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This discussion video is looking at bracing strategies.

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So bracing strategies is basically looking at the body movements to start the release and

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the release.

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So the body movements during the release.

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During transition, I'm going to use my body to really get this speed going into the handle

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of the club.

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But then during the release, my goal is to use my body along with my arms to help transfer

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the speed from the handle down to the club head.

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So what'll end up happening is I'm going to have to work away from the direction that

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I originally started.

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So similar to if I was throwing a ball, I'd kind of step and then stabilize if I was hitting

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something, let's say tennis, I'm going to step and then stabilize if I was snapping

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a towel, I'm going to accelerate and then decelerate, kind of works along that pattern.

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Now I'm not trying to get you to actively feel like you're stopping your body.

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So what's going to happen is it's going to move in a counter direction and that's

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what I call bracing.

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And that bracing is going to basically cause all that speed to get out to the club head.

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Now there's a variety of different ways that you can do it.

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You can brace with your lower body, you can brace with your core, you can brace with your upper

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body.

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The most consistent golfer is the guy who exemplify this stock tour swing pattern, tend to

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use their entire body.

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So they tend to use their hips by doing a little bit of this pelvis tuck and bridge.

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They tend to use their core by doing a little bit of a crunch and they tend to let those

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arms kind of stabilize, retract and rotate kind of like this to use their upper body.

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Some of the other patterns that you'll tend to see would be an overly done lower body,

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which will tend to look a little bit more like a buckle type movement.

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You can tend to see a core crunch pattern.

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So something like a lee westwood where this club is going way away from me like that.

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And I'm going to brace kind of like so to get all that speed to transfer out to the club

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that.

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Or I could use my shoulder neck area.

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So a lot of golfers will get to about this point and then you'll start to see their

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neck kind of crunch into stabilize the upper part of their shoulder girdle so that their

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ribcage can kind of act as the bracing mechanism.

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First through the ball you'll tend to see more of this shrug pattern where I'm basically

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pulling my shoulders up towards my ears like so.

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So it does a couple things that it helps transfer the speed from the handle to the club.

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But the other big important thing is now I've got the club at moving at a really good

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clip.

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Let's say 120 miles an hour or so with the driver.

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I need to be in a position that I can handle that speed.

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So different than say a tennis or a baseball like in a baseball I'm going to throw

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the ball and I don't really have to worry too much about how I'm going to handle decelerating

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all the speed I created because the ball is gone so now it's just stabilizing my body.

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Tennis racket doesn't weigh a whole lot and I'm not in too many compromising positions

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so it's not to challenging either.

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When this club is moving a hundred, 120 miles an hour it has a lot of force to it and so

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I have to be in a position where my body can safely absorb that force.

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I liken it to if you were going to jump off a two-story building.

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If you belly flopped you didn't absorb the force very well but if you landed and rolled

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you'd have a lot more time you'd use your whole body and you'd absorb the force much easier.

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Similarly a good bracing pattern is going to allow me to absorb the force through my

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whole body in a safer fashion.

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So if I'm doing it all in my legs, if I'm doing it all in my upper body those can

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can lead towards injuries at the very least they can lead towards path and face issues.

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So if you're struggling with understanding your release look at in your swing right

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around here that will give you an idea as far as how you're starting this bracing process

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and then look through the ball between there and there and that will see kind of how

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you're ending that bracing process and that will give you an idea of how you're

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your body is transferring and absorbing the speed that you've created during transition.

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It's a very critical part to understanding your release.

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It's a little bit tricky at first but once you get used to looking at it you'll start

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to understand how your arms and hands and your body are all working together to control

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your swing.

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And the shoulder shrug is not terrible because it can be really useful for these finesse wedge

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shots where I don't want to have this huge access to I don't want my body to be ultra

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shallow because my arms are going to be shallow.