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Combo - Hip Turn Plus Bracing

The hips and pelvis work in a way that blends side-to-side, vertical, and rotation motions. During the later part of the downswing, the main blend is rotating and vertical motion. This drill is designed to help golfers train these two movements into one blended feel. In the step-by-step version, you are going to rotate first and then get the vertical movement from a posterior pelvic tilt. The finish position will have you facing the target with your butt squeezed. Once you have a feeling of where you want to get to you can work on doing the two movements, rotate and tuck, simultaneously. Add the arms to get a feeling of a body-driven golf swing.

If you struggle with contact when doing this movement, then your lower body is likely compensating for another issue in your upper body or arms.

 

Tags: Poor Contact, Not Enough Distance, Release, Drill, Advanced

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This drill is combo hip turn plus bracing. So combo

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drills are helping link together different

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elements. Sometimes you got to work on one thing at

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a time. But sometimes once you've worked on each piece

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the real big breakthroughs come when you're combining movements.

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So in this one where it's a really good sequence drill,

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it's a really good core activation drill getting you to use your

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abs and your glutes and we're going to try to get the combination

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of hip rotation while getting some

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glute squeeze. So the the

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main movements in the lower body in

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the in the downswing there's a little bit of a bump

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there's some rotation and then there's some vertical

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movement. This is gonna Focus mostly on the second too. So

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we're not gonna have very much of a kind of a

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shift but we're gonna Focus mostly on

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blending rotation into some bridging

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or pelvic tilt.

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So what we're going to do first is I've got

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the ball kind of in the middle of my stance just says a

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little bit of a reference and I'm going to take my hands and place them on the club just to

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take them out of the equation. So now what

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I'm going to try to do is I'm going to try to turn my belly

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button or my belt buckle while keeping my

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arm straight. So if I feel like I'm doing this I'm turning too much

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for my shoulders. I'm just gonna turn belly button

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and hips. And now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to do a little bit of

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a reverse crunch. So this was move number one from the

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down the line You'll see move number two. Is that reverse

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crunch squeezing my butt squeezing my abs kind of

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getting that more turtle shell position. We're feeling like

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I'm pushing my belly button away from the

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golf ball. So moving number one, we're gonna turn

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now watch when I do move number two of bridging

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you'll see that that actually moves my hips

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more in line with that left foot. So a

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lot of golfers who focus on getting rotation, don't

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get that bridge and so they stay behind kind of

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like,

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This and then some of the golfers when you're focusing on

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the bridge don't get the rotation. And so you kind of thrust in

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towards the toes of the left foot like this. So getting a

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blended feel of turning and then

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tilt our pelvic tilting turn pelvic tilt

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kind of gets the these two

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moves to sync up.

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This is really like a Tai Chi or a slow motion

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version of the 360 jump feel where

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I'm getting rotation and tucking the

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pelvis. So let's do a one more time because it feels good. We're gonna

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turn and then get that butt squeeze pelvic

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tilt ab crunch kind of all happening there now, we're

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gonna take the club.

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If we fix the ball ball position turn and then

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tilt kind of has that feeling there where

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I'm bracing but my belly

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button is facing in the Target. So now we're gonna do a little bit

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of a preset move and then a full on nine to three so preset

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move. I'm gonna tilt and now squeeze good

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and now from there, I'm just gonna make a little backswing

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and then I'm gonna feel like I

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Kind of do that movement a little bit more. I didn't completely

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undo it but I'm gonna add a

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little bit of activation to that movement. So now I had a

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feeling of this bracing wall being turned that

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squeezing of the butt and abs while being turned now, we're

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gonna do it in a full-on nine to three.

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So I'm gonna bring the club back.

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We'll turn and squeeze.

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Not too bad there and this should help you feel like

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you're really using your lower body in your core to

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hit the ball using a lot less arms. So

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I feel like my arms are just kind of

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riding.

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My hip rotation. That was a really good one. Nice ball

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flight there that felt like felt like

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the first couple where I hit a little clunky. I was kind of feeling my

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shoulders wanting to get involved earlier the

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second one it felt like I let it with the hips. So the sequencing was

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a whole lot better. Not sure what we'll see from

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the from this camera view. So now when I

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go to 3/4 swings I can still do it

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or when I go kind of chest height 10 to 2s.

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I can still do it right away.

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So what that means is I can get up to the top of the swing of

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this 3/4 movement kind of like this

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and then straight away from the beginning.

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I can turn and tilt right away or turn in Tuck right away.

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Turn and talk.

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So three quarter swing

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this is about the height in the golf swing.

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Where the vertical movement starts to kick in

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and so that's why I can do these right away. Now when I go

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to the full swing

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Up to the top. I'm gonna have to wait a

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little bit for the tuck so I can start the turn as

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I'm getting a little bit of this bump.

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So a little bit of that weight shift turn and

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now when the arms get to about that waist height, I want

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that same timing of that tuck movement. So

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this is where the sequence of these movements really comes

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into play. That's why I recommend starting with the nine to three

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then 10 to 2 then up to the full swing. So now full swing

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we're gonna get a little bit of this feeling of just

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kind of waiting for it. Just the touch longer so up to

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the top

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There's a rhythm to it where it feels more like kind of

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stepping go. But in this case, it's going to be step and

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Tuck.

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Because we're focusing in this drill.

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Totally on the lower body. Let's do one more

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kind of full swing. I'll go kind of my maximum length

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backswing.

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turn

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and then talk

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good really solid contact feel that good bracing

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and leg extension. But while my

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belly button is turned that combination is really gonna help clean up

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and get you to power it with your hips and your core as long as your

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release is good. You're gonna get some really solid but shallow ground

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contact a big movement for

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improving your overall ball striking consistency.

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