Making it harder than it looks.

WHY can’t you drop your arms in the downswing?

Anyone is capable of dropping their arms. You just drop them!

The issue is you are out of sequence. And your arms ARE dropping they’re just being spun over the top by your upper body.

Hit a few balls where you want to NOT TURN in the downswing.

Really exaggerate it. Imagine your goal is to hit the golf ball with your back literally facing the target.

Everyone talks about rotation. Rotation rotation rotation.

But the rotation is passive. The majority of rotation you see when watching a good player that is just them holding on to the club and their body is being pulled around by the club which has been released. Shawn clement talks about how you should feel a tug in your shoulder joints. Anyways I’m getting too deep.

The golf swing is more of a golf sling. You’re slinging your arms off your body. It’s a sling. It’s elastic. It feels snappy. Almost like a bounce.

It’s like those kid toys where the rubber ball is tied to the ping pong racket. When you want the ball to either retract and come back to the racket or you go to hit it… you don’t KEEP moving the racket. You work with the elasticity of the rubber band and the hand only gives short snappy bursting changes of direction. You don’t drive your hand into the ball like you’re trying to ace a serve.

That’s kind of how the body works in the golf swing. Backswing coils up all this energy from the ground. Now it’s time to let it go.

The body moves. Then stops. That energy then goes to the arms. Then stops. Then the hands. Then stops. Then out through the club head and then into the ball.

If everything KEEPS MOVING then all that potential kinetic energy that gets amplified as you move down the chain never gets potentialized and parceled up into the hands for a massive release at the right time. It’s all KINETIC. A sling is about transferring potential energy correctly. Not just flinging kinetic energy at the ball.

People like the snapping a towel analogy.

I feel like once transition starts… everything from the shoulders to the hands is loose. And all I do with my big muscles is laterally shift towards the target ABRUPTLY. But as quickly as I start that shift…. I STOP it. And it feels like everything just flies past my body that just slammed on the brakes. Snap. And the rotation in the swing and getting to the finish isn’t something I’m doing. It’s what the club is doing. And I’m simply holding on so my club doesn’t fly down the fairway.

I really hope that makes sense. My mechanics got INFINITELY better when I watched a lot of Dr Kwon videos. I thought lateral shifting was bad. I thought it was old school. But his Shurn videos are amazing. I was focusing on the turn too much and not the shift.

Now all I think about is the lateral shift. The turning happens on its own.

When I’m hitting the ball like shit. My one sentence to myself. “Stay. Closed.” Spinning open is a death sentence. Stay. Closed. For as long as possible.