I literally just posted a while back on how leverage and gravity provide the elements for the release of the club at the swing bottom, only to run into this clip yesterday whilst scrolling through YouTube.

I have no idea what this concept is trying to say or do, because absolutely no one in golf, even the worst of the Modern Golf Swing practitioners, does this – I suspect it’s about keeping the click count going when having run out of things to say, but people watch these things, which is harmful.

Perhaps it’s because Happy Gilmore 2 is out and people will do anything to try to bandwagon a trend.

Who know?

Again, I’m trying to show what to do, and how to do it, but you also need sour to contrast with sweet (you could do bitter and sweet as well), so here we go with the first:

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I’ve actually performed this motion before, but in a different sport.

Allow me to present my bona fides, because I definitely know the subject matter here.

I used to play hockey:

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… and at a decent level – I wasn’t too bad, playing for a championship-winning squad, and here is the motion with which you perform a hockey slap-shot:

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There’s only one problem with trying to tie this concept in any way whatsoever with the golf swing, and that’s the nature of the slap-shot versus the golf swing.

In the slap-shot, the player has to keep the blade of his hockey stick square to the target after he makes contact with the puck – rather than a slap motion, it’s more of a push motion, and the more you watch it, the easier you’ll see that.

To do this, the far foot from the target must release in order for the leg to balance the body as it glides on the leading skate, and also to prevent the release of the blade and keep it from turning over before the puck leaves it.

Now, the golf swing does not travel on a straight path as does the hockey slap shot, as it follows a circular arc – the face is only or should only be square to the target for a very short period before, during and after impact, and we’re talking about perhaps a split-second in time.

You could swing a club like a hockey stick, I’m sure, but who on this planet playing golf do you see doing it that way?

In fact, I have accused the Modern Golf Swing industry of teaching the “Turn & Swipe” action in the swing:

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… so I have no idea where this gentleman showing the hockey slap-shot action is going, because it is completely antithetical to a working circular golf swing.

No one is “snapping” their hands and wrists to get a release – they all talk about “throwing the club” at the target, don’t they?

Some even preach the virtues of holding off the release through impact:

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All of the above, with regards to the golf swing, is nonsense.

As I have said, gravity and leverage will provide everything you need to release the golf club into the swing bottom.  If I were to use a “snapping” action, it would look like this:

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… and there is no need to do anything with the trailing leg here to mimic a slap-shot.

This isn’t the way to swing a golf club either, because I was just illustrating here how the hand dropping to the bottom of the swing arc, with a gravity assist, releases the club naturally without doing anything more than holding onto it.

A proper golf release looks like this:

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So…

This is what happens when you take the natural motion and pivoting action of the Classic Golf Swing out of the golf swing – you get all sorts of weird, nonsensical and outright comical attempts to propel that golf ball when all you need is proper mechanics.

The leverage of the legs and hips pulling the leading arm back down from the top, assisted by gravity (and the trailing arm’s piston action), are all you need to swing with speed and power:

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… and the release of the trailing leg has nothing to do with the motion of a hockey slap-shot – it is the turning of the hips to a point where they can no longer turn if the trailing foot remains anchored, so you release it to prevent injury and also to allow the hips to turn to the finish.

When you don’t, you anchor that trailing foot and the hips still need to turn, so you resort to the aerial method:

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