TOTAL GUIDE: How to Shallow + PROPERLY SEQUENCE a #golf swing w Marcus Bell@GRFGolf

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It’s for for example if I hold this with tension and now rotate it’s going to move out but if my arms are relaxed and I rotate it’s a very different action so now I’m allowing my shoulders to react I’m allowing the arms to react and what they’re actually doing now is reacting

To the Club thanks for watching if you’re watching this video that means that you’re probably into the golf swing and you want to get better at it and you’ve heard this term shallowing and it seems to be something uh Marcus that people say is like oh if I could only shallow

The club or I’m so steep coming down so this is Marcus Bell an instructor from England who’s out here doing some B better golf schools and some videos with me he does grf golf on YouTube so to find some things for us without any opinions yeah from you personally yet uh

Just let us know like okay what what is shallowing it’s not a term I particularly use but in golfing terminology golfing jargon it’s like they talk about laying the shaft down they talk about shallowing the plane um if you think about the Ling of the golf

Club when you set up to the golf ball it’s related to the ground and to the Target line and where the golf club is relative to the ball or an extension of that line from the target through the ball back so whether it’s over the plane

Under the plane it’s all relative to the L angle of the golf club so so when the golf club’s returning and it’s been delivered to the golf ball it’s kind of similar to the angle it started on so it’s kind of it’s It’s termed an onplan

Golf swing and there’s lots of stuff out there the functional swing plane and there’s been a lot of research done in terms of playing of motion of the club um and it’s kind of a generally accepted theory that the club should be returning on this plane and when you do watch all

These top players they’ve all got different ways of doing it but they do return the golf claw back through a similar motion so the thing that people search a lot is they people feel like they come down and the shaft is cuz the hand plane is something different that

We we would maybe do a different video about but specifically with like being steep this would maybe be what people think of as Steep and then this would be sh more shallow so steepening or standing up right so in transition the club goes this way or laying down okay

Okay yeah it’s um lots of different ideas on it um it’s basically the change of direction of the golf swing okay so um of course where you’re swinging that Golf Club in space is going to influence it but generally when you change direction the body organizes itself naturally and this is something

That I particularly focus on is the Players overall awareness of how they’re moving but with the club in the hands in terms of how the club reacts to them so instead of them trying to position the club or lay a club down or stand it up or do whatever how does the body

Actually move so that this just happens without even having to pay any attention to it as soon as you start to think about this in a conscious manner you’re now deliberately manipulating it so in terms of movement you you’re starting to it’s really acting you’re really kind of

Um positioning the club in space and we don’t have that time in the in the swing if you think about most normal movements most natural actions we make like throwing I mean pitching in baseball is probably the closest to the change of Direction where it’s actually the body motion that

Sequences the reaction with the arm but a lot of people are focused on positioning the club so there’s a there’s almost an artificial tension in yeah which isn’t present when we kick or throw or hit with other object objects or in other sports but in golf because we’re so focused almost transfixed on

Where this in Sp this is in Space the actual muscle function being applied isn’t the same as other sports we’re not allowing ourselves to let this thing react because we’re trying to position it so it’s almost there’s a lot of tension and then it’s for for example

If I hold this with tension and now rotate it’s going to move out yeah but if my arms are relaxed and I rotate it’s a very different action so so now I’m allowing my shoulders to react I’m allowing the arms to react and what they’re actually doing now is reacting

To the club and the clubs reacting to the forces you’re creating from the body so it’s how are we actually moving with the body and allowing the club to react so the club reacts to us instead of us trying to action some kind of movement with the

Club and now we’re actually trying to position our body relative to where this club is and it’s going to get noisy this starts to get messy because there’s so many components involved in human movement in terms of sequencing we can’t possibly be consciously aware and try

And control every aspect of it but the where we apply our attention is where we develop generally our awareness so we can be aware of what’s going on here but what we lose is the awareness of how the body’s reacting and if I’m trying to position the club in space in essence

The body all it’s trying to do is just trying to organize itself to enable you to make this movement and that might not be conducive to a free flowing powerful action so essentially we’re losing all the components of the swing by focusing heavily on this aspect if you think

About it this is the end of the chain so if you were to crack a whip all the actions done on this end and the other end reacts but what we’re focusing on golf we’re always focusing on the reaction at the other end and then trying to somehow reverse engineer it

Back to the start so golf is approximal to distal sport so we it’s the the inside out it’s kind of it’s not distal to proximal once we start tensioning the end of the chain that changes the whole function of the chain now it has a big KnockOn effect and then people try to

They they they try to explore using the ground or doing these other exploring lots of different things but essentially because they they’ve been so focused on positioning it’s inhibiting really their exploration of any other capability in the system because the system is so inhibited it’s actually just reacting to enable you to

Position this club so it’s it’s the wrong way around what we need to do first is we need to accept that this is very complex yeah we don’t need to simplify it conceptually it’s very complex but the body is so used to making complex movements 24 hours a day 7even days a

Week what we’ve got to do is we’ve got to let the body do its job so all we’ve got to do is create a mechanical advantage in terms of the physical landscape we’re operating with so essentially not getting in our own way not creating some kind of physical disadvantage where we’re compromising

Now the efficiency of the Swing if you’re if you throw a ball at no point do you make a movement that is going to be countering or inhibiting the flow so if you were if you were to throw a ball at that 50 yard sign there George

Okay and I missed it by a yard and a half so we are look at that and now I I hit it on the Hop notice the second one was better so you improved so you naturally self-regulated now throwing is not and it’s and it’s it’s not the same

As a golf swing it’s it’s it’s plain to see but but it is ground up and uh proximal to dist right exactly and the in your and what you did there was you allowed your body to tap into all the stretch reflex actions Across The Joint you allowed it to synchronize sequence

And you did it with accuracy and totally something that doesn’t happen in the G Going totally naturally yeah you know I have I have the map for that there was no over the top trying to control it yeah you actually lagged everything was sequenced yeah everything was there side bends yeah everything

So we do possess the ability to allow ourselves to organize these sequins in the moment very quick and efficiently maybe not to Elite level it’s all relative to the individual but we’ve all we’re all able to sequence or learn a sequence yeah so for example

Golf in terms of if we were trying to play a draw yeah uh with an iron so you threw it in the air then okay so we’ll talk about that later cuz that’s more probably applicable to say a driver so a driver might be more like this an iron more like this okay

So very different Dynamics in terms of the trajectory you intend with this throw one like a driver and then throw so a driver might be more kind of side on that way and essentially arcing up okay so we can even go so we could go higher

So it’s sidearm it’s a side it’s a side on action golf the ball’s there we’re here we’re tilted so we can recreate these kind of conditions but allow ourselves to tap into a bit more of natural functionality so starting to really launch it high and notice to get

It up where did my body have to go it had to side Bend yeah sure did to go up uhhuh at no point my body wants to do this so the whole body is involved in the trajectory of the golf ball the whole body the form of your movement it

Creates a shape that we should recognize in terms of trajectory because this is the last part of the chain so we’re actually creating the shape of the golf shot through the release pattern which is a result of the body movements we’re making so we should be able to recognize

Our body movements in terms of golf shot so you could look at a golf a golf on television in a tournament or watching your mates you can probably tell if they’ve hit a low shot kind of a medium trajectory or a high shot okay so your body starts to

Make make a move that’s representative of the shot you intend to hit the issue with most golfers is they’re not recognizing the movement of the body relative to the shot they’re trying to play or the club they’re using so an iron may be more down so it’s more this way

At no point is my hand going over the top is it kind of standing up if there was a shaft in my hand it’s it’s doing the opposite so we’re getting this external rotation this sh this scap retraction we’re getting all this kind of load these loading patterns naturally

Purely based around natural movements with an external intention now do something for a me Marcus you hit a hit a golf shot just like a little left of that black flag is with my club so weird challenge here but cuz I want to ask you how you do

Something so just a normal shot normal shot just that that Black Flag oh yeah really good okay Marcus so get get into your setup this is the question I ask everybody so get into your setup this is a question that with the shallowing that really helps me so

Go to the top of your swing so yeah stay there so if the plane is here Marcus right that you want to strike the ball on like you just hit a really good good shot like to that 150 yard marker and if you want to get there you are going to I

Think going to have to do something you can’t just rotate which is advocated sometimes so the solution for this across the golf world different coaches have different solutions for this about how to get back down here and there’s no or no wrong right but what do you think

Cuz you keep saying like natural and as an adult learner of golf like I was 22 when I started nothing really feels natural like I feel like people who are are like this little girl like that that might be natural to her when she’s 40

But um it doesn’t it’s not natural to me so how but throwing that ball you know very natural so how can we have a more natural shallowing that’s not forced I think the two great things you said there was that the focus has to be external to internal but the movement

Has to be internal to into out yeah so how can we be a little more of this natural shallowing that you just did great when you hit the shot so we know we know or we can see if I demonstrate if the handle goes this way shaft goes that

Way okay I don’t need to put any force on this shaft to do it as soon as I move this way so the center of mass of the golf club is about here yeah and so do that again then I we’ll just trace it yeah you’re not putting any extra torque

It’s Center Mass is going that way handle’s going this way true so people are afraid of moving this way um exactly but if you’re throwing a ball okay it’s all it’s all dependent on where you are in time and space relative to the rest of the body okay so yes of

Course if this goes out first then yeah okay the shaft might shallow but now my hands are in a place that’s yeah going to create this kind of action with the club yeah but if you rotate okay because if we take the lead arm for example connected to the

Shoulder if we think of this as our main lever this is a centripetal Point that’s really going to accelerate the club as I rotate where does the lead shoulder go it goes back and round so what’s that going to do that’s going to pull the arm out round

And it’s definitely going to move this way but then as it’s moving this way it’s moving down out and round and it’s going to be coming following the body the the time so the shallowing is built into the rotation you do the rotation the and as long as you don’t add something extra

If I CU I’m not you know if I just hold this like that you say that’s the club shallowing when I do that yeah I mean even with lead arm so if you were to throw if you were to throw a ball okay out the back of your hand yeah at no

Point is this arm going to do this yeah and I’m going to talk about uh the road to squaring up the face cuz basically people are using this as a mechanism to square the face so the difference between throwing and hitting is you got to square a face okay and so people

Don’t realize how to square the face which throws out the sequence so so it’s not just the right hand we can use the left hand the lead hand for right-hander um and we can use just the left hand and throw in it as a backand so we can

Actually start to appreciate what the left side does too because obviously the arms connected to the left shoulder so we’re having you to use the body now to sequence and let this thing go so if we were to throw a ball with the left hand at no point did my hand do this

Into the ground or straight out just in the air it’s good cool and then Brendan at the ground so now down into the floor but with power good and then you can even start to explore how you can actually push off the ground to get more the ground harder yeah

So so you can start to feel how you can use the ground to basically it’s a backhand slap it’s a slap shot with a back hand but that’s too late you see so you were in you were still loaded into the floor now this put this puts tension on

The body and this feels kind of rigid this is when you see people moving as a block cuz they’re not unweighting when you unweight you are extremely mobile and flexible okay so if I was to jump off the floor watch my shoulders yeah they’re Shing if I was to

Try and recreate this through tensioning so muscular contraction here this is more concentric as opposed to Ecentric so using the ground to Spring first yeah even earlier with the body so we can push off earlier yes oh yeah that it gets me more open yeah yeah it gets you more open so

Why does it get you more open well you’re accelerating your rotations with vertical Force so you can hit you can really release down and this at no point is going this way no you would you would never worry about that from down the line this hand path this is going to

Ark so you’re always coming from the inside out as you rotate you’re always Inside Out always inside out all the time you’re rotating this thing is going out out out out out out out out all the time yeah it’s never until we stop does it come back in so it’s always traveling out

Great so but there’s a missing component to that you were telling me about there’s a huge missing component yeah we see a lot of the good things there but I think if you if there was a golf swing it would be nonfunctional because that’s the missing component okay okay okay so

The missing component is we have to square a face we have to use the club we have to compress the ball we have to play the golf shot with this the first thing people do generally is they get to the top of the back swing and now they’re trying to square the

Face and it’s the mechanism that they’re squaring the face with that throws the sequence into chaos already at the top they’re worried about the face so they well the body’s the body’s having to square the face for us but essentially what we’ve attuned ourselves to often completely unintentionally

Unnoticeably is a mechanism to square the face and it’s the mechanism that’s Square in the face that prevents us normally from improving our sequence because even if we improve our body movement we only know what we know the body only knows what it knows so it’s

Got It’s it’s operated with a map with feelings that it’s used to with habits if you’ve got a habit of releasing a club to square the face in a certain way how do you know once you change the rest of the system how this should react so

In essence the body is just trying to square the face up and now this provides well it compromises the whole sequence it basically shorts the whole circuit so now now somewhere along the chain we’ve got we’ve shorted the circuit what we need to do is let this circuit continue

So we need to rotate the face about the shaft so if I gave you something like a screwdriver um you just rotate it if I gave you a table tennis bat or a tennis racket and said just rotate it You’ do this yeah you probably wouldn’t do this no so rotation is

This but this happens throughout the motion this is recognizable this motion here is recognizable in front of us but when it’s here this might not be so recognizable this side yeah probably so because it’s probably moving through these planes of motion on this side of the body but what’s it like here what’s

It like in the moment when we’re changing direction how do we actually recognize what this rotation of the shaft feels like so we can start to attune ourselves to this and then unlock the rest of the Body for sequence so it almost will reverse engineer but not consciously because our Consciousness is

Going to be placed more on how we’re reacting in terms of our feet and the ground in order for this to react to us but first of all we’ve got to unlock the possibility of letting the sequence emerge because the club can react and rotate I’ve put so I’ve put the basket

There on purpose yeah so I use an exercise called a tow deep divot but on a map we don’t want to be impacting the wrist too much but what I do is I I challenge all the viewers to put a basket on the mat take your

Setup and what we got to do we’ve got to strike the ground doesn’t have to be hard but with the toe of the club what I suggest you do just to give yourself just to give your body the feel of this is get a golf ball and tap it on the

Toe okay so you you can actually feel where that is and you’re going to strike the ground with that part of the club so it’s kind of on the it’s on the Leading Edge toe okay and what we’re going to do we’re going to strike the ground with a

Half swing but we can’t can’t hit this basket but we’ve got to let the swing continue okay so I’m letting my elbows fold I’m just letting the clubs just essentially bounce off the mat and go straight up to the sky so this is teaching you to rotate the face in a

Different way yeah rather than this kind of rotation and it’s all lagged so at no point has this club overtaken my hands right so I’m experiencing what it’s like to rotate a club while it’s lagged behind the hands because if we’re going to square this club face up for

Impact it has to be rotating while it’s lagging behind the body if we want to create a sequence so what does it actually feel like to rotate a golf club when that is the last part of the chain to react so here this is now this might

Look strange but if I was to rotate now it doesn’t look so strange right okay so it’s kind of once you start to marry up the sequence it all starts to take the form of a more recognizable golf swing look but what we’re looking at here is we we’re looking at components we’re

Looking at The Swinging component form isolating this developing awareness so that we’re able to then integrate it in a way that is compliant in terms of a sequence from the ground so so we’ve got to recognize first what it’s like to have a club that’s lagged and rotating

Because most people are losing the lag they’re using the lag they’re they’re releasing the lag to square the face and are you keeping that club Behind you through like wrist Force keeping you behind you or what is the thing that’s keeping it back you don’t need to think

All you need to do is Strike it the ground with a toe and really think about just letting it bounce off the ground and up to the up to the sky yes so if we were to slowmo that down and stop your impact what you’d see is here with you would

See Trail wrist inflexion right elbow inflexion you’d see all the things things that you see in the top players at impact full drill as I’m tapping this just to get a good feeling be really specific hold it up in the air for me MH it’s there yep right where the

You’re giving you’re giving your body precise information what you’ve got to remember Brendan is the body doesn’t recognize language doesn’t recognize words it’s sensory input it’s feelings so we need to bounce that straight up to the sky yeah but let the let the toe rotate more so you’d imagine doing this

Exercise the first comment I get is well you’re going to hit pul hooks okay right yeah somebody said that on one of our videos they like well wouldn’t that be dead left it’s absolutely not because what it’s allowing you to do Brendon it’s allowing you to use your body and

Brendon what’s going to happen is now the forces you’re creating with your body are going to counterbalance the forces of the GOL the torque of the golf club so the rotation of the club is going to be counterbalanced it’s the same way that you how do you control

Your hand you don’t control your hand throwing by trying to control the hand end of the it’s the end of the W but it’s the tension it’s the movement it’s sequence in which stabilizes this so it’s actually the body that’s stabilizing the face through how you

Rotate and when you spring off the floor or or whatever Force vertical Force you’re using however you term it you’re amplifying these rotations essentially ramping up the rotational Force which is counterbalance in the face that’s why often when people improve their sequence they start H it miles right because they

Haven’t got right the the squaring up mechanism so if you here for me yeah and just to just to show if you just do the exercise for me and tow it tow it into the floor and bounce it up okay so look at that look at this face okay it’s

Really towed yeah so you’d think well that’s that’s that’s going to hit the ball miles left but if you just extend and rotate to the Target for me look at this now yeah Square while it’s still lagged behind the hands yes if this takes over your hands you’re absolutely

Going to start hitting probably pull hooks and that’s feedback then that hang on I’m not using my body correctly now so you should actually you probably get pull hooks very low pull hooks at first because that’s just highlighting the inefficiency of your body movement and sequencing until you wake up the

Dropping pattern exactly then you can start to wake up the body so it needs the end of the chain to be actively responsive in terms of squaring the face up and when you’re doing this you can really get that this turn down but it’s going to be behind what I and then I

Really challenge you now I’m going to move the that back okay so now try it good but really that’s it let your out so you’re doing this with your you’re doing this uhhuh you’re letting the club head overtake the hands we need that club head to bounce up to the sky

Bouncing it straight up so let your elbows just fold and it throws the club up to the sky yes okay you don’t need to look forward you can stay here and just let it bounce up that’s it cool so first Marcus yeah like just recapping this whole video yeah in about 2 minutes

You’re going to throw a ball or a couple balls with your right hand and like an iron shot okay so this is going to be down uhhuh okay and you’re using the body earlier than you might think I um well it’s just the whole orientation of your movement

Is representative of the intention it’s here designed the body’s organizing itself so I can throw the ball down so do that again good now do the left hand cool do the left hand again then that would be a great hand plane Marcus was saying but there the

Missing piece would be the face so I’ll give you this nine iron so now you’re going to do what we did just a minute ago and you’re going to do toe down deep divot with those soft arms coming up Marcus does that so well okay good let

Me get a a reel ball and then hit a shot and the only thing so the only thing that’s keeping it from being dead is when you put together the how did you say it a lagged club that is uh Twisted yeah rotating yeah about the shaft a real a lagged Club that’s

Rotated with the body movement those two things come together because there’s no necessity for this golf club now to get thrown out to square up this if you watch where this club actually goes with a tow deep diot it goes this way yeah and as long as you

Finish and use the body it’ll never be shut yeah so we’re not I’m not suggesting you hit golf balls with a with the toe of the club it’s just an exercise to take you into a more extreme range of this plane of motion this rotation so that you can recogize it and

Then you can start to regulate it but what will regulate it is the efficiency of your body movement because it’s now giv you the opportunity to explore using the body so I would actually probably start with this first I see and then now start to recognize how you can use the

Body because notice my upper body when I’m throwing down this is the same as this wasn’t a great throw but I’ll do it but you can see you can see the orientation of my movement this is the same both sides and then if we hit an iron really

Good that’d be a ho in one see we’re just going to wait and see if it hits the stick okay one yard left okay awesome thanks for watching everybody go to grf golf and you’re going to see a whole bunch of videos that Marcus has on

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