Tiger Woods Hip Kick for Golf Swing Sequencing
The way you move and load your pelvis at the start of the golf swing is the key to sequencing and unlocking effortless power like the GOATs and in this video you'll see why you've never figured this out on your own before - the correct movement is WEIRD!
When Goatee tells you that you're struggling with trail arm lift and hip depth, those are actually two of the same things.
They're directly related to each other.
And the video you see on your screen right now of Tiger Woods.
Making this really funky looking move is the whole key to getting past all of this and understanding how to load properly in the golf swing.
And while this move may look kind of funky, and it feels really funky at first, it is what allows your body to organize correctly rather than you using your arms and hands to dominate your golf swing.
So the feeling that you see of what Tiger's doing here is getting his hip deep.
And it's easier to see from this quarter angle that his hip is going deep and tilting.
And this motion allows the hips to look like they're rotating, but I'm not really turning my hips.
I'm getting my hip driven back.
So I'm letting my hip go deep while also going up.
And that allows this one to come forward and down and that creates the look of rotation.
Now, as I'm doing this, what I'm feeling is loading and lengthening up the side, but if I do it without my upper body.
At first, you get kind of this goofy looking hip kick, which is what I've talked about, the baby on the hip kind of thing.
That motion looks funky until you get the feeling of the arms and upper body working together.
Then you see all of that goofiness, this weird looking kick, get taken out of the swing.
But at first, you've got to get used to this feeling of the hip going back up, deep and independent of your rib cage.
Because the trick is, this has to start to happen first in the swing.
And the reason that you're starting to struggle with arm lift and your hips going deep.
You'll watch what happens.
If I start my swing with my shoulders and my arms, my hips forcibly get pulled forward, and that's why you don't have any hip depth.
And that's what Goatee keeps flagging you for in your live lessons.
So what I've got to feel is that this motion happens first and that you'll see.
My rib cage is now moved, now I haven't moved my rib cage, I've moved my pelvis.
And as I do that now, my rib cage gets moved.
And this is what I want you to feel in your next swing is that.
As my rib cage gets moved, my lead arm is moving away from my rib cage.
And I'm not actively moving it.
I'm just leaving it there and letting my rib cage begin to turn under it.
And as I do this all led by this pelvic movement.
Now, as I start to go back, that is what starts swinging my arms.
But the whole key to the golf swing is sequencing.
And if you don't, move your pelvis first and load into this trail side and organize around this lead hip as this arm starts going up.
If you lift your arms up, you're always going to move into pelvic extension, so your hips are going to not have enough depth.
Is what Goatee is going to tell you.
So as this starts to happen.
As I do this quick, that movement quick with my hips moves my rib cage quick, which then moves my arms up, but then I have the the ability for my hips to lead.
See if I start moving my arms first, I start creating all of this tension and taking out all the slack in my upper back too early.
And so then if I go with my hips, my shoulders and arms come with it.
But what you want is the hips to go first, the rib cage to go next, the arms to come next, and then the club to come next in that order.
So if you get this feeling, a good feeling is to really exaggerate it.
Get the hips to go first tilt, then let the arms come, then the arms get pulled down.
And the whole trick as you come down is that this leads everything.
And you're just stretching away from that lead arm because that arm needs to get stretched.
That the posterior oblique sling from your shoulder to your trail hip is what gets stretched during that transition and downswing, and that's what gets slung into the ball.
But the first key is practicing this hip move.
And I'm going to do it from that quarter angle so you can see it like you saw from the goat.
The trail hip going back, my pelvis, my spine feels like it kind of does a little a J.
At first.
A little curve in my lower back as I do this as I get my hip deep enough, and then once it's deep enough.
That tilt is what gives me the look of rotation, but rotation is emergent, it's emerging from this motion.
I'm not trying to turn, I'm not trying to rotate, I'm trying to load, get this hip deep so it's ready to fire on the way down.
That's what you're looking for when Goody tells you you're lifting with a trail arm and don't have enough trail hip depth or your sequencing is off.
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