This Is Where Your Golf Swing Speed Actually Comes From

So if it comes from torso, so from here how much can I twist? So then I can't hit it very far from here. Okay so my point with this is you made the answer that most people do because we're indoctrinated that it's your core and your body rotation is where most of your speed comes from. Well do you play baseball? I know you said when we were playing pickleball that you played baseball. Yes I did play travel league softball for probably 10-15 years after college. I will tell you too I also play travel league volleyball and I have a hip injury, a torn labrum, but this whole hip is very tight. Okay. So I have trouble kind of keeping it loose and breaking it so I definitely favor staying still more than I do. And that's okay and see in golf that's okay. Okay. Because there are people who the amount that their hips turn relative to their shoulders is all over the map. Yeah. The problem is the industry gets this model going and they try to work everybody towards the model average thinking that that's going to make everybody better. Well not really. All I want you to do is take a couple of these balls and just throw them out in the fairway. Okay. All right now you're probably wondering why I did that to you. Okay. I just learned a whole lot about your DNA from motion. Okay. I learned how this relates to this. Okay. And how how all this stuff fits together. Whether it stays connected or whether it moves independently. You have virtually no separation. Oh okay. And when you threw that ball when you throw the ball you did this. So as you throw the ball your right hip right shoulder and your arm all move together like this. When I throw the ball see my hips go way before my arm goes. I was a pitcher and I'm a lot looser. So what that tells me is when you start looking at your golf swing it starts it tells me from your DNA when we start making swings what we can expect to happen relative to shoulders to hips and what we want what what's actually good for you. Okay. Because if I get you doing something that you either physically can't do or the DNA in you doesn't want to do it for motion. Right. You're screwed. Yeah. Just get to where you know you feel like you're making some decent swings for you and hit a couple where you get them in the air and you feel like you hit them pretty solid. All right. Come on over here. That's all. Well that was pretty good. Is that a nine iron or is that a wedge? If you're enjoying this player lesson you might consider joining our annual membership. Then you get access to the entire lesson plus then you can see how I apply the M system to these players and how the M system is going to help you with whatever you're doing in your game. So there's kind of one common spot everybody looks at and they look at here and they look at this spot coming down and you run the club into the ball they look at that one. Now I mean overall you do you know a lot of pretty good things. You know there isn't there isn't anything there that's that's ridiculous. All right now we're going to look at you from this angle and face on. So they'll look at your posture and then they look at waist high in your backswing. So they look at you right there and they'll look at you the top of your swing and they'll look at you halfway down and they'll look at impact and they look over here. Now here's what we're going to do with you. Your swing is basically right now you're just going at it with your shoulders. It's the fact that your your hands and arms and wrists virtually don't do anything. Okay so let me see your club. So your swing basically looks like if I was going to imitate it and hopefully I don't break my back doing it. No but but anyways your swing looks like you go so you look like you're doing this and you're just pretty much hitting it all with what you can do with your shoulders. So my question to you is where does most of your speed come from in a golf swing? The portion of the body the torso. Okay no that's a good that's a good that's a good answer. So if it comes from torso so from here how much can I twist? So then I can't hit it very far from here. Okay so so my point with this is you made the answer that most people do because we're indoctrinated that it's your core and your body rotation is where most your speed comes from. The reality is there's a there's a biomechanics guy he's named Sasha McKenzie and I just watched the presentation that he made and he basically said this. They've measured it now. 84 percent of the speed you hit the golf ball comes from the width of this this and the lever system in your wrist. 84 percent. So if if this and especially this lever system doesn't work which in you this lever I'll show you in a minute this lever system virtually doesn't work. You're holding it stiff and you're hitting it like this. So you're only getting as much speed as you can create with how fast your shoulders turn. So when I hit it to hit it that far I mean I'd only have to go like this. That went just as far as that went farther than the other one. So here's the first thing we're going to do. I want to give you a sense of how you create speed. So I go at people different ways but I want you to have some aha moments. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to take the club and set it on your shoulder with a baseball grip. Okay now here's all we're going to do. We're going to take the club and I want you to just just throw the club head out of me and let it snap. Let it okay good good do it again do it again. Okay one more time. Now here's what I want you to do. I want you to take that same concept. I want you to bend down a little bit do the same thing and do it right here and just snap it. Okay hang on just saying just this is so good I can't even believe it. Hold on I just want to get this so we can put it side by side so you can see what I'm you can see what I'm talking about. Now in golf for most people unless you're so flexible where your hips can rotate at the speed that matches the speed of your arms. On the backswing by the time your left arm gets parallel to the ground you should have a 90 degree angle between the club shaft and the you're not quite 90. Now here's that one you're not bad but here's the one you're pitiful at. On the follow-through side by the time your right arm gets parallel to the ground right there one more right there yeah no the club head should be clear up here. Wow okay now you go wow but now watch this. Oh wow okay yeah there's the tour. No I'm serious. So here's what we're going to do you're going to take your baseball grip so we're not doing golf grip and you're going to you're going to start right here and you're going to put the club and you're just going to go then you're going to go here and you're just going to go then you're going to go down behind the ball and you're just going to go and just hit it with your hands and arms just like you just did. Now when you get down to the ball I don't care if you miss the ball or where it goes okay so start up there and just do what we did just snap it good now do it a little lower set it up a little lower so if you're going to hit the ball then put the club behind start with the club behind it so you know where the ball is so if you're going to the ball then put the club okay now set the club down get up to the ball close right there now just do the same thing just hit it with your hands just stand there and crank it back and just hit it with your hands that's closer to golf than what you had before do it again now you hit it high but you see how solid you hit it yeah i did now there's speed speed has very little to do with how much tension or how hard your body moves now the reason i did this with you is i want you to start loosening up okay because tension is not speed it's robbing your game it's slow you're so afraid the ball's going to go crooked that you're trying to control where the club is yeah yeah well when you serve a tennis ball if you're trying to control the racket you might get it in play but there's hit it down your throat so you got to have speed hi i'm mike malaska go to malaskagolf.com to take a look at the m system this is the most important part of the site because it's a process it goes skill number one task number one and it takes you through the golf swing rather than randomly being out there trying to put it together which virtually hardly anybody figures that one out so make sure you go to malaskagolf.com sign up so you can see how to really build your game the right way so you don't ever lose it again