WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.520
This video is discussing lengthening your backswing so sometimes golfers come

2
00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:10.160
into the site and their main priority is distance. Well there are two main ways

3
00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.640
that you can increase distance. One is to take whatever clubhead speed you've

4
00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:18.480
already got and transfer more of that speed into the golf ball, get more ball

5
00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:25.200
speed out of it and get more distance that way. That's especially important

6
00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:29.640
when you're looking at the driver and in order to do so you typically have to

7
00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:35.560
work on making really solid contact with a clubface that's not changing loft

8
00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.920
quite as much down at the bottom because you've got the clubface a

9
00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:44.280
little more close to the path and a little bit more lag or shaft lean. Those

10
00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:48.800
help create compression which drives the ball further. But if you're already

11
00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:49.120
doing

12
00:00:49.120 --> 00:00:53.560
a decent job with that and you want to increase the amount of clubhead speed

13
00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:58.200
then there's really only two ways that you can improve your clubhead speed. One

14
00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:02.120
is to take your current pattern and just lengthen it so that you have more

15
00:01:02.120 --> 00:01:08.160
distance to apply force onto the golf club. Or two the second one is to

16
00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:12.580
improve the sequencing and the total contribution of how your body is

17
00:01:12.580 --> 00:01:17.880
creating force. Now oftentimes that second one is a little bit of a rocky

18
00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:22.080
road at first. Some golfers really struggle with changing the way that they

19
00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:27.480
power their swing because power is such a reflexive activity. So for some golf

20
00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:27.560
ers

21
00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:32.440
especially if you have a tendency to get really short kind of like this one of

22
00:01:32.440 --> 00:01:35.880
the easiest ways to increase your clubhead speed is to lengthen your back swing

23
00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:35.920
.

24
00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.840
There are a few different ways that you can lengthen your back swing. One is if

25
00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:46.400
you try to increase the amount of rotation happening from your lower body

26
00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:52.040
down. So basically using letting your knees straighten or bend, letting your

27
00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:56.720
feet rotate a little bit and letting your hips rotate so that your pelvis is

28
00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:00.880
facing more away from the target. This works really well for golfers who try to

29
00:02:00.880 --> 00:02:05.400
kind of lock their lower body in place. You see that that limits the amount of

30
00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.800
shoulder rotation I could get because I'm limiting my hip rotation. When it

31
00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:09.960
comes

32
00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:14.560
to the longer hitters the average is somewhere around 45, 50 degrees of

33
00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.680
lower body or pelvis rotation and a lot of that is happening from the knees and

34
00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:27.040
the ankles. The second option is more from your spine. So from your spine the

35
00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:27.520
main

36
00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:32.400
two things that are going to lengthen the backswing are extending the spine

37
00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:38.080
which is actually happening more from the hips but we see it kind of at the

38
00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:44.200
spine and the second one will be getting more of this chest rotation. So the

39
00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:50.760
spine extension or the hip extension changes my look from here to more there.

40
00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:55.070
So if I have a tendency to look like my chest is still pointing way down

41
00:02:55.070 --> 00:02:55.360
towards

42
00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:01.040
the ground even though my shoulders have reached almost 90 degrees because my

43
00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:05.440
chest is pointed down towards the ground I'm gonna be limited in how much of a

44
00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:10.320
backswing I can really create. The difference between that and that is more

45
00:03:10.320 --> 00:03:15.160
what I'm doing in my spine and it can have a significant impact in my ability

46
00:03:15.160 --> 00:03:15.320
to

47
00:03:15.320 --> 00:03:21.020
create speed by lengthening the top of the swing. In fact that's one of my go-t

48
00:03:21.020 --> 00:03:21.160
os

49
00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:28.000
when I have especially older golfers looking to get a you know quick 10-yard

50
00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.680
improvement or so. Now when you change your pivot like that it can throw off

51
00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:37.920
your timing in the short term but oftentimes it's worth it in the long term

52
00:03:37.920 --> 00:03:42.600
to pick up the extra speed. The last one so we got your lower body we got your

53
00:03:42.600 --> 00:03:46.560
core and then the last one would be the arms. The two different ways you could

54
00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.440
increase basically lengthen your backswing are typically going to come from

55
00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:57.240
the shoulders or the wrists. So if I lock my wrists in place kind of like

56
00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:03.240
this you'll see that my my swing has more of a 3/4 look to it and because my

57
00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:07.200
wrists are really rigid I'm gonna have a hard time creating some of this

58
00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:11.760
downward load or some of this trail wrist extension and get into a really

59
00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:15.560
good delivery position. I'll typically get into more of a delivery position

60
00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:15.720
like

61
00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:22.280
this and I was limited in how long of a backswing I created so it kind of

62
00:04:22.280 --> 00:04:28.480
impacts my speed creation two different ways. The shoulders are the other

63
00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:28.880
option

64
00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:33.240
which is some golfers tend to get more of their arms working too much around

65
00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:38.170
their body and not enough up. So if your arms stay more in front of your body

66
00:04:38.170 --> 00:04:38.720
but

67
00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.600
you tend to kind of bring them around kind of like this as opposed to lifting

68
00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:48.760
them slightly up in the backswing then that can limit your your speed

69
00:04:48.760 --> 00:04:55.160
creation capabilities. So one fun just kind of exercise that you can do is

70
00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.520
playing around with the different three ways of increasing the length of your

71
00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:03.840
backswing and see if one of them has an impact on your club head speed without

72
00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:08.400
messing up your contact. I do recommend doing this with a launch monitor if you

73
00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:14.920
have access to one just because it's going to be hard for you to balance out

74
00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:20.360
all the possible changes so you may not see that you're actually increasing

75
00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:20.480
your

76
00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.840
club head speed if you just look at distance. So this is one of the games

77
00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:31.410
that I typically do on track man or or on any of the even a swing radar would

78
00:05:31.410 --> 00:05:31.520
be

79
00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:36.200
an okay one for checking this but you can play around with letting your hips

80
00:05:36.200 --> 00:05:41.440
go letting your spine go letting your wrists set a little bit more at the top

81
00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:45.280
and see if one of those has a bigger impact in your ability to lengthen your

82
00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:48.480
backswing. Worst case scenario if you don't have access to a radar you can

83
00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:54.560
always look at it from a face on camera angle and you can see we'll wear how

84
00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:00.000
high are my hands getting as long as I'm not compromising my position so

85
00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:05.960
either too much sway off the ball too much early extension of the spine too

86
00:06:05.960 --> 00:06:11.960
much breaking down in the elbows as long as I'm lengthening it in a good way it

87
00:06:11.960 --> 00:06:17.320
should help to create more club head speed. So if you're in that second camp

88
00:06:17.320 --> 00:06:21.430
of trying to create more club head speed lengthening your backswing is one of

89
00:06:21.430 --> 00:06:21.440
the

90
00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:25.360
easiest ways to do it and this discusses the major components of how you can

91
00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.280
actually accomplish that. So now we'll look at two different ones so this first

92
00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:38.440
one will be my stock just kind of my normal length swing and that's just my

93
00:06:38.440 --> 00:06:45.160
comfortable kind of iron distance there but then what we'll do next is you'll

94
00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:52.520
see I get more of my length from my spine and from a little extra wrist set.

95
00:06:52.520 --> 00:07:04.000
Now you'll be able to see I hit that reasonably solid and I got another an

96
00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:10.520
extra say seven to ten yards of carry with my eight iron here. So now this is

97
00:07:10.520 --> 00:07:15.080
something that I will practice so that on par fives and things where I want to

98
00:07:15.080 --> 00:07:20.010
get a little extra club head speed out of my driver I can add a little bit

99
00:07:20.010 --> 00:07:20.480
extra

100
00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.560
length to the backswing and give it a go if the hole is wide enough or open

101
00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:29.320
enough. So it's a good skill to have even if you decide that it's not worth the

102
00:07:29.320 --> 00:07:34.400
risk and you want to play safe most of the time or a little bit more controlled

103
00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:38.960
most of the time at least now by knowing what the options are you'll have a

104
00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:42.920
little bit you'll have more strategy options that you could choose when you're

105
00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.220
deciding what to do on the course.

106
00:07:46.220 --> 00:07:53.840
Now we'll let my legs go just for fun.