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Step 2- Adding body rotation
Okay, so you guys are all weight shift masters now.
Shifting our weight, we've got these critical parts of the swing starting to fall into place for us, but now we need to add rotation.
Rotation, we're not going to do just one piece of the other, we're going to do the whole thing.
It's one compound movement back and through.
So we've got to cover a few things here.
The first thing we're going to focus on is weight shift during the backswing, or excuse me, rotation during the backswing.
So rotation during the backswing, I want you to start with your arms across your chest in your golf setups, you can have axis tilt, stance width, etc.
And now what I want you to focus on is as you shift your weight, because we've got to stack it with a drill we just worked on, shifting our weight.
As you shift your weight, I want you to take your shoulder, right shoulder blade, pull it behind your head.
Now as I've turned here, the key now is I've made a full shoulder turn, my hips are about halfway, my weight is stacked over my right foot.
Now what I want to do is the opposite of what most everybody does.
Instead of taking my body and now unwinding my shoulders, I want to first do what? Shift my weight.
That's why we just spent all the time in the last video working on it.
My goal now is to shift my weight first before anything else.
It has to happen first.
That's why we started with it in the first video of this five step series.
So first thing now, shift my weight back to the left.
Notice that it's my hips moving, not my upper body.
I'm not shifting my weight by taking my whole torso and heaving it over here.
Here I'm keeping my shoulders shut, keeping my shoulders imagining that they stay back facing away from the target, my chest face is away from the target as long as possible.
Shift my weight and then I'm going to start to post up.
Let's talk a little bit more about shifting the weight for a second.
One of the key things that we see all the time in the clinics is people doing a closed hip slide, Where, instead of starting to let their hips turn back to square during this first phase of the downswing, they shift their weight by shoving off their right leg.
What you want to do is take your left leg and move it first.
Now of course you've got to understand, as we've talked a lot about pushing versus pulling, The left side is in a great position to be able to pull in the downswing.
And keep you from having early extension, because that's really where early extension comes from.
If you have this motion at impact, the only reason you're doing that is because you're pushing too hard off the right leg.
So what we want to focus on is how do we move this left leg correctly.
The simplest way to think about this is like throwing a ball.
If you were to throw a ball, The first thing you'd do is you'd shift your weight all the way to your trailing leg.
And then the next thing you do would be you'd externally rotate your lead leg to take a step.
Now in golf, one of the things that makes it hard is that we don't get to actually take a step.
So we tend to get kind of frozen and our feet get stuck on the ground and then we get really tense.
And that's why the first drill was step drill, making you move your feet, making you lift your feet up.
Those of you who have ever been really good skiers and gone and tried snowboarding and all of a sudden your feet are strapped together and you really struggle with that, this is a big part of it.
With golf, we kind of have that same challenge.
We don't get to move our feet all over the place.
So it's really easy to get static and frozen.
So instead of lifting our feet, We still have to have that same motion of externally rotating this left knee to get it over the foot.
The same motion that you would do when throwing a ball, striding towards the catcher is the same motion you do in the golf swing.
You just don't get a step.
That's it.
The same thing happens though.
So I move my left knee over my foot and that's helping me start to transfer some weight and also beginning to unwind my hips.
Remember you've turned them about 45 degrees in the backswing.
Now as this unwind, you'll see it's moving my belt buckle and as I'm getting to transfer more weight over here, it's also unwinding my shoulders.
You don't unwind your shoulders in the downswing.
You turn them going back and then you're done.
Leave them alone.
The worst, most common fault that we see every single day is this.
People trying to power and motor their swing just by turning their upper torso.
It's an incredibly inefficient way to swing the club.
It causes you to throw the club head away.
It causes you to lose a ton of speed and distance.
It causes every single flaw under the sun.
So once you turn your shoulders back, you're done.
Now it's time to focus on shifting our weight and posting up.
And that's the next key.
This is all happening from this lead leg.
One of the big challenges of golf is that it's a lead side dominant sport in the downswing, and everybody's playing golf right-handed.
And it's primarily controlled by the left side of the body.
That's one of the biggest challenges.
So we've got to learn to use this side to help move us back over.
And once we're here, The key to really get speed and release the speed in the release in the golf swing is to post up with that left leg.
And by posting up, we mean pushing it into the ground for power and stability.
And as I push up, it's going to move my body up, which is going to do what to the club? It's going to move it down.
If you remember my video on which direction you should move, you should always move in the opposite direction the club's going.
So as the club you're trying to make it go down forcefully, you want to go up with your body to help release the club down.
That's again, all done by this lead leg.
So let's go through this again.
Turn, done.
My upper body's done.
It can take a nap.
I should be relaxed.
I can sit here and chill out for a little bit.
I'm going to shift my weight with the lead side.
My right side is just here for stability right now.
Left side, post up.
Now let's look at this from down the line.
When I start down, I'm going to try to keep my chest pointing at you as long as possible.
So to do that, I have to move from the left side.
And as I do that, notice I'm still starting to unwind, but I'm trying to keep my chest back here.
And as I post up and move my left hip back this way, up and back, because the club's going down and out, I'm going this way.
And that moves my shoulders back to square at impact, which is where they're supposed to be.
So again, once I do this, I'm done.
Shoulders are turned.
I'm then turning my hips.
So you think about it as this whole phase is turning my shoulders back, turning my hips through with weight shift.
Of course, if you can put those compound movements together, everything in the swing is predicated by this.
This is the most important fundamental that you're going to learn.
If you can shift your weight and rotate correctly, the rest of it is just details.
It's super easy to get right.
If you're set up correctly, you got the right angles and you're not firing from the wrong places.
Golf's not that hard.
If you're set up incorrectly with no axis tilt and firing from the wrong places, golf is really stinking hard.
So this and this will get you into a tour quality impact position every time.
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