How to Get Your Hips Open at Impact - Pt 2

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Struggle to get your hips open at impact? This video shows you how to get your hips rotated wide open stress free while being easy on your back.


In the last video, I talked about how starting to fall into this lead side is what you see in all great players.

And there are three checkpoints.

You want to look in your own swing to make sure that you're starting to load up correctly in the backswing to make your pressure shift back to the front.

Which is what we're going to talk about today.

And the rotation of your hips happen more easily.

I've experimented with, I think, just about every golf swing idea under the sun, and probably most of that in the last three months.

I've been trying to feel exactly what I think the GOATs, the greatest players of all time, Bobby Jones, Hogan, Nicholas, Tiger, all these great ball strikers, What they feel in their golf swings.

And this is one of the things that's consistent among all of them is that.

As they're going back, they're all naturally easily getting back into this lead side.

And what you can check the three checkpoints are that as you go back, this lead knee, hip and shoulder are all lower than the counterparts on the right side so my left knee is lower than my right knee my left hips lower than my right hip and my left shoulders lower than my right shoulder so now as I start to naturally shift back into this lead side as I'm falling back to the left it makes it very easy to get back over there and that is something that's really really important because there's two basic ways to shift your pressure back to the lead side and I've been studying this with force plates for the past four years with 3d force plates and almost 20 years with pressure mats so I have a pretty good idea of what the tour players do in their swings and what all great players do and what high handicap players do and the number one thing that all higher handicap players do compared to pros or really really low scratch or better players is that amateurs or higher handicaps shift later in the downswing or or show more specifically I should say show a pressure shift off the trail foot to the lead foot much later and this is hugely important because this shows that there's a major dysfunction in your golf swing and what I'm going to talk about today is the two basic ways that you can get there one we can kind of fall onto this side or two we can push off this side both of them will help you move back to the lead side one of them is what the pros do and the other one is what most amateurs tend to do and so you can probably guess which that is but let's walk into it a little bit because I want to explain to you to help you understand what it should feel like to shift your weight and be able to get your hips finally fully open like the pros do because this is so important to make room for your arms to make get your pressure shift over to get a better strike on the ball and so on so here we go the first thing that you want to think about is pressure and weight are not necessarily the same things if I'm over here I've got all of my weight on my right foot but if I have all my weight on my right foot and I start pushing into the ground with my lead foot even though most of my mass is over here I actually have perhaps an equal amount of pressure depending on how much force I'm driving through my other foot my pressure is now evenly distributed now this makes more sense if I think about it on the left side because this is what we're generally doing in the swing we're trying to get back to the lead side and if you've tried to get your hips open forever and your hips are never open like you see in the pros and this is just to be clear the one thing you should always be checking for you should be able to very easily see both butt cheeks at impact and if you can't it means that you're probably doing something majorly wrong in your swing so how do we get there again we can push or we can fall and that's the key so as I mentioned earlier the pros all tend to shift back into shift their pressure back to this lead side very early in the downswing and really what you can see is talked about in the last video by the time they're here that by the time the club shaft is about parallel or the end of the take away almost all of their pressure shift that they're going to have on average to the trail side is done they're not going to keep going all the way back and that's what most golfers do because they keep trying to get their arms lifted and loaded so they keep shifting more mass more weight more pressure to this side and then in a quarter of a second which is how long the downswing takes trying to get back to the lead side and it's hard to do and so there's not enough time to move that your whole body laterally and try and rotate your body will prioritize one or the other it will tend to rotate or it'll tend to move laterally but it doesn't tend to do both very well at the same time so when you think about it if you're here and you're done shifting pressure this side and now you're starting to kind of what we kind of call recenter you're starting to get your mass or the the center of your pelvis and center of your sternum back kind of 50 50 by the time you get to the top of the swing but if you're 70 80 on the right foot at the top of your swing you're cooked you're not going to have time to get back over so that's why that first video was so important why i want to do it by itself because i want you to give yourself time to start feeling this motion where your arms are still going back in the backswing and you feel and again i'm exaggerating this you feel that you're trying to get your pressure back 50 50 by the time you get to the back top of the backswing so now what the heck do we do from there that's the real key so once we're here now you would think okay what do i want to push hard off the back foot now both jack nicholas and tiger woods i've heard both of them say they push really hard off the back foot in the downswing so surely that must be what you do right well the force plates say otherwise and this is one thing you got to be careful with what the great said and i've been studying this stuff for so long there are so many things that they said that they did that they don't in fact they often did the opposite and it doesn't matter who you can take tiger woods or jack nicholas or even mo norman mo norman thought the back of his left hand was you know facing the ground in the in the release position but it wasn't it feel and real are so wildly different in the golf swing and that's why i've been going through this last several months of study of trying to translate what they said they did into what they really did and using technology and data to verify that so that you can have an accurate feel in your golf swing and so the feel that i want you to focus on today is not pushing off the trail foot now if you have a wide stance and you're hitting a driver can you push off the trail foot sure but we're going to talk more about that in a moment why that might not necessarily be the best idea if you've got a bad back so hold on just a minute i'm going to come back to that topic what you rather should think is that as i'm kind of falling into this lead side and again these movements are not huge i'm exaggerating so it's easy to see but as i'm falling into this lead side the quickest way to transfer pressure now remember the pros all transfer that pressure back to the lead side really early and really quick and amateurs are kind of slow to get back over there the quickest way to do it would be that unweighting the trail foot rather than driving off the trail foot now you would think like wait a second i gotta get my weight over here i gotta get my pressure i gotta get my mass over to this lead foot so surely i want to push and nicholas and tiger both said push but here's what's crazy about that and the force plates they don't lie our brains they lie to us all the time our feel is always so wildly different but what's really happening is that as i push i'm creating force that the ground can feel but this pressure plate can feel so even though i'm driving mass over here and my weight my my mass is over here my pressure is still hanging back here so the more i push off this trail foot the more the pressure plate is feeling force detecting force and it feels pressure back here so my pressure may be 60 40 or 70 30 right now even though i've pushed myself over here in the downswing that's not what we see great ball strikers do on the tour it's not what i see low handicaps do it's exactly what i see high handicaps do driving hard off this foot and it makes sense you know in other sports in baseball we do the whole squish the bug thing where you hang back on this foot and you pivot off this hip and you drive everything forward in golf golf and baseball i think there are definite similarities in a baseball swing and even a baseball throw but i really think golf kind of sits in its own space it's more of a lead side dominant motion even if you want to feel a throwing motion your lead side has to do a lot of work otherwise just take your left hand off the cleft and play all right-handed you have to have a balance in an ideal world we're going to use both arms and hands both sides of the body together to bring the club through but when it comes to pressure shift the simplest way to feel it is and if you want to get both hips open is to get here you're falling into the side just let gravity help you you know you've already got you've already got these angles set so that your body is like oh yeah i could pick my right foot up really easy i don't have to drive off of it all i gotta do is fall into that lead side and feel that this foot's unweighted now once i'm on the lead side and i've got my center of my hip over my ankle like we've always talked about feel how easy it is to pivot and get both hips open i'm going to turn down the line so you can see this so if i'm on my lead foot and i've got no like 10 of my pressure it's what's really it's just going to feel balanced my toes just on the ground here from here it's so easy to get both hips open now try the same thing but put your pressure 50 50 and try and turn your hips it's a little bit harder when your pressure is 50 50 and if you're doing it dynamically and you're pushing off of this trail foot you're going to create more lateral motion well now you could try and create rotational force here but again we would see that your pressure is still hanging back on the trail foot and in the pros we don't see that let's take a look at one right now we're going to take a look at justin rose with a short iron because it's so great to see how little movement he's making but shifting his pressure hugely all the way over 90 by the time he gets to impact let's take a look at this okay so i've got justin's nine iron here with the face on and down the line view and the pressure and force is on the right now as he goes back as he starts he's at this stage and swing he's literally 50 50 so perfectly centered as he's getting ready to start the club back as he goes back you're going to see him peek out right there at 67 so a little past the takeaway as i mentioned most pros are done by the end of the takeaway or a little bit later than that depends on the club that they're hitting too so but in this case justin's just before left arm parallel he is done shifting to his trail leg and is already beginning to see as you can watch this number up here on the top right hand corner of the screen as he's starting to move back or recenter and so by the time he gets to the top he's not quite 50 50 but you can see that he is starting to move back into that lead side if we put a little line here on his hip to give you a reference point you can see that right in here he starts to move back to that lead side and even though he's still not quite 50 50 there's probably a little bit of pushing right here off of this trail leg to help that initial shift to get back over to lead side but now from here you're going to see look at how rapidly this number this 46 percent number up here on the top left is changing and going ramping up so fast look at how fast his pressure shifts and so now he's already at i think that's where he peaks about right there 92 of his pressure is on his lead foot now if he was pushing still late in the downswing you would see not only his right knee turning his right hip moving laterally and starting to want to move vertically to compress his lower spine which i'll talk about in a moment but he would be having way more pressure on his right foot but right now it's only eight percent there's hardly any pressure on that trail foot at all he's planted on that lead side and is able to pivot and you can see as he gets into impact from the down the line view on the left you can see even with a nine iron you can see both butt cheeks very clearly which is like i said generally the exact opposite of what we see with most amateur golfers and so this is a great visual for you to feel as you're going back you're loading to that right side starting to recenter get back to the lead side and then once you're on that side you don't need to keep shoving off that right foot to push more mass over there if you feel the need to do that you need to go back and look at the backswing component of this video so that you're starting to set yourself up to fall back into that lead side and start to feel that dynamic stretch so as you as you can see in justin's swing he's not driving hard off this trail foot he's simply unweighting it and this makes the golf swing really simple and really easy to get onto this lead side and then you can turn into your hip and this is an important differentiation between how you move your hips because this is what probably the hardest thing to understand in the golf swing and the thing that we see most commonly that most amateurs never ever get right and so what a lot of times what happens is golfers think they should turn their hips going back and turn their hips going through because that's a hip turn and we refer to it as a hip turn or hip rotation i think a better way of thinking about it is as you're coming down you're turning into this hip so think of your left leg your lead leg doing this i'm moving my hips into it not trying to turn my hips or twist my hips that will tend to cause you to push really hard off this trail foot and again that's not what we see in great players we see an unweighting and then a really simple easy pivot on this into this lead leg so not trying to turn my legs to turn my hips i'm simply getting onto this lead leg and turning my body into it now as i mentioned earlier another cautionary tale i want to tell you because i experimented with this and i felt it myself is if you push off the trail foot there's another catch that can cause some serious issues with your back and because i have a very fragile back from all of my two-wheeled adventures that i've had over the years and my excursions with testing the bounds of gravity i have found that as you move into side bend which we see in all great players you're going to see them move into side bend the side bend is okay it's when you have side bend with rotation that you run into trouble and that's what we talked about i did an interview with one of our medical panel neurosurgeons a long time ago dr mitt suppler and we talked about the best way to herniate a disc is to get into a lot of side bend with a lot of rotation a lot of twisting of your spine and that's a beautiful way to destroy your back now compound that with compression and now you've got the trifecta effecta and how would you do that well we know all great players are going to get into side bend some of them are going to get into side bend with a twisting of the spine that's not ideal and that's how it's very easy to see who's going to get injured on tour and who's not but if you're just in side bend if i'm just like this how am i going to hurt my back if i start driving off my right foot to drive this hip toward the target not only am i twisting my spine very forcefully because i've got a lot of strength in my right leg and my right hip just as you do so i can get into the side bend as i'm coming in impact and then drive my hip forward super painful but i'm also the ground as i'm pushing off of my trail foot i'm pushing my hip up while my up my shoulder is going down so as i'm getting into side bend and driving off my trail foot this hip's going this way shoulders going this way i'm twisted boom blow out your back very very easily and because i've been experimenting with the simple the different ways that you can shift your pressure rotate your hips turn your hips i'm all about effortless stuff and i don't want pain in my back so as i go through here if i'm going to get into side bend what i want to do is fall into side bend and not have any upward motion off of this leg because then i can move into side bend to get my shoulder down to keep the club tracing down the plate the the target line much longer just to give you an idea let me grab a shaft here real quick what i mean by that and i'm going to talk more about this stuff and with updating you guys and all the research i'm doing but as i get into side bend as my right shoulder stays down as the lead side's pulling it through watch what happens to the club as long as i keep that shoulder down do you see how long i can keep the club traveling straight down the plane line that's what you see in most modern tour players and the goats that they get this shoulder down and most amateurs look again the opposite this right shoulder is going to be high so we've got the club coming out across the line and then working across really quickly so it might be pointing down the line and working down the time for a split second as long as you have the ball in the perfect spot you time the swing perfectly you're going to get the ball to go straight down the line the pros the goats they're like no no that's way too much work i want to be really consistent so as i get into side bend i can keep this club traveling down the line as long as i maintain that side bend but if i'm driving my hip forward by pushing off the trail foot and driving up off the ground to compress my lower back no bueno so a simple way to think about it as you work on what you did in the last video where you're starting to fall set yourself up to fall into this lead side and then just unweight this foot and then pivot and you'll see not only can you get into side bend like this with no pain on your back whatsoever but look how open i can get my hips with no force i'm not pushing off this trail foot i'm just pivoting and that will make you get yourself set up so you can rotate your hips get a lot more speed out of it protect your back and get your hips wide open like you see

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Joe
Hey Chuck! Very insightful video as always. One thing that I am confused about is the comment of no side bend and rotation at the same time. This seems to contradict with the movement to pivot around the left hip. I consider this "pivot" as a rotation movement. And during this rotation, the body forms the right side bend. Doesn't that violate the rule you mentioned and make the swing injury prone?
March 16, 2025
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Chuck
Im referring to rotation or torque on the spine
March 16, 2025
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Anthony
Hi Chuck, I've had success with the fall forward sequence and can really hit the ball well when I do that succesfully. I haven't been able to do it consistently so would love to drill further into the drills that enable me to do so. I have also tried the squish the bug drills for a whole practice session and it's thrown my whole swing off - I feel more power but my (previously in fairway drives) become big slices when I push off the trail leg. Would love further drills that help bring these two concepts together and be succesful in using the best combination off both concepts.
September 16, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Anthony, please take a look at the new program under TW GOAT Code, it has all that you're looking for.
September 18, 2024
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L
So how does this go with the squish the bug series?
September 3, 2024
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Chuck
Squish the bug is a power move and will be seen mostly with the driver.
September 4, 2024
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Timothy
Chuck, These were great videos, as usual. However, after having previously reviewed the "squish the bug" series, I am left somewhat confused about the conflicting emphasis on the role of the right foot. I wonder if you could put this into better perspective. Tim T
August 21, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Timothy, the trail foot is a bit confusing because it's a critical part of producing torque and torque needs resistance. To create resistance, the trail foot is actually pulling back away from the target line as we release the club while the core is rotating toward the target. This is a foreign concept for most and what I'm testing with the RSA members literally as we speak with 4 new videos on this very topic that once I get feedback on will be made available to all members.
August 21, 2024
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Christopher
Chuck, I just want to make sure I'm understanding some of the swing sequencing correctly. After watching this video and taking some practice swings, I feel like I want to move to the lead side and simultaneously open my hips BEFORE impact. So I am thinking about getting my hips open before impact and maybe more importantly before firing with my arms. Is that correct? It certainly seems to help me place less emphasis on firing with my hands/arm. I am also thinking about keeping my arms well behind the hip turn. Hopefully this makes sense. Thanks again for all of the detailed and very helpful videos! Thanks, Chris.
August 18, 2024
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Chuck
Yes, hips open first for sure, but it's more your core opening your hips than just trying to open the hips.
August 19, 2024
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Christian
Hi, to start my downswing i feel that iam pulling from my lead hip to open it and i have lot of compresssion and i really smash it but i dont know if its ok to begin my shift that way. Iam hitting in a net. Iam a Left handed in life playing right handed in golf. Great vidéo
June 7, 2024
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Chuck
You can do it that way, Hogan liked to feel that in his swing and it works great. The modern players are driving much more off the trail leg, but being a natural lefty this would feel strange at first.
June 10, 2024
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Everett
This is mind blowing!!! years of early extension fixed!!! Thank you!!!
March 2, 2024
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Chuck
Awesome Everett! You're welcome!
March 3, 2024
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Joshua
I've only tried this swinging a club, not hitting any golf balls. I find it hard to start with axis tilt at address when doing this move.
January 25, 2024
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Chuck
Im not sure i fully understand can you give me a little more info?
January 25, 2024
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Joshua
Of course. If I have initial axis tilt, I feel my left hip stays higher than my right and I feel I'm sliding my hips over rather than falling to my left side. I'm only swinging a club in front of a mirror trying to get a feel for this. Do you think it could be too much tilt?
January 26, 2024
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Chuck
Your hip really shouldn’t set much if any higher than the right. Sounds like you’re overdoing this at setup
January 27, 2024
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Joshua
Thanks Chuck. I just want to say I'm really loving the goat theory and your continued research to bring us more information. Thank you
January 27, 2024
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Chuck
Thanks brother! I hope you love what im working on next because it’s the culmination of years of hard work!
January 27, 2024
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Joshua
Anthony is going to have a job on his hands with my next lesson hahaha
January 26, 2024
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Ron
Chuck, the idea of “unweighting “ the trail leg has really connected with me. Now when I fall target ward, I automatically get to a squat to square position with very little lateral slide and right into neutral joint alignment. From there it’s just posting up to help open up the hips. I must have been really pushing hard with trail leg before and I never could come up with a thought/ feel to stop that. The term unweighting is now seared into my brain!
January 24, 2024
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Chuck
Awesome! Ya pushing hard off the trail leg makes it really easy to leave the face open and hit a lot of thin shots.
January 25, 2024
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Steve
Hey Chuck, so I’ve been playing with these feels and ultimately realize without the missing piece (movement of the arms) it’s hard to really incorporate this into a full swing. So, very much looking forward to that addition. I also had a great idea after watching the videos a few times and hearing you mention the force plate several times… A picture is worth a thousand words… So would it be possible to have you post a video, walking us through the steps from takeaway, through transition and release while simultaneously showing your force plate data as you move? Kinda like the Rose video… I feel it would answer so many questions regarding weight transfer (toes, to heels etc…) and give a great visual along with your explanations! Just a thought! Keep up the great work! Thanks, Steve B
January 23, 2024
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Chuck
Yep working on the next video now
January 25, 2024
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Michael
This GOAT series is extremely interesting and much better than many guides we've heard over the last 20 years! But what do you think of Mike Austin's swing (and his explanation of hip movement)? I think he's closer to your explanation than many golf instructors after him – even though he's from the last century?
January 22, 2024
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Chuck
Mike was a very sharp guy and believed the swing was a throw from the top. The main area where i might differ is with that big hip turn. It certainly works but I feel is a much more difficult move to master for the avg golfer. A lot more moving parts and I like to err on the side of boring with the fewest moving parts. Im a “build it and forget it” kind of guy when it comes to the swing and to enjoy that you need a natural feeling swing with as few moving parts as possible
January 22, 2024
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Michael
Ok, sounds logical! I'm already looking forward to the next parts of the GOAT series!
January 22, 2024
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RJ
Another gem, Chuck! This series has been incredibly eye opening. Will your next video on the arms cover anything about crossing the line/flying elbow? This is something I’ve always struggled with and have never been able to correct it. Is there a “feel” that could fix the problem quicker than mechanical practice? Of course jack and Bobby jones both crossed the line so is it not as important as I’m making it out to be? I just would like a simpler backswing like yours and tigers. Great work as always!
January 21, 2024
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Chuck
Thanks RJ! The next video on the arms is going to cover a lot of ground, including this topic indirectly. It's going to be a much bigger eye opener than all the other videos combined.
January 21, 2024
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Jeff
I have just started Phase 3 and want to know, since I am not in a full swing as of yet, how much of this (GOAT 1&2) can I incorporate into a Phase 3 swing?
January 19, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Jeff, feel free to experiment with these feels as they are all part of proper swing that you will want to incorporate into your game as early as possible.
January 19, 2024
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Jeff
I have started to rep (350reps) this in my Phase 3. It's a slow go, but I'm getting it. I've noticed (feel and watching in my monitors) that when the pressure is off the trail foot that my knees/hips are square without having to squat to square, if that makes sense. Just another way to get there, but without effort and quicker. The part, which I find a bit difficult to do is to continue the backswing while getting pressure to the lead foot/leg. Once the pressure gets to the lead heel the internal rotation of lead hip/leg is indeed quicker with all the pressure off the trail side. Looking forward to a session at the range after I get some more reps in.
January 22, 2024
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Robert
Great video. One thought though - pro golfers are strong and fit, most amateurs are anything but! These swing techniques need core strength and flexibility to get the separation between upper and lower body. From what I see few amateurs can get into the perfect impact position you describe. What should they do to enable them to get there?
January 18, 2024
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Chuck
I wouldn't call patrick reed fit or strong One thing that I am going to show very soon is that the exact opposite is true. You don't a strong core and you don't need to try and get separation. The truth is that the more relaxed your core and lower body is the faster the hips will move. The idea of separation is a myth that can't die a soon enough death as I will explain soon.
January 19, 2024
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Robert
And a strong core - a good golf swing needs stability, and a strong core brings this. When the core is strong, it can move without tension. This is what Pilates teaches, with most exercises beginning with engaging the abdominals for stability and control. I've been doing Pilates for 20 years, and at nearly 81 I am able to play to a single-figure handicap and hit the ball 250 yards. I've rarely seen any mention of engaging the abdominals, but I think it is essential in a good swing.
January 21, 2024
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Chuck
Pilates is fantastic for core stability for sure, my point is that a strong core has really nothing to do with getting the hips open. As for separation, what I'm referring to there is where you see instructors teaching golfers to try and twist their hips open during the transition a lot when this move happens in microseconds and can't really be felt much when done correctly. All of this ties back to the movement of the club and arms that is coming in the next video. It is a paradigm shift to say the least, in fact it's the opposite of what it the "rule" in golf instruction, so I promise it will all start to make sense in this next video.
January 21, 2024
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Robert
Chuck - when you talk about "squat to square without moving your upper body" and "post up without moving your upper body" - is that not separation? When I talk to amateur friends about doing this, most just cannot do it. And even find it hard to know what I am talking about.
January 21, 2024
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Ron
Very surprising to me that Rose, with a 9 iron, maxed out his trail leg pressure at 67% ( I would have thought it would be more). If he was using a longer club could you expect the pressure to increase some? The idea of unweighting your trail leg by falling targetward to rapidly increase the pressure on your lead leg is a big “aha” for me. Thanks for the great video!
January 18, 2024
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Chuck
Shorter swing, less lateral move. As you get to the longer clubs the greater the lateral move.
January 19, 2024
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Venkatesh
Great video, as always, Chuck. Comprehensive explanation of the ideal weight shift, side bend without destroying the spine!!! Are there any drill/s that you would suggest to get the backswing right and the hips open at impact? In front of the mirror I can get the “falling to the lead side” just right. Great power on the driving range as I mentioned before. Need something to make it part of the muscle memory / Swing DNA. Thanks.
January 18, 2024
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Chuck
It has to be understood in the context of how the arms move and that's my next video.
January 19, 2024
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Ron
Learning to re-center is hard for me and I’m continually working on the timing. My question, though, is on opening up the hips. What I’m doing now is when I feel force on the lead leg coming down, I try to push the lead hip socket back behind me and consequently the lead leg will straighten some with the weight winding up on the lead heal. Am I thinking right about this?
January 17, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Ron nothing wrong with this thought. I believe that when the arms and club are moving correctly this happens automatically and I am close to having this exact sequence ready to publish.
January 18, 2024
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Steve
Hey Chuck, great video to show how the force is transferred. The force plate data is a game changer as shown with Rose. I can completely get behind what you are saying regarding force transfer, however I have to ask if there is more to come? I didn’t feel that this video clarifies how to incorporate this into the golf swing? Past movements like the squat to square and the Axiom gave a sense of what to feel along with a movement pattern to follow. I had found that through teaching my son the best way I could describe the movement to get the hips open was with a corkscrew movement of the left leg… Imagining after the squat to square, forcing the left heel into the ground while turning the lead hip back and out of the way! This really clicked in my own swing. Personally part 1, the backswing movement is exactly what my swing has been lacking and when I introduced it to my swing, everything you are talking about fell into place! I am not a certified swing coach, so I really try to follow the advice of those who are like yourself, especially since you have the safety of the body in mind! I just found that combining the backswing movement with the downswing feel I have been doing clicked… Did the NEW backswing move Kind of eliminated the squat to square thought? Is this correct or am I off base? Thanks again for your hard work and efforts! Steve B
January 17, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Steve, oh yes, a lot more to come. The issue with the hip movement is that it doesn't make sense outside of the context of how the arms move in the downswing and that is the piece I have been working to understand exactly what the greats did with their arms. This is a topic of much debate and there is more than one way to do it, but the deeper I dig I keep coming back to the GOATs being almost completely lead hand dominant. I'm working on matching my swing to theirs as we speak so i can say definitively that this is what they did.
January 17, 2024
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Matt
Being lead side with the arms does that kind of change the thought of the power program where you basically only felt your right arm?
January 17, 2024
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Chuck
That was exactly what I wanted to know definitively by doing this study. After 3 years of adding more and more right arm I can tell you this (all to be covered in detail in the next set of videos) 1. I can hit the ball basically the exact same way either way 2. The more trail arm I added, the more power I felt I had available and the less effortless I began to feel 3. The more trail arm I added, the more addicting it became and the less my swing looked like the GOATs 4. My most effortless, easy rounds of golf with the most pured shots felt like my trail arm "had left the chat" 5. The GOATs barely used their trail arms at all Both work and can produce the same results. The tour pros I have studied and tried to recreate patterns of their swings I would say are completely lead side dominant and use the trail hand for shot shaping and some increase in speed. For most golfers, using the trail hand will come along much more quickly because it is their dominant hand. They can hit the ball farther faster in their swing journey, but they don't look like the GOATs much at all.
January 17, 2024
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M. (Certified RST Instructor)
Good morning Chuck, What a great video again! I like the way you explain the essence between feel and what is mechanicaly happening in the swing. In the end of the video, where you use the shaft to show how long the clubhead can travel along the targetline if you (endo)rotate your lead hip into the hip socket you see that your shoulders also rotate about the same amount. Does this still mean that, at impact, your shoulders have to be square to target line or is it oke if they are already a little open? Lots of work at my swing again!! Marcel
January 17, 2024
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Chuck
Thanks marcel! The shoulders should still be square, but the body is open. The squareness from the shoulders really comes from lead shoulder protraction more than anything.
January 17, 2024
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Anthony
A few questions: 1. When re-centering, do you land on the lead instep? More specifically, the inner ball of the lead foot prior to unweighting the trail leg? 2. Secondly, there are some GOATS at impact (like Jack) that have their lead more angled behind them, vs an upright lead leg. These players tend to ride the outer edge of the lead heel as a counter balance move. I'm asking because after playing for over 40 years, this method is the easiest (for me) to open the hips. Can you comment on that?
January 16, 2024
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Chuck
Hi Anthony, Bobby Jones liked to say that's where he put his weight on the lead leg in the backswing. Of course we know that there is a "figure 8" pattern of pressure shift in the swing so Jones was right because if you are there in the backswing that is the first place you'll go in the downswing. As for #2, yes, if the lead leg is bent you would have more momentum carrying you to the outside of the foot since there is less force being driven downward to the ground. Momentum from the lateral shift has to go somewhere and this is where it would go if you don't straighten the leg. Worked ok for Jack!
January 17, 2024

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