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This drill is body check points. So body check points is a good way to use video to

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look at your downswing and see where you're creating your speed from. A couple

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good check points are where is your lower body and where is your upper body. So

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we're going to essentially take the arms out of the equation. We're going to look

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at when the lead arm is parallel and then when the shaft is parallel. Now I don't

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want you to feel like it's you know this two-piece type movement. Those are

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just check points to make sure that you're making the right movements. So the first

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checkpoint of that left arm parallel, one of the most common check points that

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I'll use here is where is the lower body. Ideally the lower body by the time

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the left arm the left upper arm is parallel to the ground should be roughly

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facing the golf ball or parallel to the target line. If it's not then that's a

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good indication that you're using your arms earlier in the swing then say this

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stock to our model. So one of the keys is to make sure that when that lower

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body starts it transfers through the core and that it's not just the lower body

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getting out of the way. The second check point which will be easiest to see from

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down the line is then is the upper body parallel to the target line or roughly

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parallel to the target line when the shaft is parallel. So if the lower body gets

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parallel by the time the arm is then that next phase the lower body should

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continue rotating the upper body kind of comes with it and now by the time you

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got shaft parallel your chest should roughly be facing the golf ball. A lot of

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golfers who get their arms involved too soon will tend to have well before

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they get to impact their hips in chest facing well right of the golf ball and it

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is possible to hit shots that way but it tends to rely a lot more on hand

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timing you tend to not be able to swing hard and tend to struggle with the

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longer clubs like the driver. So getting that body to power the swing you can

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use a couple of these checkpoints and always make sure that these body movements

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are making you feel like your hands are more powerful. If you're if you're

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just getting up there and just kind of faking these turn things but it's not

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actually creating force on the club almost like when I do the the bracing

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movement the bracing is so that I can feel the body kind of resist the club as

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it swings past me at the end of the release. Well what I'll do is I'll grab the

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club and I'll say okay what I want you to do is I want you to use that lower

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body but I want you to feel like it transfers into the upper body not just

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turn like so so you can hook this up against the golf cart or door or you

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can have a body hold it and you can make sure that when you hit these body

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checkpoints it's pulling on the club it's not just arbitrarily getting you into

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position. So in swing it looks something like that.