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This concept video is connecting spine extension to the release.

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So, um, oftentimes golfers struggle with a release.

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They'll either talk about having an early release or a flip or a chicken wing.

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Um, in this video I'm gonna connect the spine movement to all of those different

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patterns or early, uh, arm release patterns. Um,

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so basically when we're talking about spine extension, um,

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from the down the line camera, we're just talking about extending the,

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the rib cage or the thoracic spine, kind of more like this,

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where it's almost feeling like I'm leaning backward, but not by hyperextending.

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My lower back. My abs are still like,

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I'm keeping the bottom of my ribs the same distance away from my pelvis

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as best I can. And I am picking up my chest kind of like this.

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So one of the, um,

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one of the things that that does is that allows your arms to stay straight.

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If I was to set up to the golf ball and stay flex forward and turn,

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my chest is pointing down at the ground like this.

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So if I kept my arms straight, that's as far as they could go.

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If my chest stayed pointing down like this, then as the arms passed,

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there wouldn't be any real way that I could do this. Have the,

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have the club and the arms past my body while the body is pointing down

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without bending and lifting. Right. And the more that I did it,

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the more that I'm down there,

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the more that those arms would have to bend earlier and earlier.

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Alternatively,

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if on the other hand I get my chest pointing up that way,

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then I can keep my arms in front and straight much longer

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into the swing.

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So many golfers who tend to struggle with more of kind of a,

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a throw or a chicken wing or a scoop,

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their chest stays pointing down really long.

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That can be accompanied with early extension.

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That can be accompanied commonly with more

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kind of axis tilt and slide. But you can see my chest,

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my upper part of my chest is still pointing down. Um, as opposed to one of the,

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one of the hallmarks of really, let's say,

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stable releases is that on the way through the,

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the body continues turning and the the chest goes into extension

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as it goes through,

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or the thoracic spine goes into extension as it's rotating and side bending.

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This is where golfers will often describe a feeling of that

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right shoulder, um, going down or finishing tall. Um,

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all those are kind of similar feels for this one pattern of

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having the chest go into or the spine go into more extension on the way through.

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So if you're struggling with either a buckle

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a slide, if you see on video, um, from the face on view,

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you'll tend to see a little bit more of this tilt where the upper body is back

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from the down the line.

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You'll see that the upper body stays more rounded and potentially that right

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shoulder kind of stays high. Um, if you see more of that,

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then you might want to experiment with getting a little bit more of this

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chest pointing up or chest extension.

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There's a couple ways that this can go wrong. Um, either one,

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you go this way,

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you go into early extension where you're actually getting your spine vertical

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cuz you don't have enough side bend in turn.

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Or a really common one is you'll feel like you're going into chest ex or

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you're extending your spine,

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but you're just doing it from the hips and you're tending to do more of this

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lower body slide. Um,

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so feeling like you're over the front foot and either doing kind of that,

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uh, the chest bump, ab stretch, or the, um,

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the cross body upper cut, those are a couple different feels for getting, um,

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into this follow through position. But if you are really struggling with,

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uh, getting better schlafly, getting a later release, um,

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this is one of the big body shallows down at the bottom. Um,

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so this can be a common area that you'll need to look at. Uh,

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so we'll show one more and then we'll let you go practice.

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So if I get into impact position, this is where I wanna be.

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But if I stayed forward, if I stayed pointing down as I was going into here,

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that hits the ground really hard,

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where if at the same time I'm in this position,

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but now I have a feeling of going into that chest extension that's going

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to allow the club to have that shallow or have that

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schlafly I should say,

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but still be coming through nice and shallow or controlling the depth.

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So if you're struggling with your release,

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look at your chest and if you're struggling with your chest,

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look at your release.

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Those two have to kind of match each other if you're going to get a really good

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flat spot and really good, uh, low point consistency.