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Keys To Transition
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In this drill, we are going to rehearse the transition of the arms, without the complications of the body. The right elbow is going to work infront of the body and toward the right hip. At the same time, the wrists are going to fold in as well.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Transition, Drill
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This video is transition of just the arms.
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Now during transition we're going to have a number of pieces moving and kind of getting ready
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for the release.
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But if we want to, we can isolate it just what the arms are doing and practice them in isolation.
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So here's what we're going to do.
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We'll start with the lean arm.
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During transition, which is going to be basically when my body starts changing direction
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from the backswing to getting into delivery position, we're going to call that transition.
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So basically, from right about there to right about there.
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It's a very important move and there's a number of different pieces.
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Let's focus on just the arms for this video.
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So during that transition movement, the lead of wrist is going to pronate just slightly
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like so.
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The lead arm is going to work slightly across my chest and that's actually the major movement
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of this lead side.
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Is it's basically going to rotate across just like so.
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The trail arm is going to be somewhere around here, if you remember from the top of the
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backswing.
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From here, this elbow is going to start working across my body just like so as it's working
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kind of down towards my belly button.
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So it's going into external rotation kind of like so.
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And the wrist is going to work its way.
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It's already in a fair amount of extension at the top of the swing, but it's going to work
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into more extension as it goes into transition.
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So if I put those two together, it's going to end up looking, we'll do just the arm.
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So here I am at the top of the swing and then there I am in transition.
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And you'll see that that pretty much gets me into this delivery position.
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So if I was to then add and kind of unify it with the body, what'll end up happening is
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from the top of the swing.
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As my body starts to rotate, that trail arm works in front, wrist goes into extension,
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lead arm works across and rotates slightly.
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Our goal is to turn that into kind of one little movement, just like if I was throwing
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a ball, there's kind of this one movement before I release, kind of that little lag movement.
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Now if we take a look from the down the line view, when I do that movement, kind of up
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in here, you'll see that the club is going to flatten a fair amount.
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Like if I don't use my body at all and I just do the arm movements, you'll see that it
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gets the almost parallel to the ground.
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For some guys like a Sergio Garcia, it will actually get the low parallel.
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Now it's not going to look quite that drastic when you're actually taking a swing
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because what'll happen is at the same time the arms are doing this, the body is already
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started to rotate and shift weight and so it's just going to look like it slightly drops.
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But that drop is going to be really important for getting the shaft plane slightly flatter than
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the hand plane, which is one of those kind of big keys that we're trying to get into transition.
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So that gives you a way that you can practice this when you're just sitting and watching TV
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or anytime you're in an elevator and you're working on transition.
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This is a great way to kind of reinforce the pattern of just what the arms are going to do
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so that then when you're on the range, put your attention on what the body needs to do.
