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This concept video is down too long.

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Um, so, uh, oftentimes I see, uh,

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golfers when they send in clips of themselves doing drills,

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um, especially if they're working on the body pivot in

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transition, I often see, um, the tendency

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to go down too long.

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And here, here's what I mean by that.

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Um, the, the downward movement during the transition is

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to help load the legs against the ground,

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so then I can apply a better, uh, bracing movement

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and apply more of an upward force to help

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propel the golf club down to the ground.

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Well, in order to do that, I have to have time in order

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to get the energy from my legs through my body,

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into my arms and hands.

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If I go down too long, then I won't have any time to, uh,

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transfer that upward force as an exaggeration.

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Like, let's say I was going down, down, down, down, down.

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I get down to a place around here.

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If I was to try to push my legs,

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you could see there's no way I would get

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that into, uh, the golf club.

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So what would happen is I'd get into this position

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and I just have to like, throw my arms and hands at it.

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Now, the challenging benefit is going down too long

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can actually, um, help

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and encourage, uh, more of an arm dominant pattern,

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uh, at the bottom of the swing.

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So more of like an arm driven release.

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Um, I don't think it's the most consistent,

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but it can, it can work if you are trying to get more

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of this body driven, uh, release pattern than you want

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to focus on getting, uh, most

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of the downward movement happened, uh,

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or completed by the time your left arm is

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about parallel to the ground.

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So when you're rehearsing, we'll say, um, left arm parallel

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or maybe, uh, even belly button height kind of, uh, shaft 45

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or in the P system, P 5.5.

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Uh, so if I was to go up to the top of the swing

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and rehearse some of this downward movement, that's as much

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as I should be going down.

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And then I'm gonna start, uh, going upward with my, uh,

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lower body and especially my core.

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Um, as I am moving into the release,

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the most common thing I'll see is, uh, golfers will continue

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to go down until the club is to about here

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and then, uh, try to rehearse, uh, it, uh,

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going up too late.

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Um, and when I see it in the actual swing,

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what it ends up becoming is more

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of a body stall and more of an arm flip.

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So when you're doing your transition drills,

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if you're doing, working on your delivery position,

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or if you're working on your release timing, make sure

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that it, the downward movement is completed early enough in

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the downswing right around here, right around, uh,

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arm parallel shaft 45 p 45.5,

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somewhere kind of in that zone.

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Um, so if you're working on kind of a, uh,

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broken transition, it would look, there's

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as much down as I'm gonna do.

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And then through the release,

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I'm gonna focus more on the upward movement, the bracing,

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um, kind of the, the spine going into negative torsion.

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As those arms extend into a good follow-through position,

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that will help create the flat spot

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and ultimately more of a body driven release, one that seems

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to be a little bit more consistent.