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You need to start your downswing before completing your backswing. This pro-style transition is a key for consistency and distance. The drill in this video increased my club head speed from 113 mph to as high as 127 mph, all in about 10 minutes!
- Weight Begins to Shift Left As You Are Still Swinging Back With Arms
- Start With Feet Together
- Step Forward As You Are Swinging Back
- Drive Lead Ankle Into Ground
- Swing Through to Finish
When it comes to having a powerful and efficient golf swing, it's really important that we start dynamically loading these muscle fibers that we're recruiting to build club head speed.
When we look at the downswing and really the transition of the golf swing, when the club is transitioning from going this way, going back, to going this way, coming down, really what we're trying to do is start moving back toward the target before the club finishes the backswing.
It's because of this dynamic timing of the swing, and it's something that most amateur golfers never, ever feel right.
And they try to manipulate and create this goofy movement.
Where like, okay I know I'm supposed to start the downswing before my club finishes going back, so they kind of do this kind of stuff and try to time it incorrectly.
You can't manipulate that kind of stuff, it's not going to work very well.
So what I want you to do is have a better visual picture in your head of what this movement is.
Before we get into the specifics of how we're going to do it in the golf swing.
Think about it this way.
If you were going to throw a ball, you'd be really good at this already.
You've done this before to where as you started going back, you're shifting your weight, your arms starting to kind of glide back, and then as you start to shift forward, notice that as I'm doing this, I'm taking that step, what's my arm doing?
It's actually loading this way.
You instinctively know how to do this.
If you've ever thrown anything, What you're doing is you're stretching these muscles, using the stretch shortening cycle to load these muscles more powerfully, dynamically by getting them to stretch further, which is what we want to do in the golf swing.
So as I start to step forward, that's when my arms actually going back.
So as I'm doing this, now my chest is really stretched, and as I start to wind forward, it's got this extra stretch in it that's going to produce a lot of speed, but it's free speed.
It's effortless speed because all I'm doing is taking advantage of the stretch shortening cycle, where the muscle fiber stretches and then it wants to spring back into position.
You want to take advantage of that because your body does this for you.
It's in your DNA that when you stretch a muscle really quickly, all of a sudden it wants to spring back really quickly.
Another way of thinking about this is jumping.
When you, if you were going to jump up and touch something as high as you could, you wouldn't go down, stop, hang out here for a second, chill out, think about it, and then try to jump up there.
How would you jump?
You'd go down dynamically and spring back up.
You'd do it very quickly.
The same is true in the swing.
You're taking advantage of the stretch shortening cycle in your muscles, and you need to do that in the golf swing.
The problem is in the golf swing, instead of focusing on moving our core, which is where this stretch shortening cycle needs to happen, so many golfers focus on moving just from their arms and hands and they never get this movement right.
So I'm going to set the club down.
I'm going to focus on doing it without the club and start moving my body correctly.
So now as I'm moving back this way, I'm focusing really not on the club but on my torso rotation.
As my torso is turning this way, my body is going to start shifting the weight back the other way.
So as I'm doing this, I'm getting that little extra load in my core, in my obliques.
That's where we want this to happen.
But what you see visually is the club, because this movement isn't really that big.
It's a small little stretch, but it really helps speed up the rotation, which helps speed up the club.
But because it's such a small movement, you notice more of what's happening with the club.
In a better player swing, the club's going back, back, back, back.
But what's really happening is it's all happening from down here.
That's what's making the club change directions and make the swing get narrower coming down.
So if you looked at my wide narrow wide swing video, you know that we're going to be wide going back and narrow coming down.
And this movement is created dynamically by my trunk, not by me going back with my arms and then trying to change direction with my arms and hands.
My hands and arms direction gets changed by this movement of my trunk.
So as I got the club going back, my movement while the clubs, while I'm still turning going back, I'm going to start shifting coming down.
And that's what allows you to create this dynamic stretch in your body and create a tremendous amount of speed with no effort at all.
Because as these muscles get stretched, the first thing they want to do is snap back and that's going to speed up everything coming down.
So again, learn everything in the golf swing and rotary swing from the inside out.
It's much easier and much faster.
So take your arms and club out of it, shift back, and now as you're rotating your torso, go really slow at first.
Rotate, rotate, rotate, and then try and shift your weight while your shoulders are still going back the other way.
Rotating back, shift, and now that's you're going to feel this stretch in your obliques and your core, maybe for the first time ever.
You're going to start feeling this power that's available in your swing and you're going to start feeling a lot more muscle recruitment.
And then all of a sudden you're going to be less concerned about what's going on back here with your arms and clubs.
Stop worrying about that stuff so much.
Get your big muscle movements muscle working correctly first, and then you're going to start feeling all of a sudden.
You've got a lot more power from a lot bigger muscles in your swing.
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