Checkpoints - 5 Minutes Backswing
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If you who have already watched the complete 5 Minutes to the Perfect Backswing video, this is a great practice tool which accompanies that video. Creating the proper backswing positions will allow you to hit the ball dead solid and bomb your drives. Watch the full length video available to Premium Members and use this video as a refresher to help your practice sessions.
- Shoulder elevation - bottom of elbows to bottom of pecs
- Right elbow pit - facing straight up
- Right elbow flexion - no more than 90°
- Forearm rotation - 45°
- Upper arm external rotation - 10-15°
- Grab left thumb in right hand - some left arm rotation is fine
- If elevation is correct, the left wrist will block the view of the right eye
- Hinge from the hips, get a little bit of knee bend, and rotate back
Today we're going to go over the checkpoints for the five minutes to the perfect backswing.
For those of you who have not already seen, the full length video for the five minutes of the perfect backswing, you need to watch that now.
So stop this tape, go back, watch the original video, That's going to walk you through step by step how to perform each move and the reasons that we're performing each move.
This is just the key checkpoints so that as you want to practice, You can have a quick video that's going to walk you through the steps and then you'll be able to practice very, very efficiently and effectively.
The first thing we need to do is have shoulder elevation or arm elevation.
We're going to elevate our arms until the bottom of our right elbow is to the bottom of our pecs.
If you don't know what your pecs are, your pecs are the muscles in your chest, the bottom of your pecs would be about right here, also pretty close to the bottom of your sternum.
So that's where my right elbow is going to be.
This elbow pit in my right arm needs to be facing straight up toward the sky.
If I start to rotate it internally, my right arm is going to want to bend away from my body.
So I'm going to keep this right elbow pit straight up toward the sky.
Now I'm going to flex my right arm 90 degrees, no more than 90 degrees.
If I over flex my right arm, my left arm is going to be forced to bend in the backswing.
So we don't want any more than 90 degrees of flexion.
That's 90 degrees from the shoulder to the elbow to the wrist.
So this would be the right amount of flexion in the right arm.
From here, we want to rotate this hand or this forearm.
It's going to rotate externally about 45 degrees.
So as I bend, it's going to look something like this where my hand would not be straight up and down this way.
It's going to externally rotate about 45 degrees.
That's what's going to set the club on the plane.
The left arm is also going to do this, we're not going to worry about the left arm right now.
But as it goes back, the rotation of these forearms, these wrists, is what's going to set the club perfectly on plane.
The last key is to feel like you externally rotate your upper arm so that this is going to be rotated this way, moving this arm out about 10 or 15 degrees.
That's all we need.
That's going to have this forearm almost vertical in the backswing, but it's going to keep everything nice and in front of the body.
Now that we have the right arm in good position, we're going to add the left arm.
The left arm we simply want to keep straight.
Just go ahead and grab your thumb on your left arm, pull it up.
This elbow is going to rotate inward a little bit.
That's okay.
If I try to keep this elbow pit up toward the sky, it's going to be very difficult to get across my body, so you can go ahead and rotate this inward just like I talked about setting the club on plane.
It's going to rotate a little bit this way, And you'll notice that my right eye is a little bit blocked from the view of the camera because of my left wrist.
That's how we know we have enough elevation or we have enough arm lift in front of our body.
Your right eye needs to be slightly blocked if you're looking in front of you.
The left wrist stays nice and flat.
These are the checkpoints that we're going to go through in the five minutes of perfect backswing.
Work on those in the mirror, slow motion, and then slowly add the club as you start to practice more and more.
I'm going to go ahead and get a club and go through these same movements.
My elbow pit of my right arm is up.
The elbow here is about the bottom of my pec.
The hands have rotated externally a little bit.
My left wrist is flat, and it's about even with my right eye.
So I've done everything pretty well here.
This club is going to be perfectly on plane.
From here, we're just going to bend from the hips forward.
I'm going to bend from my hips forward, get a little bit of knee bend, and then all I'm doing is rotating back to the top of the swing.
You'll notice that my arms are staying in front of my chest, and as I rotate back I'm not getting my arms to drape across my body and go inside, so I'm not changing the relationship between my arms and my body as I rotate.
Get a little bit of hip flex, or let the hips drop back, a little bit of knee bend, rotate your torso.
That's going to set you on a great position at the top of the swing.
As you add some speed, It's going to carry you around that extra 10 or 15 degrees that you're not going to get when you're doing slow motion drills.
So work through these checkpoints, I know it'll help you with your back swing.
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