hey everybody Danny Maude thanks for
joining us did you know that your downswing just takes about half a
second to complete what's half a second that's half a second that's not enough time is
it to start to make loads of changes in that downswing to hit good shots which places a major
emphasis on your backswing you need to make sure that when you move that club away and you take in
the backswing it is in a great slot so that your downswing can basically free flow right the
problem is if you get out of position early or get out position your backswing you haven't got a lot
of time to kind of make that up and when you try this is when you get into problems it's when you
get into poor ball striking poor direction loss of distance you name it so in this week's training
i'm going to share it with you one of the major thoughts one of the biggest thoughts i see that
ruins so many golf swings and it starts actually in your takeaway we're going to fix that problem
in the takeaway you get the take away right then what we're going to show you is exactly
what you do from the take away moving into the backswing because if you can nail this position
here you don't have to make too many conversations in the downswing you improve your overall
consistency before i get into the golf video look if you're new to a channel swing your
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okay great so by the end of this video i want to get you into a position your backswing here
that is going to allow you to become much more consistent in your approach to the boss you just
generally hit much much more consistent shots so in order to do that we're going to do three things
we're going to first of all show you exactly how the club works up and down consistently and how
you can do that how you can feel that how the body complements that stay tuned as well for number
three which is basically how you can really feel and enhance the feel of this all right so first
things first in the takeaway what i want you to be able to do here is you see with any top player
they have a wonderful coordinated emotional way where the body and the arms are all beautifully
working away together here what they're not doing is they're not independently working well look
at this my hands here work independently of my body my arms are working independently my body
that's not what we want we want a coordinated motion away all right that coordinate edge motion
continues all the way to the top of the swing question is how can you go about starting that
well the first thing i want to do is this take set up to the ball just for a second like this
right split your hands and then literally do this put them up like this okay trail arm is
pointing directly towards you now take your lead hand off the club now all i'm going to do now
is this i want you now to start to make a move okay into your backswing where you're going
to imagine that you're going to put your thumb in your ear okay or the club down the target line
and look the butt end right down towards your target it's all you're gonna do simply this now as
you're doing this you might say depending on what your flexibility you might start to feel some
kind of aches and pains and whatever you go to your flexible limit but what i'm doing here is i'm
simply training the way the golf club moves now what you can also do here and i'm gonna give a bit
of a shout out to my my friends andy and pierce at me and my golf here and there their great video
with alder is as you're doing this motion as you move back i want you to imagine the butt end here
pointing in between your target line and your foot line somewhere in between most golfers the biggest
mistake they're making is this they working around too much their shoulder works around their hands
work around their arms work around they don't work up and i want you to feel what this club is doing
here as it's naturally working up to the top so it's point that's your checkpoint butts pointing
in between foot and ball and then simply point club towards target simple as that just develop
that simple sensation it is not this by the way which one of my students did recently you can see
a difference pulling the club back here where's the book pointing down there pointing towards the
camera or away from you club down the target line right now that's easy bit the tricky bit is when
if you look at this lead side this is the biggest killer what stops happening is when you put your
left hand on your my lead hand on here is this when i do this most people can't reach so what
they block this lead site just doesn't really move and the problem now is this if i put my left
hand on now okay and i don't move this left side i can't i can get to maybe that ball position
but i can't get any further so that's when i start to make compensations that's when i
might just lift my arms up i might roll my wrists around but i start to become uncoordinated
simply because this lead side becomes blocked so step two now is to show you how you can actually
unblock this lead side so you can start to create a much more coordinated motion so step two is
this if you can stop the video get yourself set and what i'm going to do is this put your arms
by your side we're going to feel exactly how the body works in the back swing so there is natural
extension of the trail side and inflection of the lead side simply this just feel this backwards and
forwards okay this is your back swing flexion here extension here most problems occur because what
you're doing is this you are moving your body around and around there is no flexion or extension
it's just doing this and this causes all of this the roundness okay and then when this works
around you might then try to put the club in position but you're now artificially doing it we
don't want that we want it to be a coordinated motion awareness to to support this what i want
you to do is get yourself set now we're going to now get the flexion here and extension but
now work around so we're going to put the arm towards here now we've got extension and a bit of
rotation all in one this is now look can you see how now look this lead shoulder is unblocked and
it's starting to work around i can now reach quite a long way towards you now why because i'm under
now notice this i haven't reached over to it there this would be staying level i've reached under
why because this is inflection this extension there now now you've got that sensation i'd
spend some time with that as well by the way just feeling how this body works back and through now
you've got the motion look at this now what we're going to do we're going to do the exercise again
put that into position here put that into position here but now watch i'm going to extend and flex
now it's a lot easier for me to get around look there we go makes sense now what we do go to
split hand again for a second now what we're going to do is we move to this ball here i want
you to imagine now you're going to simply extend extend as this butt points here extend that motion
one now we're joining those two things together extend extend and as we keep going up up up up
we keep extending now it's pointing towards you now we're talking now we're starting now we can
join the hands together same principle we're going to point the butt to here but as we do this we're
going to extend that body as the club look works upwards look how natural this also keeps you
very steady the body is rotating yes but it's not rotating look if i rotate here and stay level
i work off the ball now look i'm pointing the butt towards there i'm really working it up from
here all we're going to do the downswing is reverse that process where ultimately here look
the trail side will start to flex the lead side will start to naturally extend and that's how we
then release the ball staying nice and level here we're not turning through staying level here this
is what i see with a lot of people who slice if your slices is really normal fire it through i've
got some detailed videos on the downswing sequence up in this top right hand corner so go and
check that out after this video now we want to hit some balls first before we move on to step
three we want to start hitting a few shots so what i'm going to do now is just start to add
some flow to this so we'll make some swings and see if you start forward first just get some
momentum and then what we're going to do is we're going to go into this point in the butt at that
middle ball here whilst we flow into extension and notice i'm not trying to complete my swing at
this stage i'm trying to feel this takeaway motion backwards and forwards look how
coordinated that is without the extension and my arms now are starting to take over with
the extension here i help to coordinate the body and the arms beautifully with the club let's
hit a few shots just doing that so point it and away we go nice strike okay so once
you've done that then what we want to do is start to simply extend it from here to making a
fuller swing now fuller swing have a look at this the butt is pointing towards you and the club is
pointing towards the target this is where you now everything is wound up coordinated in a very
powerful consistent position but this is where you may go wrong this bit is lovely it's
fairly easy to get to once you get the habit here is where it requires a bit more stretch
there's going to be limit to maybe your flexibility so we've got to figure out where that
is but notice this when people get to here then what they do is they start to cheat this starts to
stop this then stops the arms start to take over they start to spread like this move around where's
the butt pointing it's not pointing towards you anymore is it where's the club pointing over
there somewhere yeah it starts to move all around because suddenly the arms start to get very
disconnected why because this is locked somewhere so exercise here once you're here just pull on the
shaft a little bit here pull it towards the target so you can feel it you can see this that is
pulling me around it's continuing to pull me around and upwards keep the extension going up
then you can find wherever your flexible limit is going to be right once you've done that then
hit a few shots but just stay tuned because if you're still struggling there may be one other
thing and i'm going to give you the h drill just to kind of unlock something else but from here
i would again same again just find the rhythm into your backswing find that motion
as far as you can and then away we go okay simple as that now second phase so if you
are still struggling to really get this complete if you're really struggling to get around one
it's going to be flexibility but this is the probably the final piece of the jigsaw if this is
working great but this isn't it's usually because your feet here are very planted they're not really
allowing to move and what i mean by that is this with all freedom of motion when you make a
backswing the pressure goes to the front part of your lead foot the heel of your um trail foot here
this is what's going to help you to get around right a nap too often i'm seeing these feet almost
staying quite even here and they're almost rigid staying fixed that locks your knees locks your
legs and it's impossible to move so one thing you can do is simple exercise to start off with with
this take a alignment stick or a golf club doesn't really matter put it on the ground okay simply put
your feet so your toes front part foots at one end your heels at the other end and all you're
going to do from here is do the exercise now and what you're going to do is is that simple
stick just simply is going to give you some awareness as to where your weight is relative to
the front and back part of both feet you should be at the top here you should find that your weight
is in the inside of your heel and the front part of your lead foot here that means you're unlocking
the lower body if you find that actually it's still fairly even across both feet you know that
it's locked it's just a simple feedback station great exercise and you can certainly hit shots
like that my recent student paul i got him to kind of he didn't he couldn't feel it he was
almost when he got to the top of his swing his heel was actually off the ground that really
restricted his motion he wasn't aware of it we put this in in place he got some level of feedback he
asked again ah there we go and that then unlocked this section and now allowed him to again make a
much more coordinated backswing and therefore more consistent shocks to really enhance it you move to
make it an uh the h exercise or the h drill simply put two alignment sticks again golf clubs will be
absolutely fine and all this does here is really enhance your feel even more if you imagine your
foot here all we've done is divided it across so you can feel front and back and now we've divided
down the middle so you can even feel the quadrants again why is this important because the foot
doesn't just move front and back there's also a spiral here so from here look i'm simply now
i can feel the weight going to the the inside of my lead foot and the inside here of my trail foot
this is just again just a simple feedback station backwards and forwards really sensing that motion
that's all it's about i've mentioned the twisting of the discs in many of my videos where i talk
about turning the discs here that simple feedback station just gives you the feel are you actually
doing it a lot of people when they're trying here they're turning like this they're not turning
like this okay and this all gives you that's great feedback so let's summarize if you need to get
are you you're struggling with consistency most of the time because the downswing just takes half
a second it's usually because you're in the wrong place at the top of the backswing to get into the
right place take your trail arm here just practice sticking the club towards the target backwards
and forwards butt towards camera here backwards and forwards nothing more complicated than that
then all we're going to do is this peeler we're going to put a ball in line in between foot line
point it at that line here then complement it with the body if you're going if you're struggling with
this it's because often this leads side is blocked complement it with the body unlock the body
here wow extension and flexion that's all it is this then allows the body to complement this
motion helps this lead arm get around here backwards and forwards now the body can work
with this trail arm as opposed to look can't work if you don't move it now with extension flexion
you can and it's as simple as that start small gradually build it up and then use maybe the h
drill again for extra feedback if you're really sometimes struggling to feel what's going on
at the ground so super simple find some rhythm hit a few shots if you enjoy the
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