Golf Digest's blog called The Loop just added a post talking about how Angel Cabrera manages to hit the ball so far. The post also has a link to a swing sequence of Angel. It's all very good stuff that will help many of you.
But there may be one easy issue that not one of the analysts or instructors ever tell you about Angel's swing... And I'm going to expose it to you currently. Here's a slo-mo video this is additionally included in that submit:
No doubt you've heard that Angel turned into a caddie and learned a way to swing inside the caddie yard of a path in Argentina. In reality, the word on one of the swing collection snap shots says: "Angel Cabrera is the final of the authentic caddie-backyard gamers, his swing a rough-hewn, self-invented motion urged in particular through instinct and preference."
I'm going to reveal you some thing this is regular of many caddie swings, some thing that goes in opposition to a lot of what you've got been instructed.
I want you to look at the video -- click on that little square in the lower right hand corner so you can see it full screen -- and watch Angel's change of direction. No doubt you've been told that you need to create as much separation as possible during your downswing. Separation means that your hips start turning toward the target long before your arms start the club on the downswing.
Look at Angel's swing, folks. There's hardly any separation at all!
Angel has more of a classic swing, built off his ability to feel the clubhead at the top of his backswing. He swings it back, feels when it slows down and is just about to stop and change direction, and then he starts down. His lower body starts his downswing -- it HAS to, that's just how physics works -- but he doesn't TRY to create separation. He just lets his body turn the way that feels most natural to him. For some people, that move DOES create more separation... but it doesn't for Angel.
And that loss of separation does not appear to harm him any. At 6'1" tall he tends to hit a whole lot of three hundred-yard drives.
The classic swing is Angel Cabrera's real "secret." I frequently name it a "gravity swing." It's the simple approach once taught by way of Ernest Jones and now taught broadly speaking via Manuel de los angeles Torre. Teachers commonly train it the usage of a weight on a string... But within the caddie backyard, Angel discovered it by way of mimicking the swings of the players he caddied for. It's the most natural way for most people to swing.
That is, except they have got been taught that the modern swing is the only way to swing. Then they recognition on moving their lower frame instead of swinging the club. Isn't Angel fortunate that he had to discern it out for himself?
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