Jason Day: Swing Shorter, Hit Farther
Jason Day: Swing Shorter, Hit Farther
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Description
Ever hear that your club must be parallel to the ground in the backswing if you want power? Not so! In this video, I’ll show you how Jason Day busts this backswing myth and creates a ton of power with a compact backswing.
Video Practice Points
- Loading the body in the backswing properly will help control the length of the swing
- Make sure the hands and arms stop moving once the shoulders are fully wound
- Externally rotate the lead leg to help unload the lower body, load the left glute and stabilize the hips
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Hey hey everyone, this is rotary swing
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instructor Chris Tyler. And I know. The
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Australian Olympic team didn't fare very
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well in the medal count, but this week,
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Jason Day gave the Australians a reason
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to chant Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy, Oi, Oi, Oi.
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This week, I'm going to be breaking down
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Jason Day's golf swing and going over one
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of the biggest myths in the golf swing.
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And how you're going to be able to create
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power and speed in your game.
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Man, oh man. If you are looking for some
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excitement in the world of golf, you
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certainly got it this weekend. At the
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Accenture Match Play Championship, where
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Jason Day was able to capture his first
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Accenture Match Play Championship over
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Victor Dubuisson in extra holes.
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He was able to birdie the 23rd hole and
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capture his victory, and a resilient
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Victor Dubuisson got the golf ball up and
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down. Out of a trash can, out of some
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peculiar spots there down the stretch. So
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hats off to him for being a very tough
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competitor.
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And I want to spend a little time this
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week talking about Jason Day. And one of
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the myths in the golf swing on how he's
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able to create a lot of club head speed.
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Now, one of the myths that has often been
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taught is that the club head, or the club
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needs to travel to. Parallel to the
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ground in the backswing or further to
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create a lot of speed in the downswing.
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And that is absolutely a farce and I want
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to go ahead and address that in a couple
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of areas. That Jason does without getting
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the club to parallel. And show you how
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he's able to store up a lot of power and
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use the body efficiently and effectively.
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Alright, so, as you can see over here on
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the left hand side of the screen, we've
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got a top part of Jason's golf swing
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here. This is one from one of his iron
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shots this past weekend. And he's nowhere
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near parallel, so if I were to back him
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down and you were to watch his golf swing
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here, you're going to see that. As he
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gets a golf club to the top, it's not
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very close to parallel at all, he's
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actually quite a bit short of parallel.
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This is his top part of his golf swing,
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and this shot was just over 200 yards.
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And he's obviously known as one of the
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longer players out on tour, and he's
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still able to generate a lot of speed
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even without getting the club to
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parallel. So let's go ahead and focus on
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some of the areas that Jason does so well
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to pack so much club head speed and power
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in his golf swing and I want to note a
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very key or critical area that he does
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like most of the golf pros do and that's
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going to be from the nine to three region
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of his swing and like most pros you're
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going to see he stays very wide from the
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get-go you're going to see that he's got
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full extension of both arms into the
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completed part of the takeaway which
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would indicate the nine o'clock position
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of the golf swing and if I were to fast
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forward and show you through to his
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finish you're going to see that he's got
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the club fully extended out about the
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three o'clock range here so if I were to
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back it down a frame you can see that
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he's fully extended here as well so from
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nine to three he's created a very wide
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sort of swing shape now we do have a
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great video on the website called wide
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narrow wide and that's how we're going to
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take the golf club wide in the backswing
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we're going to narrow the arc and then
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we're going to get wide back through the
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impact or through the hitting area to
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deliver all that speed now there's one
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area that Jason does so so well in his
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golf swing and I want to talk about that
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today directly I want you to pay very
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close attention to what his left leg is
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doing from the top part of his golf swing
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down you're going to see that his left
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leg is starting to externally rotate and
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what that left leg external rotation is
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allowing him to do is get seated into his
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left side we've got a great video on the
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downswing section of the website called
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sitting in the left side and that's all
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explained in that video but that left leg
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external rotation is getting him into a
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position to where he's stacking up this
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left side or loading into the left side
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so he can start to take that power that
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stored power out of the body and start to
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move it up the kinetic chain now as he's
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starting to or he's fully shifted into
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that left side you're going to see a lot
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of rotation coming from the left obliques
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okay you can see the left obliques are
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really starting to unwind here and what
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they're doing their responsibility is is
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they're going to be pulling the left hip
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away from the target so from this
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position into almost the hitting area it
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appears that his arms are doing a lot of
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work and that is not true at all a lot of
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the arm movements are created from the
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rotation of the body so he's taking that
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power he's shifting it or i'm sorry he's
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taking his weight and he's shifting it
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into the left side with that external
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rotation of the left leg
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and he's driving that heel into the
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ground and at the same time he's using
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the left obliques to start to pull and
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that pulling movement is creating
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rotation it's pulling the hip away from
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the target and it's also rotating the
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torso and that's getting his arms into
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the position where he can start to take
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the power out of the kinetic chain and
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turn it into club head speed into the
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hitting area so here we are right about
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the lag and release area you can see that
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he's got a fair amount of lag here not an
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exorbitant amount like a lot of players
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out there try to achieve where they get
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Sergio style lag but he's in a position
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where he can start to pull that power out
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and transfer it into speed and this is
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virtually where he starts to go into
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release mode and you can see that he
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keeps that width through the finish so
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now he's delivered all of that power and
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turned it into all that speed and turned
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it into massive amounts of distance so
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rather than thinking that you need to
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have all this distance or all this travel
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space with the club during the backswing
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I want you to learn how to load up the
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right side of the body and then learn how
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to unload it into the left side properly
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by externally rotating that left leg and
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then using your big muscles in your core
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to create rotation and get your hands and
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arms moved into a position where they can
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release that's the most critical part of
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taking power and turning it into speed
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all right we want to store up power and
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then turn it into speed right at the
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right time and you can see that jason day
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obviously makes a ton of speed and he
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does it the most effective and efficient
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way possible all right so take that work
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on it work on getting yourself into your
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left side put the power back in your in
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your body use your body effectively and
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efficiently and turn it into some massive
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club head speed and get out there and
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bomb your drivers pass your buddies and
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enjoy the game i wish you all the best i
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look forward to working more with you in
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the future
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