[Bigvivec]

Where power comes from…

I pulled this from a local golf magazine…I will scan the photo and description of the exercise later, but this is pretty much it…addressed spine angle in the golf swing in a way that was really easy to understand, and more importantly FEEL…twist your body into this finish position on the range, then move back to address keeping your head in place, then make a practice swing to the finish and try to mimic the muscle memory of where you started…basically, take your stance, feet running east-west, then turn to the finish (north)…you should be up on your right toe and your left leg twisted underneath you…then do a side bend to the right (right handed golfers) until you have the same angle that you did at address…going back and forth a few times will tell you what that was…

Do yourself a favor first…stretch your hips…unless you swing this way (I thought I did…what did I know!?!?) and really hold your spine angle, the stress on the hips isn’t what it might be…and neither is the distance gained…I was not swinging much more than a ¾ swing, and wasn’t swinging “hard”, which made good contact much easier…that combined with the extra mustard of really feeling what it means to “get your hips through” the swing was really sending it out there…doing this also illustrated through “feel” what it means to really clear your left side…leaves this big avenue to drive your right side through the ball and to the target…the right side can’t help but drive the lane when you get into this position…emphasizing the clearing of the hip and driving of the knee sent the ball proportionately farther without swinging harder with my arms…tapped into the secret of where power comes from…

I wouldn’t be able to hit the ball as I do if I didn’t do this to a degree already, but I was very impressed by the “feels” that this exercise instilled, as well as how if one movement is done correctly, many other pieces will fall into place…I love ya Larry, but do this exercise…you can’t help but get your weight forward by properly mimicking the finish position, and then your spine angle is correct to boot!

Excuse me now…I have to go find my “Golf Stretch” book and put some icepacks on my hips and outside of my left ankle!!!