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In this golf smart insight, we're going to look at transmission through your

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core.

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So essentially, everybody has been talking about using the ground and swinging

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from the

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ground up for probably a hundred years.

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Basically what they mean by that is you're going to go to the top of the swing

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and I'm

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going to be pushing through the ground so I'm going to activate my legs and

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then my core

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and then my shoulders and my arms and this sequencing is one of the things that

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helps

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produce that tour-like angle of attack gives us a lot of consistency and a lot

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of power

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in our golf swing.

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But a lot of golfers struggle with it and I'm going to help you understand why.

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So I'm going to create some speed from my lower body and I need to transfer

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that speed

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up into my ribcage and into my shoulders.

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Now there's a couple of common movements that I could use in order to create or

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transfer

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energy from my lower body through my core.

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I could do a crunch, like so, so that's moving and transferring energy through

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my abs.

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I could do a back extension, so that transfers energy as if I was doing a

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jumping motion.

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I could do a side bend, kind of like this, it's kind of like a side crunch and

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that helps

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me transfer and move energy through my legs and create this side bend or side

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rotation

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and I could do rotation.

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So I can take this speed and I can turn it into rotation through the core.

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Now most golfers are going to do a combination of those movements.

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If you stand up on the downswing, it means that I'm over recruiting my lower

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back and

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I'm over recruiting some of these stand up movements, kind of like so.

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Now if I was to stand up and side bend, that's going to create some big hook

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patterns and

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we have a whole program on early extension that you can check out.

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On the other side, if I was to crunch and rotate, that's going to create a very

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steep

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angle of attack, so I'm typically going to have to scoop and chicken wing and

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we have

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drills that help you fix that as well.

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In the ideal situation, we're going to have during the downswing, we're going

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to have

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a little bit of this crunch movement and this rotation movement and this side

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bend movement.

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So it's going to turn into one kind of fluid movement like so, which gives the

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appearance

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of my head generally staying still or gives the appearance of my shoulders just

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rotating

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around my spine angle.

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But what's actually happening is I'm doing a combination of a crunch, a side

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crunch and

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a rotation.

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If you can figure out how to get those movements happening in your core, it's

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going to help

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you with your contact, it's going to help you get out of that two-way miss or

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the hook

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block pattern and it's going to help you with your overall consistency, power

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and enjoyment

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in the game.

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If you enjoy the way that we break down the swing and look at these micro

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details as far

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as the movements, I think you'd appreciate and enjoy some of the content that

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we have

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over at Gulfsmart Academy.