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This concept video is backside versus frontside rotation.

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So one of my kind of bigger understandings in the last three, four months has

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come from

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a few conversations that I've had with Guy and some of the progress that I've

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had with

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my physical capabilities and my body and my thoracic spine.

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So that's led itself to this video and this understanding of what I'm calling

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backside

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rotation versus frontside rotation.

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We're basically looking at a muscle group called the transversus spinalis and

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the rotaries.

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These are some really small muscles that are along the spine.

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I'll include a picture here so you can kind of see it.

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They're at a slight angle kind of like this, but they're very close to the

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spine.

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If we are using those as, let's say the chief engine of the rotation, well the

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exercise

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to reinforce it is a blend of an extension of the spine, kind of like this,

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with a little

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bit of rotation and a little bit of side bend.

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So it kind of looks like this and if I did one side than the other, it looks

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like this.

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And if you see when I do that, my head and everything stays a little bit more

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in line

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and I kind of get taller as I'm doing this movement that's called negative tors

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ion.

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Now if I was to do front side, so if I was going to use the obliques, the obl

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iques go

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from the kind of lower rib cage to the pelvis and into the inner thigh of the

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opposite leg.

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And if I do an oblique crunch, you can see it looks like this and it kind of

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pulls my

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upper body down and it moves it a little bit forward.

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So if I did that kind of side to side just focusing on the oblique, you'll see

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that my

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upper body has a little bit more translation.

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So my big understanding as I've improved some of my personal ability to move my

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rib cage

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is that you want the dominant movement to be more of this negative torsion kind

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of going

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into this movement here and you want the oblique to complement the negative t

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orsion where I

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think in the past especially because of my posture and my rib cage creation or

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foundation,

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I would emphasize more the feeling of the obliques.

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The emphasis on the obliques came from, I remember playing a 36 hole tournament

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back

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in college and potentially is where I developed an injury but the next day I

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was really sore

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in my right oblique and my right glute and that stuck with me as like okay this

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is one

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of the big engines of the golf swing.

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Also the obliques are very powerful so for a lot of golfers, feeling this front

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side

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rotation or feeling more of the oblique movement feels very powerful where the

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back muscles

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are weaker but they're so close to the spine they can create a really kind of

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tight, quick

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movement rather than a big forceful movement where this tends to show up the

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most is either

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in the backswing when your upper body kind of sways off the ball or more

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importantly

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is during the downswing.

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I see that as a release movement when golfers are trying to create a lot of

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force, if they

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do it more by kind of rotating the oblique then you'll tend to see the head

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kind of drift

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forward and the body stay in a little bit more flexion on the way through.

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If you're doing it more with the back muscles there, kind of the upper lumbar,

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lower thoracic

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kind of middle of the body here from about T6 to L3, kind of middle of the body

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there

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if I'm doing that movement as I'm coming through then that tends to create this

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look

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of this full body finish and the upper body kind of chest up as opposed to down

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and forward.

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So that down and forward that kind of chase move on the way through I think

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creates a

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lot of inconsistencies both in contact and direction typically causes poles can

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cause

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toe shots, lots of direction issues where I think if you're getting more of

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this backside

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rotation or negative torsion it tends to have more of a feeling of hitting it

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more with

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the body, less activity with the arms and it helps support a lot of the good

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arm movements

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that we like to do and it helps control the low point depth so it allows you to

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cover

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the ball better or have your upper body more over your front foot especially

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for your kind

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of mid mid and short irons and even into your wedges.

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So there are definitely exercises or drills where I focused on getting into

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this good

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bracing position but maybe this is a little bit more of a technical

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understanding and

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if you're working with a trainer in the gym you can try to incorporate a little

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bit more

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of these back muscles, the transversa spinalis and the rotors into your

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exercise program so

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that makes it easier for you to feel some of this backside rotation through the

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ball rather

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than a dominant downward oblique action through the ball.

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Alright so real quick demo, if I was going to do an exaggerated oblique

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movement it would

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kind of have more of a movement like that where now if I was going to dominate

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with

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the back but support it with the oblique so it's not like you're not using the

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obliques

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they're just not dominant, it will feel a lot easier to me in terms of effort

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so it'll

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feel a little bit more relaxed and big thing, it will feel a lot kind of taller

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more like

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I'm stretching my abs, stretching my chest, stretching even my neck and getting

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into some

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of this good tall full body finish.

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I think that over the last few months has been one of the more profound

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movements that

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I've been teaching my students it seems to clean up a lot of things in the

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finish position

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learning how to rotate with your back muscles safely as opposed to dominating

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the movement

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with your obliques.