Pelvis Slide

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This content video, we're going to discuss the slide as it relates to your low

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point

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control issues.

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So if you're struggling with low point control and you take a look at your

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video and you

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tend to see that your legs or your hip is getting way past your ankle and you

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're kind

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of having more of a look like this, that can be helpful for creating some good

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flat spot

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with the driver, but that can definitely cause some low point issues with your

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irons.

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Because what'll happen is, as the hips go this way, the upper body drops down.

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So I've actually lowered to get closer to the ground.

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So if I straighten my arms, then the bottom of the swing is going to be too low

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and it's

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going to tend to cause me to hit the ground before the golf ball.

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The low point might actually still be ahead of the golf ball, but the low point

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is too

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far down into the ground.

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All first you do this will tend to complain about kind of really aggressive

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turf contact

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or a feeling of the club digging into the ground.

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And they'll tend to complain more about low point control issues with the wed

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ges and the

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short irons more so than the mid-irons.

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And they can actually say that the mid-irons are kind of the best.

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They struggle at the low end with the wedges and they struggle at the high end

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with the

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long irons or hybrids.

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So this can be a tricky pattern to work through, let's talk through it real

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quick.

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So if you notice that you have this slide movement, I find that there's a

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couple common

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causes.

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One, it's a power source using either my back or my legs laterally against the

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ground.

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So if you remember, the lower body can work against the ground side to side,

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vertically

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and rotationally.

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Ideally it's a blend of all three, I'll tend to go side or the little bump move

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and then

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I'll be going rotation and then through the ball I'll be doing more vertical.

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What can happen with the slide is I keep going lateral all the way down until

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contact.

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So it's usually an overuse of the lateral and not enough of the rotation or the

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vertical.

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On paper, what can happen is if I'm pushing with my legs and I'm pulling with

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my back,

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those two movements happen together and create this long lateral movement of

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the lower body.

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So that can be power source number one, especially if you're looking at your

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golf swing and

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you see an aggressive movement that happens kind of quickly and then just kind

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of drifts.

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Option number two is it can be a low point shallower.

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So if I tend to get vertical with my arms, if I tend to really pull down my

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arms, you

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can see that creates a very vertical swing plane from here.

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Well, some golfers, instead of getting vertical and then having to shallow it

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out late, will

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do more of this slide movement so the vertical movement now looks like it's on

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plane.

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But what will happen is the arms are actually quite steep and I've shallowed

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out this way,

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I've lowered down into the ground.

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So if that's the case, then I have to work on a couple different things.

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I have to work on using my core and using my abs as a power source and I need

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to work

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on shallowing the club either with a little bit more shoulder movement or with

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a little

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bit more of that unhinged movement to balance that upper body rotating.

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Because if you take the slide away and you add rotation of your body, then if

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you keep

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the steep arms, then it would be a very steep pattern.

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You could even fall into shanking the ball or taking some really deep divots.

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People tend to kind of have more of this stock feel as you get in towards

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impact if that's

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the case.

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So one, we've got more of this lateral power source and then two, we've got the

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complement

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for the steep arms.

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Now the third can be a fake wipe.

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So some golfers know that they want shaft lean and so as a control mechanism,

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they're

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trying to get the hands in front of the golf ball.

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Well, if the arms get stuck behind your body, as you'll see in other videos,

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that can cause

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some low point issues because if I was to straighten, the center of the swing

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is moved

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backward.

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So if the arms gets more on the side of my body or behind my body, some golfers

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will

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use that slide to get that low point forward.

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Again, it tends to create more of a timing issue and it tends to create more of

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low point

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issues with the shorter clubs where having this axis tilt is a really big low

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point killer,

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really big problem on the shorter, more vertical, lie angled clubs.

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So if you're identifying that it's a slide, you want to figure out is it

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happening early,

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is it happening more as a result of that steep arm pattern or is it happening

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kind of later

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in the mid part of the swing as a way to try to get the elbow forward, but you

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're seeing

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that the arms are still behind your body.

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If you work through it in that kind of framework or checklist, you're likely to

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figure out

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what's the real cause of your slide and you'll be able to solve your low point

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issues a lot

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quicker.

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We'll demonstrate a couple, so if I do it more from the power version where I

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push laterally,

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it will have more of a look kind of like that where I push quick and then I

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have to throw

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those arms.

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If that's the case, then I'm going to feel like my pivot is going to change and

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be a

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little bit more rotational.

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If it's more of the wipe issue, then I could be in okay position here and I

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will tend to

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continue going forward like that.

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Oftentimes these golfers will hit predominantly big draws and hooks, they'll

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have a really

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hard time hitting a fade because this tends to create more of a path going way

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into out

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body position and then in order to avoid hitting it fat, I almost release

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upward which creates

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more of a path going into out.

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That's kind of what it will look like on video.

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We've got different stations and drills on the website to help with is it

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happening more

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from the lower body?

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Is it happening more from the core or is it happening more as a result of how

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you're balancing

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your steepest and shallows with your arm movements?