Hi guys, it's Aimee.
Today I'm going to show you how to stay in balance during a golf swing!
To stay in balance, finding the center of the golf swing is very important.
So when you set up, and in your backswing your center is the head and the spine.
And what you want to do is you want to keep the center as still as possible
when you're swinging.
So the head and the spine stays as still as possible. Do you see that?
For a lot of amateurs move the center around a lot.
This is usually caused by a lot of tension in your shoulders.
So let's look at a swing that is with a lot of tension in the shoulders.
What happens is, their neck tenses up as well as the shoulders.
And when you swing, the head has to follow the shoulders move,
otherwise if you force your head to stay, you're probably going to injure your neck
because there's so much tension and trying to rotate right?
So what you want to do is you want to engage your lower body
and relax your shoulders so that way your center stays still
like someone is holding your head, right?
So a lot of people ask how do you engage your lower body
and use your lower body for the movements, right?
You have to just think very simple.
In the set up, let's imagine someone sets up with a lot of tension in the shoulders.
Most likely that person is going to use the shoulders to swing the golf club.
Whereas if you engage your legs
then there's higher probability of using those muscles to swing, right?
So what you're going to do is, when you set up you're going to
drop your shoulders away from here so they're very relaxed.
And you're going to press down into the balls of your feet.
And you're going to feel your quads engage, your thighs.
And you're going to try and engage your abs by sucking them in
that way it's going to help your shoulders relax throughout the golf swing.
So you're going to feel the pressure into balls of your feet,
in your thighs, and in your belly.
And you're going to swing trying and maintaining that pressure,
instead of moving it into shoulders when you're swinging.
Alright, so if you understand how to maintain your setup
in your backswing center using your legs,
let's move on to the downswing.
In the downswing, the center has to shift into your left leg
so the left leg becomes the center.
So you've heard of a lot of people say transfer your weight into the left leg,
make a wall with left leg, finish on the left leg,
it's all the same thing, just different wording.
So what you want to do is you want to make sure you shift into the left leg first,
and when your balance is nice and stabilized
then you can go ahead and rip through the ball right?
In order for you to feel this,
impact bag is the most effective practice you can do.
So let me go ahead and set that up and show you the drill.
So in order for you to be able to push your left leg properly on the way down,
the order of the down swing is very important.
Basically what you're going to do is you're going to shift into the left leg,
and then use that momentum to power through the ball.
I don't want you to see this.
I don't want you to initiate the downswing with the arms
and then the lower body follow-through.
So you have to... and I also don't want to see this either.
You shift and then leave the arm strength to hit.
That's bad too, because you're not using the correct left momentum
to power through the ball.
It looks like this. You're going to go shift
and then hit the impact bag.
So obviously if you station it better it won't fly away like that.
So remember you have to post your left leg,
make that the center of your swing, and then power through the ball.
So to sum it up, in order for you to keep your center as steady as possible,
you want to engage your legs and abs
and use that throughout the whole swing as your main source of power.
And on the way down you want to shift first, get your center steady,
and then use not your arms but use your shift momentum to power through the ball.
I hope you're able to follow along. And I'll see you in the next lesson!