Bottom Rib Backswing

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This drill is the bottom rib backswing.

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So this is a drill for helping work on keeping your trail arm in front of your

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pack or the

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jazzy Jeff move or basically this relationship here.

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A lot of inconsistent golfers do so because the arm gets too far behind, that

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right arm

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gets behind and then they have to do some version of a compensation on the down

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swing

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and there has to be some version of a catch-up move.

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There are very few who tend to coordinate more like a Jim Furek or a Roy McEl

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roy.

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So most of the time when this arm gets behind, you're going to tend to see a

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little bit more

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of a dump or a slide or a stall and throw, but some of these things that

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require more timing.

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So one of our goals in the backswing, if we're going to use more of our body

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and our downswing,

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is to keep this arm a little bit more in front and use more of a body wind up

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in the backswing.

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So one of the concepts here is there's a relationship between your arm and your

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ribs or your arms

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and your body.

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In order for me to keep this arm in front and make this backswing, my ribs are

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going to

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have to turn.

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In fact, I like to grab onto or kind of activate this area here.

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So I'll kind of poke these bottom ribs, these are like the bottom, the 10th rib

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, kind of

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right in here on the side here.

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Now what I'm going to try to do is in this next backswing, I'm going to try to

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feel like

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I take this away from my arm.

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If my arm pulls behind this rib, then it's going to tend to have to bend.

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But if I keep that rib moving and staying on this side of the arm, then

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essentially the

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arm stays more in front of my body.

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So as an exaggeration, it almost becomes more of kind of a float load where I'm

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going to

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turn my hips and rib and that keeps moving until pretty much I can't move

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anymore and

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then the arms can finish it.

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So backswing wise, I'm going to do a little isolated drill hit from the top.

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So I'm going to feel like this is going to get to there while my arms stay out

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in front.

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So I'm going to turn that there just like that and then from there, turn my

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hips and

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my core and feel like the arms kind of playing the club a little bit.

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So let's do that again.

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So backswing, I'm going to feel like that 10th rib gets out of the way.

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Arms are a little bit more and a widen in front and then from there, turn

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through turning

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my hips and my core, flip that one just a tiny bit.

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So let's get one more good one.

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But backswing is feeling very nice and fully turned, good.

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That one was really nice there.

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So now I'm going to try to shorten the pause or feel like I get that backswing

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load from

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that 10th rib.

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You might feel more in your legs getting loaded or you might feel more in your

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core.

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Everybody's a little different as far as where they'll feel it, but you should

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definitely

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feel less shoulder load or when I pull this arm back, in fact, if you're

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sitting there,

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you can do that.

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When you pull this arm back, you're going to feel a bunch of tension on the

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front of the

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shoulder and you might feel some tension on the back here.

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If I do this movement here, I feel none of those.

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I feel a little bit of tension up in the backside of the shoulder or more down

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in the ribs and

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into the core.

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Okay.

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So now let's combo those together.

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I'm going to get that 10th rib to finish the backswing while the arm stays to

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the left

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side of it, just like that.

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So if you're struggling with bending the arm, you can see one of the ways to

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stop that arm

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from bending is to get the rib to rotate further than the arm.

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If you do that, you're almost have to keep the arm in front and therefore it's

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going

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to stay a lot straighter.