Trail Hip High, Trail Shoulder Low

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This drill is trail hip high, trail shoulder low.

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So this is to help you get a little bit more side bend without creating a whole

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lot of

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axis tilt.

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Axis tilt of getting the upper body tilted behind the lower body tends to

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create a lot

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of problems with contact for the wedges.

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And oftentimes this happens when you don't have a lot of side bend in your core

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.

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And so instead you get all of the tilt from the hips.

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So I can get my shoulder down low, but because the hip also dropped that tends

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to lower the

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low point or create the depth too far underneath the golf ball.

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So one thought that I have for a number of golfers who tend to have a hard time

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getting

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this side bend is this feeling of the trail hip, in my case the right hip,

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being high

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on the way through while the trail shoulder gets low.

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And you'll notice that when I do this, I'm still stacked on my foot.

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That's part, I'm stacked on the lead foot.

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That's part of the benefit of having the trail hip high is it's harder to have

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this trail

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hip high and be on the back foot and get the trail shoulder low.

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So it has this nice kind of feeling of a little bit more of an oblique side

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crunch.

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I mentioned in a number of the videos that Sam's need had a quote where he

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talked about

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he felt like he hit his wedges with his core.

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I think that's a reflection of using the abs as the main power source, which

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helps with

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stack centers, constant radius and smooth force, all of my three keys for being

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really

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good with the wedges.

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So we're going to start with, we'll do little demonstration through the drill

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where we're

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going to start with more of the half swing or hip belly button height.

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And then we're going to move up to chest height and ultimately shoulder height,

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but really

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keeping the same feeling where we're hitting this mostly with the body and the

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abs.

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So the arms are going to feel like they're a little bit more passive.

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And in order to keep the arms more in front instead of getting them behind, we

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're going

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to have to feel a little bit more of this side crunch.

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Okay, so demonstration first, we'll do the little isolated drill.

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So we're going to hold the arm up, I'll often apply a little bit of resistance.

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So we're going to hold our arm up like this and we're going to hike this hip up

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and we're

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going to bring the shoulder down.

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So we're going to feel like we're doing a side crunch while standing on the

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lead foot

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kind of like this.

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And I know that the right heel is coming off the ground.

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When you're doing this drill, it's not uncommon that it has a little bit of a

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goofy look

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like that, but when you smooth it out and it becomes just a really subtle

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movement of

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the hip and more of a dynamic movement in the upper core, the foot will tend to

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stay

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more flat.

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Okay, so let's go ahead and do first, we'll look at kind of a hip height.

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So arms are going to stay pretty consistent.

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And then we're feeling simultaneously like this is crunching up as the ribs or

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the shoulder

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is crunching down.

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One more of those, kind of more on the hip height.

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That was a good one, love that trajectory, that came out nice, had some good

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spin.

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So then second would be going a little bit bigger.

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As we go bigger, we're not really going to do this move more explosively.

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In fact, we're going to do it almost more gradually and longer because we want

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that

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movement to take up the majority of the downswing.

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So we're going to get up to the top of the swing while we're in a nice wide but

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stacked

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position.

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And then we're going to feel like that side crunch, hip comes up, shoulder goes

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down.

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If you start, if I start doing more of just the upper body side crunch and you

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start getting

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some diggy divots, then I want you to really emphasize the trail hip staying a

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little bit

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higher.

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You're going to go nice and long, hip high, good trajectory there, like in

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these.

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And you'll see that the scuff marks on the ground indicate that the depth is

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being controlled.

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So even though these are launching low because I'm hitting them pretty good, I

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'm not stabbing

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the club into the ground.

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I'm just kind of having a nice smooth bottom of the swing.

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That's where the coasting feeling comes in.

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So now, last one, let's go shoulder height.

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So it's going to be the most gradual, didn't quite get the hip.

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So I felt that I got a little bit tilted behind and got a deeper divot.

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So we'll try that one more time.

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Sometimes that can happen off of the bigger one.

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That was better, a little better launch, a little more spin, a little cleaner

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contact.

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So if you're struggling with your low point and solid contact, one of the

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tricks is learning

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how to get side bend without creating a lot of access tilt.

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That'll help you keep your center stacked and your force smooth, as long as you

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do a good

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job with the constant radius, you're going to hit some really good wedge shots.