In this video, Harry Shaw reveals the downswing trigger that unlocks effortless speed and power, without rushing or forcing the swing. Most golfers force the arms down or spin the body too soon, losing sequence and consistency. Harry shows you what lets the club shallow naturally, and delivers distance with less effort.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Amateurs VS Pro’s
04:49 Drill 1 For Backswing
06:59 Drill 2 For Backswing
08:29 Using The Club
10:47 The Downswing
14:30 The Full Swing
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Imagine starting your down swing with the perfect move. Your body sequences naturally. The club shallows into the slot and you feel like you’re barely swinging the club, yet the ball is traveling an incredible distance. That’s the dream. Effortless power every time. Now, most golfers feel like they rush the down swing or get disconnected. Maybe the arms pull down too fast. Your body tends to spin out the way. You’re left feeling like you’re fighting your swing and never quite finding that smooth, powerful motion. So, in this video, I’m going to show you the down swing trigger that changes everything. It’s a simple move you can use to allow timing and speed to fall into place. Whether you’re a beginner golfer or seasoned professional, this could be the missing link to your golf swing to gain that effortless distance you have been looking for. Now, for those of you who are new to the channel and this is one of your first videos of mine, welcome. I’m Harry, a golf teacher professional, posting content like this every single week to help you lower your score. to consider clicking that subscribe button as it helps me produce more content like this every single week. Now, if we take a look at two of those swings that I started off with, one from before and after, you’ll notice either side of the screen here on the side on view at how different these two golf swings look and how different the distance total is. You can see here 220 yards compared to 313 yards is a huge gain in distance. The question is how were we able to do this? And it’s all to do with how the body works in the golf swing, but also what the arms do as soon as we get that transition and how we can fix that and get the right trigger in the golf swing. Just a quick heads up, if you want to build the mobility and rotational power that this move requires, check out Ageless Golf Fitness. Their programs are designed specifically for recreational golfers, and they help you move better without becoming obsessed with hitting the gym. These programs have worked for other golfers and they might be exactly what unlocks the effortless speed in your golf swing. So when we dive into the before video, what we tend to see so many golfers do in simple terms, you’ll notice as they make their way into the back swing, just from taking a look from this side on view over to your left hand side of the screen here, is that their back swings become very narrow. they become very narrow with their back swing simply because they’re not allowing the body to freely rotate into the back swing. Now, there’s a reason for this. There’s a reason why this affects the transition in the down swing. If we are going to be very narrow with the club, reduce this rotation that we should be getting as we make our way into the top of the golf swing, what do you think that’s going to make most golfers do? They’re not going to stay here, are they? They’re going to try and create room. So, the way they create this room is by getting up to the top of the golf swing and then pushing the hands out. When we push the hands out, we get this casting sensation taking place, this narrow to wide width of arc in our down swing. And that causes a couple of things to take place. Two things that we need to be aware of is this jumping sensation here which stops us from rotating during the down swing that limits the power. Think of the rotation as more or less the engine the body movement to the golf swing. And what happens after that? Well, we’ve got to try and conjure up something last minute to hit the golf ball. When we cast the club tends to open that club face. So then we’re trying to fight it last minute and we get shots going all over the place. some to the right, way off like this one you can see on the screen, and some well to the left like this one here as well. So, what do we want to be seeing in our golf swings to be able to fix this issue? Well, the trigger is all going to come from the way we rotate into the back swing, but also the way we transition and move during the down swing. For the trigger to take place naturally and get that effortless speed that we’re looking for, we’ve got to produce the opposite movement in the golf swing. So rather than going narrow to wide, we want to encourage a wider motion to narrower motion during the down swing. So that’s the difference. And we take a look at those two swings on the screen there again from the face on view. This time you can see either side the big difference in the way the rotation takes place, but more importantly the way the arms move and the way they transition and move into that down swing. So, in order for us to be able to get the club working on this wider arc in the first place, I’m going to show you two drills you can do. One that’s going to really unlock the body movement. And then the second one is really going to force your hands to push away from the body to really create that width in your back swing. So, first off, I’m just going to take this club away here, and I’m going to place my hands either side of my shoulders like this. I’m going to set up into my posture and set up ready to almost feel like I’m going to hit the golf ball from this position here. And all I’m going to do is I’m going to simply create the feeling and allow my right hip here to rotate back. So away from the golf ball and around like this here. So it feels like here that as I reach where the top of the back swing would be that my right butt cheek here is actually pointing towards the screen. So it would point towards the target when you try this at your local driving range. So hands either side. I’m getting this hip to rotate back and around and get that butt cheek to face the target. Now what you will feel is that as this motion takes place into the back swing, that’s really encouraging now your trail shoulder. So for right-handed players, the right shoulder in the back swing to start to move this way. So the right shoulder here is working ever so slightly more upwards, which is what it should be doing as we rotate into the back swing. The shoulders on this tilted angle here as opposed to lateral, but it’s also allowing you to create that feeling and sensation of really opening up this trail side of your body. So if you can’t quite feel that, that’s absolutely fine. See if you can, though. See if you can feel that stretch in this trail core area here as you make your way into the back swing. You can have your hands here, hands either side, whatever feels comfortable for you. But for me to do this, I’m feeling like that trail hip is back and around as my trail shoulder is moving up and around as well. So those two there are really encouraging me to get that huge stretch to take place in this trail side of the body. Now, once you’ve given this a try a couple of times to really feel that stretch into the trail side of your body as you make your way up to the top of the golf swing, it’s time to add in drill number two. So, for drill number two, we’re feeling this sensation, this rotation of the hip and the shoulder making our way into the back swing, but we’re just going to simply add what the arms and hands do. So, we’re going to take our arms and place them out in front with our thumbs touching one another like this here. palms facing towards the ground. Stand up with me now and give this a try. So, we’re stood up here into our posture and setup position, ready to allow that body to rotate into the golf swing. The only thing we’re adding in is the sensation of our hands pushing down and almost away from the body where we start to feel tension in our chest, our upper back, our arms as well. To do this movement, we don’t want our body to start to lower. We should feel the tension from our setup position here. As we make our way into the back swing, we’re allowing that hip to rotate back and around. Right shoulder to work upwards, but we’re just pushing down at the start and we’re continuing that push as we make our way up to the top of the golf swing. So, we’re pushing down and pushing all the way up to the top of the golf swing as we allow the hip to rotate and the shoulder to rotate into the back swing as well. Now, if you do that a couple of times, you’ll start to feel quite a bit of a strain. This is normal. It takes a bit of time to get used to this movement, and it may not be something that you’re so used to doing. So, if you do notice how much rotation and stability this move requires, don’t sleep on it. The ageless golf fitness routines are built just for that. I’ll drop a link below if you want to try this out as well as the drill. So, how should this work with the golf club? How should that back swing work with the golf club before we then start adding that trigger for the transition and down swing? So, when we set up to the driver, we’re going to set up to it as normal. The feeling still comes from this trail hip going back and around, but cheeky curve facing towards the screen as we push our hands down and away from the golf ball and away from the body into the back swing. Now, just a checkpoint for you. When you start to practice this with a golf club, with the driver in particular for this, you just want to ensure that you are allowing the driver to stay as low as possible and as far as possible away from you without moving your upper body. So, I want you to imagine there’s a line drawn on your sternum. So, in the middle of your chest here, going right down to where the middle of your stance would be. You want to allow the body to stay on that motion and rotate around it as you push those hands and arms away into that first part of the golf swing rather than allowing the body to move away from it. So, that’s a really good checkpoint that you can have there just to make sure you’re doing this movement correct with the golf club. So, we’re moving into the top of the golf swing by pushing away, rotating that hip back, and getting that trail shoulder to follow that hip into the back swing. Now, the question I get asked so many times when I have inerson lessons here at this indoor facility is that should this trail arm start to bend? The answer is yes, but it should do naturally. You shouldn’t have to try and purposely bend this trail arm as you make your way into the back swing. you will feel like you can’t physically keep this trail arm straight for much longer. So, that’s going to have to start to flex as you make your way up into the top of the back swing here. So, really feeling that sensation for the back swing. And that’s the first step to this move. So, definitely a nice hit, but I did hit that one ever so slightly out to the right. One of the reasons for that is because I’ve not added the trigger in for that transition stage for the down swing. Now, we’ve got that wider motion as you can see from the swing video here that I’ve just done, but we want to be working on that narrower motion during the down swing. So, how do we implement this? But once you get to the top of the golf swing and you’ve practiced those feels, you’ve got those feels into your golf swing, as soon as you get to the top, I want you to imagine that as you start the down swing, as you start to allow the opposite movement to take place, rather than this right hip to move back and around, the lead hip will want to start to move back and around for the down swing. Once that starts to happen, we’ve got to make sure that we are allowing that club to go closer to our right shoulder. We want to develop that feeling of getting the club to touch the right shoulder. If you can actually get the club to touch the right shoulder, I will be very impressed with you. This is just a feel, a sensation, imagining that it’s going to take place, but allows you to do this trigger right here. there. That’s the trigger where we start to lag the club. We start to generate that speed to then catapult through to the golf club. That movement there, we’re taking the club wider on the back swing. And that’s allowing us then to get that feel and sensation of transitioning into that narrower down swing. This is here, right here on the screen, is the trigger move for the down swing. When you start to practice this, however, what I want you to be careful of is the fact that you’re going to try and hold this angle. If we hold this angle through impact, that’s going to encourage the club face to stay wide open. So, to get that speed, we’ve got to release the angle through. So, we’ve generated this speed through the trigger movement as we make our way into the top of the back swing here. We just got to allow the release to take place on the way through. So, how should that happen? Well, if I was to take the club away again and we make a way into the top of the back swing, this time still feeling like with those hands together, but you can if you want to allow your trail arm just to flex as you reach the top of the golf swing. Now, rather than those hands staying here, we want to allow those to rotate over. So you can see that as I’ve got them to rotate over, my lead arm in particular is going from internal rotation for the back swing to releasing over to external rotation. So an even simpler method of doing this once you’ve cracked that back swing is simply taking your hands together like this here, imagining you’ve got a book in between them. So you need to keep hold of that nice and tight. You’re turning into the back swing nice and wide. Then you’re allowing the forearms to rotate over so that the glove logo on your hand faces the wall behind you or faces the range mat behind you or anywhere behind you out on the golf course. So I’m getting up to the top of the swing here and I’m allowing that to rotate over applying that trigger move and then getting that feel as you’ve done the trigger move to generate that speed. to release the golf club through. That’s where you can generate loads of effortless power, get the club to react in the correct motion rather than getting too narrow and stuck and having to cast the club out. Doing the opposite will allow you to get that trigger movement taking place into your down swing and feel that effortless speed taking place. So going back and forth, really allowing that right hip to rotate back and around. This shoulder rotating up and around as well. Wide movement transitioning here. Feeling of the club going to touch the right shoulder. Once you get to the club parallel position here or just before that, we can start to allow those arms to naturally rotate over. That was a nice little fade. I did hit that one out the heel ever so slightly. This is certainly a move that I am also getting used to as well. When we take a look at the distance there, it’s going to be just over the 300 mark at 304 to finish. So, if I was to be able to hit that one out the middle, I’d get even more distance just from that. But when you take a look at the golf swing there on the screen, it requires a lot of rotation, a lot of width take place in that back swing. So you can allow that trigger to naturally take place in the down swing. And to build this mobility, Ageless Golf Fitness delivers easy to follow programs made for golfers of all levels. Check out the link in the description below to experience their workouts. And there’s also a discount code of 10% off. So again, I’ll leave it in the description below. 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