Rotating Your Chest PROPERLY In A Golf Swing

We get a lot of questions, Shawn, about rotation in the

golf

swing

. Golfers would not be more open and impact, they want to be more rotated in the back

swing

and I think a lot of that rotation originates around a certain part of the body, the hips and the lower body, that's right, a lot of

golf

ers think that the Rotation really centers around the lower body, the hips and certainly that's a big part of the rotation, but we're also ignoring a big part of that equation, yeah, you know, a lot of golfers don't even do it. They realize that they should at least focus on how to rotate their

chest

and upper body correctly during this exactly.

This big mass on top of our belt here, some bigger than others, really has a lot to do with how we swing the club. connects the shoulders the arms the hands with the club is a very important part of the overall rotation we have in the golf swing that's what today's video is about let's first talk about upper body rotation and how it relates to lower body and just swinging in general, so let's break this down into a backswing and downswing type of transition absolutely as far as

chest

movement on the backswing or rotation, a couple of key things to focus on

your

first definition, we're searching This area of ​​the rib cage is when we talk about the type of thorax and chest.

I think a lot of people assume it's the shoulders. The shoulders may move a little differently without this, so we'll really focus on this area. here in this video absolutely as far as the backswing turns the chest correctly. I think a lot of people understand that they need to turn right, but there's a lot more detail than that and you know, just looking at 3D data over the years. Really good players, we understand that there are a few key things that you need to do to return

your

chest or trunk correctly to the right rear. They really should join together.

The twist should be joined with another T word. Absolutely correct slant, so let's talk about that for a minute. I'm going to go down the line here and let's look at some of the pitfalls or problems that we see first: a lot of people when they're told to just turn, they end up turning because they feel like they can get too much out of dreaming and all of this is now their shoulders and then, what? where is your torso? Yes, we see this every day and the T lesson. When trying to make a big swing, the golfer will stand up because that creates a lot more freedom of rotation in his body so it feels easier, the problem with that is that you put in such a bad position with the golf club that you know everything that happens, there has to be another reaction to it, most of the time that person will get all that tilt back and then the swing. right the ball was up here on a tee like a tee ball that's fine yeah the ball is way down here on the ground so we have to maintain some inclines as we turn and I think that's where a lot of golfers get. confuse or sacrifice one of those for the other mm-hmm that's right now let's just talk and maybe just the general terms here so let's say it direction I'm tilted maybe 40 degrees sure so you know this is zero let's say I have 40, right?

Well, a good mindset is fine at the top. I don't want my body to lean to the left or like a right-handed golfer to the left, those same 40 degrees, so when I come back, you should feel like that. to the ground, the same 40 degrees absolutely, but it's no longer necessarily a correct forward bend and we have a lot of videos that address forward flexion and spinal extension, but if you can feel that while you're doing a backswing, this is gone. The shoulder starts to point towards the ground as you turn and you know you can even have Mike hold my head for a second.

You can even have a friend hold you to feel what that sensation feels like and many of you will notice. oh wow, I can't make a turn that big, that's right, and that's what really strengthens the golf swing instead of just turning, everything calls where there's something here and I let the club head go up into the sky. just for the sake of getting a bigger turn, okay, you've done it, now you have to deal with some serious problems in the downswing, yeah, and once I realize, you know, after doing an exercise, maybe someone is holding your head or even you can. put your head against the wall and do this turn once you get there you will feel like you can't do that much turn.

You could just extend your arms with a club in your hands. Feel good, that could be the end. of your bat instead of where you would stand up and be able to make a swing that could be parallel to the ground, you're sacrificing proper body movements to make a good downswing, right, we see a lot of golfers do that. exactly a sacrifice, they will build everything in their golf swing around backspin and will actually just be left alone in a losing streak where we see the best players start an impact right where I want it. be an impact and then let the backswing determine it and there is a trend nowadays where everyone wanted it to be really open and have tons of rotation and in fact the problem with that is that if you turn the backswing too much we all see it the days. and the lesson T flipping to the right if you overturn coming back you only have a quarter of a second to hit the balls from here so a lot of times if you have too much rotation on the backswing there is no time to open up so those of If you are struggling To get this type of body position that you see on TV, if you turn too much in the backswing and get out of your body position, as far as these tilts go, there is no way you can achieve it.

That's what you're trying to accomplish, yeah, there's not enough time for you to ask yourself to cover more

rotating

ground than the guys you see on TV every week and most of us just can't physically pull it off, it's very true, so I think the takeaway here for the key takeaways for the backswing is that now when you swing back, you're trying to lean your body at the same kind of angle that you had when you started right and again, it can look a lot shorter than normal, but when you do it. From there, it will be much easier to get good drops, move like we're about to talk shallow, get the club on plane, and actually go into impact positionally much harder than it would be if you had to recover. that somewhere in the downswing okay Mike, so we get to the top of the backswing, we have figured out how to turn our chest correctly with the right amount of lean, now we are turned and leaned correctly at the top, now this is where we see that a lot of things start to go off the rails with golfers and a lot of that is due to our side of the equation here, the teaching side is that we have said for years that the hips should go first.

In fact, we see a lot of guys in the driver working on something like hip fire by keeping their chest back. That's true, the hips most often come before the torso, the chest, eh? The reality is that the timing window is minute, so put that into perspective so you take a sprinter like Usain Bolt when he's in the running blocks before the gun goes off, you know they're primed and ready to go. . They have trained years and years for that moment when the gun is fired. It takes them a hundred and fifty milliseconds to react to that sound, right, yeah, the best athletes in the world, dude, well, we see several golfers when they get to the top and the hips go first before the chest, that time frame is 10 milliseconds. much less than a world class sprinter can move, so in essence, in a practical sense, they are moving at the same time, yes, there is not enough time to show that they are not trying to separate that movement, they are trying to do it first.

In fact, we've had a lot of golfers have an out of sequence transition where we can improve their hips first before torso sequence by having them try to move torso first or arms first, yeah, and then reason. For that, I think on a very basic level, if I was trying to make this club move as fast as possible, I would mentally take it to the top and give you some resistance, yeah, if I'm going to pull this. First I'm going to brace my body and get my legs under me, which is part of it, a little bit of pelvis, it's just the natural athletic reaction to what you're trying to do and generate speed, it's not a fire reaction.

We've heard the stages in the rocket launch, it's not fire, fire, fire, right, the time is too small for you to physically do it, it's much more of an all-together kind of time and you'd be surprised how that sequence works . turns out to be right, yeah, and you know you see the other part where you have someone with a really poor back seam who can surely shoot the torso out of control, everything else except most of the time. on the lesson tee I see guys trying to drink, we're talking about getting that good backswing, you have the right leans and turns, so that move doesn't happen, whoo-hoo, so from here it's a plate instead and The reason is that we are turned about 45 degrees more with our torso than with our hips down.

The movement is a very short period of time, that's what we'll talk about here in the next segment. You have to be able to close that. gap, okay Sean, so we have our backswing turned and tilted, we have made our downswing, transitioned into our downswing, now the correct concept related to the timing of what is lost, now let's talk about the most important aspect of the downswing. chest turn, yeah, so let me switch with Mike on the Gottis alignment lever, so at the top of the swing, Mike talked about this in the last segment. You know, we basically have 45 degrees of separation, so I have 90 with the trunk and 45 with the lower body, so for all intents and purposes, you know, when the body starts moving, you might see a little increase in this, very small and right at the beginning of the transition, but from then on, all the way to impact my trunk is working to reach or close the gap between these two clubs to the point where an impact, some of the The best forwards we've measured are actually equal, there's no separation, yeah, they're less than two degrees of separation, meaning like a 40 to 50 degree head start, yeah, we're talking about PGA Tour players, so the winners.

I think the misconception is that you want your hips to be well in front of your torso, although that's all the time. I know. I thought when I was a kid I was taught the reach them. each other and you can practice that at home so when you get the impact there may be a little gap here but you know if you could line them up it would be a good thought process instead of having this huge gap as you go down yeah when you do your impact exercises in slow motion, you can come in here and feel Cheston and the belt buckle pointing in the same direction, you don't want an exit here and the in the chest, back here, you really have difficulty with the trajectory plane, all those things, you're absolutely right, yeah, and one more little key, can you hold it down so there's a second key to go along with what you're trying to do on impact with your body?

So we talked about this in the back saying you have to have the right amount of lean in your upper body, well it's very similar at impact, if I go into the impact area, I don't want to have my shoulders level. when I turn. because basically I wouldn't miss the ball, so as you're practicing your impact and you have your alignment stick here trying to close the gap, what you may also feel is that this right shoulder is lower than where you started, that's going to have some tilt to them as well. in this direction and what we see with some of the best players in the world is that many times the box matches the amount of rotation, so if they have thirty degrees of rotation, they have thirty degrees of tilt that they become coincided with an impact , good clubface control and that's the correct way to rotate the chest, that's exactly right, so that's the concept, that's what should be happening now, let's go back and give you a couple of exercises to work on this, all good, now let's look at two exercises that will really tie all of these things together and give you something to practice at home when the weather isn't as nice outside as it is today, yeah, hopefully, so first let's talk about what is so important regarding the chest turning to the right, what do we see most often in this case?

It's very similar to what we talked about in the first segment, only there are a lot of turns to the right and there can be a flat turn with the club very low, yes, so now the clubs have to turn. just being lifted up, yeah, and then the action that's over the top, so there's too much twistand it's almost too flat a turn, so the exercise that Mike and I use a lot with students is to choose the normal steering position. your right hand on the club like this, keep it there and simply move your left arm back until the club is parallel to the ground.

That's a good amount of spin when the club is parallel, yes, maybe you used about that portion. of your backswing turn instead of using all the right amount, so this is a good way to start sequencing the backswing now, once you get to the top you can just take your club and let it fall over your shoulders and make sure So this is actually a very dear exercise to me because I use it all the time because I'm one of those guys and I think a lot of people have this happen with their shoulders and chest, they feel strong, so we make those things move early and then the club has nothing to do but lift weight, so this is a great exercise that I work on all the time. get that initial sequence right and then the backswing becomes much more reactionary, yeah, so those are the two that could be married together to take away and here you have enough spin, finish the backswing with some rotation, okay, you can let this club fall and just make sure it's a little bit of a tear so you're not pointing at the wall, now let's do another one, this is me, we're all the way back, swinging down, until it matches, you turn to lean, okay, let's use the windmill wind, okay, so yeah, very good. one, so let's say I use this a lot and the lesson goes like this.

Okay, if we were playing golf at a higher angle or at ground level, the game would be easy because we would just rotate the level so the body movement looked like this. Okay, it's going to be an easy game, well it's not that easy because the ball is down there, so we have to lean forward. I would just make the windmill have to rotate correspondingly at a tilted angle, so this might be the best exercise to start getting a feel for what's happening. your body needs to do it on the backswing and at impact and I could just put my hands there and I'm going to do that, let's do it slow, so I want to see what we see very confidently and it's kind of a red flag to give you some clues. to work so well, we see a lot of time when you perform a backswing rotation as we will see golfers trying to keep this still, they will still do it well and it is a real indication of how tight some of these muscles are in our body around of the lats and shoulders and all you really want to do is stand in front of a mirror when you do this and be true to this type of airplane shape because you might be able to keep it.

It's absolutely okay to continue with this, no, it's a big warm-up, so we don't play this, that's hard to do, so you know that, hey, maybe there's a physical issue I need to work on, yeah, but do this first. . You will have a very good idea of ​​where these tilts should coincide with the turn. Do a takeaway exercise. You will be on your way to getting this chest to rotate much better in the golf swing if you found today's video helpful. Prepare a free distance training video right below, in the comments section, go to the first comment, it's our comment pin, there is a link there, click on that link and you will be taken to another page where you will enter your name and email and then it will click. access now I'm going to get immediate access to that free remote video and guys, if you like this video, please give us a thumbs up, hit subscribe and turn on your notifications so every time we post a new video you'll get it right away. exactly right, we want this channel to focus solely on helping you with your golf game, so let us know in the comments below if there's anything you'd like to see that we haven't covered yet, we'll be happy to do it until then. you in the next video