Pete Cowen's Transition Philosophy EXPLAINED

I talk about spinning the arms, the club's in position, spinning the arms down there and getting shaft pressure and face pressure as the body is open. Simple as that. That's all I'm trying to achieve with everybody. Make it as simple, even a mini shot here. I'm trying to get the arms spinning spinning down so the arms are getting lower to a point but I've not flipped the hands and then I'm just turning the pressure on with the body and then there's no stress in the lower back at all. And I feel as though I'm almost hitting the shot like that as opposed to like that, catching up. So again, same thing. Okay, today let's talk about Pete Cowan's spinning of that trail arm. It's a movement pattern from the top of the backswing which every golfer can achieve and that's the beauty of it. You don't need to be strong, you don't need to be flexible, it's all about sequencing but also in this video I'm going to help you try and understand a little bit more about it and we're going to be using a case study as well. You may recognize this case study, Alec, from a previous video where I was actually with him in Dubai. He'd flowed all the way from Georgia, USA to Dubai to accompany me in a pro arm event out in Dubai and we did a video talking all about his journey and the perks of obviously online coaching that were thousands of miles apart and we can still make some really incredible changes to his golf swing. One of the key aspects we've been working on and I work on this with all of my students because it is the most important aspect of the golf swing and that is impact. Trying to get, we all want to strive to get better compression, hit the ball further, more consistency and we don't just look at this from a fair way, we look at it from the from the rough as well. So I recently just kind of kept urging Alex to go and get hack motion because it's going to give us a real good insight into his wrist angles during the golf swing and what he then did was went and did a 10 shot diagnostic and were able to get some numbers based on his swing. Now what you can see from Alex's consistency is that set up and top of the backswing are fantastic. The inconsistency was at impact so you can see how extended his left wrist was basically meaning to shorten this he was scooping through the golf ball and then flipping it a little bit through impact. So one of the drills that it then encourages Alex to do is an impact drill where he just brings a club back to around about waist height and then pushes through impact and rotates and as you can see he can literally do this drill in his porch at home. The benefits of the drill is trying to understand the impact position, really get a feel for where his hands need to be relative to the club head at impact and as a result of that start to feel more shaft lean as he comes into impact as well and even just hitting these foam balls away he's able to feel that compression and that movement pattern as it comes into the golf shot. Okay so bringing the golf club back to this point here on the takeaway and then also then doubling this up as the delivery position allows Alex to then just really feel how he's going to really move into the golf ball, how he's going to move that weight into the lead side, how he's going to allow the hands to kind of really maintain that hinged position as he comes through so into there and then he pushes through and he gets straight away he gets that audio feedback as well from the hack motion with the nice green all over his screen, green all over his screen and the actual noise as well and again this is something that you can do at home you don't have a hack motion you can just see there how I was able just to hit that shot I've literally hit it 40 yards so get yourself onto the driving range this is a nine iron in hand bring the golf club into this position here shaft of the club parallel to target now from here you're going to hit your shot and you're going to really feel like you're going to move into that lead side and you're going to rotate and the better you weight shift and then turn that left hip around the left heel the better you're going to be able to maintain the hands coming into impact if your lower body only rotates but stays behind the golf ball your hands are often going to move into this extended position that Alex was doing as he came into impact so go into takeaway pause weight shift into that lead side and also as well even on that such such a short shot you can feel the quality of contact you can feel the golf ball kind of hitting two or three grooves up the face as opposed to hitting low so you know that you're compressing down and these top grooves are just getting a bit closer to the golf ball as opposed to any time that you're scooping the ball you kind of hit in those bottom grooves now at the very start of the video I was talking about peak hound spinning of the trail arm and this is something that we've been working on with Alex to get into that transition of bringing the the golf club down into this delivery position feeling like the face angle there as you can see stays parallel to my spine angle and when I create that motion that's me now spinning this forearm down it's not to be confused with that motion spinning doesn't have to be fast doesn't have to be 360 degrees it's a movement and again that's where Pete's message can be lost in translation is how you understand it really I suppose so I would just get into that top of the back string position there and just push I feel like I'm I feel like I'm closing the face on the way down I feel like I'm really turning my forearm and extending it downwards because my forearm now is pointing at the screen whereas I get to the top of from here it's turning anti-clockwise towards the screen okay and that's spinning it's spun a few degrees it hasn't done a 360 it hasn't gone fast okay so it's just turned it's rotated on that movement and that way then I'm able to keep the golf club head higher than my hands which brings me to this delivery I fatted it on that occasion but this is what encourages you then to be able to compress and hit down onto the golf ball okay so the spinning of the forearm will bring you into the correct delivery position and it's a real like I said before it's not a it's not a hugely athletic move and again in the previous video with Alex you saw that we did a lot of drills with cack handed so for me as a right-handed or him as a right-handed golfer you put the left hand at the bottom you just swing up to the top and then from here you what you're doing now is you're bringing this trail elbow slightly flexed into the stomach so as you're doing so that forearm now is loaded up okay we've got the shaft angle parallel to target we've got the face angle just ever so slightly toed in so parallel to spine angle and from here it's it's a powerful move understanding the spinning of the forearm is really key because it's not a full spin it's not a fast spin it's a small movement from the top of the backswing and we do all of this without worrying about lower body just yet we get to that position first and then we push through so I can then now combine the hack motion drill of bringing it into the delivery one of Pete's favorites is and just combine the two and just work on that real kind of compressed power shot as it pops out and then you'll you'll notice the difference in your ball striking massively I can't begin to explain the difference this will make so if you do it like I said understanding that movement pattern understanding the spinning of the forearm on the way down is crucial and using this drill using the the the CAC handy drill is also really really good and the drills just like Alex is doing the drills that you can do at home with or without hack motion are vital to the game to your game in the long term guys thank you so much for watching I hope you've enjoyed the video if you have you know what to do 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