Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll learn how to stop swaying and sliding in your swing...

And once you can stabilize your body, you’ll start making solid, consistent contact with the ball.

In the first part of the video, you’ll find out what’s causing you to sway back and forth in the swing.

As you bump your hips back and rotate them in the backswing, this creates a massive sway that requires an equally massive sway in the downswing.

All this swaying is causing you to reverse pivot...

And your spine is shifting all over the place which makes it incredibly difficult to make consistent contact with the ball.

Next, you’ll see a demonstration of what I like to call the TSG “Stable Fluid Spine.”

This refers to keeping your spine on a stable axis while rotating in your swing.

Keeping your spine angle stable throughout the swing is going to feel awkward at first.

But, I have a great exaggeration drill for you to combat the swaying and reverse pivot.

Watch this video now to stop swaying and sliding around...

And stabilize your spine for consistent and solid contact!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:28

Video Transcription:

Hey guys. The reverse pivot, the sway, the slide, all those things that give us so much instability in the golf swing that we can’t hit the ball solid every single time.

I’m going to go over what the perfect amount of stability in the swing is, something we call the stable fluid spine in our Top Speed Golf System.

Then I’m going to talk about what is it that causes that big sway to the right and to the left that gives you so much inconsistency. You’re going to be able to put the ball, the club on the ball, solid every single time once you can stabilize the body, and I’m going to show you how. Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so in the sway – let me go ahead and first talk about what a sway or a slide is, and then we’ll go ahead and break it down and show you what the correct way is.

Whenever I’m sliding my hips to the right like this, as I add rotation to that, that gets my hips moving too far this way. My upper body starts to lean back, and then I fall the other way in the downswing, and it’s really tough to get contact on the ball correctly.

I’m showing this slow motion video of me kind of sliding back and forth. When I did that, very hard. I felt like I almost couldn’t even make contact with the ball. I didn’t really know where the club was, I didn’t know how I was going to pair that up with a good, solid strike.

We’ve got to get this a little bit more stable. We call this the stable fluid spine in the Top Speed Golf System, because what we’re having here is at address, I’m going to have a little tilt with my spine angle.

Meaning my hips are bumped forward, my upper body is tilted back slightly because of how my right hand is on the club lower, and my shoulders are slightly tilted that way.

As I go to the top of the swing I’m simply going to rotate around that. So only a little shift to the right, little bit of weight shift, but that overall angle is going to stay pretty much the same.

Then as I come down into contact, the same thing. I’m tilted away even a little bit more, I had a little bit of a shift to the left side, but overall my spine is kind of doing this in the swing.

It’s not really moving around a lot, it’s keeping that tilt and then rotating very fluidly so I can get loaded up and hit through that shot. That’s what we want to have happen.

Now let’s break down what is it that’s going on with the hips and how do we get the right feel to get out of this.

There’s a reality of what’s going on if you’re swaying, you’re getting this type of motion. Then there’s a feel of what’s going on. When you feel like you’re doing it correctly you get that sway, so we have to get the opposite.

First, let’s train these hips. Let’s talk about the difference between sliding and rotating correctly. So you can see here, if I was to bump my hips to the right that would be kind of a sway to the right side. Naturally you’ll start to notice my upper body starts to lean back to the left as I do this.

If I was to bump my hips to the left, then that’s when I’m going to be falling away. So in a reverse pivot, I’m sliding to the right, my upper body’s leaning back, this is the back swing. The downswing I’m sliding to the left, and I’m falling back away from the ball. Very, very common.

We’ve got to reverse this pattern. So go ahead and bump your hips to the right and to the left a couple times, just so you can get the feel of that sliding either way.

What I want you to do, is start to feel like you’re moving a little to the left in the backswing, before we do that let’s talk about rotation. Now I’m going to keep myself still, myself in the center, and I’m going to rotate.

All right so you’ll notice how this leg is angled back a little bit. I’m basically rotating back and through without any type of sliding.

So now let’s talk about how to do the opposite of a sway. I had this motion which would be sliding to the left. Go ahead and do that, and then now rotate. You can see how that’s the opposite of a sway. A sway is sliding to the right and rotating.

I’m going to feel like I’m sliding to the left and rotating. So here’s my backswing, that would be the opposite. My upper body’s tilted away from the target, my lower leg you can see is now really angled in. Get used to doing that opposite motion.

This is exaggerated, this is going to be too much in the other direction, the opposite of the sway, and that’s going to help you to fight that feeling. It’s going to give you the right feeling as you do this.

That would be this motion, right leg angled back, upper body tilted away, very extreme. I’m really exaggerating. I’m going to do this about 20 or 30 reps to really get that exaggerated feeling of the opposite of a sway.

Now in the downswing, I’m going to do the opposite of that. When I have my sway I’m going here, backswing, and then I’m falling back in my downswing. So in my downswing, I’m going to go ahead and get my hips to go this way, and then rotate open.

So I’m going to this motion. Again, very exaggerated. Not really what’s going to happen in the swing. Notice how my left ankle and my left shoulder if you create a line there, my hip is actually bumped back behind that.

I’m going to feel like I’m doing this. Again, this is just a feeling, not really what’s going on. I’m going to feel like this is my new backswing, this is my new downswing. When I actually do that in my real swing it’s going to look something more like this.

It’s going to look like a real swing, I’m getting the opposite of the sway to fight that habit. We’re going to do about 100 reps putting these motions in together, practice swings. Then you’re going to relax and feel like you make more of a normal swing, and you’re going to see it’s going to be closer to what you want to be.

So do the 100 reps getting the exaggerated feel, the opposite of a sway in both directions. Get comfortable with that, then feel like you go back and make a little bit more of a normal swing, and it’s going to get rid of that swing action.

You’re going to get a nice, stable spine angle, and you’re going to have a good turn back and through. There you go, guys. Hit them well, get rid of that swaying action. We’ve got to first trick our brains into getting the opposite, and then we’ll be able to eliminate it very quickly.

Good luck, do the drills, I’ll see you all soon.