The entire golf swing is a chain link of events and once you’ve broken the chain…all bets are off! It’s imperative that you begin the back swing with the correct sequencing and speed in order to maximize rhythm and efficiency & therefore power!
I like to think of the pelvis and torso as a father taking his child to the dentist. The torso is the father and although they’re both moving towards the top of the back swing, the father is certainly dragging the child along with him. You can’t blame the child, nobody likes the dentist! Now the second that tooth cleaning is over, that child is going to be running out of the office leading dad to the ice cream store in the down swing! Any time you’v got the child leading dad to the dentist’s office…something is seriously wrong with the power sequence! :- )
The pace of the torso and pelvis in the back swing is an important focus. It’s not that the torso must move before the pelvis, but it certainly moves faster than the pelvis. I like to imagine a rubber band tied to the two and although they’re both moving, the torso is stretching the rubber band further and further from the pelvis. This continues until just prior to the club getting to the top of the back swing when the pelvis needs to move back towards the target creating a little more stretch of the rubber band. This only happens for a brief part of the down swing before the torso grabs onto the pelvis and goes shooting past it. I love the analogy for this of when we were kids riding bikes and you would grab your buddies shoulder and rocket your self past him, thus transferring energy from the pelvis to the torso. The arm then grams on to the torso and then the power is transferred into the club just prior to impact.
This is creating efficient power and is called the Kinematic Sequence.
I like to think of the pelvis and torso as a father taking his child to the dentist. The torso is the father and although they’re both moving towards the top of the back swing, the father is certainly dragging the child along with him. You can’t blame the child, nobody likes the dentist! Now the second that tooth cleaning is over, that child is going to be running out of the office leading dad to the ice cream store in the down swing! Any time you’v got the child leading dad to the dentist’s office…something is seriously wrong with the power sequence! :- )
The pace of the torso and pelvis in the back swing is an important focus. It’s not that the torso must move before the pelvis, but it certainly moves faster than the pelvis. I like to imagine a rubber band tied to the two and although they’re both moving, the torso is stretching the rubber band further and further from the pelvis. This continues until just prior to the club getting to the top of the back swing when the pelvis needs to move back towards the target creating a little more stretch of the rubber band. This only happens for a brief part of the down swing before the torso grabs onto the pelvis and goes shooting past it. I love the analogy for this of when we were kids riding bikes and you would grab your buddies shoulder and rocket your self past him, thus transferring energy from the pelvis to the torso. The arm then grams on to the torso and then the power is transferred into the club just prior to impact.
This is creating efficient power and is called the Kinematic Sequence.