Jordan Spieth - Brake and Release
Jordan Spieth - Brake and Release
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Description
Congrats to the young 21 year old sensation Jordan Spieth for winning his first major championship at the 2015 Masters. For years, we have heard TV commentators tell you to spin your body through the hitting area. Well, you can do that if you want to lose a lot of speed in your golf swing. In this video, I'll show you how to use your trail foot as a brake for the lower body, so that you can release the club with maximum speed where it counts most...impact! Stalling the body has been a controversial topic in the past and I'll show you just how the #2 player in the world does it pretty darn well.
Video Practice Points
- Load the trail side lower body up, early in the swing
- Start the downswing by squatting and shifting into the lead side
- Keep the trail foot down on the ground at impact to stall the body and release the club
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Hey Rotary Spin Golfers, This is RST
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instructor Chris Tyler and it is my great
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pleasure to bring to you the 2015 Masters
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Champion, Jordan Spieth, who is now
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number two in the World Golf Rankings.
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We're going to be discussing a topic that
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we've covered in the past. And that's how
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to use your trail foot properly down in
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the hitting area so that you can use it
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as a break. And that's going to allow you
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to release the hands and arms
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independently from the body and be at max
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speed at impact. And also can help you be
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a lot more accurate.
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All right guys, so as I said in the
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opener, We're going to be discussing a
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topic that has created a little bit of
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controversy in the golfing world about
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how to use your trail foot properly in
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the golf swing. So that you can stall the
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lower body out and then, in turn, release
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the hands and arms independently from the
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body. So you can be at max speed at
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impact. And it's something that Jordan
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does really well, even though it's not
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necessarily what we would consider to a
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rotary swing model swing move, he still
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does it well enough to where I want to
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showcase it. So let's go ahead and take a
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look here.
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Let's go ahead and get Jordan down to an
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address position, we're going to go ahead
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and work into the takeaway. Notice how
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the hips start to shift and load up into
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that right side. And then, as he starts
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to work his hands and arms up into the
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vertical plane, pay very close attention
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to his hips,
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I'll point out his belt loop right here,
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pay close attention to his hips how
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they're not really moving or rotating at
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all. Okay, so he's got that right side
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loaded up and ready to rock and roll. And
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if we want muscle groups to kind of fire
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in order, we want to load them in order.
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So obviously we want to start our
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downswing with the lower half. So you see
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him kind of shift load into that side and
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now he's going to start his downward move
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with a really good, strong transition. So
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let's go ahead and take a look at this.
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So now he's going to start to unload
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here, gets back into that square hip and
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square knee position. This is a great
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move. We actually have a video on the
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website that I'm sure you guys have all
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seen. It's a squat to square video that
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Chuck did. It's a great video to teach
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you how to start the downward move with
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the lower half, providing that you've
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already loaded your right side up
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properly.
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All right, so you can see that he's done
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that really well unloading into that lead
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side. And now this is where he's going to
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start to push with both legs. He's
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actually using his trail foot to push a
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little bit down in the hitting area, and
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he's also driving up off of that left
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foot as well.
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All right. So the reason why I say that
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this is not necessarily to a model swing
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standpoint, we would normally like to see
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this trail foot down on the ground, this
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trail heel, but rolled all the way to the
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inside part of the trail foot.
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And when you start to push really hard
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from that trail side, you can see that
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he's actually rolling to the outside part
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of the lead foot here. And in turn, that
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can put a lot of strain, a lot of
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pressure on the knee and the outside part
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of the hip girdle. It can start to strain
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the actual, the labrum.
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So obviously he's still making a very
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good pass at it and he's still, from when
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I show you guys these next few moves,
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you're going to see that this trail foot
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becomes a good break in his golf swing.
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So let's go ahead and mark a few things
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here. I'm going to mark where his foot is
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off the ground and then I'm going to go
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ahead and mark
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his belt loop back here. Okay. This is
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his belt loop. This is his club face. All
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right, so he's at the release point of
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the golf swing. So now watch these next
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few moves. So he's going to stall this
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lower half out. Lower half is not really
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rotating at all. Notice the trail foot as
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he's releasing it through here. Trail
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foot's not lifting it up off the ground
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any further than it was. And the belt
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loop actually hasn't rotated any further
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than where it was. It actually moved a
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little bit forward because he's still
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transferring his weight into that lead
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side.
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So this is a great example of how to use
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that trail foot as a break so that you
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can release the hands and arms
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independently. He's now moved this golf
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club a good seven to ten feet from where
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it was at the starting point. Over here,
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where we had it, where we're starting to
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release.
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So it's something you can actually try
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out. If you held a golf club over at the
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nine o'clock position, held it, you know,
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Kind of tight, where your wrists were
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kind of locked in place and then just
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spun your body back and forth, you would
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notice that you can't really get the club
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moving very fast. That's because the club
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is only going to move as fast as your
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body's rotating.
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But then if you shifted your weight to
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the left and then just released your
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wrist, you would notice that you can get
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the club moving really fast. And that's
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what we're trying to preach here is that
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we want to be able to work efficiently
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through the hitting area. And that's what
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we're trying to do is we're trying to
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load the body up, unload it, stall it
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out, and then release it. And in turn,
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you're going to be at max speed at the
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hitting area where it counts the most.
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So that was the whole point of today's
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review is that I wanted to show you guys
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a really clear example of how Jordan uses
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that trail foot. And in turn, he's
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obviously playing some of his best golf.
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He's hitting a lot more greens now. The
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kid putts the lights out of it. And it's
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just a great example of how we want to
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use lower body. You can be a little bit
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safer with it by making sure that that
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lead side is stabilized.
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And a couple of videos that are going to
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help you out with that is perfecting
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lower body stability. That's a video that
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we just put out.
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Squat to square is another great video.
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And then the roll of the right foot.
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Those videos are all going to help you
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with your lower body and help you motor
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up and power up your golf swing. All
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right, guys. So that's our review on the
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2015 Masters Champion Jordan Spieth. I
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hope you guys have a great day and let's
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play some great golf.
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