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This concept video is connecting the obliques to the trail hip.

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So I have drills on trying to get the core more involved like beat the drum and

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the merry

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go round and staying down in your posture, head on the pillow like all those

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things they

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get the upper body down and forward and then we have drills focusing on pushing

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through

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the ground pushing the legs but I want to do a video here to help kind of

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connect how those

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two relate and how the oblique and the trail hip work together.

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So we'll do it in a couple different ways.

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First version we're going to do is actually seated so I want you to scooch to

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the front

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of your chair and I'll grab a chair so we can demonstrate it.

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Okay, so I want you sitting to the front of the chair so that you're not

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leaning backward

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but your upper body is kind of stacked on top of your pelvis and your body is

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unsupported.

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And now what we're going to do is we're going to put our arms across our chest

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like this

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and you're going to try and move your shoulder towards your opposite knee or

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the inner thigh.

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So I'm going to do my right side, this is my downswing side.

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Now I'm talking because hopefully you've tried it because you were not patient

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enough to

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watch me, oftentimes I have to cue and correct on how we do it.

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So first I'll do it the way that I want and then we'll talk through a couple of

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the common

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problem scenarios.

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So what I'm going to try to do is you'll see from the down the line there's a

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blend of

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a little bit of crunch and a little bit of rotation and a little bit of side

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bend.

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So this shoulder is going down towards this opposite hip kind of like this and

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it's reaching

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its lowest point and furthest forward at the end of the movement.

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There's two common problems that I see, one would be going into kind of side

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bend and

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then rotating kind of more like this where I'm going actually towards that

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right shoulder

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or sorry that right leg.

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So I want when I finish that this shoulder feels like it's crossing the midline

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and going

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in the direction of the inner thigh.

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The other one I see is more of a full hip hinge kind of like this and turning.

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If I come back up you can see that this right shoulder is actually higher than

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the left.

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So I'm trying to get a blend of right shoulder down but also right shoulder

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forward.

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So it goes kind of right in between my legs towards there when I do that I feel

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a good

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contraction on this side.

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I'm just going to even it out a little bit before we talk about it.

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Okay so now how does it relate to the right hip?

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If I was to have my legs in kind of an unsupported position where they can move

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freely what

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you'll see is as this shoulder comes down and through as the oblique starts to

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contract

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this leg will actually want to go into a little bit of external rotation.

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Now if on the other hand I was going to go into just a pure side bend movement

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you would

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see that this leg has a little bit of a tendency to want to go more inward or

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into internal

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rotation.

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So I'm going to move the chair out of the way and we're going to talk through

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how that

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implication works and then I'll show you a little more advanced version you can

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do for

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building some of the strength in this movement at home.

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Okay so we just went through that little exercise to feel the oblique working

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correctly.

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Now we're going to feel it while we're standing up.

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So if I just played around with that movement if I brought the call back kind

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of in 9-3

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and I did that movement where this shoulder comes down and forward it's going

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to feel

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like it goes more like this and if I use that trail leg like I felt when I was

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doing that

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exercise it's going to actually rotate out that way a little bit like this and

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go into

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some extension or actually straighten.

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When I do that I feel a little bit of a stretch on the inside of my right hip

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but I really

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feel a strong contraction in my oblique.

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So what I demonstrated there at the end is if you do more of just a side bend

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movement

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kind of like this then naturally what would happen from the lower body is the

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right leg

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would tend to kick in more this way when the right leg kicks in like that.

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It makes pulling with some of the back muscles a little bit more effective

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which can help

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when you're doing this side bend movement but it doesn't make your abs any

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stronger.

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When you do this movement here where it comes down in front and your shoulder

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is actually

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trying to get past that hip then it makes sense anatomically to get that trail

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leg

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to straighten and go into more of an external rotation.

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So golfers who tend to have more of a stall kind of go this way that shoulder

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stays back

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that's more of using this back side of your body going into more side bend as

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opposed

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to using the oblique which brings that shoulder down from the down line camera

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but forward

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from the face on camera.

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A lot of golfers struggle when we talk about getting side bend without creating

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a lot of

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access tilt especially for the shorter irons let's say eight iron and down

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where that shoulder

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is covering the ball but it's also going downward from the down the line camera

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this is part of the reason why.

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Using the oblique versus using the back muscles so once you've got that feeling

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I recommend

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trying some of the nine to threes or trying some of these kind of easier shots

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where you

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feel that combination of that trail leg straightening with the oblique action.

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So let's just demonstrate a couple real quick.

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So if we were to do that trail using the oblique with the leg going into more

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extension

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that would look more like that.

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This pivot movement is a big component to getting shaft lean.

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What we'll see is when I do the other version if I do more of a side bend

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movement you'll

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see that I can still hit it okay it's just going to go a little bit higher and

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you'll

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see that I had to throw the arms because the shoulder stayed more back.

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So oftentimes I'll have golfers trying to work on this oblique kind of trying

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to hit

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the ball purely with the direction of the torso pivot and using that core

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muscle as

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opposed to trying to hit it more with arm action.

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So I'm going to keep this arm kind of pinned close to my side and I'm just

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going to use

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that upper body going down and forward to help move the low point forward.

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Ideally in the actual 9 to 3 shot I'm going to do that move but I'm going to

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time and

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get a little bit of arm extension through the ball instead of just keeping it

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pinned

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the entire time.

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But as an awareness drill, as an exaggeration drill I love doing little 9 to as

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short as

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possible where I'm purely hitting it just with that oblique movement and

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getting no

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extension of the arm.

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So the next I will show you a simple way that you can work on this at home to

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help strengthen

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that oblique movement and kind of coordinate it with that hip extension.

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Okay so now we're going to get into a little bit more of a core strengthening

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exercise.

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We're going to start at the end of the movement so we're going to do the same

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thing we did

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seated but now I have to resist or fight against gravity.

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Again, the goal here is that I'm not coming up and then across by rotating with

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the shoulder

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high.

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Rather, I'm reaching across with this right arm almost like I'm reaching under

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the left

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side.

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The shoulder is going down from the rib cage contraction on this side but it's

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also going

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forward.

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If I was then to reverse the movement I can bring it back kind of like this.

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And you can go all the way down and when you do that the key here is as soon as

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you start

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coming up it should start rotating.

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I don't want to do a movement where I come up and then rotate.

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I want to start that rotation and finish in that rotation and crunch.

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And of course you would do both sides even though you'd be playing golf from

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one side.

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I like to aim for sets of 20, 30 even up to 50 doing three sets or so helping

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to build

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the awareness of using the obliques.

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And what you'll find is when I do that movement you'll see that as I come

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across this leg is

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going to want to push out.

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I can actually encourage that to feel a little bit of a straightening of that

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heel of that

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leg of that hip while it's rotating out and that actually makes me feel like I

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can get

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an even better contraction there in the oblique.

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So hopefully this video helps tie together a number of the different concepts

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here where

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I talk about using the core or using the legs.

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We're going to work together in this pivot during the release.