Unload the SPIRAL for a Powerful Golf Swing Release

Today we dive deep into the UNLOAD PHASE of the golf swing. An important concept that has been requested over and over in the comment section. Thank you for the idea!

While the unload phase is a bit simpler than transition, it still is important for the player to understand what needs to happen through this area to maximize their golf swing efficiency.

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[jonsmith]

You guys just keep giving. Loading and unloading the spiral at the right time has been a game changer (literally) for me. There is nothing that speaks more to your confidence in your instruction than to put it out there for all to see. This is good stuff and thank you both. My new mixed superhero moto is ‘up, back and away - to infinity and beyond

[randysmith]

Absolutely the best golf video I have ever seen! You guys are pure gold!

[s.r.]

My God!!! You guys are so good at explaining this stuff. Love your videos, so glad I found ELITE GOLF. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.

[zrouth-ix]

As everyone is saying, you guys are nailing this. Of all the instruction on youtube this is the top. You are explaining the golf swing in a way that few are even touching yet. I know that there are many others on here as grateful as I am for you guys.

[dimtgco]

I made a comment in another video which you very kindly responded to my total frustration. This video made up for my stupidity. The idea of two separate forces, two fulcrums, makes understanding all the golf instruction makes sense. Now I get it.

[ryanlampton]

This info is great. You break it down so well and also describe how "some folks" feel it different. Thank you so much for the content, you are putting out. I am drinking it up!

[MrMILLERW]

One of the best videos that I've viewed. I have seen others that never give the entire explanation that you d elicer. Excited about your site and your presentations.

[olleedsbacker]

Very useful for me as it turned out yesterday. Even more so as my teacher is "compatible" with your system. As your instructions are kept within ONE system each building block (video) becomes clear. Thank you guys. Olle

[tomn]

At 8:55 Riley demonstrates the desired chest rotation as just a chest move and then at 9:15 Riley shows it again but (to me) it seems like a pelvis driven move. Can you help me understand a little better why the two look so different and which one (or perhaps what) should we be trying to actively make happen in our swing to unload the spiral?
Many thanks for all the super info. Riley, I am coming to see you in CO in a couple of weeks.

[Nonyabizznaz]

You guys are the absolute best content on YT. This is the most efficient swing in my opinion

[tomeldridge]

I’m old, so most of my swing I consider “ dyed in the wool.” Yet, the movement of the chest per your instructions has resulted in a serious uptick in quality ball striking. It is even working with short pitches. Thank you so much😊👍

[TheRealLanceCummings]

This may be one of the most influential golf instructions I've ever seen. I have struggled with "the transition" a long time. But after watching this, and thinking about it, I've come to the conclusion (and the feels seem to bear it out, but I'm very early into exploring this) that the tempo of winding up the spiral is very important. Just enough impetus to get the club/arm unit all the way to the top, but not so much as to keep it from a feeling of almost floating as gravity starts to overcome the impetus. Just as it's "cresting", or slightly before, I feel freer to make the pressure shift, because I "almost have nothing" in my hands. The unit then falls, and I'm already rotating, now loaded.

Am I even barking up the right tree, here?

This feeling seems to let me start the pressure shift just before the impetus crests. I have never been able to accomplish that very well, or at all, really, before thinking about it this way. When you see a pro go into the shift before the arms stop going up, it looks like they are doing two things at once. But they are not, right? They're just actually waiting for that passive club/arm unit impetus to crest, before doing one thing, and that's getting the body going the other way. It seems that is actually a confusing illusion (two things at once), because they've "already done the impetus part" (loading the spiral), which gets the arms and club up. They're no longer focused at all on the turn, or elevation, because it's done. They've supplied just the correct amount of spiral impetus to get it done. Not too little; not too much. All focus can then be on the pressure shift and unloading.

[dagsperling]

Great video again! Thank you so much!!!
At the end you are speaking about different feels for the unloading of the hand- hinge (or the club head maybe?). Have you got any tips on how to evaluate what feel is correct for each induvidual pearson ? Is it as simple as the longest and straitest (asuming equal energy input) is the one for mee?

[TK-npjc]

Great contents!!! @11:15 .... regarding the arm system unload for the sling effect, I assume this should be applied to all FULL swing (for all clubs), correct? I'm curious about the longer clubs (including a driver). Of course, we need to adjust the position of the ball, but do we need to do the arm system unload a little bit sooner for longer clubs (especially for a driver)? Thanks.

[jdutcher]

Absolute GOAT content. You guys deserve a million subs (it'll happen) best golf instruction on Youtube

[AnthonyJohnson-wb]

Another amazing video. Exact issue that I’ve been having. Love the helicopter visual through the window.

[_pieceofwork]

Genius! Every video you put out helps my understanding

[matthewlavallee]

Your explanations make it so easy to understand, and to talk about how individualistic this feeling is, is so important. I seem to hit it best when I don't hang on to that wrist angle, swing is more relaxed and effortless. When I hold on to that wrist extension, I feel like I am fighting my own swing, and strikes are very poor, need to learn to trust the system, if that makes sense!

[karlready]

Really incredible! You guys are explainers extraordinaire, amazing to me.

[The_sunday_lout]

Top info fella’s, love the idea/feel of helicoptering the club.