Finding Your Hips - How to Hinge In Set Up
One of the sure fire ways to make rotation during the backswing harder for you is to curve the spine, a great deal, to get down to the ball instead of bending from the hips. A good way to make sure that you are bending from your hips is to use a club to “lock” the spine in place while you bend from the hips themselves. The hips are located lower and more toward the center of your body than you think. In this video, I show you a couple ways to “find your hips" and get into a good golf set up posture.
3 ways to practice goo set up posture
Now that you know your hips, hold the club on your back, and bend forward. You can alternatively, hold the club on your front and bend forward. Lastly, you can hold the club across your hips, and push it backward. Then simply soften your knees and your body is almost in set up posture.
Getting set up with proper hip hinge is a great first step to consistent golf, to learn all the other key fundamentals to set up, and the rest of the swing, check out the related drills below or the rest of the membership area.
One of the sure fire ways to make rotation during the backswing harder for you is to curve the spine, a great deal, to get down to the ball instead of bending from the hips. A good way to make sure that you are bending from your hips is to use a club to “lock” the spine in place while you bend from the hips themselves. The hips are located lower and more toward the center of your body than you think. In this video, I show you a couple ways to “find your hips" and get into a good golf set up posture.
3 ways to practice goo set up posture
Now that you know your hips, hold the club on your back, and bend forward. You can alternatively, hold the club on your front and bend forward. Lastly, you can hold the club across your hips, and push it backward. Then simply soften your knees and your body is almost in set up posture.
Getting set up with proper hip hinge is a great first step to consistent golf, to learn all the other key fundamentals to set up, and the rest of the swing, check out the related drills below or the rest of the membership area.
Video Transcript
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This drill is called finding your hips and this is to help with your setup
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00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:08.720
position so this is to help you learn how to hinge from the actual hip sockets
3
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:08.880
as
4
00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:15.380
opposed to bending from the spine. So if you recall from the setup video
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00:00:15.380 --> 00:00:21.160
ideally we want to bend from our hips as opposed to bending from the spine or
6
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:25.960
bending from the spine. So I'll show you a couple different ways that you can
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find where your hips actually bend from. The first one is if you take your
8
00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:31.080
hands
9
00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:34.960
and place them kind of on the sides of your body just below your pelvis. So
10
00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.840
here's kind of my firm pelvis bones. If I put my hands on my side and then I
11
00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:40.080
bend
12
00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:43.520
my knees you'll feel in the center of that there's kind of a bone right here
13
00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.960
that's moving. It's called the greater choke answer of your hips and if you put
14
00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:52.000
your thumbs on that and then wrap your index fingers around that is roughly
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00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.290
going to be where your hip sockets are right here. So you'll notice that they
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00:00:55.290 --> 00:00:55.360
're
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much narrower than you might think based on the width of my pelvis. If you don
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't
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want to go through that whole little body exploration thing you can see that
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where I put my fingers is roughly under my first belt loops. That's a kind of a
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00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:12.880
good little eyeball way to check it out as well. So if you put your thumb or
22
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your index fingers there and you can practice hinging just like you're going
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to almost fold over and like you're going to try and pinch your finger with
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your body. So I can take the club and I can show you a couple ways that you can
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practice this. One would be to place the club right across that seam where you
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found your hips and to practice bending right over it. Now this is an easy way
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to
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feel that my hips are bending but I can't tell if I'm arching my back or losing
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my spine as I do it. So one of the ways that you can see how your spine is
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doing
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as you once you've gotten comfortable that you can bend with your hips you can
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take the club and place it along your back. Ideally the club should be touching
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your tailbone the middle of your back and the back of your head and you're just
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going to bend from the hip and maintain those three connection points. Now I'm
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00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:07.880
not saying that this is perfect golf posture because what's not but this is
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how we train deadlifting and this is how you learn how to hinge from the hip.
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So this is with the club along your back or you can take the club and place it
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along your front side. So there's basically touching your chin and the
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top of your belt buckle and then if you bend from the hips it will stay there.
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The reason that one works pretty well is a lot of people will bend good from
41
00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:31.160
the
42
00:02:31.160 --> 00:02:34.960
hips and then they will round their spine and collapse to look at the golf
43
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:39.440
ball. Now if you remember from the setup video we want to bend from the hips so
44
00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:43.720
that the spine is pretty straight and then you're basically just going to
45
00:02:43.720 --> 00:02:48.040
relax your arms and adjust your head so that you're looking at the golf ball.
46
00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:51.840
So keeping that spine straight and learning how to bend from the hips is
47
00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.720
one of the big foundations to getting into good setup posture so there's three
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00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:00.880
ways that you can use your club to practice bending and hinging from the
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00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:03.760
actual hip sockets.
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Ask Mulligan for helpFinding Your Hips - How to Hinge In Set Up
One of the sure fire ways to make rotation during the backswing harder for you is to curve the spine, a great deal, to get down to the ball instead of bending from the hips. A good way to make sure that you are bending from your hips is to use a club to “lock” the spine in place while you bend from the hips themselves. The hips are located lower and more toward the center of your body than you think. In this video, I show you a couple ways to “find your hips" and get into a good golf set up posture.
3 ways to practice goo set up posture
Now that you know your hips, hold the club on your back, and bend forward. You can alternatively, hold the club on your front and bend forward. Lastly, you can hold the club across your hips, and push it backward. Then simply soften your knees and your body is almost in set up posture.
Getting set up with proper hip hinge is a great first step to consistent golf, to learn all the other key fundamentals to set up, and the rest of the swing, check out the related drills below or the rest of the membership area.
One of the sure fire ways to make rotation during the backswing harder for you is to curve the spine, a great deal, to get down to the ball instead of bending from the hips. A good way to make sure that you are bending from your hips is to use a club to “lock” the spine in place while you bend from the hips themselves. The hips are located lower and more toward the center of your body than you think. In this video, I show you a couple ways to “find your hips" and get into a good golf set up posture.
3 ways to practice goo set up posture
Now that you know your hips, hold the club on your back, and bend forward. You can alternatively, hold the club on your front and bend forward. Lastly, you can hold the club across your hips, and push it backward. Then simply soften your knees and your body is almost in set up posture.
Getting set up with proper hip hinge is a great first step to consistent golf, to learn all the other key fundamentals to set up, and the rest of the swing, check out the related drills below or the rest of the membership area.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
This drill is called finding your hips and this is to help with your setup
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:08.720
position so this is to help you learn how to hinge from the actual hip sockets
3
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:08.880
as
4
00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:15.380
opposed to bending from the spine. So if you recall from the setup video
5
00:00:15.380 --> 00:00:21.160
ideally we want to bend from our hips as opposed to bending from the spine or
6
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:25.960
bending from the spine. So I'll show you a couple different ways that you can
7
00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:30.880
find where your hips actually bend from. The first one is if you take your
8
00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:31.080
hands
9
00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:34.960
and place them kind of on the sides of your body just below your pelvis. So
10
00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.840
here's kind of my firm pelvis bones. If I put my hands on my side and then I
11
00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:40.080
bend
12
00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:43.520
my knees you'll feel in the center of that there's kind of a bone right here
13
00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.960
that's moving. It's called the greater choke answer of your hips and if you put
14
00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:52.000
your thumbs on that and then wrap your index fingers around that is roughly
15
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.290
going to be where your hip sockets are right here. So you'll notice that they
16
00:00:55.290 --> 00:00:55.360
're
17
00:00:55.360 --> 00:01:00.300
much narrower than you might think based on the width of my pelvis. If you don
18
00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:00.400
't
19
00:01:00.400 --> 00:01:03.880
want to go through that whole little body exploration thing you can see that
20
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.960
where I put my fingers is roughly under my first belt loops. That's a kind of a
21
00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:12.880
good little eyeball way to check it out as well. So if you put your thumb or
22
00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:16.960
your index fingers there and you can practice hinging just like you're going
23
00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:20.720
to almost fold over and like you're going to try and pinch your finger with
24
00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:25.320
your body. So I can take the club and I can show you a couple ways that you can
25
00:01:25.320 --> 00:01:30.060
practice this. One would be to place the club right across that seam where you
26
00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:35.280
found your hips and to practice bending right over it. Now this is an easy way
27
00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:35.400
to
28
00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:40.240
feel that my hips are bending but I can't tell if I'm arching my back or losing
29
00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:44.570
my spine as I do it. So one of the ways that you can see how your spine is
30
00:01:44.570 --> 00:01:44.760
doing
31
00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.680
as you once you've gotten comfortable that you can bend with your hips you can
32
00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:53.840
take the club and place it along your back. Ideally the club should be touching
33
00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.640
your tailbone the middle of your back and the back of your head and you're just
34
00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:03.520
going to bend from the hip and maintain those three connection points. Now I'm
35
00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:07.880
not saying that this is perfect golf posture because what's not but this is
36
00:02:07.880 --> 00:02:11.200
how we train deadlifting and this is how you learn how to hinge from the hip.
37
00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:17.780
So this is with the club along your back or you can take the club and place it
38
00:02:17.780 --> 00:02:22.240
along your front side. So there's basically touching your chin and the
39
00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.040
top of your belt buckle and then if you bend from the hips it will stay there.
40
00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:31.020
The reason that one works pretty well is a lot of people will bend good from
41
00:02:31.020 --> 00:02:31.160
the
42
00:02:31.160 --> 00:02:34.960
hips and then they will round their spine and collapse to look at the golf
43
00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:39.440
ball. Now if you remember from the setup video we want to bend from the hips so
44
00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:43.720
that the spine is pretty straight and then you're basically just going to
45
00:02:43.720 --> 00:02:48.040
relax your arms and adjust your head so that you're looking at the golf ball.
46
00:02:48.040 --> 00:02:51.840
So keeping that spine straight and learning how to bend from the hips is
47
00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.720
one of the big foundations to getting into good setup posture so there's three
48
00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:00.880
ways that you can use your club to practice bending and hinging from the
49
00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:03.760
actual hip sockets.
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