Creating Torque - The Magic Pill for the Feel - Pt 3

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Have you ever thrown a club on a course?

Well, I'm not advocating.

It is a very, very helpful drill.

Probably one of the most helpful drills, when done correctly, to help you understand how to release the club to get effortless speed.

Now, you don't need to throw this club far.

You don't need a long distance.

I'm going to show you in a moment.

I'm just going to throw these clubs about 10-15 yards.

That's plenty.

So if you have any room in your backyard at all, you don't have to throw these far to get the right feeling for this release.

But I do want you to do this drill.

So there are two vital key rules when it comes to throwing a club.

The first one is understanding that what you're trying to do is to snap the wrist to get this club to rotate like a helicopter blade.

That's the simplest way to think about it.

And the second rule is never, ever throw the club back behind you.

Always throw it closer to the hole so you don't have to walk backwards to go and get it.

But first, we're going to focus on how to get these wrists to snap.

Now, you'll notice in the goat code, a lot of times I've talked about kind of hitting balls as a drill with a staggered stance.

That feeling allows the body to decelerate so that the wrists can snap.

That's the same feeling that you want when you're going to throw this club.

So first, I'm going to throw this one very, very easy.

I'm not going to throw it hard at all.

I just want to get the feeling of how the wrists will snap.

And to do that, I'm going to take a little step, and that will help activate these muscles in my lead side to brace.

You've heard the term hitting into a firm left side a million times from all the greats.

I've always talked about hitting into this firm left side.

That feeling is really easy and evident to feel when you take a little step, and you plant on it, and that's how you would throw the club.

You're not going to just throw off your back foot like this is how a lot of times we try to hit a golf ball, but of course, it doesn't work very well.

So you're going to take a little step and throw.

And I'm going to talk about the overall movement of it the body and the wrists in just a moment.

But first, in this first simple throw, all I want you to do is get a feel for taking a little step.

And as you brace and pivot on this lead side or brace and post up, I want your wrists to snap.

So you're going to make a little backswing and then let your wrists snap.

Your wrists have to be soft in order for this to happen.

The other thing, the reason that is going to be difficult for a lot of you is you're used to muscling the golf swing.

If you feel like you put a lot of effort into your golf swing and you're tired after a round of golf.

And you feel like you're physically putting a lot of force into it, You're swinging way too hard, and it's way more efficient to learn how to let your wrists snap and use your body to do that.

So you don't want to be pushing the club through.

You can see if I don't allow my wrist to release at all, I have to turn really fast.

I'm going to put a lot of right side into it and the club's never going to snap.

I'm just going to have to rotate faster if I ever want to generate any speed.

But if I step, relax my arms, let them just fall down into GDP and let my wrist snap, let the momentum of the club carry on.

That's the opposite of driving the club through.

You don't want to feel like you're pushing the handle through.

You want that handle feel like it's actually going backwards.

And that's what's allowing the momentum of the club to overtake your hands.

And that's where the acceleration phase of the golf swing happens.

That's what I want you to feel with this throw.

And if you do it correctly, as you'll see in just a moment, the club is going to rotate in a very tight arc, a very tight circle around the center.

If I don't, if I just push it through, it's barely going to have any rotation at all.

So I'm going to show you this face on one way.

I'm going to show you how to push it through and how slow it's going to feel.

And then I'm going to helicopter it.

And then I'm going to show you down the line as well.

So the first one is what most golfers do.

They kind of get to the top and then they drive hard.

And this is the epitome of muscling the golf swing.

And this is the opposite of efficiency in the golf swing.

It's the opposite of feeling effortless.

You go to the top and you feel like you got to turn right away.

That's a death move in the golf swing.

You will never, ever have any effortless power in your swing.

You're always going to be muscling it.

So that's what I'm going to feel this first time.

I'm going to go to the top.

I'm going to take a step.

I'm going to kind of turn and you'll watch.

There's not going to be much speed in this.

Okay.

Club didn't helicopter.

It just kind of flew out to the right.

Just kind of like what the ball is going to do when you drive through like this, because the club face can't release.

And that's me just going to the top and muscling it.

Now on this next one, I'm going to swing effortless.

I'm going to take a step.

My arms are going to be relaxed.

I'm not going to try and turn through at all.

I'm going to let the club in my arms drop.

And then I'm going to let my wrist snap and watch the difference.

Club just flew out of my hands literally and flew way farther with no effort.

My hands were literally just like this, just dead.

I mean, look at how fast my wrist can move.

It's the fastest moving joint in your body.

And that's what you want to feel is that you're just slinging the club through.

And as you post up your wrist, just kind of let the club go.

And now it's interesting.

The one that I pushed and drove through, which took more muscular effort, that club went to the right.

The one that I just let slap their sling through went to the left.

That's the trick that club will release.

If you let it and you post up correctly and use your body correctly, which is what this whole video series is all about.

And that club will square up for you.

You'll be able to hit the ball straight or even a little draw.

But if you're pushing and driving through, you're holding that face off from ever releasing.

Now let's take a look at this from down the line.

So now from down the line, you'll be able to see again, you don't have to throw this hard or far at all.

You don't have to be out in a big field where you can throw this 50 yards.

The point of this is to get the feeling of how supple your wrists and your arms need to be in order for that snap to happen.

And then in this part, when we're looking at it from down the line, I'm going to talk more about the body movement.

It's so important to understand that the most important thing you're trying to do in your golf swing is to get those wrists to snap.

If you want to have an effortless golf swing, if you want to put a lot of effort into it, that's totally different.

But if you want to feel that effortless, Just snap of the ball off the face, where the ball feels like it melts off the face and just rockets into the air, that is all done by moving quick, not by moving powerfully.

The faster you can move, the more speed you can generate, the faster you can get these wrists to snap, the more effortless your golf swing will feel.

And to do that, you need to create torque.

And to do that, your body needs to feel like it's moving in the opposite direction that you want the club to go.

So as I'm taking a step in to throw the club, my trail foot is actually going to slide backwards.

And that's what I want you to feel as you're working on this is taking a step and you throw.

You'll feel that if you're doing this, that's the opposite.

That's you moving in the same direction.

That's you turning with the club and you'll never get that snap of your wrist.

The club and your body are going to move at the same rate together.

In order to get your wrist to snap, just like snapping a towel, what do you got to do?

You got to pull your hand back, where your leg is acting as that anchor in the golf swing to help pull the hands back.

That's what's going to force the club head to take over.

That momentum that you're building in the downswing and releasing at the bottom happens more aggressively.

The more you try and move in the opposite direction.

So feel this, you can do it with just one hand, take a step and you'll feel that your wrist, it doesn't want to keep going because your body just can't keep stretching that much.

It's there's not that much flexibility in these muscles.

And that's the feeling is that as this acts as an anchor and actually goes backwards, that forces your wrist to snap because I can't go any further than this.

And that's the exact feeling that we're after in the golf swing.

And we'll look at this movement a little bit more in depth in a second as we go inside.

But the feeling as you're doing this is what I want you to feel.

Let that right foot go back as if your hips are twisting in the opposite direction.

And that will make the club and wrist snap.

Now again, if I turn through, you'll never feel that snap.

That's what we're going to do first.

So since I've already dented this club and broken it, dented the shaft when I threw it into the rocks there, I'm going to throw this one first.

So this is the push.

This is me going with the club.

And again, I'm not going to go hard.

I'm just going to take a little step there.

So a little bit of snap in my wrist, but not nearly as much as when I create that torque in my swing.

That's what I'm going to feel now.

And I want that club instead of being pushed through, I actually threw it a little better than I meant to there.

Normally when golfers push the club through, they turn really aggressive and then they just force it through and it doesn't release at all.

It'll tend to go tight.

Now, as I take a step, I'm going to actually create some torque, some counter rotation to force those wrists to snap.

And now as I do that, club gets flung down the hill.

I'm going to have to go fetch that down the hill and to the left, because my hands stop moving to the left.

I think that's a major misnomer in the golf swing.

If you want effortless powers, a lot of golfers who do this actually rotate the body through.

That's a totally different way of swinging the club.

I'm all about effortless power.

I don't want my body to have to work that hard.

I don't want it to have to twist and rotate.

I'm going to take advantage of this.

That's my feeling of golf.

So I want my wrist to snap as fast as I can.

And to do that, I can't keep rotating through.

I've got to create torque.

And now we're going to go inside and feel what this feels like in your golf swing.

So all you need is a smooth floor.

If you've got a wood floor or a tile floor and some socks, And we're going to get a feeling for how you're supposed to create this torque, to force those wrists to snap, to get true effortless speed.

Now, I realized that this idea of torque may be difficult to understand at first.

I'm going to give you a couple more examples before we go and start working on the feels for this.

But when you notice, when I was outside swinging that club and throwing it, if I released it correctly, my hands snapped over very fast and it forced the club to helicopter, rotated very quickly.

That's what you want to look for when you're throwing that club.

And it should feel truly effortless.

And by that, I mean, there's no muscular effort involved in trying to get that club to release correctly like that.

It's truly a matter of mechanics of using your body, creating this counter rotation, this torque, so that the club is forced to snap.

And if I push it through, the club doesn't want to rotate nearly as much.

It's going to go really, really slow in terms of its amount of rotation that it's going through the air with.

So in order to get that feeling and how to snap it properly, come inside onto a slick floor surface, wood floor, tile floor, whatever, and get a feel for how your feet should work.

Now, the trick is in a lead side dominant pattern, it's actually different than a trail side pattern.

In a lead side pattern, Your feet are going to be relatively quiet.

And you're going to get on this lead leg and you're going to pivot and that's going to help sling the club through.

So you're going to rotate faster in a lead side dominant pattern.

In a trail side dominant pattern, because we're using a lot more right hand snap or trail hand snap to get that speed in there, you don't need to rotate.

In fact, rotation is actually counterproductive.

And that's why you actually want to counter rotate in a trail side pattern.

As you're going to understand, as we go through this, you're going to see all of these other sports, whether it's softball, baseball, tennis, whatever it is, All of these sports that are hitting, throwing motions are going to involve this counter rotation or this torque.

And then on a slick floor surface like this, it's really easy to see that.

So what I want you to feel is that as you're going back and you start down, your foot should naturally want to slide back behind you.

If it doesn't, you're muscling the swing with your upper body.

So if you go to the top and you don't have to have a club, if you have a club, that's great, but you don't have to.

If you just go to the top and you turn your shoulders really fast, your feet are going to end up like this.

You're going to end up spun around and your trail foot's going to come around because you're pivoting on that lead side.

That's the opposite of what you want to feel.

If you want to feel effortless power, you want to feel counter rotation that forces those risks to snap.

So as I come down and I begin to let that lead side stretch, pull me back, start that initial rotation.

I'm actually trying to decelerate my hips.

I don't want to try and turn my hips as fast as I can.

I want to decelerate and counter rotate my hips as fast as I can.

And what you'll find is that as I'm doing that, if I really try and push into the ground to create a true firm left side, what does that really mean?

That's really meaning that leg is posting up, but it really means that you're pushing the ground away from you with your lead foot.

And this is really easy to feel like if you were snapping a towel, you would feel that you would, you know, if my foot's slick, I don't have a lot of weight on there.

Instead of stopping, my foot would slide because I'm trying to brace in order to get my wrist to be able to snap, to snap that towel.

That motion is countered by this motion.

And that's why the golf swing can seem so darn hard and confusing.

Because you're actually trying to create forces that are trying to turn your body in the opposite direction that the club is going.

And that's why this is so strange.

If you, if you've got a feel for the snap at first, when you were learning the J release and learning that throwing motion.

And then I've had people email me like, I was in the ball.

Great.

And then I just kind of lost it.

You lost it.

Cause you started trying to muscle it again.

You got a feeling for snapping that wrist.

And then you say, Oh, this feels great.

Well, what if I add a little more power to it?

You start adding power to it.

You start adding upper body rotation to it and you lose the snap of the release.

And that's why some of you have lost that feeling.

And when I've done swing reviews for you or we've done live lessons, I've started teaching you how to post up and create that torque.

And like, Oh, now I've got it back again.

So if you lost the feel of that snap, that's why you're just trying to drive your body through it.

So to understand this, my feet should literally be going like this effectively in the swing.

So I'm going back lead sides, pulling me back in.

And now as I post up and snap those risks.

And again, the momentum of the club is really what's going to help snap the risks, but I have to brace.

I have to stabilize both glutes have to engage.

My right foot is going back, While my hamstring and glute are engaging to push that foot back to stabilize and stop that initial rotation, to slow it down.

And the left foot, just like snapping a towel is pushing the ground away from me.

And as I brace up, that's what gives me that firm lead side.

And now I can snap my wrist.

So on a wood floor or some other slick surface, get a feel for this.

If you find that, you're doing this every time and your shoulders wanting to go to start the downswing, you're rotating with it.

And it's the opposite.

You want to feel that you're trying to decel and your feet are literally doing this.

And that is what it forces the wrist to snap, because those hips are now stabilizing and bracing in the swing instead of rotating through.

Now, what's funny about it, it'll still look like my hips are wide open at impact.

It'll look like I turned my hips, but what you're actually seeing is that my leg, as it straightens and braces against the ground, this is the opposite of turning my hips.

My hips are actually just looking like they're turning because this left leg is pushing into the ground so hard to decelerate my hip rotation.

And this trail foot is pushing back this way.

It's driving my hip up and forward.

So it's open, but I didn't turn my hips.

I actually created torque.

And as I push up, that's actually turning the hips.

So I realize it's a confusing concept.

We're going to go work on this more in the gym in just a moment so we can see what we're doing and how to get that feedback.

But all you need to feel when you're on a slick surface like this is just like a bowler.

They're creating that torque so that the wrist is free to release.

So as you slide through in your swing, it's the same thing you want your golf swing.

We just, our feet aren't moving that much.

But if you see Scotty Scheffler or other golfers, I'm going to show you almost all great power players move their feet like this.

And when they really get aggressive with it and they push super hard off that foot, actually both feet will move away from the target line as I'll show you next.

We're going to take a look at Justin James swing.

Now, if you're not familiar with Justin James, he's one of the longest hitters on the planet.

He competes on the long drive tour, and you're going to see this exact motion illustrated to an extreme exaggeration.

But this is also how he generates so much power.

So going back, he's going to look like a typical long drive guy.

He's going to have a pretty long swing here, a big hip turn.

But now watch as he comes down.

Look at how he's using his legs.

He's not turning his shoulder to try and generate power.

He's purely using torque.

Notice that his hip rotation is done.

So all of that initial hip rotation and unwinding those hips, he's done.

He's no longer trying to turn his hips.

You can see his knees are done rotating and he's literally pushing off the ground to the point that he's going to jump back a significant amount.

Both the right foot, the right foot's going to go first, creating that initial torque.

You can see he's not trying to rotate his hips.

He's straightening that right leg, that right glute and hamstring.

This part of his body is firing to stop that hip rotation that he created in the initial part of the downswing.

That's the key is you want that initial hip rotation and then it's done.

But our brains, the way that our brains actually work, we can't think that fast.

We can't think, okay, Rotate here and now, stop, slam on the brakes, and now stop rotating, or actually counter rotate.

Because our brains take a quarter of a second to even process that stimuli and get a response from.

But the whole downswing happens in point two, three seconds.

So it's even less time.

So there's not enough time to think.

So what that means is that initial stretch from the lead side that you've heard all the goats talk about.

I talked about in the backswing videos, that initial stretch is what creates that initial rotation, but your brain can't think that fast.

It can only be thinking about deceleration.

It can only think about torque and counter rotation.

That's all that we have time to feel and think about.

And that's why if you're trying to turn your hips and then trying to stop your hip rotation, it'll never, ever work.

And that's the other key.

You'll see that his hips are done turning.

Look at his left butt cheek and his right butt cheek.

You can see them and they don't turn at all.

This is the hip stall that allows the club to snap.

And that's why you see all these long drive guys doing this.

So now if you look at it from a little bit of a quarter angle face on, you're going to see just how hard he plants into that left leg.

That is planting that left heel to get ready to snap that towel.

It's not rotation.

He's done rotating already.

That's it.

Now he's creating torque, counter rotation.

And now you're going to see as his right foot immediately begins to move away from the target line because he's trying to fire that right glute and hamstring, which will pull the leg and the foot back behind you.

And the left foot is going to go with it.

He's literally going to jump off the force plays.

Now let's take a look at somebody else doing the same motion, just not to the same exaggeration.

All right, now I'm going to play a clip of Tiger Woods and tell me what you see.

Did you see it?

Probably happened too fast for you to even notice it, right?

But if we slow it down, watch Tiger's right foot.

Where did it go?

Did it go closer to the target or closer to the target line?

Nope.

It's obviously sliding away.

And just like you saw in Justin James' swing, his right glute and hamstring are firing to stop his hip rotation.

That's why his hips actually pop up.

And his right leg is firing straight vertical, left leg vertical, because he's trying to create counter rotation in the swing.

Now let's go in the gym and figure out how to really put this into play in our swings.

So how do we put this idea of torque into our golf swing instead of trying to turn our hips?

Even though they seem like the same thing, they are definitely not.

They're literally the exact opposite, but they look very much the same.

So the trick, first of all, is understanding that how do we create effortlessness in our golf swing?

Obviously that means, you know, proper sequencing, the right dynamics and so on, but it really starts at setup.

And what I mean by that is a lot of times when I see golfers in lessons, they start with their legs, their feet kind of square, and their knees kind of buckled in like this.

Hogan actually talked about your knees kind of in like this.

And when you, what happens is when you go back, your hips can turn really easily.

And maybe that's why this has kind of always been thought of as a good way to set up.

But most modern players don't set up like that at all.

If they have any power, they actually tend to flare this foot out, get this knee angled out.

And so instead of their knees kind of being buckled in like Hogan suggested, they kind of set up more like this.

Why is this so important?

Because it creates the stretch shortening cycle in the lead side of the body.

That's, I'm going to call that SSC for short, because I'm going to refer to that several more times throughout this video.

This stretch shortening cycle, or SSC, is what creates effortlessness in the golf swing to a large degree, as far as the body movement is concerned.

And all the SSC is, is really when you stretch a muscle over a very brief period of time, that muscle wants to rebound back very, very quickly.

If you stretch it slow, it doesn't rebound the same way.

It's just the way that the cells in the muscle fibers work and the tendons work.

So what you want to imagine is that what you're trying to do in the golf swing is have a very short period of time where that muscle is stretched.

It's very quick and it's very dynamic.

And that's what, when you've hit those shots where you just couldn't believe how far you hit it, that's a big part of what you did.

You stayed more relaxed.

I use that reference on a par five all the time because I see it happen all the time, where you step up there and you just, you make kind of what is like, feels like a half power swing, but you hit it further than normal.

Because your muscles relaxed and were loaded at the right time in the right way, you got the benefit of these muscles stretching and then automatically firing back, shortening back for you.

It's the opposite of you trying to generate force from your body.

So this foot being flared out at address and this knee angled out, this acts as an anchor to the lead side of the body as you're going back.

So if I go back from here, this left knee can kind of only come in this way.

If my foot's like this, it can come in this way.

Look how much my hips rotate and how much I can turn them.

And now I have zero stretching, zero load on this lead side of my body.

As soon as I flare this foot out and have my knee out as well, what I'm really doing with that, I'm less concerned about what that's going to do as far as allowing my hips to rotate in the downswing.

That's why a lot of times people have thought about flaring this lead foot out.

So if you have hip restrictions or mobility limitations, that allows you to rotate through.

I don't want to rotate through unless you're more of a lead side dominant guy, but a trail side, I don't want that.

What I want is this for to act like an anchor.

So as this, because of the way now my, the angle of my thigh and my hip are together, I can't really rotate my hips any further than this.

Not that I'm trying to restrict my hip turn.

I'm doing it biomechanically by just having my foot and my leg flared out.

Now, as I go back, I immediately feel a stretch on the left side of my body, the left side of my back, the left side of my core, my abs.

So as I feel now, automatically, if I stretch that very quickly and dynamically, guess what wants to happen immediately in the downswing?

This wants to fire.

These muscles now want to pull me back the other way.

And that's the first key to getting effortlessness.

Because if you don't have something that dynamically snaps you back the other way, you're going to have to start putting rotation, pushing, driving, etc.

And that's where you lose all that wonderful sequencing in the golf swing.

So, Start at setup and make sure that this foot is flared out a little bit so that the leg is angled so that as it goes back, it doesn't come with you in your turn.

It acts as an anchor to get you stretched and loaded at the top.

Because as I was talking about earlier, what you want to have happen in the downswing is of course, you have to have some initial rotation in the downswing.

But in my opinion, it is such a tiny fragment of time in which you're actively rotating.

And really, I think it's more that you're being pulled kind of subconsciously, if you will, or unconsciously.

Your muscles are just rotating you back because you stretch them.

I don't feel like in a trail side dominant pattern, there's any conscious rotation.

I feel like there's conscious counter rotation.

And that's what we're going to talk about as we keep going through this.

So from this setup position, where this foot has turned out more to restrict to my leg and hip from coming around with me, so that I get some stretching from this side, we need to understand when do we really need to feel this.

And it doesn't mean that we need to feel this immediately off the ball.

It's really during the transition.

Because remember this SSC, the stretch shortening cycle, that we want to take advantage of, we must leverage this in our swing, if you want true effortless power, Because this is truly an automatic muscle contraction that you don't have to do anything for you to stretch it and get out of the way, let it go.

But that stretch has to be super, super quick.

Otherwise, the muscles will lengthen and just stay there, they won't automatically rebound back, which means during the start of the backswing, what you're really trying to do is stay relaxed.

That tension level that you feel immediately off the ball should be pretty minimal.

Because if you start building tension too early, everything won't sequence correctly, you won't be allowed to move correctly.

So instead, what you want to think about is as you're going back, you're just trying to gently load this, but where you really get the load is right there.

Just that tiny little bit of hip rotation as you're settling back into that lead side is all that's really necessary to fully, quickly stretch that.

And that is a big difference versus trying to stretch your left side all the way back.

You just, there's not enough time or it actually takes too much time.

You, you lose that stretch shortening cycle and then the muscles lengthen and relax.

And then you have to push from the trail side to try and get a lot of power.

That's why I've said repeatedly when the goat code, it's not right arm throw, it's more your wrist, but something else has to move your arms in order for you to feel that.

And if you don't take advantage of stretch shortening cycle, you won't feel that.

So instead, as I'm going back, I'm trying to stay pretty relaxed.

And then I'm relaxed all the way to top.

That's why you can see some tour players who understand how to do this, that they're, they can actually go to the top and pause.

And then they fire their hips, what looks like blindingly fast as if they're turning them, but they're not, they're going to the top and then getting that little bit of stretch.

And then they're immediately beginning to decelerate.

And that is the trick in a trail side pattern is that you don't want to be a pusher of the club.

You want to be a rapid decelerator.

That's your job.

So as you stretch and you get that last little bit of dynamic stretch, The reason that I can get that last little bit of dynamic stretch in my hips is because I'm not tight at the top.

If I was tight at the top, everything would go.

My shoulders would go.

My arms would go.

I would begin rotating my whole body and I wouldn't have that.

But if I can stay relaxed here, which is why it's important to get into your trail side, as you go back, I have lengthened these muscles.

And now I'm going to create that last little dynamic stretch as my arms and club are still going back.

That's the initial hip rotation.

And then we're done.

That's going to fire everything because that a Nash, that initial little hip bump, the hip turn stretches those muscles.

And as soon as you let them rebound back, everything gets pulled down.

And your only job at that point is D cell.

You're trying to slow your hips down.

And that's why you see guys like Rory, whose hips actually reverse direction, his hips, as you're coming down, as he comes on impact, as he releases the club, his hips stop moving.

And then they actually go backwards.

How on earth would Rory's hips go backwards if he was ever trying to turn his hips toward the target?

They wouldn't, obviously.

He's actually trying to turn his hips backwards, but the momentum of everything else is carrying him through.

And it's not until that club fully releases that they snap and go back, but he's trying to generate that force during the entire downswing.

That's what your job is, is to decelerate and create that counter rotation to force those wrists to snap.

So to get a feel for this, as you're swinging with a club, what we want to do at first is we're going to take a step and slide.

A step and slide.

This will help you get this initial feeling of how your hips are actually going in the opposite direction that you think that they've always should have gone.

So as you take a step, let your foot go back.

Take a step, let your foot go back.

Relax your arms, relax your wrists, and start getting a feel for right at the bottom.

There's a little right hand in there.

As you're coming down, you feel like that the softball player.

If you look at fast pitch softballs, they're doing their windup.

What they try and do is keep their hand pronated.

This is pronation, or excuse me, supinated.

They try to keep it supinated as long as they can.

They talk about the softball facing the center fielder.

And then right at the last second, it snaps into pronation.

Guess what that's going to do?

Look at how much speed they're going to get from their wrists.

Now they don't have the benefit of having this long lever to help do that as well.

Because once we get this little supination to pronation to happen, we're moving that club a long ways with very minimal movement.

So as you're coming down, don't start trying to push the club with your shoulder or arm or hand this way.

That's going to get you into pronation way too early.

We want that pronation to snap.

And so if you feel that as you're taking this step, your arm is just falling, guess what's falling into?

Supination.

I know Hogan talked about supinating through the ball and everybody became obsessed with that.

They totally misunderstood it.

And I also don't think that's necessarily the best way to do it.

Obviously, Having some supination through the hitting area is fine if you want to deal off the club and so on and so forth.

But when you're talking about speed production and effortless speed, You've got to get those wrists to snap and take advantage of every angle that we can with our wrists, from hinging and cocking and rotation.

We want to leverage all of those things as much as we can.

So the feeling is more that you're dropping your hands and palm to the sky, like the softball pitcher.

And then we're going to let our hand just snap.

You saw on the softball pitch, they're not throwing their hand through.

They're trying to get their arm to stop moving forward.

And it's only just all the momentum that carries their shoulder and arm forward.

That's the exact same feeling in the golf swing.

It's an underhand softball pitch.

If there's any other sport to relate it to, you're doing that, keeping it open.

And then as you stop and you slam on the brakes and the foot's going back this way, the wrist snaps.

That's what you want to feel here.

Take a step, fall palm to the sky.

As I start to brace into this lead side, and my right foot creates that counter rotation, my hand goes from here to there, lightning fast.

That is effortless speed.

That's what you want to feel.

So you can actually hit balls like this as well.

Get that feeling of stepping, posting, bracing, counter rotating, snap the wrist.

That's effortless speed.

At first, It's going to be hard to trust this feeling because you just don't feel like you have to put any power into it, or you don't feel like you are putting any power into it.

That's the point.

If you want an effortless golf swing, you got to stop putting effort into it.

So the biggest mistake that I see golfers make every single time that they start trying to get this feeling of a throw, is they try to make it an overhand throw like a baseball throw.

I don't think the golf swing is like that at all.

Our arm is obviously not up here or to the side.

Even in a side arm throw, it's close.

It's definitely close, but it's still not exactly the same.

The softball pitch to me is the most common sport to relate to the golf swing.

So when you start trying to throw, if you're trying to throw with your arm, you will slow the snap down because you won't be able to stop that forward momentum of the hands.

I'm not saying you can't hit the ball far.

Of course you can.

You can drive through with the right side and hit the ball hard.

It's just not effortless, not nearly as effortless as staying relaxed with your arms, getting a stretch here, a little dynamic snapback of that stretch shortening cycle, and then relax as your arms fall.

And then just a little right wrist release from supination, pronation, as I've talked about in the release videos, all of that stuff.

That's where the speed is.

And as long, and the faster you snap, the more you're going to hear that whoosh.

But my hands and arms and shoulders and body are relaxing.

All I'm trying to do is step, brace by driving this foot back, engaging this glute and hamstring.

That's the key.

Now, many of us may not feel our glutes or hamstrings anymore, or our core or all of these things.

These are muscles that we tend to lose as we get older.

The glutes tend to go away because we sit all the time.

And so many of you may not even be able to feel this glute engagement.

And a simple check for this, just stand here and see if you can contract this to drive your leg backwards.

That's the feeling that you want in the downswing.

That's why you see guys like Tiger, their hips get really, Their trail hip gets really high in the backswing because they're straightening this leg to drive that hip back to create torque.

Now, if you don't have a feeling for this, what do you do?

I've developed a program specifically for this.

And let me tell you about it, because if you're somebody who doesn't understand exactly how to create this torque, or you can't feel the muscles, they may not be firing for you right now.

And you have to retrain your nervous system to engage these muscles.

And again, if you're used to swinging the golf club, like most everybody else, just pushing the club through, you're being a club pusher, then you're not going to have this feeling and it's going to be difficult for you to develop.

So I've created a program specifically for not only teaching you how to engage these muscles again in the right way, But also how to generate force with them, and how to learn how to do it fast and tie it directly to your golf swing.

Working out for your golf swing is great, But if you don't understand how to tie that in directly to your golf swing and the things you're working on in your golf swing, it's kind of hard to make that translation.

That's something that's always been missing to me in golf swing fitness programs is like, yeah, slam the ball down.

But you know, this doesn't feel like what I'm trying to do in my golf swing.

How do I tie that to my golf swing?

That's what I've always wanted.

So I created it.

I created a program that 1000 specifically teaches you from one drill, 1001 like you're going to do an exercise, It's 1002 going to teach you how to engage these 1003 exact muscles that you're going to use in 1004 your golf swing.

And some of these 1005 exercises are going to be very strange.

1006 They've probably never done before, but 1007 as you start feeling them and 1008 understanding how they teach you to 1009 create torque, how to create that counter 1010 rotation in your swing, you're going to 1011 use muscles that you're not familiar with 1012 on the insides of your thigh, the feet, 1013 the feet are very important to this 1014 action, the hips, the hamstrings, there's 1015 lots of glute medius, smaller muscles 1016 that you don't generally think about or 1017 specifically train.

They are so important 1018 to have fire in the golf swing in this 1019 pattern.

So what I've done is I've 1020 created a program that literally you 1021 take, you do an exercise, I explain to 1022 you how the muscles you're trying to 1023 feel, what you're trying to do, and then 1024 you immediately come over and start 1025 swinging the club.

And I walk you through 1026 how to swing the club exactly to feel the 1027 muscles that you just did in the 1028 exercise.

So for instance, I do a foot 1029 exercise where I'm having you roll on two 1030 pieces of PVC pipe.

You can do it with a 1031 can of soup.

You don't have to have a 1032 special piece of PVC pipe, but I did this 1033 program specifically so that you needed 1034 no gym equipment.

So all of the stuff you 1035 see in here, you don't need any of it.

1036 It's meant to be done by anybody at home.

1037 This is the only prop that I actually 1038 have is these pieces of PVC pipe.

Like I 1039 said, you can use a can of soup or 1040 anything, any cylinder, anything round.

1041 And that exercise is actually optional.

1042 But what you're going to do is you're 1043 going to learn to engage the muscles in 1044 your feet that you use to help drive this 1045 hip back, because the foot, calf, 1046 hamstring, 1047 glute, all of it has to work together to 1048 fire this very quickly.

And so I teach 1049 you how to fire these muscles, wake them 1050 up, engage them.

And then I teach you in 1051 the swing, how to use that exactly in the 1052 context of the goat toad, using your body 1053 to move the golf club.

So if you're 1054 feeling like this movement is a little 1055 bit challenging for you, and you can't 1056 feel your glutes and hamstring firing it, 1057 and you should really fire them, you 1058 should really feel them when you're 1059 coming down.

1060 Like my glutes are completely contracted.

1061 As I'm releasing that club, I'm trying to 1062 literally slam on the brakes.

And that is 1063 why if you don't have that effortless 1064 feeling, you're going to muscle it with 1065 the upper body.

And that's what this 1066 program is for.

And because this program 1067 is really just a fast track program, it's 1068 really just meant to get you there 1069 faster, it's reserved for the Rotary 1070 Swing Academy.

So if you're an RSA 1071 member, you've already got access to 1072 this.

It's in your account already.

If 1073 you're not, I've put a link down in the 1074 description below that you can learn more 1075 about this program, learn about the 1076 exercises, see if it's the right program 1077 for you.

And you'll see some clips from 1078 the videos to understand how to follow 1079 this program, what it's really all about, 1080 And how it's going to help you learn to 1081 stop pushing the club through and start 1082 learning how to snap it through.