Swing Golf Plane Drill 3 Maintain spine angle Javlin through head (Video) - by Pete Styles
Swing Golf Plane Drill 3 Maintain spine angle Javlin through head (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now you can be doing some really good work by bringing the golf club back on the correct swing plane line and you’re really working hard to keep your hands and arms on the right swing plane. But if your spine angle isn’t behaving its self that will drastically throw out your swing plane.

So from a good address position, if I bring the club back on plane, and that’s looking really nice to a swing plane position, but then if I stand up, the club gets thrown away off line or if I dipped my posture in my spine angle, the club’s going to go outside the line a bit too steep.

So here’s a really good exercise to keep your posture and your spine angle correct to encourage you to swing the club on plane.

I would like to start up to a tee peg here and imagine that someone gets a Javelin. It’s not particularly nice this imagery, but they get a Javelin and they jam it right through the top of your head, down your spine, out from your tailbone, and into the floor.

So basically you’ve got a Javelin in here, down my back, and jamming my tailbone into the floor here. And that encourages me then to turn on the Javelin rather than lifting up. Imagine that it’s pinning you to the floor here and you can’t stand up or lower yourself. You can only rotate around that Javelin.

So it’s through here, down here, out into the back. When I make my golf swing, I want to turn and I’m still on posture plane and I haven’t stood up or dipped my posture. If I can turn on good posture plane, the club will stay on good plane as well. If I stand up, the Javelin would have ripped me in half, and I’m out of position, and my plane line goes too flat. If I fall forward in my back swing, chances are I’m going to throw the club too steep and again, the Javelin is trying to hold me in position.

So find a bit of time for yourself to stand in front of a mirror, look from side on. So I’m looking where the camera is. Imagine there’s a line in the top of my head, down my back, jamming me into the floor, and just practice turning on that plane and turning through on that plane. Then practice picking the golf club up, swinging the club on plane, helping yourself by keeping your body on plane. If your body moves, it’ll throw out your swing plane.

So it’s a particularly nice image of having a Javelin through the top of your head and into the floor, but it’s a great way of keeping your posture in the right position to help keep the club on plane as well.

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Now you can be doing some really good work by bringing the golf club back on the correct swing plane line and you’re really working hard to keep your hands and arms on the right swing plane. But if your spine angle isn’t behaving its self that will drastically throw out your swing plane.

So from a good address position, if I bring the club back on plane, and that’s looking really nice to a swing plane position, but then if I stand up, the club gets thrown away off line or if I dipped my posture in my spine angle, the club’s going to go outside the line a bit too steep.

So here’s a really good exercise to keep your posture and your spine angle correct to encourage you to swing the club on plane.

I would like to start up to a tee peg here and imagine that someone gets a Javelin. It’s not particularly nice this imagery, but they get a Javelin and they jam it right through the top of your head, down your spine, out from your tailbone, and into the floor.

So basically you’ve got a Javelin in here, down my back, and jamming my tailbone into the floor here. And that encourages me then to turn on the Javelin rather than lifting up. Imagine that it’s pinning you to the floor here and you can’t stand up or lower yourself. You can only rotate around that Javelin.

So it’s through here, down here, out into the back. When I make my golf swing, I want to turn and I’m still on posture plane and I haven’t stood up or dipped my posture. If I can turn on good posture plane, the club will stay on good plane as well. If I stand up, the Javelin would have ripped me in half, and I’m out of position, and my plane line goes too flat. If I fall forward in my back swing, chances are I’m going to throw the club too steep and again, the Javelin is trying to hold me in position.

So find a bit of time for yourself to stand in front of a mirror, look from side on. So I’m looking where the camera is. Imagine there’s a line in the top of my head, down my back, jamming me into the floor, and just practice turning on that plane and turning through on that plane. Then practice picking the golf club up, swinging the club on plane, helping yourself by keeping your body on plane. If your body moves, it’ll throw out your swing plane.

So it’s a particularly nice image of having a Javelin through the top of your head and into the floor, but it’s a great way of keeping your posture in the right position to help keep the club on plane as well.