Are Your Getting Ready to Pull or Expand in Your Golf Swing?

[@guitar1950]

The golf swing is like the universe expanding outward. A skier slung outward from the boat.

[@golfdoc1950]

Compelling explanation but difficult to overcome the “hit” impulse ingrained in my brain.

[@markcampbell-hd3wv]

The best golf instructor on KZbin

[@chudgolf2112]

extremely insightful....keep going. and thanks for being generous and sharing.

[@cdunne1620]

.. great great video, light bulb moment 💡 It’s nice to find some advice at the meta level because that is the root of the whole golf action, the concept/intention level. This would not occur to 99.9% of instructors, nice one Dan 👍 The word ‘swing’ in golf swing kinda promotes a pulling motion. Hmmm should the golf swing be renamed as a ‘golf reach’ or something similar 🤔

[@TPH0316]

Sling😊

[@tomhull612]

Great lesson as I was just thinking about moving away from a pull that has been very sucessful but more stressful on my 68 year old body. I used to just use rythymn as you showed and let things happen naturally. Going back will allow me more distance and a more enjoyable swing and round as I am a low handicap player. Your timing was perfect and I wunderstood it all as I used to do what you just demonstrated and let the ball get in the way of the club on a smooth swing. Perfect! Thanks again!

[@thatwilldonicely1314]

terrific lesson thanks Dan

[@mjs0039]

Any take on the engagement of Kinetic Chain? And lifting the lead heel for a better and flexible turn.

[@jacobr4558]

Dan do you think there is a difference in the classic golf swing(Payne Stewart, Bobby Jones, Sam Snead) and the modern golf swing?(Xander, Brooks, Champ etc) Is the pro built for more of a classic motion?

[@andyk9257]

Hi Dan, I'm struggling to transition from the pro to a golf club where the the arms, hands, and pro extend in line to the ball causing hands that are far and high from the body with too much ulnar deviation. What is the difference in getting those hands returning relatively close to address and maintaining that angle between club and arms? Thanks

[@danmartingolf]

Good question. I’m making a video on this.

[@HolyGrailOfGolf]

I like the idea but unfortunately I have to say that it's fundamentally incorrect. Think about throwing a baseball - are you pulling or pushing the ball? You're pulling it, because you're mass (your arm) is in front of the ball at the end of the wind-up and also because it's physically impossible to push something from the front. What you're talking about is created by the saturation point of the mass of the object we're throwing or swinging which is why we can't throw a golf ball or bowling ball nearly as far as we can a baseball. The baseball is the perfect weight to create the maximum torque in the arm and this isn't by accident. The same is true with a golf club - it weighs what it does because that's the saturation point that allows us to swing it with maximum speed but still be heavy enough that it's inertia prevents us from too easily altering it's path. Try swinging an alignment stick, for anyone would doesn't get it. Not to mention that physiologically muscles can only contract. Relaxation allows muscles to expand and contraction makes them shorten - that's all we can do.

[@cdunne1620]

No my man you have missed the point of this video, it’s perspective. Dan is talking at the meta level, at the psychological intention level. That is the root of the golf swing, the intention. If the root is rotten you can’t grow a healthy swing. If the intention is faulty it causes problems, obviously. You are objecting based on mechanics so you are thinking at a lower level than Dan so don’t be so sure of yourself next time, always leave room for humility and learning, anyhow

[@guitar1950]

Squirrel! Lol!

[@cdunne1620]

.. missed it, squirrel where 🐿

[@TPH0316]

The comment about not lifting our leg to walk is interesting. Everything happens at once in a walk, naturally. So, everything should happen at once in a golf sling, naturally?

[@danmartingolf]

Absolutely but it does have a time cycle. No part need be forced into motion ahead of another part. The body will triangulate to a higher degree of precision and selection through experience.