How To DOWNSHIFT In Transition For A Powerful Transfer To Your Left Side

Do you struggle to transfer pressure to your left side in transition? Let's fix that!
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In this video, Henry and I whip out the Downshift pressure board to demonstrate this important move to change directions athletically from your backswing to downswing. One of the main issues we find is that amateur golfers tend to move too far right in their backswing and struggle to get back to their lead side, as seen in our recent golf school with Dr. Scott Lynn and Swing Catalyst. This often results in a steep downswing, tilting, sliding, chunks, thins, etc. There also seems to be a misunderstanding between mass, weight and pressure. We will clear up the confusion between weight shift or weight transfer, and our preferred pressure shift move. And rather than just keeping weight on left side in golf swing, with help from the Downshift board, you will learn the key transition moves needed to sequence and transfer energy more efficiently in your golf swing! We hope you enjoy this episode.
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[@MiloLinesGolf]

Shift like a pro! Get your DownShift Board for 10% OFF: milolinesgolf.com/training-gear/

[@risheeeesh512]

Just came here to say I don’t play or watch golf, and there’s no reason for this to be recommended to me - but you’re definitely doing something right if the YT algorithm gods are recommending this to me.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Haha, welcome to my channel!

[@paulnguyen954]

It’s time for you to start then !

[@danielcary1422]

Been watching alot of your pressure shift videos and working on them with transition. Moving the club up in my backswing with my mass where my hands almost feel like they’re floating during transition . It’s almost like a cheat code. Really makes the swing feel so athletic. Brilliant instruction by you guys.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Athletic sequence and movement is so useful! Thanks for watching.

[@joeschmo8115]

I have watched so many videos talking about moving hip toward the target. But this is the first video that explained that that shift towards the target happens before your down swing.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

A key concept! Thanks for watching.

[@jimgellein1072]

Thank you. I have the board. The sequencing lesson is great!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Glad it was helpful Jim, thanks for watching!

[@OhioRiverFisherman]

Milo, I appreciate ur knowledge and videos!!! Getting my swing dialed in.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Glad to help

[@jacobr4558]

Very insightful! Thank you

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jeffkellytucker8966]

I’ve been working on this for a few weeks, started as an attempt to shorten my backswing. I gotten quite consistent with it but sometime get quick in the transition left and my amount of opposing “stretch” has been shortened too. Club still works to parallel at top of backswing but quite a bit closer to my shoulder that prior to this effort.

[@twisted13]

I just ordered my downshift board last night so great timing on the video. The 10% off would have been a bonus but still good deal. This video will help me with understanding how to use the board properly and the feels I am trying to get. Keep up the great videos!!! Cheers ✌️

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Enjoy it!!

[@jayfixesthings]

I was taught to drive a stick shift transmission by the rhythm in my feet. Right foot up, left foot down then alternate together. A lot of what we do in life is about rhythm and we don’t realize it. Thanks for the insight. Love your training guys, it is immensely helpful.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@vietnameeh]

I love my downshift board !

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Great tool!

[@jefft2193]

Game has been transformed since following. Thanks for all the content. Will be at a school soon. 👍🏻

[@MiloLinesGolf]

We look forward to seeing you!

[@vstags]

Nice! Bring the school to Jersey fella’s

[@MiloLinesGolf]

We have a lot people in that area that want us to come!

[@vstags]

Cool, I’ll keep asking til you come here or I go there..😊

[@joecontreras3175]

Great Lesson - and great tool. I'm starting to use my "Downshift".

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Good to hear Joe!

[@grahamjones7371]

Glad i watched this, as i made a cheap version and kept spinning it right of target in transition which i thought was a fault! what a plank!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Yep!

[@steviek6484]

Great lesson as always Eric. When I try and get more forward I thin and feel like I’m going to thin and also lose leg structure. Shaft gets very steep. When you do it it looks very natural and effortless

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Who’s Eric?

[@jeffhowell4891]

Milo, so just received my downshift board (used your code for 10%off, thanks👍. quick question: I mostly have use for it inside my garage on a runner-type carpet surface. When I swing an Orange Whip Lightspeed while using the DS board, I find that the DS board is twisting, lead side going backwards as I move into the follow through. Does this indicate that I am using it wrong? PS, I feel / sense like I am really having to press my lead foot into the board to get it going down on the lead side. If anything, almost like I am hanging back ever so briefly.

[@7777mantle]

Thank you for the video and the explanation on the board this is exactly what I need to work on pressure into right and pressure onto left early. Hard to miss if you do this correctly. Henry has really gotten more comfortable on these videos the 2 of you work really well together.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ptrhattingh]

09:45 with my right hip staying back. Has helped me a ton.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Good to hear!

[@Station2Station-du2gh]

This is amazing stuff. I'm a ~3hc and I've been playing 25 years. I STILL swing centered and "get left" way too late. I can't wait to work on your drills. You're so right that you need to go down before you can rotate. But it's nearly invisible in tour players full swing. Thank you for this.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

A major difference I see often between amateurs and pros, hope this works out for you! If I can be of further help, do reach out on my website, milolinesgolf.com.

[@scottsanders2641]

Mine was delivered today!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Love it! Let us know if we can help with any drills and such 👊

[@scottsanders2641]

@@MiloLinesGolf thank you, Milo.

[@tomfletcher7625]

Would love to see more of a deep dive on how the weight shifts in the downswing. I tend to get most of my weight onto my lead side at the top of the backswing, but tend to recenter as I lower the club towards arm parallel. Obviously you are saying to resist that. I am also wondering if the recentering from there to impact is a conscious push from the lead side when hitting irons. I know long hitters do it with the driver to give them vertical force but should I feel like I'm staying through it with irons?

[@edlasatergolf]

Tom it sounds like what you’re saying is you have a reverse pivot in your backswing (upper body leaning left). If you can learn to properly trigger, run sway to the right then wind up, your trail hip will get loaded and your backswing turn will send your pressure left naturally.

[@3253222]

Good stuff. How about impact to finish?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

With the board, I'd suggest sticking with irons and wedges. You would primarily finish on the lead side of the board fairly stacked up, as there isn't as much backing up as there would be with driver.

[@vstags]

Is that Henry working with you? Awesome swing!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Sure is, and yes he's got a solid swing!

[@gpe11111]

Does the lead hip rotate at the start of the downswing (which creates upper and lower body separation) because the lead foot presses forward and diagonally? Or should you focus on that separately? Thanks!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Yes Gabriel, as we land pressure into that lead side that diagonal force can help push the lead side back.

[@peteruwatch2970]

How do you differentiate between this move & a reverse pivot to do it correctly? Thank you

[@MiloLinesGolf]

This might help kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpmbnpqinbhmrbM

[@michaelstockley7897]

Hi. This makes a lot of sense, and reall enjoy the channel, but I keep hearing people say "dont move your head to the lead side in the downswing" Looks to me like this downshift move would tend to move your head ? What am I missing?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

There is often times a little sway, but then it stalls and typically moves back a hair especially with driver.

[@gm_ahmed]

Hi, I wish you could show us a transformation video. But what about the right leg, Whats it’s duty ? does the right leg push up along with the left leg 9:46 ?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

This video could help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i2S6c5mja8eYhcU

[@philiphartley3527]

Just to confirm i understand...the max vertical pressure back on the force graphs is the end of the "fall and the catch" then from there (left arm parallel) you push up and away with lead leg...the max force into the ground is from the falling left....not actually pushing into ground?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Yes it’s from stopping the falling mass quickly

[@Prophecy23JC]

When you “catch” yourself in transition, is it on the left leg? (Just watched your video for BeBetterGolf)

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Mostly yes

[@tinytoons2517]

Is this the Milo Lines show or the Zen Golf Mechanic, actually thought I was at the wrong channel, my bad, but wow even at half speed, Milo was still able to spin the board . . what do you have instead of legs, heavy duty springs, OMG, by the way you guys are looking pretty fit, keep up the great work.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Ha, we've both been working out a bit with our team's fitness coach, Zach Gulley.

[@youtubehandyman951]

When you down shift or fall to your lead foot, where do you feel the initial pressure in your foot? I tend to send it directly to the heel. Do you pressure the ball of the foot first then push with the heel?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Ball of foot

[@mitchelmaley501]

Every time I try this the club stays behind and gets flippy and thin. Is that me moving too much mass?

[@raymondmedemblik9374]

How does the sequence differ from the driver or does it

[@edlasatergolf]

It doesn’t it just becomes more dynamic

[@lewcole6439]

Great info. This is exactly how Marcus Bell - Zen Golf Mechanic explains these swing theories. Are you guys familiar with him? He is becoming quite popular on KZbin.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Haven't seen much, but looks like similar concepts.

[@arjanpetersen]

Popular?

[@chekyerego]

I watch the zen golf mechanic all the time. Similar concepts. He's over in England.

[@chrisharbert8333]

yes but Zen been doing this for at least 3 years.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

These concepts and the boards have been taught for decades but Marcus has definitely done a nice job teaching them of late.

[@pohoresky]

Query- I love the analogy of a speed skater to demonstrate transfer of pressure from one foot to another. Is it the same in golf because the pressure transfer in skating is done with the inside edge of the blade not the outside. Transferring this anlaogy to the golf swing, does this mean that at impact the pressure is transferred back onto the trail foot by using the inside edge of the lead foot? I see so many pictures showing the golfer onto the outside edge of his lead foot pushing back at impact. What am I missing here??

[@chrisharbert8333]

this is Zen Golf from 3 years ago. Marcus was ahead of his time. marcus has now has disks on his board to apply the vertical force correctly

[@coreyhickman3095]

How do you avoid hitting it fat when you “fall” in the downswing?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Gotta match it up with wrist conditions and how you are powering the golf club. We have many videos on this and it's a common question.

[@FT163]

Watch AMG or Zen Mechanic Golf (Marcus Bell). You stop hitting it fat by ‘rotating’ on the downswing as you ‘post up’ on the lead leg.

[@crispyduck1706]

A great feeling to get this right is to think of your right hip being above your left hip at the top of the swing

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Maybe, depends on how it’s created

[@ptrhattingh]

Boys got some moves 😂

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Yep

[@marcussheldon9220]

Love you guys but you are completely describing the Zen golf system. The board was developed by Marcus from zen golf.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Ha ha people have been using boards like these for decades if not hundreds of years. He has done a good job promoting them of late however.

[@roxter299roxter7]

This is Zen golf 100%

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Not much new under the sun.

[@scottsanders2641]

Was with him until he talked about pushing off with the Rt side to get left vs “un weighting” the Rt side and falling into the left side as you rotate. When I push off the Rt side it causes me to slide too far and get stuck. That’s why I got a Downshift Board

[@MiloLinesGolf]

He was explaining that the push from the right side happens as the player is winding up not in the downswing. There must be some push early to keep your mass from wandering rightward and recenter the player by the finish of the backswing.

[@scottsanders2641]

I gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for your reply!

[@christabor8662]

Downshift golf site doesn’t work

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Hmm, sorry to hear, I'll let them know. downshiftgolf.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAorKfBhC0ARIsAHDzslsT5PoOf8VIffiQ-jjBvd7sl8VUbfsdrsjYCRIs6J7yrzHrzuCrNQ8aAgIFEALw_wcB

[@wildessex8615]

Mate... your board is swinging the wrong way. Surely on the downswing the trail side of the board should push towards the camera if your weight shift is correctly timed and the trail leg is being used properly.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

You’ve got it backwards but thanks for watching

[@wildessex8615]

@@MiloLinesGolf Ok, mate. Thank you. x

[@wildessex8615]

@@MiloLinesGolf See this, mate. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2KpmH6fj5lgp68 I know different coaches have different ideas. But guy with board is saying/doing complete opposite with board to you,,, in terms of spin. Has he got it wrong? Have you got it wrong. Or can board spin different ways on down swing? Thanks for content, btw.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

@@wildessex8615 watch this frictionless swing. kzbin.infoXQTZfG-Xnp4?feature=share Henry and I are very efficient swingers of the club we move correctly.

[@wildessex8615]

@@MiloLinesGolf Ok, mate. You've given me a lot to think about. Thank you for taking time. Smashing channel. x

[@brianupdegraff4558]

Are these Canadians or something? Speed skating?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

We do coach many Canadians haha

[@EvilXero359]

Schwiiinnggg batter batter batter batter, oh wait. Wrong sport

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Right sport, that's my game 👊

[@dashawn1986]

You guys stay on the same thing for wag to long

[@MiloLinesGolf]

What did you feel we covered too much of?

[@junksails814]

starts at 8:00 - too much talking very little instruction - give it a miss

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching.

[@truthlifefishing1730]

I hate baseball but I love Milo. I feel unclean and unworthy. Why is this happening? WHY !!!!! ?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Home run time!

[@truthlifefishing1730]

@@MiloLinesGolf Maybe I could learn to love both. Thanks Milo.

[@dicknastee1652]

CoP backup😮