Dramatic Student Swing Change - Get the Same Results With These Drills
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Check out how this student made massive changes to his swing in 4 lessons using these four drills.
- We worked the big problems first (right hand dominance)
- Then went to impact
- Then the release
- Then weight transfer (Optionally weight transfer can be fixed first if it causing the most problems)
Hello everyone Chuck Quinton here with Rotary Swing Golf and I wanted to show you what kind of progress you can make when you're following the videos on the website and so I pulled up a student here who I've given four lessons to and I'm gonna walk you through the sequence a lot of people requested this like what's it like taking a lesson and getting several lessons and what can you expect and results and how does it apply to the videos I'm learning on the website and so on and so forth so that's what I'm going to show you here so I have a student up here we're gonna do before and after here we're gonna walk you through videos from all four lessons and what they were followed once a week for four weeks and so here's where we started with on the left so there's gonna be a basic trend here that you're gonna see so as we start a couple things you're gonna notice right away one notice how that right knee is starting to get into really weak positions boat out left knee starting to get buckled in and almost has the look of a little bit of a reverse pivot or his upper body starting to want to fall back and this is because his hips have and his knees have shifted out from under him so he's in a pretty weak and unstable position here to say the least the cause of this the culprit is because he's a little bit too right side dominant or a lot too right side dominant in his backswing and downswing so he's trying to heave this right arm up into a powerful position and dominate the swing with just the right side of the body and of course it's gonna create a lot of problems in the downswing so as we start down you'll see right away that he's starting to move his hands throw his hands out away from it's gonna throw the club away a little bit he's gonna start to lose a lot of lag and by the time he gets about halfway down he's already lost a tremendous amount of lag and as we near closer to impact it's pretty much spent everything he has left in his wrist he has nothing left to hit with and so he's gonna kind of scoop and flip into impact and you'll see that left wrist breaking down the right wrist fully extended it's flexing that left wrist back and so he's cut he's left wrist is cupping breaking down so as I mentioned this is all culprit from starting starting to swing trying to get the right arm into a really loaded position at the top and then throwing the club throwing the right arm at the ball the right wrist at the ball dominating swing with the right hand so of course the first thing that we do is we start trying to get him to be more left side dominant so here's how we started that so I'll actually walk through even his drills here so the first thing you're gonna notice I'm gonna walk through a few different things even from his drill I'm gonna put him back at the top of his swing right here so just going left arm only notice the massive difference in these two positions just making a practice swing here he's obviously loading up the right arm here's right arms not even involved of taking it off the club but notice the massive difference in his lower body this should tell you something when you're very right side dominant you're trying to load that right side too much trying to get all your power of it because again as I've talked about in many videos on the site and on YouTube how we're we all tend to be right side dominant most golfers are and so we do everything in our normal daily lives with our right side and our right hand in the golf swing it's no different of course but when you see all these tour players they look very similar at the top of the swing and an impact the reason is is they know the secret that you don't is that the golf swings primarily lead arm or left arm for right handers lead arm dominant and so you can see all of a sudden by just getting him to just focus on swinging the club back with his lead arm he still makes a nice big full shoulder turn in fact a bigger one because he's got more weight on the right side it's easier to make a full shoulder turn his left knees not buckled in his right knees not boat out all of a sudden all these great things happen it's amazing what you can do when you just understand very simple mechanics of the swing so now as we start down notice halfway down we'll get his left arm parallel to the ground here roughly parallel little bit off their frames aren't quite exact here but you're going to see a big difference get them as close as we can roughly about the same spot in the positions of the club now don't ignore this bowing of the shaft this is just all shot with an iPad and the processor can't keep up with this stuff it's moving too fast so that's what it distorts it so don't worry about that the shaft's not actually meant like that if you see that on your videos at home don't worry about it but you can see that this that the amount of lag that he has now with his right hands taken off and it can't be pushing against the shaft to cause it to throw away that he has a tremendous amount more lag as he comes into impact than what he had before massive difference in fact at this point I'd say actually he's bordering on having a little bit too much he'd have to really work hard to release that club in time at the last second there but also notice that his left hand but long before the club ever gets into the impact area his left hands up here by his left thigh like I preach in the impact videos and here he's already released the club long before that so just by making one simple change by taking the right arm out of it getting him to swing left arm only just having him go back and forth not not even giving him a lot of mechanical instruction I'm just having him start to learn to train the left arm like I do in the left arm down swing drill on the website just working on that and focusing on swinging the club with the last holding onto the club with the last three fingers of the left hand not pushing against the shaft with the thumb that's critical because that can also push the club out and cause you to throw the lag away so this was the first lessons what we accomplished in lesson one and he did great with it so we just focused on nothing but that now as I wanted to work up to hitting balls in this hour-long lesson which we don't always do but I wanted to work up to actually hitting balls and you'll notice how I have him holding his right hand on the club I don't want him to mess up all the good work we've just done so I've had him basically open palming what I call open palming the club this right hand so he can't grip it and wrap his fingers around and start to want to get back into that right side dominant mode so he's just basically mirroring the movements and helping support the club a little bit with his right hand so you'll notice as he gets that he's going to want to get back into his old habits a little bit not quite as good as he was at the top before but still better than where he started and again just by taking that right arm out of the equation here so now as he comes down not letting him use it like you see in the five minutes of the perfect release video and a lot of other videos on the website right hands coming off long before impact and you can see we're in much much better positions here maintain the lag a lot longer and then he actually gets into a little bit better impact positions not great yet so of course in the next lesson that's what we tackle so here he's got a little bit of breaking down a little bit of pushing with that thumb that's causing the left wrist to cup a little bit and so we'll work into that as we come back we'll leave this guy up here for a second because that one's going to be pretty bad but again we haven't worked on impact yet so now let's go to lesson two so now in lesson two we're reinforcing what we did before again continuing to get him to focus on swinging left hand but he's had a week to work on it now so you're going to notice looking pretty good starting to look like a golfer here big shoulder turn knees aren't so buckled out he's cuffed his body a lot more stacked and so now he's gotten a lot more comfortable swinging with his left arm only but he's able to get into good positions all the way down losing a little bit of lag still it's not perfect it's only been a week but he gets into a really good impact position and this is after we've worked on the impact alignment the stuff you see in the impact alignments video and the five minutes is the perfect release so i'm having him focus on getting his wrist into a proper position here and again shafts not really bent this much just the camera but his wrist is in an excellent position it's up here by his left thigh and so now he's able to get into a really good position and start to work on releasing the club and notice how the club is releasing by his left forearm rotating over rather than his body releasing so those right heels still staying on the ground when you're swinging left arm only there's no need for your right side of your body to come through the shot that only happens when the right arm is still attached to the club so that's what we worked on in lesson two is getting into a good impact position and start and so now this is lesson three i just happen to be wearing the same outfit but as we come into lesson three we've worked more on he's had more time to work on the left arm stuff and we worked more focusing on getting into a better impact position now you can start to see we'll go back on first lesson massive differences in the angles that he has created here with this by using the learning how to use the left arm and the body to start to move the club instead of just his right arm like you see here the difference in lag is night and day especially for being two weeks after his first lesson here's an excellent position to be in again left hand is getting into a perfect impact position that you can see here again shaft's not really that bent left arm is in a great position he's no longer scooping and flipping it and he's learning to release the club you can see how much wider his release is here because he's learned to release the club and let it go with his left hand by rolling those knuckles under on his left hand so i gave him a few different thoughts or visuals here sometimes i'll have people feel like they're back handing me here so i'll put my hand right here and have him try and kind of hit me with the back of his left hand with the wrist of the left hand and then i'll talk about pointing that logo down at the ground if he's kind of scooping it and flipping it or talk about rolling these knuckles your left three last three knuckles on your left hand rolling them under so that the club rotates over and the toe rotates over so there's a beautiful impact and release position here again big difference so now keep working on those moves so the last lesson so this is lesson four four weeks into it now that he's got he's trained the left arm the left arm has a great idea of what to do the right side's not so dominant they're learning to work together a lot better now i wanted him to have something else to help move the club we want to always have momentum and we're basically managing momentum in the golf swing you don't want to have to be yanking the club down with your arms but if you're not using your body correctly that's kind of going to be what you're forced to do because you don't have anything else to create momentum in the in this swing so what i had him do here is that rst step drill and so basically i'm having him start to create some momentum with the big muscles with his body with his mass so as he steps to the right it's helping move the club and get some mass and momentum moving to the right and then as he steps back to the left now you'll notice one of the things that you see all the time the tour players and all amateurs always wonder how to how they do it notice that his weight is beginning to move he's taking a step back with his left side but the club is still traveling back so his lower body is transitioning into the downswing mode but the club is still clearly traveling in the backswing mode and now as he pushes that left heel on the ground and stabilizes his pelvis pushes the left foot in he starts to get where he can have a really stable impact position and a great impact position with his left arm right heel still down rolling to the inside clubs releasing properly everything's looking great here and he's learning again to use that rst tempo drill to add momentum to the swing so he doesn't have to just try and muscle the club and so now all of these things are starting to kind of come together making a much more powerful athletic move you can see at the top that he is much more get over there obviously getting much more loaded on the right compared to where he was if we look look back earlier you can see how that right knees buckle out now he's got his weight over it and this kind of falling back to the target position doesn't make any sense so he's set up more he's got a little bit axis tilt he's more behind the ball and then as he makes a good assertive move into it he's got to use some power from his lower body from his glutes from his quads from his hamstring that he can use the ground for leverage he's got tremendous lag at this point again massive difference from where we were just three weeks ago it's a massive massive difference in the angle of the shaft and then as he comes down into impact he's doing a great job he's worked hard on getting this left wrist into a good impact position he knows exactly what it should feel like now beautiful impact position there perfect this is just about textbook for this drill it's perfect obviously you don't need a lot of hip rotation at this point shoulders are nice and square right foot's rolled in weights planted on the left beautiful so now the the proof is in the pudding as we go to hit balls this is the challenging part we put that little white devil in the way so as we go back he's going to take a step back to the right again to help get some momentum to get the club started without just having to pick it up with your hands he's made a big step over to the right big turn now he's starting to look like a real golfer here he's got that nice separation his lower body starting to move back to the left way he's got a great big shoulder turn here starting to you'll see not an option we talk about the squat move a lot on the website and a lot of people just don't quite understand they think they've got to lunge down at the ground and their head drop 18 inches or something it's not like that as he's stepping over watch get that line in the right spot all right this line does not want to go in the right spot let me try this one more time pretend to draw it up here there we go so now watch how as his lower body begins to to flex and as he increases the flex in his knees just a little bit as he's making this step which is instinctive to do he's getting lower to the ground and he looks in a much more powerful position because his legs if they're fully extended they can't do anything else if your legs are straight your hips are straight your knees are locked out you can't do anything with your legs to create any power so that's why you look like you have this head drop again tons of lag post it up impact position is fantastic left wrist is perfect here right wrist right ankles rolled in left legs posted up and he's going to release the club really well you'll see nice good release of the toe of the club here notice how his hips aren't spinning around like they used to we can flip back through that get the club in the same spot there roughly notice how high his right heel is on the ground and he's turned his hips a lot more now his hips are much more under control which is critical for stability and safety and being able to control the flight of the ball and he gets around to a finish so in four weeks if you work through left arm downswing drill five minutes to the perfect release that vj release drill you saw that in there a couple times where i'm having him release the club with the right hand literally or let go of it it's a reason it's called the release right release means to let go and that rst tempo drill that you saw used here at the end you too can make these tremendous changes in your swing and no time at all and start hitting the ball further with less effort and start doing it today
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