HOW TO SHIFT "PRESSURE" FOR LONG DRIVES 

Most excellent video lads!!! I can't wait to share this with my students!!!

For a great explanation see : Chris Ryan Golf - WEIGHT SHIFT - IRONS V's DRIVER

I just stumbled upon this video but I've been really working on my swing this winter in the golf dome and hit upon a similar principle. For me what triggers this type of move is to drive my right shoulder (left handed) up through impact. I took a long hard look at my semi-successful golf swing that's stalled at a 10 handicap the last couple of years and noticed that all the pros are really driving that forward shoulder up through impact. My driver SS is about 95 and my typical miss is a sky shot off the tee or a digger off the turf. My tempo is smooth but my shoulders stay much closer to level through impact usually resulting in a downward strike even with the driver. Moving that forward shoulder up seemed to completely fix that and raised my ball flight substantially at the same time with all the clubs. I was hitting my 6 iron off the top of the 100 yard dome at the back, something that I used to do with only the shorter irons. So while the explanation in this video wasn't necessarily the best I believe A&P are on the right track. As with everything else, you've got to practice and use whatever you can, with the help of a coach preferably but even without one.

Stumbled across this old video ,brilliant guys now subscribed. Your teaching of how to shift pressure on downswing correctly is something i now realise have been doing wrong my whole life hence short hitter.I gave up game 16yrs ago when i was 49yrs but retire next spring and will be taking it up again.I don't just want to return to the game ,i want to come back with better understanding and technique.I will practise hard through winter months and fingers crossed come back a better player,thanks largely to video's like this.Many thanks Michael Scotland.

Great stuff as usual! Keeping it fun. Wish I had your channel to watch when I was a junior learning the game.

Great video again guys! Ive been watching your videos religiously for the past 12months And your instructions have helped improve my golf out of sight! Whenever I finish a round & have struggled with a particular area that day, my first thought is to get home & see if Piers & Andy have a video to help out Your videos are not only insightful, easy to process, but genuinely fun to watch I can see why your channel has gained over 400k subscribers Keep the great content coming guys Cheers from Aus!

Great video guys, in relation to the change in pressure to the front(target) side , do you initiate this with a conscious move from the non target side which would transfer the pressure to the target side, or do you instigate it from the target side towards the target? Thanks Ricky Nicol

Great videos guys, keep up to good work, thank you so much 😊

Always enjoy your contents guys, much love!

Interesting video. I really would have liked to have seen the weight distribution on Piers' shot at the end. How was it?

I would love a swing analysis, I struggle hitting my irons fat and or thin

No they don't talk to much. I love the in depth analysis thanks. Keep it up guys...!

I was a massive slicer and by god when i brought my swing jacket its making me come through the ball when striking. My legs and hips are hurting like hell i see now where the power comes from and my clubs are 20-30 yeards longer.

I think this might solve a problem with my drive.... I feel like I move towards the target but it doesn't seem to cause me problems on my iron game

to think all last year I was trying to forget my baseball swing to get a golf swing for a driver... this year I'll go back to my baseball swing.... maybe I'll hit the driver. 47 yrs of baseball, 1 year of golf, easy to switch back. thanks

How do you avoid getting dumped under when making that shift to lead leg? Hitting huge pushes when I shift pressure forward (but it def increases distance).

How can Justin use the Pressure in his right leg if only his toes Touch the ground in impact?

It’s amazing all the haters on here... Keep up the great work guys, I tried this drill and personally love the results so far!!

Nice strikeout.

Do you consider 250 yards a long drive for an amateur?

Justin Thomas in this video doesn't look like he's pushing away from the target significantly. His center of pressure moves to the trail leg hard and fast because he's jumping off of his lead leg. The pressure spikes in his trail leg because his lead leg isn't on the ground anymore. Then the rest of the swing is gathering his balance once the lead leg is back on the ground. I'd be interested in seeing how this correlates to his center of mass because I'd imagine his center of mass continues to move forward through impact even though his center of pressure moves backwards.

So when Nicklaus Snead, Hogan etc said lift the left heel, and the first move down is to plant the left heel, they were fifty years ahead of their time. Nicklaus said, the faster he slammed his left heel to the ground, the more club speed he created.

How? On his transition into the downswing his right heel is off the deck. Looks like to me he's on his left side into impact. Can't have 90% weight on his right side on his toes.

but... his foot is up in the air at the point of contact at 2:56 ... how is he able to maintain 90% of pressure on the trail leg when only his toes are touching the ground?

I think if you show most people this and they work on it, they will be prone to “leaving their hands” behind as they swing which results in right blocks, maybe follow up with a video to show how to sync the arms with the shift.

From what I can see he doesn't push back at impact he pushes up. He may have 90% PRESSURE on the rear foot but not 90% of his body weight. He is almost on toes of both feet at impact which seems to indicate he has launched some what as a sprinter taking off from the blocks wood. Bit misleading but interesting either way you look at it

Surely you must be giving the wrong impression here. No doubt he has most of his pressure on his trail leg right after impact but only because his lead leg has pushed so much of his weight into mother earth that she is pushing back and in effect getting most of his weight airborne. Bet if you put a scale under him, he would weigh less than 30 pounds. Lots of pictures out there of long hitters getting almost airborne for a split second, so the distribution of pressure between trail and lead leg surely must be meaningless if we don't know the actual weight being distributed.

I just had a look at your graphics for JT, and I don’t think that I agree with your assessment of his impact position. I don’t think that he intentionally exerts pressure on his trail leg - for me he just gets airborne on his lead leg. With no weight on his lead leg and his right toe on the ground, the sensor shows the 90% plus weight on the trail side. That jump off the lead leg is a power move used by many longer hitters, including Bubba Watson.

The push off is key. If you don’t you hit down

So complicated !

Stick to golf bruh... lol. Great video

Thats just wrong cause he drives his lower body and he rotates fast through the ball and if you see his belt buckle at impact his drives it up and around which gives him a grear attack angle and he clears left side so he can turn through the ball fast .

The best part of this video is your not wearing bright colors. When your both wearing matching bright colors, it does look rather peculiar to be polite.

Ok I usually like and agree with what these guys are teaching but I think they completely misinterpreted the weight movement of Justin Thomas here. There’s no way he could push his weight to his back foot at impact like that and still have the tremendous follow through he has! I believe he pushes so much force up that his lead foot is off the ground at impact therefore the boditrak reads all his weight on his back foot because it’s the only thing touching the ground anymore! As an Assistant Golf Pro and someone who gives a lot of lessons I recommend people do not try to have their weight on the back foot at impact! It’ll lead to bad habits and bad golf! Drive lower body forward then up at impact. Never back. My 2 cents

How do you whiff every baseball yikes

This is unbelievably misleading. He might well have 90% of the weight on the right foot at impact but look at 2:54, he's almost entirely in the air at that point after jumping off his left foot so, although it is 90%, that's 90% of virtually nothing, I'd guess about 5% of his total actual static weight on the back foot and about 0.5% on the front foot. As I say, totally misleading,

This weight shifting from left to right to left is the exact reason why 90 % of all amateurs are hitting slices...

Talk too much

JT will not be able to this up past 30 years old. It's impressive though at the minute.

JT’s swing is awesome, but it’s ugly AF.

Voices and outfits are super annoying

Wrong its not a weight shift its a hop with the front foot. Pressure changes but not a weight shift.