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In this video, Adam breaks down why hitting the ball with your right shoulder can make your golf swing so much easier. He shares simple, actionable tips to help you understand how the right shoulder moves through impact,
leading to a smoother more powerful swing.
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Adam Basiljette here, founder of Scratcholf Academy. Today, hitting the ball with your right shoulder makes the golf swing so much easier. I would redefine that. Maybe that’s a title for word search. I’d redefine the correct use of the shoulder will help you both get on plane and create some resistance to create some speed. Let’s get into it. So, the first thing you’re probably asking yourself, trail shoulder, right shoulder for the right, if I overuse that, won’t I come over the top? very well could unless you make this key key move. This is the key. Let me show you on video. Then we’ll begin to work through things. So there we are. That’s me at two Adams. If you like Adam Scott on the left, Adam me on the right. One a little bit more rich and famous than the other one. Here’s our point though. If you look at the axis of the body right there on the back swing, let me take Adam Scott to the top of his back swing. His shoulders are beautifully turned perpendicular to the axis. Let’s have a go with my back swing. Yeah, that’s good enough. We’re reasonably good there. Now, let’s take Adam to a little bit beyond impact. And what you’ll notice here is the shoulder angle is quite a bit steeper. This is going to help slot the club. As you’ll see later in the video, it’s going to help with distance as well. Let’s do it with mine. And again, you’ll see a steeper pitch to the shoulders coming through than there was going back. Let’s see. So, what’s causing the shoulders to do that? Is it a dipping of the right shoulder per se? Not really. No. If you look at the best players in the world, they’re very centered going back with their pivot. Coming down though, even though the head is centered, the hips, the lower body drives to the target a little bit as well as rotates. And when you take the bottom of your spine, keeping the top still, and drive it forward, you create a bit of that side bend, which appears to be or shows you how the shoulders are steepening a bit. So don’t think in terms of dipping the shoulder. Drive the weight to the target. And if you can keep your head reasonably still as you do so, you’ll be creating this move helps get that club onto plane there as you do that. Now, good image for you. I think paintbrush image, picture a bench just where the bottom of the bristles are without moving forward and jamming the brush into the bench. If I had to make a long paint stripe over there, in other words, keep this bent a little bit, shift my weight, and keep the bristles on the bench there a little bit and paint a stripe. That would be the image. So I would say the average golfer without realizing it is too ball focused. If you would focus more on long stripe, you could put some imaginary bristles on the bottom of your club and start to get the feeling. A long stripe, weight shifts, head’s pretty centered. You get the feeling pretty quickly there. Work on that on a small scale. I think it would help you. Now, how does it create power? Let’s look again on TV and we’ll flesh that out. Tiger Woods on the left, Fred Couples on the right. Let’s have a look. Here’s Tiger’s body angle here. So, he pivots pretty much around an axis point there in the middle of his body. Notice on the down swing, though, if we look at his hips, notice the the bump towards the target. And now, let’s go a little bit farther. Now, we’re starting to see the spine tilt change a little bit, which is accounting for how that right shoulder drops a bit. Freddy Couples, nobody does it better than him. If you like my videos, by the way, I hope you consider liking it or sharing it or whatever. Trying to get some momentum back at YouTube here. Uh, okay, Freddy. Nice drive of the hips. And now, let’s get into the issue of power here. You watch couples through the ball here. Watch his left hip start to get a little taller. Watch his lower body start to stabilize. Even the stripes on his shirt. Watch these stripes here. That’ll kind of tell you what’s happening there with that right shoulder. Watch how stable that gets. and he cracks the whip against that. So there’s the hip drive there. The hips start to push up and stabilize now. The right shoulders lower and snap goes the whip. Pretty impressive there. Tiger Woods to a large extent, too. Watch his right shoulder. It’s under and the right arm really cracks like a whip and ex discharges a lot of power. Okay, let’s work on that. Link below for scratchgolfacademy.com. Free 14-day trial. No credit cards comes out of your wallet. just try it for free. Love to have you do that. Full libraries in every area of the game. So, most of us are Fred Couples fans. Seems like a nice guy. Just makes it look so easy. Not a grip and takeaway you’d necessarily recommend, but he’s fortunate to be a golf genius. And he’s so good in this direction. Little mistakes here don’t matter for much. Okay, couple of thoughts. How are we going to feel this sense of resistance? Let’s just say biomechanically, and I say that not because I’m a biomechanist, but they measure these things in 3D capture. Once the hips have gotten to about here, they’re forward. They’ve opened a little bit. The arms are roughly here. More or less, they’ve done their job. Now, they don’t entirely stop, but what you’ll start to see is some resistance. The weights here, some resistance there, a little bit of pushing up. The glutes start to squeeze, the belt rises, but you don’t see lots and lots of movement there. Resistance. And if you can create resistance in this hip and leg through the ball, you’ll start to feel this slow down and you’ll feel something against which to crack the whip a little bit there. So, let’s do a small swing here. Feel that resistance and I can feel against that resistance some crack of the whip. None of this is just a piece of cake, but it’s not impossible stuff. I promise you, if you were to skip a rock, you just wouldn’t have no control of your legs. You’d move and you’d skip the rock. So get away from the golf ball, get in front of a mirror, practice these things, and when you film your own golf swing, you should sometimes see if this is the way your body and right shoulder look. [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
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