Drill for Golf Downswing Sequencing
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In this video, I'll show you where you're losing power and a simple drill that'll get it back. This drill will teach you, step-by-step, how to get that powerful downswing sequencing you see from the pros on TV.
- Use an impact bag to learn how to shift your weight first before the arms fire
- Sequence your downswing by unloading the lower half first
All right, I'm Rotary Swing Founder Chuck Quinton.
This is with Certified Instructor Chris Tyler, and today we're going to show you how to sequence all of the major muscles, all the big muscles, to generate maximum power in the golf swing with minimum effort.
And this is a really, really simple drill that's going to help you sequence all of these things correctly.
So let's take a look at it.
Chris, with this impact bag, this is going to help you kind of learn all the right things in the downswing, to do things naturally, because the golf swing should be very natural.
It's not some voodoo mystical thing of a bunch of crazy different secret tricks of the trade.
It's not like that at all.
It's actually very similar to how you do anything naturally in life when it comes to throwing motions, using your big muscles, those types of things.
But what I want to show you first, and Chris is going to demonstrate, is what we see so often how things are done incorrectly in the golf swing, and that's going to help you understand how we don't want to do it first.
Once we understand how not to do it, we're going to be able to show you exactly how to do it.
Chris, I'll actually demonstrate it first.
I'm going to throw it to you this way so they can see how to look for a right-handed golfer.
And so what we see all of the time is, you know, a lot of times golfers just don't know how to sequence things.
The golf club's really light.
The golf ball's really light, and you can just kind of fling the club at it.
It doesn't really help.
So we take something kind of heavy.
My impact bag probably weighs five or ten pounds here.
And when somebody takes this, they should instinctively try to use the big muscles to move it, because it's not going to be able to move it very fast if I don't.
But we still see people do it wrong all the time.
And I'm going to show you what that looks like.
So to do it wrong, a lot of times what people will do is they'll kind of take their arms back, kind of move them across their body, and they'll kind of do this.
Now clearly I didn't generate a lot of power there, right? So what I did is I tried to use my arms and shoulders, which if that's how you're used to swinging the golf club, obviously not going to generate a lot of power.
But that's a really common thing that we see all the time, is they just try to use their upper body, their shoulders, kind of swinging from the rectangle, and just kind of heave it with their arms.
So not going to generate a lot of power.
So Chris, I don't know if you can show me from a left-handed perspective, but show a couple of the things that you typically see.
All right, so not a good backswing there, right? Just kind of went back like this and just heaved it with his arms.
And again, not a lot of power.
Another thing that will really help you with is understanding how to take the club back.
Because what we see a lot of times is this reverse pivot and this the hip sliding out this way.
And so we talk about that laser beam, the knee not going out that way.
And so when you take an impact bag, that doesn't really make any sense.
Because I would never take an impact bag and throw it like this.
That wouldn't really make any sense.
So when you start learning how to move correctly, like we cover in the five minutes to master rotation drill, and we start getting this thing to move with our big muscles in our body, Then we can start to sequence the downswing correctly, like we cover in how to have a lower body work.
So now I'm going to put this together the right way.
So I'm going to load up this way.
Not this way, it's not going to make any sense.
So now I'm going to use my body to move this because it's heavy.
I'm loading up on my right glute.
Again, another video that's covered how to load the right glute in the backswing.
And then I'm going to use my big muscles to move my torso and arms.
It's going to start with my little weight shift to the left.
I'm going to use my hips to start it.
And then I'm going to release everything as I come through.
And let's see if I can get any more power.
I'm going to try and knock Chris through this wall.
So now I'm going to go back there.
And now you can see that I stayed in my posture, released it, kept my arms here.
But the big thing is how I powered the downswing.
I sequenced it with getting everything to rotate with my body first.
I always kind of describe the lower body movement in the downswing as kind of like a big dump truck.
It's kind of got to get all the smaller parts moving first and do a lot of heavy lifting.
But it's not moving very fast, but it's critical to get everything moving in the right sequence.
Because if I try and sequence it with all my fast muscles, that's kind of what we demonstrated earlier, my arms and shoulders, I burn those out too soon.
I don't have any power left by the time I get to impact.
So what I want to do is use all these big muscles to get everything started and then release everything at the bottom.
And so again, those are covered in lots of other videos on the website.
The big one again, how to load the right glute in the backswing.
Once you feel that this again is not going to feel right.
And if you take an impact bag, this isn't going to feel right to do this.
From there, How the lower body works is going to show you that you've got to lead everything with your lower body.
But just using an impact bag, or have a medicine ball here, we can do the same thing with the medicine ball.
So this is pretty heavy.
This is a 10 pound medicine ball, but you don't need to swing it very hard.
Just load up, feel a stable lower body, and then use your big muscles to get everything to go through first.
So again, what we don't want to do this, if you see your upper body way ahead of your lower body, and we see this all the time, there's clearly no power in there.
So you want to really use your lower body to get everything started, get the dump truck moving first to get all the little pieces being driven by the lower body.
And then you'll have tremendous amount of speed and power to release at the bottom at the last point when it matters, which is at impact.
So work on these drills, get your lower body moving first with an impact bag, Something heavy that's just going to get your big muscles firing and learn how to sequence the downswing properly, once and for all.
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