Jamie Donaldson - Downswing Sequence
Jamie Donaldson - Downswing Sequence
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Description
Jamie Donaldson has a remarkable golf swing and has a number of RST like characteristics to it. In this video, I'll show you a better way to sequence your downswing by using your legs properly.
Video Practice Points
- Externally rotate lead leg (internal femur rotation) to start the downswing.
- Keep your back to the target.
- Let arms fall.
- Once weight is shifted, post up and release it.
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Hi everyone and welcome back to
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RotarySwing.com. This is RST instructor
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Chris Tyler. And we are back with this
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week's tour analysis on the absolutely
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sensational golf swing of Jamie
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Donaldson, who just picked up his victory
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in Thailand this past weekend. So
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congratulations to Jamie. This week, our
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focus is on a key move in the downswing
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that's going to allow you to have better
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sequencing and more lag. So if you've
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been looking for a better way to get more
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speed in your golf swing, you want to pay
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close attention to this fantastic golf
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swing. For sure. Let's go ahead and
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started.
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Okay, so here we are with the Ryder Cup
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2014 Ryder Cup star for the European
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team, Jamie Donaldson, who was absolutely
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fantastic in the 2014 Ryder Cup. And he's
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got a fantastic golf swing, as I said in
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the opener from beginning to end.
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Lots of key points in his golf swing that
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we could really focus in on. But we would
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be here for about 30 to 40 minutes
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talking about all of them. So this week
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we're going to be focusing in on one area
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that's going to allow amateur golfers to
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learn how to properly sequence the
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downswing. That's a really big crux of
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the golf swing is how do we get things
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motoring back over to the lead side. And
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let's go ahead and look at those both
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from a face on and down the line
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perspective this week.
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Go ahead and get them loaded up to the
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top of the swing. Very textbook looking
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position up here at the top. Right elbow
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in line with the body.
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Right at the base of the chest here.
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Hands up above the right shoulder.
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Good separation between the hip line and
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shoulder line here. You can see that his
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hips have probably rotated about 35
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degrees or so. His shoulders have rotated
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90 to 95 degrees.
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Now, this is where we want to focus in on
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this week is how do we get things back
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over to lead side without using our
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smaller muscles. And this is where
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amateur golfers struggle so much is that
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we want to use our shoulders and our arms
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so badly from the top of the swing that
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we start to throw the club very early,
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causing some casting, or you start to run
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in an over the top position.
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When we really want to do very little
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with our upper body, we want to drive the
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downswing with our lower half. So what I
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want you to pay attention to is over here
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on a face on perspective.
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I want you to watch this lead leg here.
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Okay so as the hands and arms start to
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near the top.
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Okay I'm going to go through these few
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frames. You're going to see some external
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rotation of that lead leg. This is
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actually called from an anatomic
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standpoint internal femur rotation.
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So this move right here is that leg
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externally rotating much like a pitcher.
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So if you think of a baseball pitcher,
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their lead leg would would stride out and
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you would see that it would start to
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externally rotate. It It would plant on
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the ground and you would see them start
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to pivot on their hip and then throw the
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ball. That actually is what's happening
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in the golf swing essentially with the
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lower half.
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But we're just stuck to the ground. We're
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not picking the lead leg up.
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So that external rotation of the lead leg
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is starting to number one. It's starting
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to shift the hips. So you see the hips
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shifting this direction.
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Now from a different view here from a
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down the line perspective I want you to
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see that same move. Now focus in on this
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lead leg making that external rotation.
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Okay so now what you'll notice here I'm
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going to try to stop them right in the
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same frame. When the hips and knees have
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gotten back to a square position. All
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right so you can see that they've shifted
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and they've also unwound. Okay that's the
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big key move is that understanding that
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the hips are making a dynamic move.
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They're unwinding and they're shifting at
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the same time. They're not just doing one
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or the other. That's what that external
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rotation is going to allow you to do.
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It's going to help pull the hips over to
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the lead side. It's going to help you
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transfer your weight into that lead side
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so that you can begin to post up and then
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release the club. Now, here's what the
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the big lesson is of the week is is that
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the focus point needs to be, as I said,
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where the shoulders and arms are when
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your hips and knees get back to square.
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Okay so we're going to say that these
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hips are square.
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These hips are square. Notice from a face
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-on perspective that these shoulders still
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appear to be very wound.
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Now, a lot of amateur golfers. When you
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start to look at yourself on camera. When
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your hips and knees get back to square,
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you're going to notice that your
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shoulders are almost back to a square
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position. Kind of representation of that
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where that second line I just drew is.
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That is where you need to start focusing
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in on. Keeping your back more to the
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target for a longer period of time while
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you're sitting over into your left heel.
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Okay, so that's our key move this week is
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that we're going to work on keeping our
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back to the target as long as possible.
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And we're going to also from the top of
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the swing, maybe show from a face-on
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perspective here, we're going to keep
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that back to the target, we're going to
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have our arms feeling like they're
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falling straight down. I don't want you
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to pull them straight down. I want you to
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feel like you're keeping the back to the
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target, and you're letting your arms fall
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down while you're sitting over into this
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left heel.
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Once you feel that weight, get into that
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left heel, Then go ahead and feel like
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you're turning the speed on here and
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release the club through the hitting
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area. And you're going to see that you
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have a better path and more speed. Okay,
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gang, so thanks again for tuning in to
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another edition of the tour player.
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downswing sequence, we've got some great
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videos on the website. We have squat to
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square, we've got sitting into the left
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side, we've got building your swing from
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the ground up, we've got perfecting lower
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body stability. All those videos can
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really help you use your lower half as a
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good power source and a good source of
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stability too as well. So definitely
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check those videos out. Good luck on your
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games, let's make it a great day.
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