RotarySwing Community

If you'd like to discuss the most recent Live lesson I did with Jurgen about tempo and pace to the swing and do so privately rather than publicly on YouTube, I'll start a thread for it here. (Note, all posts in here are only seen by private members and are not indexed by search engines so it is locked down in here.) The way you power the swing has a lot to do with your tempo and length of swing as well. There are two basic ways to power your golf swing: 1. With your pivot and rotation that propels the lead arm (creates a more passive arms feeling) 2. With thrust from the right arm (the good ol' throw the ball drill) With RST, I have always allowed for both of them because work and create the same effect, even the same positions generally, while feeling wildly different. When I swing with body rotation to create speed, I generally have a more lethargic pace as I'm trying to gradually build speed. My swing tends to be a little longer and more rounded. Here is a swing with a driver showing this motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6L1-cXDvOM While it's still definitely not slow, it feels slow. On the other hand, literally and figuratively, when I am using my right arm to accelerate the club, my swing gets shorter, more compact and as such, a little quicker over all. Tony Finau, John Rahm, current Tiger are good examples of this. The 7 iron swing I posted earlier is somewhere in the middle. But, I have been working on a movement pattern that will be amazing for those who like the feeling of a throw and have developed a throwing skill with their trail arm. My goal with this pattern that I have been developing for the past year is: 1. To teach you the entire swing in 1 lesson. That's it. Everything you need to know, one and done. 2. To teach a swing based more on feel. More emphasis on wholistic movement than positions. 3. To teach a swing that is more easy to learn moving fast rather than doing as much slo-mo work (still required, of course, but to a much lesser degree). The reason for this is the dynamic motion of a throw. It's truly quite complex, but I have a move I'm testing that unlocks a golfers hips (a HUGE problem, especially in older men who have become more sedentary) so the dynamic motion of the right arm loading while the hips are moving toward the target can be learned in one simple motion. It's sort of like a throwing cha-cha, I'm jokingly calling it the throwing chuck-chuck with my guinea pig student ;-) 4. To get the golfer to be able to focus on feeling one whole movement rather than thinking through how to group together chunks of positions. (How do I get to the top from the end of the takeaway is a question I never want a student to have to ask me again! That's a failure on my part to do a better job teaching the movements). 5. Perhaps most important of all, to take advantage of the dominant hand (right hand for righties). This will shorten the learning curve to almost nothing for many, especially those with a throwing sports background. Those are my main goals. It has taken me WAAAAY longer to fully develop, test and prove this than I ever thought which is why I haven't posted much in the way of new content. I didn't want to keep doing the same ol' thing, I wanted to change the game. Heck, create a new game altogether. Golf instruction has gotten way too complicated, way too detailed, way too much emphasis on numbers and positions. It needs to be simpler. But, to make something complex and make it simple is about the hardest thing to do, but I'm all over it like white on rice. Can I get someone to swing properly in a single lesson without ever touching them, not being there in person, doing it all online? We're about to find out!