Torque Bridge Drill
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The Torque Bridge Drill is one of GOATY's drills he recommends for certain swing patterns. This drill has an 86% success rate of showing measurable improvements with patterns such as those who sway - both your hips and head, those who cast the club, and many more.
Every goat ball striker has said that the swing starts from the ground up, but what does that really mean?
In the torque bridge drill, you're going to finally feel what that really means and understand how to create real torque using the ground on your feet.
And it starts with understanding how to load during the backswing.
The first thing you've got to understand, and this is really easy to practice if you're indoors and at your house, on a slick floor with socks on.
I'm going to do it on the grass here and you're going to see my foot's not going to slide that much, but if you're at home doing this on a slick floor with socks, you'll feel it so much faster.
When you're making your backswing, most golfers turn their upper body, trying to separate their upper body from their lower body.
And that's not what the goats did.
The goats actually started truly from the ground up by taking their trail foot and twisting it into the ground toward the center of your body.
What I mean by that is doing this.
Now, of course, when there's no friction, my foot's just going to slide.
But when we have our golf shoes on and we're on grass and I don't let this foot slide, as I start twisting this foot this way into the ground but don't let it move, that creates a torsional chain that starts to rotate my body.
So I didn't rotate my chest at all right now.
My rib cage and my belt buckle move together.
What I did was try and twist my foot into the ground, but without allowing it to move, you'll feel how everything starts twisting this way.
This is how you load your trail side properly in the swing.
So as I'm doing this, My knee, my hip, everything is starting to rotate, and then I'm going to sit back into my trail hip and I'm gonna feel really, really loaded.
You should feel it, load back here.
So twist your foot into the ground, that is what actually rotates your body, your feet, the ground, and that force is what's rotating you.
If you don't feel a lot of tension and torque, you're probably used to turning upper body.
That actually makes your foot turn this way.
In the backswing, you don't ever want to feel your foot wanting to slide that way, it's the opposite, so once you have this feel, you can feel.
As I'm twisting my foot into the ground and my my hips getting really loaded as I keep twisting that foot.
Eventually, my hips going to get turned enough that it's going to make me automatically re-center.
This is great because now I don't have to think about pushing to shift my weight back over just by twisting my foot into the ground.
So this would be counter clockwise for a right-handed golfer.
That gets me shifted back over and now I'm already on my lead side and ready to go back the other way.
But now the catch is, what is the lead side doing, while the trail side is helping us load?
This way?
As my trail foot is twisting into the ground, this way, my lead foot is twisting into the ground.
The opposite it's for a right-handed golfer is twisting clockwise.
And so as you put both of these together without your feet moving, so I'm loading.
Now I'm moving to the inside of my lead foot, but I'm actually trying to resist against the ground to load my lead hip.
And when you do both at the same time, the first move is getting into the trail side and loading.
And then as I resist with the lead foot, what you're gonna feel is the torque bridge.
You're gonna feel your foot, your trail foot twisting to the ground, loading the hip.
The lead foot is twisting to the ground the opposite way.
And as you do both of these together, You should feel both glutes, both hips engage and a line going up from your feet all the way up your thighs and across your pelvis.
And that's where the bridge is.
The pelvis is the bridge between the two ground forces that you're creating in your feet.
So as you do both together.
Now that my trail foot's initiating the backswing and now I shift over because I recenter, as I keep turning, I'm loaded into my trail hip.
But now my lead hip has got to take over.
And so the the energy transfers up the up the the the leg across the bridge in your pelvis and your core to the lead side.
And now the lead side continues that clockwise rotation for a right handed golfer.
So now, as I'm doing that, that is what rotates me very quickly.
So the feel that you're going to start to work on is doing this inside, especially with socks, would be really helpful.
Because you'll feel your foot slide and then you'll feel planting it to loading up, spiraling around from the ground, up from your foot, all the way up to your hip.
Keeping this one resisting.
And then as you get ready to go over, that's when everything fires very, very quickly.
And that is where you get the explosive speed that you saw in the Goats.
They truly did swing from the ground up now.
One thing that you want to be very careful of, as you're spiral loading from the foot up through the hip and resisting with this side by twisting it the other way.
Now you've got this nice, stable base, you do want to let this trail hip that's loaded fire, you want to, and your foot is going to move very quickly, so as you're loading it, you're going to feel your pressure as you re-center, so I spiral up, that re -centers me.
Now, my lead hip is going to take over, and as this foot becomes light, my heel is going to pop up.
And so I want you to practice spiral loading from the foot, feeling the energy transfer and load across the bridge.
And as you're over here, you can see that my foot naturally just pops up, my heel pops up.
And now this, as I've unweighted this foot, my lead hip is really loaded and then my trail foot is going to snap and my knee is going to snap like this.
As you start doing this more quickly, it's going to be a very fast movement.
The last thing you want to remember, as you're loading, the most important part is to get this load correct.
Once you have the load correct, everything starts to happen pretty naturally for you from there.
But as you're loading and you're spiraling up from the ground, your head should start to drop a little bit during the backswing, just a tiny bit.
You're just really loading into this trail hip.
But then as you start down, because this leg is flexed, because we've bent it during the backswing, and this leg has been extended, as we shift pressure over and this side unweights, your head is going to really drop.
And that is one of the main things that GODI is looking for is how much your pelvis, your, your sternum and your pelvis both are dropping during the downswing.
So start practicing loading up.
You'll see my head start to drop a little bit.
And then as I start to come back, then my head's really going to drop and then it's going to explode up into impact.
So work really diligently because this is the key to effortless power in the swing.
You have to start from the ground up and build this torque bridge.
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