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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.
Playlists: Beginner Program
Tags: Set Up, Beginner
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This drill is called finding your hips and this is to help with your setup position
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so this is to help you learn how to hinge from the actual hip sockets as opposed to bending from the spine.
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So if you recall from the setup video, ideally we want to bend from our hips as opposed to bending from the spine or bending from the spine.
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So I'll show you a couple different ways that you can find where your hips actually bend from.
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The first one is if you take your hands and place them on the sides of your body just below your pelvis.
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So here's kind of my firm pelvis bones.
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If I put my hands on my side and then I bend my knees, you'll feel in the center of that there's kind of a bone right here that's moving.
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It's called the greater choke answer of your hips and if you put your thumbs on that and then wrap your index fingers around,
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that is roughly going to be where your hips sockets are right here.
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So you'll notice that there are much narrower than you might think based on the width of my pelvis.
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If you don't want to go through that whole little body exploration thing, you can see that where I put my fingers is roughly under my first belt loops.
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That's a kind of a good little eyeball way to check it out as well.
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So if you put your thumb or your index fingers there and you can practice hinging just like you're going to almost fold over and like you're going to try and pinch your finger.
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With your body.
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So I can take the club and I can show you a couple ways that you can practice this.
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One would be to place the club right across that seam where you found your hips and the practice bending right over it.
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Now this is an easy way to feel that my hips are bending but I can't tell if I'm arching my back or losing my spine as I do it.
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So one of the ways that you can see how your spine is doing as you once you've gotten comfortable that you can bend with your hips.
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You can take it to the club and place it along your back.
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Ideally the club should be touching your tailbone, the middle of your back and the back of your head.
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And you're just going to bend from the hip and maintain those three connection points.
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Now I'm not saying that this is perfect golf posture because what's not but this is 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.
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Or you can take the club and place it along your front side.
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So there's basically touching your chin and the top of your belt buckle.
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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 the hips and then they will round their spine and collapse to look at the golf ball.
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If you remember from the setup video we want to bend from the hips so that the spine is straight pretty straight.
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And then you're basically just going to relax your arms and adjust your head so that you're looking at the golf ball.
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So keeping that spine straight and learning how to bend from the hips is one of the big foundations to getting into good setup posture.
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So there's three ways that you can use your club to practice bending and hinging from the actual hipsackets.
