The animation isn’t perfect but hopefully you get the picture. Imagine the left side of your body is or is attached to a flexible rubber torsion bar. By imagining the center of rotation is the left side of the body the entire golf swing changes and becomes very powerful and easy. When we think spine centered rotation, we have to think of things rotating different directions and we don’t do that well. Think of the shoulders being attached at the left shoulder to this imaginary tension bar so that it only rotates in one direction – like a pinball flipper or the way we swing a baseball bat.
At the maximum of the backswing, the tension bar is bent and twisted storing kinetic energy. The torsion bar will be strongest nearest the ground therefore as you allow it to unwind it’ll pull the left hip first and then the shoulders.
A simple change in perception can change everything.
