Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Real Way to Stay In Posture"

And it can be extremely difficult to maintain your posture throughout the downswing…

…but, what if I told you that your butt was key in pulling it off?

Today, you’ll get a unique drill that will get you to fire your glutes the RIGHT way…

…and staying in posture and compressing the heck out of the ball will be much easier!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:25

Video Transcription:

Stand in your posture, how many times do you find yourself where you're standing up? Your chest is backing out of it. Now, all of a sudden, instead of being able to get that leg shallow in this club out get some great shuffling stand down in your posture all the way through, you find out that you have to back out of it.

Now you have to lose all your leg. Start casting it like this to make the club longer, just to be able to reach the golf ball here, so back my chest out my hips come forward, and now I'm flipping it. And I got to tell you, if that's what's happening, it's virtually impossible to get really solid, crisp contact on the golf ball consistently.

You hit a great shot. You hit one amazing. And you say, why can't I do that every single time? Because the next one is going to be heavy. The next one is going to be thin. The next one's not going to be very solid. It's just too hard because it's all hand and hand-eye coordination and club timing when you're doing that.

So let's get right into it. The very first thing, if I'm coming out of my posture let's go over the actual muscles here, and I don't need to know the names of these, but it really helps to know what's really going on inside your body when you're doing this. If you want to kick this habit once and for all.

So in the front of my body, kind of going from my lower spine in the top of my pelvis, down to my femur, I have something called a psoas muscle that's what people call hip flexor. And what that does when I contract that muscle, it bends my pelvis and my spine forward to where now there's an angle between my femur and my spine angle there.

So when I'm doing that, the front side of my body should be engaged. Now, your glutes, your butt cheeks, they do the exact opposite if I fire those, that's going to get me into what's called hip extension or now I'm coming up out of my posture. So the glutes are engaging. Now, if I'm standing up out of my posture, a lot of that because is because of the glute to the biggest muscle in the body.

If I really want to fire those things and get it going hard, then it feels extremely powerful. But I'm just doing it too early. So if my glutes engage here, the Tiger Woods, I can hear the laughs now. The didn't gauge the glutes. Well, what he's talking about there is not engaging those early, but engage them later in your swing so you want it when you're making your downswing to stay in your posture.

I want to feel like the front of my body is nice and firm. Contracted muscles here. So as muscle is is contracted, but I don't want to feel like my butt cheeks are contracting yet. I want to feel like they're nice and loose when I do that. I'm going to feel like I'm getting closer to the ground. My hands or my knuckles are going to feel like they're scraping on the turf here.

Now, when I see a lot of players practice this one thing that they get wrong is they don't rotate their body as they're doing that. So it's really two motions at once. It's me staying in my posture, my getting into hip flexion. It's also me rotating as I'm doing that. So practice relaxing the butt cheeks, contracting the front of your hips to get bent forward.

And as you're doing that, you're going to go ahead and open those hips at the same time. You'll notice when I do that, right knee goes forward, left knee turns out a little bit. So it's this motion that's all happening at the same time. If I want to stay in my posture, let's look at it from face on here as I'm bending my legs, getting in my posture this knee comes out, this knee kind of works out this way.

I don't want to have this knee kicked in like that or it's going to be very tough to rotate. I want that need to turn out and just both of my knees are pivoting as I'm coming in my posture. Now, here's where the the engage the glutes comes in. When I come through contact so from there, that's getting me down to here.

Somewhere from there to my follow through. I really want to feel like I extend and I get my glutes to engage then. So if you imagine your your butt cheeks, I want you to make I heard this this one time and I thought it was just funny saying, I want you to be making diamond dust. So I want you to imagine if there's a piece of coal between your butt cheeks as you rotate through this shot into the follow through.

Now you squeeze those together and you got diamond dust instead of a piece of coal. I thought that was pretty funny, but that's a great visual to have for when you're coming through. And the great thing about that is it actually does stabilize your pelvis and your lower back so that now you're less likely to have some lower back pain when that's going on.

What I don't want to do is the opposite of that, which is to hit my my rear end firing early and standing up out of it and backing out with my chest. If I can let that stay loose, I'll get closer that's going to get my legs bent. If I get my knuckles dragging the ground, that's going to get my chest and my body lower.

So now you can see that my upper body is tilting forward and the last piece of that is to feel like I'm rotating through. That's the squat portion. And then from there, when I rotate on through, I'm going to go ahead and turn on the diamond dust I'm going to feel like my belt buckle now has leading the way.

So now I'm completely out of my posture. My belt buckle is leading it away. My chest is higher and here's a great feel. Here's one of the surefire ways I notice this from Jack Nicklaus did it every time. And I think it's just a great key to make sure you get in that position. Once I get low here, my knees, everything I opening up, I'm in a great position from there.

I'm going to go ahead and fire and I want my right elbow to be high and pointing to the target almost in front of my head. So if I was going to go this way, I want it to be here facing toward the target. And that is really difficult to do if you don't if you stay down. So if I'm somebody that this kind of stays down on my posture, that's not going to work.

I'd never engage my lower body there at all. Not going to have any speed. It's going to be all arms. My elbows are going to be low if I get down and then go ahead and extend and get that elbow higher, that ensures that I get the squeeze the cheeks finish my turn position there. And the great benefit of that again is it kind of protects the lower back as that's happening.

So let's go and try it out you're going to see here as I start my downswing again in my posture. And then from there, I'm going to finish with that elbow high cheek squeezed should be a really great swing and stay in my posture. The entire swing there we go. So that felt great. My first move down, I felt like it's here and then I'm standing up.

Now it only happens a little bit. You don't have to go way way down in the squat. You may feel like your knuckles are dragging the ground, but they don't have to be like that. You're just getting a little bit lower before you stand up, and that's all you need to make this happen. All exaggerate one more time here and notice how my chest comes down.

I go into hip flexion, but I really don't do a ton of it as I'm making this move. Let's try it out there we go. I'm not gonna hit him a whole lot better than that, but there's a little bit more to this. You see, if I'm in my posture, let's say that I'm a little steep in the downswing.

Let's say I stand to get out my posture, I get steep and I get the club coming out here and I'm kind of coming down and that kind of matches up with getting out of my posture. You see, if I back out of my posture, I can get this club coming out and flip it a little bit like we talked about in the beginning of video.

And it makes sense. I'll get that same outside wrist angles. And now all of a sudden I'm in my posture. That club is coming so far down and over the top. It really doesn't work. So the two pieces, this number one, let's get the body motions down like we talked about here today. Let's get the glutes and the hips working the right way so we can get in the posture.

Let's get the turn in the elbow finish so we can finish in our posture. But then we have to get this club moving in a different manner if we stay in our posture, but we don't get this club moving in the right way in the right place in the downswing, we're going to be all over the place. Here's what I want you to do.

I want you to actually work on getting this club shaft flatter in the back swing and using the way that the pros are using it to square up the club. Now, when I do this, if I get this club on a shallower angle, I can get as close as I want to the ground because now when I turn, it's coming from the inside and that face is releasing.

And it doesn't matter how close I get to the ground, I can turn all the way on through it. It's going to be a beautiful shot. If my club is steep and I get close to the ground, it's Chop City. I won't be hammered down in the ground. It's not going to be a good situation so what you want to do next, if you practice these drills head on over to the MOVE section, you go to the instruction tab, click on the top speed golf system, go to the MOVE section, and walk through that.

That's where I'm going to show you how to get this club shallowed out is actually make sure you you watch the second and third video in there. I go over precisely how you use these wrist the right way so that you can square the face up. And now it makes sense to come from the inside if you don't get those pieces right, man, it's always going to be a struggle.

So that's one of the big things I see. I see players, they start trying to work on their posture. It doesn't work because they're coming in way too steep. They start trying to shallow it out. It doesn't work because they're losing their posture. So it's a chicken or the egg thing. Let's get them both knocked out. Get your posture here, head on over the move section.

Get that club swinging on playing you're going to feel like a million bucks when you get out to the golf course. Best of luck. I can't wait to see in the move section.