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This content video is revisiting internal versus external rotation of the trail

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hip.

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So the look of kind of the Sam Snead Squat versus the knee kind of caving in

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has been

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a hot topic in golf instruction for many years.

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I did a video on it talking about its relationship to weight distribution,

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which I do think is

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relevant, but I think I have a better description of it now.

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So from talking with some of the people I bounce my ideas off of on the body,

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the medical side,

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the way I would phrase it now is the one that looks external rotation is more

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of a disassociation

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of the hip and the one that looks like internal rotation is more of a

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connection of the hip.

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So what's likely happening is the disassociation, so the more of the kind of

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the squat look

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is using the glute, creating a stretch so we can get a little bit more of a

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whip effect

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on down through the release.

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And the look of going into internal rotation is likely using my abs but

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creating this whole

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region as a fixed point so that my abs can work through the leg into the foot

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to spin

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my body.

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So the look of the internal rotation is typically going to be more associated

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with an upper body

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kind of dominant pattern or a little bit more of a spin of the shoulder girdle

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compared

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to the look of going into external rotation, which is going to be a little bit

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more of

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an independent hip movement and while that's happening your core is staying

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back and you're

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kind of spring loading the muscles in your trunk.

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So one way to look at it is as we're going up to the top of the swing, if you

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look at

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basically where is the knee pointed compared to where the belt buckle is

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pointing, as we

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go up to the top some golfers like Minwoo Lee, you'll see the knee kind of

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comes in and other

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golfers like Rory or the classic one with Sam Snead, you'll see that the knee

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stays kind

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of pointing out and the belt buckle rotates away from the knee.

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If the belt buckle rotates away from the knee then I'm actually getting hip

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rotation.

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If the belt buckle and the knee move together then I'm not really getting a lot

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of hip rotation,

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I'm more moving the pelvis with some other muscles, some other structures

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either down

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from the leg or what I likely believe it's more from the abs and the core.

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So my preference has shifted to I don't really care to now, my preference is a

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little bit

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more towards the look of the disassociation because it tends to load the core

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better for

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more of the negative torsion or what I think is one of the big hallmarks of the

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really

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good body release pattern where if you tend to do too much with your abs this

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way it can

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encourage a little bit more of a stall, it can encourage this hip kind of

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dropping down

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and causing low point issues, it creates a little bit more timing and a little

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bit more

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inconsistency than that external rotation.

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So I have other videos as far as the hip action and how to get the combination

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of extending

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the leg, rotating the hip, extending the hip and going into slight adduction,

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or abduction

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sorry, so getting that movement going from the hip, if you do that then while

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the shoulders

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stay a little bit more closed that's going to get you into this really good

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loaded delivery

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position for the spine and now you're pretty much set up in a position where if

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you go

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into that negative torsion, straightening the leg, all that good release

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movement we're

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in a position where our low point control is going to be really precise and

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kind of gradual

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we can be off by a bunch and still hit it pretty solid and it doubles in giving

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us pretty

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good face control.

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So I think it's one of the hallmarks of the more consistent ball strikers so if

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you haven't

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messed around with it I think it's a good piece to work on in transition,

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trying to get more

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of this disassociation of the hip rather than more of a connected hip, what we

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used

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to refer to is more of an external rotation of the hip versus internal.

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So again quick demo, if I was to do kind of this movement right there that

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would be more

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of the disassociation which would have a look a little bit more kind of like

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that where

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if I was to basically bend this knee and really kind of rotate the shoulder,

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the shoulder and

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abs it would have more of a look kind of like this.

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This is going to encourage a little bit more of kind of a stall down at impact.

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So if you see that as one of your patterns and you're fighting this stall and

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kind of

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flip down to the bottom look at transition especially that trail hip it may be

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relevant

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for getting rid of that kind of quick upper body dominant pattern.