What Ends Your Backswing?

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This drill is what ends your backswing.

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So often when I'm getting a golfer to start working on this backswing position

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and how

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they're going to transition into their downswing, one of the questions that'll

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frequently ask

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is how do you know to stop?

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Like why don't you keep going?

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Why don't you turn, you know, a million degrees?

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Obviously, that's not possible, but what I'm looking for is there's usually a

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sensation

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and there's usually a place in your body that signifies that you are at the end

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of your swing.

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And what I frequently see is that it's going to be the left shoulder for a lot

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of golfers,

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especially if you're more of an arms kind of dominant swing.

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So the way that that works is basically I'm in my setup position, I go towards

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the back

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of the swing and then I go up to the top of the swing and I kind of feel like

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there's

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a stretch as this arm is working across my body.

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So one of the things that I will challenge golfers is as you're working on

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getting a

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little bit better pivot is to change the location of where the end of your

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swing is.

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So instead of you feeling like it's either that left shoulder reaching across

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or that

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right shoulder externally rotating, although that one's not as bad to feel it

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kind of

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in the backside of that right shoulder, the place where I want you to try to

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feel it is

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almost as if you were taking a baseball swing and I'll use that for a lot of

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golfers, especially

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if they've played baseball in the past.

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So if I was making a baseball swing, I kind of feel this coil and stretch

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during that

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transition more in my obliques and in my core.

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So if these arms basically stay in front of me and then I was to turn my body

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until it

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reaches this coil, that's essentially going to tell me and trigger that I've

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reached the

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end of my swing.

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Now, hopefully I can time kind of what my arms do so that now it's connected to

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this

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body coil instead of completely stretching the capsule of that shoulder because

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the problem

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is if I over stretch that shoulder at the top of the swing, then I'm not going

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to have

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anything to really stretch on the downswing and so my body is going to want to

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get out

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of that position and my arms are typically going to trigger too soon.

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So what that may look like is if I was making kind of this more armsy swing

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where the club

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kind of goes around me there, I feel a stretch in my shoulder, if I was to make

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what I think

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is a little bit better pivot, there I feel the stretch more kind of along this

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band in

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both sides, but figuring out what you use as kind of that trigger for the top

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of the

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swing ultimately can make transition a little bit easier, especially if you can

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shift it

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from feeling it up in your shoulders to feeling it more in your core and your

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hips.