Balance

@trentferrell Welcome aboard! You’ve definitely come to the right place if you want to learn how to have fun playing Golf and hit it crispy. Balance was and still is an issue with me. I started with smaller swings until I got the balance better which lead to better contact. I gradually increased my swing until I got to about 3/4 backswing which is where I am now. I go back forth with the length of my swing when practicing to make sure I’ve got the basics down in my swing. Hope you fun Trent and keep it crispy! 😊

Welcome to the school and to this great forum community, @trentferrell!!

@burkholder.ronald is spot on in his reply. The setup and motions of this swing are designed to ensure that we maintain our swing center, which can be easily monitored by taking face-on video and watching the position of the head. Our head should not move up, down, or side-to-side during the swing. A little bit of head tilting is okay as long as the head stays in the "box" established at address. So my first suggestion is to do exactly that - take some video.

Also, you mention having your upper body "tilted over". The side tilt is one component of a motion that also simultaneously includes turning and extending while gradually increasing our weight load into the lead leg. This combination keeps our swing circle intact and puts us in a very powerful position from which to approach the ball. Based on your comment, I just wanted to make sure that you are not misinterpreting "tilt" to mean that you keep your upper body bent over the ball. There is a big difference - dynamic (the combined motions) vs. static (staying bent over and essentially making just an arm swing).

In more general terms, it is crucial to understand that the chapters, lessons, and drills that comprise the Golf Swing Simplified and Get Out and Go Play course curriculums are not randomly ordered; they are designed to be taken sequentially from the beginning. Regardless of a member's skill level, this swing necessitates a complete reboot for someone transitioning from a shift & lift swing (which is typically the case), and therefore it is imperative that one take sufficient time to ensure that the fundamental components of the first couple of chapters are mastered. From the ground up there is nothing superfluous in the Stack & Tilt swing - in other words, everything with a purpose, and a purpose for everything. (For example, contrary to shift and lift where you may be taught to keep your trail foot perpendicular to the target line as a means of "creating resistance" in your trail side, in S&T we flare both feet out 10-20 degrees in order to facilitate a free flowing, inclined hip and shoulder turn.) I cannot emphasize this enough, as frustrations predominantly occur when students jump ahead in the curriculum without properly dedicating themselves to the foundational base upon which our consistently repeatable, powerful, low maintenance swing must be built.

Also, as you progress always keep in mind the V1 Swing Video Analysis service, an effective and inexpensive service that I highly recommend to everyone in the school. I liken it to bringing your swing into the shop for a tune-up or minor repair. Scheduling one on a quarterly basis for preventive maintenance will do wonders for keeping things humming along nicely, and it's also a great tool for pinpointing and resolving any issues that arise. The process involves downloading the free V1 app and then submitting two videos to me through the app - one down-the-line (captured from your stance line, not the target line) and the other face-on. You'll find more information about the V1 Analysis halfway down this page on the Saguto.Golf site.

TS

@trentferrell I am 6’ and 220. We have to make sure we are stacked correctly. Then during the swing, make sure we keep the head in place and swing around a stable spine angle and tuck the hips during the follow through. Tom has some swing analysis videos where he draws lines and circles to show the stacked position. During the swing make sure the tailbone moves toward the target and not the head. Keeping the head in place prevents the top of your torso from moving out of the stacked position and causing a loss of balance. Moving the tailbone towards the target prevents the “fire and fall back” movement that wrecks delivery of the club head to the ball.

Good luck!

@trentferrell connect with @Bazza Clarke. He does quite well with the golf swing.