One of many extra irritating issues for us golfers to listen to from an teacher is…”Shorten Your Swing!!!”
“However Coach, I don’t wanna shorten my swing and hit the ball 30 yards shorter than earlier than.”
On this article, primarily based on our latest “Proper Knee Laser Beam Drill” video, I’ll break down how the best knee can give you the proper approach to shorten your golf swing and even add distance again to you sport.
Shrek vs. The Donkey
Ever watch that huge dude on the driving vary with huge sturdy arms tackle the golf ball, take an enormous ol’ whack at it and it solely goes 210 yards. All of the whereas he celebrates and attributes his wonderful distance to infinite bicep curls.
Then behind that musclebound gentleman is the 120lbs, 16 year-old child, that simply cleared the again of the vary, which thoughts you, is 300 yards.
I do know most of you’ve seen this little situation, possibly at a special scale, however we’ve all seen it. What can we chalk it as much as, although? A phenomenon?
Now, let’s be clear right here first, the gap traveled by the arms and the arms is an enormous a part of your clubhead velocity.
Nonetheless, in case you aren’t going to load your physique the proper means, you then higher simply go forward and swing lengthy and uncontrolled. Simply don’t kill any golfers 3 fairways over.
Being the sensible golfers that we’re, we will study the methods of swinging in management and maximize membership head velocity with out popping a vein out of our head.
Let’s load em’ up and transfer em’ out
So, how did the small man prevail within the above story?
Straightforward! The smaller man allowed all the physique to help the arms throughout the golf swing.
The smaller man loaded the best aspect of the physique correctly and created separation from the shoulder flip and the hip flip.
On the earth of effectivity, we now have to create separation within the rotation of the hips and the shoulders. Your proper knee within the backswing will help you do exactly that.
If the best knee doesn’t enable the decrease physique to stabilize, then your hips will have the ability to over rotate, your backbone will stand tall and you’ll by no means obtain that wanted separation to bomb your driver like the professionals.
In the end, the extra separation that you simply create between the shoulders and hips the higher. The decrease physique offers stabilization and acts like an anchor to the bottom; whereas, the higher physique is winding up all these huge core muscle groups.
Your proper knee will now turn into a laser beam…Sure, a freakin’ laser beam
It is a “should have” drill…
Have a look at all these advantages:
- load the best aspect correctly,
- shorten your swing,
- provide the separation in shoulder vs. hip flip,
- all whereas preserving your distance.
That was fairly a bit for one breath, but it surely actually reveals the significance of the best knee within the backswing.
Now, think about that your proper knee turns into a laser beam that’s attempting to fry a bug on the bottom.
The purpose of the drill is to maintain your laser on the bug throughout all the backswing. If the laser beam stays on the bug all the time, you should have loaded your proper aspect correctly, and you will notice good separation from the shoulder vs. hip rotation.
In case your knee strikes off the bug, then you’ve turn into unstable and can appear like the image beneath. Take good discover how the hips and shoulders have rotated virtually the identical quantity within the backswing. The swing appears lengthy and uncontrolled, and there aren’t any bugs to fry right here.
Easy and efficient drills just like the laser beam drill will enable you create the environment friendly energy you deserve and assist the arms not be so darn drained on the finish of your spherical. Why work tougher? Work smarter!
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