The Rise and Fall of the Golf Swing!

[@TPH0316]

Great video! Even when you are not trying to pull, even though you know you shouldn’t pull, even if you don’t think you are pulling, you have to keep checking because it is so easy to go back to pulling if that is how you learned to “use” the club.

[@robinharrison6522]

Not sure how you knew I struggled yesterday at the range with scooping. When I started to hit my driver the results were worse until I realized I was forcing the club down. As soon as I relaxed my grip at address and allowed the club to follow my body, my hands got to the point of impact without any resistance and the ball flew off the face. Never felt a thing. I happened on your video this morning. It reinforced what I stumbled on.

[@fredriksoderstrom8653]

After searching around for that magic golfvideo it always leads back to you Dan. And for every time, I understand you more. Thx. Keep up the good work.

[@markcampbell-hd3wv]

This is your best video to date!! Thanks Dan.

[@danmartingolf]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dpgolfer]

Awesome video Dan!!

[@gerrysmith-b1i]

profound observation. you just get it.

[@MrDylanGolf]

Genius !!

[@johncarroll986]

Excellent explanation 👌

[@VardenB]

Love that demo of pulling and watching the club spiral away. You are a physics teacher/golf pro bravo!

[@lbutchj4877]

I love your golf swing analysis and you help me to understand the physics of the golf swing. What I would like to know is how do the elite players create the power from this "effortless" ( non-pulling) swing? Where does the power come from?

[@ag358]

That's a great question , I'd like to know too because they're swinging very fast.

[@briano6268]

I would bet that Dan will/would say that your body responds to the arms and club falling (gravity) almost immediately by rotating. This causes the development of centrifugal force and causes the arms, hands, and club to extend or spiral outward to a wider orbit. All of the above "physics" contributes to and creates effortless power. He put out a video earlier this year that talks about that sequence, ie. gravity-rotation-extension.

[@danmartingolf]

I like Brian's answer, but I'm going to add something else. If I put a ball about an ams reach in front of you on a desk and asked you to reach out and grab it, you likely would only go at a moderate pace - the pace needed to secure the ball. But if I now said we are going to have a contest to see who can grab it the fastest, you will go as fast as you can handle to accomplish the task. Speed comes from the ability to perfectly coordinate extending movements as a whole, not by focusing on speeding up one part. When you reach for that ball at full speed, you must have equal and opposite curving arcs in all of your body to speed up. You will do it instinctively. So my message for most of the golfing community is, if you want more speed, just go faster. It has to do way more with your body's comfort level than anything else. There is no secret to it. The better and less restricted your technique, the faster you will be able to go - assuming you are comfortable with it. The problem is that most people have so much restriction they aren't aware of that they just create more resistance when they try to go faster. So they gain speed but they add so much extra, it messes up the shot. So a balance must be struck - go as fast as you can without compromising your skill of keeping all the collective masses of your body and the golf club equal to their distance from your line of gravity and the center of the earth.

[@lbutchj4877]

@@danmartingolf Thanks! I am a scientist by training, and I like the way you break the golf swing down into science.

[@maxwired2235]

This is genius!

[@nathanshasho7563]

I started using a reverse overlap grip for chipping. It's working for me! Full swing reverse overlap?

[@danmartingolf]

Good question! Every once in a while you see someone play the cross handed in the full swing and do it really well. It is certainly a possibility!

[@LJ-ig5sl]

Maybe this is what Hogan meant by his free ride down.

[@aditya89]

One more wonderful nugget of wisdom Does swinging the pro naturally promote this type of motion or should I consciously try to inculcate it with the club? Is this why you teach about looking back at the pro while taking your backswing?

[@dpgolfer]

As a pro owner it absolutely promotes this type of swing. I never realized how light of pressure to have in my hands on the downswing until I got the pro. As soon as I learned this feel my ball striking went through the roof

[@aditya89]

@@dpgolfer that’s awesome , thanks So what’s your routine ? How often do you practice with the pro ? Do you do it on the driving range ? Do you alternate between the pro and the club? How often do u use the pro in a week and for how any hours a day?

[@dpgolfer]

@@aditya89 I use it for practice & warm up before a round. Practiced a few times a week after first purchasing. Sent Dan a couple of videos & he had great feedback. I do alternate between pro & club. Really important to look back with both as Dan talks about. It is weird with the club at first but great feedback. Definitely a game changer for me

[@aditya89]

@@dpgolfer wow thanks a lot , I recently got the pro , I will try this too

[@danmartingolf]

Thanks for the nice exchange, guys! @aditya89 feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail]

[@philipweinstein4257]

correlation is NOT causation

[@danmartingolf]

definitely agree - just giving the audience a way to notice something that is easily detectable on video. if the club is past parallel in the transition, the function may still be great even though the club is "rising".