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This video is lower body slowly but early.

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Many golfers when they start trying to work on their transition have a challenge with

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the rate of timing.

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I'll explain that.

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Many golfers, especially if you're more of an upper body dominant, style swing where the

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arms move before the lower body, will tend to have more of the hit impulse.

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A lot of accomplished golfers have described the feeling of transition as more of this gradual

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building and building speed all the way until contact where many amateur golfers describe

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it as a feeling of hit from the top.

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What I've noticed is that what will happen is when you start training sequencing, you'll

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notice this timing impulse and that's a clear indication that you need to work on building

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a little bit more of a gradual sequencing as opposed to explosive timing.

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What I mean by that is frequently when we're doing whether it's the step change direction

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or we're doing more of a lower body pump or a lower body push drill, what'll happen is if

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you're used to more of this hit from the top impulse, you'll get to the top of the swing

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and you'll want to just explode that lower body kind of like that.

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You'll get to the top and you'll want to move it very quickly, very rapidly.

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What I'll do in that case is I will go in and grab onto the club and when they go to

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move make that transition I'll feel a very abrupt change like they're pulling on it very

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quickly.

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Then what I'll do is we'll have them trade places and I'll have them get in there and

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they'll see and they'll kind of feel that there's this gradual shift and change of

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direction where I'm building speed until I then get into more of that release to help

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amplify that building of the speed.

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I think of it more like the timing of the step, whether it's in a throw or a strike,

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but the timing of the step in the throw, I'm stepping and it happens kind of slowly

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gradually.

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It's not like I'm trying to explode into the step before I get there.

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The same parallel works pretty well for this pattern in the Galsway.

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If I'm giving it more of a total body sequence I want to have a gradual but early movement

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of the lower body.

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It's going to start to slow down my hips, it's going to start well into the backswing

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and it's going to continue until I get into that release when then I get into the arm

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movements.

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So if you're the the interesting thing is while I don't have any data on this, the

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totally supported it, it appears that that's the opposite when I'm hitting like pitch shots

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where on a pitch shot I'm going to have more of a kind of a hit impulse where I'm going

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to put the energy in the club head pretty quickly and then just ride that energy all

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the way down with the full swing I'm going to build that energy a little bit more gradually

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or slowly so it's got to start earlier.

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The timing of when it's going to start is roughly what's going to stop my lower body

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from rotating in the backswing.

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So you'll see that as my body is rotating in the backswing, eventually it stops rotating

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before it starts rotating the opposite direction.

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So whatever stops it from rotating is when I'm actually starting my lower body pushing

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in that direction.

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So that's what I mean by starting it early and why the step drills focus on changing the

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momentum of the lower body while the arms are still going back.

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It's not that you actually want to see the hips move while the arms are going back or

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at least not an exaggerated fashion but you're pushing and you're starting that movement

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well before the arms change direction.

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So if you start with a little bit more of a hit impulse, hope with this video helps you

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kind of tie together some of the concepts and then when you're doing these step drills

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try to think or when you're doing some of these punk drills or any of the sequencing drills

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in transition try to feel like the lower body is going early but it's gradually building

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up speed it'll ultimately lead to better launch characteristics so you'll tend to get

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more compression and you'll you'll fall into more of that pattern where it feels easy

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and the ball just jumps as opposed to feeling very forceful and kind of dead at impact.