| You will no doubt be familiar with the
usual pivot exercises: hooking a club behind your back or across the
shoulders before turning your torso to develop your pivot motion. Nothing
wrong with either of them. But if you grab hold of your left wrist with
your right hand and rehearse the moves you see here, you not only strengthen
your pivot motion but at the same time blend your arm swing with it.
The arrows that you see here on my shirt correspond with the direction
of motion: from the set-up, my immediate thoughts are geared towards
turning my left shoulder under my chin and getting my weight across
and on to the |
ball of the right foot (you don’t want your weight sinking
back into the right heel). From the top of the backswing, reversing
the momentum sees the left hip rerotate and climb in the direction of
the target, a move that triggers the right knee into action. The result
is that the lower body leads the downswing motion, creating a sense
of ‘lag’ as the arms and the hands follow suit. The more you rehearse
this, the better your rhythm and the more pronounced that sense of ‘lag’.
Rehearsing this exercise will help you to improve your body action and
at the same time encourage the hands and arms to swing up on a good
plane. |
