Flagpole Concept - Losing Your Balance
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Stop losing your balance in your golf swing by understanding the concept of force of movement and leverage.
if you ever tend to lose your balance in the swing typically it's what we call is a problem from the force of movement or where your movement is coming from at the top of the downswing so when you tend to fall over if you've seen this guy at the range we've seen this a lot right you go to the top of the swing and then they're like what's happening there is that the golfer is taking all of their force of movement making it come from the top when in reality you need your force of movement especially during the transition from the backswing to the downswing to come from your lower body your core we've all heard this concept of you should swing from the ground up but what does that mean exactly well I'm gonna tell you imagine a flagpole so we're gonna use my golf shaft here as a flagpole imagine a flag hanging off the top here and as that flags whipping around in the wind the flagpole even though it may be made out of steel or something heavy metal it can start to whip around because the flag if it's a big enough flag is causing the flagpole to whip around because it's got a lot of leverage on it if you took that same flag and moved it all the way down to the bottom of the shaft or bottom of the pole and then still had the wind whipping around there would be way less leverage on the flag to move the flagpole around and that's because there's just less leverage right again think of like a crowbar if you're trying to pry something open if your pry bar is very very short and you're trying to pry something open you don't have near the amount of leverage as if you have a long crowbar trying to pry something open that's why all of our golf clubs have a little bit of length to them they're not three inches long well when it comes to leverage that applies to everything in life and including your golf swing when people swing from the top their force of movements from the top like this flagpole idea and they go to the top and they use their arms and hands and shoulders in a futile effort to try and produce a lot of speed early on what happens is they're taking a lot of leverage against their body and so their hips no longer work properly in the swing to try and shift their weight and rotate their hips instead try to stabilize to keep them from falling on their face so when you start swinging from the top that's what's happening you're creating a lot of love you have a lot of leverage and your body then tries to stop to keep you from falling over of course what you want to do is as you get to the top of the swing your first move is shifting your weight getting into that squat move and beginning to rotate your hips now because my arms and hands are relatively passive during this phase the swing there's very little leverage in my swing in terms of pulling the club out towards this way towards the ball which is what's causing you to want to fall over that way so if you're losing your balance focus on shifting your weight from the swinging from your core shifting your weight and using your hips to bring the club down if I try to leave my arms up here as long as I can and I just do nothing but shift my weight and rotate my hips look how low my hands are already and now I've got all this leverage to then release into the ball so if you're losing your balance think of a flagpole start using swinging from the ground up
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