This video is all about the golf swing.
Online lessons can also be purchased via www.russellheritagegolf.com
You can also follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/russellheritagegolf/
Related Posts
This video is all about the golf swing.
Online lessons can also be purchased via www.russellheritagegolf.com
You can also follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/russellheritagegolf/
22 Comments
Well done'
Good advice Russell. Thanks.
Thanks!
This is exactly what I've been working on over the past 2 weeks. For the past 2 years my driver swing has reverted to a more vertical hit down on the ball swing. My driver went 180-200 YDS. As soon as I started realising my spine axis needed to change for the driver, I started hitting up on the ball and my ball flight instantly changed (I found as I did this and rotated around my spine I also engaged my obliques, especially on my forward side) and I gained more distance, hitting 215-230 YDS. I added in a release of my wrists thru impact and no word of a lie, am now 230 to 250 YDs on avg with the odd 270 YRD draws! I'm not a spring chicken and recovering from lower back herniation; ergo, rebuild of my swing the past 2 years. Now I'm working on better arm structure from the top thru impact to narrow my dispersion. Great video coach 👍
You've explained it very well and demonstrated it perfectly bit trying to do it is another thing it's bloody hard ffs
Subscribed. Great content
The thumbnail for this video isn't covered at all..
Yes, clear as mud.
Discuss the thumbnail pls
Shit or non existent explanation video headline
Possibly the most long winded explanation ever
I watched this videa on the interwebs using my computer (button box).
Excellent explanation Russell! This is super helpful. It's the same swing action, just a bigger longer swing in a different setup.
Here’s an observation about swing bio-mechanics: The feet control hip rotation and in downswing limit it to about 45° open UNLESS the back heel is lifted off the ground. Try swinging a club and keeping both feet on the ground and you’ll feel the hips stop as hands drop — referred to as “hitting the wall”.
That “hitting the wall” thing slows down the hands just as club mass swings down around them enough to be whipped around them by momentum and gravity. It also causes the lead arm to start separating from chest like the lever arm of a catapult which pulls the lagging, spinning-around-the-hands club head mass in the direction the lead arm mass flies off. The reason side bend in the downswing results in straighter shots is that it affects the direction the lead arm mass drags the club changing it’s FORCE VECTOR from circular and tangent to the swing arc around body and hands to linear down the target line which makes the club face stay square to the target line longer.
If you swing a club (slowly) keeping your back heel on the ground and with side bend you will feel the lead hip shift laterally and rotate to 45° open and feel the momentum of the lead arm mass cause it to fly off and drag the club down the target line as the shoulder turn open past the “stuck” hips. The trail arm gets pulled straight by that lead arm separation and trail arm gets pulled straight in finish because of the way side bending caused the axis of rotation of the club head mass to change from lead to trail shoulder because of the way keeping the back heel down restricts rotation of hips and shoulders before impact with the ball
Most recreational golfers lift their back heel off the ground too soon and too quickly as a reflexive reaction to feeling that resistance in the front leg during the downswing. As a result the hips and shoulders keep turning at the same rate or even faster which whips hands around the body, too far forward of the ball by the time the club head swings around hands and impacts the ball. Pulling hands around body in a circle that way results in an open face at impact resulting in slice spin on the ball, either straight slice or pull-slice depending on timing and balance. The force of the club whipping left is what causes the trail elbow of a beginner to bend and whip the club around the body making balance in the finish difficult instead of the hands, club shaft and trail arm being pulled straight with club head mass tracking down the target line in the finish.
What?
What your saying is, old ones with limited flexibility can’t play normal golf, so is there a golf technique, I mean a complete golf technique for us or do we just quit.
Excellent and so important we'll explained ,not just good for beginners. Helpful and inspirational for the advanced also"
Interesting that the video never really matched the screen shot I clicked on.
The video didn’t seem to match the visual intro image. Whilst I like the explanation and agree, it would have helped if you had hit a few shots as an example.
The video does not address the thumbnail image – which is why I clicked on the video. Bummer.
Good video, I've had a big problem for the last few years with leaning my whole body instead of tilting mainly the shoulders, which made it impossible for me to get my weight back to my left side through the strike. It's led to a lot weak strikes off the bottom of the driver face.
What about weight distribution??