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This transition visual helps to overcome the fear of the upper body going into flexion during transition. When the spine goes into flexion, the upper body will lead the arms, when the spine starts to go into extension, or the left shoulder starts to elevate, the arms will begin to release. It's important that this doesn't happen until you have completed transition. Then, as the shoulder raises, and the club is accelerated down to the ball, you use your release training to help guide the speed into the ball solidly.
I call it the ketchup bottle phenomenon. When you speed up the ketchup bottle, and then stop it with your hand, the ketchup goes toward the open end of the bottle. When the left shoulder starts to elevate, the club will be too heavy to support and it will release, whether you are ready for it or not.
Tags: Transition, Drill, Intermediate
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This loss of posture drill is called the catch up bottle phenomenon.
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And it can also work in the release section as well.
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I call it the catch up bottle phenomenon, which is basically when you slow something down,
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other things can speed up.
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Imagine I've got a catch up bottle and I'm trying to get the catch up from the end of the bottle
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down to the top.
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I'm going to speed it up and then I'm going to stop my hand and all the catchups going to go flying.
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Same thing as if you're in a car and then you were to hit collide into something,
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your body goes flying.
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Well, it's a little less of a dramatic impact, but if I'm swinging a golf club and my upper body starts to
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stand up, essentially this shoulder just hit a wall.
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And so what'll happen is when this shoulder hits a wall, now my arms and my hands are going to go.
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So that's why it's important during this transition to make sure that the upper body continues to flex down
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all the way through until you get into the release, which is when the upper body starts to really stand up.
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On the 3D, wherever you set up, as you start down, we'll tend to see more flexion until you get the club about parallel to the ground.
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Then when you go through the release, your spine will start to extend even though it won't look like it because that right shoulder is going to say low.
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If as soon as you start down, that body stands up, it's going to always cause those arms to release too soon.
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Same thing if my elbow gets hit, if my shoulder gets hit, anything along this side.
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If it stops or goes in reverse, that's going to cause the catch up to come out of the bottle, and that's going to cause an early release, which is going to mess up my contact.
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So there's more of a concept type drill just something to think about, and you can apply it with say the delivery and go.
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The upper body down, any of the other drills that focus on transition and the upper body kind of the Jackson 5, the left shoulder down, all those things will help support keeping the catch up in the bottle until the last second, which gives you much more of a kind of a whip through impact, which gives you a lot more power.
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So focus on that for a good transition and don't spill your catch up.
