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Keys To Transition
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The most damaging moves of the backswing are getting your weight and pressure too far outside your trail foot and getting your trail elbow too far behind you. The weight on the outside of the trail foot makes the transition from the lower body next to impossible and the trail arm behind your body makes the arm shallowing piece incredibly difficult.
Tags: Fundamentals, Backswing, Transition, Concept, Intermediate
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This concept video is connecting the dots from the top of the swing to transition.
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So all these transitions from one movement to the other or the connecting the dots series
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is really to help you understand how these pieces fit together.
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So with focusing on what we're trying to do during transition, remember we're trying
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to have this trail leg push into this right leg push as well.
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So I'm going to have this lower body shift.
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So I'm going to kind of regain my flex kind of compress against the ground and the
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big one is I'm going to shallow my arms and start squaring that club face.
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So what I want to look at is what are the back swing things that can make that more difficult.
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Well the easy ones for the lower body are essentially if I don't turn, right, then
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I'm going to have very little to essentially, I've got very little load in my glutes,
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very little load on my inner thigh.
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I'm not going to have a whole lot to push off up.
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The other simple one is if I was to slide or sway and get to the outside of my foot.
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So if I was to shift my weight towards the outside of my foot, now it's going to be very
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hard for me to push off the inside of the foot.
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So what we work on in the back swing is hopefully tightening up that lower body coil so that
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I can then use that in transition.
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Now the one that I think is a little bit trickier is this kind of arm shallowing piece,
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right?
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So essentially if I was to shallow it a ton during this back swing and go more this way,
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well I've actually kind of loaded and prepared my body to go into more of a steep movement.
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And we want that to happen kind of down near down in the release but below waist height,
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not up at the top of the swing.
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So often what we're trying to do is if the arms stay more in front of your body and actually
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work a little bit more vertically, that will tend to give this space for the arms to flatten
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in shallow.
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If I work completely across my body like so, then any amount of body movement on the
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way down is typically going to get that right elbow stuck behind me and this path to steep
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it.
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So if possible you could be like a gym-fueric and still get it behind you and still shallow,
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but there's very few who actually are able to do that.
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So typically what's going to happen is the more that those arms are in a good position
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being in front of you and even a little bit more vertical towards the top of the swing.
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And then I control getting most of my depth with this body turn, that's going to allow
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the arms to shallow more during transition, which ultimately is going to help with that
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flat spot during release.
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So if you're struggling with making this transition move of getting either your arms to shallow
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or your body to initiate the downswing, then please take a look at what you're doing to end
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the backswing because that may be setting you up for kind of more difficulties during this
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transition than you really have to go through.
