A Different Perspective On The Way To A Powerful Golf Swing by Gravity Golf Founder David Lee

When you get right down to the nitty-gritty, swinging a golf club is all about the ability to move your body and the club, and about keeping that club on a very defined path.  Some people struggle to move their bodies fluidly, while others appear to swing almost totally without effort.  A few players, like Freddie Couples for example, have instinctively developed the “recipe” for effortless power and control, while most others, even many touring pros (Tiger Woods included), use excessive effort, and are constantly searching for the answers to an extremely complex puzzle.

Sometimes, comparative analogies help in our effort to understand the enormous subtleties of the human body and I’ll give you one that may stimulate some thinking in the right direction as it relates to the golf swing.  A freight train (or passenger train) has a certain amount of “slack” in the coupling mechanisms.  If there were no slack in the couplers, the engine would have to move the weight of the entire train from a static start.  With some slack in the couplers, the engine starts by pulling one car, then another and another as the slack comes out of each successive coupler. This allows the train to develop momentum as it adds the weight of each additional car.  If you think about this concept as it relates to the human body trying to start its forward rotation in the golf swing, there are definite comparisons.

For the feet, legs, and core to start turning forward comfortably and without effort, the body must move into the counter-fall at the completion of the back-swing (like tipping a barrel to roll it), and the arms must start down in a state of “dead-fall,” so that the “slack” is removed from each body joint sequentially (like with the freight train).  If a player flexes the shoulders and arms at the start of the downswing in an effort to create power, he/she inadvertently “freezes” the slack in the joints (like the train couplers) and makes it harder for the feet, legs, and core to move the body easily into the forward rotation. The more effort it takes to create power in the swing, the easier it is to disrupt the path, move the club-head out of its ideal plane (like derailing the caboose), and cause a miss-hit shot. 

This is a very rudimentary explanation of what happens in the swing, but the analogy of the freight train is quite comparable in many respects. If you go to Gravity Golf website, study the concepts and golf drills that show you how to properly "train" yourself (no pun intended), you'll soon have this mystery solved and be on you way to enjoying golf for the game it can and should be.

David Lee
Founder of Gravity Golf Inc.

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