Magic of Supination
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Want to learn one simple move that will teach you how to move your entire body correctly in the golf swing?
The magic of supination is where all effortless speed comes from in a modern golf swing.
It has taken me pretty much my entire lifetime to figure this out, so I want to share this with you because it's going to help you understand how to move everything, your entire body, correctly in the golf swing.
So again, a quick reminder, what is supination? It's just external rotation of your arm.
So take your thumb, your trail hand, and just rotate it like I talked about in the axiom.
If you're looking at a clock in front of you, it's clockwise.
So from 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock.
From your perspective, it looks backwards, but when you're looking at it, as you're doing this, it's going to be 12 o'clock to 3 o 'clock.
That's supination.
This move is magic.
It will make everything in your golf swing function correctly.
You will be able to compress the ball.
You'll stop running out of trail arm.
You'll stop hitting high weak shots.
And most importantly, you'll have speed.
And I mean real speed.
Because what happens for almost all golfers, myself included, as I was learning to play the game, is we learn to start using a lot of muscle to try and power the golf club.
And when we do that, you can do it to a degree.
But as you get older, especially, you tend to lose a lot of speed really, really quickly.
I see it all the time as golfers get in their 50s and 60s and start moving up a set of tees every couple of years.
And that gets really, really frustrating.
And you don't have to do that if you understand hand speed.
And that's what supination really is.
All I'm trying to do with my hands during the swing is that, as fast as I can.
Now, of course, at the top of the swing, this happens gradually because there's momentum of the club and it starts down gradually.
I've got to reverse that momentum and so on.
But your feeling is that.
This arm is pronating.
This is supinating.
And they work together to do this.
But what I want to talk about in this video is not really just hand speed.
I want you to understand how to continue that supination to get your body, to understand what your body does.
Because almost all golfers start, even as it better players, learning how to push off that trail side to create lateral movement.
That leads to a pushy, inefficient golf swing.
Even pulling really hard with the left hip.
Everything that you've probably thought about in the golf swing, it's not going to be the most efficient way to do it.
And it will eventually lead to either a weak swing or an injury.
This is the safest way that I've found over 34 years of studying the golf swing.
A long, long time.
And so as you start to understand this motion, you're going to see how everything clicks and falls into place.
And that's why I call this the magic move.
It really is.
Once you start to understand how to do this, you're going to be shocked at how much speed you can get when you get comfortable with doing this correctly.
So what I want you to do is take a golf club and I want you to do it with just your trial hand only.
And I want you to start like this and then just supinate your hand to about three o'clock.
Now about here, you're going to start running out of range of motion.
So as you're doing this, now you could keep twisting it a little bit, but what I want you to start to realize is that your whole body is going to respond to the weight of this club.
Because as I start doing this, gravity is starting to pull it down.
And then there's mass there.
As I start adding speed, now we've got inertia.
And so now this thing really wants to start dropping really quick.
And that's what you're looking for, the feel of your swing.
But the trick to this is getting your body to listen to this movement.
So watch what happens here.
So if I go to here, you'll see that even if I started with a flying right elbow, which is why Freddie Couples and Jack Nicklaus and John Daly, the guys who had big flying right elbows were also very powerful hitters when they, because they supinated really well to get hand speed.
As I start to supinate, if my elbow is flying, and again, I'm not advocating a flying right elbow, but you're going to understand why I want you to feel this in just a second.
As I started to supinate, my elbow would obviously, as I start running out of range of motion, this elbow is going to come in to help supinate this even faster.
So now I can get my chest muscles involved, my back muscles involved.
So now I can start to get some speed in the supination, but we're not going to add speed yet.
I just want you to get a feel for how, as I start to supinate, my elbow gets pulled in front of my chest.
If I bend forward, where am I at? GDP, just like the greats.
That's what you're starting to understand is that that motion, that GDP motion can only occur correctly when you supinate from the top of the swing.
That's what I'm saying.
When I say throw the club head from the top, it's supinating from the top, but we're doing it just in this two dimension right now.
So you're just doing this.
Now my elbow starts pulling in because I run out of range of motion in my wrist that pulls my arm into my chest.
And now if I keep wanting to supinate, what do I got to do? Well, now my shoulder's got to go down.
Well, how's my shoulder go down? Side bend, just like you learned in the goat drill.
So now my core is getting involved.
And as my core starts to get involved to help pull this arm into my body to supinate this wrist, what's going to happen as I go into side bend, as my shoulder goes down, where's my hip going? It's moving laterally.
Here's the catch.
I am not moving laterally.
I am being moved laterally.
And there's a massive distinction because if you're trying to move laterally by pushing off your right hip, your head's always going to go with it.
And as soon as your head goes, you're muscling the golf club.
You're starting to push it through impact and it's no longer efficient.
And you're going to have to work really hard and be really strong and fit and athletic to produce any real speed.
This doesn't take that much athleticism.
It's just my hands.
So again, supination.
I run out of range of motion.
My elbow gets tucked in.
My shoulder starts dropping.
My leg starts bending.
What I'm trying to get you to feel is imagine you were going to hit the ball with the back of the club head.
So if I had a ball on the ground, you could see that I would actually be hitting it with the back of the club head.
Now, of course, I'm not going to actually do this, but this will teach you the feeling of getting your body into the correct impact position.
You can't get into GDP correctly without supination.
Supination makes it happen automatically.
Now I'm in GDP.
Of course, my hands just flipped over.
We'll talk about that in a second.
But you can see, I'm never trying to move to my lead side in a trail side pattern and a lead side pattern.
Yes.
Pulling with the lead side, all of that stuff that I've taught in the dead drill, totally different move in a trail side pattern where you're really focusing on hand speed.
I'm letting that supination guide my body into the correct position.
You want to get your hands ahead at impact? Look where they would be.
You want to get your hands ahead? Get back behind the ball.
You don't get your hands ahead of the ball by trying to push your body forward.
That's going to cause you to cast the club, come down steep, and run out of right arm to hit with at the bottom.
Now watch.
When I do this from down the line, I'm just going to do the same thing.
Supination.
Look how bent my right arm is still.
It's still 90 degrees.
And I've got the club head back to the ball.
I had to do side bend.
My hip had to go forward.
My trail leg had to bend.
That's the old tiger squat because it's helping me get the club head back to the ball without extending my arm.
Instead of pushing the club and then you run out of arm.
You've got no shaft lead at impact and you look like this or worse like this.
It's because you're not supinating.
You're either starting to deviate with your hands or more likely pushing either your trail leg, your trail shoulder, your trail arm.
You're doing all of these things to try and get the club back to the ball.
I'm not ever trying to get the club back to the ball in that regard.
I'm trying to supinate.
And as of course, as I keep doing this, it moves me right into the perfect impact position.
Now in the real swing, if we do this with two hands, you can still get the same clip, you know, back of the club head to the ball feel.
But of course, in a real swing, we don't want to do that.
So we're going to start to let the wrists snap around.
But I have the same feeling.
I'm supinating.
My elbow's coming into my body.
My shoulder's going down as I go into side bend.
My right hips going forward in response to this.
And then my hands, again, once I run out of supination, they go deviation, pronation.
To get a feel for this, start doing this at speed.
So I want you to pivot around where your fingers meet in the grip.
The pivot point where you're applying torque to the shaft is right here in between your grip.
Okay.
So what I'm trying to do, if you imagine there was a bolt going through the middle of the club, right to my sternum, I'm trying to pivot right there.
So I'm not doing this.
I'm not pulling it down or excuse me, I'm pulling and pushing at the same time, but I'm not trying to move this or pivot around the butt of the club.
Like you would in a lead side pattern.
I'm trying to pivot in the middle because my top hand, my trail hand is where the majority of the power comes from in a trail side swing.
So I'm doing this.
I'm pivoting right here between my fingers.
That allows me to use the left hand to help tip the shaft and the right hand and the right thumb to start to supinate very quickly.
Now, again, it happens a little bit gradually at the top of the swing.
So I'm not like, I'm not strong enough and neither will you be to snap it right away because you've got all this momentum going back.
But that's what you want to feel is that you start to torque the shaft right here between those fingers and then start doing that with some speed like this.
So now I'm starting to let my hands and arms kind of move in a circle in response to the club because it feels awkward.
If I kept them in place, I would be able to hit the club or hit the ball with the back of the club head.
But now is obviously we're not hitting the ball with the back of the club head.
So we want to get a feel for the supination, how it adds speed like that.
So now it's kind of making a little bit of a clockwise circle, like I talked about in the accent.
Now, if I start moving my arms in a little bit bigger circle, now I get a little more speed.
A little whoosh.
All right.
But this is all hand speed.
I'm not pushing on.
I'm not trying to use my big muscles at all right now.
I'm trying to use my hands.
Now, if I make a little bigger circle, my body starts to respond to this.
All I'm doing is this same thing in a bigger circle.
That is supination.
That motion as you do it at speed is the golf swing in a trailside pattern.
You want to swing like the goat? Supinate.
Get the feeling of hitting the club or hitting the ball with the back of the club.
And then let your wrist snap.
And you will have so much more speed and you won't have to use your big muscles to do it.
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