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Baseball players have something called a "check swing" where they start their swing, but stop it mid way. If they stop before the plate, then it doesn't count as a swing. The reason that they are able to do this, is because they are using the large muscles of their core to create speed, and the small muscles of their arms for fine control. A lot of golfers use their arms for body, and their body for control. Find out if this is you, by practicing swings at waist heigh.
Tags: Intermediate, Beginner
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This drill is called Czech swing progressions and this is to help you feel how the body
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creates leg in the golf swing. So we have a couple drills on how the body creates
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leg but this is a good one because it draws from what we do in other sports. So in
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baseball they're able to do a Czech swing which essentially is when you go to the
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top of the batting position here comes the pitch they start their body going
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towards the target and then they resist going with their arms and they kind of
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finish like so. Well that's essentially what we're doing when we do the pump drill
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is practicing this little body movement before the arms go so you should be able
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to stop it just as if you were doing a Czech swing. Now the reason that it's
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harder to do in the golf swing is because you're pretty much on top of the club
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and the club weighs very little so you don't need to use a whole lot of muscular
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effort in order to control it. When the club is way out here that mass being so far
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away from me causes me to use some of the bigger muscles in my core in my back. So
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by doing these Czech swings up here you can get the feeling of your body
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turning and bringing the club through without releasing the arms like so. One
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way that you can check it is when you go to your finished position you can look
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at where the grip is pointed. The grip if I were to choke up on the shaft would
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be way away from me. If I was to flip my hands it would hit me in the side so that's a
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really easy way to check to see if you're using mostly body or if you're using
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arms. Then what you can do is we start up here and you can lower it and get
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start getting closer to the golf ball. Dropping it down about a foot or so six
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inches each side each time until you get to golf ball and then you can go ahead and
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hit your shot like so.
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So just like that what you can do is start up here and then gradually decrease the amount
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of steps so that each time you get closer and closer to the golf ball and it takes
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fear and fear steps and that'll help the brain learn how just bending from the hips
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isn't going to change what muscles you want to do or what muscles you want to use
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you're just going to do a check swing the way that you would in baseball and the ball's
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going to get in the way.
