Clearing The Hips In The Golf Swing: Pros Vs Ams
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Being able to clear your hips during your golf swing is a huge plus for hitting pure solid golf shots. The pros do this extremely well while the rest of us often struggle with this key component of the golf swing. In this video, we're going to show you how they do it and then we'll tell you how you can add this cool move to your golf swing!
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Would you be able to do another video exactly like this, but input the data for maybe 10-20 pros and create an "average" for us to see? I think too many people try to copy one pro's moves, but we all have our own unique swing. This is why it would be nice to see an average of what pros do, to give us a general idea of a movement pattern we should be striving for. Thanks for considering this.
Been a committed student of our game for 40 years. I have NEVER read, heard or seen better science based instruction EVER. Clear, concise and dare I say, beautiful delivery of instructional materials. I’m grateful gentlemen! Thank you for your hard work!! Aaron
This type of instruction is going to change golf and golf instruction forever. Calling it now. We’re already seeing it with the vast golf technology that’s been released and used just in the past decade
What was the science
This is the best golf instruction video I have ever watched. I have been trying to understand "clearing the hips" for 15 years. This made it click in 10 mins.
Awesome! We're glad you watched and really glad it helped!
This series of videos changed my game forever!! In a month, I gained back 15-20 yards off the tee and dropped 5-8 strokes off of my game. I was seriously early extending...bad. For me, its all about the left hip and thinking about keeping my butt against the glass. It was like magic.
Probably one of the very best golf videos I have ever seen on proper hip movements! Thank you showing the correct template of movement and proper practice!
Thanks for watching, Alan, we're glad you enjoyed it!
This is simply Brilliant Mike. Thanks to you and Shaun for putting all this together in a way that becomes so clear and easy to understand. Great job.
Extremely helpful. Watching this video I experienced a real "lightbulb" moment. Thanks for sharing your insights into the biomechanics of the golf swing..💡💡💡
I have come back to this video multiple time over the last year as I teach myself how the golf swing works. This is priceless information you guys have captured and shared. Thanks a million!
Awesome - thanks for watching, Joey!
Just watching this brilliant video again I was reminded of another great video with Eric Cogorno and Mike Malaska (How To Create Hip Depth And Fix Early Extension) and I thought you Guys might be interested and thought it might also help us players understand this critical issue better. Thanks again.
I’ve watched all the popular golf channels on UA-cam and can say without a shadow of a doubt that you guys are the best. Your scientific approach is a breath of fresh air compared to the abstract ideas in typical golf instruction. I’m a huge fan. Many thanks gents.
Wow thanks for the kind words, Christian!
Just another Brilliant video Mike, which really helps to clarify exactly what and why we should be doing.
Took me years to figure this out on my own, great to see this information so accessible.
It's actually shocking to see what happens when finally get the hips working right.
Not so much the power increase, but being able to hit your old distances with what feels like a quarter effort.
If you keep the good form at higher effort and speed, then yes, the ball starts flying. But you have to keep the form an sequence right or it all goes to shit.
Excellent comment about the effort vs result, Matt!💪
@@AthleticMotionGolf Funny how using the big muscles in your lower body to create small, but forceful movements, generates all this speed out at the clubhead. Who wooda' thunk it Lol
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this channel is a hidden gem!!!
We're trying to be not so hidden😁
One of your best videos! Thank you!
Brilliant. Helpful. Timely.
Great video, the hips are such a key part of the golf swing and the driver of power. Getting them to clear is important to getting into that slot position that we all want. Cheers
Couldn't agree more👊
It's all in the hips
It's all in the hips
This video fundamentally changed the way I thought about my hip movement through the swing, this with the shoulder turn video is youtube's best kept golf secrets. Thank you guys !
wow thanks so much!
Fantastic! Just practiced this and instantly had feedback. I play right handed and upon turning into my right side felt resistance down the inside of my right quad at the knee and all the way down through my lower leg into my instep. This is obviously what pushing off a solid right side is.
Ive struggled with "early extension" all my life! And over the course of 30yrs of more off than on playing plateaued at a handicap of 5 for over four Years!!!! Which was my most prolonged time playing. During that time I went through 4 separate PGA teachers, tens of thousands of balls at the range, numerous online tuition videos, a selection of DVDS, and a nice collection of golf books!! Culminating in an innate ability to be able to stand over any shot at any time and hit it anywhere. The frustration of this is immeasurable.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have given me something that no other attempt has ever done. And that is "Clarity Through Confusion."
You truly are a wonderful man for sharing this.
Kind regards
Alan.
What you playing off now
Love the technical understanding, thanks
Great video. This has to be the single most important part of the golf swing. Good exercise....during downswing, feel like you’re separating your knees apart while turning
This is fantastic information. I use to do a drill similar to this and I will start doing it again.
I watched this again today for the second time after seeing it originally soon after it came out. I tend to learn best by reading something (or watching) and then forgetting about it for a while before re-reading / watching. I understood so much more this time. I love these videos because you can see exactly what is going on. You just can't beat data (which is what this really is in my book) when you are trying to understand something like this.
Thanks, John. That's why we try to share as much real-world data as we can👍
Can't thank you enough for creating this video. Best golf tip I have ever received. Although I do have to disagree with you on one point....I just happened to watch this vid before I was headed to the range. Naturally I decided to give that right hip move a go and I was absolutely stunned by the results even from the first swing. I can truly feel the space created. Everything is better: backswing, downswing, contact, ball flight, accuracy, follow through, everything. Thanks so much for the content. Love what you're doing.
this may be the best video i've ever seen on how the hips move in the golf swing. thanks.
WOW! Thanks John👊
I’ve managed to setup a practice station at home where I have my iPhone above me, sending video to my iPad using the Mirror vision app. I’ve been able to observe myself in real time swinging, and I definitely resembled the golfer on the left to begin with. I now look much more like the golfer on the right and WOW I am hitting the purest, sweetest golf shots of my life. Filming myself in real time from above has provided me with a perspective of my swing I’d never seen before just filming myself front on or down the line. Thank you AMG this video inspired me to do something new and I feel like I’ve opened a new phase in my golf as a result.
I hadn't realized how it's possible to change the rotation of one hip over the other - one tends to think of hips as a circular unit where they are locked into travelling the same distance - but thanks to your video I do see you can increase the travel on side and limit it on the other - very illuminating. Thanks!
This is the best explanation for body rotation! I gotta practice this and give people a review of this lecture! Thank you so much
As usual great stuff with amazing visual data. Best golf channel to learn ! Thank you for your efforts.
Thanks brother!
10/10, another great vid. Really appreciate your work
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I have been looking for this forever!
We hope it helps!
Quite possible THE best video I have seen on UA-cam... this click immediately and ball striking improved immediately. More video on hip depth will be awesome.. keep up the phenomenal work
Wow, Leo thanks! We do have more on the hips in the hopper👍
These videos are fantastic and it's made a huge difference in how I approach some of the problems in my swing. Still working hard on avoiding hip thrust forward. I noticed the pro's right foot and how it stays down longer than mine does. Little things like that are what your videos show. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Brian, we're glad they're helping.
Ya I've just begun pulling my right hip back, using that right hip to sweep around while drifting forward... Actually feels much simpler, not to mention consistent striking which pumped confidence. Very good video explanation, thank you.
Clearing the hips video is the best training for me. I would now benefit from a similar full swing gear display. Great instruction...thankyou.
Thank You!!! Thank You!!!! Thank You!!!. I have been struggling with my hips for a while. It took one video to fix my faults. I am swinging a bit slower to make sure it becomes muscle memory. No more left knee pain. Thank You!!!
Awesome, Jose! Keep it slow and you'll develop more speed and distance with much less effort!
That's a great video right there! Outstanding work.
Thanks for watching, Todd!
personally thinking this may be the utmost important basic factor to just impact! thx so much for sharing~ :)
Thanks for watching, Krys!
Agreed. Most underrated, least explained aspect of the swing.
Completely agree Krys.
Great vid. I love the fact that you guys talk about drilling everything so slowly. I took 7 years of private drum lessons back in the day, and when challenging sections of complex pieces would come up you would "take it to the woodshed and break it down, note to note, measure to measure, phrase to phrase, slowly". My winter golf woodshed has a heater. And I have the time to take it to the woodshed!
Great post👏. No short cuts unfortunately.
Most important golf video I’ve ever watched. Thanks!!!
Wow, glad it helped!
Awesome. It's just one of those rare vids that I would really be prepared to pay for.
I've been struggling with this shit for nearly a year, lost quite a few pretty good balls via shanks.
I found the answer eventually through swet & tears. But! If only I could watch it a year ago!!!
No other teacher would see and explain this. Checked that.
THANK YOU. Great job, AMG!
Wow, thanks Andrey!
Amazing information. I learned that there's life in the universe of the golf swing. Thank you!
So glad I subscribed to this channel a while back. This is my first comment and I'll say without a doubt that this is the best video I've watched about golf instruction ever...and believe me I've watched a ton of them...thanks a lot for your work, much appreciated!!
WoW! Thank you the kind words. We really appreciate you subscribing and letting us help you with your game!
To retain that left cheek on the glass, are you thinking about pushing the left heel into the ground?
Thanks for the video! I suffer from moving laterally in my swing and this helped me understand why and what I need to do to fix it! Thanks!!
Great!!!
I wish this information was available when I was younger. Learning golf was difficult with a local pro teaching the basic swing. Thanks for the great information.
You and me both! 😊
With you brother. I actually wish this information wasn't available to anybody under say idk 70 😂 While I love the kids having this unbelievable access to this wonderful pastime, the sensible part of me wishes they had to suffer through all the same trials and tribulations we endured 😂 For no other reason then it'll make them stronger and more appreciative of stuff. But I digress😢
You guys are so freaking good. How do I get my pelvic rotation measured using this? Genuinely believe this is what separates
the good from the great!
This is the clearest, most beautifully presented explanation I have ever seen. Well done sirs!
thank you!!!!
I'm almost a year and a half late finding this vid but timely and perfect for me right now. I wanted to hit thumbs up twice.
This video analyzes the every each position of the swing between Pro and Amateur. I have been learning golfing for 2 months and this video is really helpful to understand how to swing the club. Thanks for your explanation
Thanks for watching!
Your fan from Tokyo. This is really eye opening. Really helps me to digest thanks million!!
I love the details here and it helped me remember something that has been missing in my swing, namely, the “drift” left... that said, I think it would be helpful to also talk about head movement with the drift. Too often I’ve experienced and seen others try to drift the WHOLE body including the head which leads to big push cuts. Need to be able to drift the BODY left while head stays BACK. A video on head to body relationship during the swing would be AWESOME! Thanks for the content gents, great stuff!
Thanks brother👊
Have you seen this one yet: ua-cam.com/video/MsKn3NsRQt8/v-deo.html
Excellent, it also reminded me of a movement I'd forgotten.
This has put all the puzzle pieces together, I'll try it out tomorrow 😊
This is absolutely huge! Combining this concept with shifting forward before my backswing is finished gave me some tasty ball contact at the range. I had to check which club I was hitting because it was going so much further than usual lol
that is great!!! Sometimes the re-centering is the missing link in a swing.
Awesome Mike. Thank you
AM looks like an over swinger! That software is awesome thanks again!🙏
Awesome video. Pro moves are just so efficient.
Yes they really make it look easy. We're trying to share as much as we can about how they do it😉
best one yet guys! great demonstration
thanks buddy!
Excellent video. The movement the pro executes is much better for the lower back as well!
This hip rotation really opened my eyes in how I think of turning the hips almost like I been turning the right direction but the wrong way
I have finally found the golf
Channel that suites my eye. Thanks!
I am the golfer on the right. Cant wait to try the improvement on the range. Another great video thank you.
Priceless content, thank you so much.
These are absolutely fantastic. Thank you ! ! !
Thank you!
Perfect. Clearly explained. Awesome.
Thanks for watching, Robert👊
Thank you Mike for another excellent topic and video. Noticed the Am lifts his left heel and this causes the left hip moving forward and loosing its depth. Although I don't left my left heel but I have the same problem of left hip loosing depth and suffer from pull shots or pull hook. But I didn't fully realise this until I saw this video. More work in the range...!
Keep us posted👍
Fantastic video, as usual top quality analysis!
Thanks, John🙏
Very good stuff! Keep it up 👍
The thought of the slight clockwise turn, shown by the green arrow at the right hip in frame 6:25, encourages me to open up the right side from the start of the back swing. The overhead GEARS view of the pro was very helpful in communicating correct hip motion.
thnx, i know this will help. sometimes i have to stop and tell myself this thing only takes 2 seconds to perform so you better start doing it right with the right ideas. just focus on a couple of things and then pull the trigger, bang!!
Wow, I see I desperately need to work on my hip turn.. This information was a true revelation. Thank you, I don't know why you don't have a million subscribers!
If you don't mind, just share this with 974,000 of your closest friends😁
@@AthleticMotionGolf 2 years on...
Awesome once again ! But i love the video 5 years ago clearing the hips Thanks
Been working with early extension with a teaching PGA pro. The right hip movement analysis in this video really brought a new viewpoint, in my case it seems to be necessary to push the right hip away from the ball during backswing, that results in more spacious hip turn before and at the impact.
Love it!!!!
As a bit of fun I thought I would try turning my backside toward the target and then pushing into toward the target to start the downswing. It felt ridiculous and seemed wrong but my ball striking was much better.
This is a brilliant video it shows that there is a period of time in the swing where the hips are toward the target and off the starting center you have on the screen and yet the hips are still closed. And then they unravel.
Thanks so much. Definitely going to try and make this a focus on my swing
Awesome!
As a life-time early extender, this is THE most important video for me that you have produced. I finally get how the spine works as well as the hips. Epiphanic!! Thank you!
Ric Doss
Awesome! thanks for watching🙏
On the backswing, the pro turns around the spine. The amateur turns more around the right hip. Look at 10:31 in the vid. The amateur's left hip and center of spine are rotating around the right hip, whereas the pro's center of spine is very quiet and both hips are rotating around that.
Excellent video!
As always, superb instruction! I’ve been watching all your videos on the website and UA-cam channel. I’m hearing the theme of “athletic” motion loud and clear. In order to “not” succumb to paralysis by analysis, I try to remain athletic and work on feel/visualization type comparisons. For example, I rehears pressure/mass transfer by making some throws down the range when practicing. Would it be helpful for players like me if you created more comparison videos of throwing/pitching a baseball and the correct pro swing? Maybe side by side comparison of pressure, shoulders, arms, rib cage, hips, etc? What do you think? I’ve played with these feels on the range with some great results...
Great video. I think I've learned a lot from this.
Appreciate you watching!
6:45 The drifting forward of the lower body before the completion of the backswing. That's a lightbulb moment for me.
That one is for a lot of golfers, Dave. Once guys see that there are in fact two movements happening at the same time, lateral and rotational, they really start to "gain" more time during the swing.
Hogan, Snead, trevino and nicklaus. Watch his Golf my way old videos to see it in slow motion over and over from above. Lower starts left while backswing is almost at the "top"
Fantastic video and very important info about what happens in a good golf swing. This perspective provided by the Gears software is "a picture worth 10,000 words" because it would be nearly impossible to convey these points clearly without it.
Gears is a great tool for making some of these more complex movements easy to see.
I would contend it's worth way more than 10,000 words especially if those words don't convey the points in this vid. I know I've heard well over 10k in instruction over my 50+ years of playing and got further on my own than the lessons I've taken with exception to this channel. Best ever!
I am from Singapore and I feel I have wasted my youth on bad golf mechanics. After watching a few videos and seeing the science of the swing I am aware of what I needed to do to, instead of listening to advice that doesn't address the source of mistakes. I am taking all this in and am hitting the balls better than I have ever done in my life. I am subscribing to AMG and really, really great work. Why didn't I see your videos earlier....
As usual, great stuff.
Thanks brother!
Really good information here. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for watching!👊
So now that I've confirmed the "drift" is indeed part of my swing, I came back to this video last night as my results were very spotty by my standards. Turns out my hip "turn" is like the AM in this video. Insert &$%^*#!! here. This morning, I went out to my backyard where I have a nice net/mat setup and moved my hips like in the pro side of this vid. Lo and behold, my arm extension is back and my left hip is moving. I've tried for years to clear through the ball and couldn't quite get there. Now I know why. Note to self...don't take a 10-year break and thank goodness you guys are here. From watching this video, it looks to me like the pro is simply setting him/herself up for going forward in the downswing and depending on mass rather than "momentum" to get through the ball. The left hip looks like it comes out toward the ball rather than back. When I do this, my right hip automatically goes beyond the tush line without any issue at all and I can move away from the ball which maintains the depth you discuss here. I was wondering why on some shots I felt crowded into the ball and it flew so much shorter than well-struck shots. The operative word here for me is "pivot". That's what the pro is doing rather than the am who is "turning". As I've said in the past, I've worked with some of the best instructors out there, Ben Doyle and John Geertson Jr., who didn't help me with results as much as you guys have. Thank you very much for this channel. Can't wait to play it in Bandon Dunes next week. I hope it goes better than I've been playing lately.
Absolutely love the self-discovery in your comments! Have a blast at Bandon!
Wow, what a video and another HUGE piece to the puzzle! Like seemingly all of your videos, if you view them a few times, and really concentrate on grasping what you are saying and what the videos are showing, once you start properly practicing these moves, first with only your body, then with a club, and then hitting a ball, the results are amazing. I could never understand how most pros were able to drop their heads slightly during their backswings and then some more during their downswings. I could never really do it. I was just happy that I had somehow managed, after playing and practicing for years, to keep my spine from extending. But then after viewing this video, I went in front of a mirror without a club and cleared my RIGHT hip MORE on the backswing (away from the target line), and then cleared my left hip during the downswing the way I ordinarily do, and there it was, my head dropped slightly during the backswing and then a little more during the downswing. So to properly clear the left hip on the downswing, you must properly clear your right hip (so to speak) on the backswing, correct? And am I wrong to assume that this move not only contributes greatly to eliminating early extension, it actually allows you to decrease your spine angle (and drop your head) the way the pros seem to do it on both their backswings and downswings?
Well, you just basically said it better than we did👊😊 Yep, you're correct and great job putting it into play!
Athletic Motion Golf Thank you for that compliment, but trust me, as hard as I try, I never seem able to meet the challenge of sharing these ideas with my fellow golfers with mere words alone. With your permission, I am going to direct whoever cares about the golf swing directly to YOUR channel. On the course and the range, we can just TALK about the swing, but on your channel, you actually LEARN the swing. I don't mean to sound unduly dramatic, but I love this dumb game, and you guys have really elevated my game. You guys are the best, and more people should, and will, know about you. Thank you.
@@wgb8210 you have our written permission to share😊
We're all just golf nerds trying to hit it a little farther and a little straighter👊
@@AthleticMotionGolf These videos are great. Really easy to use.
Many of the Gurus out there "talk" about how the head and spine move during the swing but your videos "SHOW" you what you need to know. Big difference. For me, the challenge is the downswing - prior to this video, I worked on yes pushing the left hip away from the target line but also, dropping the trailing shoulder towards the ground which (hopefully) causes the left hip to move away from the target line.
I will try to just focus on the hip without a club and take this in baby steps. I thought I had it but the feel got lost due to too many thoughts. Great videos!
Been getting cozch lessons since September handicap has dropped from 28 to 20 (wanting to get to 18 by end of year)
And my number 1 most important swing thought on the course is just to get the belt buckle in front of the ball at impact.
It doesnt gaurentee a draw or fade or straight shot etc.
But you will strike it well!
Excellent analysis. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you! As a previous comment said: This is the HOLY GRAIL!
Thanks for checking it out!
Very informative, good theory backed up by good technical videos. A race engine vs a misfiring one, but, there's hope now that we can see where the problem lies. Thank you.
There's always hope, Larry😊
Fantastic analysis. Wow.
Awesome vid! By far the best golf instructional channel on the tube. 👍👍👍
Can you do a similar vid on the shoulders (from top view)? I'very seen the DTL vid but I think the top view would be great as well. So many of us struggle with hip and shoulder rotation, causing stalling and flipping, so would be a great complement to this vid. Thanks!
Thanks buddy!
And yes we can. That's a great idea!👍
The Holy Grail for me!!! This video was the ONE that hit home for my never ending pivot problem. Immediate results! Thank you!!!
Awesome Louis👊
One of the most eye opening videos I have seen
Thank you! Hope it helps you
When I get that right hip going more behind me, it really puts a lot of torque in that right leg. Great feeling.
Feels more powerful, right?
I've been a pretty effective goat-humper for over 30 years. Playing off a scratch handicap I've still never really worked out how the hips should work. I've watched this video a few times now, it has completely changed my understanding of hip movement in the swing. Smaller movements in the right direction, with the right sequence. Allowing the right hip to go deeper on the way back and really trying to "feel" that left hip traces seems to be the key for me to get this thing all synched up. Translates into more speed, less toe strikes, more distance. Thanks AMG!
That's awesome, Matthew💪
What's been your miss when you're not playing your best?
Stall the hips, raise the handle and flip it to get the club head back onto the ball somehow. High toe strikes with the driver. Just look for me up the left side somewhere!
great lesson. thanks
Good vid. You have to break it down, hyper focus and do it super slow motion without a club = spot on good golf instruction.
This is something I can feel when I don’t clear. Great video!
Wow..... speechless big difference
The best video so far from AMG!
🙏💯
What I noticed is that the Ams right knee was allowed to flex in the backswing to the point that it was allowed to travel outside of the right foot whereas the Pros right leg was more supportive in the backswing and in fact straightened out more during the transition back to the ball. I think this difference will result in a different kind of rotation.
That was fantastic, mind blowing but fantastic.
We appreciate you watching, Ian🙏