The TRUE Fundamentals of the Golf Swing
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Do you REALLY know what the fundamentals of the golf swing are?
Hey guys, Chuck Quinton here, founder of RotarySwing.
com.
I want to talk about something that I think is one of the most important parts of understanding the golf swing and learning the golf swing, and that is fundamentals.
Now, everybody says that they teach fundamentals, but at Rotary Swing, we believe that we're the only true fundamentals-based approach to learning the golf swing.
It's kind of a big claim, but I want you to think about it for a second because we've got a lot of evidence to back this up.
But first, I want you to think about, first of all, the importance of fundamentals.
Think about everything else that you've ever learned in life.
Many of us learned how to drive on manual transmissions.
Back in the day, you learned in a parking lot, someplace quiet and isolated, and all of us learned the same fundamentals, and that was, in the United States, your right hand is on the gear shift, your left foot is on the clutch pedal, your right foot is on the gas pedal.
None of you learned to put your right foot on the clutch pedal and your left foot on the gas pedal.
How come?
Well, it's just the fundamentals of learning how to drive.
It's the most efficient way to put your feet on the pedals on a manual transmission.
That seems very commonsensical because it's agreed upon fundamental that everybody agrees on, everybody teaches the same thing.
Now, if you go to ten different golf instructors and ask for the fundamentals of the grip, or the setup, or the swing plane, or anything for that matter, you'll get ten different answers.
And so, that alone should be a huge red flag for golfers trying to understand and learn the golf swing, is that there really hasn't been much of a fundamentals -based approach to the swing, and that is, not everybody can even agree on what a fundamental of the golf swing even is.
In fact, many golf instructors believe that everybody has their own set of fundamentals.
Well, there's the, what, seven billion people on the planet?
That's a lot of different fundamentals that we're trying to manage and teach everybody something completely different and unique because they all have a different golf swing?
That's insane.
Think about that for a second.
Every Olympic sport on the planet has an agreed upon set of fundamentals that everybody learns to do the same thing the same way.
If you're an Olympic diver, if you're a power lifter, if you're a sprinter, you all learn the exact same fundamentals, but yet golf, the most complicated, fast-moving, precision -requiring sport in the world has no agreed upon fundamentals?
Come on.
That doesn't make any sense.
So, rotary swing, we take it a completely different approach to the swing.
We do know that there are fundamentals to the swing, and they're based on Webster's definition of what a fundamental is.
So, here I have Webster's definition of what a fundamental is, synonyms of fundamental to make it short and sweet, primary, origin, central, and absolute.
In order to be a fundamental of the golf swing, it must meet those four criteria.
That's not my criteria.
That's Webster's definition of what a fundamental is.
The antonyms, or the opposites of that, are secondary, consequential, peripheral, and dependent.
Now, I want you to think for a second.
Do some critical thinking on your own.
Don't take my word for it.
I want you to figure out what the fundamentals of the golf swing are, or what are some common things that you have been taught or told are fundamentals of the golf swing?
And see which category they fall into.
One of my favorite ones is swing plane.
Swing plane is the first thing that you see somebody get on the telestrator and they draw a line, and, oh, look at his shaft here and his club shaft here and the plane there and so on and so forth.
And so, since it seems like it's on TV every five seconds, every time there's a golf tournament on, swing plane must be a fundamental of the golf swing, right?
It must be the most important thing because that's what they always talk about.
Well, think about it critically for a second and judge for yourself.
Where would swing plane fall into?
Is it primary, origin, central, absolute, or is it secondary?
Is it consequential of how you move your body in what sequence?
Is it happening in the periphery of the golf swing?
And is it dependent on the sequence and order that you move your arms, hands, body, etc.
?
Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that by its very core, its definition, swing plane is not a fundamental to golf swing.
Now, that may sound like blasphemy to many of you planologists.
At Rotary Swing, we're not saying swing plane isn't important.
Of course, it's important.
It's extremely important.
But the problem is this.
When people have a poor swing plane, the way that golfers, instructors, typically go about fixing it is completely backwards.
They start focusing on fixing what's happening in the periphery and what's dependent and secondary to all these other things that are happening.
With Rotary Swing, we absolutely think swing plane is incredibly important, but we fix it by fixing the fundamentals.
The fundamentals of moving your body, your core, the sequence of those movements is how you fix swing planes.
So when we have a golfer who's got a terrible swing plane, we first look at their body.
How is their spine aligned?
If somebody's swinging over the top, they're going to tend to have a spine that's too upright.
What is their force of movement?
What is the sequence of movement?
Are they moving really hard from the right side?
That's the first way that you steepen the shaft plane and you start coming over the top.
Rotary Swing fixes the cause, not the symptom.
And so when you understand what a fundamental is, you'll understand the RST five-step systems that we're working on things from the center out.
That's how you fix problems.
You don't fix a broken bone by putting a band -aid on it.
It may keep it from getting infected for a day or so if it's a compound fracture, but at the end of the day, that band-aid is going to eventually fall off.
And that's what golf tips really are.
They're band-aids.
When you take somebody and you go take a golf lesson and you say, hey, I'm slicing it, and you strengthen their grip really hard and you have them aim really hard right and tell them, hey, swing from the inside.
Well, if they knew how to do that, they wouldn't be coming to you to pay for a golf lesson.
So when you fix the fundamentals, you fix the underlying cause.
You take out the cancer.
You fix the actual broken bone.
You don't put a band-aid on it.
And that is a fundamentals-based approach to the swing.
And that has rotary swing written all over it.
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