JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Part ONE:
OK, so I did a poll a few days ago where a whopping 86% of the vote said YES they would like 20 yards extra on their drives.... so now I'm going to give it to you
Following on from a few PM's I've received and a few recent posts (eg Pokerjoke's thread about Rory's power move) I thought I might aswell share with you the one thing that has hardly (if ever) been discussed on the forum... and it's the one key to POWER.
The only person I've ever discussed it with until this week is Region3, and a couple of small comments via PM's.
I hasten to add (and you'll be pleased to know) that this isn't necessarily a S&T thing, although it is the backbone of good impact for S&Tplayers, if not all players.
So let's take a moment to talk about Rory's power move.. the fast turning hips, well actually it ISN'T his hips that are doing the work...... it's his legs. You see what is REALLY happening is on his downswing he re-flexes his knees so they look like this.......
and then he PUSHES OFF THE GROUND as if he were jumping in the air!!
This is known as EXTENSION and it does THIS to your belt line.....
As you can see (look at the sign behind his left hip) his belt line has gone up by about 3 or 4 inches in just a short space of downswing....
what is happening is he pushes off the ground and allows his hip to open at the same time.. he is pushing forwards (with momentum) and up. This will fire your hips like nothing you've ever seen before!!!!
It's not possible to turn your hips FAST when they are loaded with your body weight. If you try to 'pull' your hips around with your left oblique muscles they simply can't do it fast enough.. but when you push up the power from your legs will re-align your hips faster than a slicer at a stack and tilt party.
So another example from Rory....
If you look at the guy behind him you can see how much higher the belt buckle has gone, again this is during the downswing..
So just Rory? Well no. Pretty much ALL good golfers do this, they use Mother Earth to push against on the downswing . Let's take a look at Luke Donald.....
As you can see by the dark patch of grass behind him his hips have travelled forwards and UP.
It's no use just trying to turn your hips... that will get you precisely NOWHERE and yet that's all 99.9% of golfers think you have to do, WHY? because no one ever told them......
Part Two on the way.....................
OK, so I did a poll a few days ago where a whopping 86% of the vote said YES they would like 20 yards extra on their drives.... so now I'm going to give it to you
Following on from a few PM's I've received and a few recent posts (eg Pokerjoke's thread about Rory's power move) I thought I might aswell share with you the one thing that has hardly (if ever) been discussed on the forum... and it's the one key to POWER.
The only person I've ever discussed it with until this week is Region3, and a couple of small comments via PM's.
I hasten to add (and you'll be pleased to know) that this isn't necessarily a S&T thing, although it is the backbone of good impact for S&Tplayers, if not all players.
So let's take a moment to talk about Rory's power move.. the fast turning hips, well actually it ISN'T his hips that are doing the work...... it's his legs. You see what is REALLY happening is on his downswing he re-flexes his knees so they look like this.......
and then he PUSHES OFF THE GROUND as if he were jumping in the air!!
This is known as EXTENSION and it does THIS to your belt line.....
As you can see (look at the sign behind his left hip) his belt line has gone up by about 3 or 4 inches in just a short space of downswing....
what is happening is he pushes off the ground and allows his hip to open at the same time.. he is pushing forwards (with momentum) and up. This will fire your hips like nothing you've ever seen before!!!!
It's not possible to turn your hips FAST when they are loaded with your body weight. If you try to 'pull' your hips around with your left oblique muscles they simply can't do it fast enough.. but when you push up the power from your legs will re-align your hips faster than a slicer at a stack and tilt party.
So another example from Rory....
If you look at the guy behind him you can see how much higher the belt buckle has gone, again this is during the downswing..
So just Rory? Well no. Pretty much ALL good golfers do this, they use Mother Earth to push against on the downswing . Let's take a look at Luke Donald.....
As you can see by the dark patch of grass behind him his hips have travelled forwards and UP.
It's no use just trying to turn your hips... that will get you precisely NOWHERE and yet that's all 99.9% of golfers think you have to do, WHY? because no one ever told them......
Part Two on the way.....................
His left heel is completely off the ground!!
.. Nice write up JO. I'll give that a try at the range tomorrow, but if I need a Chiropractor then you're bloody paying....
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