Throw the Club or Push the Club? Pt 2 of 3
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Are you pushing the club through impact or throwing the clubhead at the ball? One is effortless power, the other is powerless effort. Watch part 3 here: Part 3 - Squish the Bug
If you've been following the goat code videos, You're familiar with the concept of running out a trail arm or running out a right arm from a right-handed golfer.
If you don't know what that means, I'm going to help you understand it in a very simple way, very quickly.
In baseball, there are two basic concepts to generate power in the swing, how you drive off your trail leg and what you do with your arms.
And the trick is you do the exact opposite of what you think you should, of course, just like everything else in the golf swing.
What most golfers do is they go to the top and start trying to push and extend this arm out in to get the club back to the ball, firing this muscle in the back of the arm, the tricep muscle.
As you're doing that, all this does is cause every single swing flaw under the sun, swinging over the top, casting the club, chicken wing, hitting it fat, hitting it thin, losing no compression on the ball, no shaft lean.
All of that comes from trying to use your arms and shoulders to generate speed in the swing.
And as I'm going to show you in a second, it doesn't produce nearly as much speed as doing it the right way, which is 10 times less effort.
So what happens is, as you start going to the top and you start pushing the club to get it back out to the ball, that's why most golfers look kind of like, Just like they did at a dress at impact, because they've just thrown the club with their arms in the wrong way.
What you need to do is the opposite.
In other words, you want your arm to feel, it doesn't actually happen, you want your arm to feel that you're actually trying to bring it in closer.
Again, it doesn't happen.
The arm actually does widen, But that's because there's so much force and so much momentum and so much inertia and centrifugal force, it's going to pull your arms out away from you.
So you don't try to actively force it in, But you do want to feel that you're doing the opposite of trying to extend your arm, because as soon as you do that, you cast the club the wrong way.
So what you're going to find in a baseball is what they do.
They drive off this trail leg and this arm just stays just like that.
And that is how you generate bat speed using your big muscles and your wrists to swing the bat.
You don't do this.
Now let me show you how to put this into a golf drill that you've probably done a thousand times, just not for the right reasons and not the right way.
If you've ever gotten angry on the golf course and you've thrown the club, you've probably felt really effortless speed.
Like, gosh, you hit a bad shot, you get bad, you huck your club and you felt all that zing the club flew through forever with no effort.
That's how it's supposed to feel in your golf swing, but it doesn't because you're trying to push the club through.
So let me show you what that looks like.
So what you're going to probably try and do when you throw a club incorrectly is that you're trying to drive your body and your shoulders and your arms to push the club through.
So this is the motion that you're trying to make in your swing.
Now you can see no matter how strong or fit I may be, I can't push the club very fast.
So then I got to try and rotate really fast to try and add more speed to it.
And then I'm off balance.
My head's moving all over the place and I just have no power.
So if I go to throw it and I try and push really hard, no matter how hard I try and push clubs, it's not going to go anywhere.
And I put a lot of force into that all using my arms and upper body.
Now, what would happen if I threw it correctly, instead of trying to push the club through, I threw the club head through.
And this is what you've done when you've ever thrown a club properly and really hucked it out.
There is that you load it into your trail leg.
You took a little step to get a little dynamic stretch.
You pivoted off this trail leg and your arms and hands.
See, I've still got the club sitting on my shoulder because my hips are what are moving that golf club down.
And then all I've got to do with my arm is nothing.
See, I'm not pushing against the shaft.
As I do this, it's just staying there.
And then I'm going to sling it.
Now I put a lot of effort into that.
I'm going to put no effort into this and I'm going to take a little step and just let myself sling the club and let it release.
Whoa.
Flew twice as far with zero effort.
My hands were dead.
My arms were dead, but I obviously generated way more speed.
That's the trick to the golf swing is how to generate effortless power, using your lower body to generate force to move your arms and upper body into the ball.
You know that the golf swing should feel effortless, but you probably rarely if ever feel that.
The trick is what you learned with your arms is now obviously, that you shouldn't be pushing the arms and trying to extend the club back out to the ball.
So something else has to move the club to the ball.
That's your squish the bug drill.
Now the squish the bug drill has been around forever.
It's an old school baseball drill that's kind of been bastardized a little bit, because if you do it incorrectly, it teaches you to hang back.
That's not how you do it.
That's not how you do it correctly anyway.
And in the golf swing, This motion is where speed comes from.
And understanding how to do this correctly is going to allow you to tap into power that you've never even thought you had in you.
You didn't think it was possible.
Because it's all using the big muscles in the right sequence.
That allows you to swing the club effortlessly and hit the ball far without trying.
It's all down to technique.
And everybody that thinks that they can't hit the ball far doesn't understand how somebody my size hits the ball as far as I do.
It's purely technique.
I'm not a big muscular guy.
I'm 160 pounds and 5 '9", but swing over 120 miles an hour.
That is all due to technique and how I use my big muscles.
So if you're tired of hitting those weak shots off the tee and working super hard to just be out.
Driven by somebody like me by a hundred yards over and over again, when we look like we're not trying, then you have to learn how to use your lower body and how to squish the bug correctly.
And that's what part three of this video is.
I'm going to teach you how to pivot correctly with power to generate crazy speed that you've never dreamed of.
To understand how to throw the club head correctly into the ball, using your big muscles to transport the club to the ball.
So, if you're ready to play your best golf by hitting the ball further than you ever dreamed, possible, Click the link down below and let's get started teaching you how to use the big muscles in your body to generate effortless power.
Steve
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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