5- Hidden Fundamental - Alignment

If you've ever wondered why golf is a game of opposites, this video will go a long way toward explaining why.
Once you understand this fundamental alignment from "Base to Apex" you will transform your swing. It will also change the way you see the top players swings forever. Once you see this fundamental, you cannot un-see it.
Share this video with all your friends, although maybe not the ones you regularly play for money!
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[@yakkyuu12]

This is very good, but it would be even better if, Martin would do the whole movement with GOLF clubs, from 9 iron all the way to driver! The wheel concept is much hard to do with real golf clubs and the grip compared to the holding of the wheel makes a big difference in how you can REALLY move in this hidden fundamental!

[@chrisk6011]

THANK YOU! everyone is sucking this guy off, yet he didn't show how this translates to an ACTUAL GOLF CLUB. The Geezer is all terrible and only makes it more confusing as he doesn't get it either!!!

[@MartinAyersGolf]

x.com/martinayersgolf/status/1808807677080068171?s=46&t=slXhjNF1ErEkk0gk5CynOA This is why I don’t. It’s not about how I move the golf club. It’s about you being aligned to yourself.

[@Wooduck]

Probably the most important golf motion vid ever produced.

[@r533bbd]

Thanks for the lesson. Used it yesterday and shot 78 hit every fairway and many of the greens! Screwing the feet was key. 🙏🏾

[@firstymashow]

This is by Far the Most amazing Fundamental ive ever seen.Been playing since i was 15 years old with no coach just me going thru magazines and swing tips from ada golfers etc and i am now 30 years old..playing in a Old grassy golf course with only 5 holes, and today i felt the resistance in what hes talking about. Been hitting the ball aggressively without understanding why. I came back home tired with a bit disappointment that i could hit it hard with a small cut(thou) but i cant explain it to myself...Now i get the Base to Apex - will see what will happen 2morow. Thanks Mr Martin, Sindiso from South Africa.

[@CharlesHillier]

This has blown my mind. I my bad shot has been a push for years, and "turning the wheel right" in the downswing SEEMS to be opening up the face even more - the last thing my body wants to do. But instead, it gives me better striking than I've had for years while fighting a draw! I cannot wrap my mind around this, but it just works. Genius.

[@steveperry1344]

how and why?

[@CharlesHillier]

@@steveperry1344 Hands are parallel to horizon at address, but "turned hard right" at impact (vertical to horizon). The more open the body is to the target, the more the face closes (how you keep your fade from slicing). So counter to logic, the harder "right" you rotate the wheel, the more the face closes "left".

[@steveperry1344]

@@CharlesHillier ok so since i've developed a rotational type swing i open the hips and body kinda hard and with a strong grip the clubface closes and i hit a lot of hard pulls. so you are saying turn the hands more to the right to open the face? i haven't tried it yet but it seems counter intuitive.

[@CharlesHillier]

@@steveperry1344 nope I pull sometimes, but it's because of an out to in path, failing to get weight left, +- low point behind ball. Manipulation of face can be ugly rabbit hole. Best to try to talk to Martin about it. I am not the coach you are looking for. (movie line?)

[@maxwired2235]

​@@CharlesHillierthis makes no sense!

[@DanRoach]

Undoubtedly the most significant golf swing observation/discovery ever made. It’s unbelievable that Martin is the only one who is talking about this.

[@jdalena1]

Martin Ayers is PURE GENIUS. These vids have completely changed my erratic nonsensical search for a golf swing into an absolute repeatable and predictable method. I cannot express how thrilled I am at 65 years old to find this unbelievable nugget of genius.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

I’m really glad you found these videos helpful. Watch this space for more content in future 👍🏻

[@DocRonCohn]

True Genius Marty,,,amazing is an lenormous understatement,,,Bravo Mate. This is the whole ,,,show in one place explained ( mic drop),,,JH everyone loves you

[@matthewphelps3713]

I've figured how to make square contact many years ago with no lessons. This is exactly my swing and has been for years. Hilarious and awesome to see this explanation. Many people say I swing outside from my takeaway, which is an illusion to them. I'm in alignment the entire time. Love this.

[@brockljo]

Yes, incredible to think how you figured this out. Traces of ‘bow to crossbow’ in that transition move. Add the base to apex thought/feeling and surely it’s all there. You deserve a higher doctorate in biomechanics Martin.

[@Aoughi]

Basically like that you keep the shaft much better in relation to the upper body right. I tried that yesterday, and after only 3 or 4 tryouts it gave me alot of easy upper body rotation and swing speed and my swing through is so much better and easier. Hit my best 5 iron of the season. Maybe that helps more players like me that often get stuck in the swing on contact.

[@dannybilobram238]

Great stuff… you definitely can see what most of us can’t!!

[@alexbalke2805]

Between this and the baton drill (2 days), everything suddenly clicked, and I can effortlessly swing long and short clubs, with an easy grip. And I no longer get stuck at the top. Only took me 20 years to be enlightened.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Yes Sir! You’ve combined how your body wants to move - aligned to itself, with how the club wants to move. Coordinate the two and go play, pain free.👍🏻🍻

[@frozendivots1564]

I posted this concept years ago on forums and I didn’t explain it well enough with words to be understood. It’s cyclical contraction. Compound mass center combined with the top/bottom 45degrees to zero out. In the end this is called Cyclical Contraction.

[@sebgolf7561]

I like the explanation. Tbh I think it's a similar thing to what Pete Cowen teaches but with a slightly different lens. I don't want to discount this video at all, more add some extra support for it. Pete will talk about the spiral staircase and keeping the club in front of you and that the main force driving the club is a vertical one. Thanks for the videos!

[@Charlyky]

JH and Martin THANK YOU. Watched all the Digging out of the Dirt stuff with ELK. now I understand the basketball Hogan Image…

[@RMPGolf]

Pretty damn cool Martin, pretty damn cool! Only had a neck pillow available but it worked just fine, lol. One continuous motion feeling- the pressure within the stretch wants to contain itself.

[@danielspaven5394]

I didn't get it all those years ago but I do now and it's 🔥. Thanks for posting!

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Happy to help!

[@chrismmint]

Just wanted to say you have a fascinating and 100% correct view of the optimum golf swing and are inadvertently trying to describe really complicated physics/engineering concepts. You could think of a swing as "backwards, stop, forwards" and that is clearly wrong based on what you're talking about. Within physics, you don't need to describe position and movement as "x,y,z" and backwards and forwards along those axes. You could if you want create radial axes that go in circles, or any axes along shapes you want to describe. What you seem to be getting at is that the best golf swings have a complex, curved trajectory that the hands/club are making constant, smooth movements along, instead of some metronome that is moving back and forwards along the same arc.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Thank you for that. In response to your last paragraph … Yes there’s two such arcs that make up the swing and combined they traverse one orbit made up of the two asymmetrical arcs. One, the player leading the club, then the club taking over and leading the player. You can see this clearly in the next video #6.

[@richardj6593]

This is genius. If you will next go to a smaller wheel that is just big enough to hold your two hands, you can feel EXACTLY how it feels with a club in your hands.

[@jeffmiller1387]

Not sure if I get this. Can you show this move slowly with a golf club?

[@maxwired2235]

That's the problem, he can't. If he could he would have switched to a club with slow motion.

[@DavidNums]

I read the comments all saying brilliant, etc., and I can't make it out at all what they're on about.

[@brandonvandervlucht6703]

Wow, 🤯. Absolutely insane, can’t wait to try!

[@jpelf2138]

Hi Martin - your website hasn’t been working. How can I reach you for lessons? Thanks!

[@MartinAyersGolf]

@@jpelf2138 I’m currently without a website. Email me at [e-mail] Cheers.

[@weedote1]

This is so good-I cannot wait for trying it tomorrow

[@NicLewis]

how'd it go?

[@dapoggi4434]

Martin huge fan of JH. I have also listened to Jackie Burke explaining the feeling of sideswiping a car and turning the wheel. I also followed Elk along with your explanation of the right arm, but that never clicked with me until now. Why did it take you ten years to figure it out? (LOL) I will experiment this winter and look for more videos.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

I'm a huge JH fan myself

[@robsaxepga]

Hey Martin, Can you do this with a club, please? If you already have, could you please post a link? Thanks

[@remowb]

Hi Martin, I'm a recent subscriber from Florida and find your description of the golf swing so different, yet so fascinating. I think that I've watched all of your videos in the short time I've been a subscriber...some of them 2-3 times. The videos with the steering wheel and hammer clearly demonstrate the hand action you are trying to convey to the viewer and I can make this happen with those two items. However, when you are gripping a club, your hands are not parallel to one another as with the wheel and hammer, but in a straight line along the shaft of the club and this is where I get hung up. Am I correct is saying, that the hands are still traveling in counter-clockwise direction but just in a much bigger arc so you don't really see the hand over hand movement? If you could explain this or point me to one of your videos that demonstrate it, that would be great. Thanks for opening my eyes to something in the golf swing I've never seen before!

[@MartinAyersGolf]

You have explained most of it well. Try to think of it as your right hand pressures the clubhead forward, the left pressures the handle back. This mimics the hammer perfectly.

[@steveng8727]

@ 6:40 the Jimmy Bruen power loop. Love it!

[@joshwooden]

If you stood inside a transparent flexible cylinder, the steering wheel cover would be the end (apex) of the cylinder. Think about an advertising blowup man without the flailing arms. The cylinder boundary would be the containment. Thoughts?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

good abstract image. I like it

[@michalsobczak3535]

This is the best golf advice I've ever received. Thank You Mr Ayers you are a great teacher and explained the whole concept beautifully

[@love2flash]

so is the club leading the swing on the downswing and our body is just holding on and staying in balance?

[@brendaporter457]

Reminds me of Jim Furyk’s golf swing.

[@12piecebucket]

Rewatching all videos Could there also be a jar lid at your feet that the feet also turn

[@MartinAyersGolf]

yes, it's a mirror of the one above. The one above is lefty loosey, the feet are righty tighty.

[@done5423]

Genius

[@stephenmcdonald6618]

Martin's swing reminds me of Mike Dunaway's. Also is this concept similar to Dan Shauger's spin the plate of meatballs?

[@jpbouffard]

I get it now...after watching several times, and listening to you on the Be Better Golf videos. However...unless you swing like Matthew Wolfe, you don't move your hands this way in the golf swing. Your own swing doesn't do this. How do we feel the steering wheel turn if we aren't actually moving our hands like that?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Focus on the arms / legs. Knees/ elbows. The important thing is that opposite below the elbows is ALIGNED. Cheers

[@12piecebucket]

This system of defining a “swing” works with other stick sports…watch a tennis serve…you can observe the folding unfolding and opposition in alignment…

[@steveperry1344]

do you have a video that shows this in an actual golf swing like with a tracer on the clubhead? thnx.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

That would defeat the purpose. Because if you adhere perfectly to this fundamental the shape that the club head arc/orbit took would be dependent on several other factors. The major problem that holds people back from reaching their potential swing is that “shape=technique”. It does not.

[@maxwired2235]

Then please show 3-4 swing analysis of players moving with this concept vs players not doing it. Or is this just conceptual, because concepts in golf can't be taught, but movement patterns can.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

@@maxwired2235 “concepts in golf can’t be taught”, may be one of the dumbest things I’ve read on KZbin and that’s quite an accomplishment. What this fundamental highlights is an anatomical fact about the Human body as it pertains to the golf swing. Your body is either aligned throughout the swing or it is not. It’s a constraint you either adhere to or not. I can assure you that you can’t play high level golf getting very “mis-aligned”.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJ7LiGyGl5h6a9Usi=tJiMZsNQB5wI0F8D This video contrasts two players who swing on the opposite ends of the shape spectrum. Note from 3:00 mark the geometry of impact is almost identical. Halfway back their body alignments both ideal, with one club way inside that the other way outside. The “Alignment” I say is fundamental is the one they share.

[@steveperry1344]

@@maxwired2235 i still don't get it, kinda went over my head.

[@jmm4081]

The steering wheel is turning in the same direction as the body. Not opposite. I don’t get it.

[@chuckross8839]

How does your baton twirl have anything to do with this motion you making with the Hidden Fundamental #6 and #7 rubber hammer and this steering wheel cover ? Your rolling the wrists with the Baton hammer . Counter clock wise with the Steering wheel cover ?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

It would help you understand if you realized that two things are happening simultaneously in a golf swing. You act on the club, and the club acts on you. The vids #6/7 are designed to show you how to treat the club. The baton twirl is designed to help you feel how to respond to the way the club acts on you. These two things are necessarily contradictory if you think they both come from your "actions".

[@chuckross8839]

@@MartinAyersGolf Are you saying the backswing is started like the Steering wheel . Left hand/wrist/ forearm moving the handle ahead of the head all the way on the backswing ? Your not rolling the head open ? The feel is like left arm moving pressure against the right . Opposite directional pressure ? Do you have any vid's with your doing this in super slow to actually see the movements , because in real time I am not seeing it . I am agreeing on the direction of the pivot . The weight shift happens from behind .

[@MartinAyersGolf]

@@chuckross8839 Yes I am saying that. The reason you're not seeing it is that the swing of the club is also taking place. What you are seeing is the amalgamation of the two. If you want the description of what TO DO, and the description OF WHAT HAPPENS, AND the description OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, to all be the same...then you are always going to be disappointed.

[@peterc.876]

Didn't I see this on Malaska a few years ago?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

@@peterc.876 No. You may have seen something that this reminds you of. But not at the fundamental level that I am talking about. I’m saying you have no choice but to accept this alignment. It’s not a “move” you make.

[@12piecebucket]

Lefty impact impact to righty impact

[@badshotgolf3889]

Friend, I am on the same journey and only wish I had made this correlation in the first year of touching a club. Haha my mom would have punished me by taking my clubs away. Thank, you

[@badshotgolf3889]

To be honest, I could listen to Sam, Lee, and Jack, all day long. There is something truly special about the simple and visceral way that the gentleman of their generation understood and executed the game. Respect.

[@badshotgolf3889]

I think it’s possible that Moe Norman discovered and tapped into exactly what you’re showing and trying to teach, and he simply started his backswing on the 2nd arc. And the same goes for Jack Nicklaus, via the “flying elbow” or “chicken wing.” Genius.

[@12piecebucket]

Genius statement at approximately the 12•30 mark..the best players impact alignments are the same in that their upper outer girdle is rotated about as far to the right of them as the could get and their lower inner girdle is rotated about as far to the left as they could get it….looks out of alignment but base to apex apex to base its in alignment…folded over

[@mindgardening7168]

This will be particularly good for beginners and kids to watch 😂

[@mindgardening7168]

It looks the wheel is turning to the right ?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

From where I am underneath it it’s a left turn . No point trying to understand this video unless you give the whole exercise a go yourself.

[@shaynebernard]

Take the left hand off the wheel and just about everyone can do this naturally... It is the motion of throwing a ball.

[@bobgruenke5897]

Wouldn't this be like a Matt Wolff style swing? Seems to work for him.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Yes, and a Jon Rahm style too. This is fundamental alignment (from their hands all the way through to their feet) of a player in the swing.👍🏻

[@bobgruenke5897]

I just finished the video, didn't realize you mentioned Wolff in the video till now.😅

[@mindgardening7168]

This is a great double act 😅

[@joeyclark3995]

A Swing/V Plane?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Most definitely not.

[@CharlesHillier]

OK, you got me with the Matt Wolff vs John Rahm stuff and the whole steering wheel analogy. I have definitely discovered I'm in the Wolff pack of unfolding body first and then dragging the club along. Just never thought of it that way. If I go club first, I just drag the club behind me, then come over the top on the way down. (Painful shank-summer discovery). I think of it in terms of "chest up, club outside", but I like the unfolding body first concept better. Can't wait to stay in alignment instead of fiddling with stuff all the way around.

[@MartinAyersGolf]

Good one Charles

[@lobedwonder]

this guy has a great talent for making something simple totally confusing and he doesn't even know it...

[@MartinAyersGolf]

In this video I revealed something that no one has ever talked about which explains why all good players are arranged the same way at impact. But sure, it’s simple and I’m confusing people 🤡🍻

[@grantnakagawa9033]

Been following you since SITD when you showed the most powerful move in golf since i had a connection to Terry Okura. This video has really made everything “click” for me and am hitting the ball better with less effort. If people can’t comprehend this I don’t know how simpler you can make it..

[@MartinAyersGolf]

@@grantnakagawa9033 Thanks Grant, I think it’s going to become even clearer with the planned content to come 🍻👍🏻

[@grantnakagawa9033]

@@MartinAyersGolfmore than welcome..seeing you on BBG brought back my SITD memories and made me go back to view them..especially the most powerful move in golf..this “one direction” thought and especially how to execute is certainly a key to a fluid swing..

[@A-FrameWedge]

If I can now just figure out how to attach that wheel to my grip.

[@OfCourseICan]

It's taken me 13 years to get this. How: understanding the golf swing is NOT a golf swing!

[@jmm4081]

Ok. I get it.

[@OfCourseICan]

Your off-sider Marty doesn't get it : he's full of it. And he proves that in your last few videos. He just destroys your integrity! Your technology is brilliant.

[@jeffp2001]

Is it not Matt Wolf except Matt’s hands don’t come in as much?

[@jimeiring]

Am I the only one that is totally confused by this? When you are holding the wheel above your head “unfolded”, you are tightening the jar as you turn to the right. You keep saying the wheel is turning left(???) and loosening the jar. Then when the older guy demonstrates with the wheel down in the “folded” position, he’s not turning. He’s simply shifting laterally right and manipulating the wheel counterclockwise.

[@plentyofouts]

I’m understanding it that the imaginary jar is upside down. Lid at the bottom. The lid is going anti-clockwise and ‘left’ relative to the jar. The lid is being loosened in an upside down orientation.

[@Truthmoses]

@@plentyofouts He comes from the Land Down Under.

[@jayshirey7456]

When he says the wheel is turning left, it’s turning the direction of a left hand turn in a car. He wasn’t just saying that your using a steering wheel cover for the demonstration, he also defined it is terms of steering a vehicle.

[@steveperry1344]

i think i kinda get it.

[@markhuru]

Re inventing the wheel… this was too easy to mock

[@MartinAyersGolf]

We mock what we don’t understand. Now that, was too easy!

[@kipkapper3014]

jh turn the fukin wheel my lord haha

[@lobedwonder]

base to apex? what the hell is he referring to?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

This is video 5. The first 4 videos contain the answer to your question.

[@DavidNums]

Lol. No wonder it's so obtuse.

[@sir_nicks_allot_8902]

I trust you know what you're talking about but this is the 3rd video of yours I've watched, and i don't understand any bit of it. Sorry, i have to move on from all of this.

[@abs828]

Ok guys, you are obviously very intelligent people. as a general rule what part of this could the week-end 10-15 handicapper do?. or try to do or should do? realistically how much of this could that person learn and apply and will it impact his handicap?

[@MartinAyersGolf]

My email is in the description of every video. If you have questions...I also offer online instruction to help you navigate these fundamentals.

[@abs828]

@@MartinAyersGolf thank you. how does one go about getting on line instruction?