Golf Swing MechanicsGolf swing mechanics, when combined with exercises designed to provide the feel of a good swing, enable a student to craft an effective overall motion. Please visit our Home Page to learn about the research into swing mechanics that underlies the content of the SWAIL DVD and eBOOK.
Golf swing mechanics and sequences: Along with the movement of the coil, you should have a fairly strong sense of a jamming action by your right leg. As your left shoulder coils around and back and more of your weight shifts to your right foot, you may feel your hips slide back and your head raise. Use a firm, non-straightening right leg to keep both of these from happening. If you keep your head level and back and jam your right hip behind and forward, you’ll feel substantial stretch develop in your right buttock and you’ll achieve a Tour-pro-like top-of-coil position. As our pros execute their coils, they’re going to be stretching lots of trunk muscles, both front and back. By addressing the ball with their heads well back, by leaning back, and then by coiling around to get behind, many big trunk muscles between their hips and shoulders are being stretched a bunch. When you coil, the motion should feel just as it looks in the pictures on the previous pages. The time to get in back of the ball is when you take your address position. Golf Swing SequencesUse golf swing sequences as follows: Once you start moving, immediately move the right side of your torso straight behind. Don’t slide further back. Please stand up. Slide your hips a few inches to your right (‘back’), then slide them to the left (‘forth’). Next, still standing, whirl your arms around clockwise so that your torso turns too, then whirl your arms counter-clockwise, again turning your torso. Which of these torso motions feels more like your golf ‘swing’? If your answer is that your ‘swing’ feels more like the sliding motion, you’re not alone. But, predominantly, you want to feel as you do when whirling around, and this may feel very different to you. Possible Feeling Of Disconnection, dis-orientation. If you slide back and forth, your shoulders and hips don't lose too much of their parallel alignment with the intended line of flight, and you may feel comfortable that you haven't lot 'connection' with the ball and the direction in which you're trying to hit it. You may have a sense of being in a comfort zone, in ‘control’. But when you don’t slide, and you rotate your shoulders 90+ degrees, and your hips 55 to 70 degrees, you may feel disoriented, as if you've lost ‘connection’ with what you're trying to do, as if you’re out of ‘control’ (good!). The around-to-get-behind move of the right side of your torso will lead to better shot-making, and--with practice--that'll help you get comfortable! As a directional descriptor for the first move in hitting a golf ball, “back” has to be junked. In our book we get to why “swing” has to be junked. If you can give Swail the benefit of the doubt for the time being on “swing”, “backswing” is looking like a multiple offender. |
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