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- Left Shoulder Downswing
- Right Arm Fold
- Spine Extension
- Forearm rotation
The second half of the backswing involves a continued rotation/side bend combined with extension, elevation of the arms, and a rotation of the forearms to get the club to set on plane. During the second half of the backswing, the “weird” movements are the extension and the forearm rotation.
Playlists: Beginner Program, STS - Swing Phases
Tags: Backswing, Concept, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to talk about setting the club or the second phase of the
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backswing.
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So we're going to assume that we've initiated our swing with the turning of our spine using
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the extending side bending rotating model.
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Well, the simple thing is the spine is just going to continue making the same movements
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along with the pelvis.
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So you're going to continue doing this extend, side bend turn, extend, side bend turn.
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Until you would basically be almost vertical, not quite, about 40 degrees bent left,
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and then rotated somewhere around 90 degrees.
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Somewhere in there, whatever your body is comfortable doing, you'll want to make sure that
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in this finished position your weight hasn't, or your movements haven't pushed you to the
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outside of the foot.
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So if I faced here and I did that again, here's my setup, then I stand up, I side bend,
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I rotate that creates my backswing.
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You'll notice that this foot stays flat, it didn't drift up to the outside.
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That means that I'm kind of in this good, loaded position, and you may feel some pressure
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in that right hip, which a lot of players have interpreted as a load.
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So that covers the basics of what we need to spine and the hips to do.
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Now let's talk about the arms.
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They have another job to do.
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They want to bring the club in preparation for what the arms need to do during transition.
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So during the takeaway, if you recall, the arms did very, very little.
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During the second phase of the backswing, you're going to have a little bit of elevation,
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just like so.
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You're going to bend your right elbow, and you're going to let your wrists cut just a little
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bit, and you can even let your arm rotate in external rotation, or you can let your hand
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rotate out, but you want to keep your elbow more or less in front of your shoulder.
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You'll get into a lot of trouble if you start getting this right elbow back too much
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behind your body, unless you do a very nice transition the way jack necklace or a
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Fred couples has done it.
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It can be a power source, but it can also be a really big cause of a cast movement.
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So for argument say, I would say it's probably not worth it, unless you've been doing
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it for so long and have no problem making a good drop into delivery position from there.
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So let's just rehearse just the arms.
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So if we went just the arms, they're basically going to go like so.
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I ask people all the time to just bend that right elbow, just bend that right arm and let
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it rotate out.
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And what usually ends up happening is both arms bend like this.
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So you want to practice bending that right arm without having a whole lot of bend in the
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left arm.
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The other last little piece is that this arm is going to rotate slightly palm away, which
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gets the club more in line or pointed at the target as opposed to if it rotated.
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So all the way, you would get the club pointed more laid off as opposed to rotating
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it or pronating it, rotating palm towards you like so.
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So it's a pretty simple movement with the spine.
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You just keep that side bend moving.
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It'll feel like your head stays pretty still and your shoulders point down towards
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the golf ball.
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The arms are going to elevate and set and when you put them together, they end up looking
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something like that, which is kind of that toward backswing position, preparing you for
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what we're going to do dynamically during transition.
