Golf Swing Step By StepGolf swing step by step needs to be explained simply. And that explanation needs to provide the overall feel of a good swing. Please visit our Home Page to learn all that the SWAIL DVD and eBOOK have to offer all golfers.
Golf swing step by step: During the coil, conscious effort must be made to lift the arms. Please stand up, grip a club, and then simply raise your hands and arms up and away from your body until they reach the height of your forehead. When you do this, feel how far away from your body your hands and arms are. When you initiate your coil, immediately begin to lift your hands and arms, achieving the identical feel. This, too, probably will feel very different from your existing initiating move. Most amateurs’ left arms are about parallel with a line across their shoulders at the top of the coil. Raising your left arm above your shoulders increases stretch greatly. Also, when you combine this lift with the coil, the stretch you’ll feel across your left back may be far greater than you’ve ever felt. A sure way is to dip your left shoulder as you coil. Not only will this lessen the tautness of that stretch, but it will help create the feeling that you’re raising your hands high. Watch out for this! Check yourself out in a mirror to see whether, at the top of your coil, your shoulders are as close to horizontal, and your arms as far above that line. Something else that happens when you combine this lift with your coil: your upper torso may incidentally move a bit back. The pros can whirl their arms toward the ball without having to make any compensating move to get on track. And their whirls will be speedy because of their considerable stretch. If you’ve stood up and tried a lift ‘n coil, the following two fundamentals will make sense. Fundamental #1: the overriding responsibility of the lift ‘n coil is to stretch muscles. If you want to pull with a muscle, first you must stretch it. If you want to pull hard, first you stretch a lot. In the golf ‘swing’, you’re trying to accelerate the clubhead from 0 to around 100 miles per hour in less than half a second. That sounds like a lot of pull, and it is (four horsepower!). So the ‘swing’ must include a lot of stretch, and then some very speedy contraction. When you focus on lift ‘n coiling, keep in the front of your mind this overriding thought: “ssttrrettch”. Many 'swing' flaws result from our bodies trying to avoid the discomfort, work, or even the strain of stretching. Fundamental #2: tense muscles won’t stretch much. If you get the chance, ask a Tour pro to shake hands, and ask him to do so using the same grip pressure he uses at address. You may be startled by the softness of his grip. This softness is critically important as you will see in our book. “Grip” Replacement: Fondle Think ‘fondle’. Feel all the tension in your neck, shoulders and arms disappear completely. Maintain this upper-body feeling throughout the entire motion of hitting a golf ball. At address, handle the club tenderly and that may get you in the 20% (or lower) range. As you coil, stretching muscles will become taut, but not tense. You can stretch muscles and still maintain that relaxed feeling. When you succeed at this, you’ll feel at the top of your coil as if your fondle pressure still is 20%. |
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