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Jackson 5 Drill
Golf Hip Bump Drill for a Better Downswing
This golf hip bump drill teaches the Jackson 5 move for starting down with a controlled lateral shift toward the target. Learn how to move your hips without sliding and create a shallower position for a better release.
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Understand how to initiate a proper hip bump for improved weight transfer
- Practice lateral movement without rotation to maintain stability
- Feel the correct positioning of your hips relative to your lead foot for better contact
Tyler Ferrell. Golf Digest Best Teachers in California, 2026-27. The only person named to both Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers in America and Best Golf Fitness Professionals lists. Author of The Stock Tour Swing.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
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This drill is the Jackson 5 drill, so the Jackson 5 drill is our term for the
2
00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:07.760
hip bump.
3
00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:11.790
Many golfers have talked about a little lateral movement and 3D has shown that
4
00:00:11.790 --> 00:00:12.520
there's about
5
00:00:12.520 --> 00:00:18.760
a 4 to 6 inch movement during early transition to help shift the weight or
6
00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:19.960
pressure into
7
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:25.020
that lead foot and help establish a shallow body position so that you can apply
8
00:00:25.020 --> 00:00:25.760
good release
9
00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:26.760
mechanics.
10
00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.830
So an easy way to start working on that lateral movement is with this drill we
11
00:00:31.830 --> 00:00:32.880
call the Jackson
12
00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.920
5 and it got the name from an old student who was a dance instructor and he
13
00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:37.640
said it felt
14
00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.630
very much like the old Motown backup movement where they would basically do a
15
00:00:42.630 --> 00:00:43.520
little kind
16
00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.360
of slide movement where the upper body would lag behind.
17
00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:50.830
To do the movement to do the Jackson 5 drill you're going to take the club
18
00:00:50.830 --> 00:00:51.680
place it across
19
00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:52.680
your hips.
20
00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:55.820
Now you already know how to find your hips but here you're going to put your
21
00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:56.240
thumbs
22
00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.430
on the outside of your kind of the greater trochanters or the outside of your
23
00:01:00.430 --> 00:01:01.040
hip bones
24
00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:02.040
just like this.
25
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You're just going to hold that in place and then I want you to just kind of go
26
00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:06.480
back
27
00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.560
and forth a few times but you'll notice that there's no rotation.
28
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So what's common is as you go to rotate it will look a little bit more like
29
00:01:17.050 --> 00:01:17.880
this.
30
00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:22.660
So you want to either stay parallel to a mirror or have a stick on the ground
31
00:01:22.660 --> 00:01:23.560
so you can make
32
00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.920
sure that you're doing a pure lateral movement.
33
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.610
Now we don't want to do this sway movement in the backswing but we're going to
34
00:01:29.610 --> 00:01:30.120
do a little
35
00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.040
bit of this slide movement during the downswing.
36
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So I'm going to get my normal golf posture and then I'm going to do this
37
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Jackson 5 movement
38
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until my hip joint is just on the inside of my ankle right there.
39
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So I'm going to do that little Jackson 5 movement like this.
40
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Now you notice that as I do this my head stays in place and that's where it
41
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feels more like
42
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that Motown backup dancer movement.
43
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So I'm doing that Jackson 5 kind of just like this.
44
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Then what I can do is I can take the club and place it across my shoulders
45
00:02:02.610 --> 00:02:03.080
similar to
46
00:02:03.080 --> 00:02:05.560
what you do in the merry-go round.
47
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So then I'm going to make a backswing but now that lateral movement isn't in
48
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the direction
49
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of my pelvis because that would be going that way.
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It's still in the direction of the target which will feel like I'm going
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backwards.
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So I'm going up to the top of the swing and now I'm doing that little movement
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until I
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feel that same relationship where my hip is roughly over the inside of my ankle
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.
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So I'm basically doing that movement first and as I do that movement I'm trying
57
00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:33.960
not to
58
00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.990
consciously rotate my body but you'll see from the down the line that just by
59
00:02:37.990 --> 00:02:38.440
shifting
60
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I'm going to have some rotation.
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Problem many amateurs face is they get to the top of the swing and they don't
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have this
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lateral movement first.
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They tend to spin both their lower body and their upper body quick from the top
65
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of the
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00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.160
swing and you'll see that that creates a situation where my upper body is well
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on top
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of my lower body and that is going to create more of an outside in swing path.
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You can see from this down the line that if I just let my arms kind of fall
70
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when my body
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is on top like that it's going to be more outside in as opposed to if I do this
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little
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Jackson 5 move then if I just let my arms kind of swing you'll see that they
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have much
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more of a shallow or into out movement.
76
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So this Jackson 5 move is one of those really big key shallower movements for
77
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the full swing
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when you get below say a seven iron so when you start getting into seven iron,
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six iron
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all the way through driver but especially for the driver you'll tend to see a
81
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fair amount
82
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of this axis tilt and it's created by the sequencing of this lateral lower body
83
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movement
84
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during transition.
85
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The other thing that amateurs tend to do is they tend to shift very kind of
86
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slowly and
87
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gradually where this is more of a movement that will happen during transition
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so it should
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really happen before that left arm is below your chest height or left arm
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parallel kind
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of somewhere in this zone.
92
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So you got the feeling here you make some back swings and then you make some
93
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:11.960
swings trying
94
00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:17.100
to get that same movement to happen early during transition and then you can
95
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start applying
96
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it into tempo drills full swing drills but getting that sequencing of the step
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before
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the body goes very similar to normal hitting or throwing mechanics where you're
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going to
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have that lateral movement before it goes rotary or that lateral movement
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before it goes
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rotary.
103
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So work on that Jackson 5 sequencing to help shallow out your movement and get
104
00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:42.600
your total
105
00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:50.920
body involved which is really key for the longer clubs.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.360
This drill is the Jackson 5 drill, so the Jackson 5 drill is our term for the
2
00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:07.760
hip bump.
3
00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:11.790
Many golfers have talked about a little lateral movement and 3D has shown that
4
00:00:11.790 --> 00:00:12.520
there's about
5
00:00:12.520 --> 00:00:18.760
a 4 to 6 inch movement during early transition to help shift the weight or
6
00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:19.960
pressure into
7
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:25.020
that lead foot and help establish a shallow body position so that you can apply
8
00:00:25.020 --> 00:00:25.760
good release
9
00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:26.760
mechanics.
10
00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.830
So an easy way to start working on that lateral movement is with this drill we
11
00:00:31.830 --> 00:00:32.880
call the Jackson
12
00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.920
5 and it got the name from an old student who was a dance instructor and he
13
00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:37.640
said it felt
14
00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.630
very much like the old Motown backup movement where they would basically do a
15
00:00:42.630 --> 00:00:43.520
little kind
16
00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.360
of slide movement where the upper body would lag behind.
17
00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:50.830
To do the movement to do the Jackson 5 drill you're going to take the club
18
00:00:50.830 --> 00:00:51.680
place it across
19
00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:52.680
your hips.
20
00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:55.820
Now you already know how to find your hips but here you're going to put your
21
00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:56.240
thumbs
22
00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.430
on the outside of your kind of the greater trochanters or the outside of your
23
00:01:00.430 --> 00:01:01.040
hip bones
24
00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:02.040
just like this.
25
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You're just going to hold that in place and then I want you to just kind of go
26
00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:06.480
back
27
00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.560
and forth a few times but you'll notice that there's no rotation.
28
00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:17.050
So what's common is as you go to rotate it will look a little bit more like
29
00:01:17.050 --> 00:01:17.880
this.
30
00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:22.660
So you want to either stay parallel to a mirror or have a stick on the ground
31
00:01:22.660 --> 00:01:23.560
so you can make
32
00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.920
sure that you're doing a pure lateral movement.
33
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.610
Now we don't want to do this sway movement in the backswing but we're going to
34
00:01:29.610 --> 00:01:30.120
do a little
35
00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.040
bit of this slide movement during the downswing.
36
00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.070
So I'm going to get my normal golf posture and then I'm going to do this
37
00:01:37.070 --> 00:01:38.040
Jackson 5 movement
38
00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:44.000
until my hip joint is just on the inside of my ankle right there.
39
00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:46.560
So I'm going to do that little Jackson 5 movement like this.
40
00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.930
Now you notice that as I do this my head stays in place and that's where it
41
00:01:50.930 --> 00:01:51.880
feels more like
42
00:01:51.880 --> 00:01:55.600
that Motown backup dancer movement.
43
00:01:55.600 --> 00:01:59.460
So I'm doing that Jackson 5 kind of just like this.
44
00:01:59.460 --> 00:02:02.610
Then what I can do is I can take the club and place it across my shoulders
45
00:02:02.610 --> 00:02:03.080
similar to
46
00:02:03.080 --> 00:02:05.560
what you do in the merry-go round.
47
00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:10.960
So then I'm going to make a backswing but now that lateral movement isn't in
48
00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:12.160
the direction
49
00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:14.320
of my pelvis because that would be going that way.
50
00:02:14.320 --> 00:02:17.680
It's still in the direction of the target which will feel like I'm going
51
00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:18.440
backwards.
52
00:02:18.440 --> 00:02:22.470
So I'm going up to the top of the swing and now I'm doing that little movement
53
00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:22.960
until I
54
00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:28.000
feel that same relationship where my hip is roughly over the inside of my ankle
55
00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:28.320
.
56
00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:32.900
So I'm basically doing that movement first and as I do that movement I'm trying
57
00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:33.960
not to
58
00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.990
consciously rotate my body but you'll see from the down the line that just by
59
00:02:37.990 --> 00:02:38.440
shifting
60
00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:41.120
I'm going to have some rotation.
61
00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.150
Problem many amateurs face is they get to the top of the swing and they don't
62
00:02:45.150 --> 00:02:45.560
have this
63
00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:47.020
lateral movement first.
64
00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:50.690
They tend to spin both their lower body and their upper body quick from the top
65
00:02:50.690 --> 00:02:51.120
of the
66
00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.160
swing and you'll see that that creates a situation where my upper body is well
67
00:02:55.160 --> 00:02:55.520
on top
68
00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.200
of my lower body and that is going to create more of an outside in swing path.
69
00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.010
You can see from this down the line that if I just let my arms kind of fall
70
00:03:06.010 --> 00:03:06.920
when my body
71
00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:11.700
is on top like that it's going to be more outside in as opposed to if I do this
72
00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:12.160
little
73
00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:17.150
Jackson 5 move then if I just let my arms kind of swing you'll see that they
74
00:03:17.150 --> 00:03:17.920
have much
75
00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:20.920
more of a shallow or into out movement.
76
00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:25.910
So this Jackson 5 move is one of those really big key shallower movements for
77
00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:26.880
the full swing
78
00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:31.180
when you get below say a seven iron so when you start getting into seven iron,
79
00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:31.720
six iron
80
00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:35.310
all the way through driver but especially for the driver you'll tend to see a
81
00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:36.120
fair amount
82
00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.490
of this axis tilt and it's created by the sequencing of this lateral lower body
83
00:03:40.490 --> 00:03:41.160
movement
84
00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:43.080
during transition.
85
00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:47.550
The other thing that amateurs tend to do is they tend to shift very kind of
86
00:03:47.550 --> 00:03:48.280
slowly and
87
00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:54.080
gradually where this is more of a movement that will happen during transition
88
00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:54.680
so it should
89
00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.230
really happen before that left arm is below your chest height or left arm
90
00:04:00.230 --> 00:04:01.360
parallel kind
91
00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.040
of somewhere in this zone.
92
00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:10.920
So you got the feeling here you make some back swings and then you make some
93
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:11.960
swings trying
94
00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:17.100
to get that same movement to happen early during transition and then you can
95
00:04:17.100 --> 00:04:18.000
start applying
96
00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.680
it into tempo drills full swing drills but getting that sequencing of the step
97
00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:25.400
before
98
00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:29.480
the body goes very similar to normal hitting or throwing mechanics where you're
99
00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:29.960
going to
100
00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:35.410
have that lateral movement before it goes rotary or that lateral movement
101
00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:36.520
before it goes
102
00:04:36.520 --> 00:04:37.680
rotary.
103
00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.940
So work on that Jackson 5 sequencing to help shallow out your movement and get
104
00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:42.600
your total
105
00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:50.920
body involved which is really key for the longer clubs.
Tyler Ferrell. Golf Digest Best Teachers in California, 2026-27. The only person named to both Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers in America and Best Golf Fitness Professionals lists. Author of The Stock Tour Swing.
Jackson 5 Drill
Golf Hip Bump Drill for a Better Downswing
This golf hip bump drill teaches the Jackson 5 move for starting down with a controlled lateral shift toward the target. Learn how to move your hips without sliding and create a shallower position for a better release.
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Understand how to initiate a proper hip bump for improved weight transfer
- Practice lateral movement without rotation to maintain stability
- Feel the correct positioning of your hips relative to your lead foot for better contact
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.360
This drill is the Jackson 5 drill, so the Jackson 5 drill is our term for the
2
00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:07.760
hip bump.
3
00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:11.790
Many golfers have talked about a little lateral movement and 3D has shown that
4
00:00:11.790 --> 00:00:12.520
there's about
5
00:00:12.520 --> 00:00:18.760
a 4 to 6 inch movement during early transition to help shift the weight or
6
00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:19.960
pressure into
7
00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:25.020
that lead foot and help establish a shallow body position so that you can apply
8
00:00:25.020 --> 00:00:25.760
good release
9
00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:26.760
mechanics.
10
00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:31.830
So an easy way to start working on that lateral movement is with this drill we
11
00:00:31.830 --> 00:00:32.880
call the Jackson
12
00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.920
5 and it got the name from an old student who was a dance instructor and he
13
00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:37.640
said it felt
14
00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.630
very much like the old Motown backup movement where they would basically do a
15
00:00:42.630 --> 00:00:43.520
little kind
16
00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.360
of slide movement where the upper body would lag behind.
17
00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:50.830
To do the movement to do the Jackson 5 drill you're going to take the club
18
00:00:50.830 --> 00:00:51.680
place it across
19
00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:52.680
your hips.
20
00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:55.820
Now you already know how to find your hips but here you're going to put your
21
00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:56.240
thumbs
22
00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.430
on the outside of your kind of the greater trochanters or the outside of your
23
00:01:00.430 --> 00:01:01.040
hip bones
24
00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:02.040
just like this.
25
00:01:02.040 --> 00:01:06.120
You're just going to hold that in place and then I want you to just kind of go
26
00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:06.480
back
27
00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:10.560
and forth a few times but you'll notice that there's no rotation.
28
00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:17.050
So what's common is as you go to rotate it will look a little bit more like
29
00:01:17.050 --> 00:01:17.880
this.
30
00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:22.660
So you want to either stay parallel to a mirror or have a stick on the ground
31
00:01:22.660 --> 00:01:23.560
so you can make
32
00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:25.920
sure that you're doing a pure lateral movement.
33
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.610
Now we don't want to do this sway movement in the backswing but we're going to
34
00:01:29.610 --> 00:01:30.120
do a little
35
00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:33.040
bit of this slide movement during the downswing.
36
00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.070
So I'm going to get my normal golf posture and then I'm going to do this
37
00:01:37.070 --> 00:01:38.040
Jackson 5 movement
38
00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:44.000
until my hip joint is just on the inside of my ankle right there.
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So I'm going to do that little Jackson 5 movement like this.
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Now you notice that as I do this my head stays in place and that's where it
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feels more like
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that Motown backup dancer movement.
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So I'm doing that Jackson 5 kind of just like this.
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Then what I can do is I can take the club and place it across my shoulders
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similar to
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what you do in the merry-go round.
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So then I'm going to make a backswing but now that lateral movement isn't in
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the direction
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of my pelvis because that would be going that way.
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It's still in the direction of the target which will feel like I'm going
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backwards.
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So I'm going up to the top of the swing and now I'm doing that little movement
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until I
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feel that same relationship where my hip is roughly over the inside of my ankle
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.
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So I'm basically doing that movement first and as I do that movement I'm trying
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not to
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consciously rotate my body but you'll see from the down the line that just by
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shifting
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I'm going to have some rotation.
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Problem many amateurs face is they get to the top of the swing and they don't
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have this
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lateral movement first.
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They tend to spin both their lower body and their upper body quick from the top
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of the
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swing and you'll see that that creates a situation where my upper body is well
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on top
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of my lower body and that is going to create more of an outside in swing path.
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You can see from this down the line that if I just let my arms kind of fall
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when my body
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is on top like that it's going to be more outside in as opposed to if I do this
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little
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Jackson 5 move then if I just let my arms kind of swing you'll see that they
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have much
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more of a shallow or into out movement.
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So this Jackson 5 move is one of those really big key shallower movements for
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the full swing
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when you get below say a seven iron so when you start getting into seven iron,
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six iron
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all the way through driver but especially for the driver you'll tend to see a
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fair amount
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of this axis tilt and it's created by the sequencing of this lateral lower body
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movement
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during transition.
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The other thing that amateurs tend to do is they tend to shift very kind of
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slowly and
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gradually where this is more of a movement that will happen during transition
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so it should
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really happen before that left arm is below your chest height or left arm
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parallel kind
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of somewhere in this zone.
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So you got the feeling here you make some back swings and then you make some
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swings trying
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to get that same movement to happen early during transition and then you can
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start applying
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it into tempo drills full swing drills but getting that sequencing of the step
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before
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the body goes very similar to normal hitting or throwing mechanics where you're
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going to
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have that lateral movement before it goes rotary or that lateral movement
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before it goes
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rotary.
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So work on that Jackson 5 sequencing to help shallow out your movement and get
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your total
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body involved which is really key for the longer clubs.
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This drill is the Jackson 5 drill, so the Jackson 5 drill is our term for the
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hip bump.
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Many golfers have talked about a little lateral movement and 3D has shown that
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there's about
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a 4 to 6 inch movement during early transition to help shift the weight or
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pressure into
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that lead foot and help establish a shallow body position so that you can apply
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good release
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mechanics.
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So an easy way to start working on that lateral movement is with this drill we
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call the Jackson
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5 and it got the name from an old student who was a dance instructor and he
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said it felt
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very much like the old Motown backup movement where they would basically do a
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little kind
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of slide movement where the upper body would lag behind.
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To do the movement to do the Jackson 5 drill you're going to take the club
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place it across
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your hips.
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Now you already know how to find your hips but here you're going to put your
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thumbs
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on the outside of your kind of the greater trochanters or the outside of your
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hip bones
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just like this.
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You're just going to hold that in place and then I want you to just kind of go
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back
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and forth a few times but you'll notice that there's no rotation.
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So what's common is as you go to rotate it will look a little bit more like
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this.
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So you want to either stay parallel to a mirror or have a stick on the ground
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so you can make
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sure that you're doing a pure lateral movement.
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Now we don't want to do this sway movement in the backswing but we're going to
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do a little
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bit of this slide movement during the downswing.
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So I'm going to get my normal golf posture and then I'm going to do this
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Jackson 5 movement
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until my hip joint is just on the inside of my ankle right there.
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So I'm going to do that little Jackson 5 movement like this.
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Now you notice that as I do this my head stays in place and that's where it
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feels more like
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that Motown backup dancer movement.
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So I'm doing that Jackson 5 kind of just like this.
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Then what I can do is I can take the club and place it across my shoulders
45
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similar to
46
00:02:03.080 --> 00:02:05.560
what you do in the merry-go round.
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So then I'm going to make a backswing but now that lateral movement isn't in
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the direction
49
00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:14.320
of my pelvis because that would be going that way.
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It's still in the direction of the target which will feel like I'm going
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backwards.
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So I'm going up to the top of the swing and now I'm doing that little movement
53
00:02:22.470 --> 00:02:22.960
until I
54
00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:28.000
feel that same relationship where my hip is roughly over the inside of my ankle
55
00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:28.320
.
56
00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:32.900
So I'm basically doing that movement first and as I do that movement I'm trying
57
00:02:32.900 --> 00:02:33.960
not to
58
00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:37.990
consciously rotate my body but you'll see from the down the line that just by
59
00:02:37.990 --> 00:02:38.440
shifting
60
00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:41.120
I'm going to have some rotation.
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00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.150
Problem many amateurs face is they get to the top of the swing and they don't
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00:02:45.150 --> 00:02:45.560
have this
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00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:47.020
lateral movement first.
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00:02:47.020 --> 00:02:50.690
They tend to spin both their lower body and their upper body quick from the top
65
00:02:50.690 --> 00:02:51.120
of the
66
00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:55.160
swing and you'll see that that creates a situation where my upper body is well
67
00:02:55.160 --> 00:02:55.520
on top
68
00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.200
of my lower body and that is going to create more of an outside in swing path.
69
00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:06.010
You can see from this down the line that if I just let my arms kind of fall
70
00:03:06.010 --> 00:03:06.920
when my body
71
00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:11.700
is on top like that it's going to be more outside in as opposed to if I do this
72
00:03:11.700 --> 00:03:12.160
little
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00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:17.150
Jackson 5 move then if I just let my arms kind of swing you'll see that they
74
00:03:17.150 --> 00:03:17.920
have much
75
00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:20.920
more of a shallow or into out movement.
76
00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:25.910
So this Jackson 5 move is one of those really big key shallower movements for
77
00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:26.880
the full swing
78
00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:31.180
when you get below say a seven iron so when you start getting into seven iron,
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00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:31.720
six iron
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00:03:31.720 --> 00:03:35.310
all the way through driver but especially for the driver you'll tend to see a
81
00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:36.120
fair amount
82
00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.490
of this axis tilt and it's created by the sequencing of this lateral lower body
83
00:03:40.490 --> 00:03:41.160
movement
84
00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:43.080
during transition.
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00:03:43.080 --> 00:03:47.550
The other thing that amateurs tend to do is they tend to shift very kind of
86
00:03:47.550 --> 00:03:48.280
slowly and
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00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:54.080
gradually where this is more of a movement that will happen during transition
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00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:54.680
so it should
89
00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.230
really happen before that left arm is below your chest height or left arm
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00:04:00.230 --> 00:04:01.360
parallel kind
91
00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.040
of somewhere in this zone.
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00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:10.920
So you got the feeling here you make some back swings and then you make some
93
00:04:10.920 --> 00:04:11.960
swings trying
94
00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:17.100
to get that same movement to happen early during transition and then you can
95
00:04:17.100 --> 00:04:18.000
start applying
96
00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.680
it into tempo drills full swing drills but getting that sequencing of the step
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00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:25.400
before
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00:04:25.400 --> 00:04:29.480
the body goes very similar to normal hitting or throwing mechanics where you're
99
00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:29.960
going to
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00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:35.410
have that lateral movement before it goes rotary or that lateral movement
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before it goes
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00:04:36.520 --> 00:04:37.680
rotary.
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00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.940
So work on that Jackson 5 sequencing to help shallow out your movement and get
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00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:42.600
your total
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body involved which is really key for the longer clubs.
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