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Winter is the BEST time to make improvements to your golf swing! It's critical that you practice far more with a mirror AWAY from hitting balls than anything else. You'll make faster improvements and bigger strides than you ever will pounding balls on the range!
- Practicing indoors is the fastest way to improve
- You should NOT be hitting balls when you first start working on a new movement
- Winter is the BEST time to work on your golf swing!
hey guys Chuck Quinton here I just want to go over how to put these drills together and how to take them to the course because it's one of the biggest questions that we get all the time and I want to show you in real world applique what it looks like and I'm going to walk you through some different things that I emphasize when I'm working with students so I'm going to start with a swing on the left here because we're working on some things that are core and fundamental to just about every single golfer that we see so for those of you who are RSA members you'll kind of recognize this as the whole kit and caboodle drill this is kind of putting everything together in one full swing but just doing it left arm only so as we go back the key things that we're focusing on here are the core body movement so one of the really big emphasis that I place on the takeaway is if that club head moving it's because the buttons on your shirt or in this case zipper are turning otherwise that club does not move and what I'm trying to emphasize here is creating early rotation so that your body turn it's controlling the movement of the club not your arms and hands so you can see here she does a great job as that club's moving her zipper is turning away from the target and already at this point she's made a 20 or 20 degree turn or so and we see all the time where that left arm is just crushed across the chest and the zippers or buttons on the shirt haven't moved at all so this is great she's really focusing on rotating her body and right now because this is all brand new to her she's having to really really concentrate on these two things turning her rib cage turning her buttons away from the shirt or excuse me away from the target many of you may be focusing on pulling that right shoulder blade back here I describe this movement a lot of different ways sometimes I like to just tell people turn like you're going to talk to me and I'll stand over here behind them and turn your rib cage so that it's a natural movement rather than making it so complicated so now you can see at this point she started to shift her weight to her right and made a great big shoulder turn this is absolutely picture perfect spot on we put her right arm on down on here this would look as good as any tour pro on the planet so she's done a really really good job of focusing on that rotation her job of turning is not over yet notice she's still turning still turning still turning here she's already made a 90 degree shoulder turn when that left arm is just past parallel to the ground again perfect this is what we're looking for you have to rotate your rib cage to get that club moving correctly and staying in the correct sequence if you just start swinging your arms and hands or set your wrists or rotate your wrists so early like everybody tends to want to do the entire sequence of the golf swing is devastated so if you focus on just turning your body and shifting your weight all these wonderful things are going to happen now the only critique I'd have here she's lost a little bit of axis tilt her hips have slid just a hair to the right too much and that's caused her lower part of her spine her and her pelvis to slide to the right which causes the upper part to tilt to the target but now all in all lots and lots of great things to take away from here huge shoulder turn great weight shift she's minimized her hip turn everything here is fantastic and you'll notice here we're working on down cocking we need some more lag need some more power in her swing as well so we're putting this together making her focus on softening her wrists while she shifts back to the left so you can see her hips her legs starting to shift back to the left and now she's got massive amounts of lag for days which of course when she had her right hand on there she was throwing the club away very early in the swing like again so many of us want to do so taking that right hand off and just focusing on these last three fingers doing a little bit of a pulling motion while your lower body shifts back to the left you've got sergio garcia -esque lag easy peasy so tons and tons of lag notice how strong that left leg is getting posted up on here it's in neutral joint alignment moving strong that's not my best effort at a straight line as you can imagine let's try this guy straight up from the center of the ankle center of the hip socket still got tons of lag she comes into impact we need a little bit more forearm rotation and of course those of you who've attended the clinic know that she owes me a hundred bucks for that right ankle coming up but we're not gonna we're not gonna harp on that one so a little bit of forearm rotation would square this club face up and just continue the release but the big things that we're emphasizing here are what I want to talk about for most golfers is during that initial move during the takeaway getting your upper body to turn if that club's moving it's because the buttons on your shirt are moving and once we do this and we did this for about 20 or 30 minutes just doing these drills I had the mirror here as you can see I had it flipped around so she could see it and then I moved out of the way so I could film a couple times so I could play it back for her and then keep making little changes this is how you learn you learn in front of the mirror so as I'm sitting at my house now in Colorado watching it snow outside I can still work on my golf swing it doesn't matter that snowing outside in fact it's more important that you do more of your work inside during this time of year than anything else you're going to make far better progress doing these drills inside in front of a mirror than you ever will outside hitting balls I promise you so after 20 or 30 minutes of doing these drills so that really starting to get ingrained we start going back and adding that right arm on there now for most of us this is a huge troublemaker and it's going to create a little bit of issues here but for the most part you'll notice that I've really emphasized having her hand very light on the club in fact her right forefinger's not even wrapped around it I'm wanting her to feel exactly what she felt over here when her right hand wasn't on the club at all and you'll notice she's done a great job during the takeaway looking very similar to what she did when her right arm wasn't on there it's just about identical put the club at about the same spot and you'll notice she's still made this great big shoulder turn her chest is starting to face away from the target she hasn't overturned her hip she's starting to shift to the right all these things look awesome and so we know that these things are starting to set in from the drill she's still focusing on turning turning turning turning huge turn huge turn absolutely beautiful at the top and this is all done in a short period of time because we spent the vast majority of our time not on this side hitting balls but on this side in front of the mirror doing drills and as soon as we put all this stuff together she's still able to down cock notice how light her right hand is her fingers are barely touching the club and now notice this beautiful down cock tons of lag as she starts to shift her hips back to the left coming down getting posted up right hand still barely doing anything on the club now notice she's still got plenty of lag at this point in the swing so many of us have the club already down here because we're pushing so hard with that right wrist right immediately at the top of the swing and that kills our entire golf swing you take that right arm off you keep drilling and drilling and drilling I know it's frustrating I know it's hard to train that right hemisphere of your brain to use that left hand but you've got to do it to achieve all these wonderful positions you see getting down into impact right hand obviously barely on the club here at all a couple little things we would tweak here in the left arm at impact but this was awesome work in such a short period of time and she gets into a nice release position good extension good post up there right arms not dominating not causing her to chicken wing all these things are built on this side of the practice not where you're hitting balls so this winter focus on my winter golf series training program it gives you all these same core fundamentals for those of you that are in the RSA really key in on going through the whole thing in sequence of go through all the clinic videos and look at all the drills that we did in the kit and caboodle video because that's going to show you how to achieve all these great positions conditions and you can do it this winter and make huge changes and be ready for next season
Lars
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Lars
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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