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This concept video is connecting the dots.

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So we, at the Galsmord Academy, we like to take the movement of the Galsmord Wing and break

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it down into a minimal number of positions and movements.

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Well in this video, we're going to take kind of a broad perspective and help connect the

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dots as far as how these movements and positions kind of tie to each other.

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So we'll try to kind of keep it a streamlined as I can, but we're going to try to cover

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a lot of information.

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So hopefully then when you go through the different movements or positions in the stock

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full swing, it makes a little bit more sense.

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So let's start with the three kind of things that we are trying to do are the three goals

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or drivers of the Galsmord Wing.

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I'm trying to take this implement, take this golf club, and the club head is all that

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really matters.

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I'm trying to create speed and get this club head moving.

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I'm trying to get this club head to move on a specific path so that it makes contact with

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that golf ball down there and I'm trying to orient the face in space to that path.

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So that sounds pretty complicated, but those are the three major goals of a Galsmord Wing.

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And we can use different feedback as far as what we're doing with setup and what we're doing

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you know, backswing, transition, release.

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They all give us effects to those three keys.

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So let's just go through almost as a timeline how setup affects the backswing,

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how backswing affects transition, how transition affects the release, and how we release affects the

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follow-through. So we'll start with setup. Let me grab a chair because we're actually going to do

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a quick little demo.

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Okay, so I'm back with my chair. We're going to talk about three different aspects of setup.

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First is going to be posture. Second is going to be the grip, and then third is going to be the

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ball position. So posture, the main reason we want to get into this kind of athletic posture,

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or the main reason we want to hinge from the hips as opposed to hinging from the spine. This would

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be more of what we call es posture in my lower back, or rounding my spine, which would be more of

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sea posture, is we want the spine to be able to rotate, and we want the hips to be able to rotate,

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and function as well. Part of the reason why is the backswing pivot, one of the big goals is to create

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the opportunity for speed. And so the whole picture of the backswing is we're trying to get that

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face oriented to this path, absolutely. But the big thing is we need to create what's called displacement.

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The further I can move, the further I can move this golf club away from the golf ball,

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the more potential power I have, or really the longer I'm going to have, or the more distance I'm

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going to have to apply force to this grip, which is going to help speed up the club head. The whole

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purpose of this backswing is we're trying to displace or move this club as far away from the golf ball

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as we can. Now, in doing so, I also need to make contact with it, right? So I need to be able to

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control that path. So it wouldn't work too well if I were to kind of go away like this because then

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when I got moving, I would have a harder time making solid contact. So we have some requirements

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that limit a little bit the creativity that most of us would have with hitting this golf ball.

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So let's go through this setup posture and why we want to hinge from the hips. And to do so,

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I think it's always easier to just kind of go through a little example so that you can figure this out.

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So I'm going to have you sit towards the front edge of your chair,

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get my microphone out of the way. So you're going to sit towards the edge of the chair, so your

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feeder flat. Sit up nice and tall, put your arms across your shoulders, and then go ahead and

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rotate your upper body just like so. Now try to do it without really shrugging your shoulders.

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So you're really just trying to rotate your spine in your rib cage. So I'm trying to turn like this.

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Okay, that gives you a baseline of how much you can turn just your upper body.

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Now what I want you to do is slouch or round your back and try to do the same movement.

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And what you'll find is that it's going to limit how much you're able to turn and so what most

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people will do is they'll start moving more with their shoulder blades.

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Now during the golf swing and during the back swing section, we talk about how that spine is going to

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straighten up or lengthen. So it's not so much that if I start bent over, I'm not going to be able to rotate.

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Because I'm going to lengthen my spine anyway, so I will be able to rotate as it lengthens.

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The bigger issue is if I start with this rounded posture, it's going to make it much more

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difficult for me to start the swing with my core. So I'll be more likely to start it with my arms

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of my shoulders. If I start the swing with my arms and my shoulders, then my shoulders are going to

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run out of range of motion before my body does. And when the shoulders run out of range of motion,

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when they get kind of across your body and up, that's frequently when you'll feel this stretch

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and the brain gets the impulse. I've kind of completed my backswing it's time to go into the downswing.

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So if I'm in this rounded posture and I just pick up my arms, the club is not going to cover nearly

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as much distance and I'm not going to use the big muscles which can apply more force as if I

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would make a good pivot the way we describe in the backswing. So keeping this spine relatively

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neutral helps support all that that we're trying to do in the backswing. So now what about the hips?

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Because my glutes are one of the most powerful muscles in my body if not the most powerful

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muscle in my body. How could set up effect that? Well, if we bring our chair back in,

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because that'll just unweight the leg and I'll do it facing you so you have a perfect vantage point

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for my range of motion. So if I was to raise this leg up and then try to rotate, here we have

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compared to zero. I'm just going to rotate my hip out like so and I can actually feel like

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my glute media is starting to want to cramp. So you saw as I had this leg up I had an X amount of

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range of motion. So now if I have that leg down here, here we'll do it this way. So if I have that

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leg down there you can see that I can turn my hip a little bit more than if I have my hip up here.

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You can see the range of motion increased. So essentially if I get into S posture that's pulling my

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pelvis down towards my thigh, it's almost like pulling my thigh up towards my pelvis,

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which typically limits range of motion. Same thing if I were to flex my knees a whole lot,

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that can limit my ability to turn into my hips as well. So that's why we want to bend from the hips

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and let those arms hang with our weight kind of evenly distributed with our with an

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our feet depending on the shot we're trying to hit. So so now let's take a look at the grip

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and how that affects what we're going to do in the back swing. So during the back swing we're trying

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to get these displacements happens that we're trying to get the club as far kind of up and back

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away from here as we can, while preparing to use those big muscles during transition. So that

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displacement during the back swing is going to come from the arm working somewhat across my body

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as well as slightly up. If I compliment with the right side it ends up looking like that. Well,

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so I'll do them, sorry, with the club. So if I was to have those arms work kind of across and up,

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just like so. Well that up is going to largely be an extension of this trail risk and a hinge

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of this lead risk and some golfers either start the transition motorcycle or they wait until

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actual transition to begin it. But the risk need to have free motion in order to get into that

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set position otherwise. So if I grip it more in my palm, I have to have more of the displacement

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done by my elbows and you can see that that's going to affect how my wrists are going to be

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able to transfer that speed and energy on the downswing. So the whole purpose of this really

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good grip is to allow freedom of motion of the wrists and to give us a good platform for

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being able to start orienting that face. Now the last piece is ball position. So if I was to get set up

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either with the ball too far back or too far forward. Let's just explore those. So if I was to

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set up with a ball position too far back, instead of that I'm still going to be able to hinge

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from my hips, I can still take a good grip. But now what would happen is if I make the exact same

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swing it's going to increase my angle at attack. So what we'll frequently happen is that we'll

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mess up my sequencing because my body will have to stay a little bit more behind. I won't be able

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to get that good transition shift that we'll talk about here in a minute. Conversely, if I play the

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ball too far forward, it will encourage me to get a very good lower body shift and I would

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if I had to air on one side for the swing that I prefer, we will tend to have the ball position

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more forward than more backward or often. But if I had it too far forward, it could potentially

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limit how much I'd be able to rotate my body through the shot because in order to get my club

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kind of down towards the golf wall, I would have to keep my chest a little bit more rotated and

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close because as this left shoulder moves away, that pulls this left arm further and further away

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from the golf ball and it would just make it that much more difficult for me to get the bottom

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of my swing ahead of the golf ball because the distance would increase. So the three major keys

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for this setup in this swing are posture, ball position and grip. So now if we move into the take away,

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it takes away a relatively simple motion. It's more or less going to be starting this pivot which is

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a combination of rotation and side bend that gives the appearance of starting of maintaining my

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spine angle. Now in order to do this one piece take away this take away that happens more from

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the rib cage, my core is going to initiate the movement. By initiating the swing with the core,

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it's going to delay a little bit when those arms are going to reach the top of the swing and it

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can help with rhythm and timing because everything will reach the top of the swing more together.

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If I was to start with more of my arms, now my arms have pretty much, my left shoulder is essentially

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reached its end range motion. I can already feel a little bit of a stretch there and so my shoulder

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wouldn't be moving during the remainder or the setting phase of the back swing. So if I reach that

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end range of motion too soon, I kind of have to hold those muscles on stretch and that's going to

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make it a little bit more difficult for them to create speed effectively. So the backswing

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were using the arms to create this displacement and to match the height or to match the pivot

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to create kind of this shaft plane or basically the direction the club is going to want to swing

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on the way down or make it easier for it to swing on the way down. But the big thing is during the

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backswing, we're going to have these arms going into certain movements because they are going to

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prepare for where they want to get at the end of transition or delivery position. So let's

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discuss transition because it'll make more sense what we're doing in the backswing if we understand

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what we're trying to do in transition. So in transition, I'm trying to create speed. So if I'm

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hitting this way, I'm trying to create speed into that club head in the direction of that's

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already. So similar to any rotational sport like baseball, if I was throwing a wall,

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I'm going to shift my weight onto my front foot and then rotate around it. If I was hitting,

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there was going to be a very little shift but there's going to be a shift and then I'm going to

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rotate around it. If I was doing tennis, even millennium style, there's going to be a slight shift

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and then turn that shift into rotation. So in golf, it's no different. The typical shift

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for its work row is going to be somewhere between four and six inches. That means that there are

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some who are below, there are some who are above, but the average is going to be about four to six

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inches. Now the average width of a pelvis is going to be somewhere around 12 inches. So we're talking

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about kind of a third to half a pelvis width from the top of the swing, they're going to

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or as they finish their backswing, they're going to shift into that front foot. Now I should say

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that transition is basically shifting from rotating to the right or to rotating to the left.

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And so it happens for different parts of the body at different times. It's going to have a general

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trend of moving from the ground up to the club. So the last thing that's going to change direction

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is going to be the club. So that means by the time that the club is changing directions,

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I should have already started my lower body and then possibly even my core. So if I'm facing the

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camera and kind of hitting this way, as I get to write about that setting phase, my lower body is

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actually starting to shift directions. It's not going to move, but basically what's happening is

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it's slowing how fast it's rotating this way, which means I've already started to shift

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rotating towards the target. So the lower body is going to start and that lower body going first is

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going to create a stretch in my core or between my pelvis and my ribcage. And then my ribcage is going

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to create more of a stretch in my shoulder. And now I'm at the end of my transition on this really

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good path where the club is going to be going right at that golf ball with a face that's already

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starting to close because of what the arms did. So the body movements were trying to get these

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big muscles to create this rotational speed, starting with a little bit of a weight shift, and then

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this rotation combined with side bend. What the arms are going to do is in order to start the club

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face closing towards the target, the wrists are going to do what we call the motorcycle move,

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or they're basically going to rotate the club slightly closed about on average the difference between

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setup and impact is going to be about 20, 25, 30 degrees for each. So basically going this way.

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So a lot of that is going to happen during transition. And during transition this left elbow is

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going to bend slightly in that wrist where there's a slight narrowing of the distance between

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yourself and the club. That narrowing of the distance, if we get way back to the path and what we're

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trying to do with impact, that narrowing of the distance allows for this certain amount of side bend

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and rotation. And it delays the straightening in the arms which helps create a flat spot in my path.

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So we refer to it on our site as the Komoflatsbot because as far as I know Chris Komof was the first person's

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study this and kind of hypothesize it back in 2011. We're basically the flat spot which is essentially

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a place where this club that's swinging around me in a somewhat circular orbit has a more of a flat

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look to it than a curve to it. And that flat look to it gives us the ability to have the bottom of our

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swing ahead of the golf ball as well as helping control some of these path relationships.

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So I'm going to make that good transition with starting from the lower body going through the core

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and then my arms are basically ready to fire during the release. So now most of my pressure is

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going into my left foot. My arms are kind of in this narrow distance right here is what we refer to

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as delivery position. Now from delivery position basically my wrists are going to continue

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the left wrist is going to be rotating and the right arm is basically going to be

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extending. The wrist is going to extend through the shot but I'll be making contact with the ball

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kind of something like here as it's going into that out position. The lead wrist is going to be

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trying to more or less rotate but it's going to get changed from this boat or motorcycle position

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too pretty straight because of what the right arm is doing. At that same time the body is going to

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be bracing and essentially pushing through that left leg to help propel those arms into their

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follow-through position. So while impact is going to be more or less with my hand slightly ahead

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that left wrist pretty straight the right wrist slightly bent and then that elbow kind of

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in towards my side, body rotated 30 degrees, side bend about 30 degrees, hips open even a little bit

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more about 40 degrees. While I'm in that whole position basically what's happening during the release

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is those arms are extending and those legs are extending in a very athletic movement.

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If you lack that body rotation in that arm extension it's going to be very hard to have the

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bottom of the swing be shallow enough to have the bottom of the swing roughly four inches out in

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front of the golf ball. So hopefully that helps clarify or help you understand why we're making

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these movements and why I refer to the follow-through position is kind of the end of the swing

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because I'm pretty much done from there and then whatever I do whether it's you know Arnold Palmer

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or you know someone a little bit more classic doesn't really matter it's more of a sign of how

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you absorb the force but everything that you do up until this point has a direct impact on either

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how you're going to create speed, how you're going to control the path of the club bed or how

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you're going to orient the face to that path. So as you go through your stock full swing just keep this

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overview in mind and we'll break down each of these key phases and key positions to into

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the key details which will give you drills and ways that you can practice them at home and ultimately

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figure out your way of incorporating these movements into your golf swing.