01The One Axis Theory

Torque the Pendulum

Lesson Summary

This opening lesson lays the philosophical and mechanical foundation for everything that follows. Kevin introduces the core insight behind the One Axis Golf Swing: rather than orchestrating a complex sequence of weight shifts and rotations, you load into your right side at setup and stay there.

The club face is kept square throughout the entire motion by torquing — or supinating — the pendulum. Think of the golf club as a pendulum that simply needs to swing freely; your job is to keep the face square and get out of its way.

The result is a swing with zero lateral movement, where the square club face is maintained from address through backswing to contact — all from a single, fixed axis on the right side. Every student who has adopted this approach has hit the ball better and shot lower scores, regardless of their starting ability.

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Okay, real quick, the theory is very simple, we've spent the better part of a year and a half in research and development and testing, and without exception, everyone that has tried this has hit the ball far better than they ever have before, and have shot in their lowest scores ever, and that's regardless of ability. So it's real simple what we're doing, is we're loading into the right side of the setup, and we're taking a square club face, if you look at my hand right now, you can't see the club face. When I torque the pendulum, or supinate in golf terms, you'll see my club face is square, and if I take that and send that to the ball, all at one time, deliberately, my club face is perfectly square at the bottom. And that's simply all we're doing, we're trying to swing a square club face, all in from the top, off our right side, and deliver that square club face at the bottom. Throughout the course, you're going to hear me talk about torquing the pendulum, and some will know, some won't, but there's a very famous golfer who said this is just a pendulum, you just need to get out of its way, and I agree. We are in no way, shape, or form copying this swing. But it is a pendulum, and if you use it as a tool, you can play the game very well. What I mean by torque the pendulum is, if this is the pendulum, if you look at the club face, if I'm keeping it square, as it goes up the shaft, that's our swing. The modern swing you're going to see on the way down, it's here. Ours is never not square to the ball, and that's all we're simply doing, is we're torquing the pendulum and hitting off the right side. We're holding the club face square, and set up through the backswing, from the top of the backswing, to the bottom, to contact, with no movement to the left.

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