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This video is discussing the same Sneed Squad.

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So I had a member question come in about the Sneed Squad move and the lowering that

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guys like Rory do and basically was asking if I advocate that move.

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So I thought I'd discuss it and how it relates to some of the key movements that we

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talk about with the lower body.

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So this video could go a lot of different directions but I'm going to try to keep it focused

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on what's actually happening and then who is likely to feel more of a squat move.

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So when we look at this movement when we go up to the top of the swing and we're talking

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about the same squeed, Sneed Squad, you'll tend to see the look of the legs getting

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wider as the pelvis is starting down.

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So the key there is that movement is happening more from the hips and it's happening from

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having the trail leg go into a abduction or pulling away more like this.

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Some people describe it as a feeling of dual external rotation but we know from the measurements

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that that's not actually an external rotation of that hip of the weed hip.

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But if we contrast that to a swing where a golfer starts down and this space doesn't

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really open up, well that's going to have more of this look of the squat move compared

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to more of a slide or a thrust from the down the line camera angle.

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So I actually like the movement of trying to get that look of more of this lowering movement.

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By lowering into the ground that allows me to apply more friction against the ground and

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allows me to twist and push vertically harder.

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So you'll often see golfers who grew up a little bit on the lighter side, say Roy Macaroia,

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Tiger Woods, lots of girls on our women on the LPGA.

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You will tend to see more of the squat movement because in order to twist and push hard,

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they have to use that lowering movement in order to get the friction.

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So the lowering movement we've seen on 3D that is commonly associated with this move.

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Now let's talk about some of the fields that you might have, are you actually going to

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feel more of a squat move?

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So if we break this down, I've talked about what this right leg does in some other videos,

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but oftentimes you can break it down into one of two things.

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The hip movements, if we're going to rotate out as the pelvis turns, if you're going to

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feel this spreading the floor and you're going to feel this trail leg going into a

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reduction, that's going to feel more out or it's going to feel more down.

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Some golfers are more prone to feeling the out and some golfers are more prone to

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feeling the down.

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The key here is that either way, whichever one you're feeling, it's happening more from

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the hip and not from the knee.

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So a lot of golfers when they start trying to implement more of this feeling of squat, they

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tend to do it more from the ankle and the knee.

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And so you won't see this angle here change, which is a key component to the movement.

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So I actually teach it more because of this AVduction move, I teach it more of a feeling of

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like a single leg lunge or more of a skater push, but it's moving back in this kind of

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back 45 degree.

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If you do that, that tends to get this look of the knees widening a little bit and then

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what will normally happen is after they widen in transition, they will then narrow during

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the release.

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So I have some golfers who feel more of this out in and then I have some golfers who feel

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more of this down out.

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But in general, it's a really good move for learning to use your lower body correctly.

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But other videos where we kind of detail those movements, but in general, you're going

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to feel more of either an out or a down if your lower body is initiating transition.

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And it should reach kind of this maximum downward pressure right around arm parallel to

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the ground or right around P5.

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So a lot of golfers who try to do this squat move do it too long and they go down well

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into the release and then all they're left with is more of a flip style release.

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So if you're going to try to implement it, use some video, make sure to monitor that

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you are going down quick enough so that then you can be going up during the transition.

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Sorry, during the release or if you are going wide during transition, that way you can

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go narrow during the release.

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So the tricky thing is kind of working that timing of having the wide and down during

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transition and then in and up during the release.

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For many golfers who struggle with this movement, who have more of a look of either going

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up right away too soon or staying the same height and then diving down during the release.

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For those golfers, they are used to the lower body movement being a firing movement right

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away where if you're going to implement more of the same speed, it takes more of this waiting

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feeling or more of this kind of a two-stage rocket where you feel like there's a second

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movement happening in the downswing as opposed to just firing right from the top of the swing.

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So the movement is more out as it's going down from the hips and the timing is more out

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in as opposed to just a one vertical movement pushed straight from the top of the swing.

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So if you're struggling with some of this squat movement or proper lower body movement

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during transition, focus on either the positions and the direction the movements were focused

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on the timing. Both can have a big impact on how your lower body works in your downswing.

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Okay, so we'll throw one out there in more of a exaggerated,

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need look of more of a out in or what some people would feel more as a down up.