MALASKA: The GROUND FORCE SECRET OF JACK NICKLAUS | BE BETTER GOLF

thanks for watching everyone today guess what this video is about you know I was going to ask you guys what I didn't want it to be about okay so let's talk about a very modern concept in

golf

right now but also I think of an important concept in

golf

about how players use the

ground

in the golf swing, so how do you use the

ground

well? You hear it all the time, but I had the opportunity, you know who Jack is, of course, okay, of course. What I'm going to ask you to do is what I did with him because obviously there's a lot of information out there now about the ground

force

s and different things like that, but one of the aha moments for me in terms of how we're a superstar and we are.

Talking about a guy who probably hit the ball as far as anyone and the best player he's ever been. I've spent a lot of time with him and I said, Jack, do you mind if I get behind you and put my hands on your hips? So I can feel when you make a movement, what your hips do. So you'll have to trust me. Make sure you get behind me. Okay, now come here. Put your hands on your belt like this. Okay, so I got behind Jack. and I said, "okay, go ahead and make your back swing and he goes boom and I couldn't.

I had my thumb and he pushed my hand back so hard that I wasn't anticipating such a strong kickback or movement like that." guy". From that, yeah, I almost hyperextended my thumb, I'm going to do that again, okay, so he does this, but what was even more impressive when he started going down was how hard he pushed back, okay, and from suddenly I'm standing behind him and I'm holding his hips and he and I mean, it was amazing how aggressive those two were, they were passive but aggressive at the same time, really strong movements, okay, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't.

It was fast. But he was moving, no, yeah, I wasn't going to stop him, okay? So I'm sitting there with my hands there and it wasn't a very fast movement, but when he moved it was so strong and so obvious what it was. There was no way I could slow it down, okay, okay, so when you start to look at the ground

force

s and we start to see what's happening and where I'm coming from in all of this, you're going to want to get this push back. and push back so you are constantly moving away from the momentum of the club, yeah which

jack

was really good with that, in fact he swung back on almost every shot so he knew if it was a little wedge shot he had set up and If he went and turned his head and did like this, he was going to throw the ball and he was swinging back, yeah, and then I asked him, I told him to back off on all these shots.

I said, well, okay, so he goes to hit a shot and he hits a little wedge shot and he says yeah, I think I rock well and I'm going well, why are you swinging back? and the first comment from him was well, I know I don't want to move on, okay, I said, why not? I want to keep going he said well because the club is going forward so if I go in the same direction the club is going it will slow down so the club is going forward I have to go back to speed it up I said wow yeah , okay, that's where You know, like I say, this understanding of ground force is what we're really trying to do.

You're trying to compensate for the momentum of the club and then you're trying to push the momentum of the club and then moving away from it to create acceleration through the ball and that's very easy on your back because there's no forced rotation, okay, you know, There are many ways, many ideas about what you are going to do with your body, but if your body works. in harmony with the momentum of the club and creates acceleration at the right time it's easy to create speed it's also easy for your body it's easy to duplicate because timing isn't that hard you're not timing multiple things you're just timing a couple of things okay Mike, so I'm going to ask you to hit two balls, first one will be like maybe half the distance you hit that club, okay, and then the other one will be the full distance you hit that club and then tell us about how strong you are. pushing off the ground in both cases, most were pretty close, let's do it again, I didn't give a very good demonstration, okay, okay Mike, I was a little early today, so it's okay.

Go ahead, don't start again, yeah, Mike, I'm going to say you have two shots and I want you to hit the first one. How far does that stick go for you? Usually around 165. Okay, so I want you to get this one right first. 82 is okay or so and then the second one, the full yardage and tells us about how the magnitude of how you're using the ground changes as you split the iron, like I do, like you are, like you are. getting the shot okay so one will go about 100 yards so now give me another one now I'm going to make this about what my normal full swing would be with this club oh great shot. which is going to be now that was around 165.

So what was the difference on the floor and on your hips between the soft and the pure? It's okay for me if you look at those two swings I made pretty much the same. length of the backswing and if you look at my downswing everything looked the same and then all of a sudden when the club got here it sped up more like how did I speed it up? I didn't do it by pulling with my arms or that's what I did. With what I did with my left leg, it's fine, so when I stepped towards the ball on the first as the club was coming down, I simply matched the momentum of the club with this push so that my body kept its distance from the ball.

I was constantly moving away from the club so the circle stayed the same, so the bottom of your swing is consistent, but I didn't really add strength or speed to it, I just stuck with the club the moment I came back. here and when I got here, when the club got here as I was starting to move forward, I pushed a lot harder with this, which accelerated the club forward more, it's like the snap of a towel, it's the difference between go and go, okay . So if I do this, the towel doesn't break much, if I do the same thing here, but suddenly I poop, the towel breaks, would you say?

And probably not, it might not be entirely correct if we had a scale on you, but in your mind you would say that the ball that went twice as far you push the ground with twice as much force in a roundabout, yeah, okay, if you want Go, yeah, that's what I pushed. I'm more aggressive with the way I got away from the club drive, okay, I got you, it's just that everything was the same here, everything was the same here, where people get in trouble when they try to add speed, try to add it, add it on their backswing and you try to add it here and they miss it on the ball, so, you know, I've tried to say the same thing by starting back down and then I add speed right here, which is how hard I push and the harder I push with my left leg, the more acceleration it causes the club through the ball, okay, so I'm going to go back, this is the same thing, it looks nice and smooth, and it is, and this transition is smooth and then as I go through the ball, The club comes in right here and this pushes out a little more aggressively, so when that pushes again it's like the towel snap is going to create more.

I think it would be

better

if you created more speed, now see if you can do it. All right, so the key with this maxed out to measure it correctly is that you want to feel that when it comes down, when the club gets here, as the club moves towards the ball, the shaft of the club, the head of the club and the club and this hip is connected to where you are pushing back while passing through the ball at the same pace. I don't think I have them up and down now, if you wanted to go further, as you go down you just push harder from here and that makes the club speed up, so depending on the speed you want, you control it a little bit depending on where you go yeah that's good hit one like that first okay so go at that speed where you're matching the thrust. with the club speed just match it that's good now if you want it to speed up all I want you to do is the same backswing at the same time up to here but now when you come through the ball just push this back a little bit more aggressively like the the club goes through the ball yeah, that's perfect, okay, let's go ahead and do that, all right, same push, same push, the push is a little more aggressive, oh, good job, really, yeah, okay, now this is what happens when I look at your swing and I keep looking. your video now when I look at you I see the movements and how they sink yeah we've talked about looking when I see your swing I see all the movements but I see a lack of communication in some of the rotations and where the club is yeah.

Everything is synchronized, so from my vision, when I see how your body moves in relation to the club and where things speed up, that was perfect, now it feels really controlled, it doesn't feel like you're putting a significant amount of effort in it. Your arms feel very relaxed, yes, but that was a lot of speed, yes, yes, usually if I want to hit hard, I do it from the beginning. I feel tension in my swing right away here and then I transition here and miss the bottom now there. There was information and there are some guys out there, some long drive guys, that when they talk about maximizing it in a long drive competition, they ask them to retrieve the club a little faster, so when they load, they load the shaft even harder, but still maintain acceleration for the average person, if you get faster coming back there's no way you're going to continue adding strength to that club, yeah you just hit your ceiling and you'll die, so more in here okay?

It's

better

to add acceleration like you do when breaking a towel rather than trying to move the towel very fast and breaking it at the same time because it's back to this, so if I have a towel coming towards you, the towels come at the same pace. here, so the towels back here come at the same rate, then I just take it off like this and then the next time I go, I see this was the same, but this was different, well, that's what they're doing your left leg and your left hip. the club, then your left leg and your left hip caused the acceleration test, now yes, then it becomes quite simple because now the sequence of things and how the forces work are the same, so your circle coincides with the time of your hands and how they free themselves.

It's the same thing, you start jumping different things at different times and you have to have different actions with your hands. You can do it? It is feasible but very difficult. Thanks a lot Mike, yeah that was fun. You can see more about Mike at alaskagolf.com. If you use the promo code you will get a discount when you join that really cool website, from a foot putt to a 300 yard drive and everything in between is really cool and also if you click the subscribe button on this channel and Click the bell and you'll be notified when I upload new videos, which come out about three times a week.

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