as you get into extension, and extend your left arm as high.
It doesn't go super high, but as deep and far away as you can get it.
I'll do it from down the line.
So it's a little easier to see.
Now, if you want to swing higher, you can, but just to kind of get a basic feeling for this, what I want you to do is kind of go deep and high and stretch this out.
What this will do is help you get into a natural extension.
Watch what happens when I try to feel my hands going deep and back and far.
It naturally gets my spine into an extended position versus this kind of stuff that we see all the time.
So this will help you start to feel a big stretch and opening up that rib cage, Getting a lot of muscle loaded so that all you need to feel from here is all these muscles that you extend and open up, you close them down to start rotation in the downswing and to start pulling the club down.
So it should start to happen automatically if you load correctly.
Big left arm, use the right arm to help.
I've made a big turn.
It's obviously pulling me into extension, which is pulling my hip back to the left.
And from here, I'm just going to bring all the muscles that I feel loaded up.
I'm going to use those to help bring the club down.
Now let's take a look at a couple of tour pros and long drivers to see how they do this move.
So you can start to see it in a little bit more dynamic.
And the first thing we're going to look at is one that you guys may not be familiar with, but I promise you, you soon will be.
This is Gordon Sargent.
He's a college golfer.
He's six foot, 175 pounds.
So tall, but not a big muscular guy, but he will soon be one of, if not the longest driver on the PGA tour.
Swing speed's about 125 and he hits it solid.
Now let's take a look at how he's doing it.
We're going to look it down the line first.
And I'm just going to play it real quick, just to let you see just how unbelievably fast this guy moves.
That's moving.
That is incredible.
Now let's see, we're going to look at this from a few different angles.
That's going to help you start to see what's going on.
But long story short, going back, he actually starts very clearly with his spine inflection.
So you can see kind of obviously a little rounding in his spine, a little bit of lordosis curvature, lower spine.
So more or less a fairly neutral, relatively neutral, maybe a little bit extra curvature in the spine, but inflection for sure.
Rotates back, makes a pretty short backswing.
Check that out.
Kind of John Romish.
And this is a trend that you see a lot in these guys who are rotating really fast, which I'm going to talk about in the second half of the video.
And you'll see from here, he begins to rotate as fast as humanly possible.
And notice his right elbow, by the time he gets an impact, is actually almost stuck behind his hip.
That's how fast his hips are moving.
His arms don't even have a chance to keep up.
That's incredibly fast rotation.
And of course, for those of you that are out there that are my age, Getting into this position with our spine is just not even an option without making a trip to the ER.
But we're going to talk more about all of this stuff in just a second.
But what's cool is when we look at him from a different angle, you're going to see a lot of the things that we're talking about, and what the modern power player is doing.
And Gordon Sargent is the epitome of the more modern power player.
He's going to make a very compact swing.
And you'll see now his hips fire or begin to unwind very, very early to initiate that rotation back to the left.
But from here, it's going to be all torso and shoulder rotation as fast as he can.
And his arms aren't really doing jack.
I mean, they're obviously working to keep up with his body, but it's not like he's aggressively throwing with his right hand.
He is a body rotator, lead side dominant player.
And he's swinging soon to be again, the fastest player on the PGA Tour without question.
So as he gets into this incredible position, all through rotation, watch his feet for a second.
Now I'm going to talk about this in the second half of the video, but this movement is very, very important for somebody trying to create rotational speed.
And as I said, this dude is going to be as fast as anybody you've ever seen.
His swing is truly, truly the vision of what you're going to see more and more tour players looking like in the future.
You're going to see much more compact swings, much more dynamic loading, which we're talking about, and much more rotational speed.
One more swing of his got here.
Here we Just for fun.
Here's him just hitting a little iron, nuking it, and just absolutely firing through as fast as humanly possible.
This is what we're going to talk about more in just a moment when I'm going to have you do a drill.
So if you have a driver handy, bring it in.
I'm going to have you do a little experiment, but this is what you're going to see more and more of in the future.
But of course, as an older golfer, we're just not going to get into these positions.
There's just a 0% chance of that.
But I'm going to talk more about how all this stuff works together.
But what I do want you to pay attention more than anything is on the right-hand side, how he moves from what we saw down the line.
You can see his spine is obviously in flexion.
And then watch as he gets to the top, he goes into very obvious extension.
That's massive extension in the thoracic spine.
And then going right back, the muscles that he loaded there, he's going right back into flexion, rotating, getting his arms close to his body.
Why would you want your arms so close to your body?
Because you can rotate faster.
And that's what this swing is all about.
It is as pure rotation as it gets.
Now let's take a look at a couple others.
Now, as I showed in the introductory video, if you didn't catch that, I'm going to just walk you through this very, very quickly.
So we're going to use both of these guys.
This is Seb Twaddle on the left and Bryson DeChambeau on the right.
And you're going to see the same extension, massive extension in Seb's swing, massive extension.
And then he's going to go down and get loaded up even more.
So he makes two backswings.
And now you can see both of these golfers in obvious extension of their spine, obvious extension of their spine.
And now they're both going to move into flexion and rotation.
And now, because I'm going to talk about more of this in the second part of the video, focus again on their left foot.
Obvious that it's moving away.
If we take a look at the goat, we take a look at tiger, same thing.
What's going on here?
Let's talk about that.
As you can see, the future direction of golf is going to be wildly different.
You are going to see over the next 10 years, an even bigger increase in club head speed than you've ever seen before, even over the past 10 or 15 years, where there's been a huge change.
And it's simply because these golfers are so much more athletic, moving so much more dynamically and learning how to control that.
And that's really going to change the face of the game.
In fact, I think it's going to have a much, Much bigger impact than what Tiger Woods did when they were trying to Tiger proof Augusta and all these courses.
These guys are no joke.
And let's talk about how they're producing speed.
First of all, I want you to do one more little test with me.
I'm going to put up a swing of Rory McIlroy's, and all I want you to try and do is simply match his backswing pace.
That's it.
If you want to swing down from there, of course, that's fine.
So grab a club.
I'm going to show a driver swing.
So if you've got a driver, this is a great time to pull that out and try to feel this because what you're going to find, well, I'll just tell you in a moment.
So I'm going to put these swings up here and I want you to try and match Rory's backswing pace with a driver.
All right.
How'd you do?
You probably woke up to a little bit of a reality check there that these modern players are moving extremely fast, not just in a downswing, but in the backswing.
Now, of course, there's some players who move really slow, but they know how to move in the downswing very quickly already.
For most players, if you start feeling dynamic load, and by moving quickly in the way that I've just taught you, Then you'll start to find that your downswing happens much quicker and much more naturally, without you trying to mechanically force yourself all into it.
Now, let's talk back about this fourth pressure shift, because now that we have an idea of how quickly we need to move, we can start to feel these things happen naturally in our swing.
So what you saw in the players I mentioned earlier is that you see their lead foot literally leave the air.
Now they're not trying to push off their left foot deliberately, in a sense that they're trying to just stand up and lift off that foot.
It's happening as a result of rotational speed.
So this is not a cause per se.
It's a result or it's a, it's a result of how you're rotating your body.
Obviously there's rotational speed in the body and there's leverage in the arms.
And when you blend those two together, that dictates the formula for how much club head speed you're going to produce.
The modern player has realized that there's only so much you can get out of adding speed from your trail arm.
But in terms of rotational speed, there's really no speed limit to it other than your own physical ability.
And the modern player is rotating wicked fast.
And that is what's creating this fourth pressure shift.
So if we look at this in their swing, one, two, three.
Now, how does this fourth one happen?
It's happening as they rotate.
So as they're beginning to rotate down, that's obviously rotating this hip open, straightening this leg.
But if they, if you continue to rotate as fast as you can, that pulls this foot up in the air, because what you're doing through rotation is getting this lead shoulder to continue to turn.
And that is pulling this foot up off the ground.
And that's why you see it also not going just straight up off the ground, but because the rotation around your spine, or it's not exactly accurate, but you get the idea as this shoulder is going this way, it's pulling it back.
So this will happen naturally as you start picking up your speed.
So try to match your backswing pace.
You don't have to match Rory's exactly, of course, but it's just to give you an idea of how fast and how dynamic the body needs to load.
That's why there's just not enough time to think your way through.
Okay, here's this position.
Now here's this position.
Okay, now I got a transition.
It's already too late.
It should have already happened.
So when you're working on your pressure shift, I want you to go a little wild, start waking up your body again, start feeling athletic and fun like a kid again, how you used to swing.
Get that big swing, big extension.
And then as you're going down, as you've gone into this thoracic extension, and you go back into flexion, keep rotating, And let that move your body in what's going to feel a natural way, that this foot is going to come off the ground.
What this is going to do is it's going to accelerate your hip turn.
You're going to be able to turn faster when you're not heavily planted on this thing and trying to stay there.
If you heavily plant on this left foot and then try to swing down, you're just going to move laterally.
You're not going to have any speed.
You're going to be forced to use your upper body, but you can increase rotational speed.
And that is what the modern power player is doing.
And that's why they have four pressure shifts.
In fact, a fifth one, when they come down, this foot's in the air, when it replants, the ball's already gone at that point, so we don't really care, but there's actually five pressure shifts in the modern power player swing.
But if you can feel one, two, three, and let your body rotate open and feel that plant, you're going to start feeling a lot more freed up in your swing and a lot more speed.
Now, some of you are going to be thinking, wait a second, if I just keep rotating, aren't my shoulders going to be really open at impact.
We know a tiger, he's a great rotator, but his shoulders are still closed at impact.
How's that happen?
I'll briefly touch on that, But the simple answer is that there's internal rotation of this lead arm, and it stays internally rotated all the way into the hitting area.
So you can see that I can rotate my body a lot, but if this lead shoulder's internally rotated, then it looks like my shoulders are square.
If I take this shoulder and retract it back, now I look open.
So as you get into this position at the top, let your arm internally rotate to get this big swing and big extension.
And then as you come down, rotate and keep that arm externally rotate or excuse me, internally rotated until you get down into the release area.
But we'll talk more about the arms and the downswing stuff in another video, but this, I just want you to try and feel athletic and dynamic again, and let me know how it works out for you.
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