Intitial Turn Movement In Golf Posture
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Direction Steps:
- Go to your wall station
- Get into your golf posture (use the steps you learned in your posture training)
- Place your hands on opposite shoulders
- Firm your whole body
- Give special attention to the angle of your spine from hips to head
- Change your focus to the line from spine point between shoulder blades to right armpit
- Change your focus to your right lower back muscle
- Use this back muscle to pull your right armpit area backwards AND upwards, sliding along the wall while holding your spine angle in place
- Stop when you begin feeling discomfort from new sensations of this new golf posture (more below on this)
- Do you feel your rib cage and breast bone arc around your upper spine angle?
- Do you feel your tummy, left side, and left back muscles stretching in an arc that is downward and forward around your spine angle? (Wearing a T-shirt with horizontal stripes will help you see the approximate arc of stretching while you feel it.)
The sensations you feel from the above 2 questions are critical for training your subconscious to feel and generate automatic movements along these arcs. Your 2 turns in your golf swing take place in a little over 1 second of time. you do not have time to be thinking your way through these turning arcs of your body. But, they MUST get done precisely.
Your 2 actions of your takeaway turn are:
- to hold your spine and leg posture in place
- to pull your right shoulder – armpit unit along the wall
You are to feel:
- your body mass which was "below" your spine angle arc upwards and to the right of your spine position
- your right armpit area arc upwards and backwards to be "above" your spine position
- your left armpit – shoulder area arc downward and forward to be "below" your spine position
- the front surface of both shoulders arcing towards positions over your right foot and facing the wall
In this lesson do not worry about completing a full turn. Pulling your shoulder along the wall about half way back is good enough. But, you MUST get this movement correct.
You are feeling new sensations due to being in a golf posture. Your hip joints, knees, and ankles are in new angles. The fact that your upper body is leaning forward will create new feelings of gravity pulling on you as you turn.
Following lessons will have you turning to a full turn and will guide you through new feelings of discomfort and stretching of leg and body muscles.
Making your turning in posture gentle and comfortable is your desired goal so that this movement will not tighten up muscles that will soon be involved in a good return swing.
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