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Craig, have a question regarding the lead knee external rotation.

Jens B · · Sweden
Craig, have a question regarding the lead knee external rotation. Today, drilling better tilt to the hip rotation and just letting my lower body react to that queue i could really feel how my lead hip wanted to get way more externally rotated on the backswing. From there i really just felt like I started to adduct and get the hip internal straight from the top which felt very fluid. Due to the hip being way more external to begin with in transition i sort of got the look as I weightshifted that I was externally rotating the knee as a start to the swing, to me however i could feel how I right away started to internally rotate the hip. So is the external rotation of the lead knee just an optical illusion looking at the swing from face on? Am i onto something with the way I am approaxhing transition?

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Jens B ·
Or maybe it is internal rotation? So bad at these xD. The feeling is that the pelvis turns independently of the left leg to begin with and then starts pulling at the leg which makes it buckle in, but not in the same way as if i had kicked the knee in. It is more like the inside of the thigh is getting pressed towards the ground, a bit like I would be on my way to perform a split.
Craig Morrow, Certified RST Instructor ·
It may be an optical illusion. Would have to check to see. But, I don't think I've ever seen that in your move.
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