How to Start Downswing Before Finishing Back Swing, Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
How to Start Downswing Before Finishing Back Swing, Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now here is a theory about generating maximum power from the top of your back swing. And it works on a fundamental principle in most sports that when you load a muscle up ready to exert power, the muscle likes to be spring loaded and here is the best way that I can analyze this for you. If I squat down ready jump up back again, so I squat down like this, my muscles are loaded and I’m ready to jump back up again, but I will always be able to jump higher if I have one last little deep before I jump. So if I bend down ready to jump up I want to just have that last little drop down to get maximum heights and it works the same in a golf swing. That if we whine the golf swing right to the top and stop and try and hit the ball, you will always lose club head speed with the pause of the top of your swing. The way the muscles like to react at the top of the swing is they like to be going back in one direction and then spring load down again similar to the squat, bounce theory. They bounce to the top to generate more club head speed coming down. Now you can maximize the feeling of doing that by actually starting your down swing before you finished your back swing. So we don’t strictly have two separate motions it isn’t this feeling of back, and down, the club head speed would be slower in that instance.

What we would like to have is the idea of the club going back and then starting down all at the same time. Now probably one of the best golfers in the world at doing this is a guy Henrik Stenson he really does preload his down swing while still going into the back swing. So he’s having his arms and hands moving up towards the tops but his hips are already start going towards the target as his hands are going backwards. That really extends his range of motion on top of his swing, loads his swing with massive power potential and then unleashes hell through the golf ball and he is one of the longest drivers out that are on Tour. So during the setup, phase normal setup, whine the upper body up to the top but before you reach the top focus on rotating your hips and belt buckle back towards the target. So the still going that way, your bottom half is going this way and you’ll get massive elasticity at the top of your swing, loads of potential building up and when you release that potential, boom, that’s when you get your biggest distances. So don’t think of the back swing and the down swing necessarily as two separate parts but try and blend them together as your hands and arms go up, your hip start coming down, massive release through the ball and that’s where your longest shots will come from. 2015-03-25

Now here is a theory about generating maximum power from the top of your back swing. And it works on a fundamental principle in most sports that when you load a muscle up ready to exert power, the muscle likes to be spring loaded and here is the best way that I can analyze this for you. If I squat down ready jump up back again, so I squat down like this, my muscles are loaded and I’m ready to jump back up again, but I will always be able to jump higher if I have one last little deep before I jump. So if I bend down ready to jump up I want to just have that last little drop down to get maximum heights and it works the same in a golf swing. That if we whine the golf swing right to the top and stop and try and hit the ball, you will always lose club head speed with the pause of the top of your swing. The way the muscles like to react at the top of the swing is they like to be going back in one direction and then spring load down again similar to the squat, bounce theory. They bounce to the top to generate more club head speed coming down. Now you can maximize the feeling of doing that by actually starting your down swing before you finished your back swing. So we don’t strictly have two separate motions it isn’t this feeling of back, and down, the club head speed would be slower in that instance.

What we would like to have is the idea of the club going back and then starting down all at the same time. Now probably one of the best golfers in the world at doing this is a guy Henrik Stenson he really does preload his down swing while still going into the back swing. So he’s having his arms and hands moving up towards the tops but his hips are already start going towards the target as his hands are going backwards. That really extends his range of motion on top of his swing, loads his swing with massive power potential and then unleashes hell through the golf ball and he is one of the longest drivers out that are on Tour. So during the setup, phase normal setup, whine the upper body up to the top but before you reach the top focus on rotating your hips and belt buckle back towards the target. So the still going that way, your bottom half is going this way and you’ll get massive elasticity at the top of your swing, loads of potential building up and when you release that potential, boom, that’s when you get your biggest distances. So don’t think of the back swing and the down swing necessarily as two separate parts but try and blend them together as your hands and arms go up, your hip start coming down, massive release through the ball and that’s where your longest shots will come from.