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
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.
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.
I come back to this video everytime I need to straighten out my swing. This is the best video you guys have ever made. Wish this was around back 40 years ago!!!
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.
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!
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!
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.
As mentioned by many commenters, this is the single best golf instruction I have ever received. It alone has fixed my swing, which used to be a "lurch to the right," followed by feeling completely blocked on my downswing, foll0wed by a desperate attempt to get back to the ball with my arms, resulting in slapping at the ball or flipping my hands. Although I will need thousands of practice shots, I now have a very clear image of what I am trying to do.
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 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 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.
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!
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.
@@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
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!
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!
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.
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.
This is fantastic! I do rotate a ton with my hips and still create an out to in path, leading to fades (ok) or nasty slices (when i get tired and not able to somehow come back from the difficult position i put myself in). My answer on slices: you need to rotate MORE. The result: left hip moving even more. So you think you donit right and in fact you make it worse (and it feels sooo unfair haha). Thanks for all your biomechanic explanations. They visualize so well what is needed to do! Great job!
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.
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😢
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?
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.
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!
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 !
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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....
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
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!!!
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"
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.
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!
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
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!!
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
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
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.
Extremely helpful. Watching this video I experienced a real "lightbulb" moment. Thanks for sharing your insights into the biomechanics of the golf swing..💡💡💡
This video is my daily Bible verse. I watch it several times a week and think about it and rehearse what they're teaching here before EVERY golf swing. Once you realize how to rotate the hips like this video explains, it changes everything. Suddenly all those phrases ("shallow the club," "get in the slot," "pivot and rotate," "shift and fire," "release the hands," "dump the club, etc) become so much more natural when you do this properly. It was eye opening to me how different feel vs real was once I started focusing on where my hip points were moving. No matter how close you think you are to the "pro" in this video, if you're reading this, I demand that you stand up right now and do a backswing while focusing on the 3 hip points mentione din this video and how they move. I'd bet 90% of you will be shocked at how much your center point moves and how little your right hip moves compared to your left without you realizing it. Becase the golf swing is on an angled plane, a centered hip rotation is actually counterintuitive to the golf swing. But once you master it, everything else in the golf swing BECOMES intuitive.
I think this video answers the number one mystery of the swing. Everyone intuitively knows to get their swing arc pointed at the ball but don’t know how to position their lower body to make a move like that easier to make. Personally this saved my swing as I used to dig into my right knee on the backswing so I could turn and pop trying to generate speed. That was totally flipped around from what is most efficient: standing nice and tall on an almost buckled right knee at the top, ready to dig, turn, and slide with it while popping my left hip to a stop to generate that lift I wanted. It’s made me go from a bogey golfer swing to a 9 handicap and improving. It’s almost like my turn is already starting by the time I reach the top by standing tall into that right hip and I can just rip it without worrying now.
For me and others I see at driving range, there are a few key reasons why we amateurs hump forward. 1. they are afraid of hitting ground so they stand up on backswing and as they stand up, butt moves in toward the ball. If they don't, they feel their face is too close to the ground 2. Or they stand up on downswing for the same reason. 3. They don't drift toward target before they reach the top of backswing hence they feel that they have to stand up and hump to avoid fat shot. For me, I corrected that by sliding and turning my hips toward target and starting to hit thin shots. Overcompensation if you want to call it that. And what I did also at the same time was to continue turning on backswing as I started moving my body (drifting) toward target. It took me loads of patience as I didn't have any and many practice swings. With this, you really feel that your back is toward the target WHEN you start drifting forward. Lastly, when I start downswing, I made sure to move the shoulders before the hands, Rt shoulder down and turn, not turn and down, loosen the grip a shit ton and right palm facing up on top of back swing and the right elbow is tucked in at that time. I know sliding is not recommended but when i saw the video of mine hitting the ball, although I felt like I was sliding quite a bit, I wasn't. IMHO, it's better to "feel" the slide and hit thin shots feeling safe than not moving weight forward doing all those crazy things that all amateurs do such as humping, chicken wings, early release, fat shots, lifting head and so on.
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!!
This makes perfect sense. Just tried setting up an inch or two away from a low wall. Natural move was bringing left hip forward and no contact on right side. When I tried to get a feeling of pulling the right hip back and brushing the wall it felt a lot more simple with more room for the downswing. Great vid!!
What I think about is making sure the the left glute gets back on the tush line (and stays there) before the Rt glute comes off the tush line. Creates a bunch of space for the arms.... thanks for the analysis this is really good!
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!
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...!
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.
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.
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!
Excellent video. One thing I noticed is how much farther forward the Am extends the left knee during the backswing. That's a good visual check to see if you're over-rotating. The Pro extends his left knee no farther than the left toe.
I don't think you're looking at this rotation in the proper context. The Pro's right hip moves backwards (deep) and the left hip moves a little towards the ball which results in a big hip turn. The main point here, AMs do the opposite - left hip goes moves more towards the ball and right hip does not move backwards as much. Big hip turn is the source of power
@tantripicks2440 Excellent observation! Bc extension of the leg equals rotation of the corresponding hip✅ ✅ So bc am extends lead leg more than trail leg, he naturally produces more rotation of the lead hip. Not good 👎👎 And bc the pro extends trail leg more than lead leg he naturally produces more rotation of the rear hip👍👍
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!
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
Great video as usual. My experience - Get something that provides feedback as to head movement (I have a convex golf mirror). In order to swing with a still head, your hips will move much like this. Tip - hips need to turn more than you think.
I think this is probably your best video ever. So much great info. Thanks so much. Please keep them coming. Do you think it might be helpful to add a pressure trace to this. Add another aspect of how a pro moves.
Thanks! Based on the comments so far, we're really thinking about doing a follow-up video this week showing more aspects of the pro's swing. We could add his pressure trace to that also. Would a follow-up video to this help out?
I think this was really complete but if you have more to add then definitely do it. The method you used to produce the video I think made what you wanted to convey crystal clear. Better than in the past. Zooming in on the pelvis and left leg motion was really effective. Showing the difference between low handicappers and pros makes the videos so compelling. I would think adding the pressure trace of just the left foot would show how early the pros are going in that direction. Just as an aside, I went to the Fed Ex in Boston yesterday and watched the pros on the range for about 5 hours. Knowing how they are moving from your videos it became easy to see what they are doing so much differently than amateurs. The early pressure shift became obvious. Stenson is genius. He sets himself up so that all he has to do is turn his shoulders. He does a forward press, then puts added pressure on his right foot so as he starts his swing he starts going to pressure his left immediately. All he does is get a full shoulder turn. He has his hands in impact position to start his swing and he can't do anything but pressure forward because he pressures right before he starts his swing. No wonder he is the preeminent ball striker. Almost nothing can go wrong. Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to more. My understanding gets better with every video.
Thank you @Athletic Motion Golf for another great video. It appears to me that in this video there are two phases of lateral slide to the lead side: (a) one is what you normally call recentering, which starts even before right arm parallel and stops about/before when hands reach top of the back swing, and (b) another slide (of both upper and lower body) past center after that, where I don't see any shoulder or hip rotation (some refers to it as keeping the back to target during sliding). It appears the sliding stops before shoulder and hip rotation (and I guess lowering of the arm as per Magic Move) starts. Is that the correct understanding of the sequence? Just that in some of your other drills (pump/fall downhill), I understand that there is already some shoulder and hip rotation as you slide target side. Or everything is so quick that it doesn't matter if you feel you start rotating as you slide or you slide and stop before rotating? Appreciate if you could clarify on this sequence. Many thanks.
Keep in mind that the downswing is just 1/4 second. Inside that time, the arms and grip of the club NEED to accelerate quickly. While that is happening, the body is rotating BUT not the dominant movement. Understanding that will help keep some poor ideas out of the downswing. That will allow you to get the sequence of shift, turn, shift, turn to happen.
@@AthleticMotionGolf thank you very much for responding. Having just watched your video on "Stop Getting Stuck", your above comment about rotation should not be the dominant movement (perhaps at least in the initial part of the downswing?) may explain why I get stuck on occasions (perhaps too much of that Tiger's Ole move you mentioned). Many thanks again. Great video, great advice.
I have watched this video multiple times and seem to get something new out of it each time I watch it. One thing that I hope might make a difference in how to approach rotation in the golf swing is to realize that the pelvis is shaped like an ellipse and not a circle. Since an ellipse has 2 centers it seems like a key concept would be to learn how to shift and rotate around those two centers.
This is VERY awesome vid. Can you upload just the pro swing? So we can play the pro hip movement in loop and follow the move and practice watching the movement. Thanks!!
This video refers to a link to another video on club issues, which cannot find. I know AMG has a lot of videos out there, but this one is so good I would like to know what particular video on using the club they were referring to. Any direction would be appreciated.
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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.
I come back to this video everytime I need to straighten out my swing. This is the best video you guys have ever made. Wish this was around back 40 years ago!!!
@@dekaywill4572 you and me both 👊😅
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!
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!
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!
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
this channel is a hidden gem!!!
We're trying to be not so hidden😁
As mentioned by many commenters, this is the single best golf instruction I have ever received. It alone has fixed my swing, which used to be a "lurch to the right," followed by feeling completely blocked on my downswing, foll0wed by a desperate attempt to get back to the ball with my arms, resulting in slapping at the ball or flipping my hands. Although I will need thousands of practice shots, I now have a very clear image of what I am trying to do.
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 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.
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.
Your videos take a little more thought and concentration than most. Well worth the effort. I really learned a lot from this one.
Thanks for taking the time to digest it, Mario😉
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👍
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.
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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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!
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!
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.
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.
this may be the best video i've ever seen on how the hips move in the golf swing. thanks.
WOW! Thanks John👊
This is fantastic! I do rotate a ton with my hips and still create an out to in path, leading to fades (ok) or nasty slices (when i get tired and not able to somehow come back from the difficult position i put myself in). My answer on slices: you need to rotate MORE. The result: left hip moving even more. So you think you donit right and in fact you make it worse (and it feels sooo unfair haha).
Thanks for all your biomechanic explanations. They visualize so well what is needed to do! Great job!
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😢
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!
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!
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!
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👍
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!
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 is the best explanation for body rotation! I gotta practice this and give people a review of this lecture! Thank you so much
What a fantastic video. So informative on hip turn and classic problem of early extension. SUPERB👏
This is the clearest, most beautifully presented explanation I have ever seen. Well done sirs!
thank you!!!!
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.
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!
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.
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....
Clearing the hips video is the best training for me. I would now benefit from a similar full swing gear display. Great instruction...thankyou.
AM looks like an over swinger! That software is awesome thanks again!🙏
Amazing information. I learned that there's life in the universe of the golf swing. Thank you!
Your fan from Tokyo. This is really eye opening. Really helps me to digest thanks million!!
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.
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!
Best material available. Amazed you don't have millions of subs.
Thanks Gary! We working on it 🙂
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"
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.
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...
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
Most important golf video I’ve ever watched. Thanks!!!
Wow, glad it helped!
As usual great stuff with amazing visual data. Best golf channel to learn ! Thank you for your efforts.
Thanks brother!
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?
I am the golfer on the right. Cant wait to try the improvement on the range. Another great video thank you.
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
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🙏
May be one of the best UA-cam Golf Videos
Just another Brilliant video Mike, which really helps to clarify exactly what and why we should be doing.
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
Excellent video. The movement the pro executes is much better for the lower back as well!
One of the most eye opening videos I have seen
Thank you! Hope it helps 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.
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👊
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!!!!
Extremely helpful. Watching this video I experienced a real "lightbulb" moment. Thanks for sharing your insights into the biomechanics of the golf swing..💡💡💡
This video is my daily Bible verse. I watch it several times a week and think about it and rehearse what they're teaching here before EVERY golf swing. Once you realize how to rotate the hips like this video explains, it changes everything. Suddenly all those phrases ("shallow the club," "get in the slot," "pivot and rotate," "shift and fire," "release the hands," "dump the club, etc) become so much more natural when you do this properly. It was eye opening to me how different feel vs real was once I started focusing on where my hip points were moving. No matter how close you think you are to the "pro" in this video, if you're reading this, I demand that you stand up right now and do a backswing while focusing on the 3 hip points mentione din this video and how they move. I'd bet 90% of you will be shocked at how much your center point moves and how little your right hip moves compared to your left without you realizing it. Becase the golf swing is on an angled plane, a centered hip rotation is actually counterintuitive to the golf swing. But once you master it, everything else in the golf swing BECOMES intuitive.
I think this video answers the number one mystery of the swing. Everyone intuitively knows to get their swing arc pointed at the ball but don’t know how to position their lower body to make a move like that easier to make. Personally this saved my swing as I used to dig into my right knee on the backswing so I could turn and pop trying to generate speed. That was totally flipped around from what is most efficient: standing nice and tall on an almost buckled right knee at the top, ready to dig, turn, and slide with it while popping my left hip to a stop to generate that lift I wanted. It’s made me go from a bogey golfer swing to a 9 handicap and improving. It’s almost like my turn is already starting by the time I reach the top by standing tall into that right hip and I can just rip it without worrying now.
Awesome, Jonathan... that "tall" right hip is the 💣
Awesome once again ! But i love the video 5 years ago clearing the hips Thanks
For me and others I see at driving range, there are a few key reasons why we amateurs hump forward. 1. they are afraid of hitting ground so they stand up on backswing and as they stand up, butt moves in toward the ball. If they don't, they feel their face is too close to the ground 2. Or they stand up on downswing for the same reason. 3. They don't drift toward target before they reach the top of backswing hence they feel that they have to stand up and hump to avoid fat shot. For me, I corrected that by sliding and turning my hips toward target and starting to hit thin shots. Overcompensation if you want to call it that. And what I did also at the same time was to continue turning on backswing as I started moving my body (drifting) toward target. It took me loads of patience as I didn't have any and many practice swings. With this, you really feel that your back is toward the target WHEN you start drifting forward. Lastly, when I start downswing, I made sure to move the shoulders before the hands, Rt shoulder down and turn, not turn and down, loosen the grip a shit ton and right palm facing up on top of back swing and the right elbow is tucked in at that time. I know sliding is not recommended but when i saw the video of mine hitting the ball, although I felt like I was sliding quite a bit, I wasn't. IMHO, it's better to "feel" the slide and hit thin shots feeling safe than not moving weight forward doing all those crazy things that all amateurs do such as humping, chicken wings, early release, fat shots, lifting head and so on.
Well done! Every great swing has slide in it👍
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!!
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?
This makes perfect sense. Just tried setting up an inch or two away from a low wall. Natural move was bringing left hip forward and no contact on right side. When I tried to get a feeling of pulling the right hip back and brushing the wall it felt a lot more simple with more room for the downswing. Great vid!!
Love it! Having room in the downswing, especially when you're used to not having any, is an unbelievably good feeling!
What I think about is making sure the the left glute gets back on the tush line (and stays there) before the Rt glute comes off the tush line. Creates a bunch of space for the arms.... thanks for the analysis this is really good!
That's a great thought to have! Nice.
Thats fine for the downswing. But a more important part is to remain on the tush line or deeper than it on the backswing.
@@johnschroeder9129 Both are important for sure
@@johnschroeder9129 True, hip depth on the back swing is important as well , but the downswing and impact is where early extending wreaks more havoc.
A little bit technical , but once you get it it's gold. Thanks guys.
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 😊
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👍
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.
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've wasted 6 years of trying to rotated more hip! Now you guys open my mind 🥺🥺🥺
Soura Homsombath it’s never too late to improve 😊
Excellent video. One thing I noticed is how much farther forward the Am extends the left knee during the backswing. That's a good visual check to see if you're over-rotating. The Pro extends his left knee no farther than the left toe.
I don't think you're looking at this rotation in the proper context. The Pro's right hip moves backwards (deep) and the left hip moves a little towards the ball which results in a big hip turn. The main point here, AMs do the opposite - left hip goes moves more towards the ball and right hip does not move backwards as much. Big hip turn is the source of power
@tantripicks2440 Excellent observation! Bc extension of the leg equals rotation of the corresponding hip✅ ✅ So bc am extends lead leg more than trail leg, he naturally produces more rotation of the lead hip. Not good 👎👎 And bc the pro extends trail leg more than lead leg he naturally produces more rotation of the rear hip👍👍
This is fantastic information. I use to do a drill similar to this and I will start doing it again.
That's a great video right there! Outstanding work.
Thanks for watching, Todd!
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!
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😉
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!!!
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!
I’m a physical therapist and this motion analysis is really helpful. Thanks.
Great! Glad its helping :)
Great video as usual.
My experience - Get something that provides feedback as to head movement (I have a convex golf mirror). In order to swing with a still head, your hips will move much like this.
Tip - hips need to turn more than you think.
I think this is probably your best video ever. So much great info. Thanks so much. Please keep them coming. Do you think it might be helpful to add a pressure trace to this. Add another aspect of how a pro moves.
Thanks!
Based on the comments so far, we're really thinking about doing a follow-up video this week showing more aspects of the pro's swing. We could add his pressure trace to that also. Would a follow-up video to this help out?
@@AthleticMotionGolf the pressure trace would really help!
I think this was really complete but if you have more to add then definitely do it. The method you used to produce the video I think made what you wanted to convey crystal clear. Better than in the past. Zooming in on the pelvis and left leg motion was really effective. Showing the difference between low handicappers and pros makes the videos so compelling. I would think adding the pressure trace of just the left foot would show how early the pros are going in that direction.
Just as an aside, I went to the Fed Ex in Boston yesterday and watched the pros on the range for about 5 hours. Knowing how they are moving from your videos it became easy to see what they are doing so much differently than amateurs. The early pressure shift became obvious. Stenson is genius. He sets himself up so that all he has to do is turn his shoulders. He does a forward press, then puts added pressure on his right foot so as he starts his swing he starts going to pressure his left immediately. All he does is get a full shoulder turn. He has his hands in impact position to start his swing and he can't do anything but pressure forward because he pressures right before he starts his swing. No wonder he is the preeminent ball striker. Almost nothing can go wrong.
Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to more. My understanding gets better with every video.
best one yet guys! great demonstration
thanks buddy!
This by Far the best Vid
Wow, thanks LB👊
Amazing insight. I won multiple times on mini tour events based on The Most High's graceand this instruction.
2 years ago this was posted??? how did i miss it? new daily routine.
These are absolutely fantastic. Thank you ! ! !
Thank you!
Thank you @Athletic Motion Golf for another great video. It appears to me that in this video there are two phases of lateral slide to the lead side: (a) one is what you normally call recentering, which starts even before right arm parallel and stops about/before when hands reach top of the back swing, and (b) another slide (of both upper and lower body) past center after that, where I don't see any shoulder or hip rotation (some refers to it as keeping the back to target during sliding). It appears the sliding stops before shoulder and hip rotation (and I guess lowering of the arm as per Magic Move) starts. Is that the correct understanding of the sequence? Just that in some of your other drills (pump/fall downhill), I understand that there is already some shoulder and hip rotation as you slide target side. Or everything is so quick that it doesn't matter if you feel you start rotating as you slide or you slide and stop before rotating? Appreciate if you could clarify on this sequence. Many thanks.
Keep in mind that the downswing is just 1/4 second. Inside that time, the arms and grip of the club NEED to accelerate quickly. While that is happening, the body is rotating BUT not the dominant movement. Understanding that will help keep some poor ideas out of the downswing. That will allow you to get the sequence of shift, turn, shift, turn to happen.
@@AthleticMotionGolf thank you very much for responding. Having just watched your video on "Stop Getting Stuck", your above comment about rotation should not be the dominant movement (perhaps at least in the initial part of the downswing?) may explain why I get stuck on occasions (perhaps too much of that Tiger's Ole move you mentioned). Many thanks again. Great video, great advice.
I have watched this video multiple times and seem to get something new out of it each time I watch it. One thing that I hope might make a difference in how to approach rotation in the golf swing is to realize that the pelvis is shaped like an ellipse and not a circle. Since an ellipse has 2 centers it seems like a key concept would be to learn how to shift and rotate around those two centers.
The proper term would be two focal points, not centers, my bad.
This is VERY awesome vid. Can you upload just the pro swing? So we can play the pro hip movement in loop and follow the move and practice watching the movement. Thanks!!
Would it help if we make the next video a follow up on this one showing more elements of the pro's swing?
Yes yes please!! Thanks guys :)
This video refers to a link to another video on club issues, which cannot find. I know AMG has a lot of videos out there, but this one is so good I would like to know what particular video on using the club they were referring to.
Any direction would be appreciated.
Amazing insight and something that no other Golf tutorial channel does... awesome!!
this is such good top notch stuff here.
stackleft 🙏🏻👊
One of the best videos I have seen. This has made such a difference to my consistency. So easy to understand now.
Thanks!!!