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.
Sequencing is everything in the golf swing, and when it starts off on the wrong foot, everything is going to fall apart.
So I'm going to help you feel sequencing.
I've got some very bright colored moto socks on, so it's going to be very easy to see what my feet are doing.
I highly recommend you practice this on a slick wood floor if you've got one.
I'm going to do it on some grippy turf, but you'll be able to see the same things going on here.
So the first key is understanding that many golfers kind of do this.
They dive with their upper body, their head moves off the ball.
Goaty detects that.
He sees your trail arm lifting and starting to have to pick the club up.
And then once you're over here, your hips are going to shift this way and then all bets are off.
There's nothing that's going to work properly in your swing.
To get the swing start off correctly, it starts with ground force.
So you're going to push your foot into the ground to help drive this hip back.
A little bit of a pulse of counterclockwise rotation of that trail foot that's going to start rotating your rib cage for you.
And this is key.
You don't just start with your arms and body, that's always going to cause your upper body to sway and your hips to reverse.
But when you start to create counter torque, you're creating.
You see my foot starting to do this just a little bit during the start of the swing.
That's getting my body to spiral from the ground up.
And that is moving my ribcage right now, I am NOT moving my ribcage at all.
There's nothing muscularly going on here.
I'm just using my right foot to turn into the ground and that is moving my rib cage entirely.
It's moving my hip back.
And so this is key.
The main thing you want to feel is that you're never trying to just start the swing with your arms and shoulders.
You want to feel like your rib cage is being turned under your lead arm.
And as you do this, your lead shoulder is going to actually retract a little bit.
It's going to go back.
If you feel that you protract and push your arm across your body, you're starting to swing with your arms.
But when you start from the ground up, what happens if you leave your arms basically at address, you can see that my shoulder is going to start moving back further.
My shoulder blade is going to move back towards my spine, and that's going to get the swing start off in the right foot.
And you'll see that my head can stay very centered.
But if I start like this, it's over.
So there's a couple things, not just this initial motion that I've talked about in another video, but what do you do from there?
The feeling is this.
Now watch my lead foot.
Do you see how it's rotating clockwise for a right-handed golfer as I come up onto my toe and my trail leg is starting to shift back my body, my pelvis starting to shift back toward the target.
But what you're not trying to do is push off your trail leg to move your pressure over here.
You don't need to try and shift to the lead side in the golf swing.
That's a misnomer.
If I'm coiled correctly, it's impossible for me to not get over there.
So if you're feeling like you have to push off your trail side, you didn't coil correctly to begin with.
Counterclockwise torque for a right -handed golfer gets me starting to load this way.
And then as I'm coiled and deep, my hip's naturally going to continue that motion that started at my foot.
So now my hip is naturally going to move back to the target.
Your job is to remain closed, don't start turning right away, remain closed and stay off your lead foot.
Don't just push over here.
Once you do that, you dump all the energy and the slings unload too early.
But if I stay coiled and you'll see that I come up onto my toe, my foot does this.
That's what I want you to start to practice.
So as you start putting this together, you can do it without your arms at first.
And you use my trail leg, my trail foot to start everything.
My rib cage is being moved.
And then I plant while staying back.
This is key.
I'm not going over here.
I'm turning and staying back.
My trail hip is still loaded, loaded, loaded.
And then the moment that the plant happens, everything unwinds at once.
It's not this get over here and then gradually try to spin your body.
It's stay loaded, stay closed, stay closed, spoon, and everything fires fast.
So if you start practicing this, especially on a wood floor, you'll feel that your feet actually kind of do this a little bit during the downswing.
And it's the opposite of what you're trying to do in the backswing.
That's how you create torque in the swing.
And that's how you get your upper body to stop dominating the swing.
It starts from the ground up.
And then as you're staying closed, let everything fire all at once.
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