In a nut shell… most golfers have no idea that the Lower Body holds or resists on the backswing. This gives the Shoulders something to wind up against to create torque. If the lower body slides towards the back foot on the takeaway there is no Anchor to wind up against. If you slide, your chances of sliding back to where you started are almost nil. Or worse, the hips are allowed to start the backswing (ouch), that is like the middle of the spring trying to wind itself.
The golf swing is much easier when you learn to resist with the lower body, while you push your arms and club straight back and up, all the way to the top, with your shoulders. This takes some work and practice, but the downswing is awesome, powerful, repeatable, consistent, easy… Again… Move Less … Get Good! Learn to “Resist“
Hi Ross. Have only tried this in the living room but I seem to find it easier to resist on the backswing if I set up with the weight on my front foot slightly favoring the heel and the weight on my back foot evenly balanced between heel and toe or very slightly towards the toes. Is this a helpful concept or will it cause problems?
The front foot setup and rolling to the outside of the front foot is an individual thing I have found over the years. Many golfers can not do this move. Those I usually have flare their front toe out so they can still rotate. I important thing, is keeping the front knee flexed during the rotation until after impact. Some can go all the way flexed. Others have to straighten the knee (harder to balance). You have to find a way to just unwind completely with knees touching, totally up on the back toe and hold that position. If you can do this or learn it, GREAT! If not the arms will have to pass the body and undesirable things may happen. Hope this helps Dennis.