Core Rotation - Left Arm - Club - RSA

This is a demonstration video for the new RotarySwing Academy video golf instruction series. This series will literally guide you through learning the RotarySwing step by step in the shortest time possible. You simply have to do little more than follow along with me as I do the drills that will turn you into a ball striking machine! This is the original RSA follow along video and it was a HUGE hit! The reason? It covers the 3 main things that ALL amateur golfers struggle with. Learning how to power the swing with your trunk instead of your arms, how to integrate your left arm into that movement, and combining the club and left arm together in one perfect golf swing. If you struggle with over the top, too much hit from the top, losing lag, no power and sequencing the swing, this one program will help you make HUGE strides in your swing.

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all right guys let's get started so we're gonna start with setup make sure that you're set up correctly of course if you're not go back and watch the setup videos there's tons of videos on how to get you set up perfectly but you're gonna notice I have axis tilt little hip bump to the left and I'm gonna start with my arms across my shoulders and the first thing I want you to do is focus on shifting to the right while pulling that right shoulder behind your head so this is going to look like this weight shift right shoulder back okay we're gonna do this ten times to get us started out here and as you're looking at yourself in the mirror when you're doing this I want you to see that you've got a little bit of axis tilt and you're starting to be able to see this right shoulder blade behind your head some of you are gonna say hey I'm not flexible enough to do that yes you are if you're not making a full turn it's probably because you're pushing from the left side pull your right shoulder back turn from your obliques you want to feel it in here like you're gonna turn and talk to somebody behind you turn and then if this is as far as you can turn your shoulders that's perfectly okay let your hip rotate the rest of the way to make a full shoulder turn everybody's gonna make a full shoulder turn back here we're gonna get a few more reps in here you should be feeling it in your right glute and you should be feeling it in your rib cage now as you're doing this you're gonna start to feel a little bit of a workout which is good right now because these are muscles you probably haven't focused on using if you just used your arms to swing you around so I want you to start feeling some compression in your rib cage as you use these muscles to help you turn okay so now we've done about 10 or 10 or 12 reps we're gonna focus on a couple feelings here go to the top stop and I want you to feel like you sit down into your right leg a little bit I'm gonna turn sideways so you can see what I'm doing turn notice that my shoulders are tilted matching my spine angle and sit just a little bit increase the knee flex for those of you that do this and stand up going back this is gonna feel really different I'm gonna keep doing our reps here turn back sit and what I'm trying to get you to feel as you hold this is your right glute activating come out of it turn back chest is facing the mirror sit down a little bit and I want you to keep doing this and hold it and I want you to start training your brain to feel this right glute activation as you go to the top of your backswing this is a slight exaggeration you don't need this much knee flex but this is gonna get you feeling what it feels like to make a proper loaded up turn come back face on so you can see we're still doing here we've got about 20 25 reps in now or so squat into it just a little bit now you're gonna start feeling that right leg really coming to life all right come out of it for a second take a breather move your hips around a little bit if you need to stretch it out a little bit that's okay loosen up let's get right back into it and focus on what your feelings we're trying to feel that right glute activate as we go back while feeling our obliques helping us turn here all right so by now you should be starting to warm up a little bit you should be feeling you may even be feeling you're starting to your blood pressures increasing a little bit you're starting to sweat a little bit it's a little bit of a workout and that's a good thing we're gonna get you moving around keep you active while helping you master the swing make sure that as you're doing this every time you can see that right shoulder blade in the mirror behind you okay and give you a little trick here go to the top hold it contract every muscle as tight as you can in your body relax and exhale and notice how much further you can turn you've got to be relaxed when you're doing this make sure that you're breathing and staying relaxed even when you're trying to feel that right glute as you squat into it a little bit it shouldn't be a crazy hard workout you're just trying to feel it activate okay so we're getting up there in reps now we're going to keep going notice that as I'm doing this my left knee is being brought in but I'm not kicking my left knee and it's not moving actively it's because as I turn and shift my weight to the right and let my hips turn which you've got to do to help you make a full shoulder turn the left knee just gets brought in but the spacing between my knees keep doing these reps with me the spacing between my knees doesn't really change because my right knee is also moving back a little bit while the left knee moves forward so keep doing your reps you'll notice watch my right knee it's going to move back slightly the left knee is going to move forward slightly so as you're doing this your knees because your hips are pivoting on an inclined plane you see my hip line is like this that's what's moving my knee forward a lot of golfers really want to kick that knee in that's where you want to stuff a rotary connect in between your knees and get that used to that feeling of not having your knee kick in so keep getting your reps in here we should start to really feel our obliques working now maybe working up a little bit of a sweat right hip loaded up here still getting those good quality reps in one more all right take a breather so your brain should be really having to focus on what you're doing right now and feeling that right glute and your obliques you may be thinking your right shoulder shoulder blade we want to feel those things as we're doing these reps so you really need to be concentrating on what you're doing there's no point to sitting here and doing a bunch of reps really quick it doesn't do you any good at all doesn't do any more good than just sitting there and watching a video you've got to get up and really feel what it is you're doing so we've gotten quite a few reps in so far we're getting to the point where our brain is going to start having to pay attention to what we're asking it to do which is the job of what we're trying to accomplish here we want our brain to start to master these movements and start building in the repetition building in the myelin in our neural pathways to help us memorize these movement patterns because it's really simple movement patterns right we're all we're doing is setting up correctly and turning getting that right shoulder back weight to the right leg maintaining our axis tilt left shoulders going down matching our spine angle that's it you do this and you're gonna have a perfect backswing it's this simple all of the movement in the backswing is this it's emanating from here if you're doing anything extra from this it's just excess wasted movement that's making the move much more complicated than it really needs to be so this is what you're really trying to feel now we're gonna add a little complication to it if you're not doing this movement perfectly getting your weight over here having your member your necktie drill that the tie hanging off your chest here having your axis tilt if you're not doing this right yet keep working on it and doing it in the mirror until you've got it perfect don't add the next little complicated piece in here so what I'm gonna do for those of you are ready though is I'm gonna add that left arm in here just a little bit so I want you to do is go to set up let your left arm hang down nice and straight it's gonna be just on the inside of your thigh and as you go back let it swing up to the top now notice my movement is still exactly the same right shoulder back weight to the right leg that is what's creating this movement of my arm not me swinging my arm so you still all of a sudden do this okay I can't make a full shoulder turn anymore because you're not focusing on turning the whole point of this exercise is to teach you to rotate and move the golf club with your body so we're just gonna add just the left arm swinging up and as you start to do this with a little bit of pace it'll help give you some more momentum to swing that left arm up there so your left arm should still be nice and relaxed the top nice and straight still focusing on shifting Wow turning your body with your obliques this is the movement all of the movements happening from the inside out your arms are just moving in response to your lower body and or your core your center now if I go it from down the line you can see my arm just above my shoulders here that's a great spot to be my hand is right over my right shoulder you can be a little lower we can be a little higher that's a variable in rotary swing but the body movements aren't these are foundational movements being able to shift to the right turn my chest turn my rib cage facing the mirror I'll swing of my arm up this is what's getting us into a perfect position at the top now notice that my left shoulder isn't buried up here against my chin because I didn't move my arm from my left shoulder very much at all my arm is being moved by this core body movement that we're focusing on keep getting your reps in here now we should be close to a hundred if not more I'm getting these reps in shifting to the weight you're shifting to the right and moving our arm to the top with our body turn now we're gonna add one more complication to it if you're still up for it and you feel like you're doing these movements really well and you're progressing quickly through these gonna add a golf club in there same thing left arm only turn and shift let the left arm swing to the top now you're gonna feel that this may be kind of heavy up here that's okay that's what the right arm's job is is to help support the left arm and the club at the top so if this feels a little heavy don't worry about it your job is not to worry about getting the club perfect at the top your job is to turn your body shift to the right maintain your axis tilt while rotating everything's happening from the inside out and then just get the club up to the top use your body rotation and weight shift to create enough momentum to help you swing the club to the top so now just by doing just getting set up correctly shifting turning letting arm swing starting to look like a golfer right you should be looking exactly like this in the mirror and this is what it looks like to be swinging like a tour pro it's very easy when you focus on the core movements that are creating these positions that we find desirable at the top of the swing so you'll notice the top arm my right arm still out of the equation checking myself in the mirror my hands just above my shoulder weights on my right hip still got my axis tilt my neck chai drill left arms nice and relaxed focusing on turning to move the club not swinging the club my arm is trying to stay relaxed it's gonna have to be a little tense because we don't have the right arm up there to help it yet so I'm really just focusing on turning it's almost like I'm dragging the club back and just leaving it there but I'm using a little bit of momentum from my turn to help swing the club up to the top these movements are what you need to be focusing on keep doing these movements with me and as you feel more comfortable taking it on your own not having to watch me do it keep doing them try to get between 200 and 300 reps in if you can get 200 or 300 reps in in a day which we've already done probably over a hundred if you can keep going for a little bit longer you're gonna start mashing this movement and in a short period of time you're gonna be set up at the top of your swing just like a tour prop