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This concept video is decoding fake early extension.

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So what do I mean by fake early extension?

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Early extension is kind of a vague term that we use for looking at extension of

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the body

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kind of like this, where from the down the line camera you're going to be more

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vertical

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at impact, where your upper body is either moved backward or your lower body is

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moved

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forward.

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There are some golfers who think they're early extending and it's really more

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of a weight

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distribution issue.

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So we can't just look at a butt line.

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You want to look at the butt line compared to the feet.

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What some golfers do is their version of early extension is they set up so much

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on the heels

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that there's literally nowhere else for them to go.

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So then during the swing they're gradually working in towards the toe line or

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in towards

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the middle of the feet.

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But then if we look at where their hips are compared to their feet at impact,

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their hips

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are still back enough, a couple inches or so, and they're in decent posture.

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They've just moved forward.

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Because of how severe they were setting up towards their heel.

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So if you're setting up and your shoulders or your armpits are kind of well

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past the

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middle of your feet and your pelvis is kind of well past the middle of your

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feet.

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You can see here I'm really fighting to maintain my balance.

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But now as I hold the club out, I can actually sit even further back because I

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have the club

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kind of counterbalancing me.

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Now there's no way that I would be able to stay in that position.

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But golfers who struggle with early extension or struggle with heel contact

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will often err

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on sitting way too far back in the heels.

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The whole goal is down at impact, I want to have my body, because I'm bent over

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, my lower

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body has to be slightly behind my feet so that my center of gravity is more

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over my

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feet.

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And the club is going to be pulling in me and towards the golf ball or away

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from my body

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as the club is swinging out away from me during the release.

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And I want to have something, mostly my core, kind of that sort of shell moving

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away from

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my arms pulling that way.

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So the danger with early extensions, if my body is moving down and in towards

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the golf

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ball, then I would fall over unless my arms were to bend.

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So then it jacks up all my release components.

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So getting used to this movement away from the golf ball rather than towards

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the golf

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ball can be really helpful for a lot of golfers.

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And so I want to show you a little at home station.

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You can take a towel and roll it up.

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And this way when I stand on the towel, I can't quite get my heels and toes on

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the

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ground.

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I know some old school coaches would have golfers standing on a two by four.

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But something where I have my pressure and my balance point kind of more

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through the front

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of my arch, not all the way on my heels like this and not completely on my toes

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like that.

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It's slightly towards the toe side of my arch.

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And then what I want to practice doing is I want to practice making a swing

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where I kind

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of stay or making a backswing where I say that balance.

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And then I want to practice moving into a downswing position where now I'm

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moving in

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towards that left heel.

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So technically I can have a little bit of a shift into the toe, but then as I

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get towards

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impact, I want to be moving away from the golf ball and in towards that heel.

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Now you can actually hit golf balls like this.

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This can be good for working on your overall balance and weight distribution.

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But it's really important for some of those golfers who tend to have more of

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this fake

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early extension where you're setting up in a not really balanced position, but

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way too

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much towards the heel.

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You got nowhere to go but forward, but you could still stay in your angle when

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you go

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forward.

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And usually when you're a true early extender, the posture is going to get more

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vertical.

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It's going to mess up your sequencing and cause you to have a overly straight

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ening of

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that right arm down at the bottom, creates a whole lot of inconsistency that we

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're trying

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to avoid.

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So if that's you, we've got other videos working on kind of true early

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extension.

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But if you look at it on video and you're still in a pretty good posture, you

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've just

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moved slightly forward, double check where you were at start.

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You may be giving yourself nowhere else to go.

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All right.

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So little demo.

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The hardest thing about this is kind of finding the right distance to stand.

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So I usually like to do this off mats where you can put two T's so that you

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know exactly

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where the golf ball is and you can kind of get more comfortable.

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Once you're in this good balanced position, then trying to get the ball

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position right

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can be a little bit of a challenge.

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But the whole goal is to feel some of these exaggerated movements where during

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the back

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swing, you stay where your upper body is a little bit more balanced over your

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feet.

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And then as you come down, it moves more towards your toes or sorry, more

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towards your heels

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because you're doing a little bit of that turtle shell to counterbalance the

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arms extending

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away from you at the bottom.

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So kind of middle of the feet.

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Kind of like that.

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And you'll see kind of finishing on that left heel.

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One of the challenges can be if the towel is too big and you're a little bit

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above the

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golf ball, you might feel like you're falling into it a little bit.

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But overall, you can get the gist of it, especially most of the players who set

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up

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too much towards the heels will move that way during the backswing.

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So it's a little bit easier to pay attention to try to stay a little bit more

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balanced

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if you can during the backswing.

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That will set you up for making a better, none early extension downswing.