Sam Snead Power Squat
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Learn how Sam Snead, Tiger Woods, Rickie Fowler, Jamie Sadlowski and countless others use this incredibly unique power move to build power in the golf swing.
all right you guys know weight shift is really really important to me but one of the things that I really pride myself on is not just telling you what to do but telling you exactly how to do it and in today's video I'm going to talk about how to shift your weight correctly from the right side this is pretty advanced level stuff so if you're still working on just the weight shift drills and learning how to do the sweep drills and sequencing things don't worry about this stuff come to this later but for the better golfers out there who still struggle with losing their posture this video is going to be a life-changer because it's going to be something you've probably never heard before maybe never hear it again but it's counterintuitive to how you think you should lift shift your weight and it's going to be something that will provide way more stability in your golf swing one of the things you're really trying to do in the swing is preserve angles right we need certain angles in the swing to allow the club to bottom out in the same place the same way consistently every single time now what so many golfers do when they try to shift their weight is they push off this right side and they lose their spine angle or lose the tush line as you do this what happens to this angle that I've created is it's changed right my pelvis moves into the target line which means my spine angle straightens up as my spine angle straightens up that changes the path and plane that the club is traveling on it's devastating so as I start losing my posture everything in my swing is now going to be reliant on my hand-eye coordination to see how well I can put all of this stuff back together in the next tenth of a second odds are it's not going to pan out so what we want to do is obviously maintain these angles because then everything's really consistent it's really simple it's stabilized and the swing is a heck of a lot easier but if you can't get the idea of shifting from the left side and you keep pushing off this right leg losing your posture and moving your knee into the left this is going to be something that's going to change the way you think about the swing now bear with me it's a little complicated at first but as you start working through this and feeling it you're going to feel something completely different in your swing so in most tour pro swings you don't see this right knee kicking in there yeah some guys you do some you don't the really good ball strikers I want you to think about even Sam Snead Sam Snead actually did this move that I'm going to talk about Hogan did it Tiger did it when he was really good what they do with their right leg is the opposite of what most golfers do and that is instead of taking this right knee and internally rotating this leg so that the knee goes toward the left foot they rotate it in the opposite direction bear with me no it's gonna sound crazy at first so as they start down they have the sensation that they're actually doing this with their leg now their foot's not actually moving obviously right but as they're coming down instead of pushing this way they stabilize and almost have the sensation that their right knee is externally rotating it doesn't move but they're creating that torque and that sense of stability on this leg instead of kicking it in and destabilizing and changing the angle of the pelvis as you feel like you're twisting your right leg this way and the left leg is moving this way you create the look of the classic Sam Snead squat that's where that move came from was Sam realized that if he stabilized his lower body while moving from this left side instead of pushing his right leg in he have way more control over what's going to happen in the hitting area because when you do this you're changing all of these angles he didn't want to do that so he realized I want to stabilize and actually almost feel like I increase the spacing between my knees which is again the exact opposite of what most golfers do they crunch that right knee in and clang the symbols together the old there's a golf instructor used to teach that stuff so instead what you want to feel is that that leg is going this way now I'm exaggerating this because I'm literally trying to move my foot so that it's obvious to see but it's a much more subtle move I'm doing it now and now I have a right a really nice wide stable base and ready to then produce a lot of power here and that's what creates the look that you see in all great ball strikers that their right heel moves in this way and all crappy golfers and high handicaps their right heel looks like it goes this way you'll see that I want you to pay attention to it now the golfers who are really really super iron players great ball strikers will have the look that their right heel moves in this way and the only way you can create that is by having a little external rotation from your leg now again really advanced stuff but if you're really struggling to keep your tush line and stop losing your spine angle moving your hip into the ball as you do this you'll notice that my angle if anything it increases instead of decreases which is again a powerful move that's going to allow me to have a really stable base at the bottom so again this is only for advanced golfers who are working on trying to stop losing that spine angle as you work on this drill it's going to feel a little strange at first it'll work on it really really slowly but you'll see that as soon as you start getting this move you'll start maintaining your spine angle maintaining your tush line and you'll have no more problems changing all the angles at the bottom
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