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Blend Trail Hip Movements for Better Swing Mechanics
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel the difference between hip abduction, flexion, and rotation in your swing.
- Improve your weight transfer and balance by integrating hip movements.
- Recognize how each hip movement contributes to a more fluid and connected swing.
In this drill, you'll learn how to combine three essential trail hip movements into one fluid action, enhancing your overall swing efficiency. Understanding these movements can help you achieve a more powerful and accurate golf swing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.400
This drill is the three-way trail hit push.
2
00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.590
So in this drill, we're going to try to blend the three movements of the trail
3
00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:14.200
leg into
4
00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:16.020
one fluid movement.
5
00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:23.280
Now oftentimes, as a golfer, you'll need to focus on one movement or the other.
6
00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.640
But sometimes it's helpful to understand the whole piece and how all those
7
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.440
movements fit
8
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.960
into the one movement.
9
00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:34.000
So the three-way push is blending three different movements of the hip.
10
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.360
We're going to, I'm going to use the club to kind of represent my hip.
11
00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:41.170
So the first movement is going to be more of an ab deduction where the leg
12
00:00:41.170 --> 00:00:41.920
comes out to
13
00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.560
the side, almost like I'm doing the splits.
14
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.560
So that's out.
15
00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.700
The second movement is I'm going to bend forward or this hip is going to go
16
00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:53.520
backward.
17
00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.680
Like I'm bending down to touch my toes.
18
00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:57.920
This is more of the hip back.
19
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.800
And then the third movement is I'm going to rotate.
20
00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:08.480
So you'll see that my pelvis or my knee stays facing forward.
21
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.480
And I'm rotating my pelvis away from my knee.
22
00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.120
That's rotating the hip.
23
00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.960
So the three movements again are out, back, and rotate.
24
00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:25.380
If I do those in one movement, it becomes this back 45 or back 30 degree
25
00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:26.760
movement where
26
00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.960
my pelvis is moving away from my hip.
27
00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:32.080
My hip is opening up.
28
00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:34.760
I'm feeling a little bit of a groin stretch.
29
00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:35.960
My hip is rotating.
30
00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:38.720
So my pelvis is facing more of the target.
31
00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:46.960
And my hip is going backward or my pelvis is moving more over that left foot.
32
00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:53.360
So I use this for some golfers who need to feel more of the out movement.
33
00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.000
I do more of the Jackson five or the skater.
34
00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.830
If you need to feel more of the hips back, that's more of the butt fingerprint
35
00:02:00.830 --> 00:02:01.400
or butt
36
00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.520
against the or back 45.
37
00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:08.010
And then if you need more of the rotation movement, that's one of the more
38
00:02:08.010 --> 00:02:08.760
common ones
39
00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:13.000
where we do a lot of different things just trying to get the pelvis to rotate.
40
00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.540
So in this drill, we're going to try to feel all three of those movements and
41
00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:19.520
an even amount.
42
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.920
And the way we're going to do it is with the back step.
43
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:30.080
So I'm going to get set up and then I'm going to step as I'm making my swing.
44
00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.880
And I'm going to step in about a 30 or 45 degree angle back this way.
45
00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:42.040
So what I'm going to feel is hopefully in my trail hip a blend of those three
46
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:43.400
movements.
47
00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:50.060
And any with any of these step drills, I'm not too worried about the quality of
48
00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:50.880
contact
49
00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:57.040
that when I need a little bit more out and a little bit more back.
50
00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:59.400
That was pretty good there.
51
00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.680
Now on the next one, I'm going to try to exaggerate more of the turn and the
52
00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:04.200
out.
53
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.960
I can feel the back is pretty good, but I can feel that I'm lacking.
54
00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.330
So that was a little bit better on having my hip do more of that groin stretch
55
00:03:14.330 --> 00:03:15.120
or feeling
56
00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.320
like I was leaving behind the knee.
57
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.240
A couple of times you do this, you might have a hard time isolating each
58
00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:23.720
individual movement.
59
00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.760
And that's where it can be helpful to go back through each one of them.
60
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:30.040
So I'll do the groin stretch first.
61
00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:31.840
This time I'll do it in closed chain.
62
00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.250
So groin stretch kind of the pelvis moving away from the knee, kind of like
63
00:03:37.250 --> 00:03:38.000
this.
64
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.920
And then I'll go backward and then I'll do a rotation.
65
00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.760
So now when I put all three of those together, my pelvis is rotating back like
66
00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:49.600
this.
67
00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:55.920
Now I'm going to try to do a nine to three feeling that pelvis rotate back that
68
00:03:55.920 --> 00:03:56.640
way.
69
00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:01.780
If you struggle more with the trail foot going in or the foot coming up, you
70
00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:02.600
may focus and
71
00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:05.720
feel that the whole foot stays down.
72
00:04:05.720 --> 00:04:10.260
If you struggle more with the knee going in as much as the hip, you may also
73
00:04:10.260 --> 00:04:10.920
feel like
74
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:16.560
the hip, like the foot stays down in order to keep the knee more back.
75
00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.080
So I'll use this back 45 step and you've seen versions of it in other drills.
76
00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:28.930
I'll use that back step as a common trigger for cleaning up a little bit of the
77
00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:29.560
lower
78
00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.320
body action.
79
00:04:31.320 --> 00:04:39.560
So now we'll try and put a little bit more length of backswing and speed onto
80
00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.320
it.
81
00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:43.900
One thing you may notice is that this should have a big influence on turf
82
00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:44.600
contact.
83
00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.070
If you get a lot of thin shots and you notice from the down the line camera
84
00:04:48.070 --> 00:04:48.800
that you have
85
00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.800
more early extension, then by focusing on this hip going down, that will help
86
00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:53.340
you stay
87
00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:57.200
in your posture and really help with the quality of contact.
88
00:04:57.200 --> 00:05:02.920
And it may change the way this may change the way you're feeling hip rotation.
89
00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:08.060
A lot of people use kind of pushing forward to rotate the whole pelvis, but you
90
00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:08.400
can see
91
00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:14.720
what that does to my spine versus if I'm just rotating my hips, my pelvis
92
00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.120
changes orientation.
93
00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.960
But I don't have quite the same thrust of my whole femur.
94
00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:28.000
It's almost like the femur becomes the anchor point and I push through the fem
95
00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:28.720
ur into the
96
00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.280
ground to use that hip better.
97
00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:36.900
So hopefully this one helps tie together a few of the other drills into one
98
00:05:36.900 --> 00:05:38.000
kind of combo
99
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.360
drill where you can isolate the different components of that trail hip push.
100
00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.320
Now not every golfer feels a lot of the trail foot hip push.
101
00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:48.990
You may feel more of the lead hip going back or the lead hip pushing, but I
102
00:05:48.990 --> 00:05:49.480
have other
103
00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.220
videos that discuss that.
104
00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:54.300
So if you're struggling with the way the right leg for a Rey Hennigolf or the
105
00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:55.680
trail hip looks
106
00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.410
in your golf swing, this detailed video helps give you a pathway for figuring
107
00:06:00.410 --> 00:06:01.120
out which
108
00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.180
element you need to train.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.400
This drill is the three-way trail hit push.
2
00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.590
So in this drill, we're going to try to blend the three movements of the trail
3
00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:14.200
leg into
4
00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:16.020
one fluid movement.
5
00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:23.280
Now oftentimes, as a golfer, you'll need to focus on one movement or the other.
6
00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.640
But sometimes it's helpful to understand the whole piece and how all those
7
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.440
movements fit
8
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.960
into the one movement.
9
00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:34.000
So the three-way push is blending three different movements of the hip.
10
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.360
We're going to, I'm going to use the club to kind of represent my hip.
11
00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:41.170
So the first movement is going to be more of an ab deduction where the leg
12
00:00:41.170 --> 00:00:41.920
comes out to
13
00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.560
the side, almost like I'm doing the splits.
14
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.560
So that's out.
15
00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.700
The second movement is I'm going to bend forward or this hip is going to go
16
00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:53.520
backward.
17
00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.680
Like I'm bending down to touch my toes.
18
00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:57.920
This is more of the hip back.
19
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.800
And then the third movement is I'm going to rotate.
20
00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:08.480
So you'll see that my pelvis or my knee stays facing forward.
21
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.480
And I'm rotating my pelvis away from my knee.
22
00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.120
That's rotating the hip.
23
00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.960
So the three movements again are out, back, and rotate.
24
00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:25.380
If I do those in one movement, it becomes this back 45 or back 30 degree
25
00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:26.760
movement where
26
00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.960
my pelvis is moving away from my hip.
27
00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:32.080
My hip is opening up.
28
00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:34.760
I'm feeling a little bit of a groin stretch.
29
00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:35.960
My hip is rotating.
30
00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:38.720
So my pelvis is facing more of the target.
31
00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:46.960
And my hip is going backward or my pelvis is moving more over that left foot.
32
00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:53.360
So I use this for some golfers who need to feel more of the out movement.
33
00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.000
I do more of the Jackson five or the skater.
34
00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.830
If you need to feel more of the hips back, that's more of the butt fingerprint
35
00:02:00.830 --> 00:02:01.400
or butt
36
00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.520
against the or back 45.
37
00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:08.010
And then if you need more of the rotation movement, that's one of the more
38
00:02:08.010 --> 00:02:08.760
common ones
39
00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:13.000
where we do a lot of different things just trying to get the pelvis to rotate.
40
00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.540
So in this drill, we're going to try to feel all three of those movements and
41
00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:19.520
an even amount.
42
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.920
And the way we're going to do it is with the back step.
43
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:30.080
So I'm going to get set up and then I'm going to step as I'm making my swing.
44
00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.880
And I'm going to step in about a 30 or 45 degree angle back this way.
45
00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:42.040
So what I'm going to feel is hopefully in my trail hip a blend of those three
46
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:43.400
movements.
47
00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:50.060
And any with any of these step drills, I'm not too worried about the quality of
48
00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:50.880
contact
49
00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:57.040
that when I need a little bit more out and a little bit more back.
50
00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:59.400
That was pretty good there.
51
00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.680
Now on the next one, I'm going to try to exaggerate more of the turn and the
52
00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:04.200
out.
53
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.960
I can feel the back is pretty good, but I can feel that I'm lacking.
54
00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.330
So that was a little bit better on having my hip do more of that groin stretch
55
00:03:14.330 --> 00:03:15.120
or feeling
56
00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.320
like I was leaving behind the knee.
57
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.240
A couple of times you do this, you might have a hard time isolating each
58
00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:23.720
individual movement.
59
00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.760
And that's where it can be helpful to go back through each one of them.
60
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:30.040
So I'll do the groin stretch first.
61
00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:31.840
This time I'll do it in closed chain.
62
00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.250
So groin stretch kind of the pelvis moving away from the knee, kind of like
63
00:03:37.250 --> 00:03:38.000
this.
64
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.920
And then I'll go backward and then I'll do a rotation.
65
00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.760
So now when I put all three of those together, my pelvis is rotating back like
66
00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:49.600
this.
67
00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:55.920
Now I'm going to try to do a nine to three feeling that pelvis rotate back that
68
00:03:55.920 --> 00:03:56.640
way.
69
00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:01.780
If you struggle more with the trail foot going in or the foot coming up, you
70
00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:02.600
may focus and
71
00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:05.720
feel that the whole foot stays down.
72
00:04:05.720 --> 00:04:10.260
If you struggle more with the knee going in as much as the hip, you may also
73
00:04:10.260 --> 00:04:10.920
feel like
74
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:16.560
the hip, like the foot stays down in order to keep the knee more back.
75
00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.080
So I'll use this back 45 step and you've seen versions of it in other drills.
76
00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:28.930
I'll use that back step as a common trigger for cleaning up a little bit of the
77
00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:29.560
lower
78
00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.320
body action.
79
00:04:31.320 --> 00:04:39.560
So now we'll try and put a little bit more length of backswing and speed onto
80
00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.320
it.
81
00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:43.900
One thing you may notice is that this should have a big influence on turf
82
00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:44.600
contact.
83
00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.070
If you get a lot of thin shots and you notice from the down the line camera
84
00:04:48.070 --> 00:04:48.800
that you have
85
00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.800
more early extension, then by focusing on this hip going down, that will help
86
00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:53.340
you stay
87
00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:57.200
in your posture and really help with the quality of contact.
88
00:04:57.200 --> 00:05:02.920
And it may change the way this may change the way you're feeling hip rotation.
89
00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:08.060
A lot of people use kind of pushing forward to rotate the whole pelvis, but you
90
00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:08.400
can see
91
00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:14.720
what that does to my spine versus if I'm just rotating my hips, my pelvis
92
00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.120
changes orientation.
93
00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.960
But I don't have quite the same thrust of my whole femur.
94
00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:28.000
It's almost like the femur becomes the anchor point and I push through the fem
95
00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:28.720
ur into the
96
00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.280
ground to use that hip better.
97
00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:36.900
So hopefully this one helps tie together a few of the other drills into one
98
00:05:36.900 --> 00:05:38.000
kind of combo
99
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.360
drill where you can isolate the different components of that trail hip push.
100
00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.320
Now not every golfer feels a lot of the trail foot hip push.
101
00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:48.990
You may feel more of the lead hip going back or the lead hip pushing, but I
102
00:05:48.990 --> 00:05:49.480
have other
103
00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.220
videos that discuss that.
104
00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:54.300
So if you're struggling with the way the right leg for a Rey Hennigolf or the
105
00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:55.680
trail hip looks
106
00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.410
in your golf swing, this detailed video helps give you a pathway for figuring
107
00:06:00.410 --> 00:06:01.120
out which
108
00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.180
element you need to train.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Blend Trail Hip Movements for Better Swing Mechanics
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Feel the difference between hip abduction, flexion, and rotation in your swing.
- Improve your weight transfer and balance by integrating hip movements.
- Recognize how each hip movement contributes to a more fluid and connected swing.
In this drill, you'll learn how to combine three essential trail hip movements into one fluid action, enhancing your overall swing efficiency. Understanding these movements can help you achieve a more powerful and accurate golf swing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.400
This drill is the three-way trail hit push.
2
00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.590
So in this drill, we're going to try to blend the three movements of the trail
3
00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:14.200
leg into
4
00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:16.020
one fluid movement.
5
00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:23.280
Now oftentimes, as a golfer, you'll need to focus on one movement or the other.
6
00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.640
But sometimes it's helpful to understand the whole piece and how all those
7
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.440
movements fit
8
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.960
into the one movement.
9
00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:34.000
So the three-way push is blending three different movements of the hip.
10
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.360
We're going to, I'm going to use the club to kind of represent my hip.
11
00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:41.170
So the first movement is going to be more of an ab deduction where the leg
12
00:00:41.170 --> 00:00:41.920
comes out to
13
00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.560
the side, almost like I'm doing the splits.
14
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.560
So that's out.
15
00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.700
The second movement is I'm going to bend forward or this hip is going to go
16
00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:53.520
backward.
17
00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.680
Like I'm bending down to touch my toes.
18
00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:57.920
This is more of the hip back.
19
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.800
And then the third movement is I'm going to rotate.
20
00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:08.480
So you'll see that my pelvis or my knee stays facing forward.
21
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.480
And I'm rotating my pelvis away from my knee.
22
00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.120
That's rotating the hip.
23
00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.960
So the three movements again are out, back, and rotate.
24
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If I do those in one movement, it becomes this back 45 or back 30 degree
25
00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:26.760
movement where
26
00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.960
my pelvis is moving away from my hip.
27
00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:32.080
My hip is opening up.
28
00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:34.760
I'm feeling a little bit of a groin stretch.
29
00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:35.960
My hip is rotating.
30
00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:38.720
So my pelvis is facing more of the target.
31
00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:46.960
And my hip is going backward or my pelvis is moving more over that left foot.
32
00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:53.360
So I use this for some golfers who need to feel more of the out movement.
33
00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.000
I do more of the Jackson five or the skater.
34
00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.830
If you need to feel more of the hips back, that's more of the butt fingerprint
35
00:02:00.830 --> 00:02:01.400
or butt
36
00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.520
against the or back 45.
37
00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:08.010
And then if you need more of the rotation movement, that's one of the more
38
00:02:08.010 --> 00:02:08.760
common ones
39
00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:13.000
where we do a lot of different things just trying to get the pelvis to rotate.
40
00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.540
So in this drill, we're going to try to feel all three of those movements and
41
00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:19.520
an even amount.
42
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.920
And the way we're going to do it is with the back step.
43
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:30.080
So I'm going to get set up and then I'm going to step as I'm making my swing.
44
00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.880
And I'm going to step in about a 30 or 45 degree angle back this way.
45
00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:42.040
So what I'm going to feel is hopefully in my trail hip a blend of those three
46
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:43.400
movements.
47
00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:50.060
And any with any of these step drills, I'm not too worried about the quality of
48
00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:50.880
contact
49
00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:57.040
that when I need a little bit more out and a little bit more back.
50
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That was pretty good there.
51
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Now on the next one, I'm going to try to exaggerate more of the turn and the
52
00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:04.200
out.
53
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.960
I can feel the back is pretty good, but I can feel that I'm lacking.
54
00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.330
So that was a little bit better on having my hip do more of that groin stretch
55
00:03:14.330 --> 00:03:15.120
or feeling
56
00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.320
like I was leaving behind the knee.
57
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.240
A couple of times you do this, you might have a hard time isolating each
58
00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:23.720
individual movement.
59
00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.760
And that's where it can be helpful to go back through each one of them.
60
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:30.040
So I'll do the groin stretch first.
61
00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:31.840
This time I'll do it in closed chain.
62
00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.250
So groin stretch kind of the pelvis moving away from the knee, kind of like
63
00:03:37.250 --> 00:03:38.000
this.
64
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.920
And then I'll go backward and then I'll do a rotation.
65
00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.760
So now when I put all three of those together, my pelvis is rotating back like
66
00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:49.600
this.
67
00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:55.920
Now I'm going to try to do a nine to three feeling that pelvis rotate back that
68
00:03:55.920 --> 00:03:56.640
way.
69
00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:01.780
If you struggle more with the trail foot going in or the foot coming up, you
70
00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:02.600
may focus and
71
00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:05.720
feel that the whole foot stays down.
72
00:04:05.720 --> 00:04:10.260
If you struggle more with the knee going in as much as the hip, you may also
73
00:04:10.260 --> 00:04:10.920
feel like
74
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:16.560
the hip, like the foot stays down in order to keep the knee more back.
75
00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.080
So I'll use this back 45 step and you've seen versions of it in other drills.
76
00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:28.930
I'll use that back step as a common trigger for cleaning up a little bit of the
77
00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:29.560
lower
78
00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.320
body action.
79
00:04:31.320 --> 00:04:39.560
So now we'll try and put a little bit more length of backswing and speed onto
80
00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.320
it.
81
00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:43.900
One thing you may notice is that this should have a big influence on turf
82
00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:44.600
contact.
83
00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.070
If you get a lot of thin shots and you notice from the down the line camera
84
00:04:48.070 --> 00:04:48.800
that you have
85
00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.800
more early extension, then by focusing on this hip going down, that will help
86
00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:53.340
you stay
87
00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:57.200
in your posture and really help with the quality of contact.
88
00:04:57.200 --> 00:05:02.920
And it may change the way this may change the way you're feeling hip rotation.
89
00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:08.060
A lot of people use kind of pushing forward to rotate the whole pelvis, but you
90
00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:08.400
can see
91
00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:14.720
what that does to my spine versus if I'm just rotating my hips, my pelvis
92
00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.120
changes orientation.
93
00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.960
But I don't have quite the same thrust of my whole femur.
94
00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:28.000
It's almost like the femur becomes the anchor point and I push through the fem
95
00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:28.720
ur into the
96
00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.280
ground to use that hip better.
97
00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:36.900
So hopefully this one helps tie together a few of the other drills into one
98
00:05:36.900 --> 00:05:38.000
kind of combo
99
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.360
drill where you can isolate the different components of that trail hip push.
100
00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.320
Now not every golfer feels a lot of the trail foot hip push.
101
00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:48.990
You may feel more of the lead hip going back or the lead hip pushing, but I
102
00:05:48.990 --> 00:05:49.480
have other
103
00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.220
videos that discuss that.
104
00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:54.300
So if you're struggling with the way the right leg for a Rey Hennigolf or the
105
00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:55.680
trail hip looks
106
00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.410
in your golf swing, this detailed video helps give you a pathway for figuring
107
00:06:00.410 --> 00:06:01.120
out which
108
00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.180
element you need to train.
1
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This drill is the three-way trail hit push.
2
00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:13.590
So in this drill, we're going to try to blend the three movements of the trail
3
00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:14.200
leg into
4
00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:16.020
one fluid movement.
5
00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:23.280
Now oftentimes, as a golfer, you'll need to focus on one movement or the other.
6
00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.640
But sometimes it's helpful to understand the whole piece and how all those
7
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:27.440
movements fit
8
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.960
into the one movement.
9
00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:34.000
So the three-way push is blending three different movements of the hip.
10
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.360
We're going to, I'm going to use the club to kind of represent my hip.
11
00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:41.170
So the first movement is going to be more of an ab deduction where the leg
12
00:00:41.170 --> 00:00:41.920
comes out to
13
00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.560
the side, almost like I'm doing the splits.
14
00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:47.560
So that's out.
15
00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.700
The second movement is I'm going to bend forward or this hip is going to go
16
00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:53.520
backward.
17
00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:55.680
Like I'm bending down to touch my toes.
18
00:00:55.680 --> 00:00:57.920
This is more of the hip back.
19
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:01.800
And then the third movement is I'm going to rotate.
20
00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:08.480
So you'll see that my pelvis or my knee stays facing forward.
21
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.480
And I'm rotating my pelvis away from my knee.
22
00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.120
That's rotating the hip.
23
00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.960
So the three movements again are out, back, and rotate.
24
00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:25.380
If I do those in one movement, it becomes this back 45 or back 30 degree
25
00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:26.760
movement where
26
00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.960
my pelvis is moving away from my hip.
27
00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:32.080
My hip is opening up.
28
00:01:32.080 --> 00:01:34.760
I'm feeling a little bit of a groin stretch.
29
00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:35.960
My hip is rotating.
30
00:01:35.960 --> 00:01:38.720
So my pelvis is facing more of the target.
31
00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:46.960
And my hip is going backward or my pelvis is moving more over that left foot.
32
00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:53.360
So I use this for some golfers who need to feel more of the out movement.
33
00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.000
I do more of the Jackson five or the skater.
34
00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.830
If you need to feel more of the hips back, that's more of the butt fingerprint
35
00:02:00.830 --> 00:02:01.400
or butt
36
00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.520
against the or back 45.
37
00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:08.010
And then if you need more of the rotation movement, that's one of the more
38
00:02:08.010 --> 00:02:08.760
common ones
39
00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:13.000
where we do a lot of different things just trying to get the pelvis to rotate.
40
00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.540
So in this drill, we're going to try to feel all three of those movements and
41
00:02:17.540 --> 00:02:19.520
an even amount.
42
00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.920
And the way we're going to do it is with the back step.
43
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:30.080
So I'm going to get set up and then I'm going to step as I'm making my swing.
44
00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.880
And I'm going to step in about a 30 or 45 degree angle back this way.
45
00:02:35.880 --> 00:02:42.040
So what I'm going to feel is hopefully in my trail hip a blend of those three
46
00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:43.400
movements.
47
00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:50.060
And any with any of these step drills, I'm not too worried about the quality of
48
00:02:50.060 --> 00:02:50.880
contact
49
00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:57.040
that when I need a little bit more out and a little bit more back.
50
00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:59.400
That was pretty good there.
51
00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.680
Now on the next one, I'm going to try to exaggerate more of the turn and the
52
00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:04.200
out.
53
00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.960
I can feel the back is pretty good, but I can feel that I'm lacking.
54
00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.330
So that was a little bit better on having my hip do more of that groin stretch
55
00:03:14.330 --> 00:03:15.120
or feeling
56
00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.320
like I was leaving behind the knee.
57
00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:22.240
A couple of times you do this, you might have a hard time isolating each
58
00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:23.720
individual movement.
59
00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.760
And that's where it can be helpful to go back through each one of them.
60
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:30.040
So I'll do the groin stretch first.
61
00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:31.840
This time I'll do it in closed chain.
62
00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.250
So groin stretch kind of the pelvis moving away from the knee, kind of like
63
00:03:37.250 --> 00:03:38.000
this.
64
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.920
And then I'll go backward and then I'll do a rotation.
65
00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:48.760
So now when I put all three of those together, my pelvis is rotating back like
66
00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:49.600
this.
67
00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:55.920
Now I'm going to try to do a nine to three feeling that pelvis rotate back that
68
00:03:55.920 --> 00:03:56.640
way.
69
00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:01.780
If you struggle more with the trail foot going in or the foot coming up, you
70
00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:02.600
may focus and
71
00:04:02.600 --> 00:04:05.720
feel that the whole foot stays down.
72
00:04:05.720 --> 00:04:10.260
If you struggle more with the knee going in as much as the hip, you may also
73
00:04:10.260 --> 00:04:10.920
feel like
74
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:16.560
the hip, like the foot stays down in order to keep the knee more back.
75
00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:22.080
So I'll use this back 45 step and you've seen versions of it in other drills.
76
00:04:22.080 --> 00:04:28.930
I'll use that back step as a common trigger for cleaning up a little bit of the
77
00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:29.560
lower
78
00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.320
body action.
79
00:04:31.320 --> 00:04:39.560
So now we'll try and put a little bit more length of backswing and speed onto
80
00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.320
it.
81
00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:43.900
One thing you may notice is that this should have a big influence on turf
82
00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:44.600
contact.
83
00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.070
If you get a lot of thin shots and you notice from the down the line camera
84
00:04:48.070 --> 00:04:48.800
that you have
85
00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.800
more early extension, then by focusing on this hip going down, that will help
86
00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:53.340
you stay
87
00:04:53.340 --> 00:04:57.200
in your posture and really help with the quality of contact.
88
00:04:57.200 --> 00:05:02.920
And it may change the way this may change the way you're feeling hip rotation.
89
00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:08.060
A lot of people use kind of pushing forward to rotate the whole pelvis, but you
90
00:05:08.060 --> 00:05:08.400
can see
91
00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:14.720
what that does to my spine versus if I'm just rotating my hips, my pelvis
92
00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.120
changes orientation.
93
00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:20.960
But I don't have quite the same thrust of my whole femur.
94
00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:28.000
It's almost like the femur becomes the anchor point and I push through the fem
95
00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:28.720
ur into the
96
00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.280
ground to use that hip better.
97
00:05:31.280 --> 00:05:36.900
So hopefully this one helps tie together a few of the other drills into one
98
00:05:36.900 --> 00:05:38.000
kind of combo
99
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.360
drill where you can isolate the different components of that trail hip push.
100
00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:45.320
Now not every golfer feels a lot of the trail foot hip push.
101
00:05:45.320 --> 00:05:48.990
You may feel more of the lead hip going back or the lead hip pushing, but I
102
00:05:48.990 --> 00:05:49.480
have other
103
00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.220
videos that discuss that.
104
00:05:51.220 --> 00:05:54.300
So if you're struggling with the way the right leg for a Rey Hennigolf or the
105
00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:55.680
trail hip looks
106
00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:00.410
in your golf swing, this detailed video helps give you a pathway for figuring
107
00:06:00.410 --> 00:06:01.120
out which
108
00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.180
element you need to train.
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