Been very focused on lower body lately and just had a thought pop into my head.
Been very focused on lower body lately and just had a thought pop into my head which i thought was interesting. It was really two tourpros that got me thinking, victor hovland and tiger woods and the way they turn their hips. As tiger turns he gets a very sound tilt to his hips but it is very clear that his right femur stays very still. To me it looks like tiger is 100% pivot and 0% turn. Looking at hovland he seems to get in to slightly less tilt to the pelvis and you can also see jow his femur and knee is turning to the right. To me it looks like hovland combines his pivot with also allowing a turn. When I became a RS member i remember very early watching a video mentioning the laser bram drill im regards to the right knee, which is something that feels very much in line what tiger is doing. But when it comes to axiom i atleast feel that the movement favours a combination of pivot and turn and I am just wondering if there has been a shift in what is believed to be best to perform a powerful swing? To me if the femur turns together with the hipsocket, basically letting the turn match the pivot, obviously there is very little load created in the hip socket which now is very tension free and my femur now has a longer way to move to get into impact. If I pivot with 0% turn i create a lot of load/tension in the hipsocket and the femur has less way to move into impact. And this is sort of where I am getting stuck in my thinking because i simply dont know which way is sounder for a powerful swing. I know chuck spoke about how too much tension in the right hip can be detrimental and easily create an over the top move, but I also know how he has spoken a lot about how you'll never make it into impact in time if you let your right knee move to the right. Is one way to combine pivot and turn to prefer for Power and one for precision, or is simply one way straight up superior? Or is it something very individual that you need to figure out on your own? I find this super interesting and would love to just understand it a bit better :).
