James Hahn - Perfect Impact Position
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Congrats to James Hahn for winning the 2015 Northern Trust Open, in a soaking wet playoff finish. In this video, I am going to show you Hahn's swing stacks against the RST model swing. I'll show you how important using your lower body in the backswing is for stability and how to use your hips properly in the downswing sequence. I'll show you how important it is to shift your weight and maintain stability in the downswing, and get into an awesome impact position, packed with speed and control. Let's learn how to use your hips the right way now!
- Load the trail side propelry and check it for proper stability by drawing a line straight up from the trail ankle.
- Shift and unwind the hips to start the downswing
- Look for the lead hip to be stacked over the knee and ankle perfectly to ensure enough shift has been made.
Hi Rotary Swing Golfers, this is RST instructor Chris Tyler.
This week I'm going to be doing a breakdown of James Hahn's beautiful looking golf swing.
I'm actually going to be doing a side-by-side comparison with one of our model swings.
And showing you a lot of the fine attributes that this guy has to his golf swing.
And show you exactly how to get into a great impact position.
Let's go ahead and get started.
Okay guys, as I said in the opener, I'm going to be doing a side-by-side comparison with James Hahn's beautiful looking golf swing.
I'm going to show you how important it is to load up the right side and how important it is to be able to use your lower half properly.
To get into a great looking impact position so that you can control the hitting area.
Let's go ahead and get started here.
I'm going to get both players up to the top of their golf swings and we're going to talk about the right hip line first.
And how important it is for you to be able to look at this when you self-evaluate.
I'm going to draw this line up from the center of the ankle on both players here.
You're going to notice that we've got the right leg really pushed up against this line.
This is a line that we draw up from the center of the ankle and from a two -dimensional aspect, you will notice that your right hip will pull away from this line.
Because the hips are rotating and we're looking at it from a face-on perspective, you do want to see that the hip pulls away from this line just a fraction, not much.
If you've noticed that your right leg or your trail leg pulls inward of this line, That's a signal to you that you have not shifted enough weight over there and you've become unstable.
Double check to make sure that when you start your golf swing, when you start your takeaway, That you've shifted enough weight over there and then make sure that you feel like you're pushing your right heel and ankle into the ground.
And that will help keep things pushed up there and help keep a load into that side.
If you've noticed that your leg is pushed through this line, Then that could be a signal that you've got too much lateral shift and we've got to kind of pinpoint what's caused that.
That's generally attributed to you pushing the golf club back with your lead arm and your lead shoulder.
Those are what you want to look for with the right hip line.
Very important line for you guys to be able to use and self -diagnose, but these guys both have great looking load to the right side.
You're going to see big wide shoulder turn out of both players, and you're going to see that both.
Virtually in the same position as far as shaft angle and right forearm are concerned.
Now, what we've got to focus on now is how do we get back into the lead side.
I think that's one of the big things that a lot of amateur golfers struggle with.
What we're looking for at this point, from a model swing standpoint, is when we start to work in transition, you're going to see a shifting and an unwinding of the hips.
Those hips shifted and they unwound.
Now the hips are virtually back to a square position here.
Let me get one more frame for us.
Now, our hips and our knees are back into a square position where they were virtually at.
You're going to see that we've shifted.
The left knee is now stacked right over the top of the left ankle, and virtually the left hip socket is right over it as well.
You can see the spacing now from the right leg and that right hip line.
Now from James Hahn's golf swing perspective, you're going to see here as we start to shift, let me get him right over to the lead side.
Now you can see his weight getting stacked up over there.
Left knee stacked right over the top of the left ankle, left hip socket in a good spot as well.
You can see the spacing from where the right hip line was.
So there's a pretty good size shift of the hips.
But also I want you to take note of the lead arm.
See how the lead arm is now parallel to the ground.
If you've noticed that your arms are much further down in your golf swing, talking about belt high or below.
If you've noticed that, then that's you trying to do too much with the upper part of your body.
So a good checkpoint for you is when you start to shift or sit into your lead side, check to see how or where your arms are in your downswing sequence.
If you see that they're pulled down too far, then chances are you've tried to motor your downswing with just the hands and the arms.
At this point, What we're looking for now that we're back to a square position and we're starting to get our weight posted up and we're getting really stable is we're going to start to clear the left hip out.
So the left hip is starting to clear and we're going to stabilize the lower body right into impact.
So you have a nice stacked up lead looking side there.
Same thing from model swing perspective, excuse me, we're shifting into that lead side and then we are posting up and controlling the speed of the hips.
So the hands and arms can now act independently from the body and release at max speed at impact.
So if you want more consistency and you want more speed in your golf swing, then it's really important that you prioritize things properly.
Get up to the top of your golf swing, get into a good looking right hip line, Make sure that you've loaded up that trail side properly and then use your lower body to shift and unwind.
And get things into a good position.
To where you can start to stabilize and control the speed of the rotation of the body.
If you can control the speed of the rotation of the body, That's going to allow you to let the hands and arms release with max speed.
And you'll be well on your way to hitting the golf ball better than you ever have before, I promise you.
All right guys, so a couple of great videos I want you to check out this week, obviously the right hip line, we talked about that at first.
These are all going to be in the recommended videos over to the right hand side of the video player.
Great video for you to be able to self -diagnose, look at it, make sure that you've looked at it and okay, I understand what the right hip line means.
Next good video that I want you to check out is sitting into the left side.
Another video that's going to talk to you about how the hips are working in downswing, transition, and an awesome video for you to try out.
A good drill is squat to square.
These videos are going to show you how to get these moves with this lower body, Kind of get things started on the right path and allow you to get into a really great looking impact position.
And if you're unclear about what impact alignments are supposed to look at from a face-on perspective, we're also going to talk about, that's also going to be another recommended video, impact alignments face-on, Good video for you to be able to look at it and then take a look at your own golf swing and say, okay, I'm not in these positions, I need to make some adjustments.
Alright guys, so if you want to play more consistently, this is the move, one of these moves you want to mimic.
I hope you guys have a great day, now let's get out there and play some great golf.
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