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The next step in your evolution of becoming an elite ball striker. It is critical pay attention to the details of this shot and make sure your video matches up nearly identically with the GOAT!
At this stage, as we move into the 80 -yard shots face-on view, it's very, very important that you start using this overlay feature, either whether you're using it on the app that I'm using that I mentioned in the previous video, or on your desktop software, because it's very important to understand exactly what the body has to do in order to move this into a full speed, full swing.
This is a very, very big step of getting the understanding of how the body generates power, how we load, and so we're going to talk a great deal about this in just a moment, about exactly how to move exactly like the goat, and hit not just proper wedge shots, but proper everything shots, because one of the most important things that you're going to do in working on this 80-yard shots, obviously getting set up properly is paramount.
Tiger puts a bit more weight on the lead side with the wedge shots, and this is great for bringing that bottom of the swing arc forward, getting a flatter ball flight, better compression on the ball, but even with that, he still loads into this trail leg and makes a good full shoulder turn, like you see here.
Now, as you're doing this, it's very important to understand what has to happen next, and what happens next is driving off of that trail leg laterally.
In a moment, I'm going to put some lines up here, and you're going to be able to see this, but I want you to do it without the lines first, or see it without the lines, just how much lateral movement we are talking about here.
So, now, let's zoom in here a bit, and I'm going to put some lines up on Tiger's hip and my hip, and you'll get to see both of these things in action.
first things first, I'm going to put a line right on the outside of his left hip.
Now, notice that as he goes back, like I've talked about in the old right hip line videos, he never moves out past that, and I'm going to talk about why this is so important in just a moment, as I kind of give you a different visual for how to sequence the power in the swing that you're going to learn starting with these 80-yard shots.
From here, he's driving laterally.
This is so important for proper power sequencing in the swing that this lateral move, I want you to really start to get the feel for driving off the right hip, right leg, to move the body forward, especially if you tend to hit behind the ball with your irons.
It's just typically not enough lateral movement, which is going to force you to run out of right arm, and then you're not going to have anything left to hit with.
So, now, Let me walk you through exactly the sequence that it took for me to feel this and give you a really unique visual on how to feel this.
In your golf swing.
To master these shots that are so important to getting you to the full speed, full swing shots.
One of my most important beliefs about understanding the golf swing and how to truly master ball striking is having the correct visual in your mind for what the swing really is.
And for most golfers, I think that's something that's very elusive, And it's something that's been even elusive for me as I've gone through this Goat Code program, trying to really understand exactly what it feels like to swing like the goat.
I had to come up with a visual.
I knew that if I could understand what his power source was, then I could start to understand what the big picture of his golf swing is.
And the big picture of the golf swing, to me, in Tiger Swing, is a lot like swinging a ping pong paddle or a tennis racket.
And I'm going to explain what that really means in just a second, because I want you to understand, first of all, the sequence of power.
The sequence of power is everything in the golf swing.
How you power the golf swing is your golf swing.
That's why so many golfers make really beautiful practice swings and they go up to hit the ball, their swing completely changes because they don't have the correct power source.
If you don't have the correct sequence, nothing is going to work.
It doesn't matter how many band-aid fixes you try to put on your swing or training aids you buy or new clubs you buy, you're still going to keep making the same mistakes.
So what I want to do here is help you understand the visual that I've come to accept.
What I believe Tiger Swing is, and that has allowed me to match these patterns so closely thus far.
And it's going to help you understand how to make the golf swing really simple and understand how to be really accurate and consistent right away.
In ping pong or any racket sport, the basic movements are the exact same thing in the golf swing.
I've talked about this in the goat power sequence that the most efficient ball strikers, and of course this includes Tiger, they move laterally then rotationally and then vertically.
Now that sequence of movements, while you can see that on force plate data, it's undeniable.
It's not exactly what it feels like in the real world because those three movements, first of all, there's some overlap.
And second of all, they happen so fast that your brain literally can't process it quick enough to actually try to get yourself to do those movements.
So instead, you've got to have kind of a bigger picture view of what's really happening.
And that to me is easiest to explain with a paddle in my hand.
If I was going to hit a ping pong ball straight back over the net in a perfectly straight line, I wouldn't do this.
But that's exactly what people try to do in the golf swing all the time.
They try and turn their shoulders and turn their shoulders.
And while there is rotation, of course, it's not like that.
And it's probably not what you think of.
What really happens first in the golf swing is lateral movement.
Now the amount of lateral movement is a variable, but there's undeniably in Tiger swing, of course, as you saw at the beginning of this video, just how much, even with a short little 80 yard sand wedge, how much lateral movement he has.
That lateral movement is the key to understanding power in the swing.
Because if you move laterally correctly, that lateral energy is going to get converted into rotational and vertical energy, as you're going to see later on.
The key first is understanding how to create that lateral and why.
Because what happens most times is golfers think, oh, I've got to make a full shoulder turn.
That's really important.
So they turn their shoulders and this turns their hips and you're done.
And I'm going to explain why exactly in just a moment.
But I want you to understand, first of all, that if you're trying to swing a golf club like this, it's never going to work.
You're always going to struggle to be consistent.
So instead, think about hitting a ball straight back over the net with a ping pong paddle or a tennis racket.
What I would do is I would load into this trail leg to be able to drive forward laterally.
What I would not do is do this.
As soon as I do this and begin to pivot on this hip and turn my shoulders, then I'm going to be having an arc that's very difficult to time.
I want to make it as straight as possible.
So from down the line, if I'm turning and turning, you can see the paddle is facing the target for just a really brief second.
What I want to do in ping pong and in my golf swing is do this as long as possible.
I want to have as shallow of an arc of my paddle facing the target as possible.
I don't want it coming across really quick.
So in the golf swing, it's exactly the same.
I want to have this lateral movement.
You can see how long this keeps my paddle working down the line and how little rotation of the face I'm going to have.
As I mentioned, the first move in all efficient golf swings is lateral movement.
That lateral movement needs to be set up to happen first in the backswing.
If you're turning first, you're going to rotate first.
You're going to be out of sequence.
So again, it's lateral, rotational, vertical.
If you're going rotational, then trying to go lateral, that doesn't work.
If you're trying to go rotational, rotational, you've taken out the lateral force.
So now you've got, again, this really tight arc going back and forth.
It's very difficult to be accurate.
Instead, what I'm going to do, and you're going to think, wait a second, if I don't turn my shoulders, how am I going to make a full shoulder turn?
Think of it this way.
If I'm loading into my trail leg and pulling my right hand back, I've already started to make a turn, but I didn't turn my shoulders.
I'm just pulling my hand back to be able to drive this paddle down the line, loading laterally, driving laterally.
So I'm keeping my racket up here.
This is part of the dynamic transition that's missing in most golfer swings is they start down altogether because their body is so twisted up.
There's nothing left to stretch.
And so if you don't have a dynamic transition, you feel like your hands are rushing down.
You're probably loading up by turning instead of loading to drive laterally first.
That's the key.
Now, if I pull this back and I put my left hand up here because my right hand is pulling my left shoulder back, I've now made a full shoulder turn, but I didn't turn my shoulders.
I didn't turn my hips.
I really loaded into this to make a lateral move as my first move in the downswing.
Now, another way of thinking about this is imagine I told you, I want you to hit the exact corner of this table with the exact center of this ping pong paddle.
So would you do this?
That's chencopotamus.
I just hit it with my handle.
Would I lift my arms?
Toe strike.
Instead, I would take my arms straight back and brace on this leg to be able to drive laterally forward.
And then I could hit the center of this paddle on this corner, the exact corner of the table very easily versus trying to do this.
As soon as you understand that this is not the golf swing and it's lateral first and lateral is what you're only really going to feel.
You're going to feel that you're driving this way.
And then as you begin to drive, this leg begins to push this way.
So your trail leg is going this way.
Lead legs going this way.
Guess what that's going to do?
Turn my hips, but I didn't turn my hips.
I'm not doing this.
I'm purely going lateral and this leg is resisting that.
And that is what rotates my hips instead of turning my hips.
Now I'm going to take you upstairs into the gym real quick.
And I want to give you a shadow view from my perspective.
So you can start to see what this looks like when you do it right.
And when you do it wrong.
Okay.
And I have this crazy contraption on my head to help you see your own shadow, because when you're out on the range, it's one of the best ways to practice, to really understand what's happening.
And so I want you to really understand what's really happening with your hips and what it looks like from your perspective.
So that you're not doing all this kind of crazy stuff.
And you'll start to see, like, as I start to try and turn my shoulders, my head's going to want to move off the ball.
And you can see the club is going to have a really tight arc and swing across the line really quickly.
And we want this as long as possible.
We want that club to travel on a straight line with a square face as long as possible.
And obviously the most efficient way to do that is with lateral movement.
And that's of course exactly what Tiger does.
And that's what you're going to learn how to do in this 80 yard wedge shot is to start to focus on the lateral movement and how to set that up and do it correctly.
And then as we move into the 160 yard shots, you're going to start to understand how to add speed to that rotational movement.
But I really want you just to focus on the lateral move in this part of the program, because I want you to do this incrementally and you don't really have a lot of rotation because we don't need a lot of speed.
You're hitting a sand wedge 80 yards.
It's a very, very short shot.
But it's going to help you start to get these mechanics in there.
So one of the things I want you to do first is understand how this hip loads.
A lot of times I see golfers do this in the backswing and a little bit of shift to the trail side is great.
But when you start going out here where it's very hard to move back laterally, you're not going to get any load in your backswing.
So if you think about taking the club back with your trail hand, you wouldn't want to do this.
This wouldn't make sense.
I'm taking it back, but you can see my head and my hips are barely moving, but now I've got this club loaded back here and I'm going to leave it there as I start to shift back.
Now, one of the things you're going to see in my hips is that, again, I'm not moving, sliding laterally.
I'm bracing into it to load to be able to shift.
But as I start to pull my hand back, look at my right butt cheek here.
As it goes back, it starts to naturally move toward the target in connection with my hand.
And remember, everything in your body is connected through this fascial system.
So as you start to pull here, it's going to affect down here.
So as my hand's going back, that's really the initial part of that lateral shift is this.
You'll see my hip gets deeper and starts to move toward my lead foot.
That's taking care of most of the lateral shift for me.
And then as I get ready to let that right, let the trail leg kind of snap back, that's what finishes the lateral shift.
So now you can see my left hip is way out here, but it started way back here.
So again, when you're looking at your shadow, pulling that trail hand back, you're going to get into that trail leg, but then you'll see my trail hip begin to rotate.
As I coil around that leg, that starts, as I run out of coil, these muscles get too tight.
That shifts me, my pelvis back, my right butt cheek back to the lead side.
That helps take care of most of my lateral.
And then as my trail leg begins to do this, to post up, to be able to resist that lateral motion and snap the hands, that is what creates the rotation.
But again, we're going to focus on that in the next phase.
The most important part is getting this correct lateral movement.
So you stop trying to turn and move your body all over the place.
You are loading into this trail leg and shifting back and you'll see your hips will end up much, much deeper than where you started.
So you can see where my hips are at address.
It starts to get a little bit deeper.
Then as I come back, now my hips are really deep compared to where they started.
And now I'm in a great position to deliver that club and snap those wrists.
So now if you look at this from a normal 2D perspective, from down the line, you're going to see that as I start to pull my ping pong paddle back, this hip is bracing.
I'm not sliding it laterally.
And as I showed you from the view from my own perspective, my POV, that hip is going to get deeper.
That's going to make room for your arms to come down as you shift laterally.
It's going to make tons of room for this GDP position.
And then you're going to be able to easily get the club to travel down straight down the line for a long time.
So what you're going to be focusing on at this part of the program is really making sure you're set up correctly.
You're loading into that trail side and making sure that you're getting that feeling of pulling that hand back and driving through with this trail side.
And making sure that your hips are getting deeper in the downswing.
Your head is going down, you're maintaining, you're keeping your chest kind of feeling like it's pointing at the ball.
You never want it to start to pop out and point out that way.
So if you start to hit the balls out to the right, you're popping out of it probably.
And again, it's not that you're trying to shove your arms down at the ball.
You've got to use your whole body together to get that lateral movement, your hip and your hand coordinated.
And again, to me, it feels like a ping pong motion or a tennis racket motion.
Now we had the club, the ping pong analogy loses a little bit because it's too short of a lever.
This club, when you have the club extended like this, and it's three foot long, there's a lot of leverage that you have to be able to apply to the ball.
So in a ping pong paddle, there's very little, right?
The paddle stops here.
But now when you extend this out, it changes so many things in the swing.
So you're not going to just bring your hand down really fast and try to snap it.
You've got to get a feeling for the club starting to release from the top, or you're never going to get it released in time.
But now of course, if you just stayed back here on your back leg and didn't shift laterally at all, and you start to release your hands, you're going to scoop and flip and you're going to hit it back here and probably hit it fat.
That's why again, this lateral movement is so important to move the bottom of your swing arc forward, rather than hanging back here on your back foot.
Now, as we start talking about adding speed, we'll talk about how this drive motion that you're using to snap this right hip or trail hip, you know, add speed and you, the longer club you're hitting, the more you're going to tend to stay back.
But we'll talk more about that to help you understand how that's talking about creating speed right now.
And the 80 yard shot, there's no real speed involved.
You'll see it's a very short swing, short follow through, not a lot of hand release.
It's all about learning to get this feeling of how to move your hips correctly.
And that will set you up for success as we move into the full swing.
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