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As we move into full swings, learning how to coil around the trail leg is vital for effortless speed so you begin to feel the arms and club snap rather than being pushed through.
As we move into full swings, the way that you coil around your trail leg is everything.
You do not want to use your arms by pushing them or extending them or trying to push your body through.
You want to learn how to coil and use the fascial system in your body so that you feel effortless.
And what I mean by that is you don't want to feel that you're trying to move muscles to generate power.
The golf swing, when done correctly, truly does feel effortless.
And the way that you do this next move will determine whether or not you ever get to experience that feeling in your swing.
What it is, essentially, is that you are trying to twist and coil around like a spring on this trail leg.
So the more that you coil around this, the more it's going to naturally want to unwind.
The problem is most golfers start to pick the club up during the takeaway.
They use their arms, they use their hands, they use their shoulders.
And once this stuff gets activated, you're done.
And I'm going to show you a trick in the next part of this video that's going to show you how to get your arms to finally relax so they can snap.
So your wrist can snap through the ball instead of you pushing the club through the ball.
So the first thing is understanding how to coil and understanding the key of how to do it at the right speed.
So first, the coil.
So again, as I was talking about, If you were thinking like you were a pitcher in baseball and you were just kicking your lead leg back to coil around this leg as much as you could to twist it, that would give you a proper feeling of the coil.
But, of course, in the golf swing, we don't get to do that.
So what you want to feel is actually drop your foot back.
So I'm going to do this from down the line.
Drop your foot back to kind of give you an open stance.
This will force your body to stretch more because I want you to really get a good feel for what this coil is.
So I'm going to keep my lead foot back.
And I'm going to start just turning around this right leg as much as I can.
My core, my whole body is turning as much as I can.
I want you to feel everything stretching in a spiral fashion around this leg.
You should really feel it in your glute.
Now, this is key.
If I twist like this and I do it very quickly, what's going to want to happen?
I'm going to want to spring back the other way.
And that's the key.
And the trick to doing this is you have to do it fast, immediately off the ball.
I'm going to talk about the takeaway in just a second.
But you need to do this quickly.
Don't go and slowly shift over and slowly start turn.
If you do that, the fascia does not work like that.
The fascia has to be loaded very quickly and then it'll only hold that stretched energy for just a second.
Think of it like a piece of bubble gum.
As you pull a piece of bubble gum apart, if you pull it back really quick and let go of it, it'll spring back.
But if you just pull it real slow, it'll just get really thin and it won't have any elastic energy left in it.
And the fascia works in the same way.
So as you go back, get really quick and load into it and then let it unload you.
That is the next key.
If you don't load this fast and you don't have that fascial spring to unwind you, you're going to be forced to then use muscular energy.
And that's going to almost always move your head in front of the ball and cause you to stand up and lose your posture.
But when you coil into it and let it go, you naturally get back into the squatted position.
That's where your body is going to start to unwind.
I'm not trying to use my muscles to try and get myself to this position.
I'm letting that stretched fascia unwind me right back to this squatted position.
That's what you want to feel.
So get a feel for doing this quick and then letting it unwind you.
As you do this, you should go down.
You're going to feel yourself coiling.
And then as you start to shift your pressure back, your pelvis is going to recenter.
As you do that, your head is going to go down.
You're going to get into the squatted position.
But of course, you're not going to stay there.
You would keep moving through in the full swing.
Now, the key to getting this to work is that, A, you've got to move quick.
So your first move, off the ball, lateral shift to start to shift pressure over here.
And then load and coil around as much as you can.
And then let it go.
As much as you need to for this shot.
Obviously, on a wedge shot, that's why I didn't talk about it in the 80-yard shots.
Because they're such a small shot, you're not going to use your legs that much, that right leg coil.
But as we move into the full swing, you must use it.
It's so important.
So shift laterally and coil.
And obviously, the more that you keep this foot down, that's why I had you drop your foot back at the beginning.
The more you keep this heel down, the more quickly you're going to feel this stretch.
Now, if you're going for a really big swing, it's okay to let the heel come up.
If you're going to really try and nuke a driver, you're just going to turn more.
And it's going to take longer for you to feel that tightness, that coiling action in that hip, glute, and leg.
So that's why it's important to practice with kind of leaving this open so that you can feel this stretch right through here in a twisting fashion, spiraling up that leg.
That's what you want to feel.
Now, once you've got a feel for shifting laterally, and again, this goes right back to that waggle drill with the kettlebell that I was talking about, where you kind of swing it forward and then you kind of use your whole body to heave that kettlebell back.
And then you're re-centering back here and then using your body to swing that kettlebell through.
Your arms are not muscling that.
That's not the point.
That's why you use a heavy kettlebell to force you to learn to get your arms to swing.
That's what you want to feel as you're doing this with your golf club.
Because the golf club is so light and because everybody tends to kind of use their arms and pick the club up, it kills this entire fascial load.
So I'm going to give you a simple little drill that's going to help you feel this.
All you need to do is take your trail hand only, put the club on your shoulder, and relax your arm just like this.
Now, what I want you to feel as you swing, as you coil back, you're going to feel that your arm is doing nothing, including in the downswing.
You do not want to extend your arm at all.
You actually want to try to keep your arm close to your body and let your wrist supinate.
And it's going to do this for you.
You're going to feel this because I'm not wanting you to use your arm at all.
Your arm is dead.
Shoulder's dead.
Nothing's happening here.
But as you begin to uncoil, what's the club going to It's going to supinate.
Your wrist is going to supinate and the club is going to sling out in front of you without you doing anything.
That's the trick to feeling effortless.
The moment you pick your arms up from your shoulders and start extending from your tricep, the swing's done.
It's going to be all muscular effort and you're never going to have that effortless whipping feel where your club and wrists snap through the ball.
But this will give you the feeling of it, of turning, coiling back.
My arms did nothing.
Now, watch again.
You can hear a little whoosh there.
I'm literally not doing anything with my arms.
The club, as I begin to uncoil this hip and let my wrist supinate, the club is snapping my arms straight.
It's pulling my arms straight.
I am not pushing my arms straight.
That is a massive distinction.
So get a feel for doing this quickly and you'll feel the club just whip right off your shoulder.
And now I've got all the speed in the world, but I'm literally doing nothing.
I'm just letting my wrist do this.
Obviously, if I didn't move my hand, it would just look like a helicopter, right?
But as I start to increase my spine angle, my arm starts dropping down.
My wrist is no longer at this angle.
It's now at this angle.
And that's what brings it all the way back down.
As you get a feel for this, you can do it with both hands too.
Just relax both arms and hands.
Coil back.
Through.
Coil back.
My arms are dead.
I'm not trying to move them, but yet you can hear the speed that I have in my swing.
Now, in the real swing, it's much more dynamic, right?
Because we're not obviously just starting with our arms frozen like this.
So in the real swing, what I want to feel is that my arms kind of wait and they get, they kind of, I feel like I'm heaving them back just like I did with the waggle and the kettlebell drill.
And then as I start down, my arms don't kind of finish setting until I'm already starting to recenter and my, that coil on my right leg is starting to uncoil and then my arms get whipped down.
So it's a little bit more dynamic than that, but you'll get a feel for this.
Don't try to pick your arms and club up.
Try to shift your pressure to your trail leg so that you've got some, some weight over there and then coil around it and that will get your arms going.
So I really like to feel that this happens really fast.
I'm trying to really coil to rip my right arm back, but my arm right now is truly getting moved by my pelvis coiling into this right hip socket and my arms are just along for the ride.
When you get that feeling, that is the best feeling in the world because as you start down, all of this fascia then dynamically stretches in the downswing and then your arms just rip and snap through.
And that is what the goat code is all about.
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