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This is the Trail Hip Push Drill.

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So some golfers struggle with getting too much lateral force for too long.

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So the timing elements of the golf swing is typically that Jackson 5 or that

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lateral movement

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is going to be done when the club is still way above parallel.

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So if I keep pushing laterally as the club goes down, then if I tend to lose

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out on being

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able to create enough vertical force and it costs me some club head speed,

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tends to cause

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fat thin contacts, so it's a little bit of a frustrating pattern.

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So for this drill, we're going to focus on getting some vertical push from the

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Trail

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Hip.

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Now the key here is mostly golfers who have too much or excessive kind of

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lateral movement

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that way do it more from the ankles and the knees.

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It's more of like a quad dominant change of direction versus doing it more from

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the hip.

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So we're going to do a real quick hip isolation drill where I'm going to get

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into a single

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leg stance with the club as a kickstand.

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I'm going to keep my knee facing it at the camera and then I'm going to extend

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the hip

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straighten the hip, not the knee, so I'm not locking out the knee, but I'm

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extending the

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hip as I'm twisting.

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So it ends up looking like this, extend the hip as I'm twist.

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If I really want to make this golfy, then I don't let this right shoulder come

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up as

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I'm doing this move.

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So this gets a really good push from that Trail Hip.

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So now I'm going to try to apply that to my 9-3.

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So I'm going to bring the club back and now I'm going to do that Trail Hip

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movement and

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you'll see this leg is going to tend to get straighter as opposed to kind of

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rolling

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so much from the ankle or foot coming off the ground.

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The knee kicking way past kind of like this.

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So down through the ball, we're going to try to get that Trail Hip going a

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little bit more

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vertically.

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Again, hopefully without letting causing my upper body to come up, it's only

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getting

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an extension through that Trail Leg.

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So I'm going to start with just kind of a nice and easy 9-3.

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And don't be alarmed if you hit the first couple thin.

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It's quite common to have the upper body lift up at the same time.

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So Trail Leg push, that was a pretty good one there.

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Now the good thing about this is I'm starting to feel kind of the speed of the

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lower body

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pushing vertically down through the bottom.

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So now I'm going to try and add not length of backswing, but I'm going to try

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to combine

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this into a little bit more aggressive 9-3.

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So we're going to bring it back.

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And I'm going to get a little bit more aggressive kind of Trail Leg push.

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Again, I'm making sure that it's happening from the hip, not from the knee.

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If I did it from the knee, it would tend to look more like this.

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If I do it from the hip, it will continue to rotate my pelvis.

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So now we'll try a little bigger swing, maybe 3/4.

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Again got that a little bit thin.

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But when I'm doing this drill, I would prefer to hit him thin because I'm maybe

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overdoing

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this leg push or underdoing kind of some trail arm kind of white movement.

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But if I'm working on this leg, I would rather hit these thin rather than

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getting really

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steep.

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So there again, I'm trying to get more of the speed from the extension or the

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combined

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movement of that trail hip.

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That one felt pretty explosive.

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Now I'm going to try to work on the timing of it in my full swing.

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So I'm still going to have a little bit more of the shorter finish.

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But now I'm going to have a normal length backswing so I can feel just a little

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kind

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of weight and then go.

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For some of you, if you really go for a long time, you might have to feel that

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you're going

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straight from the top of the swing.

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So use video to kind of calibrate how much lateral slide or buckle you're

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seeing and coordinate

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how much you're going to push or the timing of when you're going to push based

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on how

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much your lower body is sliding ahead of the golf ball.

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So full swing.

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That's close.

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Again, I like hitting these thin when I'm working on this movement.

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We'll see if we can keep a really good posture on this next one.

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That was really close, again, still just a little bit thin.

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I'm going to try to really break on the next one with a good full backswing.

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There, I knew we were closing in on it.

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Sometimes you'll struggle through a drill that you'll feel that you're getting

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close.

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If you kind of work through it, you can get over that hurdle.

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Sometimes it's 10 reps.

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Sometimes it's 50 reps.

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I've had them be a couple hundred.

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So don't give up on the drill if you identify on video that you need this, then

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work through

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it.

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Use video for feedback.

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But this drill is all about isolating the vertical movement of the trail hip to

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help

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clean up a little bit of slide or buckle from having too much lateral force

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during the later

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part of the downswing.

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