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RotaryConnect Backswing Training Aid
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Learn how to use the RotaryConnect to assist you in building the perfect golf backswing.
- RotaryConnect is a simple, inexpensive, effective training aid for the backswing
- The device holds your arms at a consistent distance throughout the backswing and downswing
- Stop thinking about keeping your arms in sync with your body
- Learn what the correct golf swing position feels like and allow your subconscious to take over
the most common question we get all the time through customer services questions about training aids and that the reason is is there are so many different training aids out there and it's hard to figure out which ones are good which ones aren't well I've got a little secret for you my typical response when I get asked about this training aid or that training aid is that honestly it's junk save your money training aids in general miss the boat by a mile because they're always focusing almost exclusively on what the club is doing and not about what's actually moving the club the club by itself is completely useless unless your brain sends a signal to a muscle that tells it to contract which moves bones at the joint which then moves the golf club it's not the other way around the golf club does not move the body and so most training aids that if you ask me if it's focusing on the club and you ask me if it's any good unfortunately I'm going to tell you no because you're not going to learn anything that way this is the quagmire that you've been stuck in your whole golf careers worried about what this golf club is doing first instead of worried about what your body's doing that's making it do the wrong things so from training aids perspective there's very few that I recommend but hands down the number one training aid by a mile that we've sold probably ten to one over every other training aid we've ever had is a rotary connect why is that two reasons one it's really stupidly simple and two it works because it actually focuses on teaching you how to move your body and when you put those two things together you've got a winner for a training aid so today what I want to talk about is how it helps you with your arms and your body and this is the number one thing that most golfers get completely lost on is they're so fixated on moving that golf club that they move everything they initiate the swing with the force of movement from the arms and as soon as you do that you instantly make everything out of sync with your big muscles so this training aid is going to help you understand how to fix that and so the best way to start is with the arms put the arm cuffs on and then what I want you to do is slide it up to your chest where the bar is actually touching your chest so the arm cuffs are going to be pretty high the reason I want you to do this and put it up this high at first is that as you're swinging the club if you start swinging your arms across your body you're gonna see the bar is gonna move across your chest and you're gonna feel the cuffs pushing your arms and most people because they push from the left side tend to swing their arms across their chest and it feels really funky when you have this on so as you have this across your chest what I want you to focus on is moving the bar that's right this piece right here in between the two cuffs what you're gonna do is focus on moving that bar instead of anything else don't worry about your arms don't worry about your hands don't worry about the golf club move the bar and so when you think about moving the bar it simplifies the entire confusion that goes around turning your body do I tilt my shoulders do I do this do I pull my shoulder blade back do I push to the left side all these things that create confusion for golfers if you just focus on taking this bar and rotating it away from the target with your chest you're gonna do almost everything perfect I'm gonna pull with my right shoulder blade I'm gonna use my obliques and I'm not gonna push my arms across my chest because I want the bar to stay exactly where it started so as I go back and I put the club into play here and I focus on moving the bar the takeaway is a piece of cake club goes exactly where I want it because I'm not worried about moving the club I'm leaving everything exactly the same and turning the bar with my chest I'm keeping it touching my chest now this is perfect for a little nine to three drills that everybody should start with when you're working through the rotary swing drills you go up to hitting balls nine to three you don't really set your wrist you stop parallel to the ground shift your weight come back to impact and release now as we do this with the connect as I come through that impact the bar is gonna be right back where it was at address and as I release it's going to open up about 45 degrees to the target this is the perfect nine to three move which is going to teach you 90% of everything you need to know about the golf swing now what happens when you want to go back a little further well with the connect things are going to move a little bit so I turn I focus on turning my chest during that initial stage of the takeaway the bars moved and now from here my arms have to elevate and move the bar away from my chest now technically there's a little bit of elevation during the takeaway but it's not a lot most people tend to kind of overdo it so I don't emphasize it a lot but as you're going back now as you begin to finish getting all the way to the top the bar is going to rise and you'll notice that it's moving a little bit to the right of the center of my chest if you take your connecting you draw a line in the center of it it'll help you kind of keep the relationship of the connect to your chest so as you go back you'll know if you've moved away across your body but otherwise kind of eyeball it and see that as you go to the top your arms are still in front of your chest the best way to check that is that the right elbow is in line with the right shoulder it can go a little bit behind it but we don't want to see this big flying elbow that's when your arms are going to come out of the cuff and that's what this is going to really help you start feeling is that when you start really wanting to lift your right arm up like so many of us do to get a lot of power feeling into our swing and that's where we get the dreaded flying right elbow and we get stuck coming down or come over the top as this arm cuff is in here and you're trying to actually keep pressure with your right bicep on the inside of the cuff instead of what we want to do which is pull it away and move to the outside of the cuff that's what it makes this training aid so effective is it allows your arm to physically come out so as you start doing this quick and you start really ripping your arm out it's gonna come out at the top so going back the big things to key in on are turn the bar and then as you go to the top make sure your right elbow stays in front of your right shoulder and you're not pushing against the club or the bar with your left arm now as you come down from here things are going to be much the same the first thing that you're going to key in on is getting your arms back down in front of your chest now that's going to happen when you shift your weight and keep your arms relaxed but there's a little bit of arm work here to help and the first thing you're going to key on is getting the bar back touching your chest you went from away from your chest to back to your chest and now as you come through and release it's going to work through at impact back where it was at address so you can check it if you look different and you start all of a sudden then way different than you did with your upper body at address as you do at the impact now we know we've done something crazy with our arms but if you get back to where it's very similar the bars back in front of your chest and you get to the release point everything's going to be golden so when you're working on your backswing make your life simple because if you put this on you don't have to really think about what your arms are doing because you're going to immediately know when you do something wrong so as far as training aids go rotary connect best bang for your buck
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