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This video is discussing turn versus slide in the downswing.

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So I had a member question come in about look you see a couple different things

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promoted

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online and it can be quite confusing.

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You'll see some golfers talk about turning right away from the top and you'll

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hear other

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golf instructors talk about bumping the hips laterally and waiting to turn

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later and later.

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So it can be quite confusing for a golfer to figure out which one to apply to

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themselves.

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I've got videos on both.

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I've got videos on turning your lower body and I've got videos on the Jackson

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five or

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getting a little bit of a hip bump.

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The important thing is more the amount and the timing and which one you need

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depends

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on where you are compared to the model.

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So when I'm going to strike the golf ball I want to get my lead hip roughly in

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line with

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the ankle and I want my pelvis to be roughly 30 to 40 degrees open more so with

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the driver

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or less so with the irons but roughly 30 to 40 degrees open kind of like this.

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So this is where I'm trying to get my lower body at impact.

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Some golfers, many amateur golfers, many beginners, higher handicap will tend

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to be more in the

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middle of their stance or over their back foot especially with the longer clubs

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.

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This can be a powerful feeling movement where I'm just spinning my body and

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pushing down

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but it really creates a big challenge with getting the path more from the

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inside out

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and the low point shallow enough.

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So they tend to struggle a lot with the longer clubs if you have more of kind

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of this movement.

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So those golfers who tend to have more of this kind of spin straight from the

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top need

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to feel the timing of a little bit of pressure shift, a little bit more of this

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Jackson five

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or a little bit more of this hip glide or fall or hip bump prior to rotating.

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In fact some of these golfers don't need to feel rotation at all.

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They just need to feel lateral movement and the rotation tends to just happen.

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Alternatively, a number of mid to low handicap golfers tend to have too much of

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this slide

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where compared to this ankle, the center of the hip joint actually gets well to

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the outside.

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They would fall over unless they bent the knee so we'll tend to have more of

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this slide

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buckle look as the hip gets past the ankle kind of like this.

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By shifting the knee forward it now gives my brain a fixed point that's farther

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ahead

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of my foot to prevent me from falling.

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That issue there is oftentimes that causes some early extension or some tilt

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backward.

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So now I tend to get more, I can drive the ball pretty well that way but I tend

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to get

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a lot of low point issues especially with my shorter irons and wedges.

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So those golfers tend to do better feeling more of this hip rotation straight

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away.

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So how do I figure it out?

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I look at it on video or on 3D but even if I'm just looking at it on video, if

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I compare

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where we're trying to get to, if I'm well past it I probably need to feel more

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turn

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or maybe more vertical extension.

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If I'm well behind it I have to feel more hip bump.

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If I'm more down I'm probably going to have to feel like I'm getting more of

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this vertical

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movement or extension through my legs.

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So rather than just think that there's one perfect feel, I want you to get used

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to the

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habit of analyzing or looking at your swing on video and comparing where you

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are to the

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model of what you're trying to get to.

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That will help you figure out what you need to feel.

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So I'll walk through those scenarios real quick.

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If I tend to have more of this kind of spin back kind of like this as my main

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power source

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where I'm finishing on that back foot, well I'm probably going to feel a little

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bit more

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kind of slow gradual sliding forward movement or more of this Jackson 5 and

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bump.

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If on the other hand, my baseline is a little bit more kind of that one where

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again, like

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I said, this is a shorter iron so the slide tends to have some low point issues

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With that pattern right there, I'm going to tend to feel a little bit better.

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Yeah, once I get into that kind of slide pattern, I will tend to hit a few more

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of these fat.

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But I will to get out of that, I'm going to exaggerate feeling more of the

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rotation.

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But if I look at the reference here in the finish, I made it to that reference.

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So always compare what you're doing to the reference, that'll give you an

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insight as

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to what it might feel like, otherwise do the proper drills that will help move

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you closer

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to the model and as you do them, you're going to develop the feel.

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That'll help you figure out which you need more of this slide, more of this

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turn or the

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one we didn't really discuss would be more of this vertical push.

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Those are three main ways to use your lower body and you need to figure out how

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to coordinate

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the key ones for your golf swing and now my lower body's off.

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It's alright, I'm not scared to lose my swing because I can trust the drills

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will help me

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find it again.

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That didn't take too long.