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This drill is the backswing hip tilt.

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So, oftentimes when we're working on the backswing, we're working on trying to

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load this wholesaling

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from my foot up through my core and into my shoulders.

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We do that by getting a blend of rotation and extension in side bend.

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Well, some golfers do a really good job of doing it at the shoulders, but their

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hips

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kind of stay a little bit too level in the backswing, which prevents getting

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the proper

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load in the foot, as well as it can tend to cause some compensation movements.

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I'll walk you through those.

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So, when I do the merry-go-round or the backswing shoulder plane, I tend to

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place the club up

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at the shoulders, but for this drill, I'm going to place it more at the belt

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line or

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at the hip.

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So, my thumbs are going to go on my hip bones or the outside of the hip, the

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greater trochanter

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right out here.

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So, now what I'm going to do is as I make a backswing, I'm going to try to feel

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like

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the left hip is dropping down as it comes in, and the right hip is going a

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little bit

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more up.

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So, I'm trying to exaggerate feeling a little bit of this movement when I'm

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making my backswing.

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So, I'm golfers who tend to stay too level will either shift off the ball like

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this,

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or have the appearance of more of a reverse weight shift in order to get that

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upper body

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more kind of centered or to not shift off the ball.

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So, this hip tilt can help solve a couple of upper body pivot related issues.

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The other one that it tends to happen is, if your upper body shifts off the

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ball, one

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of two things is happening.

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Either the hips are turning to level, or the spine is staying inflection and

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not going

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into any extension.

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So, if I was to turn my hips really well, but stay inflection, you can see my

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upper body

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would shift off the ball, but some people will tend to extend the spine but

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still turn

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off the ball because this left hip is actually getting almost lower or the hips

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are turning

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very level.

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So, we're getting that left hip down, right hip up, shoulder down, and then the

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arms out

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in front, that will give us kind of a benchmark or as far as a feeling of where

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to go with

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the hips.

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I tell you that it's pretty split as far as my students who are working on this

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, as far

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as which side they feel.

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Some people love to feel this right hip going up instead of kind of shifting

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laterally,

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especially if there's a big sway component, or especially for golfers, you tend

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to really

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under rotate the backswing, kind of plant the hip and just go like this.

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People feel that letting that feeling that hip go up helps to encourage the pel

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vis to

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rotate.

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But I have some other golfers who tend to feel more that lead side coming down

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or that left

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side kind of releasing.

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Some people tend to just kind of like anchor that knee and not really move the

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lower body

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like this.

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So, either way, by doing this drill handful of times, we're going to get a

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sense like

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today, I think I feel more in this right hip going up rather than that left hip

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going

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down, but we'll see as we put it in play.

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Now, oftentimes golfers who don't do a really good job with the hips kind of

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overload the

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arms.

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So, this can be great into combining with a triangle drill where basically I'm

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going

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to feel like my arms stay straight and then I'm going to feel like I make a

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backswing

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just with the hips where that right arm is going to stay, where that trail arm

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is going

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to stay almost as straight as I can.

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So I'm going to feel like the arms stay straight and then we'll shank one off

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into the trees.

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All right, we'll see if we can do a little better one here.

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So, arms are going to stay straight.

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I'm going to feel that right hip going up, that was a little bit better.

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So this is a good one that you can combo with a pelvic punch feel.

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And today, right now, this gives me a feeling of being a little bit more

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centered on top

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of it.

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So now, once I have that feel of the direction I want the hips to go, now, I

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can start to

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add the full backswing and the arm bending.

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So real quick reset, there we go.

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There's that right hip feeling like it's going a little bit higher.

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That's going to keep me more on top and I can blend that into any of my

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transition or

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downswing feel.

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So, good way for helping you work on your pivot of the lower body and the hips.

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We'll take the club, place it across your hips, work on either the right hip up

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or the

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left hip down, but getting some amount of hip tilt to help you load the lower

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body in

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the backswing.