Your Golf Swing Becomes Effortless When You Understand This

So this video by Christian C really caught my eye on YouTube. In a second he went from an amateur looking golf swing to a professional. You know what? He didn't even realize. Take a look. How incredible is that? Just notice. Look, when Christian's clearly a little bit frustrated and tossing that golf club out into the range, let's compare that swing to some of the best players in the world. Notice how he's transferring his weight very naturally. Where? Towards the target. Notice how the club head is trailing the hand beautifully. Loaded with energy, power, real power source there. And that power is then released beautifully. And you can see this, these arms extending beautifully out, just like the best players in the world, out towards the target. With his hips thrusted forward ahead of his chest and ahead of his head. A wonderful extension through impact here as he tosses that club. And all done without him really realizing whatsoever. Why? Because just like Christian, your body is absolutely incredible at organizing around a very clear task. And in this case, Christian's task was, I want to throw this club as far as I possibly can out into the distance. Now, that in itself, you can see here, had so many incredible components of a wonderful, wonderful golf swing. It wouldn't hit a good golf shot because the club face was wide open. So we would definitely need to fix that. But let's have a look at his original swing. Him looking down at the ground. What do you think his body was organizing itself around? What task? My bet? Please hit this good. Please strike it. It could be a number one of those things. I want to control this shot, right? So neither throwing a club out to the target or just controlling it down here would produce good golf shots on their own. But if I had a preference, having a target and throwing something out there is definitely the primary goal. The secondary is how do we link these two things together? Because if you can, you can naturally create an absolutely wonderful golf swing. Let me show you how. So if I was Christian now, the first thing I would start with, I would say to him, look, Christian, you've got your 70% of the weather. Your body is moving beautifully to the target. Problem is, you're chanky. You probably hit the neck of the golf club. It'd be terrible. And then what you do goes, I'm struggling my strike. You probably go back to this, okay? And then you'd organize it around just striking it. What I do now is I'd help him to become aware of the clubface. So I'd say, where is that? So when you're swinging it out there and you want to hit a beautiful shot here, where's that face? So I'm getting to get the sensation look of squaring that face as he's throwing the club out there. But what I wouldn't do is just, please square the face. You follow? The two targets always need to be joined together, linked together. So I'd keep him imagining he's throwing the club out there, but at the same time, get a sense of that face squaring up at impact as he continues to throw that club towards the target. Now, is this easy to do? No, not at first. Because at first, you're scared. You're often nervous about, will I be able to strike it? You might hit some dodgy shots. And then your brain goes, I don't want to embarrass myself. I go back to just trying to strike the golf ball again, okay? So we go back to just that task. What we want to do is we have to learn to get control by giving up control. And this is the thing. When he let go, when he threw that golf club here, he got so many of the great parts of the golf swing for free. What he now needs to learn is just to feel of where that face is. Keep the flow, flow to the target, but just feel that squaring up. So what could you do to start to develop some of these feels? I've got so many drills. Here's a ball drill that I use a lot. So from here, you could do this indoors. So remember, there are two targets. To learn the sensation of this. The target is not just to throw a ball down here. What I'm going to do is I'm going to throw the ball. I'm going to bounce it. And you can do this against a wall, right? So I got this from Pete Cowan, this one. So just take a ball and just simply throw it. Now, if my ball goes out to the right-hand side, it basically means that I've what? I've thrown it in the wrong direction. But the idea is that I'm throwing it down like this. Bang. So now I've got two targets. I'm trying to hit it on target, but also land it down to the ground. Make sense? So this is two targets. I'm not just trying to throw it down. And I'm not just doing what Christian was doing initially, which is just throwing it out to the target. You follow? The other thing you could do here. Absolutely brilliant. Just turn Trapman back on. To again, develop this natural flowing motion is to make some swings. And remember, the golf swing is on an arc. We play with angled golf clubs, okay? So what we're going to do now is as you are, in a sense, imagine throwing the golf club out here. What I want you to imagine now is that you're throwing it on a arc out that way. Make sense? And as you're doing this, notice where your club is striking the ground. You follow? So you can look at where the ball is positioned. And as you're making these swings, throwing the club out to the target here, pay attention to where your club is striking the ground. What does that do? It gives you two targets. If you start to strike the ground a little bit too far behind the golf ball, you can start to kind of move yourself forward. But we're still connecting the two targets, look, together. If you start to notice the club striking the ground too far behind the golf ball, we don't just draw our intention all the way down here and start to try and strike it perfect. Because again, that freezes it up again. You follow? So at all times, what we're doing is we're trying to recognize there are two targets in golf. And we're always trying to find a way to link them together. So one of my fun exercises I will definitely do with a lot of players is I will get them to, in a sense, stand to the right-hand side of the golf ball here. Again, I'm imagining this kind of arc here, this finished position here where my eyes, ears, shoulders are all on an arc because that's what we swing on. We play with angled golf clubs. And then what I'll do is I'll get them to kind of look down the fairway and just step into that golf shot and play a few shots like that. And the idea is what I'm doing is we're creating lots of natural motions. How am I creating them? I don't know. My body's organizing it around with that simple task of I'm stepping in here, tossing that golf club, visualizing this arc, throwing that club down the fairway and collecting that golf ball on the way. Feels reckless, doesn't it? Looks reckless at times, but it's natural. And you have to build trust in yourself when you do this. So next time you're out, take a leaf out of Christian's book. Don't toss golf clubs. But remember, neither one works on their own. What Christian needs to do, maybe you need to do now, is recognize the benefits of having a secondary target out there and recognizing, okay, that needs to be driving the motion, driving my body in the right direction while simultaneously paying attention to what's going on down here, but not making down here your master. And you should start to find that you'll start to build in this beautiful, effortless motion that looks maybe a bit like Christian, a little bit more tall-like. So I want to thank Christian for allowing me to film this. I'll put a link in his description. And also Matthew Farrier, who gave me the original concept of this. I saw that on his channel. So thanks so much for watching the video. If you enjoyed this, give it a thumbs up. 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