#1 - How to Move the Right (Trail) Knee Like the Pros - Part 2
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Combine the Clamshell Drill with this right knee trick to give yourself more speed in your downswing and help you maintain your posture to stop losing the tush line.
all right so in part one of the video we talked about how this right knee works and some of the best players in the world and we could go through dozens and dozens of true pros you're going to see the same things over and over again and especially when it comes to power those who are really hitting the ball really well really hard and really high are you're going to see this over and over and over again and the reason part of this is that this allows the angle of attack to shallow out as you come through as you saw in brian gay's swing if you tend to just swing down with the arms or if you're that type of golfer where this right leg straightens and you just throw the club down you're going to tend to hit down on the ball pretty sharply and it's going to cost you a lot of distance with the driver make it harder to really hit long irons so in order to do this move what you need to understand is this again more than one way to skin a cat but the basic ideas is that as you're coming down if you remember from the clamshell drill that we we focus on getting that right hip to go back you saw in dustin johnson's case that right knee really extends back a long ways and and many golfers are going to see it not move nearly as much in my case i don't really move it a lot it doesn't really matter it's just really about getting that hip back and then as you start down this is where the money is made from here most amateurs will tend to drive hard if they're going to try to use this right side to help produce power they will drive hard off this right foot and drive the pelvis into the ball and of course this leads to early extension so you can't do that you can't just push hard this way off your right foot that's going to cause you to stand up so instead if you remember from the clamshell drill once that right hip's back on the chair the left hip then also kisses the chair so now both butt cheeks are on the chair and you'll see as i do this my right knee is moving forward now i'm not actively trying to move my knee forward that would obviously cause me to move my my pelvis or move my pelvis into the ball instead what i'm doing is my left hip is going back obviously nothing changes whether you're going to add a lot of right side into the to the swing or you're just going to feel all left side dominant doesn't matter the left side still leading everything and then as you unweight this right foot you'll see in the tour pro data if we look at the swing catalyst that 90 percent of their weight will go to that left foot the lead foot during the transition so this leg is getting light the trail leg gets light and so as i'm doing that and my hip is going back both hip especially the left one is going back to get onto that chair during the clamshell drill that's what's bringing this right knee forward but i can also do it by beginning to help drive that right hip through if you want to get a lot of hip rotational speed then you can use this right side to help speed that up as i showed you in my swing where i did both the left side and right side on the one on the left the left hip was doing all the work and my right leg was just pretty chilled out on the second one i wanted to add a lot of right side and so you saw a pretty big increase in that right knee flex and that was helping me drive my right hip through the ball a little bit you have to be careful with this there's a lot of tour pros that do this but if you're really aggressive with it you can really get a lot of side bend now there's ways to reduce side bend by doing other things if you still want to add a lot of right hip if you can add a little bit more shoulder rotation add a little bit more right arm which will stall the hip out earlier you won't get quite that open there are things that you can do but just be mindful of it if you're going to use this right side to help your swing to help produce some speed then be mindful that you're not getting into this crazy side bend position like you see so many of the younger tour pros you can do that for a while but eventually it's pretty tough on the old back to keep getting your hips that severely open and then keeping your shoulders back and creating this massive amount of side bend with rotational twist in there the easiest way to think about it again is the right knee needs to go forward but not because you're actively moving it forward you'll see if i did that that would instantly move my hip off the chair and the clamshell drill so again put this move together with the clamshell drill put a chair back here work on keeping during the transition getting both butt cheeks onto the chair and then as you keep going through that right knee can keep help moving forward to get your pelvis through the ball because if you're hitting the ball and you look like this at impact right where your hips are pretty much dead square perhaps this right leg is straightened up you're costing yourself a ton of distance you have to get your hips open as i go through this list of the you know the top 10 things that you see the modern tour prayer player do their hips being very very open and impact is one of those key things and i think a lot of golfers don't really understand how to get those hips open we'll talk about that but this is one of the keys if you're just going here and then just pushing laterally forward and straight in this knee your hips are never going to open but if you just start to understand how to do this move with combining that with a clamshell drill to let this right leg get light they'll let the knee relax and come forward as your hips are going back you can add a little bit of right side push just be careful of the side bend that you get in there and do this in a way that you feel light and quick don't make it this heavy thing i see a lot of times when students are submitting drills and they're they're going like and they look super tight and tense and and perhaps that's my fault a lot of times i'm dimming this demonstrating this stuff i try to exaggerate some of these moves so it's easier to see but the reality is you got to move quick it's all about quickness and lightness and speed not about being heavy and producing a lot of pressure and force if you go back and look at the part one video and my swing on the right uh the vertical ground force there was about 260 pounds of ground force and i weigh about 160 pounds so i'm producing a lot of force but that swing's happening very quick i'm not trying to like push hard into the ground i'm moving quick and that's you can you still create a tremendous amount of ground force by moving very quickly so keep that in mind as you're doing this don't try to get in there and make these drills all perfectionistic and say okay i'm going to put my hip here and do this and now you feel all tight and rigid you've got to be fast you've got to be light so if you keep that in mind as you're doing this it should look a little bit like this
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