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This concept video is addressing a member question about hip turn.

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So the member was asking about the bracing or basically straightening the leg

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as it relates

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to the hip turn.

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Does it start at the same time?

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Does it finish at the same time?

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Like do you finish your leg straightening as you're finishing rotating?

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That can be a common confusion.

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So the simple answer is that they're connected but the rotation starts before

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the leg straightening

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and finishes after the leg straightening.

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The leg straightening is more part of kind of the release where the rotation is

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more

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part of transition into release and all the way into follow through.

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So if you look at a Tour Pro or if you look at the 3D data what you'll see is

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that the

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lower body is going to start rotating as we're changing direction.

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Now as we're changing direction we're also getting this pressure into this lead

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foot.

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So I've already started to rotate but my left leg is actually still bending as

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I get into

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about left arm parallel.

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Kind of right around there.

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Now I'm going to continue rotating but now that I've gotten into this position

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where I've

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shifted my pressure into that front foot, now that leg is straightening as I'm

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going

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into the release.

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That leg is going to finish straightening as I finish the release kind of right

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around

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here but then I'm going to continue rotating through the shot mostly as a safe

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way of slowing

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down the club.

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So for all intent and purposes the straightening of the leg does kind of end

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the feeling of

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the hit.

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So it's not like I have a feeling like I spin my body through impact but there

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is a feeling

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of continuing to rotate around that straight leg that has where the straight

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leg has straightened

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during the release.

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So for example if I was to time that out, if I was to make a smaller shorter

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swing and

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where I could finish at about the same time or finish kind of just in this nine

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to three,

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then they would tend to finish around the same time or the same point.

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So it would still be slightly delayed where I would feel like the straightening

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movement,

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straightening of the leg was finishing but as I'm finishing I'm also feeling

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that right

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side kind of continue to go through.

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That's where I have a little bit more of a feel of this hip rotation.

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Now if I was to go even one notch further so go to kind of three quarter, now

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it's going

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to feel a little bit longer as far as that coasting or rotation movement.

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So that one it feels like there's more of a hit through here and then

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everything is

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continuing to go through.

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So they're connected because they're both revolving around hip motion but they

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're independent

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in a sense of this rotation is where we get more of the feeling of kind of

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tempo and fluidity

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where I feel like the vertical movement is more of where we get some of this

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kind of

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positional alignment and stability and consistency of contact.

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So hopefully that helps clears it up.

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If you look at video you basically want to see if you're looking at do I need

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more verticals

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you're looking to see if this leg is kind of like buckling on the way through

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or some

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people will tend to just straighten it right away.

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A common pattern would be to straighten early and then kind of buckle on the

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way through.

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It's typically associated more with a really big arm pull and early side bend

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action as

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opposed to getting a little bit more pressure shift and a little bit later leg

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extension.

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And if you find that you're not rotating on the way through check your hip

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range emotion

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but also check to see if your arms aren't too early.

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What will often happen is if the arms are really early then they'll slow down

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you'll

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essentially finish your swing with a shorter finish and you'll often finish

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even short

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of facing the target as opposed to getting into a full body finish where your

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right shoulder

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is a little bit more closer to the target.

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So a little hierarchy for checking your lower body rotation as it relates to

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the swing.

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Hopefully that helps a few of you clean up the timing and the way you're using

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your

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legs in the downswing.