Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Rotate & Clear The Hips | Crazy Detail"

In today's lesson...

Discover why moving your hips correctly in the golf swing makes it super easy to be consistent.

In fact, if you're struggling with a hip sway...

...it's actually another part of your body that you need to check to fix it!

If you're into detail, this one is right up your alley.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:48

Video Transcription:

How To Rotate & Clear The Hips | Crazy Detail

All right, so when the hips move correctly in the golf swing, it's pretty daggon, easy to be consistent. And the first piece of that is the sway to the right. And it's actually caused by something different than the hips. Most people think it's the hips doing this wrong. It's actually the shoulders doing this wrong.

So let's start out with the, the sway I'm talking about. So piece number one would be this sway to the right, where my hips move to the right, my upper body ends up going this way, and I end up having a little bit of a reverse. Now, even if you don't have a reverse pivot, most golfers that I see have a little too much of this move.

In their backswing. So here's actually what's going on. It's not the hips, it's the upper body. You see, we want to get a weight shift to the right. We want to feel like the weight moves to the inside of the right foot. And the takeaway now, one way that a lot of people feel this is by getting their, their hips to actually slide over towards that outside foot.

So the belt buckle, if you're looking at that, a lot of players will do this to get that weight to go over there. Now, when I've done. I've got my weight to move to the right by sliding my hips, which we don't want. And I've kept my upper body to the left like this. So you'll see this kind of emotion. Now if you want to fix this, the answer is not keeping your hips from sliding to the right, cuz that won't work.

We won't have a weight shift if we do that so in the wrong way, hips went right, upper body stayed. A lot of times the fix will be okay. I won't move my hips to the right, but then you're used to keeping the upper body over here and it looks something like that. It's very awkward. Here's what should really happen.

Put a club across your shoulders as you rotate in the backswing. Feel like your belt buckle stays still, and good golfers. The belt buckle's not gonna move that much to the right or the center of the hips, I should say. Inside the body is not gonna move that much to the right, but the shoulders and the upper body will, so they're gonna get their head a little bit behind the golf ball.

My weight is shifting to the right because my shoulders, my arms, all of that is moving to the right and kind of throwing that weight out. So the hips aren't doing this. The upper body is doing that. Here's a great way to know if you're doing this right. Put a club across your shoulders, take your backswing, and you should see your shoulders are kind of in line with the inside of your right foot.

Now, if I do it the wrong way, I put a club across my shoulders and I slide. Look where that club is. It's way on this side of the inside of my right foot. So instead of there, it should be there. That's the right way to get the the weight shift. Another great way to fill. Dangle this club from your shirt buttons.

And as you go in the back swinging, it shouldn't be touching your stomach or your chest. It should be hanging away from your body slightly. If I do this the wrong way again and I keep my upper body back and I slide my hips, it's against my body, it's against my chest. So the weight shift to the right is from the upper body of the arms and the club swinging to the right.

It's not the hips going to the right. That's piece number one. Now, from there, as we start the down, , the hips are gonna start to move to the left. So as I turned everything closed, now I'm gonna feel like my weight is going to the left. As my hips stay closed, my upper body is going a little to the left as my upper body stays closed.

And then when I get to my weight to my left, then I'm gonna start to open up. So again, if we're looking at these hips, not much of a movement to the right and the back swinging. As we start the downswing, they move. And then they move further left, and then they move further left, and then they move further left.

So all the way in the downswing, your momentum from your hips just keeps going, left in the backswing. It doesn't go very far to the right. And in the transition of the down swinging, it moves left the entire way. So if this was the center of my hips, here's the backswing. Almost no movement. Here's the downswing.

It just goes left the entire time. That's how you get your weight left. That's how you get the divot in front of the golf ball. That's how you make all that happen. I mean, imagine it. The golf ball's in the middle of your stance where the middle of your hips are. If I don't get my hips shifted in front of that golf ball, there's no way I'm gonna get that divot in front of the golf ball.

So that's the left and right movement of the hips. Now, this becomes incredibly difficult to do this the right way if you don't get this next piece, which would be what's called anterior and posterior pelvic tilt. Now that's a big fancy way of saying belt buckle down. Belt buckle up. Here's what that.

anterior tilt would be when I turn my pelvis forward like this. So if my pelvis is straight up and down as I tilt my pelvis forward, or my belt buckle, if you imagine there's a laser shooting out of it, when I'm standing straight up and down, it'd be parallel with the ground as I bend my pelvis forward.

Now that's shooting down more toward the golf ball. Now when I make that weight, When I get that turn in the back swing, if I'm in this anterior tilt or belt buckle down, that makes it a lot easier to get in this position we've talked about with the shoulders on the outside of my, of my hips, on the inside of my, so my, basically my shoulders or on the inside of my right foot.

You see what a lot of players will do again, is instead of having that belt buckle down, they'll have it up and as I do my backswing and that belt buckles up or level with the. Now all of a sudden, that kicks my hips out this way and my upper body starts leaning back. If I was to go ahead and tuck, tuck that belt buckle down from there, okay, now I'm in that great position that we wanna see now in the downswing.

We keep that belt buckle down until we're about halfway in the downswing. So when my left arm is parallel to the ground, I want my butt to feel like it's out belt buckle toward the ball, and then from there I can rotate into my full finish where my entire body is facing the target in my belt buckle's level.

So again, if this is my pelvis, here's the backswing. I make it go down. As I gom halfway into the downswing, it stays down, and then so it looks like this, it stays down, and then it's not until the follow through that my pelvis comes up. So it's kind of like this down, stays down, stays down, stays down, stays down.

Then it comes up through the. Most players have the pelvis go up, belt buckle up, goes up, up, up even more. We lose our posture and we flip at it. So feeling like that belt buckles down and rotating through there can be a fantastic feeling to not only get rid of that sway, but to also stay in our posture in the downswing.

Now finally, what's the rotation piece? Well, I want my hips to rotate about 45 degrees in the back. again, I'm not standing up outta my posture like this. I can have my right leg straighten a little bit. What I don't want to do is have it straightened this way or sliding out away from my target. When it straightens, I want it to keep this same angle, so when I straighten my right leg, it's almost like it's pushing my hip back and getting more hip.

Turn. My feet have to loosen up, my knees have to move to allow my hips to rotate that. If my legs stay, if my knees don't move, I can't move my pelvis at all. My knees have to move to get that pelvis moving. Now from there, I get that little weight shift to the left and look at my knees now. Really flexed.

Really bending the legs cuz I'm halfway in my downswing now. My pips are about square with the golf ball. And then from there I'm taking these bent legs and I'm driving through the shot into that full finish. So in the back swing, my legs are bent or, uh, my, my legs can straighten a little bit. To get the hip turn.

As I start my downswing, they really get bent and then they straighten as I rotate on through the finish. Here's the key with the finish, this foot has to come completely off the ground to get the hips to rotate on through. I bet somewhere between 70 and 90% of the golfers that I see that struggle with consistency and power are doing something like this.

They're staying on that right foot falling back a little bit, and it looks a lot like that. To where the weight never comes off. This back foot, it stays flat on the ground. It needs to be here so that I can get all the weight moving through the shot and get my belt buckle facing to the target. Now, even if you're stiff as a board, you're the least flexible person on the planet.

You can get your belt buckle toward the target if you do these two things, number one, if you're stiff, open up this front foot of the dress a little. That allows you to come through the shot a little bit easier. And number two, rotate that right foot all the way around. So test that for me. Stand straight up and down.

Rotate your front foot out about 30, 45 degrees. Rotate toward the target like you were just standing and talking to somebody. And if you can do that standing like this, then you can do it in a golf swing, and that's the only way that you can really finish a golf shot and get your weight and all the momentum moving through the.

So that's a rundown of what the pelvis does throughout the swing and it's crazy amount of detail, but hopefully it opened your eyes on a few things in how to get the right feeling to make this happen. Now most people do something that's gonna sabotage all this. You see, most people have been taught to roll the forearms over each other to release this club.

Now when I do that, I'm gonna have to stand up outta my posture. I'm gonna have to level out my belt buckle. And I'm gonna have to come in with my hips really up like this to be able to hit that golf ball fairly solid. That's because my arms get longer when I roll this club like this. Now the pros are doing something different.

They're staying down in that posture belt, buckled down, and they're squaring the face up by bow the left wrist and getting the right wrist back. That's a tricky move until you learn the right way to do it. And that's exactly what I teach you to do in the. Section of the top speed golf system. So if you go to the the instruction tab, click on the top speed golf system, then go to the move, I'm gonna walk you through exactly how to use those wrists in the right way so that you can get the ball turning over from right to left.

And you could actually feel like for the first time that you're getting closer to the golf ball than you have plenty of room to swing through. Instead of feeling like you need to get away from the golf ball to release the. I'm gonna show you that and it's gonna be like a light switch. The game's gonna make sense.

It's gonna feel so much more solid when you hit shots. It's gonna be so much more fun to see the ball turn over from right to left time, after time, after time, and I can't wait to share it with you. So go over to the move section right now. Do one video from that section, and I guarantee you that you're gonna start hitting some better shots.

Best of luck. I'll see you in the move right now.