Golf Swing Weight...What WeightShare
Golf swing weight and momentum create leverage and power. Understanding what weight is will give you the power to stop swaying. Weight is defined as mass held down by gravity and mass is defined as matter and matter does not have a defined shape.
Therefore in the golf swing creating the correct body shape is extremely important in producing an impact position to satisfy the laws of physics and focus should be placed on this position. Golf swing weight is related to the shape of your body throughout the swing in regards to two masses, the weight of your upper and lower body instead of the whole mass. Players who try to shift “weight” laterally during their back swing will change their shape at some point due to the body’s natural reaction to staying balanced and "sway" and this is what creates a reverse pivot, one of our games most common swing faults. Swings created with incorrect weight concept's produce oscillating body's due to the pressure moving in the wrong direction. This creates slower arms due to the body being out of position as the arms wait or stall in relation to the body producing a less powerfull swing. Swings that transfer weight in the correct direction will appear to have less body movement due to the constant shape, this produces faster arm speed due to the arms being able to work more in sync with the body, creating a swing that is more powerful, and efficient. Understanding weight correctly can revolutionize your swing. Why? Because the process of learning about weight transfer is intellectual as oppossed to motor skill learning which requires drilling movement thousands of times. How Do I Know... My swing fault was a reverse pivot or tilt. Early on in my lessons I was instructed to do an action that involved standing with my feet together whilst swinging back and then stepping toward the target as I made the downswing. This action would produce the required hitting angle; however, when I hit balls the reverse pivot would return because I really didn't understand why I was doing it. Nothing had changed intellectually. (I was doing 200-300 a day!) My body rejected the new movement because it had not received any new understanding. (It's like your inbuilt safety mechanism. If somebody asked you to jump off a bridge, you wouldn't.) Needless to say, after 15 lessons with this coach I moved on, and in the first lesson with a new coach, I was asked what "weight" was? He simply asked me, "What's weight?" before going on to explain weight as mass and how it can be separated in terms of the upper and lower body. Within a month, my reverse pivot or tilt was geometrically opposite because my concept of transferring weight had changed. Instead of shifting the pressure in the lower body, I understood weight transference as getting behind the ball with the upper body. 
b>Light bulb moment: Take the focus off the drill because the mind controls the body!Just doing drills is not the solution to fixing your golf swing. Az-bookcover-3d THE A TO Z OF GOLF SWING TRAINING...
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