Drill for Golf Downswing Sequencing
Drill for Golf Downswing Sequencing
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Description
In this video, I'll show you where you're losing power and a simple drill that'll get it back. This drill will teach you, step-by-step, how to get that powerful downswing sequencing you see from the pros on TV.
Video Practice Points
- Use an impact bag to learn how to shift your weight first before the arms fire
- Sequence your downswing by unloading the lower half first
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All right, I'm Rotary Swing Founder Chuck
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Quinton. This is with Certified
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Instructor Chris Tyler, and today we're
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going to show you how to sequence all of
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the major muscles, all the big muscles,
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to generate maximum power in the golf
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swing with minimum effort. And this is a
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really, really simple drill that's going
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to help you sequence all of these things
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correctly. So let's take a look at it.
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Chris, with this impact bag, this is
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going to help you kind of learn all the
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right things in the downswing, to do
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things naturally, because the golf swing
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should be very natural. It's not some
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voodoo mystical thing of a bunch of crazy
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different secret tricks of the trade.
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It's not like that at all. It's actually
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very similar to how you do anything
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naturally in life when it comes to
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throwing motions, using your big muscles,
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those types of things. But what I want to
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show you first, and Chris is going to
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demonstrate,
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is what we see so often how things are
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done
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incorrectly in the golf swing, and that's
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going to help you understand how we don't
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want to do it first. Once we understand
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how not to do it, we're going to be able
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to show you exactly how to do it. Chris,
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I'll actually demonstrate it first. I'm
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going to throw it to you this way so they
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can see how to look for a right-handed
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golfer. And so what we see all of the
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time is, you know, a lot of times golfers
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just don't know how to sequence things.
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The golf club's really light. The golf
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ball's really light, and you can just
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kind of fling the club at it. It doesn't
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really help. So we take something kind of
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heavy. My impact bag probably weighs five
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or ten pounds here. And when somebody
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takes this, they should instinctively try
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to use the big muscles to move it,
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because it's not going to be able to move
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it very fast if I don't. But we still see
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people do it wrong all the time. And I'm
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going to show you what that looks like.
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So to do it wrong,
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a lot of times what people will do is
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they'll kind of take their arms back,
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kind of move them across their body, and
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they'll kind of do this. Now clearly I
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didn't generate a lot of power there,
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right?
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So what I did is I tried to use my arms
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and shoulders, which if that's how you're
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used to swinging the golf club, obviously
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not going to generate a lot of power. But
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that's a really common thing that we see
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all the time, is they just try to use
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their upper body, their shoulders, kind
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of swinging from the rectangle, and just
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kind of heave it with their arms. So not
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going to generate a lot of power. So
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Chris, I don't know if you can show me
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from a left-handed perspective, but show
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a couple of the things that you typically
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see.
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All right, so not a good backswing there,
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right? Just kind of went back like this
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and just heaved it with his arms. And
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again, not a lot of power. Another thing
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that will really help you with is
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understanding how to take the club back.
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Because what we see a lot of times is
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this reverse pivot and this the hip
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sliding out this way.
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And so we talk about that laser beam, the
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knee not going out that way. And so when
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you take an impact bag, that doesn't
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really make any sense. Because I would
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never take an impact bag and throw it
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like this. That wouldn't really make any
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sense. So when you start learning how to
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move correctly, like we cover in the five
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minutes to master rotation drill, and we
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start getting this thing to move with our
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big muscles in our body, Then we can
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start to sequence the downswing
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correctly, like we cover in how to have a
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lower body work. So now I'm going to put
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this together the right way. So I'm going
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to load up this way. Not this way, it's
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not going to make any sense. So now I'm
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going to use my body to move this because
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it's heavy. I'm loading up on my right
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glute. Again, another video that's
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covered how to load the right glute in
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the backswing. And then I'm going to use
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my big muscles to move my torso and arms.
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It's going to start with my little weight
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shift to the left. I'm going to use my
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hips to start it. And then I'm going to
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release everything as I come through. And
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let's see if I can get any more power.
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I'm going to try and knock Chris through
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this wall.
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So now I'm going to go back there. And
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now you can see that I stayed in my
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posture, released it, kept my arms here.
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But the big thing is how I powered the
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downswing. I sequenced it with getting
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everything to rotate with my body first.
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I always kind of describe the lower body
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movement in the downswing as kind of like
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a big dump truck. It's kind of got to get
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all the smaller parts moving first and do
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a lot of heavy lifting. But it's not
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moving very fast, but it's critical to
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get everything moving in the right
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sequence. Because if I try and sequence
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it with all my fast muscles, that's kind
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of what we demonstrated earlier, my arms
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and shoulders, I burn those out too soon.
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I don't have any power left by the time I
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get to impact. So what I want to do is
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use all these big muscles to get
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everything started and then release
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everything at the bottom.
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And so again, those are covered in lots
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of other videos on the website. The big
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one again, how to load the right glute in
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the backswing.
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Once you feel that this again is not
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going to feel right. And if you take an
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impact bag, this isn't going to feel
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right to do this. From there, How the
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lower body works is going to show you
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that you've got to lead everything with
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your lower body. But just using an impact
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bag, or have a medicine ball here, we can
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do the same thing with the medicine ball.
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So this is pretty heavy. This is a 10
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pound medicine ball, but you don't need
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to swing it very hard. Just load up, feel
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a stable lower body, and then use your
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big muscles to get everything to go
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through first.
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So again, what we don't want to do this,
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if you see your upper body way ahead of
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your lower body, and we see this all the
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time, there's clearly no power in there.
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So you want to really use your lower body
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to get everything started, get the dump
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truck moving first to get all the little
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pieces being driven by the lower body.
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And then you'll have tremendous amount of
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speed and power to release at the bottom
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at the last point when it matters, which
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is at impact. So work on these drills,
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get your lower body moving first with an
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impact bag, Something heavy that's just
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going to get your big muscles firing and
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learn how to sequence the downswing
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properly, once and for all.
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