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Keys To Transition
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- Upper body spin
- Early extension of the hips/spine
- Early extension of the trail elbow
- Forward lunge
- Losing left side tilt too soon
- Lead wrist (left) extended instead of flexed (no motorcycle)
- Combine wrist movements - flexion AND supination of lead wrist
- Combine wrist movements - extension AND pronation of trail wrist
Tags: Transition, Concept
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In this concept video, we're going to go over troubleshooting transition.
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Now, transition as we discussed is when you blend from setting the club, getting down towards
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the golf world, how we first start to apply force in the direction of the golf ball
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or in the direction of the target.
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I had a student who once told me I should write a book called Lost in Transition, because
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I really believe that about 90% of swing issues manifest themselves as transition errors.
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I do believe that a lot of them are released errors and you start it in transition,
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but this transition is so important that if you're doing it incorrectly, you're pretty
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much always going to struggle and if you're doing it really well, you're probably not
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going to have real big highs and lows with your game, at least not more than what the
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average torque pro is struggling with.
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So the trouble shooting and the problems I see in transition are roughly the opposite
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of what a good transition would be.
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So the first one would be, we know in transition we want to get our weight into that left leg.
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Well, one of the most common errors is to become more of an upper body spinner as opposed
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to this weight shift into that left leg.
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So the upper body spin would basically be from the top of the swing, the left shoulder and
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the right shoulder kind of go like this as my major power source.
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It uses a lot of your big muscles of your core.
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It uses your shoulders.
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It uses your back.
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And so for athletes coming from other sports or for people who have the club in a pretty
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weak position, this can feel very, very powerful.
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The problem is it's not very mechanically efficient.
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It's about the difference between if I was throwing a baseball, which they can throw
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100 miles an hour, or if I was doing a shot, put it, which I would wager to bed doesn't
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get anywhere up above 40 miles an hour.
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I know softball under hand pitches about 65, so I'm guessing in the shot put is way less.
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I'll see if I can put it in the note section.
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But anyway, getting back to this upper body spin, there's two major components to it.
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One would be that left shoulder pulling, getting the club going like so, and two what
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usually happens when that left shoulder starts pulling is that right arm starts pushing.
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Those are the two biggest and most common errors that I see in transition.
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The upper body spinning without having that wager, two would be the right arm straightening.
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So a lot of people talk about the cast being a movement like so, like I'm casting a fishing
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rod.
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What's really happening in a cast, it has nothing to do with the wrist unhinging.
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It really has to do with the wrist flexing or going like this, and the tricep straightening
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or the right arm straightening like so.
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This is a cast movement.
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Someone who does that will get up to the top of the swing and spin and straighten that right arm
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and they'll look kind of like this as they get to impact.
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It all started because they didn't keep that left shoulder down as they got into that left side.
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They never got into that left side.
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The second major issue that I see is standing up straight from the top of the swing
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or something that we call early extension.
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So if you get to the top of the swing and you're pretty good position in that left shoulder,
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it doesn't spin but that left shoulder goes up and those hips start going in towards the golf ball.
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This is a good player problem because it gets the club swinging very much into out.
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And it uses my body to kind of control the rate of which my arm, my club is swinging.
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So a lot of good players have used it and it ends up developing this pattern of too much
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into out so I hit blocks and big hooks and have contact issues with my irons because when
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that left shoulder gets up I'm now too far away to really compress the golf ball so I end up
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looking something like this in at impact.
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Where that one tends to come up is it shows up in transition.
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I start coming up like so but it's really a problem with not understanding the release
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or creating speed with my lower body more in the direction of the golf ball instead of in the
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direction of the target and then away from the target.
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So there's only a handful of air is in transition and it's one of the most important pieces
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but these airs are built around triggers and power sources and so they can be relatively tricky
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to train. So I got a lot of drills in transition to help you understand how to get away from
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spinning or early extending and how to become more of a compress against the ground and get ready
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for that great release movement which is what we'll talk about in the last section.
