TRUTHS of Instruction - Part 2
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A continuation of part 1...
- The "Fundamentals" of the golf swing are not related to the club or the ball
- Every part of the golf swing boils down to muscles moving bones to create movement
- Studying the body's structure allows us to determine the "Anatomical Absolutes" of the golf swing
- Golf is learned the same way as any skill, through small steps and repetition
Everyone has the exact same set of muscles, the same bones, the same joints, and they're all designed to move the exact same way.
Does your lower leg hinge back behind your knee, differently than mine when you contract your hamstring?
Does your hand not move closer to your body when you contract your bicep?
Barring any catastrophic previous injury or disability, we all move exactly the same way.
That's a great place to start looking for golf swing fundamentals.
If we all have the same set of fundamentals, all the same set of muscles, and we all have the same joints, and they all are designed to move the exact same way, well that's one thing we all have in common right there.
So, Forget about the golf club for a second, because the golf club is not a fundamental of the golf swing.
I know for a lot of people, that's a hard thing to understand because that's the only thing that actually propels the ball toward the target.
But every time I get into when we do swing clinics for the rotary swing and somebody mentions that the positions of the club are fundamental, I throw the club down on the ground.
And I say, okay club, move yourself into that position.
And of course, they all kind of chuckle a little bit and the club doesn't move, of course, because it can't.
By definition, fundamental has to be the origin or the source, the primary mover.
The origin is not the club.
The club cannot move itself into positions.
The only thing that moves the club is muscular contraction.
When a muscle contracts, it moves a bone.
When that bone moves, that is what moves the golf club.
But it didn't start with the golf club.
It started with the muscles.
We're going to get back into fundamentals in the next video when we talk about that more in depth.
But it's important to understand that when you're looking at the golf swing objectively, you bear it down, you boil it down to its bare minimum and start to understand what a fundamental really is.
You have to understand the definition of a fundamental.
Then we have something in the golf instruction industry that everybody has to agree on, or they can continue to argue it, but it's black and white.
These are things that are not arguable in terms of how the brain learns, how the body moves, how the body is designed to move efficiently.
And there is only one efficient way to move certain muscles in the golf swing to create certain movement patterns.
It is the most optimum efficient way to move is what the fundamentals of the golf swing need to be.
So since we all rotate around our spine the exact same way, We all realize that we have to realize that there's only one primary set of muscles that's designed to rotate your torso around your spine.
You need to know what those muscles feel like.
You need to know where they are.
You need to know what it feels like to engage them and create proper rotation.
And that is how you're going to learn the golf swing.
When you know how to move the right muscles, when you understand what those muscles are and what the fundamentals are, that's when you're going to be able to finally make progress in your golf swing, just like all our rotary swing swingers do because they know exactly what to do, exactly how to do it.
And they have a learning program and pathway that ingrains the new movement patterns through focused repetition.
It has to be repetition that is the only way that your brain is designed to learn.
So when we get back to understanding what the rotary swing is all about, it's very simple.
We look at the swing very differently than your typical golf instructor.
We are not out here trying to put another swing theory in the market.
That's completely pointless.
That's the exact problem that we're trying to eradicate.
There are way too many swing theories out there based on nothing more than personal preference and what somebody found to work in a certain pattern.
But is it the most efficient way?
Is it the safest way to move?
And those types of things, those are black and white.
And so we are not just concerned with the plane and path of the club and those types of things.
Although, trust me, we believe those are very, very important.
But we are concerned in what movements create a plane and a path, What muscular contractions, and what bones and joints and move, and how they're designed to move?
That create the shape of the golf swing and move the golf club and put us into optimum positions for impact to be powerful, efficient, and safe on our joints and our muscles.
We are exclusively concerned with the facts of human anatomy as it pertains to movement in the golf swing, and how the brain was designed to learn new movement patterns.
It's very, very important.
Your brain has a very specific way that it learns, as I mentioned earlier.
Think about it this way.
When you first learned how to drive a car, the first time you got in a car, it was overwhelming to you.
It was new.
You only had two pedals and a steering wheel.
It didn't seem that complicated looking back at it now, but you weren't thrown in a race and said, okay, go around this track at a hundred miles an hour.
Try not to wreck.
Hopefully you'll figure it all out as you go along.
That's kind of what happens in golf instruction.
People are given a couple of tips and they're told to go and practice hitting full shots at full speed, but your brain doesn't learn that way.
Your brain learns nothing at a hundred miles an hour.
Your brain learns through doing very small, simple, little menial, seemingly menial tasks, doing them over and over again until they're mastered, and then you stack and add another piece on there.
It's the only way that your brain learns.
As you become more proficient as a driver, You put yourself in more challenging situations with more and more distractions as you are more proficient, and that's how you learn.
Same thing in the golf swing.
You should never go out when you're learning the golf swing and just start pounding balls.
It's completely pointless.
All you're going to do is learn improper movement patterns, and you're going to cost yourself tons and tons of time.
But of course, you already know that.
That's why you're watching this video, because you're still out there looking for tips and quick fixes for your golf swing.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way, and that is yet another fact, a fundamental of the golf swing.
Learning happens a very specific way, and you need a specific learning program and pathway to learn, just like you've learned everything else in life.
A musical, learning how to play a musical instrument, driving a car, learning how to add.
You didn't just start out with calculus.
There's a reason they started out with basic adding and subtraction with small numbers, and the golf swing is the same way.
You need to start out with small numbers before you go on to the big complicated things.
So, it's important for you to understand that we have no interest in swing theories, who's the top player of the day, personal or instructor preference based on what they've observed works on their own golf swing, or another good player at their club, or another good little mini tour player.
We couldn't care less.
We are only concerned with fundamentals, facts, medical absolutes based on science, and that is the key to developing a set of fundamentals, which the rotor swing has done, of course, based on facts.
Using experts, such as orthopedic surgeons, Who see these types of injuries that come from improper movement pathways in the golf swing all the time.
Unfortunately for them, it keeps them in business.
But for a golfer, it's pretty frustrating when you have to go and get your hip replaced, because your instructors told you, or you learned, How to push off your right foot to move your left hip at a neutral joint alignment where you can't rotate anymore.
You beat the snot out of your hip for about 50,000 repetitions, and then you wonder why your hips sore and you can't play golf anymore.
Your hip has to be a neutral joint alignment to protect it so it can rotate properly.
That's what we are here to do.
Our goal is to educate both the golf student and the golf instructor on the facts about the anatomy of the golf swing.
So that you can make an educated decision.
When a golf instructor or you read a tip or something that tells you to do a certain thing, your first question from here on out should be, why?
Why do you want me to do that?
What is that going to do to my body?
Is my body designed to work that way?
What is that?
How am I going to learn how to do that?
Is that the right thing to learn?
There should be complete objectivity, just like there is in every other sport on the planet.
Look at gymnastics.
If you watch the Olympics, how many different ways do you see people do a back handspring?
Probably none.
They all do it the exact same way because they've studied the movement and it's a complicated movement.
There's a lot of different bending, a lot of joints, a lot of muscles firing, but there's a reason that they all do it the same way because it's safe and it's efficient.
It's powerful and it's how the body is designed to create that movement pattern.
The golf swing is the same way.
There is a safe, efficient way to create movement in the golf swing that is fundamental to medical science.
Just like every other sport on the planet has moved in this direction.
So that they don't look at the golf swing as this grouping of a bucket of parts that you just find what works for you individually.
Every other sport said, look, we should all lift weights the same way.
We should all do gymnastics the same way.
And that's how the Olympics all look the same way that they do.
All the Olympians run basically the same way.
You don't see anybody running the a hundred meter dash backwards because he just thinks that that's more effective for him.
They all move the same way.
And that is where golf instruction is finally getting with the rotary swing, Putting forth the set of fundamentals based on fact for the first time in the golf instruction world, what we call the anatomical absolutes or the anatomy of the golf swing.
So in the next video, we're going to talk about the, what a fundamental really is because that's the first step.
We're breaking everything down from, from beginning to end so that rather than going on what your assumption of a fundamental is, We're going to get the actual true definition of a fundamental and look at the golf swing objectively to understand what the true fundamentals of the golf swing really are.
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