Using the Waggle in Golf? A Training for Backswing Mechanics
There’s a direct link between how you perform the backswing and how well you can let the club work for you. If you waggle before the take away you complete two things. You open the blade and you cock the wrists. In that order.
This actually sets up the ability to use the old school power protocol. What the heck do I mean?
The backswing sets up your power creation in the downswing and then also makes it possible to use follow through actions based on your downswing input speed.
It all start with the waggle. It all starts with the backswing. When we play golf we wish to think about as little as possible and we wish to make mechanics pure reactions to simpler brain tasks. The waggle is starting a chain of events all the way from the take away to the follow through.
So just see the waggle as training for the backswing and then replicate the mechanical action in your backswing drilling.
The old timers had zero technology, support teams or data to dissect their game. They had to resort to basics and helpful tools. Long story short. The old school swing is about using centrifugal force to your advantage and it all starts before the golf ball.
Another cool bonus of it is that the waggle makes you relax and get rid of some of that tension. Less tension = more power.
Into old school golf? Check out the below.
Check out the Forgotten Master Moves homepage here.
The FMM Project – the swing style that I teach – has it’s overview page here.