RST Student Game Plan For Success
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Hey guys, welcome back to RotarySwing .
com.
I'm your instructor, Chris Tyler, and today I want to share a few minutes with you about a student here named Michael that came into town recently.
Who had been struggling with getting some really good, consistent impact and also been losing a little bit of speed.
And we took a good close look at his golf swing and we started to lay out a really good, solid game plan of things for him to work on for the next few months.
And that eventually, he's number one going to be able to protect his body when swinging the golf club, but also number two.
He's going to be able to add a lot more efficiency and we're going to talk about the processes of what he's going to be doing.
And how important it is to use the Swing review system on the website.
And I'm also going to relate a couple of the videos that we used in his swing transformation here and that way.
If you've been struggling with either one of these areas that you can go ahead and start to use these yourself.
And really get yourself into a good position to start building a very efficient golf swing.
So let's go ahead and get started now.
Okay, so before we get started with going through the processes of this swing change.
I do want to give a special shout out to James H.
from the Bahamas, who just recently won the club Championship at Albany.
And Albany is a club, if you're not familiar with it, that competes in the Tavistock Cup every year.
They've got some pretty big name players there, like Justin Rose, Tiger Woods So James is absolutely a phenomenal golfer, got a fantastic golf swing, got a very good understanding of the game of golf.
And I've been fortunate enough to work with him in my unlimited review group for the last couple years here.
And so a big shout out, congratulations to him on that that big feat there down at Albany.
And the next thing I want to talk to you guys about is developing a game plan for your swing correction.
I think that's one of the things that a lot of people tend to neglect.
And they start to do a lot of self-diagnosis and never really have a good idea of what they should be focusing on.
And remember, the one thing that you have to understand when it comes to swing change is that you've got to make sure that you master your body movements.
First.
Once you start to understand how you want your body to move, you need to spend time getting quality reps in of that, and then once you start to become more and more proficient.
Then slowly start to add the golf club back to the mix and then slowly start to get yourself up to speed where you can hit golf shots with it.
If you start to work on things too quickly, then it's very hard for you to be kinesthetically aware what's going on with your body.
And Michael actually said it to me during yesterday's lesson.
He's like, that's that feel versus real thing, right?
He actually gets it, he understands that feel is not necessarily a real thing.
And he understands the processes of being able to use a mirror and how important it is to use a camera when making these swing corrections.
So, without further ado, let's go ahead and get into things here.
So, on the left hand side of the screen, I'm going to go through with what we saw in his golf swing.
Remember, I said he was losing a little bit of speed and he was not allowing himself to have good, consistent ball striking.
So what we looked at here is number one.
You can see that he did pretty well up into the right side, you can see that he shifted his weight.
Maintained the right hip line.
Didn't necessarily get a lot of rotation from his upper body.
But we weren't going to beat him up on that.
We, we understand that sometimes when we start to get a little bit older, we lose a little bit mobility in the as far as rotation is concerned.
But we can shuffle around his equation and make sure that we've got good, good amounts of leverage.
And we can get leverage through some ground force and we can get leverage through lag and release.
So from there, what we would look at is how big of a shift that he made back over to the lead side.
Here now you can see that.
Our goal is is that.
We want to take our hips and we want to shift them to where the center of our hip socket is all the way on top of the center of the ankle.
Here, so you can see that he didn't shift very much at all, it's actually a very small move in his golf swing now.
The reason why he was shifting very little is because his hands and arms were starting down very quickly from the top of the swing.
And when the hands and arms start down very quickly.
And they get in front of your front of the, uh, the trail thigh, here, the lower body is going to get on the brakes.
Okay, your your brain is really good about making compensations and making adjustments.
And it's saying, Okay, my hands are at the release point of the swing.
I'm not going to continue to shift.
I'm going to allow the hands and the arms to just go ahead and fire.
And that's exactly what he was doing, so he would go ahead and fire through.
Now.
Notice the position of the left knee here.
After he starts to fire the golf club because his lower body was not stable, and because his lower body was not the driving force of his downswing.
What happens is he allowed the momentum of the golf club.
And a little bit of this trail side push from this trail leg here to push his left knee into a very, very dangerous position.
This can actually start to put a lot of stress on the outside part of the knee.
Here, your knee is not really necessarily designed to pivot.
It's only got about a degree to a degree and a half of rotational space available to it.
So when I looked at this golf swing, I said, Okay, two things here.
We need to start waking up our legs, We need to start using our legs as much as humanly possible.
In the downswing, that's number one, number two.
We want to get the left side of the body as stacked up as possible so that we get the bottom of the swing arc in the same spot every single time.
Which is critical for consistency.
So now that we have a good idea of where we want to go with things now.
It's a matter of designing a drill and a movement for him that's going to be able to allow him to make these sorts of corrections.
So let's go ahead and take a look over here on the right hand side of the screen.
Now, okay, so I'll get all these arrows off on the left hand side so you can see the differences.
Start right at the bottom, okay, you're going to see the shift and load to the top, okay.
Allowed him to get a little bit more hip rotation at this particular junction to help him get more rotation.
So we did allow the hips to rotate maybe about 20 degrees or so more than what he was doing.
That, you can see, is now dictated into a little bit more shoulder rotation.
Okay, So now the first move back over to the lead side is going to be a sit move.
So you can see that his head and his upper body are moving back over to the original position.
Okay, so what I mean there is if I mark the head position here, okay, you're going to actually maybe see his head get a little bit out in front of where we want to go.
But you can see that he moves off the golf ball.
Maybe just a fraction too much here.
But again, we were focusing on making a big, big move over to the left side.
And then, as you can see, you can see that, as you can see, the move left here is pretty, pretty big.
So his left hip socket, his left knee, might even just be a fraction beyond neutral, but notice how his head has come back into the original position.
Okay, That's one of the big moves that a lot of amateur golfers tend to not want to make is they don't want to allow their head to come back into the original spot.
Because it feels that's the operative word here, like a lateral slide now because we've got the weight over into the left side of the body, because we've transferred the weight over there.
Now he can start to control what the body's doing from the left side, he can start to use it as a power source.
By driving that heel into the ground, clearing the hip and then releasing the club, so you're going to see that happen now.
He actually pulled himself back into neutral and then now notice the difference here at impact, how he's got himself nice and stacked up.
We're over here on the left hand side of the screen, he's hung back just a little bit, okay, and then post impact.
Notice of the left knee, okay, so the left knee has got some pretty good size break to it.
now watch what this left knee does here.
Stays nice and straight, the club releases out in front and now we've got some really good extension.
Um, so very, very good changes here.
And I know that this was done at a slow speed, but we only got to spend two hours with each other and we laid out.
We had to start these movements very, very slow and then what we started to do.
As I started to see him become more proficient, we started to add some more speed to it.
And then I talked to him about how little of pause time he wants to take in between these little sections.
So if you watch this, you're going to see he has one.
One pause at the top, one pause as he sits left, and then another pause and release here as he's letting the club go through the hitting area.
So his goal now is to be able to get this thing ingrained.
And spend lots of time repeating each and every one of these moves that we worked on and doing them of the highest quality.
And then as he's starting to go through this process, we're going to, we're going to challenge him, we're going to push him.
Our instructors are going to watch him on swing reviews and say, Okay, you have this little pause at the top, let's go ahead and take that that middle pause out.
Let's see if we can work from the top and go ahead and make a shift over left side, post up and release.
And if we see that it breaks down, then we'll just pull it back and we'll add the, uh, the little pause in there again.
That's the process of swing change, that's how you have to be able to understand how you're going to get to the end results.
And I really encourage you guys to make sure that you get a good game plan together with the swing review system and an instructor.
It's a valuable, valuable tool because sometimes we can see things that you may not be able to see.
So if you haven't taken advantage of the swing reviews, definitely get those things in there.
We can help you lay out that game plan, we can make you understand the cause and effect relationships to a lot of these swing changes.
And we can keep you focused on what's going to be most important for safety and efficiency.
Okay, so if you've been struggling with any of these areas in the golf swing, like we talked about with Michael here, the fixing weight transfer video that we just put out last week, that's a great video.
That was actually how I started to wake his legs up a little bit and get him to shift over to that left side.
And then the sitting into the left side video was a great video for us to be able to use.
For him to have a good kind of sit move into his lead side.
And then we coupled that with the roll of the right foot and a lot of the release drills.
So any of those release videos that we've put out recently impact videos.
We coupled that with the roll of the right foot.
We started to get some really good extension and now he's got a game plan to start getting himself into a really good position with his golf swing.
Okay guys, so get out there, put a game plan in place.
Let us help you get there, take your time with the processes, and let's play some great golf this year.
In 2016.
Howard
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
John
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Marcus
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)