Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll discover how to get more speed from your hips.

Now, you might be thinking that you can’t generate much of anything from your hips...

Right?

Well, you’ll be surprised with how much speed your hips can add to your swing.

In this video, you’ll get a great explanation of how much shoulder turn you need along with how the hips rotate in the backswing.

This discussion will set you up for my 2 step drill, where you’ll first rotate your shoulders and hips in the backswing.

Then you’ll create a stretch between your lower and upper body as you shift your weight forward and open your hips up.

These movements will help you generate a ton of speed in the downswing.

So, watch this video now to learn how your hips are crucial for a powerful turn...

And discover how to fire your hips for crazy club head speed!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:39

Video Transcription:

Hi guys and welcome back. In this video we’re going to talk about how to get some power from the hips. Everybody wants some speed and our body is very important in this. I’ll talk a little bit about the science, we won’t get to technical with that, and I’ve got a great drill that’s going to help you to work on this.

As we go to the top, one of the big things that we teach in the Top Speed Golf System is we need a good turn, we need a power turn is what we call that.

In the backswing the hips need to rotate, the shoulders also need to rotate to really get loaded up. On average, your PGA Tour players are going to be getting over 90° of shoulder turn.

As we come on through, we want to get those hips facing the target and our shoulders rotating on through to where they’ll even be a little bit to the left of the target, or into the left rough if you’re hitting down the fairway.

So we’ve got to get this separation between the hips and the shoulders. We’ve got to get really loaded up and really stretched, but we can actually overdo the stretch a little bit.

I’m going to talk about the difference between what most people call the X Factor, so basically if I take my hips and I rotate my hips about 45°, and then I rotate my shoulders – sorry, didn’t mean to get on the microphone there – I’ll rotate my shoulders 90° or a little bit more.

I’ve created kind of an X Factor, or a stretch between my upper and lower body. I want you guys to do a test to feel exactly how much you should be stretching.

So now let’s go ahead and put a club on my shoulders, I’m going to keep my belt buckle facing directly forward, and I’m going to rotate my shoulders absolutely as much as I can until I feel like I can’t go any more. This is fully stretching out.

Now at the top of my swing, I want to be just a little bit less than that. So go ahead and stand up again, keep your belt buckle facing forward, rotate your shoulders absolutely as far as you can. Separate between those hips and shoulders, and then let go just a little bit from that.

Just about an inch or so with your upper body, your club, and you’re going to see – let me turn the club this way, so we can see this a little easier – so look at the butt end of my club. There’s my full stretch and I’m going to relax just a little tiny bit.

That’s how I want my core to feel as I’m at the top of my swing. The reason for this is as I start down, as my lower body starts to go first in the downswing, we’re going to increase a little bit more. That does something that’s called the stretch-shortening cycle.

As you get to the top and let’s say you’re 95 percent stretched, you’ve got a good, full stretch between the hips and the shoulders, you’re going to get at least 45° past 90° with the shoulders.

Now as you start down you’re going to go a little bit more, and I don’t want to be fully tightened up, or I won’t have any extra to go in the downswing.

That gives you what’s called the stretch-shortening cycle which basically means I’m going to have a little extra stretch in my muscles, that increases how fast they can fire, and then boom, they’re going to fire right away.

Sounds pretty complicated. We’ve got an easy drill for this, a two-piece drill. First I want you to go ahead, put that club on your shoulders just like we did there.

I want you to fully stretch out to the top as much as you can go, you’re fully stretched and then just let off that about an inch or two with the upper body, or an inch or two with the hips to where they feel like they’re not quite as tight.

Then as you start down, you’re going to start with the hips first and then come on through. So we’re going to stretch all the way out, we’re going to relax a little bit, and then we’re going to feel like we start with the hips to get a little extra stretch and then go the way on through.

After you get that feeling of about how much stretch you have in your upper and lower body, we’re going to take it to the second piece of this drill.

We’re going to go to the top, get about 90-95 percent stretched, we don’t want to be all the way tight, and then we’re going to take a step, and then come on through. That step helps us to rotate our lower body first, then we get the upper body coming.

So that stretch between the upper and lower body is really going to help us to fire and get more speed. So let’s go ahead and do piece number one again. I want you guys to go ahead and do about 50 reps of this.

Fully, as much as we can go we’re going to relax a little bit. Then we’re going to feel like we start with the hips and let the upper body follow. After we’ve done that we’ll take our feet a little bit closer together, another 50 reps.

We’re going to go to that same position where we’re almost fully stretched, make sure we’re getting a good shoulder turn, good hip turn, and then a small step all the way on through. If I do that with a club, it’s going to look like this.

There we go, good speed coming through there. Another 50 reps, so you’ve got 100 total reps. Then from there, we’re going to go ahead and hit some golf shots doing this.

I’m going to try to recreate that same feeling getting a good stretch with my lower body when I’m starting the downswing, and then bam, I’m going to really release that and get some good speed. Let’s try it out.

There we go, killed that ball. Good luck to you guys, get those hips working properly, you’re going to get some good power. You’re going to feel very athletic. Work on that, I’ll see you guys soon.