How to Load & Fire the Hips - What GOATY is Looking for...
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Here's exactly how the GOATs load and fire the hips in the golf swing. When GOATY flags you for not loading properly, now you know what he is looking for and how to fix it.
How do you load to use your body for power in the swing instead of relying on your arms and hands and shoulders?
It's actually quite simple.
And so what Goatee is flagged in your swing is that you're not loading properly into the trail hip and loading the lead hip.
They have to work together.
So all I want you to do to get this feeling is understand that.
The first move is just a little lateral move into this trail hip, that's the first thing Goatee's looking for.
But as that happens, the lead hip must drop, it's got to go down to the ground.
Most people make the mistake of hanging on the side and then dropping that hip.
And you can see I'm going to be out of position, this is a very weak spot to be in.
But if I make just a little lateral shift and let my trail leg start to carry my weight only to the point to where?
If I lift my foot, I would still fall.
Back to the lead side, that's what you want to feel, so it's just a little shift to the trail side.
The lead hip drops, the trail hip goes deep back into the corner of the room.
Here because I'm trying to make room for this lead hip to go down back away from the target.
And that's what's gonna allow me to feel like it's pressing down into the ground as I fall back into it.
That's the key.
If you shift into the trail side and then you push off the trail side, then all of a sudden you're gonna be.
Your lead.
Leg can't work properly because it's got to stop this force from pushing off the trail leg.
You don't want that.
You simply want a little shift.
Now my trail leg is catching me as my lead leg extend or my trail leg extends just a little bit.
The trail knee or lead knee bends.
And so now I'm just dropping into the ground.
So I feel this kind of spiral motion where my pelvis is going back and around.
And now what's going to happen from here is that my lead knee is going to kind of initiate things.
You'll see in the ghost that his lead knee goes first and that helps getting back over to that lead side.
If you hang back on the trail side, you're going to see this where your hip is way behind the model.
The ghost is way out here.
And if you're just hanging back and spinning off this trail side and never initiating with this lead knee and lead hip and letting gravity because your lead hip is below your trail.
So if you just relax there for a second, you'll drop into that foot really quick.
And that's what gives you the ability to spring and use the ground reaction forces to drive this hip up.
Because that's where all the speed and power comes from.
If you don't have this and you're like this coming into impact, or you're like this where you're hanging back, you're always going to be muscling it with your arms and hands.
But when you get this lead hip to go down and then fall into it, so you kind of plant your lead heel down, now you're going to feel kind of low and squatty.
So I'm going to do it from up the lines.
It's a little bit easier to see.
So right at address, my hip goes back this way toward the corner of the room a little bit.
My lead hip goes down.
And now as I start to fall into it, my knee is over there moving back over my foot.
Now as I drop it, I'm really low and squatted into the ground, which allows me to drive up, drive this hip up.
And that's what snaps the club.
The key to this really is timing.
If you don't shift immediately off the ball into this trail side and you start hanging over here, the whole swing's over.
It's really hard to recover from that.
But if you get the idea that your arms, hands, and shoulders don't really do much and you're just focusing on shifting your hips first and letting this trail hip go back, that's what's moving the club for you.
And then from here, as the momentum keeps taking me up, I'm always preparing to get this going.
My lead knee going back over my foot and this hip getting ready to drive up.
If you don't have that initial move, what's almost always happening is you're starting with your arms, hands and shoulders.
You're too rigid and tight and fixated on the club.
Relax your arms and hands feel like your lead arm is just connected to your rib cage through your back muscles, ideally.
And then let that hip that shift and tilt move your arms and hands for you.
So I'm really just moving my pelvis and and that's getting the club here.
And as I do that, now everything can start to sequence correctly because from here, everything's starting with this.
Me falling back into that lead side, this lead knee initiating, forming a brace, and that lead hip getting ready to fire to drive my hip up and back.
The reason that has to happen is that you're trying to stretch your whole body from this lead hip up through the back, lead shoulder, arm, hands, all of it is trying to be stretched by keeping this away from this lead hip.
So if you just go to the top and hold your hands here for a second and then move your lead hip and knee, you'll start to feel a stretch across your body.
That's critical in order for the fascia to rebound.
Otherwise, if you don't ever feel this stretch, you're always going to swing with your arms and hands and have no power.
But if you go here.
And the other key to this, as I mentioned, is just letting your arms and hands be moved by this pelvis movement.
Because if you start and you start swinging your arms across your body, you create this stretch way too early.
What you want to feel is that your arms and shoulders are still back a little bit.
So then when this lead hip goes, you can see my shoulder didn't really move very much.
That creates that dynamic stretch.
And then I just let the club and arms and hands fall this way back behind me a little bit to maintain the stretch.
So feel this, just try and feel, hold your hands here, get your lead knee to go first, fall into your lead side, and then get that hip to pull and try to keep your shoulder back.
And if you do that, you'll feel a stretch right here.
And that's, what's keeping the club loaded because once you keep firing that hip, your hands are already down in the goat delivery position at GDP.
There's nothing left for you to do, but to just let the club head overtake your hands.
So the key is letting your pelvis move everything.
Don't try to move the club with your arms and shoulders, move it with your hips, let your hips get deep, and then let that hip fire.
And that will be the key to understanding how to produce power.
It's all about generating a stretch.
As you go from here to here, your arms and hands are just falling.
They're never moving out this way.
They're never moving back toward the ball.
they're getting pulled along for the ride and they're just waiting and then you will feel it once you get that hip really fired your hips all the way open you'll feel so much stretch that the club will have no choice but to snap and release for you
Dan
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