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Stop Standing Up In Your Backswing
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Imagine that you have a power cord connecting your pelvis and your rib cage (if you don’t have a good imagination, then use a piece of tape like I’m doing here). When you swing a golf club, you don’t want to unplug your cord. You can create some slack if you want, but you don’t want to unplug it. If you did, then you would be going into lumbar extension which is bad for the facet joints in your back.
Tags: Standing Up, Backswing, Drill, Beginner
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Okay, this drill is the power cord drill for the loss of posture swing fault.
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So the loss of posture can happen from a variety of different things, but basically it
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will show up on video as a standing up in the backswing.
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So one of the things that can happen is you can lose your abdominal activity and basically
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you kind of collapse your spine this way.
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Instead of lengthening the spine, you'll actually go into what's called a reverse spine
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angle.
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One good way to overcome that loss of posture of a reverse spine angle pattern is to take
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one hand and place it on the bottom of your rib cage, like so, one hand on the top
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of your belt buckle.
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Now imagine there's a power cord between these two.
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If you were to make a backswing, you would want to maintain the connection between those
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power between the outlets, right?
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You wouldn't want the power cord to unplug.
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What you would see is if you reverse spine angle or loss your posture, the power cord would
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become unplugged because it's on, you'd had just enough length of cord to reach these
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two.
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So you can practice making your little body pivots, keeping this no wider than where it was
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when it started.
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What should actually happen is it'll get a little bit narrower in the backswing and then
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it'll get much narrower through impact as you do that little pelvic tilt.
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So it's a good little spatial awareness because we have a lot of sensation in our hands
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and we don't have very much sensation in our pelvis or a rib cage.
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So putting our hands there will help you become more aware of what this part of your body is doing.
