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This kind of video is discussing lead hip bracing.

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So this is going to be a really important video for those of you who have more

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of a slide where

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your hip actually gets outside your basic support or past your ankle.

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So we're going to talk about some of the muscles in your left hip that will

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help get your ground

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force pattern to be a little bit more accurate or more consistent as well as

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get you a little

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bit better alignment where your hip hasn't gone past.

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So we're going to call this lead hip bracing.

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The main mechanism is going to be looking at the glute medius glute minimus,

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two of the

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important hip muscles, but we're also going to talk a little bit about what's

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going on

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at the foot.

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So creating kind of a stable or firm lead leg can be helpful for consistency of

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contact,

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consistency of trajectory, as well as avoiding more of a stall through the

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bottom of the swing.

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And part of this chain that goes from all the way up to the head and neck all

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the way

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down to the foot goes through this outside of the hip.

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So this is a really important juncture for creating some of the stability.

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To feel this, we're going to try to activate the glute medius.

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So we're going to start by doing a few just kind of single leg raises off to

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the side

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kind of like this.

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And I want to avoid doing it all with my kind of spine like this.

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I want to feel like my pelvis isn't really moving and I'm just doing it more

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from the

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hip.

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Now, this motion right here is abducting or moving the leg away from you.

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If I was to stand on my leg and now do the same motion on the same hip, it

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would tilt

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me this way, right?

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So this motion right here where the leg is opening up compared to my pelvis

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would be

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the same thing as me tilting that way.

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So if I have a tendency to go more this way, that's actually my hips tilting

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too much

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that way, like I've done the Jackson five way too long, and the right hip is

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dropping

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down and the left hip is getting high.

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If I was to do this motion, it feels like the right hip gets high and the left

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hip stays

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lower, stays more stable.

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So now I want to combo that in feeling some of the rotation.

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So I'm going to exaggerate.

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I'm going to do this little tilt so that that left or the right hip is high and

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that left

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hip is down.

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And then I'm going to turn into the towards the target.

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Now you'll see that my upper body hasn't gone into any of its extension.

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So I'm way out in front of my lead foot.

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Now I'm going to try and do a little bit of pelvic tilt or hip extension, as

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well as

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a little bit of spine tilt.

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And now this is going to get me into this firm, kind of stable lead side.

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So ideally what's going to happen is from the top of my swing, I'm going to

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have my

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lateral shift or the Jackson five move where I get that bump and then right

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around when

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I right around arm parallel, when I get my weight shifted over that lead leg,

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now I'm

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going to go into this lead leg bracing as I'm starting the release pattern.

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So that bracing is going to help get my upper body to not be so far back over

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the right

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foot and it's going to help control my height.

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Often times what will happen is when I go into this slide, I'll also do a

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little bit

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of a buckle and that lowers the swing and requires me to adjust it with my arms

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So we'll walk through kind of a little demo with the hip and you'll see that it

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will

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create a much more stable kind of impact and finish position.

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So if I did a little nine to three where I just feel like I'm getting that hip

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to do

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its bracing, maybe a little bit more like there, that hip to do the bracing and

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then

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that upper body to do more of the extension and its bracing, that will help me

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get into

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a really strong solid follow through position, kind of like that.

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And then my goal would be to lengthen, lengthen the swing ten to two full swing

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But I did mention that we want to discuss the foot.

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I've other videos where I talk about kind of the big toe, ideally the glutes

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going to

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have a strong connection with the muscle that kind of wraps underneath the

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bottom of your

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foot and connects onto the big toe.

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So if I tend to have a little bit more sloppy ankle, that I think is less of a

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problem than

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if you have a sloppy hip, but it can contribute.

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Often times golfers who have more of that sloppy ankle aren't able to manage

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their pelvis

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the way someone like Scottie Scheffler or Jordan Spieth does.

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They tend to have more of a kind of like as a collapsing and lack of stability

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in the

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pelvis as well.

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So to give ourselves the best chance, we can experiment with the foot as well

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where we're

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going to feel like the slide fix where the big toe is going to be kind of

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staying down

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as I'm getting that hip hiker type feel where I'm bringing my body into that

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good bracing

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position kind of like that.

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If you're used to sliding through the ball, this might feel a little restricted

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, but with

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practice it will also start to feel a little bit more stable.

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So now let's try to do the foot and the hip where we're feeling like the big

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toe is pushing

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down and I'm getting into that glute, glute medius hip hiker position.

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And that feels very stable in my lead side.

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All you got to do is add more and more speed or for a lot of golfers what I'll

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have them

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do is instead of stopping there I'll have you try to finish feeling like you're

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still

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stable in that hip.

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That could be really helpful for kind of breaking through the pattern of why

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you might be kind

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of buckling out.

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It makes it a little bit easier on the hip and core going into the follow

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through, but

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easier doesn't always mean more repeatable.

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So let's work on some of our hip and leg stability, primarily focusing on this

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left side or lead

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side glute medius.

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Now last point I almost forgot, classically with the ground force reaction we

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tend to

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want to see the lead foot pushing away this way.

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I think in the past I've overcoached it more from the leg almost like kicking,

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but if I

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was to do more of a straight leg push using that glute medius that would get

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that same

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pattern, but it would work more at the hip where if I did it more with the knee

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kicking

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that way it would actually affect the position of my pelvis and how the hip

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would rotate.

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So I think that this glute medius pattern here is actually let's say the

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optimal way

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to get the ground force pushing that or pattern where I'm pushing against the

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ground that

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way instead of doing it with my weight shift or doing it with more of a quad

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kick.