Prior to training
In the last sessions, I understood that I needed to work on finding a solution to delay my shoulder rotation and to rotate my hips more.
And because I was getting general good movement by actually keeping my hips move more toward the target before rotating. I took the assumption to do the same with my shoulder.
So I wanted to try to see what happened when I actually do everything the same as last sessions, except for the fact that I am going to keep my back to the target as long as possible.
Also there was an other point I wanted to implement, staying behind the ball longer. Because I have my head that move too much forward in the downswing. I want to keep it as quiet as possible especially with the driver.
So let’s dive into the session.
Training Session
In the last few sessions, it’s a bit up and down. Last session was really great I made a great breakthrough. But this one sucks once again.
It’s not that is sucks but my assumption was wrong. By keeping my back toward the target as long as I can, this causes my hip to stop rotating very early.
As you can see after impact, my hip has only rotated 20-30°.
So I got the exact opposite result from what I wished to get. This is quite frustrating.
Post session reflections
As a result, what is the lesson that I can take out of it ?
- Restricting shoulder movement alone, restrict also the hips rotation
- Previously I was focusing just on rotating my hips and my shoulders were actually lagging behind more
To conclude, let’s do the complete opposite and make a brand new assumption.
- Rotation of the hips keeps the shoulder quiet
- Because of the momentum of the club that creates a force that is trailing behind
But if it were that’s simple, I would have find the solution a long time ago. Because when you only focus on hips rotation, your arms are falling behind you, as a consequence you get stuck in your swing.
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Actually, I found the solution, but it’s very difficult for me to explain what brought to that.
- Do the transition move has I have learn to do it
- Downswing
- Lower body > Rotation by moving toward the target (as previously)
- Upper body > Going over the top with the arm toward the left of the body while rotating the arm to the right (Complex move, I don’t like that, but for now I didn’t come up with something simpler) which is going to help delay the hips rotation and weight shift to the left
- Just before the Release
- Stretching the core > this is a concept I have tried a few weeks ago, where you rotate your hips and shoulders in opposite direction, which as a result stretch the core
- This is going to increase massively the separation between the upper body and lower body
The reason I didn’t test that first is because I didn’t realise the importance of connecting the upper body move I just describe above with this move before in that sequence.
In static motion, the result is really promising; I am really exited to see how it actually workout on the practice range.
So see you next time for this exited session