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Trail Hip Depth and Sequencing

GOATY is looking for trail hip depth (measured by lateral movement in the backswing) and this is VITAL for proper loading and sequencing in the golf swing! If you don't start your swing on the right foot, the whole thing completely falls apart.

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Lindsay
Chuck, this drill might have made this all click for me! I've always been overly dominate with my chest and arms in the backswing (and subsequently, in the downswing), and this made my body sequence in a way I've never felt. For practice swings, I actually starting putting the clubhead at address about a foot in front of my lead leg down the target line to exaggerate the feeling of my chest working under my lead arm even more as I took the club back. I need to go back and validate this again with my speed radar, but I had 10 driver swings in the upper 120's... And was actually in control (I am usually working very hard to swing 105-108mph)! The sound of the clubhead moving through the air and the crack of the ball was waaaaay different!!!
March 2, 2026
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Chuck
Awesome man exactly once you Start learning how to load correctly everything simply snaps through the ball There's great discussions on this on the GOATY forms that you should check out it'll help you understand how other members started learning how to feel this properly: https://rotaryswing.com/goaty/goaty_circles
March 2, 2026
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Alex
Very confusing. A lot of videos indicate core movement to be important at takeaway, not even mentioning the legs. Is this a new clue Chuck identified? And if we talk about sequencing and the right leg pulls back first at takeaway (!?), when will be the core activated to take part? First leg then core, or core and then leg, or both together at the same time? Or has the core now no function, as the legs do the job?
March 1, 2026
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Chuck
also read the post below and go to the GOATY forums you can search for this and see how the members learned how to feel this correctly https://rotaryswing.com/goaty/goaty_circles
March 2, 2026
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Chuck
The movement initiates from the ground or the core has no base to stretch from. Ground force starts it
March 2, 2026
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Robert
I am trying to turn my right foot counter clockwise and the only thing that happens is my right hip slides right and my left hip opens. Now, if I try to turn my right foot clockwise while resisting with the inside portion of my right foot to not allow the foot to rotate, my right hip rotates clockwise and goes deeper. What am I doing right or wrong?
March 1, 2026
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Chuck
Think about coiling around the right leg in a spiral from the ground up. You are trying to move other parts if the body instead of letting this initiate the movement. Imagine a baseball pitcher coiling around the trail leg on the mound
March 2, 2026
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Thomas
Hey Chuck, let me first say the I love this series of videos. The goat sling video was a real aha moment for me. I am with Robert on this one though; when I rotate my trail foot counterclockwise my left hip opens up. If I think about coiling over that foot, my instinct is to rotate my trail foot to the right. Any further feels or suggestions appreciated, thanks!
March 2, 2026
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Chuck
Hey guys so don't feel bad or confused because trust me you are far from the only people who are wondering about this or doing it exactly the way that you guys are And many of the goatee members have already gone through this and it's been discussed extensively and you can see from the actual members who overcame this and understood what the proper feel is it's all documented in the community there and if you just search for counterclockwise or trail hip load or clockwise spiral etc you will find a lot of topics on this just from the past few days https://rotaryswing.com/goaty/goaty_circles You don't have to be a GOATY member To search through and read all of these very very valuable posts so definitely use it as a resource And you can always access it on the menu in the top right hand corner on Goatcode.Ai
March 2, 2026

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