Do you actually need to make use of your decrease physique to generate energy? GOLF Prime 100 Instructor Lifetime Member Peter Kostis would not assume so.
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You’ve in all probability heard golf instructors discuss utilizing the bottom to create energy. This phenomenon — often known as floor response forces — is essential for golfers who need to produce extra pace.
Floor response forces haven’t all the time been well-understood, however they’ve all the time been current. You may take a look at swings from the legends of golf again within the day and clearly see them utilizing their legs all through the swing. From Ben Hogan to Tiger Woods, the legs have been the driving force of the golf swing.
Nevertheless, whereas the legs is perhaps essential for ball-striking, longtime GOLF Prime 100 Instructor Peter Kostis disagrees that energy is created by the legs.
“This shall be controversial as hell,” Kostis says. “It’s my opinion that the correct use of the legs, hips [and] physique rotation — however particularly from the hips down — the correct use of the legs is to not create energy. I repeat: it’s not to create energy.”
So if the legs aren’t creating energy, then what are they doing? Based on Kostis, they’re making a steady base that means that you can swing powerfully together with your higher physique.
“It’s to create a stable basis from which you’ll be able to swing sooner,” he says. “The overwhelming majority of your swing pace comes from the waist up.”
After you have a stable base in your decrease physique, you’ll be able to whip the membership by the hitting zone a lot sooner. But it surely’s crucial that you’ve a robust core and higher physique to take action.
“I don’t leap up off the bottom,” Kostis says. “But it surely’s a response to my swing pace, it’s to not create swing pace. I need my decrease physique to create a basis.”
You may take a look at his full rationalization within the video above.
