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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the takeaway.

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So we're breaking the backswing down into two phases.

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The initiation or the first phase of the backswing,

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we're going to call the takeaway.

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And then the second phase, we're going to call setting the club.

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Now the takeaway is really a very simple movement.

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It's roughly turning my spine.

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So if I take my normal grip and I have the club,

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I'll take my normal setup and we'll demonstrate here first.

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So if I took my normal setup, a good takeaway is basically going to be

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a turn of the spine until the club is about parallel to the ground,

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something like that.

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So if I were standing up straight into all and I just turned,

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that would roughly be what a good takeaway is.

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Now that seems very, very simple and it is.

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The problem is an execution.

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There are a number of things that can go wrong

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and there are a number of things that can complicate things.

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First of all, while it looks like I'm just turning,

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it's actually a little bit more complicated than that.

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So in order, if I was standing straight up and down,

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yes, I would just rotate my spine.

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The club would say out in front of me just like so.

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And everything would be hunky dory.

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Because I've bent from the hips,

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if I kept my hips flexed exactly the same,

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and I was to just turn my spine.

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Now you would see that my upper body would get my head way outside my foot.

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There's a huge myth in the golf swing about this big load in the back swing

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and this big weight shift into the back swing.

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There is a little bit of a weight shift, possibly.

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We're not really sure.

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Well, we think there's a little bit of a weight shift.

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What we know is that the pressure is going to shift

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or where I'm kind of pushing into the ground

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is going to shift as I make this back swing.

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So what one person may interpret as weight

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is probably actually pressure.

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Because what 3D shows is that the pelvis and the upper body

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will have on the upper end about a 1 inch shift in the back swing,

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which is very, very little.

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So there's very little shift away from the target of the upper body

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and the pelvis in the back swing.

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Most guys tend to say a little bit more centered.

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Some even drift a little bit towards the target,

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but they're all going to press into that foot

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and create a pressure shift.

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So let's get into the movements of this simple little 1 piece

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take away.

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First, the arms aren't going to do very much at all.

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They basically stay out in front

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and there's little change.

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There can be little change in the wrist,

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but there's marginal movement during this initiation phase.

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It should be led from the ribcage.

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In order for me to turn in what looks like perpendicular

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or turning in my posture in my spine angle,

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what actually has to happen is a blend of 3 movements.

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One of them is going to be standing up from the hips.

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One of them is going to be bending to the left,

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and the other one is actually going to be turning.

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Now, if I do this in a 1-1 to 1 ratio,

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what ends up happening is I stand up, I side bend, I turn.

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I stand up, I side bend, I turn,

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and now I've actually made my rotation movement

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without having the upper body translation.

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So it's a little tricky,

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but there's simple ways to practice it,

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which we go over in the drill videos.

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But more or less, we are trying to make a ribcage movement

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in order to move the club and the hands

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to this parallel position, and we're going to call that take away.