Hello, Surge here. Got a question from Ted and he asks, “Can you talk about the lower body move after completing the backswing. How do you feel the power build up on the right side?”
Really good question. I don't see many questions about how do I build up the power into the right side.It's obvious Ted's a right handed golfer and that how I'm going to address this. If ou don't get into the right side properly you can't make a good transition.
As you all know we believe, with the Peak Performance Golf Swing, that we're set up behind the ball, preloaded heavy right. That means that our body is somewhat set with more weight right of center and you can already feel weight in your thigh and especially up the hamstrings of your back lag. In this case Ted's a right-hander so that would be his right leg.
If one makes a proper turn and you start your takeaway into the mitt and begin lifting you arms up the tree you will have a little bit of a shoulder turn, which we know goes to a maximum of 70 degrees up to the 3/4 backswing, and there will be a little bit of hip turn.
In a proper takeaway and turn into the right side, you should feel a little sinking onto and over your right leg. In other words your right or back leg will receive the weight. The is exactly the look when you see a baseball pitcher on the mound. When he starts his windup and his arms go up in the air and he turns his body a little bit you can see his weight go to his right leg. You can see his right legs compress a little bit. It receives the weight. There a little more flex than what it was before he stated his windup. That is acceptable.
So whatever the flex is in our right leg at address, if you turn properly you're going to feel the stretch in the muscles, where the muscles in the upper leg stretch as well as the muscles in the lower leg will stretch and you might sit down, maybe only a quarter or half an inch. You're going to sink into your right side.
Like if you get into your car or sit on a golf cart, as soon as all your weight is off the ground and both feet are up and you're sitting in the cart, you feel the springs compress a little bit. So the right leg will sit or sink into that right side. Now when you've sunk into the right side and push off with a lateral left shift, then stand up into the finish when you swing up, you can swing up, you can push up because you went down, you sank into the right side.
The majority of people turn too much and the right leg straightens in the backswing. So if the right leg straightens and goes up what's the opposite? It's going to get pushed downward. Here we've got hitting down and all the other problems that come with that.
So the key to having a swing up transition is we start preloaded with a heavy right and we have to sit or sink onto the right leg where the leg receives the weight. You can actually feel the leg and the hip go down. It won't be much, just a smidgen, just like the baseball player, but what does down can now go up. That's the key to swinging up.
Great question, Ted.
The Surge!