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Once you've mastered the setup, weight transfer and takeaway, it's time to progress to the top of the backswing. The RST Backswing is really a tiny move, for some it will feel like the smallest move they make, yet everyone is so concerned with their position at the top that they often ignore common mistakes on the way there. In this video, we show you how simple the movement really is to achieve a position as good as Tiger Woods at the top of the backswing. However, make sure you have mastered the takeaway before moving on to the backswing.
- Move 2 continues the pulling motion of Move 1
- Moving the shoulder blade farther back pulls the hips along for a total of 90° shoulder turn & 45° hip rotation
- Checkpoints: Right lat, right heel, right glute
- The arms' only job is Elevation, Right Elbow Flexion, Upper Arm Rotation
- The hands will cross center, but the arms remain in front of your chest
The backswing, getting all the way to the top of the swing, what exactly do we have to do in rotary swing?
Well again, we're trying to move as efficiently as humanly possible, the fewest moving parts absolutely possible to hit the ball over 300 yards in the air, but still have no stress on our body, or as little stress as humanly possible, and as few moving parts as humanly possible.
And so with the backswing, what we really focus on is the REF an acronym that I created, rotation, elevation, flexion.
We're going to rotate our body, we're going to elevate our arms at our shoulders, and flex the right arm, and this one's going to rotate a little bit, and this is the whole movement during the backswing while turning and shifting our weight.
That's it.
The movements can't get any simpler than that.
Now when you start trying to make your arms do all kinds of crazy stuff, or you start worrying about swing playing and start trying to manipulate stuff, the golf swing can seem like a never-ending black hole.
You're going to keep struggling forever because trying to manipulate what this golf club is doing is the worst way to try and swing a golf club.
You don't need to do hardly anything with your arms and hands, And to further prove that, I'm going to show you just how simple it is to get to the top of the swing with rotary swing.
So I'm going to elevate my arms, flex the right arm, and let this arm rotate.
Notice my elbow is going to rotate a little bit.
This would set the club on plane, and now if I just hinge forward, get into a setup, get some axis tilt, and just focus now.
Forget about my arms.
I couldn't care less about them.
I'm going to shift to the right while starting to pull my shoulder back and rotate from my rib cage.
Done.
All of that just instantly moved my arms to a perfect position at the top.
When you look at it from down the line, you're going to see the same thing.
I'll start standing straight up here.
I'm going to rotate back and transport my arms to the top with my body movement.
Now as I add a club into this, it's going to look the same way.
That's how easy it is to move the club to the top.
Rotation, elevation, flexion creates a perfect swing plane.
You don't have to try and do that.
Swing plane is a byproduct of moving the rest of your body correctly.
So to get to the perfect position at the top, go through the five minutes to the perfect backswing video.
It walks you through how simple and easy it is to get to a perfect top of the swing position every single time, and it's incredibly easy to learn.
It's one of the most frustrating things that most golfers struggle with, trying to get to a reasonable position at the top.
So that they have a chance and a prayer to put the club on the back of the ball properly.
But if you're in a horrible backswing position, you'll never be able to hit the ball consistently.
The reality is getting into a good backswing position is incredibly easy with RST.
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