'Swinging With the Feet' 7-17
 

Per 7-17

I understand the halting the backstroke motion and 'swinging from the feet' part, but I don't really understand maximizing the swing radius. Can somebody explain?



3JACK

Basically, utilizing the entire body as a big 'lever'.

Easy enough to see the club length and left arm as a lever, the primary lever, but what isn't so obvious is that when you make a golf stroke, that lever you can see really extends throughout the body, based on how you use the power accumulators.

If you just swing the left arm alone and zero out the body, you've got a fairly short radius/lever. As you make a bigger and bigger swing, more components, more parts of the body, get involved, and the longer the lever gets.

'swinging from the feet' - when all of the components, hips, knees, legs, are being utilized to their fullest - as long as you maintain lag pressure - meaning as long as you are in the right sequence - from the ground up.

Assuming you have fully used all of the body, and are in sequence with lag pressure, you have effectively made that lever not just the left arm and club, but from the clubhead, up the arms, through the body, and all the way down to the ground.

A significantly longer radius - radius power - swinging from the feet.

It's basically that "snap the kenetic chain" stuff . . . . each componet of the pivot should lag its preceding component (feet to ankles to knees to hips to spine to shoulder etc.). Once a component closest to the ground stops lagging that's where the radius of the stroke ends.

12PB, you have any dealing with the Sevam1 thread - you do any "foot screwing" down your part of the country?

Alot of foot action going on in his videos... not many talk about foot action nowadays.

Farm animals more than foots . . . . diffr'nt strokes for diffrn't folks.

I have seen the dude's videos . . . not bad . . . . i think it's more of a ground forces deal.

I believe Mchatton addresses this in one of his videos. I'm paraphrasing, but he talks about how some folks think the swing radius goes from the shoulder to the end of the clubhead (approximately 74 inches if you have a 44 inch driver and a 30 inch long left arm). But.... if you properly utilize your pivot/body, the radius effectively could be considered "this long" (from your feet thru your legs thru your torso, your shoulder, your left arm, and the club).... and he straightens his left arm and club, pointing it skyward. It's a great visual to see the "swinging from the feet" radius.

Comet

"Assuming you have fully used all of the body, and are in sequence with lag pressure, you have effectively made that lever not just the left arm and club, but from the clubhead, up the arms, through the body, and all the way down to the ground.

A significantly longer radius - radius power - swinging from the feet."

Ed,

Thanks for your helpful explanation. I'm a newb to this forum, only recently having discovered TGM and started putting a few of its precepts into my approach to the game. If I did only 1 thing differently in my setup or swing, the key of maintaining lag pressure is a *huge* improvement in how I hit the ball. I've golfed for 40 years, much of that time over 100 rounds a year, and don't believe I've ever hit the ball farther with less apparent feeling of "speed" or effort than when simply keying on flat left wrist, extensor action on downstroke, and maintaining lag pressure. There's a "whoosh!" in my contact now, even on an easy 8 or 9 iron, that is thrilling to a dedicated golfer. -- JC

Glad to help JC and welcome to the site.