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This drill is the backswing rebound. So, um,

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I didn't exactly know whether to call this a drill or a concept video, um,

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cuz it's gonna blend in a concept,

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but I'm gonna show you practically how to apply it. Um,

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and basically what we're gonna be looking at here is one of the themes that you

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hear a lot of long drive players talk about is increasing the speed of the back

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swing. Um,

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so we're gonna talk about how to apply that to your swing kind of safely, um,

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and how that tends to create more of this feeling of effortless power,

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where essentially you're trying to get a rebound in transition rather than a

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really forceful active pull.

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The classic analogy is if I had you take your hand and place it on your chest

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and I said,

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I want you to take your middle finger and you're gonna lift it up and then

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you're going to slam it into your chest,

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I went quiet so you could hear it on the microphone.

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Doesn't create a whole lot of speed this way,

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but if I got more of a rebound effect where I moved it quickly against the load,

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I can get a lot more speed than if I just did it actively.

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So essentially the load is going to be the golf club.

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So by swinging the golf club with some speed,

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now I can resist it with the sling that goes from my inner thigh

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through my obliques into the shoulder blade wraps around the spine up to my

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neck. So it creates this really nice, um, rotational, um,

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spiral line. So to feel it, we're going to get down on the ground.

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I recommend using either the underside of a couch, um,

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as a resistance or a heavy dumbbell. Um,

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I've got a 10 pound medicine ball, so I'm not gonna be able to apply,

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say maximum force to it, but you'll get the gist. So I'm gonna lean this way,

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hopefully you can see and, uh, here the demonstration.

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So I'm gonna lean this way and I'm just going to anchor the hand.

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So if I was holding onto the bottom of the couch, um,

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I would be holding my arms in kind of a t position, especially this trail arm.

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So I'm going to resist with the hand here.

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And now I'm gonna bring my legs up and I'm gonna do a little bit of like

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an ab roll.

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Now the key here is if I was trying to get my obliques to work,

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then you would see I would do it more like this where my rib cage isn't really

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moving. Um,

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instead what I want is I want my rib cage and my pelvis to move together and I

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want the rib cage to pull away from the inside of the armpit.

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Hopefully you can see the difference in those two.

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So this would be one where I'm doing more oblique and then this would be two

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where I'm doing more armpit,

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armpit muscle is the serratus anterior and I'm gonna feel like I can resist

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some speed kind of like this. Now if this was,

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I can feel like if I pulled really hard, the medicine ball is gonna move. Um,

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but what you'll see is if I rebound,

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I kind of get that sling and I can use that armpit muscle to pull

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my whole body pretty quickly

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in the direction of the target. That's not a lot of oblique though.

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Oblique is more stabilizing there.

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That is more a feeling of this sling, um,

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on the inside of the armpit kind of loading like this and then

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pulling in that direction. So how's that fit into the golf swing?

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Now I'm gonna go up to the top of,

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or I'm gonna go halfway back and now as I go to end the back swing,

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I'm gonna feel what I just felt down there where the rib cage

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is kind of getting moved away from the arm in the,

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the armpit that serous anterior is getting lengthened as the ribs are moving

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this way and the shoulder blade is moving that way.

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At the same time that that's happening, I'm getting an anchor. I'm getting my,

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my pressure into that lead foot.

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So it has this look of kind of moving like that where it almost feels like I'm

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moving in two different directions.

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I'm moving down in and into that lead side with my body as my

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arm is getting stretched and moving back to really create this feeling of

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tension on the inside of the armpit.

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What I would then do is that's created the speed and now I can rebound out of it

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in one kind of explosive movement, um,

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where I'm using this whole chain, my leg muscles,

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my core muscles and that arm armpit muscles to help deliver

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the club down the golf ball in kind of the spring, like,

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or more of a rebound or kind of a bouncy transition feel. Okay?

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So it's always hard to demonstrate a feel. Um,

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but what I'm gonna try to do here, uh,

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what I do for my students is I have 'em go up to the top of the swing and I'll

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push a little bit here.

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I'll put some resistance on the inside of the shoulder so that they can feel

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that same kind of movement of when the upper body was moving

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away from that arm that has a feeling of the arms being left behind or the arms

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staying up, um, or lag the arms might even feel like they're falling. Uh,

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so you're gonna have to do your best and try to make it feel like you

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what you were just doing, um,

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with the weight or with the bottom of the couch cushion. Um,

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but it will often have a very different transition feel.

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So a lot of you, this is what I imagine you feel,

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I go back and then I come down. That was more of a one,

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two,

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I go back load stuff up and then I come down and more of the force is created

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in the down movement. On this next one,

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I'm gonna create more of the force in the end of the backswing to finish the

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backswing to load that rebounds swing. And then I'm just going to kinda pop it,

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um, almost like, uh, elite pitcher or a martial artist.

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So now we're gonna feel a little bit more of this backswing load.

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Oh, ball's moving. Okay,

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so we're gonna feel a little bit more of this backswing load with speed.

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And you'll see I almost always naturally get a little bit more

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of that, uh, lead foot pop or that, um,

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kind of pushback or that rainbow force pattern, um,

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that a lot of guys look for when I focus on this upper body rebound effect.

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So a little more speed into that armpit

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And you'll see from a speed training perspective, um,

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we'll have to put it on TrackMan for you tomorrow and give some numbers. Um,

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but oftentimes I can see speed jumps five miles, six miles,

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as many as eight miles per hour depending on the club. Um,

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from getting more of this easier now it feels a little more chaotic,

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but it feels physically easier,

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like less actual force on the downswing.

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It feels like more of the force and speed is happening to end the backswing and

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then all the work is done in transition and the release just kind of happens.

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Um, so if you're struggling with speed, um,

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or if you're struggling with getting an what looks like a really arm dominant

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sequence where the upper body is getting steep,

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perhaps feeling some of this rebound will help get your lower body to lead.

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As long as you keep your uh,

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shoulder blade alignment as you're coming through that pelvis leading is gonna

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get you into a really good merry-go-round or a really good impact position.