Great stuff. I think most of us don’t get the use of ground forces because you can’t see it when you watch other golfers. The guys at AMG also say that most amateurs start the pressure shift to the left later than pros.
Read the old golfers like Braid and Vardon, they all said pivot on the left big toe. In "Success in Golf", Vardon states that "the pivoting will have been done on the inside of the foot (on that portion of the member in question which extends from the big toe to the big joint) and the right foot will be resting firmly on the ground."
@@KT-ed8hj it means, in my interpretation, that the left toe becomes a centre around which the body is felt to rotate...it never leaves the ground, some pressure is retained on it...
My favorite example is " rise line". " " Fall line" has been used in skiing as a term to describe the path directly down the slope for maybe ever! A few years ago coaches decided to call it the "rise line".
The feeling is throw the club back then do your best to hit the ball on the down swing. You literally push off from your front toe flinging the club out and hopefully around. The pressure goes from the front toe into the front of your rear foot then transfers into the back of the rear foot as you transfer your weight. The feeling is to complete your backswing at about hip height on the way back. Think baseball pitcher. Do not worry about path or plain. This will find it’s own way. Amazing feeling when it comes together. Watch Slamming Sammy Sneed and Mr Hogan they found it. It is all about torque not positions. The torque creates positions. You can not teach positions. You must teach feel. Great video. Thanks
Really interesting info. My left toe/foot never had a clue that it was supposed to push in that direction. I always have been told that I have been deficient laterally and this could be why.
@@BEBETTERGOLF I would love to. I have a guy up here with one (Tom Rezendes) but he is booked 2 months out last I checked! Seeing Monte next week as he is running a clinic and trying to qualify for a Champions event. He will straighten me out :)
Great video! A non-technical point of view is what I am doing with my swing with some new Callaway Rogue X clubs.....my second set of clubs in 30 years. I was always worried about restricting the movement in my swing to increase the repeatability. I always tried to minimize variables to make the swing work. The new clubs have a hand placement guide on the grips so my hands are ALWAYS in the same place(remove that from something to worry about). I am focusing on the top of my backswing....getting that right.....and moving the club down and through with a "whip" as I move through the ball. When I keep my arms loose at address.......I hit it straighter, with less effort, and longer. I find myself focusing more on the driving my hips as a key to hitting it well. Putting more weight on the right foot in the backswing to balance the stance and increasing the right foot push/drive makes perfect sense to me. I will take that to the range next time I go and try it out. Crap...I am wordy! Bottom line, I have changed the clubs, the swing evolved, I expect to hit a good shot every time instead of hoping it goes well, I am having a blast on the course, and your videos have helped that evolution. Thanks:)
He just treat his left leg exactly the same way as a baseball pitcher. The right leg is used as the standing leg as the pitcher. Another example of this type of swing is Lexi Thompson. As for stamping on the ground with the left leg? l just couldn't agree with because the left leg is relaxing and turns around the heel.
Brendan, love the channel man, but I just wanted to know what you’re going to take anything away from this analysis? I know you’re not a fan of lower body feels, but are you going to try something new possibly? Some new feels?
It’s an interesting point because when I work on the plate I can boost my mph but every time I go down the improving my lower body rabbit hole, my clubhead awareness tanks and I struggle. What are the upper body or CLUB feels that make the lower body pressures HAPPEN. That’s what I’m looking for.
Ahhh, I see what you are trying to say now. You’re trying to make it happen, but for you it’s just a different way. As said in the video it could be different for many golfers. Great point, great video. You play some pretty darn good golf, so I wouldn’t want to be going down a useless rabbit hole either. Love the channel man, as a Texan I would highly recommend playing some golf on Texas!
@@BEBETTERGOLF you've got to learn to move it all, it's all important. Upper body, lower body, arms, etc. Ultimately to be the best golfer you can be, you shouldn't have any mechanical swing thoughts while you play, upper body or lower body or hands or arms. You train it all to move, then put it on autopilot and your focus becomes the "vision" or "mental picture" of the shot your going to make. Mechanically you might play better focusing on upper body or lower body or your hands or whatever mechanical thought (we're all different); but until you don't need to think about mechanics or you realize that it's unnecessary (because you've become mechanically sound); you'll be hindered in your golf. It's not easy, for most. Some (maybe most) will never reach that level of "enlightened golf". Many that have reached that level, drift back into mechanical thinking and that's when they're not playing their best.
When through this with skiing. Every few years someone would come up with different language to describe technique. The ground hasn't changed and is not doing anything. Athletes use the ground to push off or brace themselves captain obvious.
The graphs are showing measurements of force. It's preposterous to assume a PhD in kinesiology doesn't understand the difference between pressure and force.
Really good video. Get into what makes some people tick about golf. Keep it up.
Thanks Michael
Great stuff. I think most of us don’t get the use of ground forces because you can’t see it when you watch other golfers. The guys at AMG also say that most amateurs start the pressure shift to the left later than pros.
Read the old golfers like Braid and Vardon, they all said pivot on the left big toe. In "Success in Golf", Vardon states that "the pivoting will have been done on the inside of the foot (on that portion of the member in question which extends from the big toe to the big joint) and the right foot will be resting firmly on the ground."
What does pivoting on the left big toe mean? Do you mean in the back swing or down swing?
@@KT-ed8hj read the book
@@KT-ed8hj it means, in my interpretation, that the left toe becomes a centre around which the body is felt to rotate...it never leaves the ground, some pressure is retained on it...
My favorite example is " rise line". " " Fall line" has been used in skiing as a term to describe the path directly down the slope for maybe ever! A few years ago coaches decided to call it the "rise line".
The feeling is throw the club back then do your best to hit the ball on the down swing. You literally push off from your front toe flinging the club out and hopefully around. The pressure goes from the front toe into the front of your rear foot then transfers into the back of the rear foot as you transfer your weight. The feeling is to complete your backswing at about hip height on the way back. Think baseball pitcher. Do not worry about path or plain. This will find it’s own way. Amazing feeling when it comes together. Watch Slamming Sammy Sneed and Mr Hogan they found it. It is all about torque not positions. The torque creates positions. You can not teach positions. You must teach feel. Great video. Thanks
You should define what horizontal, torque, and vertical forces mean and dumb it down most of us cant read those charts
I’ve seen him move the Matt at the range never seen it before
Really interesting info. My left toe/foot never had a clue that it was supposed to push in that direction. I always have been told that I have been deficient laterally and this could be why.
Come down and we’ll put u on Dr Scott’s plate
@@BEBETTERGOLF I would love to. I have a guy up here with one (Tom Rezendes) but he is booked 2 months out last I checked! Seeing Monte next week as he is running a clinic and trying to qualify for a Champions event. He will straighten me out :)
Great video! A non-technical point of view is what I am doing with my swing with some new Callaway Rogue X clubs.....my second set of clubs in 30 years. I was always worried about restricting the movement in my swing to increase the repeatability. I always tried to minimize variables to make the swing work. The new clubs have a hand placement guide on the grips so my hands are ALWAYS in the same place(remove that from something to worry about). I am focusing on the top of my backswing....getting that right.....and moving the club down and through with a "whip" as I move through the ball. When I keep my arms loose at address.......I hit it straighter, with less effort, and longer. I find myself focusing more on the driving my hips as a key to hitting it well. Putting more weight on the right foot in the backswing to balance the stance and increasing the right foot push/drive makes perfect sense to me. I will take that to the range next time I go and try it out. Crap...I am wordy! Bottom line, I have changed the clubs, the swing evolved, I expect to hit a good shot every time instead of hoping it goes well, I am having a blast on the course, and your videos have helped that evolution. Thanks:)
He just treat his left leg exactly the same way as a baseball pitcher. The right leg is used as the standing leg as the pitcher.
Another example of this type of swing is Lexi Thompson.
As for stamping on the ground with the left leg?
l just couldn't agree with because the left leg is relaxing and turns around the heel.
Apply zero conscious force to the golf club throughout and you will use 100% ground force
Brendan, love the channel man, but I just wanted to know what you’re going to take anything away from this analysis? I know you’re not a fan of lower body feels, but are you going to try something new possibly? Some new feels?
It’s an interesting point because when I work on the plate I can boost my mph but every time I go down the improving my lower body rabbit hole, my clubhead awareness tanks and I struggle.
What are the upper body or CLUB feels that make the lower body pressures HAPPEN. That’s what I’m looking for.
Ahhh, I see what you are trying to say now. You’re trying to make it happen, but for you it’s just a different way. As said in the video it could be different for many golfers. Great point, great video. You play some pretty darn good golf, so I wouldn’t want to be going down a useless rabbit hole either. Love the channel man, as a Texan I would highly recommend playing some golf on Texas!
@@BEBETTERGOLF you've got to learn to move it all, it's all important. Upper body, lower body, arms, etc. Ultimately to be the best golfer you can be, you shouldn't have any mechanical swing thoughts while you play, upper body or lower body or hands or arms. You train it all to move, then put it on autopilot and your focus becomes the "vision" or "mental picture" of the shot your going to make. Mechanically you might play better focusing on upper body or lower body or your hands or whatever mechanical thought (we're all different); but until you don't need to think about mechanics or you realize that it's unnecessary (because you've become mechanically sound); you'll be hindered in your golf. It's not easy, for most. Some (maybe most) will never reach that level of "enlightened golf". Many that have reached that level, drift back into mechanical thinking and that's when they're not playing their best.
When through this with skiing. Every few years someone would come up with different language to describe technique. The ground hasn't changed and is not doing anything. Athletes use the ground to push off or brace themselves captain obvious.
Not getting any of this.
The graphs are showing measurements of force. It's preposterous to assume a PhD in kinesiology doesn't understand the difference between pressure and force.
So... Tony can hit the ball 200 mph with a full swing. Kind of puts everyone else to shame. When he does that whole left foot moves way back and left.