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Importance of Axis Tilt at Setup
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The importance of axis tilt at address can not be overstated. It significantly impacts the position of the top of the swing in numerous ways as you will see from this video and article.
- Axis tilt is when the spine leans a few degrees away from the target at address
- Setting up without axis tilt can cause hip slide and bad position at the top
- Bump your hips slightly toward the target at setup to get the proper axis tilt
RST is based basically on nothing but pure logic, biomechanics, physics, anatomy, just raw science.
So everything has a justification for why it is a fundamental of the regular swing pattern.
So one of the things that I think is overlooked is axis tilt at address, and there's a reason why it's in there.
And I think you need to pay close attention to it.
Because a lot of golfers struggle with two very common problems that I'm going to show you that are caused by not having enough axis tilt at address.
So first of all, just understand what axis tilt is.
If you're not familiar, just take your club, put it up with the sternum or the buttons on your shirt and run it through your belly button.
As you set up, the more that your spine is tilted away from the target, that's axis tilt.
Okay, right now I have none.
As I get into my setup posture, I'm going to have a few degrees of axis tilt.
Let's see what happens when you don't have any axis tilt and you make a golf swing, a backswing.
So I'm going to set up basically with my spine perfectly vertical, and now I'm going to try and rotate back and here's what happens.
The golfer is going to tend to fall back this way because as you're rotating back, You're going to start twisting your spine, and because your spine didn't have any tilt away from the target, you're kicking it going this way.
The other thing when you start doing this is that the right hip is going to start sliding out this way.
So these two go hand in hand.
No axis tilt, slidey hips, bad position at the top.
Now, if I get myself with some axis tilt and I rotate back, now you can look at the top.
I'm a lot more balanced.
I have a little bit, I don't want to have axis tilt this way or my spine leaning toward the target this way.
As I go to the top, it looks like there's almost a line, a straight line at an angle up the left side of my body.
So we'll do that.
I have axis tilt at address and now I'm going to take that out.
I don't have axis tilt, so I'm either going to go this way with my hips.
Or I'm going to stay on the left side and be in this bad position.
That's going to hurt my back.
So make sure that as you set up, don't ignore getting a little bump and get that axis tilt so that you can get into a good, solid, powerful position at the top.
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