Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Hip Move That Will Change Your Golf Swing | Stab The Wall Drill"

In today's lesson...

Top Speed Golf instructor, Michael Derr provides the subtle hip move that will make your weight shift feel less like a forced, difficult movement...

...to an effortless process that happens naturally.

This move will also help a couple of key swing movements happen that promote consistency.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 8:32

Video Transcription:

 

Shifting your weight in the golf swing does not have to be a difficult thing. It does not have to be something where we have to do this monumental effort to do something that we see the pros do. If you understand how to move correctly and you can have things that will help you visualize moving correctly, this becomes so much easier and becomes a lot more effortless.

 

And when we can do something like shift our weight correctly in the swing, it takes care of one of our biggest pieces, which is how our body moves in the swing. If your body moves correctly in the swing you then have the ability to have a fundamentally sound golf swing. Now, there's obviously some other factors involved other than your body.

 

So when I talk about the body, I'm just talking about eliminating the hands, arms and club and anything that the body is doing. Doing that correctly is vitally important. So if you've ever seen yourself kind of finish in a position where you're a little bit hunched over, there's a little bit of a cave between the upper body and the lower body in the finish versus this finish that you see all the touring pros get into, which is nice and tall, nice straight line.

 

Then you're probably going to want to pay close attention to this because this is more of a byproduct than it is something that they're doing on purpose. So it's about it's a kind of a byproduct of moving your body correctly, which gets us into that beautiful finishing position. So it's going to do two things that's going to make us look better.

 

But the more important part is going to make our mechanics better through impact if we just understand an easy way to shift our weight correctly. So if you're familiar with the top speed golf system in the stable, fluid spine course, this is vitally, vitally important. You're going to see the touring pros on average are going to increase their spine as they would from address pretty immensely to here.

 

So our spine through impact is going to be tilted much further away from the target than it is at address. So if I if I'm at my address position here, we want to roughly have to our average is going to be between six and eight degrees of tilt away from the target on the downswing. You can see I'm going to be tilted much further forward.

 

Now, weight shift has a lot to do with this because we need to get our weight onto our lead foot in order to shift our weight. But you're thinking how the way a lot of players struggle with this and you're probably thinking if I'm lean back, how is my weight going to get forward? Well, it's going to be one of those things where we have to understand how to move correctly now, where a lot of players get get bogged down on this is start starting to try to open the hips too much and they don't ever shift their weight.

 

Big, big mistake right there. So the thing that we're going to do is we're going to use some visualization to make this very, very simple, because if I was to execute the ideal weight shift mechanics in the golf swing, this is all it would be. It's very, very simple move. I've got my I'm staying in posture, my hips are opening and my spine is increasing.

 

If we can do those, then we are good to go. So the visualization, we're going to do so well. Let's first go over what we want to see on camera. On camera, what you want to have at address as you want your spine tilted a little bit from the target. Then on the downswing, we're going to talk about our midline.

 

That's if we split both of our feet equal distance and we don't draw a straight or a straight line straight out of the ground, that's going to be our midline on the downswing. When the hands get to about waist height on the other side of the swing, we want our nose behind that midline, but we want our belt buckle way in front of that midline.

 

If we do that, then our spine is going to be increased away from the target. Now doing this correctly is what we're about to go over in. The visual visualization here that I love to use with my online students is utilizing a very, very simple visual of stabbing the wall with their hip. So what we're going to imagine here is that we have a steak or a stick or something poking directly out of our hip.

 

So this would be coming directly out of my pants seam straight, straight out of the hips right here. So this the first big piece is actually getting the spine to increase. That's all we're worried about. Then we're going to talk about how we open the hips while increasing the spine angle. So the visualization here is we're going to visualize the stick coming right off of our lead hip.

 

And then on the downswing, we're going to feel like there's a wall about, let's just say 12 inches in front of the lead foot. And what we're going to do is we're going to make sure actually, let's go ahead and shorten the stick. Just make this really easy. We're going to have about a six inch stick sticking outside the wall.

 

Wall is going to be 12 inches in front. And what we're going to do is we're going to feel like we stabbed that wall while keeping our nose behind the midline. So in order to shift our weight, we have to get that stick over to that wall. If I just twist that stick, we'll never get there. And my weight will not shift.

 

So that's going to be the first goal, is just to get a sensation that, hey, I've got a stick coming out of my lead hip. When I get up to the top of the swing, I'm going to stab that wall while keeping my nose behind my midline. So let's go ahead, do just a nice little easy swing there.

 

And again, you see, I'm not going to worry too much about rotation, but when you start doing this, you'll see you're actually going to you might even open up more than you already are, but you're going to be open at impact. So when I go up to the top, all I did there was make sure that I increase my spine angle.

 

So obviously I'm holding my finish here a little bit, but the idea is to get that spine cooking. Let's get it moving first and foremost, once we can see that the belt buckle is in front of the midline and the nose is behind when the hands are about waist height level again, from there we can kind of everything can kind of come up.

 

Now we're going to talk about how we start opening up the hips. So this we're going to use the same visualization of that stick coming out of the hips right now. And we're going to come over. We're going to make sure that we stab the wall. But once we stab that wall, what we're going to feel like we're doing is we've stuck this stick in the wall.

 

We're going to feel like we throw the wall to behind us. Essentially, I was going to say to our left, but if you're right, it's going to be to your right. We're going to stab the wall and throw it behind us. And that's going to be the sensation when I come up, I'm going to stab the wall. And once I've got my stick in that wall, I'm going to throw it behind me.

 

So you can see that's going to have a really nice effect on automatically wanting to release that club. So we're going to do a nice, easy swing here. My sensation is going to be sticking the stick into the wall and then once it's stuck into the wall, I'm going to throw that wall behind me. So let's take a nice easy swing here.

 

There we go. So pretty darn good shot right there. But the more important part is, as I can really feel, the sensation of increasing that spine angle and getting into that position. We see all the touring pros get in into as far as increasing it. So what we're going to do is start off with easy swings, really feeling the sensation of sticking into the wall and then pulling it behind us.

 

So as you can see, when I'm demonstrating this with really good visualizations is when I'm sticking that that sticking to the wall. You can see that I'm much more apt to stay in posture I've got when I actually feel like I'm pulling the wall behind me. You can see that leg, that lead leg start to post up nicely.

 

There's a lot of things that happen automatically by visualizing the things that help with getting the movements that we need to get into the swing. So once we get some good sensations of actually getting this on camera, we can actually physically see the belt buckle move forward as the nose stays behind, get the sensation that we're pulling that wall to the left after we've stuck the stick into it.

 

We're going to get some nice feels from that and get really nice and used to it. Then we can get used to that spine moving correctly on every single swing. Now there we go. That one felt really good. Maybe left face open a hair but it's still 183 total distance mile that was pounded with with an eight iron there that's a actually you know a little bit more than I would normally hit on the course.

 

But you'll see when you start doing these moves correctly and you start getting the efficiency, it's unreal how how much energy you can start putting into the ball. Now, if you're already a member. Something critical I need you to do for me is head over to the stable fluid spine section so that you can understand how the spine works completely.

 

But you can use the visualization that we talked about, that stick coming out of your hip to help you really accelerate through that entire course. So what you're going to do is go up to the instruction tab, scroll down to the TSG system and go to the stable fluid spine course. I highly recommend going through that course in its completion, but at least going through the first section.

 

So first and foremost, understand how the spine works because everything else you work on in the swing is going to be so much easier and so much better if your spine angle mechanics and your body mechanics are correct. But again, remember, you can use this visualization to help you execute those check points because once you get the set up and everything, it's pretty darn straightforward, it's vitally important, but that downswing is absolutely critical, increasing that spine angle properly.

 

So make sure you head over to that stable, fluid spine section and just good luck with your game here and we'll see you here in the next lesson.