TURN IN A BARREL? SORT OF.

Words like 'Turn", "Rotate", "Fire", "Spin", "Fast" are descriptors that can cause a whole litany of problems including slices, over the top and difficulty in timing your sequence.

So if you take "turn in a barrel" at face value, the assumption by many instructors(its getting better via tech like GEARS, etc.) for years that took us all in many directions except in the fairway. The barrel analogy is great way to keep us centered but a terrible way to helps us get the feel for where our hips should be supporting the arms.

Let's try to explain it this way. On camera we have to look at it in two different views. Both have a set of illusions that lead to us going astray and Mr. Trevino knew this intuitively and he put it down on paper. By impact hips look super rotated but by impact most including Trevino their shoulders, spine and hips are almost perfectly aligned. This makes them more accurate than 99% of the world, go figure when most of us are told to have our hips outrace our arms for the last 60 plus years.

In "Swing My Way" and "I Can Help Your Game" he addresses it by labeling it as a slide-turn and a "hula shift". In the most basic terms its like the momentary shift in weight to keep a hula hoop going around you, the forces rotate(the hoop itself) and not necessarily the hips, its just two turns two shifts away from the ball to create space and allow for the club to come in level thru the shot.

Step 1 is nailing down all this "one-piece" takeaway business....but its not what you think.

Barrels are great for whiskey, not necessarily swings.(that one's mine)

-Flea Trevino