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The side bend is a key movement to the proper body motion in a golf swing. Combined with rotation, it gives the appearance of the classic tour impact position. Many golfer struggle with side bend, not because of lack of side bend but because of a lack of the wipe movement from the arms.
Tags: Poor Contact, Transition, Concept, Intermediate
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The drill is the geometry of the side bend.
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So this is kind of a little bit of a concept video but to help you explore the wipe
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and how it relates to the side bend.
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A lot of golfers who start with this program or come see me in person tend to have more
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of the arm dominant swing where the arms are pretty straighted impact and as a result
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you're not going to have very much side bend.
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Because if I was to have my arms and wrist straight, if I added side bend then the club
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would bottom out relatively even with my right foot, something along in those lines.
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So the trick is even if I was to delay my wrist hinge, if I was to add side bend but
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have my arm straight you would see that I could delay my wrist hinge but and avoid hitting
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well behind the golf ball but what you would see is the club would work well low to high.
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So the trick is how do I add this side bend which is naturally going to move the bottom
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the swing backward and make the club swing low to high and how do I adjust my release
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with my arms in order to get the club actually working high to low.
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That's where the wipe comes in.
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So I can preset some of this side bend position and then I can experiment with trying to get
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that white movement to get the club working high to low through that release phase.
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So you can do this one hitting balls and I like to give it to my students to kind of challenge
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them on how well they're doing with the wipe but basically what you do is you're going
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to preset, you can use the merry go round, you can use the Jackson 5 which you're going
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to preset some of these body positions kind of like this and then the goal is to not just
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release the wrist which we caused me to hit behind it but to have a little bit of a white
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movement so that I can still make solid contact.
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It helps you overcome the barrier of not being able to side bend without hitting it fat
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and that barrier usually comes if you're not having enough of this white movement to keep
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the club working high to low as you include this side bend rotation.
