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This concept video is breaking down,

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spinning the shoulders.

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Uh, so spinning the shoulders is a term that we're gonna use

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for the shoulders, going from the right side of our body

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to the left side of our body, kind of going more like this.

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So, uh, right shoulder back, left shoulder, forward

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to left shoulder, back right sho shoulder forward.

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And in many actions that would be a kind of a big source

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of creating hand speed.

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It would be a big, um, power source for creating a whip

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of that trail side.

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Um, however, in my experience, um, for the golf swing,

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the later you can get that to happen,

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probably within reason, you probably do it too late.

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But in general, the timing of that, the later

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that you can get it to happen,

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typically the better your golf swing is.

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All else being equal. Um, many amateurs struggle with it.

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Uh, the shoulder spin happening either early in transition

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or dominating the release.

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So I wanted to talk through how that shows up, um,

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and what you can watch out for.

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Um, there's a bunch of drills

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that will work on the complimentary pieces, uh,

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but sometimes that, uh, shoulder spin is kind

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of the underlying mechanism that makes it really hard

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to break certain patterns in transition.

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If we get up to the top of the swing

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and at the top of the swing, the shoulder,

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the right shoulder's back,

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and the left shoulder is a little bit forward, kind

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of more like this, if I immediately start spinning the

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shoulders, then that's one

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of the classic steepening over the top type movements.

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Um, from the down the line camera angle, if you do this,

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you'll tend to see the, the hands travel well

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outward towards the golf ball.

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Um, and the shaft will tend to get vertical

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and out away from you, often accompanied

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with some early extension.

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Um, now the sneakier version is if we look at delivery

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position, if I do a little bit of this movement,

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if I do a little bit of that,

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then I would typically be steep

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unless I added an extra shallowing.

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So a lot of players who have more of this excessive tilt

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of the upper body back, um,

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or the arms getting more behind the body.

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So if you're tending to see more of this gap

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and throw there, this shoulder spinning might be one of the,

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the key components

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or the key, um, kind of culprits in order to get the arms

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to be in front of your body.

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Here you'll see if all I did was spin my shoulders,

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it becomes a lot harder to get that elbow in front compared

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to if I had my shoulders pointing more

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back behind the golf ball.

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So this is where, um, some of the ideas of kind

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of developing that scapular feel,

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whether you feel your chest

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or your shoulders back, that allows for the arms

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to get into a better delivery position.

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But it requires that you get more of your speed from kind

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of the, uh, below your chest

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or below kind like T six, middle of your thoracic spine,

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getting more of the motion there.

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Um, and some of the motion in the arms,

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but not so much in the,

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the shoulders getting that shoulder spin.

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Some people do a good job of getting into a more

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or less good delivery position,

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but then they spin the shoulders as a dominant mechanism

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during their release or through the ball.

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So they'll get into a position kinda like this,

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and then through the ball

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we'll see those shoulders tend to spin.

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That shoulder spin through the ball is often accompanied

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with more of an, uh, kind of a throw

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or an early release of that right arm, that right wrist

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or that right shoulder, or it'll accompany more

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that left wrist pulling, getting into more

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of a chicken wing pattern kind of like this.

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And almost always it's accompanied

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with staying in deflection, uh, longer.

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So that can cause on the way through the head

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to drift forward, um, or the body to stay more down

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and have more of kind of a disconnected look.

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Um, sort of like that where if I was to go up

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and prevent the shoulders from spinning there

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during transition

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and then prevent the shoulders from spinning there

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during the release, you can see that that will, um,

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create some of these looks of my body

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and my arms working more kind of in sync.

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Um, where when I do this shoulder driven motion,

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either early or late, it tends to have more of a

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kind of a disconnected look.

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Um, and often golfers will complain

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that the swing feels quick when the shoulders

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have spun too soon.

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So this can be one of the engines

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and one of the glues that drives a bunch of the looks that,

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uh, we hate when we see our swings on video

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and a bunch of the mist patterns that create a lot of,

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uh, inconsistency.

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So I highly recommend that you investigate a way

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to feel the shoulders staying a little bit more closed.

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It may be the missing link for either your transition

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or your release issues.

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So real quick, kind of shoulders

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or back saying to the target while I get into a good

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delivery position, and then more

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or less feeling like the whip

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of the shoulders is happening late through the ball,

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that gives the, the feeling of swinging

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through the ball more width on the follow through.

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Lots of good things that help with consistency

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of ground contact and consistency of ball light.