Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Hit Ball Then Turf with Little Known 'Thoracic Bump' Move"

In today's lesson...

You'll finally discover the little known move that allows for you to get your weight to your lead side in the downswing...

...but keep your spine angled away (and your nose behind the ball) at impact.

This move is the key to making consistent ball then turf contact.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:26

Video Transcription:

Alright, so there's a great video here today. What I see a lot of players do when they fall back, and let's be honest, everybody knows they're falling back. If they're doing it, they just have a tough time stopping and we're gonna go over how you can stop doing that. There's actual a, what I call a thoracic bump, which I'll go over here in a second.

That's really crucial to this. But what I see players doing is their weight goes on their back foot, and one of the reasons is we're trying to get more to the right so we can swing more from the inside. So what happens if you're swinging over the top is your weight goes to the left early. Your shoulders kind of get tilted more toward the target instead of away from the target.

And that right shoulder comes out. So when I do this, that gets me steeping over the top and I don't want to do that. And to solve that, being a good athlete, you came up with a solution, you said, okay, I don't wanna come this way with it. I'm gonna go ahead and come more from the inside with it. Now, when you do that though, if you don't have this little bump, What ends up happening is your weight gets too far on your right side, your right shoulder gets too far back, and then all of a sudden we stop, start, drop kicking it.

So we hit three, four inches behind the golf ball. We chunk it. We don't wanna do that. So then we go ahead and miss the ground. But we're so far back here, we end up hitting it thin. The time we get to the golf ball, it's, uh, a total mess and everybody hates it. So let's talk about the move to fix it now instead of.

Talking about what we're not doing, uh, what, what the wrong way to do it is. So you do want to have this shoulder tilt when you're coming in. Your downswing, every great player, let me go over this for a second. Every great player has what I call the stable fluid spine at impact. And what that means is the spine angle isn't changing, it's tilted away from the target.

About 20 degrees or so with most players, and the shoulders will be tilted away also. That's universal. There's never been a great player in the history of the game that didn't have spine tilt and shoulder tilt at impact. It's the only way to get the club from the inside to get lagged, to get Shaf Lane, to get everything you have to do, just non-negotiable.

Have to do. To hit the ball. Well, now what happens is if we don't get a little bit of this bump with our ribs or what's our thoracic spine in the middle, then we end up getting too far on our back foot. So if my ribs don't kind of bump this way and I stay on my backside, all of a sudden my sternum, my upper body, everything is way too far back here and I'm gonna drop, kick it.

So I want you to practice for a second. We're gonna go ahead and bump our rib cage. This feels weird, but don't move your hips. We're not talking about moving the entire hips like this. I want you to feel like you're bumping your rib cage to the left, and when you do that, your ribs go this way toward the target, and your shoulders can tilt a little bit.

So that way I'm getting more forward. I can still get my weight over my front foot and still have that tilt. So what I see when you do this correctly, what you can feel is go ahead and get in your tilt, but keep your weight kind of 50 50 on your, or even favoring your front foot, and then bump, feel like you're bumping your rib cage toward the target and feel like you're bumping the right side of your ribs toward the target also.

So you're gonna feel like this right side doesn't go down and back. It goes more toward the target. And then you're in this shoulder tilt and you can easily, you're, now you're in a position to where you can come from the inside. You have this shoulder tilt away. Your nose is behind the golf ball, but my entire upper body isn't back here too.

My entire ribs aren't. So I feel like I'm bumping this forward. My head's staying behind, and now my weight is left, even though I've been able to deliver this club from the inside. So when I do that, it's a simple move of coming down. You get a little bump, you almost feel like this side stretches out.

Everything feels real connected on your left side and your body here. Everything's gonna feel real, real connected between your armpit. Because that's bumping into it, and that gives you a lot more control also. So you're gonna be able to have lag, have shoulder tilt, you're gonna be able to hit the ball first.

You're gonna be able to make your weight go to the left, all without falling back. So let's try it out now here and half speed just to kinda show you what this would look like. So here's the wrong way. I'm keeping my upper body back drop kicking it. Here's the right way. I'm bumping my ribcage toward the target.

Still coming from the inside. Now my weight is left and I've gotten perfect alignment. Nose behind the golf ball, ribs toward the target. Still have that tilt, still have that shoulder tilt. Everything's fantastic there, so lemme go ahead and do it in a full swing.

There we go. Hit the ball first and in the ground, and I was able to get that lag and get tilted away without falling back. It's not too bad. 170 yards for 169 yards for an eight iron. Definitely happy with that. All right. Now there's one thing that I still want you to think about here while we're doing this, and that is one of the five fundamentals we talk about in the toxic golf system, the real fundamentals, which is the stable fluid spine.

And see, most of the time when players do this stable fluid spine, if they don't do this the right way and falling back again, their weight is on the right side. They are tilted away, but this entire angle is just too far this way. You see if you do this the correct way and you kind of bump your ribs forward, yes, you get your spine tilted away.

Yes, you get your shoulder tilt like we're talking about, but as you're doing that, you're able to get your weight to your left side, and you're able to have everything in a great alignment so that you can compress the golf ball time and time again. Now what I want you to do is build this for a lifetime.

Sure, you can watch this one video, go out and hit it better, but then in a week you might forget about it and go on to another tip or something that you heard from somewhere else, and everything's lost, right? We need to build this in your swing so you have it forever. So if you're a member, top speed golf, go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, and start with level one of the stable fluid spine.

As you start to work through level one, it becomes much more comfortable. You start to feel how it's supposed to feel when you're doing that, and you hit better shots. As you go to level two and then finally level three, that's when it's automatic. So that really doesn't do you any good to practice your golf game if you don't make it automatic.

And by working through that system, that's what it's gonna do for you. So you chip away at it a little bit, a couple times a week, and before you know it, you get outta the car, you make a swing, it just happens and you don't even know that you're doing it. You just start hitting great shots right off the bat.

So best of luck. Head all over to level one of Stable Fluids Spine. I challenge you to do just one single video from level one to get started and you're gonna be hooked. I can't wait to see you there. Let's go and get started right now.