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This concept video is unifying some transition thoughts.

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So, on Instagram and YouTube and things like that, you kind of hear two polar

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opposite descriptions of transition.

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And this video is my way of trying to unify what I think the two different

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sides are saying.

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Because you're probably confused if you try one, it sounds like it's polar

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opposite to the other.

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I often think that golf instructors describing the golf swing are like the

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classic fable of the blind men and the elephant.

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Where you have a handful, let's say six different blind men all touching

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different parts of the elephant.

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They're describing the elephant based on what they're holding.

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So, one says it's like a velvet curtain.

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Well, he's obviously holding onto the ear.

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One says it's like a tree trunk.

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He's holding onto the leg.

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One says it's like a rope.

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He's holding onto the tail, et cetera, et cetera.

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So, when I hear different golf instructors describe different parts of the

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swing,

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I'm trying to reconcile how it fits with the data and how it might be

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describing it from one of multiple perspectives.

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So, the two different transition thoughts that you'll often heal here are leave

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your arms up and turn your body kind of as hard as you can.

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Kind of has more of a look like this one is being exaggerated.

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And the other one would be keep your back to the target and feel like you pull

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the arms straight down.

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Now, on paper, those seems like they could not be further away from each other.

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They seem like they're polar opposite.

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But what I'm going to show you is I think they're two different reference

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points of the same movement.

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And it really ties to the shoulder blades.

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I think the shoulder blades are one of the big missing links in golf

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instruction and one of the core differentiators between different skill levels.

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And in general, in transition, what I like to see is more of that trail

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shoulder blade retracting and that lead shoulder blade protracting and elev

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ating.

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So, you get kind of this swim move like this that helps with shallow as well as

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connection.

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Lots of good things.

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So, from the second perspective, this is an easy one where you've heard lots of

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people describe keep your back to the target.

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If this shoulder stays more up and this one stays more back, as my hips are

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turning, it's going to feel like my back stayed to the target.

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So, if I bring this arm down, it doesn't lower as much as it could.

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If my goal was actually to bring the arm down, then I would bring it all the

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way to my side.

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If I'm just trying to bring it while it's across my body, I'm limited in the

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range of motion.

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So, that's about as far as I could pull down.

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And so, while I'm doing that, I feel like a good connection on my serratus and

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my pec, some of the inside shoulder muscles.

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But it will have a feeling of pulling down with the arm because it's really

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hard to overdo if the shoulder's staying good alignment.

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If, on the other hand, I actually was trying to pull down my arm, eventually,

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instead of staying this way, that shoulder would start pulling back

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and I would pull it down to my side or even behind it, kind of like this.

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So, back to the target and pull down, helps keep that left shoulder from

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pulling and helps get the arm connection really good.

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That is the opposite of that lead shoulder pulling down or the shoulder's kind

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of reversing that tension and leading the downswing.

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Now, the second idea is spinning the lower body and keeping the arms up.

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So, again, if I'm feeling this would be a reference of pulling the arms down,

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if I feel like I'm keeping my arms up, one of the ways to do that would be to

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increase that connection.

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And if I'm keeping this shoulder closed, I'm going to feel like my hips and my

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legs are leading the downswing, like they're turning pretty aggressively.

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So, from the shoulder blade perspective, if I do the same movement, if I'm

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feeling more the core and the hips, I could feel like I'm spinning while that

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arm stays up.

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If I'm feeling more the arms and I'm not really aware of what my legs are doing

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, I might feel like the back stays that the target and the arm is pulling down.

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So, I think that those two different descriptions, based on the actual data and

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my understanding of some of these fascia lines, I think that they're actually

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describing the same thing.

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So, if you're struggling with it, I think it can be helpful to know how to look

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at yourself on video and decide which one might make more sense to you.

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If you are going into more of an early extension kind of slide movement like

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this, well, you might do better trying to get your hips to rotate and feel like

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the arms stay a little bit more back.

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If, on the other hand, you are seeing your shoulders kind of spin really

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aggressively kind of like this and the club is getting thrown out there, then

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you might feel better feeling like your back stays to the target and the arms

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pull down.

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Especially if you can build a little awareness in feeling it kind of in the

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shoulder blades more like that.

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So, hopefully this helps you understand how to navigate or interpret these

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different fields.

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You want to start by understanding what the actual movement is and then

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depending on where you're coming from, you could have two polar opposite fields

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, but you're trying to do the same movement, build a good efficient body powered

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golf swing.

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If you know how to feel both, then I can kind of, all right, I'm going to

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encourage more of that lower body turn on this one.

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So, I'm going to feel like the core stays back.

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That felt pretty good today.

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And now on this next one, now that I've kind of predisposed my hips to start

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this, I'm going to feel more like the arms are pulling down here, but that's

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more of an emphasis and a feeling of this lead shoulder.

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Getting connected.

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So, we're going to go up and we're going to feel more.

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And that gives me a little bit more draw because for me it does feel like I don

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't get my lower body to lead quite as aggressively, but overall it connects the

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dots helps me with building my overall pattern.

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So, don't search for fields, understand what you need to do, look at the video

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to see where you're at and then experiment with fields that might likely move

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you closer to the model.

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That's the way to make real progress with your golf swing.