Why You Need This:

In this video, you’ll learn how to stop sliding and gain speed in your swing.

First, you’ll get a recap on what the compression line is and why it’s so crucial for a making a powerful swing.

Also, you’ll see how the compression line changes as you hit longer clubs.

Then, you’ll learn about the 2 most common mistakes players make with their compression line.

1. Shifting your weight so much that you slide in front of the compression line, and
2. Keeping your weight behind the compression line.

Finally, you’ll discover how to avoid the common mistakes…

And you’ll learn the one crucial move for getting your compression line right.

Watch this video now to get an in-depth look at the misconceptions about your compression line….

And learn how to clear your hips and release with tons of speed!

What's Covered: Find out how to stop sliding in the golf swing.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:38

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. In this video we’re going to talk about one of the misconceptions that people might have about the Compression Line.

Again, to recap on what we should be trying to do here is if we draw that line from our lead ankle up to our lead shoulder at impact with a wedge or very short iron, that’s going to be almost vertical. As I get more into the driver, that’s going to be tilted away from the target.

Now there’s two things that could be happening here incorrectly. Number one, I could obviously slide in front of that line. If I do that, my hips are sliding forward, that’s going to cause some hip pain, too negative of an angle of attack.

I may be able to get a little bit from the inside, but it’s not going to be with a lot of power. So I want to stay back so I can really rotate, get a lot of power through that shot. That would be the most common thing that happens.

The misconception that I see sometimes, I’ve gotten a few questions about is, well I want to stay behind this line and now I’m going to keep my weight on my right foot. So I’m going to kind of fall back on my right foot. Most of my weight is on my right foot at impact.

Yeah, I’m behind this line, but I’m not getting pressure into the ground the way that I should be. So I shouldn’t be hitting off my right foot. It’s a very important thing to know, I’m going to walk you through it. It’s very simple to get the feel for this.

But when we’re doing this in slow motion, so if I’m trying to pause and get into the correct position with my Compression Line, if I’m pausing here because I don’t have any motion going into the left, I am going to feel most of my weight on my right foot.

That’s just because we’re holding a static position when really it’s a dynamic position, or we’re moving when we’re hitting the golf ball.

What we should be doing is getting some pressure into our lead leg going back this way to help us to keep from sliding. That’s going to help us to really accelerate the club.

In the golf swing, what we want to have happen is halfway in the downswing we’re going to have quite a big of lag here. Then as I get farther down, I’m going to drive up from my lead knee’s going to begin to straighten. My lead hip comes up, it’s pushing back this way.

So I’m pushing down and out into the ground that way, my hip, my shoulder’s coming back that way, and that allows me to turn the grip of this club back upward.

If you’re looking from face on this way, I’m pushing – if you can imagine 12:00 is toward the camera, 9:00 is over here to my left. I’m kind of pushing toward 10:30, out that way, and I’m pushing away from the target, pushing down and out.

That’s going to allow that to rotate upward, that’s going to get the butt end of my club rotating upward, and allow me to get that lag to release. Very critical.

The harder I can release lag, the more lag I can have because if I have tons of lag, but I’m not using my body correctly, I can’t get rid of it and naturally I’m going to start to cast. That’s the first thing. So we’re pushing down and out.

I don’t want to feel like when I make a real golf swing and I hit a golf ball, that the majority of the weight is on my back foot. Yes, I’m behind this Compression Line, but instead of pushing kind of that way with my lead foot, I’ve got to shift my weight and then push back against it.

Instead of doing that, this would be me keeping all my weight on my right side and pushing through the ball.

That’s not going to be as powerful, because when I push through the ball, I’m thinking about taking my right hand and pushing it through the shot which is going to lead to a cast or a flip for those of you struggling with that.

I want to feel like I’m turning that club back up and in, and I’m pushing against my lead leg to make that happen. So that club’s really going to whip through there.

Now if we’re looking from down the line, the other way this is going to happen is if I’m going toward the target out in the distance, if you imagine I’m driving a stick-shift car and my left foot is the clutch, I’m going to feel like I’m kicking in the clutch.

So I’m kicking this way to get my hips to rotate out of the way. So I’m sliding, I’m letting my hips go too far laterally this way. My hips are sliding way to far in front. I’ve got to kick that way, again down and out toward 10:30 to get my hip to clear out of the way.

If we’re looking at it from this direction, I’m going to feel like halfway in my downswing to get those hips to clear out of the way, I’m pushing that way.

I’m kicking in that clutch to get that force again coming out toward the ball in kind of a 45°. If I do that, that’s going to allow me to clear my hips while I’m getting that vertical force.

Let’s go ahead and take a look at one in slow motion from face on, and visualize how I’m pressing into the ground with my left foot as I’m through contact to get that club to turn up. I think you guys will be able to see it very clear from that angle.