How To Open Up The Chest Through Impact And Rotate

so let's talk a little bit about

chest

rotation and whether or not we should have our

chest

open

at

impact

. Now there are a couple schools of thought here: some would say that at

impact

you want to feel like your chest is facing the ball and others would say that you want to feel like your chest is more outward like a 45 or almost parallel to the golf club. , now which of those do I prefer from the other sports that I play, I'm a baseball player, I'm not a golfer from the other golfer, come on, I'm a pretty good golfer, but from the other sports that I play, the impact when I hit a baseball, where is my chest?

So you have a chest parallel to the bat, right? I'm also pretty good at tennis when I hit a big forehand like this my racket looks like this my chest looks like this when I throw something really hard my body looks like this my arm looks like this you know almost any game I play if I'm looking winning what I'm throwing or hitting goes fast if I'm swinging an ax at a tree like that yeah I hit it like that I don't really think there's anything I do where I hit it that way now some might like that and there are ways to match it, but in my opinion it's not the optimal way to do it, you're not going to make it go as fast or be as stable, now we're not necessarily saying that your shoulders need to

open

. up is more of the chest, the shoulders will always appear square on impact, they will appear square, the reason for this is that my shoulders, my shoulder blades and my shoulders are independent, so I can make my shoulders look very closed. but my chest is still square right now I'm not the most flexible guy in the world at impact my shoulders are open yeah my chest is wide open and my shoulders are pretty open like 25 degrees open and my chest is open like 50.

That's more than most, but I've seen some of the longest hitters in the world measured and they look more like what I look like, and then I've also seen the gears for baseball players and they look a lot alike. I look, so how do you swing a stick? Yeah, I think if you're swinging a stick and it doesn't have a face, you'd probably swing it and get your chest out of the way. So, Henry, we have these alignment sticks here and I. I wanted to show everyone the first thing, how your body moves, what the sequence is, what opens your chest from the beginning, because in the beginning you hear a lot of people talk about how you want to feel while keeping your back towards the target. and I'm going to agree with that, what happens is when you turn to the top, go ahead and come up to the top of your swing, you can see that his pelvis has turned back significantly less than the top of his body now. you change direction and start going down, which happens fine, my hips and lower body start to relax before my chest, it's almost dragging my chest, so your hips are kind of pulling on your chest now, are your chest really remains closed because you can see here? it's starting to open up, no, and at this point right when I get it, I would say a club almost parallel to the ground or parallel to the ground, I'm starting to open that chest, at least that's what you and I are feeling.

It relaxes and these start to match up, yeah, so when I get to impact, the difference between my pelvis and how much it's open and my chest is only 10 degrees at the top of my backswing, it's like 45 or 50. So the chest is gaining ground. is starting to open up, so my hips are open like almost 60 degrees and my chest is open almost 50 at impact, that's again more than most, but I think I see that trend in everyone, whether Whether you open up or not like me. Do you see the gap closing? You don't see anyone coming in or anyone who is really good at coming to impact with their hips open 45 or 50 on their chest closed or at a right angle to the ball.

You know, you don't see that. maybe with little kids from time to time who are like jelly beans to me, it's a recipe for that wooden face to do a lot of weird things and um, sure, I mean, like you said, all these other sports that we play naturally, our chest is kind of an opening to the target, sure, let's walk, we have a golf club here, yeah, and some of you may have seen this. I did an exercise with Brennan from Be Better Golf talking about how I feel like I keep my chest on my chest and the golf club is parallel and what does that look like from this point in the golf swing right here through impact, you can see my chest and the golf club are very close to parallel now when I turn at impact they are very close to parallel It's hard to place it exactly on my chest because my shoulders retracted yes but if I pulled them back you can see my chest here like the zipper and its buttons are pointing at me, yes, they are pointing there.

Impact, why don't you pretend you're hitting this way so you can see at that angle too? If I hit that way, here they are parallel and when I come to impact, you can see that if I pull on that. arm back that's very close to parallel, okay, and that's what I feel like I'm doing when I hit the golf ball now, it's actually possible, not quite, I don't get there because the club is starting to unload and it's is updating. and flying next to me, otherwise I wouldn't have any speed, but that's my feeling and I've taught this feeling to a lot of people because most of the people I teach end up with an impact like this where their chest points to the ball and the club points at them and that is a somewhat new, not super stable, way of hitting the golf ball.

Players who do that tend to not be very good, so it's correct, there are many ways to do it. This is what we believe is the most optimal way to do it: have our body drive the golf club more like we would if we were swinging a bat well. Yes, again, we're not saying you need to open up. the chest from the top of the backswing is more of a kind of lower body and the hips relax and the chest follows and then it's kind of active through them through the hitting area, like any stretch, it shortens the cycle when my pelvis starts to change.

In directions like this you start to stretch, some call them oblique slings, you stretch these things and naturally it's like snapping your fingers, if I create a stretch it's going to want to unload and it unloads quickly and it catches up and it goes flying. Hopefully, we don't want to feel like this forever. We want to move forward and let our chest move. Well, amazing, yes, great visual and it's definitely a great practice that you see a lot with these impact exercises. we have shown before the same idea if you like this video please subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell that way you will receive notifications of our new videos that are coming out and we would also love for you to come and visit us at milolionsgolf.com where we can help you individually to improve their game.