How to Uncoil Correctly [Pete Cowen Compression Concept Revealed] Part 1

This rare clip of Pete Cowen will hopefully get you questioning why you are really struggling to get open with your hips and get rid of your early extension 👇Read More👇

Don't miss part 2 of this video out shortly where I will be using Gears 3D talking through the key points Pete talks about.

You can also check out the full video interview here @TravisFultonGolf and Pete Cowen
Travis Faulton Golf

The correct way to uncoil is from the top of your head down which might surprise you. Most instruction say's to uncoil from the ground up. You need to compress your head down to force the tailbone backwards, lowering the pelvis / hips to create room for the hands and arms to come under your chest for clubface stability.

If your hips thrust towards the ball, that will stall out your body rotation. Tour players have [zero] thrust and actually have the opposite [negative thrust] where their hips move backwards which I will show you on Gears in my next video [Part 2]
Michael Neff - @gearssports [3.03s - Thrust]

If the body stalls through impact, the arms and club will work independently of that, which we call [Compensating] which is not good and very inconsistent for the average golfer, even 95% of tour players are compensating but they are what we call very good compensators, because they have exceptional hand eye coordination they can be told the wrong information and still connect with the ball and send it to the target, imagine if they had the correct concepts and applied them, I think we would then see more consistent winners week in week out.

Here are the important takes from the video that Pete discusses....

"In an ideal world, at the start of the downswing you would have compressional change [Lowering] in the head position, which would actually force the tailbone to go backwards down the spine and out the way (the reverse move of early extension) that's what ground force reaction is really. It creates more room for your arms to come under your chest. You never get the problem of your tailbone coming forward [Early Extension / Thrusting] and in the way of your arm swing coming through.

"Something has got to move something else, so which sequence is it..? how is it moved, why is it moving? what is moving it? So the question is what is moving what?"

"How do I get ground force reaction? how do i get it correctly, "NOT JUST BY SHIFTING WEIGHT" to get Ground Force Reaction, how do I get it correctly so the actual body can work in its most efficient way through the impact, because if the body stalls through impact the arms and club will work independently of that, the better the inside works, the better the outside works"

"The spiral is the most efficient way of creating power and avoid injury. If you spiral up and spiral down, the body is always turning through impact, to stabilise whatever impact position you want [Fade, Draw, Neutral, Low, High, etc]

Check out Spiral Staircase - Pete Cowen

Also look on YouTube at early footage of Tiger Woods, watch the top of his head and how much it lowers, pretty much every tour player does this which I will show you on Gears 3D in the next video [Part 2] coming soon...

Some key 🗝️ references that have helped me over the past 20 years to put this video together in the simplest possible way, you should go and check out their work :-)

Chris Riddoch - Sports science professor and coach
Gabriele Wulf - Professor in the Department of Kinesiology
Rob Gray - Professor of Human Systems Engineering
Dave Tutelman - Professor Tutelman Research
Michael Neff - Director of Gears Golf 3D Motion Capture
Pete Cowen - PGA Tour Coach
Shaun Clement - Wisdom in Golf
Chuck Quinton - Rotary Swing Golf
Ernst Jones - Swing The Clubhead

Good Luck 🍀
Stuart
Founder

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[paulgallagher]

The how, as Pete Cowan says, is always more complicated than most people understand!
I was working on spinal compression with a client of mine last night, which is totally counterintuitive when working with a scoliosis/back pain individual.
The problem with compression or in the case of a sport like golf is, nobody has a good handle on how to condition the muscles to be ACTIVELY driving these compressions, in multiple planes of motion, all at the same time!
Without active drivers you don't compress the spring to generate potential energy, that is why Yoga fails in the long term.
We think the combination of stretching, deadlifts, bench press magically transfers into the complex motions that involve decompressions and compressions in a spiral context.
Of course, when you look at elite athletes, they are blessed to have much of what is required already in their physical makeup, which makes the coaching part a lot easier because the technical ques sit better in a body that is functionally capable.
Take nothing away from Pete Cowen, I'd listen to him all day long 😀

[swisstrader]

Ive heard Cowens coil analogy 10 times and still dont get it

[twisted]

Was that supposed to help us high handicappers? Cause now I am more confused 😵‍💫

[alexander.aichelburg]

deaccelerate the arm down, accelerating the lower body and the title of the video says „slow your hips“ ??? This is contradictory.
Furthermore PC is always talking about loading the shoulders and pulling the arms down to start the downswing because „ the shoulders move the hips better“ ( Matsuyama video)