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The Jackson 5 Drill is one of my favorite drills for learning the lateral movement of the pelvis to initiate transition. But sometimes the simple version of the drill isn't enough to ingrain a clear feel. Here is a series of progressions that you can use to emphasize this critical movement.
Tags: Transition, Drill, Intermediate
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This drill video is the Jackson 5 progression.
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So basically what we're going to do is we're going to take the Jackson 5, which if you
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watch that video, is simply learning how to do this little side bend, goes through
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all the details of that.
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We're going to take that movement and bring it progressively closer to the golf swing.
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So first one we're going to do is just standing up.
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So you're going to take your club or here I've just got a shaft.
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You're going to place it across your pelvis so that you can put your thumbs on your hips.
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Now, if you have a hard time finding your hips, you can do your job.
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Just kind of put your hands wide along your hips and you can bend to feel exactly where
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those hip bones are moving.
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So I'm going to write there.
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So we're going to put my thumbs on my hips and we're just going to do a few Jackson
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5.
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Now if you remember from the Jackson 5 video, we want to make sure that we're not just doing
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it in the back kind of like so.
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We want to make sure that my spine is staying pretty vertical to my pelvis and I'm just
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tilting my pelvis from my hips.
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Next progression, we're going to do it in golf posture.
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Now you should be doing this facing on near so that you can make sure that you're maintaining
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good alignment in your upper body and you're using the right muscles in your hips.
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You want to make sure that you're not shifting your entire body and you want to make
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sure you're not just kinking your spine or just moving your upper body but that it's all
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moving together from the lower body.
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The next phase is we're going to add rotations.
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So we're going to go Jackson 5 and then we're going to rotate into the follow-through.
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So we're going to do Jackson 5 and then rotate into that follow-through position.
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So Jackson 5, rotate and make sure when you go to rotate that you don't stand up or over
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rotate your upper body or lose the side bend.
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So we've got this side bend.
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It's going to continue as I go into the follow-through position.
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One fun way to add resistance to that is if you set up next to say this is the corner of
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a wall, you get right up against the wall.
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You're going to do the Jackson 5 and then when you go to rotate if you're actually pushing
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through your legs and you're pushing through your hips, I'm going to get some resistance
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there.
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If I get to this position and I'm just rotating my upper body, I'm not going to feel
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anything in my lower body pushing up against it.
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In fact, I'm probably going to feel it more in my shoulders.
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So we were doing the Jackson 5 the follow-through.
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Next we're going to add the backswing.
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So now we're going to go backswing Jackson 5 the follow-through.
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This is lower body training specifically for what we really need for the driver.
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You can get away with having a good upper body dominance wing to hit a iron.
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It's not going to work for the driver.
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So here's my backswing.
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Here's my Jackson 5.
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Here's that follow-through.
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We got backswing.
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Jackson 5.
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Follow-through.
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Okay.
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Once we've done that, now we can bring our hands on the club head end.
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And we're going to go up to the top of the swing.
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Jackson 5 let that upper body respond and then rotate into that follow-through.
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So we got backswing.
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We got Jackson 5.
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Rotate into that follow-through.
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Back swing.
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Jackson 5.
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Rotate into that follow-through.
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And then you can turn the club right side up.
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I don't have actual club for this drill, but you can turn it right side up and practice
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finding the ground.
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So feeling how that club is making contact with either the turf or the mat.
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And then finally go to the golf ball.
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What I find is too many golfers tend to hear about the Jackson 5.
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Watch the video.
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Say, okay, I got it and then put the club in their hand and try to do it.
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It's much easier to train the body than it is to cognitively understand the drill and
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then try to magically put it in when you're doing the actual golf swing.
