3 steps to help you gain more speed
Our body is filled with potential energy that (when moving correctly) can be transferred into power in our golf swing. Like an elastic band being pulled back, there is a build up of elastic energy in our body when we separate our body’s different segments as we move. This separation of segments in our body is crucial for utilizing our body’s built up energy, because it allows us to transfer the energy efficiently throughout our body to create more power and speed in the golf swing. If you are looking for more yardage in your game, then I am very excited to share with you these videos that will help you on your way.
Step 1
Having the ability to move our body’s segments separately is the key to gaining more speed in our swing. Due to our individual lifestyles and age differences, the amount of separation we can create may vary from golfer to golfer. To be certain, we need to test ourselves so we know for sure what we can or cannot do.
Step 2
Learning the correct motor pattern to separate our body’s different segments often means learning how to control the muscles that we need to engage in our swing before we can gain the ability to separate them. In this video, I share with you some exercises that will help your nervous system fire the correct muscles so you can regain the control over the motor pattern necessary to separate your lower body from your upper body.
Step 3
Translating it all to a functional golf swing is the magic that we all want and need to gain more speed. From my experience, most golfers can turn their upper and lower body separately in their backswing. Most golfers are lacking the ability to do it in the forward swing, however, and are therefore sabotaging their potential to gain more speed.
Is it because you’ve maxed out your body’s separation in your backswing that you have nothing left to give in your forward swing?
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Getting to the highlight of the round on the par five 17th, a drive up the left side and 212 yards left to the front hole location. I took out a 5-iron with plans of middle of the green. The ball ended up 8 feet left of the hole, pin high. A slight downhill putt dropped in for an eagle 3 on the 17th. With the cut line looking to be anywhere from -2 to even par. This was the boost I had been waiting for all day.
With making par from the trees on 18, it was time to wait for a potential playoff with a posted score of one under par 71.
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steve
Aug 6, 2018 at 4:50 pm
Impossible for most golfers to separate the upper and lower body rotations to create an X-factor difference. Why? Because most have their upper and lower bodies locked in UNISON in their swing mechanics. Why? Because their sedentary lifestyle and bloated bellies blocks them from differential rotation. Just impossible!
steve
Aug 6, 2018 at 4:51 pm
Furthermore… when the hips and shoulders rotate in unison these decrepit golfers attempt to generate power by lashing their arms into the swing. This causes the dreaded over-the-top swing path which is so common. Their hips and shoulders are frozen and there is no way to unthaw them. Just impossible.
unoho
Aug 6, 2018 at 2:05 pm
Why bother commenting when good comments are so unfairly deleted by a WRX moderator gone berserk?!!
Solzhenitsen
Aug 14, 2018 at 3:57 am
Indeed, ideas and information flowed more freely in Soviet Russia than on this site. I has to be among the most heavily censored sites on the web.