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This content video is connecting spine extension to the release.

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So oftentimes golfers struggle with the release, they'll either talk about

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having an early

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release or a flip or a chicken wing.

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In this video, I'm going to connect the spine movement to all of those

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different patterns

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or early arm release patterns.

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So basically, when we're talking about spine extension from the down the line

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camera, we're

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just talking about extending the rib cage or the thoracic spine, kind of more

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like this,

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where it's almost feeling like I'm leaning backward, but not by hyper extending

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my lower

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back.

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My abs are still like I'm keeping the bottom of my ribs the same distance away

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from my

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pelvis as best I can, and I'm picking up my chest kind of like this.

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So one of the things that that does is that allows your arms to stay straight.

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If I was to set up to the golf ball and stay flexed forward and turn, my chest

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is pointing

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down at the ground like this.

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So if I kept my arms straight, that's as far as they could go.

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If my chest stayed pointing down like this, then as the arms passed, there

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wouldn't be

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any real way that I could do this, have the club and the arms pass my body

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while the body

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is pointing down without bending and lifting, right?

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And the more that I did it, the more that I'm down there, the more that those

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arms would

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have to bend earlier and earlier.

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Alternatively, if on the other hand I get my chest pointing up that way, then I

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can keep

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my arms in front and straight much longer into the swing.

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So many golfers who tend to struggle with more of kind of a throw or a chicken

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wing or a scoop,

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their chest stays pointing down really long.

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That can be accompanied with early extension.

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That can be accompanied commonly with more kind of axis tilt and slide, but you

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can see

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my chest, my upper part of my chest is still pointing down.

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As opposed to one of the hallmarks of really, let's say, stable releases is

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that on the

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way through, the body continues turning and the chest goes into extension as it

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goes through

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or the thoracic spine goes into extension as it's rotating and side bending.

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This is where golfers will often describe a feeling of that right shoulder

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going down

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or finishing tall, while those are kind of similar fields for this one pattern

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of having

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the chest go into or the spine go into more extension on the way through.

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So if you're struggling with either a buckle, a slide, if you see on video from

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the face

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on view, you'll tend to see a little bit more of this tilt where the upper body

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is back.

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From the down the line, you'll see that the upper body stays more rounded and

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potentially

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that right shoulder kind of stays high.

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If you see more of that, then you might want to experiment with getting a

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little bit more

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of this chest pointing up or chest extension.

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There's a couple ways that this can go wrong.

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Either one, you go this way, you go into early extension where you're actually

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getting your

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spine vertical because you don't have enough side bend and turn or a really

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common one

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is you'll feel like you're going into chest or you're extending your spine, but

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you're

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just doing it from the hips and you're tending to do more of this lower body

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slide.

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So feeling like you're over the front foot and either doing kind of that the

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chest bump

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ab stretch or the cross body upper cut, those are a couple different feels for

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getting into

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this follow through position.

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But if you are really struggling with getting better shaft lean, getting a

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later release,

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this is one of the big body shallowers down at the bottom.

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So this can be a common area that you'll need to look at.

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So we'll show one more and then we'll let you go practice.

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So if I get into impact position, this is where I want to be.

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But if I stayed forward, if I stayed pointing down as I was going into here,

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that hits the

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ground really hard where if at the same time, I'm in this position, but now I

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have a feeling

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of going into that chest extension that's going to allow the club to have that

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shallow

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or have that shaft lean, I should say, but still be coming through nice and

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shallower

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controlling the depth.

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So if you're struggling with your release, look at your chest and if you're

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struggling

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with your chest, look at your release, those two have to kind of match each

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other if you're

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going to get a really good flat spot and really good low point consistency.