Get More Speed - Maximize Your Vertical Ground Force

Properly using a vertical force from your lead leg early in your downswing leads to higher club head speed. Many golfers are way too late. Using 3D force from Smart 2 Move we shows you how to increase your speed and when to push hard with your lead leg.
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[@jimmyvespegolf3834]

Great swing Nathan.

[@golfgreats5527]

Great video guys :) When i try this I lose my spine axis resulting in getting closer to the ball and early extension - my feeling get to the right side and push from inside of foot to left and then post up pushing up and back. Seems right but can't change the pattern?

[@AltaViewGolf]

You really have to make sure you use the left glutes as part of the process of applying the force in the pelvis. We have some other videos that discuss this - see kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5rOmmiMp6ybjrM for details.

[@kmrk4055]

I had something that sounds like that, this may help. I always thought the right hip came forward, it's actually the left hip goes back whilst the right hip stays where it is. It just changed my mindset and was revelatory for me. Hope it helps.

[@golfgreats5527]

@@kmrk4055 thanks for the reply mate :) Yeah, I have noticed that as well by pulling the left hip back the right hip stays tucked under but at some point we should be able to use the right for pushing that should help the left hip move out of the way.

[@golfgreats5527]

@@AltaViewGolf when you're swinging Nathan do you have any conscious though over or through the swing, I know that I can think about manipulating something moments before the ball, how do I get rid of that?

[@kmrk4055]

@@golfgreats5527 I don't think that's what happens because the first thing that happens in the downswing is a lateral move to the front foot and this puts a lot of pressure on the front foot, that lateral move is effectively the push off from the right, again it's a misapprehension of what we think we see as opposed to what is actually happening. Because at that point you can no long push off the right, or there is point in doing so, because most of the weight is now on the left, the push is therefore off the left thrusting the left hip back. It goes something like, back swing, lateral move forward, pressure is now forward on the left foot (and you should really feel that) thrust left hip back whilst rotating. Look at Scheffler, it is not possible to push off the right and have his right foot go behind his left like it does if there were a push off the right, it's about the sequence and we amateurs are almost always wrong about what it is we think we see as opposed to what is really happening. Do this for me. Take your stance, do your back swing move laterally a little ways (say four inches approx) to put a lot of pressure now on that front foot. (That is where the power comes from) If 80-90 per cent of your pressure is now on the front foot as it should be, what is the point of pushing off the right foot? Scheffler's right foot goes behind or in the direction of behind his front foot because of the push being not off the right foot but off his left foot after the lateral shift. Try it. Try pushing off the right and the try moving the right foot forward in front of the left, you're going to stand up. They can only stay in the shot because of the left side push. There is no real push off the right it's one of the many myths I've had get my head around because literally nothing was how I thought it was.

[@stevenolmstead]

Thanks for the video. At min: 2:34 he mentions that the pressure is going into the ball of the left foot. Does the push up come from pushing from the ball of that foot or does it transition into the heel and push up from there? Thanks!

[@AltaViewGolf]

Generally you want to catch the weight to the lead side more towards the front of the foot and then as you apply the ground force you see the center of pressure move towards the outside of the lead ankle. It’s a continuum. The lead leg has both an up and a away from the ball direction of force so on the pressure trace you see center of pressure on lead foot move back from transition to the end of the swing. My personal experience is you also want to get the pressure moving back to keep the lead knee from getting a twisting torque running through it as you finish.

[@stevecuthbert5150]

​@@AltaViewGolfSo just to follow up on this, the pressure is going down into the lead foot and then the rotation comes for a up and back motion through the lead leg? The reason I ask is when I try to push straight up I feel like I'm just going to come out of the shot and thin everything!?

[@AltaViewGolf]

@@stevecuthbert5150 Correct - overall you don't want the spine to be changing tilt and be coming straight up. There are vectors of direction on the ground force. Perhaps a good visual - we sometimes use a chair with students. You are pushing a chair with your left hip about 45 degrees left of the target. Your leg straightens as the hip moves farther away from the ankle, but the hip isn't moving straight up. More a diagonal visual helps many people. That being said there is a strong vertical component to the force vector and it is proportionally much more on the left foot vs the trail boot. Sequence is go left, rotate, and up in a simplified visual. But maintaining trunk tilt as the pelvis responds to the pressure the feet have against the ground is something just about any great ball striker will do.

[@garrymajor7528]

Could you give the percentage of weight from start to top .Is it like stack and tilt with no shift of weight in the back swing.

[@AltaViewGolf]

Check out this video on our channel and I think that will help answer your question - kzbin.info/www/bejne/bX7YaWWdYshsiK8

[@woosmiley1]

My son who is a junior golfer uses so much front leg force his foot will leave the ground and land back a bit on the heel. Thoughts?

[@michsneddon6077]

Amazing. Just like the swing of the current #1 in the world!

[@AltaViewGolf]

We have a number of other videos on the channel about ground force. A strong vertical force when applied at the right time is clearly a speed generator.