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In this content video, we're gonna answer a member

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question about active lowing lowering in transition.

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Um, so one of the members

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of the site sent me a question about, uh, a Dr.

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Kwan video that he recently saw, um, where basically Dr.

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Kahn was, um, addressing how if you're actively trying

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to like, push down against the ground,

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that will actually impede your swing rather than help it.

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Um, and that seemed contradictory to some other stuff

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that he's heard, uh,

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where people will talk about really trying

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to push against the ground to create speed.

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Um, so I wanted to do a quick little video discussing it.

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Um, but it really boils down

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to whether you are decelerating the movement

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with the purpose of accelerating away from the ground,

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or if you are accelerating towards the ground,

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you're gonna use, uh, like different pathways

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or different systems within your, your muscles.

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Um, so in one sense you would be actively moving down

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and then you would have to stop that active motion

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and then you would have to change direction

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and go active, uh, against the ground

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and we just don't have enough time in the downswing.

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Um, so what would often happen is if you do that,

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if you really actively go down, it's gonna disrupt your core

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and you're gonna be left kind of firing the, uh, the arms.

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Um, and I, I've seen that a number

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of times in golfers trying to work on kind

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of a squat movement,

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but doing it inappropriately where what should happen is

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the, the desire to push against the ground

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requires that I load the leg so

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that then I can straighten the leg as if I was jumping.

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So if I was going to jump,

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I don't like lower myself ag aggressively in a sense

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that I'm not trying to bend my knees

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and go down, I'm just kind of falling into the bottom.

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And what happens is my legs start resisting

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me lowering down.

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So my legs are already trying to push up,

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but they're pushing up against a body that's lowering.

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So it's slowing it down, lowering,

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so then when it actually goes up,

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it's been doing that for longer.

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So the muscles are at a higher level.

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Um, this also happens for the arms in shallowing.

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If you really aggressively shallow, then

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what will happen is it will throw you out of position.

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Um, where what's actually happening is you're kind of more

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relaxing to, or kind of softening to let it shallow.

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Um, but you are trying to, uh, release the club.

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It's just being loaded against the force of the club, um,

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which gives the look of shallowing.

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So if you're trying to work on getting a little bit more

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of a lowering, then oftentimes

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what I would do is I would start by getting more,

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getting more comfortable with unloading or or raising.

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So I would get comfortable with doing some kind

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of delivery position drills where I'm,

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I'm in a lowered position

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and then I'm going to raise my leg, raise my core,

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especially raise my core to come up out of it.

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In fact, the, I would say that the primary mechanism

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for getting that leg to straighten it

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straighten is the core going into a little bit more

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of extension, um,

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or, uh, what's really called negative torsion.

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But going into this extension move on the way through,

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you can see that the spine going this way pulls

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that leg into straight rather than the leg

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just straightening on its own.

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And my body's staying too flexed down too long.

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Um, so again, transition can be a little bit tricky, uh,

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the timing of kind of this lowering load unload.

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Um, but if you focus more on the unload aspect,

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sometimes you get the loading aspect for free.

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If focusing on the unload, um, causes you to,

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let's say go into an early straightening going this way, um,

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then I would focus more on the spine getting into

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that lead side to help compliment going into the lowering

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rather than just trying to bend your knees.

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Just trying to actively bend your knees will

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disrupt your downswing.

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Um, and I see that as a problematic way for trying

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to get the good lowering look in transition

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that is characteristic of the stock tour swing.