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Trail Hip Push
The trail hip push is a drill for helping golfers learn to use the trail hip through the release. It focuses on activating the trail glute rather than the trail leg quad. This move requires a good wipe movement and no early extension. Try this drill if you struggle with a big leg buckle or slide during the release!
The trail hip push is a drill for helping golfers learn to use the trail hip through the release. It focuses on activating the trail glute rather than the trail leg quad. This move requires a good wipe movement and no early extension. Try this drill if you struggle with a big leg buckle or slide during the release!
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This is the Trail Hip Push Drill.
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00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:14.480
So some golfers struggle with getting too much lateral force for too long.
3
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:20.540
So the timing elements of the golf swing is typically that Jackson 5 or that
4
00:00:20.540 --> 00:00:21.640
lateral movement
5
00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:26.920
is going to be done when the club is still way above parallel.
6
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So if I keep pushing laterally as the club goes down, then if I tend to lose
7
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out on being
8
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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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00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.980
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.
48
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So Trail Leg push, that was a pretty good one there.
49
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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.
73
00:04:05.660 --> 00:04:08.980
So I'm still going to have a little bit more of the shorter finish.
74
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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
78
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you're going
79
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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
105
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during the later
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part of the downswing.
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(birds chirping)
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This is the Trail Hip Push Drill.
2
00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:14.480
So some golfers struggle with getting too much lateral force for too long.
3
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:20.540
So the timing elements of the golf swing is typically that Jackson 5 or that
4
00:00:20.540 --> 00:00:21.640
lateral movement
5
00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:26.920
is going to be done when the club is still way above parallel.
6
00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:33.100
So if I keep pushing laterally as the club goes down, then if I tend to lose
7
00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:33.840
out on being
8
00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.420
able to create enough vertical force and it costs me some club head speed,
9
00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:38.040
tends to cause
10
00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:42.320
fat thin contacts, so it's a little bit of a frustrating pattern.
11
00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.980
So for this drill, we're going to focus on getting some vertical push from the
12
00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:47.440
Trail
13
00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:48.440
Hip.
14
00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:51.950
Now the key here is mostly golfers who have too much or excessive kind of
15
00:00:51.950 --> 00:00:52.880
lateral movement
16
00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.840
that way do it more from the ankles and the knees.
17
00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.510
It's more of like a quad dominant change of direction versus doing it more from
18
00:01:00.510 --> 00:01:02.020
the hip.
19
00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:06.300
So we're going to do a real quick hip isolation drill where I'm going to get
20
00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:07.160
into a single
21
00:01:07.160 --> 00:01:09.520
leg stance with the club as a kickstand.
22
00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:13.780
I'm going to keep my knee facing it at the camera and then I'm going to extend
23
00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:14.760
the hip
24
00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:19.030
straighten the hip, not the knee, so I'm not locking out the knee, but I'm
25
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extending the
26
00:01:19.860 --> 00:01:21.800
hip as I'm twisting.
27
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So it ends up looking like this, extend the hip as I'm twist.
28
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If I really want to make this golfy, then I don't let this right shoulder come
29
00:01:31.690 --> 00:01:32.200
up as
30
00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:33.440
I'm doing this move.
31
00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:36.920
So this gets a really good push from that Trail Hip.
32
00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:41.280
So now I'm going to try to apply that to my 9-3.
33
00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:45.550
So I'm going to bring the club back and now I'm going to do that Trail Hip
34
00:01:45.550 --> 00:01:46.320
movement and
35
00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:53.100
you'll see this leg is going to tend to get straighter as opposed to kind of
36
00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:54.000
rolling
37
00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:58.400
so much from the ankle or foot coming off the ground.
38
00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.200
The knee kicking way past kind of like this.
39
00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.130
So down through the ball, we're going to try to get that Trail Hip going a
40
00:02:05.130 --> 00:02:06.360
little bit more
41
00:02:06.360 --> 00:02:07.360
vertically.
42
00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:11.530
Again, hopefully without letting causing my upper body to come up, it's only
43
00:02:11.530 --> 00:02:11.760
getting
44
00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:13.560
an extension through that Trail Leg.
45
00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:21.560
So I'm going to start with just kind of a nice and easy 9-3.
46
00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.960
And don't be alarmed if you hit the first couple thin.
47
00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.240
It's quite common to have the upper body lift up at the same time.
48
00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:36.420
So Trail Leg push, that was a pretty good one there.
49
00:02:36.420 --> 00:02:43.050
Now the good thing about this is I'm starting to feel kind of the speed of the
50
00:02:43.050 --> 00:02:44.100
lower body
51
00:02:44.100 --> 00:02:46.500
pushing vertically down through the bottom.
52
00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:51.000
So now I'm going to try and add not length of backswing, but I'm going to try
53
00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:51.780
to combine
54
00:02:51.780 --> 00:02:55.220
this into a little bit more aggressive 9-3.
55
00:02:55.220 --> 00:02:58.580
So we're going to bring it back.
56
00:02:58.580 --> 00:03:02.860
And I'm going to get a little bit more aggressive kind of Trail Leg push.
57
00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:08.100
Again, I'm making sure that it's happening from the hip, not from the knee.
58
00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:11.740
If I did it from the knee, it would tend to look more like this.
59
00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:18.060
If I do it from the hip, it will continue to rotate my pelvis.
60
00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:25.700
So now we'll try a little bigger swing, maybe 3/4.
61
00:03:25.700 --> 00:03:28.540
Again got that a little bit thin.
62
00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:33.200
But when I'm doing this drill, I would prefer to hit him thin because I'm maybe
63
00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:33.940
overdoing
64
00:03:33.940 --> 00:03:40.460
this leg push or underdoing kind of some trail arm kind of white movement.
65
00:03:40.460 --> 00:03:44.720
But if I'm working on this leg, I would rather hit these thin rather than
66
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getting really
67
00:03:45.180 --> 00:03:49.740
steep.
68
00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:56.130
So there again, I'm trying to get more of the speed from the extension or the
69
00:03:56.130 --> 00:03:57.060
combined
70
00:03:57.060 --> 00:03:59.020
movement of that trail hip.
71
00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:00.820
That one felt pretty explosive.
72
00:04:00.820 --> 00:04:05.660
Now I'm going to try to work on the timing of it in my full swing.
73
00:04:05.660 --> 00:04:08.980
So I'm still going to have a little bit more of the shorter finish.
74
00:04:08.980 --> 00:04:13.790
But now I'm going to have a normal length backswing so I can feel just a little
75
00:04:13.790 --> 00:04:14.220
kind
76
00:04:14.220 --> 00:04:16.220
of weight and then go.
77
00:04:16.220 --> 00:04:20.480
For some of you, if you really go for a long time, you might have to feel that
78
00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:21.100
you're going
79
00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:22.700
straight from the top of the swing.
80
00:04:22.700 --> 00:04:27.910
So use video to kind of calibrate how much lateral slide or buckle you're
81
00:04:27.910 --> 00:04:29.260
seeing and coordinate
82
00:04:29.260 --> 00:04:32.710
how much you're going to push or the timing of when you're going to push based
83
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on how
84
00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:38.980
much your lower body is sliding ahead of the golf ball.
85
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So full swing.
86
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That's close.
87
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Again, I like hitting these thin when I'm working on this movement.
88
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We'll see if we can keep a really good posture on this next one.
89
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That was really close, again, still just a little bit thin.
90
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I'm going to try to really break on the next one with a good full backswing.
91
00:05:07.420 --> 00:05:13.380
There, I knew we were closing in on it.
92
00:05:13.380 --> 00:05:16.100
Sometimes you'll struggle through a drill that you'll feel that you're getting
93
00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:16.580
close.
94
00:05:16.580 --> 00:05:22.020
If you kind of work through it, you can get over that hurdle.
95
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Sometimes it's 10 reps.
96
00:05:23.020 --> 00:05:24.020
Sometimes it's 50 reps.
97
00:05:24.020 --> 00:05:26.260
I've had them be a couple hundred.
98
00:05:26.260 --> 00:05:31.280
So don't give up on the drill if you identify on video that you need this, then
99
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work through
100
00:05:32.260 --> 00:05:33.260
it.
101
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Use video for feedback.
102
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But this drill is all about isolating the vertical movement of the trail hip to
103
00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:38.380
help
104
00:05:38.380 --> 00:05:42.930
clean up a little bit of slide or buckle from having too much lateral force
105
00:05:42.930 --> 00:05:43.960
during the later
106
00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:44.820
part of the downswing.
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(birds chirping)
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Trail Hip Push
The trail hip push is a drill for helping golfers learn to use the trail hip through the release. It focuses on activating the trail glute rather than the trail leg quad. This move requires a good wipe movement and no early extension. Try this drill if you struggle with a big leg buckle or slide during the release!
The trail hip push is a drill for helping golfers learn to use the trail hip through the release. It focuses on activating the trail glute rather than the trail leg quad. This move requires a good wipe movement and no early extension. Try this drill if you struggle with a big leg buckle or slide during the release!
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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This is the Trail Hip Push Drill.
2
00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:14.480
So some golfers struggle with getting too much lateral force for too long.
3
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:20.540
So the timing elements of the golf swing is typically that Jackson 5 or that
4
00:00:20.540 --> 00:00:21.640
lateral movement
5
00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:26.920
is going to be done when the club is still way above parallel.
6
00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:33.100
So if I keep pushing laterally as the club goes down, then if I tend to lose
7
00:00:33.100 --> 00:00:33.840
out on being
8
00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.420
able to create enough vertical force and it costs me some club head speed,
9
00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:38.040
tends to cause
10
00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:42.320
fat thin contacts, so it's a little bit of a frustrating pattern.
11
00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.980
So for this drill, we're going to focus on getting some vertical push from the
12
00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:47.440
Trail
13
00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:48.440
Hip.
14
00:00:48.440 --> 00:00:51.950
Now the key here is mostly golfers who have too much or excessive kind of
15
00:00:51.950 --> 00:00:52.880
lateral movement
16
00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.840
that way do it more from the ankles and the knees.
17
00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.510
It's more of like a quad dominant change of direction versus doing it more from
18
00:01:00.510 --> 00:01:02.020
the hip.
19
00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:06.300
So we're going to do a real quick hip isolation drill where I'm going to get
20
00:01:06.300 --> 00:01:07.160
into a single
21
00:01:07.160 --> 00:01:09.520
leg stance with the club as a kickstand.
22
00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:13.780
I'm going to keep my knee facing it at the camera and then I'm going to extend
23
00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:14.760
the hip
24
00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:19.030
straighten the hip, not the knee, so I'm not locking out the knee, but I'm
25
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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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(birds chirping)
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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.
33
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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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00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.240
It's quite common to have the upper body lift up at the same time.
48
00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:36.420
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
51
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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
53
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to combine
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this into a little bit more aggressive 9-3.
55
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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.
57
00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:08.100
Again, I'm making sure that it's happening from the hip, not from the knee.
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00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:11.740
If I did it from the knee, it would tend to look more like this.
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00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:18.060
If I do it from the hip, it will continue to rotate my pelvis.
60
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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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00:03:33.940 --> 00:03:40.460
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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00:04:05.660 --> 00:04:08.980
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
79
00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:22.700
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
81
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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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(birds chirping)
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