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I've found myself in a bit of a dilemma.

I've found myself in a bit of a dilemma. I've been seeing a local coach for some time who i've felt shares the same view on the golfswing as rotaryswing. Since I recently have been starting to better grasp how to properly move to keep my tilt in the backswing he has started to move on to more downswing centric ideas on how he feels i need to change my swing in order to improve. Last lesson we had, we talked a lot around key areas that slides my pelvis too far towards the target and inhibits my rotation. His perspective is that the current main cause of my slide lies in that my left side will never brace and move out of the way from only adducting/internally rotate. The way he tried to explain it to me when i told him i felt this sounds very contradicting to rotaryswing is that he believes the initial move in transition needs to be double abduction on both legs, that basically the left leg need to act as a brace against the power from the right leg. In his opinion both legs will start an adduction movement as we move towards impact, and that this is when that happens (which i feel sounds very familiar to something chuck once spoke about "pinching both butcheecks" so i bought this). This person is someone I've come to respect and trust, so to feel like the two sources of my golfdevelopement were contradicting has put me at a loss. Tried to look through material on rotaryswing to see if there is something i have missed, and perhaps that the dual abduction is something that isn't touched upon cuz people tend to do this very naturally. the closest thing i could find is references to the snead squat and "dropping the ball" which i feel could be a movement that would originate from dual abduction at the beginning of transition. Would really love if someone could shed some light on my situation and perhaps explain why either is right or wrong. I tried to do what i felt was double abduction and it seems to kinda work, but i don't want to do something that would inhibit my growth.

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Hello Jens. You are correct about the Sam Snead/Drop Ball dual adduction. I don't think he is trying to steer you astray, but a couple thoughts. The adduction of the lead side is to pull the weight over. The internal rotation and the oblique will be the main components of getting the lead hip open. Most players tend to push excessively and too hard from trail side leading to the pelvis slide and movement beyond NJA. You can use the dual adduction to help create a better transition.
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