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Twisting the
torso. ( Changed
- 25/11/2010)
As you rotate the shoulders to the end of the back swing movement,
the action of keeping the heels of both feet firmly on the ground,
keeping the hips firmly held in the frontal facing position and
holding the head in the fixed
frontal position will restrict the movement of the upper body
-- therefore to make a fuller back swing movement you must also
learn to twist the upper torso to its maximum. ( See
Video)
(Imagine someone holding your hips very firmly so that the hips
are unable to rotate away from the frontal facing position.- this
is how it must feel as you make a back swing movement.
During a full back swing movement it is impossible to keep the
hips in the frontal facing position at all times, but it must be
kept to an absolute mimimum so that at the end of the back swing
movement the left knee should only move slightly forward from the
original address position and the right knee should only move slightly
backwards from the original address position.)
See Video - Notice
how the hips are held in the frontal facing position and the heels
of the both feet remain firmly on the ground whilst the upper body
rotates around the central core of the spine, thus keeping the lower
part of the body perfectly still.
This ability to twist the upper torso in this manner increases
the torsion of the muscles between the upper part of the body and
the lower part of the body as you perform the back swing movement,
therefore it is important that you understand this technique.
The important point to make is that during the back swing movement,
the first movement you must make is to achieve a fully twisted condition
of the upper body unit - thereafter the whole upper body unit will
continue to rotate a few move degrees before the resistance of the
lower part of the body ends the back swing movement.
Therefore it absolutely necessary for you to understand that
whilst the heels of both feet remain firmly on the ground and the
hips are firmly held in the frontal facing position, the only way
to make a fuller rotational movement of the shoulders is twist the
upper torso to its maximum.
To have a better understanding of this technique, practice this
movement whilst sitting on the edge of a chair.
Raise both arms up to shoulder height and hold the shoulders
and the arms as a solid unit. Therefore whilst sitting on
the edge of the chair, slowly begin to rotate the shoulders around
to the right of your body without allowing the hips to move.
At the first attempt you will only rotate the shoulders for
a short distance, but slowly and surely you will gradually increase
the amount of rotation of the shoulders that you are able to make
without any movement of the hips.
When you fully understand how the upper torso can be twisted,
try to repeat the movement of twisting the upper torso whilst standing
but with your back side leaning against a wall.
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