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This concept video is sequencing with your whole body.

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So periodically I get a member question about certain parts of the body feeling

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very passive.

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And I frequently use the same analogy.

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So I just wanted to kind of talk through the downswing and transition and

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sequencing.

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So we talk a lot about sequencing as far as moving your lower body, moving your

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core,

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moving your arms, and then moving the club.

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But the goal is that it's being moved as a unit, meaning when I move my lower

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body it

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should transfer that energy through my core and put the energy into my hands in

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the club.

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When I move my core it should transfer the energy through my shoulders and put

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it into

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the club.

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And when I move my shoulders it should do the same thing.

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So I frequently use the example of pushing a shopping cart or I will put my

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hands up

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and have my students push against me in the teaching studio.

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So if I was pushing a shopping cart kind of like this I'm pushing through my

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arms but

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I'm using my legs and my core.

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If I was to not push with my legs and just push with my arms that wouldn't be

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very effective.

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If I push with my legs and my core just kind of like dropped out or shut off,

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like if I

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totally relaxed my core, even as I go to push with my body it's not really

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transferring

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the same amount of energy into the hands or through my body.

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The other one that I'll sometimes see is I can push well with my body but my

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arms just

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kind of absorb the energy.

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So this is what those different patterns can look like if I'm actually hitting

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a golf

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shot.

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If that first version is if I was to just use my arms then the arms will bypass

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my body

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or move down compared to my body.

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My body didn't really move.

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Second version, if I get up to the top and my core ends up being kind of

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relaxed, what

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will happen is the lower body moves but I haven't really built any tension.

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It just feels like I'm waiting to then throw the arms.

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And then the last version would be I get up to the top of the swing and my body

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and my

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core move but my arms kind of get disconnected and don't really transfer any of

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that energy

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to the core.

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It's just like I'm kind of like holding on and my arms aren't really

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contributing.

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So when we're working on sequencing the goal is to feel like your whole body

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works as one

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unit.

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Many golfers are upper body dominant and so for them to get closer to using

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their whole

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body together they're going to have to feel more lower body and core but some

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people especially

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a lot of juniors and golfers potentially some women and older golfers, they'll

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use kind of

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all lower body and have very little contribution from the arms and the core.

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So the real skill for figuring out which one you need to work on is being able

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to analyze

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your video and figure out which part of your body is not contributing.

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If I need to get more of my leg action working then it's more about how to use

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the hips.

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If I need to transfer that into my upper body then I need to learn how to use

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my core and

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if I need to make sure that when I do that the club is getting into a good

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position and

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the arms are set up to have a good release then I'm going to have to work more

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on my

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arms.

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But ultimately the goal is to get into this kind of position where I'm applying

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a kind

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of a push from my entire body but in more of a rotational fashion kind of like

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this.

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That's the I would say a better metaphor for what we're trying to create when

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we're trying

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to create sequencing through there.

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You can see how the whole body ends up putting energy into the system and then

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it's during

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the release that I release that energy in the golf ball.

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So if you're working on your sequencing and you're trying to feel like your

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arms do absolutely

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nothing or your core does nothing that might be a misstep use the video and use

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some of

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the drills to help coordinate and get the whole body working together that's

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how you'll ultimately

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build your most efficient swing.

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Kind of like that.