How to Swing on Plane w/ The GOAT Code

Have you been searching for the right feeling to get the club to naturally swing on one plane? Watch this lesson!

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there it goes great okay so yeah so i just wanted to kind of follow up on the last swim review i submitted um so i know the big thing we talked about was my hip turn so it's turning too much in the backswing so i've been working on that trying to feel that you know loading up here and maintaining that hip line and i think i'm i'm getting it but it's still very mechanical at least that's what it feels like to me yeah so i'm just trying to feel it more dynamically i guess and so i've been doing like the tiger challenge and the rhombo drill just to kind of make things more dynamic i guess i just want to make sure like i'm doing it right i guess and if there's anything else you might say okay perfect um let me get set up to record here i want to record you face on and down the line if we can okay and i'm ready whenever you are okay and then can you do one down the line okay all right can you see my screen now i can yep okay so there's a little setup change that we need to make face on that's going to make this easier can you see i'll i'll try to make this as big as i can um if you were to draw a line straight down from your lead shoulder you would see that it would kind of go outside of your foot in your trail shoulder you would see if you drew a line straight down from that it would actually kind of go over the center of your foot you see what i'm saying there oh yeah yeah your lead shoulder's a little hiked up we want to reverse that so if you want to load into that trail side you it helps a lot to kind of start out over there otherwise your head and everything's got to shift a lot so you you're a little too much into your lead side and that's why your shoulder looks a little compressed here so we just need to take your upper body and just slide it back to the left or sorry yeah yeah to your left um at setup but we'll we'll talk more about that in a moment so you see you actually make the move see how you're set up here and then watch your head you see how you move into that left side before you start back yep which is fine to do it dynamically like that as long as you feel comfortable and consistent it adds a little more movement everybody moves a little bit like that at least most better players do so it's just one little thing of note if you started there a little bit more like that's probably where i would have you set up not here you see how much difference that is in your shoulder yeah so you're saying i just don't have enough tilt exactly away from okay yeah so if you were right here you'd look perfect at setup but you're starting kind of jammed up but if you started here and then made a little bit of move over it it makes it feel a lot more dynamic and fluid getting to that trail leg than having to make a bigger move but let's see what else we got going on here okay so now we got the old hip shift here so this is this is why you're struggling with this move i'm gonna i'm gonna show you how what's going on here what you got to feel but basically if you use that ladder as a reference in the background note how you start moving away from it right away with your left with your trail leg there yeah and so this makes it feel really awkward it's a really uncomfortable position to be in and this is why you know trying to make a dynamic and natural isn't you know it's not going to feel right you know so so we're going to fix this because this is more of a hip turn and i'm going to show you how to load into the hip in a really funky way that's going to feel strange at first but then you're going to be oh it feels more natural once you do it because then what's going to happen once you're in that position and you because you've made a pretty big hip turn you can see how your lead knee is kicked in quite a bit and then try and shift back to the lead side very aggressively at all you're going to do it with your hips closed because you've made such a big hip turn so you can see even halfway down or close to halfway down your hips are still closed to the target line and they should be at least square by now but you can't when you make this big turn like this but but i'm going to give you a really easy way to feel this so then you're just kind of everything's just kind of a little bit late the body's clearing out late we'll talk about that stuff in a minute okay let's see so you got a lot of arm lift here is that something that's like a personal preference or how did you get your hands this high yeah i think for me like i'm just always trying to be wide and going back to like the the old backswing videos just making sure the arms stay in front of me so i think i'm just maybe i'm overdoing it a bit yeah yeah for sure you can actually see that your your lead shoulder your your trail shoulder here is kind of elevated you that's what's allowed your elbow to come so far away from your body and so this doesn't really give us much more power but it does make things a lot more complicated and so now it's way across the line and when you have the club way across the line and you've made that big hip turn the club's going to have a really hard time getting on planes so you're either going to be really good at shallowing it out or you're going to come down steep and in your case you come down steep so that club shaft's a little too upright trying to fire the arms and then the body can't clear out of the way and so then you kind of got to flip the hands at the bottom and so the stuff we're going to do this is going to be really cool because it'd be really easy for you to start to understand this but the feelings i'm going to give you are the first one's going to be kind of bizarre so the first thing as i mentioned is setup you're kind of i'm going to exaggerate these things so it's kind of easy to see but you're kind of jammed into your lead side like this this is an exaggeration right it's not that bad but if you were just a little bit more to where your trail shoulder kind of wants to hang down over your foot instead of kind of like this over kind of the inside of your foot or middle when you have that little bit of tilt that makes it so much easier to get into this trail leg but when you're here you kind of got to make a pretty concerted effort to kind of get over there and the swings happening so fast that we want to kind of minimize that stuff so if you just start if you just kind of start checking that your trail shoulder is kind of like over the edge of your right for your back foot yeah exactly just a little bit like play around with it a little but you'll find that you don't feel like this shoulder has to be so hyped up like you're so into it you're kind of into that lead arm a little bit too much you'll feel like it's got a little more space and this shoulder will be able to sit down a lot more naturally which will help you avoid getting a lot of tension in your arms going back because if you already start like this then it's kind of hard to like tone that tension down you know what i'm saying oh yeah makes sense so that's the first thing the second thing is the way that your hips are going that what you're doing is trying to turn your hips and this is something i'm going to do a video on this soon but understanding how your hips have to move if you're trying to turn them it takes too much time and then then we're the last thing we're going to do is put your arms back in a better position so we don't have to get all this elevation and this will simplify things a huge amount so if you've ever watched tiger practice there's clips of him on youtube doing what looks like a really funky drill where he's literally doing this i don't know if you've ever seen that have you ever seen i've seen him do like this right yeah exactly so what he's what he's trying to do there so this feeling is to keep him from turning like what you're i'm exaggerating again but this is kind of what you're doing where you were moving away from that ladder back behind you and turning your hips what you actually want to feel is what tiger is doing which is to go out this way and then back which looks like this which looks really silly it doesn't make sense and of course in a real swing i can't get back there's just not enough time right but what this is doing is a couple things one it's making it easy to get into your trail leg and load up which is what you're doing and then you're kind of stuck and then you got to flip your hands what you want to feel is the opposite you want to feel this so if i go back now i'm going to so here's my drill here's tiger and again it's it's not just back this way it's also back this way he's making depth because that's going to make room for his arm to come down but if he goes this way the only way place for your arms to go is your hips are trying to unwind and get out of the way is steep there's no room for them and that's why you're coming down steep and then you flip so when you feel this what's actually going to happen is you're going to look like this which is normal but it feels like i'm like that does that make sense yeah so it's a kind of i guess when you demonstrate it almost looks like i i kind of have to feel like i reverse pivot a little bit a hundred percent it's exactly what it needs to feel like a hundred percent now of course it doesn't happen right but it's absolutely because you're just you only have like a split second for your hip to move but once you get that feeling instead of doing this and you kind of you go here guess what your hip naturally wants to do in the downswing it naturally wants to shift back to the lead side without you having to think about right now you're turning and then driving forward and then trying to unwind and it just doesn't work there's just not enough time it's out of sequence and all of this stuff but when i slide my hip this way it naturally wants to go this way so and mike austin talked about this too mike austin i don't know if you know who mike austin is but a famous long hitter a coach back in the 60s 70s 80s and he holds the record for the longest drive ever done in a professional tournament 515 yards but mike austin believed that this you start to swing that you should shift your hips this way and move them like a pendulum in the swing and the reason you believe that was that it gave your spine support so when i go this way now my spine is kind of braced into this right hip and then when i slide it this way it's braced in this left hip so my my spine and my legs kind of become an extension of each other does that make sense yeah yeah it makes sense so once you have again mike did it a little bit bigger than than most but it frees you up to then be able to use your legs correctly and quickly but if you're like this and turning it doesn't make sense it just doesn't work so once you get this feeling of your hips kind of feeling like the bottom of a pendulum going this way it'll feel really natural to get them to go that way and that's key because right now as you're coming down and your arms are kind of back here you're across the line and your elbow's out of weight from you and it's up high and then you're turned and then you start turning any and you have to start turning because you turn them so much going back but again we don't want to turn we kind of want to do this weird little slide and tilt kind of thing with it because once that happens and they go out of the way guess what my club can do it can shallow now because i've got room but if your hips in the way and you start turning there is no choice but for the club to go out over the top and steep and then you got to wait on it and save it with your hands right so you kind of get this feeling then the last thing that we've got to do is that your arms just don't need to do nearly that much like they really don't have to swing very much at all and what you're actually going to want to feel once you get this is that your arms are pretty shallow that you don't want to look really at all you don't need that especially if you're going to throw with this trail hand you don't you don't want to throw from up here you want to throw from back here because you want to throw out toward the ball to create that centrifugal force of the club going out that way and i just released a video this morning if you go on the site under the goat code there's two new videos about the goat release and that will help go more in depth it's like an over an hour of content but but that'll help you understand that release part but let's see if we can get you feeling this so that you and again going from this to this is going to feel wild right but you'll see that this is a quick move and it's very much what you would do if you were swinging a you know or throwing a ball you would load into this right leg in this way and then be able to use it to drive off exactly okay so let's try a couple drills just show me that drill because it is going to feel funky is this kind of what you want it set up chuck like this yeah that's a lot you look a lot more comfortable there okay so is it kind of like this yeah it's exactly like okay okay do that one more time for me yeah so now what how far do you feel like your hips are moving there like a lot like way over here a lot right okay so yeah yeah it's going to feel bizarre but that's you know the old feeling real right yeah so now if we look at it go to the second one you're going to do this a few times kind of get the feel of it but so now if we watch that ladder in the background now again you feel like you're moving a ton right oh a bunch yeah but you can see like you just kind of stay pretty close to where you started you move into it a little bit but it's nowhere near what you think right yeah in fact your hips actually kind of where it's supposed to be is my uh is my upper body okay like it's not leaning too much to the target it is because you're trying to swing your arms way too much okay your arms don't need to go anywhere near that far we can make this way way smaller so but the hip movement is what we're working on first and you can see that even though it feels really wild you're actually just loaded into your hip for the first time instead of where if you look at we're four you'll see that you watch the ladder again you see how far away you want to move away from it yeah you're kind of off balance there right and it it shortens your backswing a little bit because your muscles get really kind of bound up because there's only so much twisting and stretching that you can do to where you know at some point there's a limit right so now that you have kind of this initial feel that it's just kind of loading into this right hip and kind of like a diagonal fashion it's going back towards the corner of the room so for you yep exactly like that that's kind of your initial thing yep and then your arms what i want you to think about is and again i i cover this in depth on this new video so i want you after we get done check out that video but i want you to get the feeling of how you would naturally throw with just kind of the two fingers on your trail hand if nothing else so your two middle fingers and then you know you can have the thumb there just to keep the club from falling into your to your palm but how would you take that club back you wouldn't probably do this because you wouldn't feel like you'd have very much control what you would feel is just a little bit of set and you're going to feel the club kind of going back into a depth dimension what i kind of like to think about it is hogan's pane of glass it's not a real thing but it's a good feeling it's a good visual so right now you kind of have this complicated route where the club has kind of taken this long bobby jones-esque path to get to the top and then it's really tricky if you imagine that the club just kind of always moves on one plane and you can see as i'm exaggerating this feeling you see how the club's kind of looking like it's always doing the same thing yeah this is all just done by if i was going to throw the club with those two fingers and really my middle finger that's how i take the club back i would take it back here and then as i as my hips go on this way and then it starts going this way that makes room for my elbow and then i would just throw it with my fingers i would throw the club out with my fingers so instead of thinking keeping my arms in front and getting here and getting the club there and all this stuff feel it in these two middle fingers and take it back kind of feeling on this one plane that's going to feel like the go delivery position this gdp position where your elbow fits kind of facing out away from you and you just take that to the top that's what keeps you in this angle and then you bring it back down and then it's always kind of feeling like the club's always moving on one really boring plane and then it's really easy to get the club squared back up and keep it on plane and path that make sense yeah that makes sense so should it i guess for me feel more like flatter more rounded or sure okay okay so yeah so stay down the line take the club in those middle two fingers and just try to create that plane for me that i was talking about way better combine that with your little hip move and we don't need that much wrist set at the top okay control the club with those two fingers even shorter with your arm swing shorter still okay let's just take a quick look at that so your first one was actually one of your best ones so watch here you see how the club's kind of more on plane there yeah your arms you're you don't even need to move your arm that much still and and you wouldn't be able to once you had your lead hand back on there but you can see that the club's a lot deeper back behind you and again you wouldn't be able to get that deep with the lead hand back on but the path that the club can then take coming back down is from the inside you see how it's right on your forearm now oh yeah so now you're approaching the ball from the inside and you can release the hands correctly just by this basic feeling of your hip going deep kind of diagonally and that arm kind of what i like to think about it is that is that trail arm always staying in gdb throughout the entire swing and that just kind of makes it flow back in one piece and down in one piece so the only thing that you really need to do to to make this ideal is that you're still kind of letting your arm drift away and kind of make a really long swing you can do that again you're not going to get that far with your left arm or lean arm back on there but you really don't need to what you need to think about is if you were going to throw this club head with just these two fingers you can make a pretty compact move like my arm's going to stay down pretty low i kind of keep my elbow at the base of my chest i don't want it to swing out away from me very far and i don't want to lift it really much at all i'm trying to feel like everything is kind of 45 degrees to the ground it's not true but that's my visual for my golf swing because that just makes everything really stupidly simple so shafts give or take 45 degrees my shoulders are 45 degrees the club's 45 degrees you can see the club and my shoulders are about the same and so that gets my arm working this way instead of this way so i'm kind of trying to always do this you know almost a little bit of what might feel like some external rotation but you can see that gets the club and what looks more laid off because that's keeping it always on plane versus this way where you wanted to get there right yeah so all i'm trying to do is get here and then it comes down on that same spot and then this makes it really simple to go here back down on release so try and feel that the club is what what to you is going to feel like it's always moving on this this one constant you know hogan's pane of glass visual it's a great visual even though it's not real if you can just kind of feel your arm doing that and back down like that okay yeah there you go yeah a little bit so get a little more control with your wrist and your fingers there you got a little floppy at the top okay no no no so let me that's still too much well let me show you there's the first drills were perfect okay but then you kind of you got a little too soft with your hands and your wrist and so you kind of let it swing a little bit out of control okay we want to control that thing a little bit better than that so so watch this swing here so here's the first one you made and you see your shoulders got steeper here yep you see the club and your shoulders and arms are kind of all in the same plane and the club that's beautiful at the top see how it's no longer going across the line it's just kind of what may look like laid off but that's actually on plane and so from right there that's a perfect spot for the club face and for the shaft to be on plane as you come back down they just you naturally shallow it out and then it's right on plane a little under even from there so and then the next one you got a little bit longer see how as you get a little soft with your wrist you're not controlling the club the club starts to get across the line a little bit there yeah yeah i see that you need to hold it a little more firmly with that middle finger on your trail hand and then on the last one when you started to go a little bit longer still that's where you got your elbow you let your elbow fly away from you and then the club got back across the line you see that yeah i see that so that's really the only correction is you just got to feel here but i'm holding on to it you know relatively snug with my fingers my two middle fingers for sure right and then and then it's always going to point it's never going to go here i gotta do something kind of funky with my wrist so a trick to this is if your elbow pit feel like it's pointing out away from you and then as you're going back like your palm of your hand should almost feel like it's facing the sky when it starts going like this and starts pointing more towards the ground that's when you get across the line but if it if it feels like and this is too much i would i would be opening the face here but as you're going back that way my palm feels like it's pointing more up like kind of again like a 45 degree angle to the sky instead of going this way that's how i keep the club on playing and then as i come down i'm actually trying to feel like this palm is facing the sky so if i do that that keeps the club back here behind me and then i can and i'm and then look i'm right in gdp yep right yeah exactly okay i got you but just a little firmer grip will kind of you gotta control it with those with those yeah perfect you kind of lost it at the top keep that palm facing up a 45 degree angle as you're going back now all the way to the yep exactly like that exactly yes all right let's take a quick look at those now we're in the ballpark so should i feel like my palm like pretty much like the whole time should just be pointing that way all right so here is the first one see how the club's nice on plane there yep and your palm is kind of like roughly at a 45 degree angle to the sky give or take a little bit right but there your palm twisted okay yeah i see that a little bit there yeah just a little but you can see that gets the butt of the club no longer on plane here you can see the butt of the club is on plane on plane on plane and then right there it twists and so what you want to feel is a little bit of the opposite of that because and again that release video that i just put out talks about this motion but what you want to feel is that in order to release the club quickly this would be the fastest way to do it would be to rotate your wrist in this way there's no there's no faster way to swing the golf club right like at least in terms of getting the club from this side of the ball to that side of the ball would be this motion like slinging a rock on the end of a string okay in your swing now granted we don't have this much freedom of motion because your left wrist should be or your lead wrist would be like this it doesn't work like that but the same idea is still present in the golf swing it's it's this to release the club and get that thing to really speed up so what would my what would my palm be doing it's rotating this way during the swing and you want to get this way that's so the difference is pronation or supination so internal rotation external rotation what i'm trying to get you to feel is external rotation of that hand not ever pronation internal rotation because that just gets you here right and again if you know if we know that all the greats are in this position right before they release the club and that palm feels like it's rotating this way then it doesn't make sense to ever put your arm in this position at the top of your swing so as you're going back you start to feel that i'm already setting up to get my palm to supinate this way that's why you see a lot of great players when they go to the top the club looks like it moves away from the target target line to start down just that little tiny set there because they're doing this with their wrist and that's what you and if you go like this and then try to reverse it it'll never sync up but if you kind of feel that it's going that way and then you feel this continual rotation just like the axiom stuff it's just that clockwise rotation of my hand well that sets the club straight down on playing and so then all i've got to do at the top is i don't i don't want to get like this and then try and reverse it i'm just going to be here and know that i've got to get the club shallowed out and that's all done with that supination of that right hand or trail hand in your case okay that makes sense yeah yeah it makes sense so yeah so do a couple for me real quick i just want to kind of watch that feel yeah there you go there you go it's first time you shallow it out do a couple more there you go so now let's take a quick look i think getting used to that feel like especially down at impact it feels like so open to me but totally yeah and i talk about that in the release video you'll you'll once you watch the release video it'll all start to make sense as to how your your wrists are moving and how the club face is squaring up it's more by an underhand movement and you're used to kind of an overhand yeah so now you stop taking it back inside without me telling you anything watch how the club goes back this is going right through your hands it's on plane it's in a beautiful spot right there kind of hard to mess it up from there unless you're donating that wrist but you didn't you shallowed it out see how your arms naturally drop back behind you oh wow yeah and now look at the club easily approaching the ball from the inside now your body's quiet you're not trying to like rotate your hips really fast to get them out of the way because you didn't bury them when you went back you just took that arm up and you moved into that trail hip correctly but now you can see look at your move that's tour pro shit right there yeah and then from there you just sling that puppy to the ball which i talked about in the release video so that all makes sense man yeah yeah it makes perfect sense so it's definitely a definitely a weird sensation but yeah i mean i i can see how that how that works once you watch the release video it'll start to make all of this stuff make sense like oh well that if i'm trying to do this because that's the fastest motion to move that club head is to take your wrist and do this there's no way that you can move that club at any faster than that so then you start thinking about the golf swing in terms of not trying to rotate to produce power which is kind of what you were doing and then you get your arms really high you don't need all that extra movement you just start understanding how do i sling that thing into the back of the ball as fast as i can and then everything that you're doing in your swing outside of that is to help with that so that just this feeling of that kind of plane and your wrist working this way in the supination it it's counterintuitive but you saw as soon as you did it this doesn't look like this and this feeling of the club is actually on plane shallows out so those two things are really all you need and the little setup change is all you need to really feel okay perfect um share this lesson with some of the with the members on the side i think they'd find it helpful yeah that'd be that'd be perfect yeah definitely cool man i'll uh i'll try to get it out sometime this week because i think people once you watch this release video and you start kind of having what we just worked on and that concept in your mind you can see like the club it goes where it's supposed to and you're no longer trying to force it into these positions it's a truly dynamic motion oh yeah for sure can i um can i do one more face on just so i get that yeah that part down yeah for sure yeah so is it okay for me to feel like a little more weight on the back foot at sup or is that matter do you think i actually prefer it i actually try it now when i set up and i'm on a force plate i can show you that my pressure is still more lee because my hips over here but i feel more pressure on my right even though the force plate says there's more pressure on my left so this is partly a feel versus real thing i'm actually trying to start back here a little bit more on my trail leg it makes it easier to get over there because i know i want to get over there anyway and then as i come down i'm actually trying to stay back on it quite a while i'm not trying to pounce on this lead leg because that starts creating a lot of rotation all right i'm going to have to move over here and then you can see my shoulders are going to have to turn to do that my rib cage i'm trying to stay back and sling it so i actually feel more pressure on my trail foot now this stuff is happening super fast and what's actually happening is as i'm releasing i actually unweight this foot really quickly but that's happening way faster than my brain can keep up with all the different things happening so what i try and feel in my golf swing is i start here and i stay here but now if you look at it it looks like i've you know shifted over to my lead side but i still feel like i'm pushing off my right big toe and because i this is how i would throw i wouldn't throw with all my pressure over here like this it'd be more of a dynamic motion does that make sense yeah yeah it makes sense get into it don't be afraid to get into it it's not going to hurt you the more you get into it the easier it's going to be to get out of it it gives you momentum yeah so that's all that's all you need to feel there it's just diagonally back and into it yep exactly okay it's just that's okay to feel it's okay to almost feel like i feel like i'm almost breaking that line is that okay for me like kind of moving a little bit that way yes yes so first of all most golfers will move into it a little bit like it may only be like a half an inch or something but keep in mind that this backswing is happening so fast that you're not going to have time to move it all the way over there so that's why you see tiger really exaggerating this because his backswing is over in the second so he has to feel this in order to just make it move a half an inch and so that's what you're really trying to to become aware of is that the speed at which the things are happening in the golf swing are so much faster than what our brains can really process and keep up with so like if you're trying to think through the backswing this is why like body movements are really difficult to think through because they truly have to happen lightning fast and and we're just not that good at making our brain tell these big muscles and stuff to move that quickly so you just kind of kind of feel like a quick load into it but it's no different than if you were going to throw you would do the exact same thing but as i was as i was doing this i was also almost immediately moving back this way because it doesn't make sense to me to throw like this that's kind of how the golf swings kind of been thought i was like kind of slow and methodical but i don't think of it that way i think of it as i gotta go and so so you're probably going to feel a lot but when you start matching tiger's pace and that tiger challenge video it's it's like this there's just no time okay all righty yeah awesome thank you so much you bet man i hope it helps thank you all right we'll talk to you later all right thank you all all right we'll talk to you later