Transport The Arms With Your Body

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   @leewinter2151 1 year ago

   Excellent start to using the core to swing. Easier to extend back n through. 💯👍

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   @mjb8274 1 year ago

   The fall down a little bit part is hard.

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   @0hleg 1 year ago

   Is the goal to generate power with the hips and core only? Or to correctly implement that additional movement with power from the arms aswell?

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   @Dan-zq5wt 1 year ago

   But how do you do this without swaying?

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   @TeddyCavachon 1 year ago

   The part where you push the right hip forward is the part many don’t get — looking at you Mike 😉 — and as a result get stuck on back foot in a reverse pivot.

   Been there, done that that because in the 1980s instruction books used the analogy of standing inside a barrel and not hitting the sides when swinging with explaining the goal, which is rotate the pelvis laterally and around a spot on the ground between the feet, not around the back leg like a gate post so shifting body mass can deal with the huge force generated by club extending back PROPERLY without falling off balance.

   I realized after learning to do this correctly [ thanks to Hank Johnsons Broom Swinging Drill in “Winning The Three Games of Golf: Swing, Stroke, Score” and “Steve Bann’s book Simply Golf: Back to Basics ] that I and everyone else who pronates and swings the club so far inside the lead elbow bends does so because the ‘unschooled (in golf)’ reflexive brain feels a lose of balance if swung back on the idea ‘outside the hands’ path more down the line and extended back before cocking the wrists.

   In Hank Johnson’s broom drill a heavy wood – corn straw broom is placed with butt end in the belly and swung like a golf club. Having the butt end of the broom in the belly forces one to move the hands and broom with the hip turn because the broom locks hips/shoulder/hands as single unit like a tank turret. The exaggerated weight and length makes it pop out and whip up around the hands with much more force than a club head. It was the first time I realized how much that whipping action after a GOOD EXTENSION the backswing lifts the arms and literally winds up the shoulders around the hips — because before the broom drill I HAD NEVER EXTENDED THE CLUB ON THE IDEAL PATH TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN — AUTOMATICALLY! It was mind blowing because that’s when I started to think about and study the underlying physics how moving the various masses — lower body / upper body / arms / club head — generate the power in the club head and move to counter that power to STAY IN BALANCE which is what the takeaway move illustrated here with that poke forward of the right hip with the club illustrates so well ❤👍

   I found something which also works brilliantly to train the reflexive brain wher the club needs to go and what body posture is needed to counter the force with an ‘inside then over the top’ golfer.

   1) let them swing to where their club as been cocking (too far inside) and have them hold it extended just before the cocking point. Grab the club head and pull. You will always pull them off balance because of their posture. The point of this? Making their conscious brain understand that swinging inside as they have been sets them up for balance problem later in the swing sequence.

   2) Have them extend again but then move the club head to where it should be in 3D space relative to feet and then again pull on back on it. Once again you will pulled them off balance. Why? Their primitive reflexive brain which keeps the body in balance automatically has never experienced an unbalancing force on in that direction. Repeat by pulling on the club again, explaining only that it is ‘like tug of war with the club force’ and you will be amazed that how quickly their reflexive brain will brace the legs and move body mass to counter it. Not 100% correct mind you, but they will have a ‘waypoint’ relative to their feet they can visualize for the takeaway extension to know if it is being done correctly and know to expect the club to TRY to pull them off balance backwards and they need to ANTICIPATE that and PROACTIVELY counter it with that rotation of the right hip forwards as the left one comes back you illustrated in this video by poking the hip with the club.

   I concluded that people with poor swing mechanics do what they do poorly because THAT’S HOW THEY THINK A SWING WORKS 😂 The biggest battle is convincing them what FEELS RIGHT to them isn’t the best strategy to: 1) stay in balance at all points of the swing, while 2) generating as much kinetic energy as possible in the club head to first lift the club effortlessly up to the top twisting the body like a coil spring, then 3) guiding it on a balanced path back down to the ball then into the EXTENDED finish move. I use the ‘pull the club’ trick for the finish extension balance also.