Load Right Glute: Shorten Swing, Start Transition
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You're going to find out an easy way to shorten your golf swing. In fact, if you practice what’s in this video, you simply won’t be able to overswing. You’ll also find yourself in a much more powerful position to transition into the downsing.
- Overswinging is caused by swinging back with the arms and letting the body just follow along
- As a result the body never feels fully loaded, so you keep turning until the arms and shoulders feel some load
- Fix it by loading into the right glute as soon as you start the takeaway
- Twist on the right hip, keeping the right knee as quiet as possible
- When your right glute feels fully loaded, it's time to start the downswing
A lot of golfers struggle with over swinging, and that's because they simply start the swing and continue it with a lot of arm movement.
And the golf swing is kind of like a crescendo.
It's going to start out kind of smooth and slow, and then it just keeps building and building, and building.
So whatever you set off at the beginning is just typically going to get more exposed, more dramatic as you keep going.
And so the same is true with the arms and people over swing.
What they do is they just start swinging their arms back.
Their body is just kind of following along.
It's not controlling any of the movement.
It's just trying to support the body from falling over and to help brace what's going on so that the arms can swing freely.
And of course, you end up with a swing no matter what you do, no matter how many times somebody says, hey, stop over swinging.
Feel like you swing three quarters.
You don't ever feel loaded up at the top of your swing.
So you keep going like this and yet that feels like you're down here.
And the trick is to load your body first and then let the arms follow along with the movement.
Again, my mantra in the backswing is a big body turn and a little arm swing.
And so when you're over swinging, you're doing the opposite.
And so here's what we're going to do to feel that.
And it's going to focus on your lower body, and it's a way to teach your body to sequence things correctly so that you can, you simply will be unable to over swing once you follow this video.
So first thing we're going to do is that you're going to focus on twisting on this right hip.
And this is important because we're going to start to load that right glute and the right leg early in the swing, because once it gets fully loaded, that's going to be your brain's cue to switch directions and go back the other way.
And of course, you've heard a million times swing starts from the ground up.
Now you're going to understand how it actually happens.
So as you go back, keep your right knee in place and feel like you're just twisting your body on this hip.
Now, of course, your knee is going to move out a little bit.
It's going to rotate your legs and rotate.
I want you to at first to overdo it and try and feel like that leg doesn't really move.
It's going to stay in the same place.
And you're simply just pivoting on that hip and you're going to feel some strain and some stretching on your glute.
I want you to overdo these things at first to a degree so that you can feel the movements.
So as I go back, I'm just feeling like I'm just twisting on this right leg.
My hips are twisting on it and I feel a lot of stretch on this hip.
So now I look like even from just here, I look like I'm ready to go back the other way.
I'm in a much more powerful position than somebody who kind of swings their arms back and looks like this at the top of the swing.
Because this right leg has lost all its flex.
It's moved out this way instead of staying in position and being rotated on top of.
That's what you want to feel is that you're twisting on top of that hip.
It's the same thing as if you just stood up like this and then just turned your body without the left leg in place.
So now if I just try and turn my body, I'm going to feel the same stretch here.
Then if I do it with my knee flexed, I'm going to feel that load.
That's your cue to go the other way.
And once that's fully loaded, you won't be able to go back any further.
So let's do this again.
And now I'm going to show you how the rest of it works.
So once I focus on, forget about what your upper body is doing right now.
A, it's probably doing too much.
That's how you're overswinging in the first place.
And B, it's probably working reasonably well enough.
It's just that the lower body isn't working properly at all.
And that's what's causing you to overswing.
So forget about your arm for a second.
Your first move is to load into the right glute immediately.
During the takeaway, first thing you do, again, forget about what's going on with the club.
Load into the right glute is the first thing that you do.
It's your number one priority.
If you feel like you're fully loaded up by the time the takeaway is done, you got to go the other way.
We're on the right track because by the time you get halfway up, you're not going to go much further.
And that's how you're going to biomechanically shorten your swing while creating a proper load in your body.
So first thing I'm going to do is I'm twisting on that glute right away.
Now from here, if I keep going to the top and I feel like I'm still kind of like twisting this leg into the ground, I can't turn any further than this.
From here, I need to go the other way.
Now if I do the opposite and just let my arms swing, I don't feel any load in this.
I'm not going to stop overswing until my shoulders and arms feel so loaded up that I feel like I have some power.
That's the key that you've got to understand.
You will keep overswinging until you feel loaded enough subconsciously that you have power in the swing.
If you don't feel loaded up, you're going to keep going until you do.
Otherwise, you're just going to feel like you have no power.
And that's what your brain is telling you is I don't feel loaded up, so I'm going to keep going.
And that's the problem.
So if we exaggerate a little bit and load right away, and yes, your hips are going to turn a little bit right away during the back swing, it's perfectly okay.
All good players do it.
And the reason we emphasize keeping the hips square is because most golfers let everything go back together and they don't build any torque in the swing.
They don't build any separation from the upper and lower half.
They don't properly stretch the obliques.
So that's why we emphasize that.
But for this drill, for those of you that are overswinging, To turn your hips early and pivot on this right leg is perfectly okay.
Because what it's going to do is load the lower body early so that it can start the downswing earlier.
That's the piece that you're missing is something in your body to move you back the other direction, which will shorten your swing.
If you're moving this way, going back, but then your lower body's moving this way, you simply can't overswing.
So simple thing, feel like you just pivot on that hip, load it as hard as you can, try and load it right away.
And once that feels really loaded, start going back the other way and you'll find that you simply won't be able to overswing anymore.
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