Swings times two addendum

I should add something to my post about the one plane swing. In fact, it's a comment about the advice I've heard given to golfers not to turn hard with their bodies in the downswing. This turning motion is supposed to cause an over the top (and plane) and slice inducing shot.

The reality is the as long as the turn is a full (upper and lower) body turn the dreaded casting over the top move does not occur. If the arms are 'connected' to the upper body, across the chest effectively, and the turn on the downswing is initiated with a simultaneous turn of the hips and knees, the club does not got out and down, it goes down and through.

I found this hard to believe at first, but what I wasn't aware of was that the very action of turning also produces the slight bump or shift to the front side that many teachers advocate. The trouble with thinking about the bump and initiating this shift is that it can actually break the connection between the upper and lower body, putting the lower body too much in front of the upper body and cause push shots and sometimes hooks.

This all sounds fairly technical, but if you think about starting the downswing with everything together - legs, hips, torso, shoulders and arms - not much will go wrong. I think back to Swing Machine Golf and my skepticism about the method advocated there by Paul Wilson because I was worried about this turning process and couldn't understand the way in which the fulcrum of the swing shifted from the back to the front side for human beings, which wasn't necessary for the Iron Byron machine itself.

This can get complicated, so I'm leaving it there. I just know that a good turn deserves another.