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GOAT Code Effortless Power - Take it to the Course - Pt 4 of 4
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In the final installment on effortless power, you'll refine your head movement to learn how to snap your wrists for speed you've only dreamed of in the golf swing.
So the first three parts of this video have been largely just explaining things.
But how do you take that into the real world and really put into play?
Because a lot of things I'm doing is exaggerations to help give you a big picture view.
This video is all about the practical applique.
How do you take this to the range, to the course, and start truly feeling real effortless power right away?
Another way of thinking about what your head is doing is as a braking device.
As I'm all about snapping my wrist, because that's why my swing looks so slow, yet I hit the ball so far and so effortlessly.
It's just because I'm letting my wrist snap or I'm actually forcing my wrist to snap.
And the way to do that is not by using your hands to snap your wrist.
Certainly they're involved, but this, as you've learned by now, the softer you keep them, the faster they can move.
And so that's what we're going to learn today is how to really put real speed into your swing, using this head as kind of a primary driver of the swing.
And we're going to start blending all of us together because I don't want it to be, I don't want to see a bunch of guys out on the range doing this huge exaggeration, although you can.
But what I really want you to do is be able to feel real speed right away.
And the first thing that you're going to want to feel is thinking about your head as a parachute.
What I mean by that is that what your head should be doing in the golf swing is the exact opposite of what I see in students every single day.
And that is that their heads all want to move forward with their body.
So when you're doing that, that's the idea of pushing the club through or dragging the club through, and that's slow, really really slow.
What you want to think about, as you know, is your head's moving away actively.
And I'm going to teach you how to start doing this in just a second.
What I want you to feel is that your head and your hand are opposing each other, And that's where this feeling of your hands must be slowing down into impact in order to get the most aggressive snap of the wrist.
And in order to do that we need to be moving in opposite directions.
Now again, if you use my snapping a towel analogy as you're going forward, you don't keep going forward.
You stop, that's what that lead leg is, with hitting under firmly, lead side is.
And then from there, as your hands moving forward, you don't keep moving your hand forward, or the towel never snaps.
It's got to go back.
Now the golf swing, as I've talked about, there's too much momentum of the club head.
It's too effectively, too heavy through the hitting area, so we can't just pull our hands back.
But that's the feeling.
And that's why I want you to think of this as a parachute, and as you're releasing the club, I want you to pull the ripcord.
So what I mean by that, as you're going back, as you're starting down?
I want you to immediately start actively turning your head in the opposite direction, that your shoulders are unwinding.
Your shoulders are unwinding like this your head should be doing this again my head doesn't move very well so you're gonna have to use your imagination just a little bit to kind of get the exact picture of it but you can see this in all great players their head looks like it's staying very still but they're not keeping their head still they're moving it they're moving it in the opposite direction the shoulders are going so that it can act as a break because if it's if it's not going with your hands if your hands and head are going through together the club and I want you to feel this turn through like this with your head and the club head going together there's no speed now if I get my head to try and look back behind me at first there's speed there turn my head with it no speed no snap turn my head away there snap and so when you think about your left hand and your head moving like this this is pulling the ripcord this is like a parachute on a dragster once he's once he's crossed the finish line he's trying to slow down and that's what you're trying to do you want to be slowing your forward momentum of your hands down before you strike the ball or there's just not enough time to get that club fully released and so then you have to start putting more muscular effort into it and then you're working hard and then you're not feeling any control or consistency because your muscles are firing but the moment you start putting a little bit more faith in your golf swing and letting things happen by using leverage and physics to your advantage that's when the swing starts becoming consistent because you're just working way less hard and you have way more speed than you did before but it doesn't feel like it and the easiest way to feel this true effortless speed is going to the top and immediately start turning actively turning your head now it's not going to look like my head's moving that much unless you really slow it down and really look at it in slow motion because my shoulders are unwinding and my body's going forward clubs going forward hands are going forward heads going back it's the only way that we have to break these hands because you can see that if I went with them there my hands are never going to slow down through the ball they're just going to keep going so then I've got to really push hard but if I had if I was going to snap that towel because my hands can't do it by themselves because the club's too heavy with all that inertia and momentum in the club head the only thing I have is my head and so now you can see my hands and arms aren't doing anything but I'm actively trying to get my head to go this way and turning so that my hands can't keep that forward drive that's what you're trying to get rid of in your golf swing and that's the opposite of what you're probably doing right now out of the thousands and thousands of the golf lessons I've ever given almost every single amateur on the planet their head moves forward and moves with the hands and the club so they're doing this and that is not a golf swing that's a golf swing the cans and club have to decel in order to get maximum release from the wrist so now when you start thinking about your golf swing instead of thinking okay I'm here and I'm gonna go hard you can see my head my shoulders everything went together that's a death move there's no power there now what I want you to practice feeling is that slowly start turning your head actively to the right and now you'll see that you can see much more of my neck here on the left side this is what you're gonna see in all great players to illustrate this we'll use Rory real quick watch immediately as he starts going back his head is immediately tilting toward the target you can see that his head is already at a different angle than where he started all right so here he was pretty upright and now he's already tilted that left ear down to the left shoulder and now as he starts down he's going to tilt in the complete opposite direction watch his head work under back away and that is where the snap is but to do that I can't go with it I have to actively start turning my head but it looks like and I can even see out of the corner of my eye my nose looks like it's not moving at all but I'm actively turning and tilting and that is moving everything back to act as a break so that my hands can't keep going forward so feel that as you're going down that you're going this way you really want to take it to the next level get the maximum speed and leverage out of it as you keep turning your head and your shoulders begin to tilt but what you're gonna feel and again I'm not gonna be able to do this very well with my my neck but that's you're almost trying to look at the ball upside down I know this seems crazy but that's going to get you the most leverage using your body because that's going to keep torquing that wrench moving it forward hiking the shoulder to move the arm to elevate it to create more parametric acceleration on the club all of these things start creating effortless speed in your swing you don't need to understand all the math and physics of it you just need to understand the feel of it so as I'm going here if I'm going to exaggerate so my head I'm now actively turning my head like this so if I didn't turn my shoulders at all that's what my head's doing and it's also tilting so again I'll do it this way so I'm as my downswing starts I'm turning my head and tilting now if I put myself into impact position you can see where my the bill of my cap is almost going underneath so I'm getting this way that's the most leveraged position for me to be in again it's the opposite of what almost everybody does but as you start working on this start getting your head to move to the side to turn and to tilt and so you can lengthen all of this side of your body that's the most powerful braking device you have in the golf swing to slow the hands down and once you get a feel for this even with a short swing with no power I'm not applying any force with my arms but I'm able to get speed because I'm counteracting counterbalancing using my whole body as a lever and that's all you need to feel to start getting effortless speed do this lead arm at first because this one it'd be really easy for it to take over because it's got so much power available to it but the lead arm is going to stay straight the whole time so there's not really you're not going to use your tricep or anything like that you're going to keep it pretty relaxed and as you start actively moving your head and neck back down and even under that's going to snap your wrist so you don't feel like you've got to add any power to it it's just leverage so as you work on this start feeling pull the ripcord when you start down that moment you start down with your body your head is turning tilting working this way and that will slow the hands down give you that snap that towel snap feel and give you true effortless power in your swing
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