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Improve Your Backswing with Isolated Arm and Body Movement
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how to load your body properly for a powerful downswing
- Identify the right shoulder plane to maintain balance during the backswing
- Learn to position your arms for a smoother transition into the downswing
In this drill, you'll learn how to isolate your arms and body during the backswing to create a more effective golf swing. By simplifying key movements, you'll develop a more consistent and controlled backswing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
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This drill is isolating the arms or the body in the backswing.
2
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So I like to unify a lot of the thoughts and take some of the things that are a
3
00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:10.520
little
4
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.240
bit more complicated and try to simple it into one or two things.
5
00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.610
Now those one or two things are going to be different for each individual
6
00:00:17.610 --> 00:00:18.200
person.
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:21.790
With the backswing you've heard lots and lots of different descriptions,
8
00:00:21.790 --> 00:00:23.040
whether it's one
9
00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:28.000
piece takeaway, slow and inside, load into the right side, you know, hold the
10
00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:28.520
tray at
11
00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:29.520
the top of the swing.
12
00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:33.900
There's lots of different little keys that people have had to unify their back
13
00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:34.520
swing.
14
00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:39.440
There are really only two major things that you need to do with the backswing.
15
00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:42.600
One is to load up with your pivot, right?
16
00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.530
Or to get your body in position for the downswing, whether you feel it as a
17
00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:47.680
load or a coil or
18
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a stretch.
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That doesn't really matter.
20
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It's more of you're going to use this pivot to get your body in position, and
21
00:00:53.900 --> 00:00:54.320
then you're
22
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.990
going to use your arms to get them in position for what you want to do during
23
00:00:57.990 --> 00:00:58.880
transition.
24
00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.120
So the body is very simple.
25
00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.290
I tend to use the idea of the backswing shoulder plane, so club across the
26
00:01:06.290 --> 00:01:07.760
shoulders, trying
27
00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.330
to stay a little bit more centered, but basically creating a relationship where
28
00:01:13.330 --> 00:01:14.400
I've stretched
29
00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:20.120
and created some tension in my hips and my core and my shoulders.
30
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And I'm on a good position so that I could then push through that lead foot.
31
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So if I got two level, now I can't really push with that lead foot, I'd
32
00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:31.800
basically be
33
00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:34.360
only able to pull down with my arms.
34
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If I shift too much off the ball, if I pushed with this foot, I tend to push
35
00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:40.920
more up.
36
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So it kind of lends itself to, all right, you've got to stay a little bit more
37
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centered and
38
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you have to have a little bit of this shoulder tilt in order to really load
39
00:01:51.910 --> 00:01:52.720
into those hips
40
00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:53.880
and core muscles.
41
00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:58.110
So that one, you know, using your body to move the club in the backswing or
42
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working on
43
00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:00.720
your pivot, that one's pretty easy.
44
00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:03.480
The second piece would be working on the backswing.
45
00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.360
So what should the arms do in relationship just to the sternum?
46
00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:12.530
If I don't move my body, right, if I don't move my everything but my shoulder
47
00:02:12.530 --> 00:02:13.120
blades
48
00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.120
and my arms, then what would the backswing look like?
49
00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.470
It's pretty simple, if we break it down that way, what'll end up happening is
50
00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:22.920
this right
51
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:28.090
arm is going to fold, this left arm is going to rotate slightly, that right
52
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wrist is going
53
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to extend and hinge.
54
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So it's just going to look like this.
55
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All the backswing problems where everything gets looking like it's way out of
56
00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.400
position
57
00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.750
is usually a relationship between these two different pieces, either just the
58
00:02:44.750 --> 00:02:45.200
arms not
59
00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:47.620
doing something like this.
60
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Maybe they're doing more of a movement across my body, kind of like that, not a
61
00:02:51.220 --> 00:02:51.720
whole lot
62
00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:54.040
of rotation.
63
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Maybe they're doing a movement where I tend to really hinge and cup kind of
64
00:03:00.260 --> 00:03:01.160
like this
65
00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:04.040
and they might even be rotating the opposite direction.
66
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Or as I already talked about, there's some body problems you could have.
67
00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.960
But compared to the sternum, the arm movements are going to be pretty simple
68
00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:11.640
like this.
69
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:17.850
So once you've isolated the two, it can be very helpful to practice making one
70
00:03:17.850 --> 00:03:18.280
or the
71
00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.440
other fixed.
72
00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:24.670
So I'm going to preset one or the other and then I'm going to work on matching
73
00:03:24.670 --> 00:03:25.040
up so
74
00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:27.240
that the two halves kind of meet in the middle.
75
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.440
I'll show you what I mean by that.
76
00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.240
So if I do the arm movement, actually I can face you, that's fine.
77
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So if I do the arm movement, it looks pretty much like this.
78
00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:41.430
So now if I lock my arms in place and then I get down into my golf posture and
79
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I make
80
00:03:41.880 --> 00:03:46.760
my backswing pivot, there I am at the top of my swing.
81
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So now, here we go, if I lock my arms in place, there's a little bit of
82
00:03:52.970 --> 00:03:53.920
rotation, a little
83
00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:55.840
bit of wrist set.
84
00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.190
Now if I get down into my golf posture and then I make my backswing pivot, that
85
00:04:00.190 --> 00:04:00.720
pretty
86
00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.280
much should match up.
87
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.000
Next, I'm going to do the harder one I think, which I'm going to preset the
88
00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:08.600
backswing pivot.
89
00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:14.270
So I'm going to preset kind of this movement and now I'm going to try, okay,
90
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there's my
91
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arms straight in front of my chest and now I'm going to make that arm movement.
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There we go.
93
00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:28.920
And now those two should pretty much match up to what I try to do both with
94
00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.040
what my arms
95
00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.840
do as well as what my body does.
96
00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:34.830
If you struggle with one piece or the other, don't worry, we've got drills that
97
00:04:34.830 --> 00:04:35.120
can help
98
00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.030
you feel whether it's loading into the foot, loading into the hip, creating the
99
00:04:39.030 --> 00:04:40.240
spine rotation,
100
00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.680
anything for the pivot, or if you've got your arm path getting out of position,
101
00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.600
either breaking
102
00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.560
down the elbows, over setting the wrist, getting more around your body or stuck
103
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:51.960
behind, you
104
00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:55.360
really simplify it to one of two things, either the arms are not working
105
00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:56.320
correctly compared
106
00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.670
to the chest, that's your reference, or the body is not pivoting correctly
107
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compared to
108
00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:02.880
the golf ball or your feet.
109
00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:05.460
Once you figure out which one of those two, you can try a number of different
110
00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:05.880
options
111
00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:10.840
to figure out what's most comfortable for unifying your individual thought into
112
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those
113
00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:11.880
general concepts.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.400
This drill is isolating the arms or the body in the backswing.
2
00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:10.200
So I like to unify a lot of the thoughts and take some of the things that are a
3
00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:10.520
little
4
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.240
bit more complicated and try to simple it into one or two things.
5
00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.610
Now those one or two things are going to be different for each individual
6
00:00:17.610 --> 00:00:18.200
person.
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:21.790
With the backswing you've heard lots and lots of different descriptions,
8
00:00:21.790 --> 00:00:23.040
whether it's one
9
00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:28.000
piece takeaway, slow and inside, load into the right side, you know, hold the
10
00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:28.520
tray at
11
00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:29.520
the top of the swing.
12
00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:33.900
There's lots of different little keys that people have had to unify their back
13
00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:34.520
swing.
14
00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:39.440
There are really only two major things that you need to do with the backswing.
15
00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:42.600
One is to load up with your pivot, right?
16
00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.530
Or to get your body in position for the downswing, whether you feel it as a
17
00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:47.680
load or a coil or
18
00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:49.400
a stretch.
19
00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:50.400
That doesn't really matter.
20
00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:53.900
It's more of you're going to use this pivot to get your body in position, and
21
00:00:53.900 --> 00:00:54.320
then you're
22
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.990
going to use your arms to get them in position for what you want to do during
23
00:00:57.990 --> 00:00:58.880
transition.
24
00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.120
So the body is very simple.
25
00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.290
I tend to use the idea of the backswing shoulder plane, so club across the
26
00:01:06.290 --> 00:01:07.760
shoulders, trying
27
00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.330
to stay a little bit more centered, but basically creating a relationship where
28
00:01:13.330 --> 00:01:14.400
I've stretched
29
00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:20.120
and created some tension in my hips and my core and my shoulders.
30
00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:26.560
And I'm on a good position so that I could then push through that lead foot.
31
00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.910
So if I got two level, now I can't really push with that lead foot, I'd
32
00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:31.800
basically be
33
00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:34.360
only able to pull down with my arms.
34
00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:39.980
If I shift too much off the ball, if I pushed with this foot, I tend to push
35
00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:40.920
more up.
36
00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.610
So it kind of lends itself to, all right, you've got to stay a little bit more
37
00:01:46.610 --> 00:01:47.560
centered and
38
00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.910
you have to have a little bit of this shoulder tilt in order to really load
39
00:01:51.910 --> 00:01:52.720
into those hips
40
00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:53.880
and core muscles.
41
00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:58.110
So that one, you know, using your body to move the club in the backswing or
42
00:01:58.110 --> 00:01:58.320
working on
43
00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:00.720
your pivot, that one's pretty easy.
44
00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:03.480
The second piece would be working on the backswing.
45
00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.360
So what should the arms do in relationship just to the sternum?
46
00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:12.530
If I don't move my body, right, if I don't move my everything but my shoulder
47
00:02:12.530 --> 00:02:13.120
blades
48
00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.120
and my arms, then what would the backswing look like?
49
00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.470
It's pretty simple, if we break it down that way, what'll end up happening is
50
00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:22.920
this right
51
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:28.090
arm is going to fold, this left arm is going to rotate slightly, that right
52
00:02:28.090 --> 00:02:29.120
wrist is going
53
00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.920
to extend and hinge.
54
00:02:30.920 --> 00:02:34.120
So it's just going to look like this.
55
00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:39.680
All the backswing problems where everything gets looking like it's way out of
56
00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.400
position
57
00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.750
is usually a relationship between these two different pieces, either just the
58
00:02:44.750 --> 00:02:45.200
arms not
59
00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:47.620
doing something like this.
60
00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:51.220
Maybe they're doing more of a movement across my body, kind of like that, not a
61
00:02:51.220 --> 00:02:51.720
whole lot
62
00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:54.040
of rotation.
63
00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.260
Maybe they're doing a movement where I tend to really hinge and cup kind of
64
00:03:00.260 --> 00:03:01.160
like this
65
00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:04.040
and they might even be rotating the opposite direction.
66
00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:07.360
Or as I already talked about, there's some body problems you could have.
67
00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.960
But compared to the sternum, the arm movements are going to be pretty simple
68
00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:11.640
like this.
69
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:17.850
So once you've isolated the two, it can be very helpful to practice making one
70
00:03:17.850 --> 00:03:18.280
or the
71
00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.440
other fixed.
72
00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:24.670
So I'm going to preset one or the other and then I'm going to work on matching
73
00:03:24.670 --> 00:03:25.040
up so
74
00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:27.240
that the two halves kind of meet in the middle.
75
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.440
I'll show you what I mean by that.
76
00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.240
So if I do the arm movement, actually I can face you, that's fine.
77
00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.200
So if I do the arm movement, it looks pretty much like this.
78
00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:41.430
So now if I lock my arms in place and then I get down into my golf posture and
79
00:03:41.430 --> 00:03:41.880
I make
80
00:03:41.880 --> 00:03:46.760
my backswing pivot, there I am at the top of my swing.
81
00:03:46.760 --> 00:03:52.970
So now, here we go, if I lock my arms in place, there's a little bit of
82
00:03:52.970 --> 00:03:53.920
rotation, a little
83
00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:55.840
bit of wrist set.
84
00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.190
Now if I get down into my golf posture and then I make my backswing pivot, that
85
00:04:00.190 --> 00:04:00.720
pretty
86
00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.280
much should match up.
87
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.000
Next, I'm going to do the harder one I think, which I'm going to preset the
88
00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:08.600
backswing pivot.
89
00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:14.270
So I'm going to preset kind of this movement and now I'm going to try, okay,
90
00:04:14.270 --> 00:04:15.040
there's my
91
00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:20.760
arms straight in front of my chest and now I'm going to make that arm movement.
92
00:04:20.760 --> 00:04:21.760
There we go.
93
00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:28.920
And now those two should pretty much match up to what I try to do both with
94
00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.040
what my arms
95
00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.840
do as well as what my body does.
96
00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:34.830
If you struggle with one piece or the other, don't worry, we've got drills that
97
00:04:34.830 --> 00:04:35.120
can help
98
00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.030
you feel whether it's loading into the foot, loading into the hip, creating the
99
00:04:39.030 --> 00:04:40.240
spine rotation,
100
00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.680
anything for the pivot, or if you've got your arm path getting out of position,
101
00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.600
either breaking
102
00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.560
down the elbows, over setting the wrist, getting more around your body or stuck
103
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:51.960
behind, you
104
00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:55.360
really simplify it to one of two things, either the arms are not working
105
00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:56.320
correctly compared
106
00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.670
to the chest, that's your reference, or the body is not pivoting correctly
107
00:05:00.670 --> 00:05:01.080
compared to
108
00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:02.880
the golf ball or your feet.
109
00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:05.460
Once you figure out which one of those two, you can try a number of different
110
00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:05.880
options
111
00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:10.840
to figure out what's most comfortable for unifying your individual thought into
112
00:05:10.840 --> 00:05:10.960
those
113
00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:11.880
general concepts.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Improve Your Backswing with Isolated Arm and Body Movement
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel how to load your body properly for a powerful downswing
- Identify the right shoulder plane to maintain balance during the backswing
- Learn to position your arms for a smoother transition into the downswing
In this drill, you'll learn how to isolate your arms and body during the backswing to create a more effective golf swing. By simplifying key movements, you'll develop a more consistent and controlled backswing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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This drill is isolating the arms or the body in the backswing.
2
00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:10.200
So I like to unify a lot of the thoughts and take some of the things that are a
3
00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:10.520
little
4
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.240
bit more complicated and try to simple it into one or two things.
5
00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.610
Now those one or two things are going to be different for each individual
6
00:00:17.610 --> 00:00:18.200
person.
7
00:00:18.200 --> 00:00:21.790
With the backswing you've heard lots and lots of different descriptions,
8
00:00:21.790 --> 00:00:23.040
whether it's one
9
00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:28.000
piece takeaway, slow and inside, load into the right side, you know, hold the
10
00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:28.520
tray at
11
00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:29.520
the top of the swing.
12
00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:33.900
There's lots of different little keys that people have had to unify their back
13
00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:34.520
swing.
14
00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:39.440
There are really only two major things that you need to do with the backswing.
15
00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:42.600
One is to load up with your pivot, right?
16
00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.530
Or to get your body in position for the downswing, whether you feel it as a
17
00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:47.680
load or a coil or
18
00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:49.400
a stretch.
19
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That doesn't really matter.
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It's more of you're going to use this pivot to get your body in position, and
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then you're
22
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going to use your arms to get them in position for what you want to do during
23
00:00:57.990 --> 00:00:58.880
transition.
24
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So the body is very simple.
25
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I tend to use the idea of the backswing shoulder plane, so club across the
26
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shoulders, trying
27
00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.330
to stay a little bit more centered, but basically creating a relationship where
28
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I've stretched
29
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and created some tension in my hips and my core and my shoulders.
30
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And I'm on a good position so that I could then push through that lead foot.
31
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So if I got two level, now I can't really push with that lead foot, I'd
32
00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:31.800
basically be
33
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only able to pull down with my arms.
34
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If I shift too much off the ball, if I pushed with this foot, I tend to push
35
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more up.
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So it kind of lends itself to, all right, you've got to stay a little bit more
37
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centered and
38
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you have to have a little bit of this shoulder tilt in order to really load
39
00:01:51.910 --> 00:01:52.720
into those hips
40
00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:53.880
and core muscles.
41
00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:58.110
So that one, you know, using your body to move the club in the backswing or
42
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working on
43
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your pivot, that one's pretty easy.
44
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The second piece would be working on the backswing.
45
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So what should the arms do in relationship just to the sternum?
46
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If I don't move my body, right, if I don't move my everything but my shoulder
47
00:02:12.530 --> 00:02:13.120
blades
48
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and my arms, then what would the backswing look like?
49
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It's pretty simple, if we break it down that way, what'll end up happening is
50
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this right
51
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arm is going to fold, this left arm is going to rotate slightly, that right
52
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wrist is going
53
00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.920
to extend and hinge.
54
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So it's just going to look like this.
55
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All the backswing problems where everything gets looking like it's way out of
56
00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.400
position
57
00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.750
is usually a relationship between these two different pieces, either just the
58
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arms not
59
00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:47.620
doing something like this.
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Maybe they're doing more of a movement across my body, kind of like that, not a
61
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whole lot
62
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of rotation.
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Maybe they're doing a movement where I tend to really hinge and cup kind of
64
00:03:00.260 --> 00:03:01.160
like this
65
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and they might even be rotating the opposite direction.
66
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Or as I already talked about, there's some body problems you could have.
67
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But compared to the sternum, the arm movements are going to be pretty simple
68
00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:11.640
like this.
69
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:17.850
So once you've isolated the two, it can be very helpful to practice making one
70
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or the
71
00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.440
other fixed.
72
00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:24.670
So I'm going to preset one or the other and then I'm going to work on matching
73
00:03:24.670 --> 00:03:25.040
up so
74
00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:27.240
that the two halves kind of meet in the middle.
75
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.440
I'll show you what I mean by that.
76
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So if I do the arm movement, actually I can face you, that's fine.
77
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So if I do the arm movement, it looks pretty much like this.
78
00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:41.430
So now if I lock my arms in place and then I get down into my golf posture and
79
00:03:41.430 --> 00:03:41.880
I make
80
00:03:41.880 --> 00:03:46.760
my backswing pivot, there I am at the top of my swing.
81
00:03:46.760 --> 00:03:52.970
So now, here we go, if I lock my arms in place, there's a little bit of
82
00:03:52.970 --> 00:03:53.920
rotation, a little
83
00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:55.840
bit of wrist set.
84
00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.190
Now if I get down into my golf posture and then I make my backswing pivot, that
85
00:04:00.190 --> 00:04:00.720
pretty
86
00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.280
much should match up.
87
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.000
Next, I'm going to do the harder one I think, which I'm going to preset the
88
00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:08.600
backswing pivot.
89
00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:14.270
So I'm going to preset kind of this movement and now I'm going to try, okay,
90
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there's my
91
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arms straight in front of my chest and now I'm going to make that arm movement.
92
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There we go.
93
00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:28.920
And now those two should pretty much match up to what I try to do both with
94
00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.040
what my arms
95
00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.840
do as well as what my body does.
96
00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:34.830
If you struggle with one piece or the other, don't worry, we've got drills that
97
00:04:34.830 --> 00:04:35.120
can help
98
00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.030
you feel whether it's loading into the foot, loading into the hip, creating the
99
00:04:39.030 --> 00:04:40.240
spine rotation,
100
00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.680
anything for the pivot, or if you've got your arm path getting out of position,
101
00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.600
either breaking
102
00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.560
down the elbows, over setting the wrist, getting more around your body or stuck
103
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:51.960
behind, you
104
00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:55.360
really simplify it to one of two things, either the arms are not working
105
00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:56.320
correctly compared
106
00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.670
to the chest, that's your reference, or the body is not pivoting correctly
107
00:05:00.670 --> 00:05:01.080
compared to
108
00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:02.880
the golf ball or your feet.
109
00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:05.460
Once you figure out which one of those two, you can try a number of different
110
00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:05.880
options
111
00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:10.840
to figure out what's most comfortable for unifying your individual thought into
112
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those
113
00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:11.880
general concepts.
1
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This drill is isolating the arms or the body in the backswing.
2
00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:10.200
So I like to unify a lot of the thoughts and take some of the things that are a
3
00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:10.520
little
4
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:14.240
bit more complicated and try to simple it into one or two things.
5
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Now those one or two things are going to be different for each individual
6
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person.
7
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With the backswing you've heard lots and lots of different descriptions,
8
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whether it's one
9
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piece takeaway, slow and inside, load into the right side, you know, hold the
10
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tray at
11
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the top of the swing.
12
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There's lots of different little keys that people have had to unify their back
13
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swing.
14
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There are really only two major things that you need to do with the backswing.
15
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One is to load up with your pivot, right?
16
00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.530
Or to get your body in position for the downswing, whether you feel it as a
17
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load or a coil or
18
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a stretch.
19
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That doesn't really matter.
20
00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:53.900
It's more of you're going to use this pivot to get your body in position, and
21
00:00:53.900 --> 00:00:54.320
then you're
22
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.990
going to use your arms to get them in position for what you want to do during
23
00:00:57.990 --> 00:00:58.880
transition.
24
00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.120
So the body is very simple.
25
00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.290
I tend to use the idea of the backswing shoulder plane, so club across the
26
00:01:06.290 --> 00:01:07.760
shoulders, trying
27
00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:13.330
to stay a little bit more centered, but basically creating a relationship where
28
00:01:13.330 --> 00:01:14.400
I've stretched
29
00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:20.120
and created some tension in my hips and my core and my shoulders.
30
00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:26.560
And I'm on a good position so that I could then push through that lead foot.
31
00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.910
So if I got two level, now I can't really push with that lead foot, I'd
32
00:01:30.910 --> 00:01:31.800
basically be
33
00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:34.360
only able to pull down with my arms.
34
00:01:34.360 --> 00:01:39.980
If I shift too much off the ball, if I pushed with this foot, I tend to push
35
00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:40.920
more up.
36
00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.610
So it kind of lends itself to, all right, you've got to stay a little bit more
37
00:01:46.610 --> 00:01:47.560
centered and
38
00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.910
you have to have a little bit of this shoulder tilt in order to really load
39
00:01:51.910 --> 00:01:52.720
into those hips
40
00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:53.880
and core muscles.
41
00:01:53.880 --> 00:01:58.110
So that one, you know, using your body to move the club in the backswing or
42
00:01:58.110 --> 00:01:58.320
working on
43
00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:00.720
your pivot, that one's pretty easy.
44
00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:03.480
The second piece would be working on the backswing.
45
00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.360
So what should the arms do in relationship just to the sternum?
46
00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:12.530
If I don't move my body, right, if I don't move my everything but my shoulder
47
00:02:12.530 --> 00:02:13.120
blades
48
00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:18.120
and my arms, then what would the backswing look like?
49
00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.470
It's pretty simple, if we break it down that way, what'll end up happening is
50
00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:22.920
this right
51
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:28.090
arm is going to fold, this left arm is going to rotate slightly, that right
52
00:02:28.090 --> 00:02:29.120
wrist is going
53
00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:30.920
to extend and hinge.
54
00:02:30.920 --> 00:02:34.120
So it's just going to look like this.
55
00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:39.680
All the backswing problems where everything gets looking like it's way out of
56
00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:40.400
position
57
00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.750
is usually a relationship between these two different pieces, either just the
58
00:02:44.750 --> 00:02:45.200
arms not
59
00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:47.620
doing something like this.
60
00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:51.220
Maybe they're doing more of a movement across my body, kind of like that, not a
61
00:02:51.220 --> 00:02:51.720
whole lot
62
00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:54.040
of rotation.
63
00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.260
Maybe they're doing a movement where I tend to really hinge and cup kind of
64
00:03:00.260 --> 00:03:01.160
like this
65
00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:04.040
and they might even be rotating the opposite direction.
66
00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:07.360
Or as I already talked about, there's some body problems you could have.
67
00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.960
But compared to the sternum, the arm movements are going to be pretty simple
68
00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:11.640
like this.
69
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:17.850
So once you've isolated the two, it can be very helpful to practice making one
70
00:03:17.850 --> 00:03:18.280
or the
71
00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.440
other fixed.
72
00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:24.670
So I'm going to preset one or the other and then I'm going to work on matching
73
00:03:24.670 --> 00:03:25.040
up so
74
00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:27.240
that the two halves kind of meet in the middle.
75
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.440
I'll show you what I mean by that.
76
00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.240
So if I do the arm movement, actually I can face you, that's fine.
77
00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.200
So if I do the arm movement, it looks pretty much like this.
78
00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:41.430
So now if I lock my arms in place and then I get down into my golf posture and
79
00:03:41.430 --> 00:03:41.880
I make
80
00:03:41.880 --> 00:03:46.760
my backswing pivot, there I am at the top of my swing.
81
00:03:46.760 --> 00:03:52.970
So now, here we go, if I lock my arms in place, there's a little bit of
82
00:03:52.970 --> 00:03:53.920
rotation, a little
83
00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:55.840
bit of wrist set.
84
00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:00.190
Now if I get down into my golf posture and then I make my backswing pivot, that
85
00:04:00.190 --> 00:04:00.720
pretty
86
00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:03.280
much should match up.
87
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:07.000
Next, I'm going to do the harder one I think, which I'm going to preset the
88
00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:08.600
backswing pivot.
89
00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:14.270
So I'm going to preset kind of this movement and now I'm going to try, okay,
90
00:04:14.270 --> 00:04:15.040
there's my
91
00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:20.760
arms straight in front of my chest and now I'm going to make that arm movement.
92
00:04:20.760 --> 00:04:21.760
There we go.
93
00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:28.920
And now those two should pretty much match up to what I try to do both with
94
00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.040
what my arms
95
00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:31.840
do as well as what my body does.
96
00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:34.830
If you struggle with one piece or the other, don't worry, we've got drills that
97
00:04:34.830 --> 00:04:35.120
can help
98
00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:39.030
you feel whether it's loading into the foot, loading into the hip, creating the
99
00:04:39.030 --> 00:04:40.240
spine rotation,
100
00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:45.680
anything for the pivot, or if you've got your arm path getting out of position,
101
00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.600
either breaking
102
00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.560
down the elbows, over setting the wrist, getting more around your body or stuck
103
00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:51.960
behind, you
104
00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:55.360
really simplify it to one of two things, either the arms are not working
105
00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:56.320
correctly compared
106
00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.670
to the chest, that's your reference, or the body is not pivoting correctly
107
00:05:00.670 --> 00:05:01.080
compared to
108
00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:02.880
the golf ball or your feet.
109
00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:05.460
Once you figure out which one of those two, you can try a number of different
110
00:05:05.460 --> 00:05:05.880
options
111
00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:10.840
to figure out what's most comfortable for unifying your individual thought into
112
00:05:10.840 --> 00:05:10.960
those
113
00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:11.880
general concepts.
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