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This video is how much lower body shift.

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So frequently I get asked how much lower body movement, am I doing it too much,

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am I not

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doing it enough.

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So I'm going to give you some kind of guidelines so that you can figure out

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what's best for

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you.

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Because what you'll see is that I tend to be very good at using my lower body

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and so

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I will exaggerate some of these movements.

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The tour average for lower body shift during the golf swing is going to be

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about four to

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six inches and that seems to be pretty consistent whether you're hitting a

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seven iron or you're

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hitting a driver.

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Now the upper body shifts a different amount depending on those different clubs

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but the

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lower body is going to shift again this four to six inches.

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So the average pelvis is somewhere around a foot.

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So you can think of this as a third or a half of a pelvis.

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So if I was to put two alignment sticks on the ground, let's put one kind of

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even with

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the ball and we'll put one that's about four inches in front or so.

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I'm going to get set up and then when I do the Jackson five you can see that I

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'm shifting

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slightly past that because this is a drill to kind of feel some of this

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exaggeration.

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But in the golf swing you can see that my belt buckle or the center block of my

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pelvis

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is going to shift a little bit more than that because I tend to be closer to

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that six inch

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range than the four inch range.

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Well there's some feelings that you can use to help you figure out if you've

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shifted

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too much or too little.

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The hip actually has kind of a shape to it something like this.

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So here's my pelvis and then here's the hip bone.

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So the part that we see and that we feel way out here is actually the outside

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of the hip.

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The actual rotation of the hip is going to happen kind of right in here right

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underneath

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this belt buckle somewhere right around this area.

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Well if I get this the center of my hip past the inside of my ankle now I'm

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going to have

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a difficult time bracing and pushing with this lead leg.

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If I go too far you'll see that I'll lose my balance and I'll end up falling.

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So if I'm looking at video and I'm trying to see even with rotation I'm trying

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to make

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sure that the inside or where the actual hip is rotating is not going past the

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inside part

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of the ankle.

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If it stays behind the inside part of the ankle then I'm pushing against the

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ground kind of

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in that fashion and that's going to help me rotate later in the downswing.

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So during this transition move of the Jackson 5 I'm basically shifting later

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ally to about

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that point and then I'm applying the breaks and kind of pressing in order to or

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pushing

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through that ground in order to help stimulate that rotation.

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Now that's kind of the best feeling I can give you.

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If you have a wedge shot and you've got a smaller stance you'll see that when I

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go to push it'll be a little bit more vertical and I'm not going to shift quite

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as much.

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But if I have a driver or a seven iron I'm going to still kind of have this

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step or this

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weight shift before it rotates my upper body will feel a little bit more on top

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for the

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iron compared to the driver because it actually will be and that's one of the

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ways that you can

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kind of use some feedback as far as am I doing this too much or too little.

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So how would I know if I'm not doing enough of this if I'm not doing enough of

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this lateral

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movement and not having enough of this axis tilt I'm going to struggle with

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having my

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path a little bit steep and a little bit left because this is one of the big

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shallow moves.

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The other option is I'm not going to struggle with those but I'm going to be

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standing up.

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So I either need to have this axis tilt to shallow the club or I'm going to

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stand up

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to shallow the club.

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Those are really your two major body shallow options so you're going to choose

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one of them.

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So if you're standing up there's a good chance you don't have enough of this

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lateral movement

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or if you're struggling with driver and long irons because you have a steep

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angle of attack

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you're hitting more on the toe and you're just having a hard time getting the

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path far enough

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out to the right there's a good chance you're not having enough of this lateral

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movement

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or using your lower body properly.

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How do you know if you're having too much well it's kind of the opposite if you

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're struggling

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with wedges if you are hitting too big of hooks and you're having the bottom

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less wing

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shift too far behind the golf ball so you're kind of picking the ball and you

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're doing

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a great job with the drivers you're having a lot of success with the driver

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those could

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be symptoms that you're doing too much of this lateral movement.

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So I never want you to try to emulate exactly how my swing works my goal is to

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communicate

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the movement and the ways that those moves work together so that you can

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ultimately kind

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of put it together and figure out how much works best for you.

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So I'll I'll demonstrate one and just kind of give you a visual as far as how

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much lateral

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shift I have and if you see me exaggerating it in the drills know that that's

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part of

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my DNA and my makeup is to be more towards the higher end if you shifted two

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inches less

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than me you'd still be in the toward normal if you should shifted three inches

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left than

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less than me you'd still be in the very very playable zone so you don't have to

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have as

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much lateral shift as I demonstrate but understand how it's going to affect the

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other pieces

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that you may be working on.