Charl Schwartzel - How To Load Up Your Swing
Charl Schwartzel - How To Load Up Your Swing
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Description
In this video, I'll show you how important weight shift and knee flex are in your golf swing for stability and power.
Video Practice Points
- Shift your weight to your trail heel or ankle.
- You should feel 80-85% of the weight into this foot.
- Maintain the knee flex as you complete the backswing.
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Hey, Rotary Swim Golfers. Welcome back to
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this week's Tour Analysis. I'm your
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instructor, Chris Tyler, and this week we
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are going to be focusing in on the
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beautiful golf swing of Charles
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Schwartzel, Who just picked up a playoff
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victory against Bill Haas this past
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weekend at the Valspar Championship.
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We're going to be talking about one
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really critical move in the golf swing.
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That can allow you to stabilize your hips
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and can also load you up with more power.
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So if you've been struggling with getting
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yourself into a good backswing position,
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then pay close attention to today's
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review. Let's go ahead and get started.
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Okay, everyone. So this week we are going
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to be focusing in on how to build a more
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powerful backswing by focusing in on two
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really key moves here that a lot of
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amateur golfers tend to struggle with.
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And that is number one, shifting your
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weight. And number two, maintaining the
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flex in your trail leg. Those are really
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critical for stability of the hips and
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also being able to load your golf swing
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up. And I'm going to show you a perfect
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example here. And Charles Schwartzel is
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known by a lot of the peers on the PGA
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Tour of having one of the best swings in
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golf. And he does have a lot of really
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good moving parts. Very pretty golf swing
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to watch from beginning to end. But we're
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going to be focusing in on two really
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critical areas that are going to help
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you. Number one, Get into a better
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position at the top of the swing and
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really get your focus on stabilizing your
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lower half. So let's go ahead and take a
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look here from a face on perspective
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first. And what I want you to pay very
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close attention to, And this is a move
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that a lot of amateur golfers tend to not
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want to make off the golf ball because
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they feel like they're swaying off the
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ball. So it's best for us to use this
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little black thing back here in the
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background. This little chair is a
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reference point because the camera does
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shift around a little bit during this
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swing. But I do want you to see as he's
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going to start to move the golf club
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back, okay, you can see that he's
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shifting his weight to his right leg.
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Okay, shifting about 75 to 80% of his
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weight into that right heel, right ankle
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area, which is extremely critical for us
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to be able to load our right leg up
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properly in the golf swing. Remember,
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your brain is going to respond to muscle
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tension. And if we know that we want to
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start our downswing with the lower half,
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then we've got to start to load those
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muscles up in that trail leg. So it's
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really, Really critical that you start to
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allow yourself to shift into your right
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ankle and then start to rotate your body.
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Now, when you get to a more advanced
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level, what you're going to be looking
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for is you can make those sort of moves
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happen simultaneously. That's perfectly
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fine. But you want to make sure that
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you're making a conscious effort to shift
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your weight first and then stabilize by
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keeping your right knee flexed. And I'm
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going to show you what that looks like
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here with Charles.
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So go ahead and get him down to the
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address position. Very good posture from
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him.
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Okay,
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and just main, just pay very close
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attention here to his right leg. Okay, so
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he's shifted his weight over there.
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You're going to see that he's going to
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maintain a lot of that knee flex that he
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had at address. Now, in a perfect world,
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we do lose a little bit of that flex.
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That's perfectly okay. It's just when you
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notice that your right leg goes dead
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straight on you, and you're going to
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notice a lot of your weight starts to dip
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over to your left side, then you haven't
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dynamically loaded your trail side up.
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Now, what can happen with that particular
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case is that, let me go ahead and focus
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back over here from a face-on
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perspective. If his weight were starting
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to fall over to his toes and his pelvis
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became really unstable,
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His golf swing could get longer and
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longer and longer, because his hips will
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ultimately have more mobility in him.
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That way, he can continue to rotate his
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spine and then he can get his golf to
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move further and further back. But you
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can see that this is the top of his
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swing. He's got really good load in that
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trail leg. He's been able to maintain his
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axis tilt at the top as a byproduct of
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being able to load the right side up
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properly in the golf swing. So if you've
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been struggling with seeing that, your
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golf swing is getting a little bit longer
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and out of control, then I really
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strongly suggest that you focus on
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shifting your weight first. Make sure you
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feel about 80 to 85% of your weight in
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your right heel,
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right ankle area, and then go ahead and
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feel like you're pushing that right heel
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into the ground. Keep your knee flexed
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and then turn your body to the top of
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your swing and do several reps of this.
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Do 50 to 100 reps and take a look at it
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on camera. If you're focusing on
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maintaining that knee flex, you're going
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to notice that your swing feels really
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short, really tight, and it's also going
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to feel really loaded up.
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Okay, rotary swing golfers, thanks again
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for tuning into this week's tour
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analysis. Again, I'm your instructor,
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Chris Tyler. I want to go ahead and let
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you guys know of a few videos that are
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going to relate to the stuff that I
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talked about in today's topic. I know it
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sounded real quick and real brief, but
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this is an area that we see so many
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amateur golfers struggle with.
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It's one of those areas that we can fix
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by allowing our body to feel like it can
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move into that trail side and help load
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things up properly.
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We have the weight shift number two video
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that was just remastered and put out.
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That's the right hip line video.
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Fantastic video that's going to give you
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some checkpoints about this whole
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process. All of these videos that I
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mentioned just now are going to be to the
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right hand side of the video player under
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the Recommended Videos tab. Just click
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that tab. You'll see all these videos
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populate.
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The next video I want you to check out is
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the load, the right leg for stability and
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safety in the golf swing. That's another
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critical video for you to understand how
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important it is to be able to dynamically
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load your right leg up.
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Also check out load the right glute,
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shorten swing, start transition. That's
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another fantastic video that's going to
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teach you how to start getting things
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moving back in the other direction. Once
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you become a little bit more proficient
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with loading this side up.
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Then maintaining the knee flex, the
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anchor. Those of you that have been
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struggling with maintaining the flex in
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that right leg, there's a great device
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that can help you keep that flex in that
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right side. Then you'll be on your way to
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playing some really good consistent golf
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with a better back swing position with my
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