GOAT Power Pivot
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As you distance to your wedge shots, we need to start adding power to our stroke. That starts with the pivot.
Have you ever watched Tiger hit these seemingly effortless knockdown shots that still fly well over 200 yards in the air, further than most people hit their drives, and he has this sawed off finish?
How does he have that much speed with such a short follow-through?
Where's all that speed generated?
That's exactly what you're going to learn to do today, And this is a super important step in your progression to being able to move forward into the full swing with the Irons and the driver.
So as we're working on these medium length wedge shots right now, the biggest thing that I want you to learn how to do is how to pivot.
The power is in the pivot.
Understanding how to rotate your core on your lead leg is what's going to give you the ability to generate a ton of speed with a really short swing.
And what it looks like, I'm going to make a really short swing here just to give you a visual in your mind.
I want you to pay attention to what my core is doing, and I define the core is basically from the bottom of my chest to, you know, basically the bottom of my glutes here.
So from here to here is kind of your core, if you want to think of it that way.
And this is what's moving to power the golf swing.
So with a short swing, I've got a six iron here.
I'm going to make a step back, just make a very, very short swing.
Watch how much speed I can generate.
And I had a very short controlled follow -through.
Now watch again, I want you to focus on my lead hip here.
You see how much speed there is, yet my arms and hands and shoulders really weren't doing anything.
They were being moved by my pivot, by my core rotation.
And so I'm going to give you a couple steps to help you work into this, to start adding this into your wedge shots.
So you start being able to understand how to start generating power as we move into the full swing.
The first thing I'm going to have you do is I'm going to set the club down for just a minute, and I'm going to have you do a very simple drill that I call a step and slide.
And what this is going to do is help you understand how to create torque, how to create rotation in your body, the right way to produce effortless power.
So what you're going to have happen with, with your lead leg is obviously a right-handed golfer.
My left leg is going to be what I'm pivoting on.
Obviously, as we move forward in the downswing, we move, shift forward onto this left hip, and that's what we're pivoting on.
So I want you to get the feeling of this first.
A very simple move.
Just put all of your pressure, all of your weight on your lead leg for right now, and just start getting a feeling for freely moving back and forth on this hip, just like this.
So it's nothing complicated.
I'm not doing anything with my right leg at this point.
I'm just trying to get the feeling of my hip being able to move back and forth.
Now, as we start moving into these bigger wedge shots, we want to start understanding how to do that move with power.
And that's the key.
And there's a few things that you've got to start to become aware of in your body that are going to help you understand this.
The first one is understanding how do you create rotation?
How do you pull your body around in the swing?
There's a couple of things that are happening.
We're going to break this down into a few simple steps.
The first one is, as we're moving into this step and slide drill, you've got to understand that your lead leg, there's a bit of a pulling action that is happening on the inside of your thigh.
This is happening during the transition, during the downswing, as we're starting to shift back to the lead side.
So I want you to get a feel for these muscles right here on the inside of your thigh, helping pull you back over.
And then those same muscles as you feel this pulling your right leg, pulling your hip and your whole body weight over to the lead side.
Now feel those same muscles.
And of course, it's not just these muscles, your glutes are involved as well.
So if you feel muscles back here firing as well, that's perfectly okay.
We want to, all of this stuff is all working together.
You can't just isolate it as one muscle, but we're going to focus on a few simple ones at first to get the feeling of this.
So as I'm pulling myself over and I feel my glute and hamstring starting to fire on the lead side here, I want to then take those same muscles and pivot quickly.
You see how quick my hips moving here.
I'm not pushing off my right side at this point.
I'm just pulling my body around with my left hip and my left hamstring, my glute, these adductor muscles, and my core is all involved to move this very quickly.
The faster you can do that, the faster you can swing the club.
That's the truth.
Once you understand how to add this pivot into your wedge swings and your full swing, The whole world is going to open up to you that you're going to finally understand how to produce real power.
This pivot move is where a ton of speed is and this is where we lead into the step and slide drill.
So I'm going to move to the side here.
And all I'm going to have you do is take a step and then take those same muscles you just felt and pivot.
And you'll see that if I do that correctly, as I'm trying to rotate my core onto this left hip, my trail side is the feet are experiencing the opposite.
So my trail foot is actually sliding back.
The reason I want you to take a step is because that unweights your trail foot, and that makes this slide move really easy.
If you feel this, You're pushing off the trail side and that will really hurt your lower back over time because the ground is pushing up into your back.
You've got to understand how to pivot, not how to push because that will always move your head forward, hurt your back, etc.
Even hurt your hip as well.
So take a step, pivot, and as you pivot, your trail foot should go back.
If you're pulling from this side of your body using your core, your hips, your hamstring, all of this to pull yourself around, your trail foot will slide back.
And so I want you to get just go through across your house easier if you have socks on.
And start getting a feel for how your body is going to pivot.
And I want you to do this powerfully.
Do this with some speed.
Not your shoulders, not pushing, but taking your lead leg, getting over here, feeling all of this from here to here, rotating your body because that is where the speed is.
So as you're working on your wedge shots, I want you to begin to practice hitting wedge shots like this with all of your weight on your lead leg.
There's a little bit of weight shift as you move into the 60 yard shots and 80 yard shots, but not a ton yet.
And so this will get you the feeling if you put most of your pressure on your lead side, just kind of stack over here with a really narrow stance, go back really short swing and now pivot, just like that.
And get the feeling If you can, if you're on a, if you have like, I have spikes on, so these are kind of grippy on this turf, but get the feeling of hitting little shots and getting your foot to slide back.
And this will just help you pivot quicker.
Think of this, not so much as a, I'm trying to produce a ton of power.
Think about speed.
The faster you can pivot those hips in your core, the faster the club's going to move.
Now, part of the key to this is understanding how to load correctly.
Once you know what you're supposed to be doing and how you're supposed to be pivoting, and how your foot should slide back.
Now, I can introduce you to what it's going to feel like in your swing.
To start to load and stretch those muscles so that they begin to fire naturally for you using the fascial system.
So what you're going to do next is I want you to pay attention to these muscles that you felt.
And I'm going to have you, as you go back, focus from here up all the way across your, your stomach.
So from the inside of your lead thigh, all the way across like this kind of following in a diagonal fashion, just like the spiral fascial line is.
And what I want you to focus on is moving your lead shoulder for right now and arm back while staying on this lead side for right now and feeling this lead leg staying anchored in.
Don't let it buckle in.
I'm going to have you feel that in just a moment to do it wrong.
But as I'm doing this, you should feel a huge stretch from here to here.
And as you do this faster, it'll go all the way down into your feet.
That's how you start stretching these fascial lines.
That are going to get everything to begin to fire naturally very quickly.
Without you having to put a lot of effort into it.
So if you keep this lead arm straight, try to keep both arms straight right now.
We'll talk more about that later and start turning back to stress this.
You should feel a huge stretch happening very quickly right through here.
And that is going to load the lead side of your core and allow you to begin to pivot very quickly.
You can see even without having any momentum, I'm just loading that system, loading that fascial line back through.
The faster you can pivot, the faster you can swing.
As you start to load this by keeping this straight, keeping your arms straight is very, very important, especially as we go to add speed, because as soon as you buckle your arms, you lose all that stretch.
So I want you to feel that next.
Take your lead arm up, feel that really good stretch right here across your core to your thigh, and now buckle your knee in.
Feel how you lose that stretch.
That's part of what's helping get you back to the lead side.
It's part of what's helping initiate rotation.
The moment you buckle this knee in or buckle your arm, you lose all of that stretching and that fascia.
And now you've got to work and you've got to push really hard to try and generate power.
Effortless power comes from a dynamic stretching of the fascial system.
So all you need to feel is keeping this straight and then letting it go and fire as you're doing the step and pivot drill.
Once you have this, you've got speed and we're going to be ready to move on.
So as you're working on your 60 yard shots, I want you to begin to focus on getting your core to rotate quickly.
You'll realize that for these 60 yard shots with a 60 degree wedge, I know a lot of you can't even hit your 60 degree wedge 60 yards because you're flipping and scooping and you don't know how to produce power.
Now, You will be able to hit them further because you only need to go back to here for a 60 yard wedge shot with a 60 degree.
And as you pivot, That club is going to hit the ball plenty far.
To pass.
These skills assessment challenges and get you having tremendous control as we start moving further and further away from the, from the green.
So step and pivot, step and slide, get a feel for this contracting, pulling you into a perfect posture, pulling you this leg straight, pulling you forward, pulling you into rotation, and that will get you the power that's been missing in your swing.
ERIC
Chuck