Here’s a Useful X- Factor Image. Think of your torso as a coil spring. Imagine your shoulders at the upper end with your hips at the lower end. Do you have the picture? Now grasp your spring at the upper (shoulder) end and rotate it around its longitudinal axis without securing the lower end. As you might expect, you’ll encounter no resistance because the bottom end is not attached to anything. Now repeat the twisting action. But this time, secure the bottom end of your spring with your other hand. Notice that the more you twist the more resistance you experience as the twist (or X-factor) increases. This coiling is the mechanism behind a power swing. Now imagine suddenly releasing the shoulder end of your imaginary spring. Can you see the speed and power as your shoulder unwinds like a sling shot whipping towards the ball.

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In our last post, we talked about how the power in your golf swing is directly related to the angular differential that you create between your hips and shoulders. The more differential you create at the top of your backswing arc the better (about 30 degress is typical).  Now let’s follow our swing through the downswing and onwards to a whacker of an impact…

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We’ve all heard of the famous X-factor and how crucial it is to turbo-charging the range of your drive. We’ll, here’s an amazing tweak that you can apply for immediate results that will help you master your X-technique  You can look forward to more power and greater distance in those long drives and with a whole lot less effort….

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