Why You Need This:

Up to level 3 now in the stable fluid spine series…

Time to really see all the progress you’ve made with the Level 3 Test

Record yourself making full golf swings hitting all the key points from angle, rotation, and compression and checking it with the video.

What's Covered: Overview of check points throughout the course and required reps for completion.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 2:23

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, we’re at level 3 now. We’re starting to pair everything together, and you’re going to be building a very, very solid, very fundamentally sound golf swing.

When you pair up the proper spine tilt at set up, at the top of the swing, and at contact, you’re going to have a very stable looking swing.

Nothing’s going to be moving around, your spine’s going to be staying roughly in the same area throughout the entire swing, and people are going to look at your swing and say, “Man, that is a smooth swing.”

This is the check point for that, for the level 3, tying it all together. For the recap, level 1 we’re going to be tilted away about 6° to 10°.

If we draw a line from the belt buckle up to the top to the sternum, we want to make sure that that’s correct in this video also.

We’re then going to go ahead and make sure that we keep that same angle, that 6° to 10° angle as we swing to the top.

We’re going to go ahead then from there, and we’re going to come to the bottom of the swing, we’re going to make sure that we’re around 20° to 25° tilted away.

If I draw a line from the center of my hips to the top of my chest from here, I definitely want to check this on camera.

Either use your iPhone, your iPad, anything you can draw a line on, and I want that line to be hitting just outside my left foot, 6 to 12 inches anywhere in that ballpark will be really good.

So I’m making real swings, and I’m checking these pieces on camera while I’m actually hitting a golf ball.

Once we’ve done that correctly, we’ve done all three of these pieces correctly while we’re hitting a golf ball on camera, we’re going to do about 3,000 reps to really, really ingrain this.

That’s going to build the muscle memory, and that’s going to allow it to hold up over time.

One of the mistakes I see people make is maybe they get this correct, they do a few hundred reps, and then they move on to something else and it falls back out of place, and then that’s going to come up over and over, and over again.

So once we get it right, we’ve got to get enough reps in to completely solidify this, which is a minimum of 3,000 reps.

So a couple more things here to check as we’re going through this.

As I get in the proper compression, as I’m getting into the proper impact position, I want to make sure that my hips are about 45° open, and I also want to make sure that my weight is transferring to the inside of my left foot as I’m making these swings at contact.

My left ankle, my left hip, my left shoulder are all going to be stacked up. We’re going to be checking that more in the compression line in some of the other videos too.

So work hard, get those reps in, good luck with your swing, I’ll see you guys soon.