Mike, this COMPLETELY fixed my swing today. I was absolutely turning wrong, reverse pivoting, and accidentally found this video. Incredible strikes after doing this left leg push. Thank you
Hi mike, ive followed you for a couple of years, its now 2024, I had not played for 16 years, aand now 65, couldn't find my game afyer all those years and 2 hip replacements, I have taken this concept of yours religiously, it works really well, I havethe space to swing down into, has stopped hip forward extension into the ball, and once you have mastered tje lead hip pushing back, the golf swing is easy, love all your post
This vid/lesson may be the greatest 5 minutes of instruction on UA-cam for golf instruction. The sweet spot of the iron feels so much easier to hit using this drill. Thank you.
I find that pushing that left hip back coming down is harder to do than driving the right shoulder down towards the ball (which instinctively shoves the left hip back) - it has to!
Wow wee...that is probably one of the most articulate and best explained lessons on the all-important hip turn and the mechanics behind it. Thanks for sharing, Mike!
Con nadie he aprendido y mejorado tanto, ni presencialmente ni online. Todos los días entreno en base a lo que veo en este canal. Ningún otro me ha ayudado en la consistencia y en la sencillez del swing, del impacto y de la mentalidad. Me siento en deuda.
Dr. Mike you are truly amazing. The Harmons, Leadbetters, the Golf Channel golf instructors nor many other pros I have watched many times teach what you do. Sorry your pro career got short circuited due to bad but well intended coaching, but because it did it allowed us hackers to get a lot better....finally. Rms 8:28! Never heard of pushing your left hip away to keep from humping at the ball or teaching the right hand how to direct the ball direction or the flamingo drill to chip better just to mention a FEW!! If there ever was such a thing as pro secrets unshared then you are the one who is revealing them. Thxs from an old man in his seventies whose been trying since college days to get better. Guess what.... finally getting a little better after all these centuries 🤣 thanks to you! Lv ya man, I'm very grateful!! Bill Rickmond Surry Va.
I have been following you for years Mike i am 70 in July and still play well your how your hips move is the best explained article i have ever watched. Thanks Mike keep up the good work !
Mike I'm 63 years old and I have hit golf balls for a few years, notice I said hit balls not play golf, now through your brilliant way of explaining movement I might, just might be starting to play golf thank you.
Omg. I saw another hip video by Mike and i ended up working my pitching and chipping with it and I actually started getting the ball more into the air. Now I am watching this video and it is confirming what I just worked out. So assuring to know your doing the right thing. Thanks thanks amd thanks.
Fixed so many problems...thank you so much! I was told I was coming over the top and to shallow the club...impossible to not come over the top when your right hip gets closer to the target!
best tip this year, it explains how we are coming into the ball on the wrong plane, it gets confusing out there and I think you have nailed a major alignment problem, Its winter in New Zealand so I have time to correct this and other faults before spring/
Helpful information, i played allot of baseball growing up and when i played golf i was always told i look like a baseball player playing golf, so over the years i tried changing basically everything on my game to look like a so called golfer and gotten worse. 52yrs old now and lost the enthusiasm to play anymore.
Yep, I figured this out a while back, and I agree 100% with everything you say, Mike. The only thing I think you're not saying, which I personally think is crucial, is that the left hip is supposed to turn the torso, and that, in turn, turns the shoulders, which pull the club through the point of impact as it drops straight down. In other words, there several things that are linked together, and the end of that chain (the power end), is the left hip, which drives down into the ground (GRFs), which pushes the left hip straight back and pulls the multiple links along. Ultimately a golfer should be pulling the club through impact, not push it through. As you say, when the left hip does not move and the right hip drives through, then the left hip becomes an impediment, around which the whole swing has to work. But it can't work, of course, and therefore, it makes the golfer HAVE to throw their right hand/shoulder/arm around in order to get the club square as the spine sits up. It can't work. The hips turn the torso, which turns the shoulders, which pull the club through impact.
Mike, DUH! I am so sorry you gave me the answer in the very video I was watching. I have to push my lead leg back from the target line. Got it. Thank you so very much for your videos.
I cant believe it...i figured out my hips earlier on while hitting into my net... It's just made everything silly easy. Stupid consistent and the sound and way the ball comes off the face is next level... All I feel now is like I just push/pull my left hip back in the downswing and everything else just takes over... I feel nothing in the rest of my body, its just along for the ride. It's so controlled and smooth I can even stop my swing mid downswing. Want a soft swing move the hip slow, want a hard shot move it fast...its that easy...
I feel the left hip on the downSwing in my head it's both of my hips but it's actually just my left hip being pulled out the way the same time as I pull the chain... Wow what a difference!!! I only now need to work on putting pressure into my front foot before I swing down. There maybe a golfer in me after all the years playing. Now age 38 and started when I was 15.
Hi Mike so what your saying is the momentum of the club and pushing back of the left hip will engage the right hip to turn correctly without having to make the right hip turn , so in a feel type scenario when practising would that be what I should try to feel in drills till it's automatically happening
I have not played consistently for 10 years and have been pushing everything right with an open face. I took a lesson and this was the first thing my instructor saw. I was rotating and giving no space for my hands to come through to impact. Once i started pushing my left hip back with my left leg, I starting hitting crisp straight shots. Amazing what one little tweak can do to transform you swing! This is great Mike and I have real world experience with this fix! Any addition tips for timing this with longer shots as this is what I am working on now since I tend to push my left hip out of the way too soon on longer shots with hybrids and driver?
I'm also wondering now if I should go buy one of those flex clubs. It seems like it might work with the timing that you talk about near the end of the video.
I was guilty of firing my right side,but thats what they tell you to do.I understand now,no more twisting and rotating.I think what you,ve described will keep you more central.S/J
Great video. Just started working on this hip movement and it really makes a difference. I need to go back and start with the drill you just did though. I've been using my pitching wedge with a full swing but having trouble with distance. I am a senior now and can't hit as far as I used to. My pitching wedge used to go 115 to 120 yds, but now a full wedge is only 80 to 85 yds. How can I get more distance?Also, my other irons are 20 to 30 yes shorter.
How can you get more distance, drive that right hip back hard to get more rotation...it's all in the hips, not the shoulders. A good deep hip move will get you some yards.
Mike just a quick question. Will following this advice still be beneficial for someone that has a steep downswing. Will coming down steep stall the hip pivot and lead to early extension. Basically what i am asking is can i work on this with a steep downswing? Will the proper hip pivot bring the club on a better swing plane on the downswing
Hi Mike great vid as usual. I think i may have a reverse pivot going on, as I am straightening my right leg on the way back and which i think is forcing more weight on to my left leg in the downswing and i am coming in to steep at the ball this is highlighted off the tee? Would you recommend i keep my right knee slightly flexed during the backswing thus making my attack on the golf ball much shallower and then get me hitting up more rather than down? Keep up the great videos please? Graham
The push away is complicated if the head doesn't stay back a little as the club passes the chin. If my head goes left or even slightly ahead of my address position, clearing my left hip and extending my arms after impact is virtually impossible and I flip. For me the head position is critical for both left hip clearing and arm extension through the ball.
Mike I find if you start your right hip correctly my left hip kinda automatically rotates itself ,, pretty much correct me if I am wrong please I find it does it automatically!! Idk 🤔
Hi Mike, please help me figure this out. I'm trying to get the move of getting the left hip out of the way. Into impact does my left leg (lead leg) push back away from the target or is it a push back from the target line. I hope I have expressed this, so it makes sense to you. Love your videos I have spent the past three years trying another swing and it's just not working. Thank You so much..
Hey Mike. Good stuff. I'm gonna toss out there that it's more than "pushing". There are tens of muscles in the left and "hips" and I think we should help students find those muscles to rotate more than "push". "Push"is linear force and the swing is rotational. Most players have no idea how much the can move their pelvis with muscles they never knew they had.
@@somritsoonthornrangsi7269 stand normally. Lift your right foot and swing it to left as far as you can go. Those muscles. We need to keep the club accelerating up and around. By only posting vertically the pivot will stall and that's no good. You might get some club head speed but the club will pass the hands too violently and inconsistently. Post up slightly but keep rotating via the left pelvis muscles. And since you've handed everything over to the left leg at this point, you need to engage the rotational muscles actively of what is usually the lame leg of right handers, the left leg. Its very obvious when you think about it. However, too many golfers, including some good golfers stall the pivot with extreme and only vertical pressure on the left leg. The golf swing is up and around, an inclined plane, and you need the rotational component of force to keep it going properly. Hope that helps. I taught golf for 30 years btw.
Wow, Thanks for taking time answer my question. I have been playing golf for 44 yrs and still try to master the hip movement. I will try to engage the rotational muscles over left leg a little more each day. ( also doing some stretching). These are the most difficult, even I try to rotate quite a lot, on video showed only may be half an inch. Thank you very much for the elaboration. regards, SS
@@somritsoonthornrangsi7269 my pleasure. Do remember the strike is mostly a hand slap. Let your body support that. We don't want the tail to wag the dog. I see many focus on the hips and body too much. Malaska is good. Study some Mike Austin and Lee Comieux. Old timers Henry Cotton. Get the hand strike first, then let the support whatever force you can generate with the hands. We can't make speed with the body.
@555Trout Thanks. I studied Mike Austin a while back when I was curious how he hit the ball so far.. Recently, found Mike Malaska and really love his Momentum oriented swing.
basically allow yourself maximum room to swing by getting out of your own way, and allowing the momentum of the club to control when the hips rotate...getting out of your own way, seems to be the hardest issue with the golf swing
It stands to reason if the left hip pushes back on the downswing then the right hip pushes back on the backswing. My question is "How much should the right hip push back." I tend to straighten my right leg when I push the hip back. Is that where it is supposed to be?
Jim Emann just do it as soon as possible. Probably you will still be too late. Don’t overthink it. Just do it. And after while get your swing connected.
Hi Mike, I finally learned how to hit over the top from the inside from one of your other videos. I understand and don't have trouble with short pitch shots and how the hips work. Where I am still having trouble is in the full shot with counter balance. That is, getting the feeling of pushing back with the balls of the feet or in my case, the rear end. Like you always say, the toes tell the story and I can feel when things go wrong. So, do you have any tips on how to put it all together. When I do everything correct it works awesome, when I don't it gets ugly. Thanks.
if you turn your back hip forward your weight ends up on the toes of your rear foot and you fall off balance. If you turn your front hip back your weight ends up on the heel of your front foot and you are in balance
what about getting the right hip back during the back swing (and I don't mean sliding it back. I mean turning it back around the invisible center of the rotational axis)? how could this concept have been left out of a video explaining how to, "get your hips to work?" very strange.
Ardelean - Malaska has another video on this. You should be pushing away from the club with slow and steady force and the club feels heavy. The left leg may never even lock out completely. Certainly it doesn't snap straight. STAY HEALTHY!
Over Thetop yep wish he would answer questions like most UA-cam teachers. Yes you can’t come over the top if you use your hips right.I have added a slight squat in my transition that really helps to drop the club on plane.
The video is answering someone's question. Do you mean he doesn't answer you tube comments ? I doubt he even reads them. He gives free instruction in the form of these videos and that's not enough for you ? Really ? With 31,000 subscribers, average views approx 40,000 and only about 2 posts per month he won't be making much money from that. He would earn more from a couple of lessons.
@@jboy5744 Nothing wrong with coming over the top..., PROVIDING IT'S FROM THE INSIDE... AYE ..., THIS SYSTEM WORKS SOOOO GOOD REAL LONG AND DEAD ACCURATE... KUTOS TO MALASKA >> JohnALan
When that left hip doesnt get out of the way it is like a trai derailment...the right hip has nowhere to go nor the arms. Mike, foot pressure.... Do you subscribe to the notion that the right foot pushes out in the direction of the right toe in the backswing (pressuring the right hip back) and then the left foot pressures out in the direction of the left toe pressuring the left hip back?
I have watched quite a few videos of Mike describing how to turn the hips and I think he believes that the right leg works down and in, kind of the opposite of what you’re describing. Golfletics one of Mike’s former assistants subscribes to the right leg rotating as you describe the right foot turning away from the target which I believe to be the correct biomechanics. Anyway what’s most important is that you don’t move the pelvis into the ball.
Ablgolfmom Pelvis shouldnt move out to ball agreed I think you misread what I wrote right foot pressure is forward in backswing pushing right hip back left foot pressure is forward in downswing pushing left hip back right leg can work to ball in downswing
B Johnson I see I did miss read your original comment. I think you definitely push back with the trail foot in the Backswing and then the lead foot in the downswing. Anyway I do find it interesting that Mike says your right leg rotates down and in or internally to rotate the hips and Golfletics says it rotates externally to rotate the hips.
Mike, this COMPLETELY fixed my swing today. I was absolutely turning wrong, reverse pivoting, and accidentally found this video. Incredible strikes after doing this left leg push. Thank you
18 years of inconsistent golf fixed with a 5 minute video. Where can I donate? Priceless tip 👌
Thank you ! You are the only one smart enough teaching how the “hips” actually move in a linear way.
Hi mike, ive followed you for a couple of years, its now 2024, I had not played for 16 years, aand now 65, couldn't find my game afyer all those years and 2 hip replacements, I have taken this concept of yours religiously, it works really well, I havethe space to swing down into, has stopped hip forward extension into the ball, and once you have mastered tje lead hip pushing back, the golf swing is easy, love all your post
This vid/lesson may be the greatest 5 minutes of instruction on UA-cam for golf instruction. The sweet spot of the iron feels so much easier to hit using this drill. Thank you.
You are dead on. I've hit some absolutely some of the purest irons shots of my life since coming across this a few weeks ago.
I find that pushing that left hip back coming down is harder to do than driving the right shoulder down towards the ball (which instinctively shoves the left hip back) - it has to!
Best explanation I have ever heard.
One of the best teachers on the planet...thank you Mike
Wow wee...that is probably one of the most articulate and best explained lessons on the all-important hip turn and the mechanics behind it. Thanks for sharing, Mike!
Con nadie he aprendido y mejorado tanto, ni presencialmente ni online. Todos los días entreno en base a lo que veo en este canal. Ningún otro me ha ayudado en la consistencia y en la sencillez del swing, del impacto y de la mentalidad. Me siento en deuda.
Dr. Mike you are truly amazing. The Harmons, Leadbetters, the Golf Channel golf instructors nor many other pros I have watched many times teach what you do. Sorry your pro career got short circuited due to bad but well intended coaching, but because it did it allowed us hackers to get a lot better....finally. Rms 8:28! Never heard of pushing your left hip away to keep from humping at the ball or teaching the right hand how to direct the ball direction or the flamingo drill to chip better just to mention a FEW!! If there ever was such a thing as pro secrets unshared then you are the one who is revealing them. Thxs from an old man in his seventies whose been trying since college days to get better. Guess what.... finally getting a little better after all these centuries 🤣 thanks to you! Lv ya man, I'm very grateful!! Bill Rickmond Surry Va.
I have been following you for years Mike i am 70 in July and still play well your how your hips move is the best explained article i have ever watched. Thanks Mike keep up the good work !
I appreciate that!
This tip helped minimize low back twisting and pain thereafter. Made my chronic back pain less intense. Amen.
Mike appreciate you taking the time mate - more power to ya from Sydney, Australia
Mike I'm 63 years old and I have hit golf balls for a few years, notice I said hit balls not play golf, now through your brilliant way of explaining movement I might, just might be starting to play golf thank you.
You can't imagine how much that explanation helps. Thanks
Omg. I saw another hip video by Mike and i ended up working my pitching and chipping with it and I actually started getting the ball more into the air. Now I am watching this video and it is confirming what I just worked out. So assuring to know your doing the right thing. Thanks thanks amd thanks.
Great video. Thanks Mike! You explained the concept so simply and succinctly. It’s a great help to me in overcoming early extension.
This and the video on NOT shifting weight but counteracting swing force really explain the motion of the lower body as simply as anyone has.
I would love to see the golf swings of the 21 people that disliked this video
Really clear explanation of something I've been struggling to understand. Thanks.
Mike, you rock.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
Fixed so many problems...thank you so much! I was told I was coming over the top and to shallow the club...impossible to not come over the top when your right hip gets closer to the target!
This clicked for me. One key tip to line out my sequence. Thanks Mike.
best tip this year, it explains how we are coming into the ball on the wrong plane, it gets confusing out there and I think you have nailed a major alignment problem, Its winter in New Zealand so I have time to correct this and other faults before spring/
This works great for me as well! Tried this at the range, everything kinda falls into place. This video is GOLD! Thanks mike!
Helpful information, i played allot of baseball growing up and when i played golf i was always told i look like a baseball player playing golf, so over the years i tried changing basically everything on my game to look like a so called golfer and gotten worse. 52yrs old now and lost the enthusiasm to play anymore.
Yep, I figured this out a while back, and I agree 100% with everything you say, Mike. The only thing I think you're not saying, which I personally think is crucial, is that the left hip is supposed to turn the torso, and that, in turn, turns the shoulders, which pull the club through the point of impact as it drops straight down. In other words, there several things that are linked together, and the end of that chain (the power end), is the left hip, which drives down into the ground (GRFs), which pushes the left hip straight back and pulls the multiple links along. Ultimately a golfer should be pulling the club through impact, not push it through. As you say, when the left hip does not move and the right hip drives through, then the left hip becomes an impediment, around which the whole swing has to work. But it can't work, of course, and therefore, it makes the golfer HAVE to throw their right hand/shoulder/arm around in order to get the club square as the spine sits up. It can't work. The hips turn the torso, which turns the shoulders, which pull the club through impact.
Mike, DUH! I am so sorry you gave me the answer in the very video I was watching. I have to push my lead leg back from the target line. Got it. Thank you so very much for your videos.
with this great tip i am able to strike ball from inside and exert speed in my golf swing, Thank you,
I cant believe it...i figured out my hips earlier on while hitting into my net...
It's just made everything silly easy.
Stupid consistent and the sound and way the ball comes off the face is next level...
All I feel now is like I just push/pull my left hip back in the downswing and everything else just takes over...
I feel nothing in the rest of my body, its just along for the ride.
It's so controlled and smooth I can even stop my swing mid downswing.
Want a soft swing move the hip slow, want a hard shot move it fast...its that easy...
Mike i love this video Throwing the hips towards the ball is exactly what i do i now have something to work at .
I feel the left hip on the downSwing in my head it's both of my hips but it's actually just my left hip being pulled out the way the same time as I pull the chain... Wow what a difference!!! I only now need to work on putting pressure into my front foot before I swing down. There maybe a golfer in me after all the years playing. Now age 38 and started when I was 15.
Mike your advice is the best on the web. Thank you good sir.
What a great video! This clears a few things up!
I think also, in order to allow this to happen seemlessly, weight transfer has to take place correctly - great insight thanks.
Unbelievable short, unbelievable true!
Hi Mike so what your saying is the momentum of the club and pushing back of the left hip will engage the right hip to turn correctly without having to make the right hip turn , so in a feel type scenario when practising would that be what I should try to feel in drills till it's automatically happening
So much clarification in one video
Love this channel coach of year again.
Awesome! I'll put this into practice right away! I normally send the arms forward too soon or too late 😂
I throw my hips into the ball. This is such a good lesson
Great lesson!
Great explanation mike. Thank you. Could you help with understanding where the weight feels on on your feet as this movement happens pls
Great explanation 🇦🇺
Excellent explanation
I have not played consistently for 10 years and have been pushing everything right with an open face. I took a lesson and this was the first thing my instructor saw. I was rotating and giving no space for my hands to come through to impact. Once i started pushing my left hip back with my left leg, I starting hitting crisp straight shots. Amazing what one little tweak can do to transform you swing! This is great Mike and I have real world experience with this fix! Any addition tips for timing this with longer shots as this is what I am working on now since I tend to push my left hip out of the way too soon on longer shots with hybrids and driver?
Hi, Mike. At 2:00, does this explain early extension??? Because that's what I do. Please say yes, I'd love to fix this once and for all. Thanks.
I'm also wondering now if I should go buy one of those flex clubs. It seems like it might work with the timing that you talk about near the end of the video.
I was guilty of firing my right side,but thats what they tell you to do.I understand now,no more twisting and rotating.I think what you,ve described will keep you more central.S/J
Great video. Just started working on this hip movement and it really makes a difference. I need to go back and start with the drill you just did though. I've been using my pitching wedge with a full swing but having trouble with distance. I am a senior now and can't hit as far as I used to. My pitching wedge used to go 115 to 120 yds, but now a full wedge is only 80 to 85 yds. How can I get more distance?Also, my other irons are 20 to 30 yes shorter.
How can you get more distance, drive that right hip back hard to get more rotation...it's all in the hips, not the shoulders. A good deep hip move will get you some yards.
Was watching Kirk Triplet
Looks like a model for what you teach
B Johnson he doesn’t need a model. It is just how golf works.
Mike just a quick question. Will following this advice still be beneficial for someone that has a steep downswing. Will coming down steep stall the hip pivot and lead to early extension. Basically what i am asking is can i work on this with a steep downswing? Will the proper hip pivot bring the club on a better swing plane on the downswing
Hi Mike great vid as usual. I think i may have a reverse pivot going on, as I am straightening my right leg on the way back and which i think is forcing more weight on to my left leg in the downswing and i am coming in to steep at the ball this is highlighted off the tee? Would you recommend i keep my right knee slightly flexed during the backswing thus making my attack on the golf ball much shallower and then get me hitting up more rather than down? Keep up the great videos please? Graham
The push away is complicated if the head doesn't stay back a little as the club passes the chin. If my head goes left or even slightly ahead of my address position, clearing my left hip and extending my arms after impact is virtually impossible and I flip. For me the head position is critical for both left hip clearing and arm extension through the ball.
Mike I find if you start your right hip correctly my left hip kinda automatically rotates itself ,, pretty much correct me if I am wrong please I find it does it automatically!! Idk 🤔
How much the feet are FLARED at set up greatly helps the hips to turn..
Hi Mike, please help me figure this out. I'm trying to get the move of getting the left hip out of the way. Into impact does my left leg (lead leg) push back away from the target or is it a push back from the target line. I hope I have expressed this, so it makes sense to you. Love your videos I have spent the past three years trying another swing and it's just not working. Thank You so much..
Look for his video’s with Eric Corgorno it goes into depth about the hips during the swing.
Hi Mike, but we need to be careful in executing this tip because it might cause lower body spin out in full swings, correct?
Great Video! FR
Hey Mike. Good stuff. I'm gonna toss out there that it's more than "pushing". There are tens of muscles in the left and "hips" and I think we should help students find those muscles to rotate more than "push". "Push"is linear force and the swing is rotational. Most players have no idea how much the can move their pelvis with muscles they never knew they had.
Love to learn more of what you are describing. Please kindly elaborate.
Sam, Bkk
@@somritsoonthornrangsi7269 stand normally. Lift your right foot and swing it to left as far as you can go. Those muscles. We need to keep the club accelerating up and around. By only posting vertically the pivot will stall and that's no good. You might get some club head speed but the club will pass the hands too violently and inconsistently. Post up slightly but keep rotating via the left pelvis muscles. And since you've handed everything over to the left leg at this point, you need to engage the rotational muscles actively of what is usually the lame leg of right handers, the left leg. Its very obvious when you think about it. However, too many golfers, including some good golfers stall the pivot with extreme and only vertical pressure on the left leg. The golf swing is up and around, an inclined plane, and you need the rotational component of force to keep it going properly. Hope that helps. I taught golf for 30 years btw.
Wow, Thanks for taking time answer my question. I have been playing golf for 44 yrs and still try to master the hip movement. I will try to engage the rotational muscles over left leg a little more each day. ( also doing some stretching). These are the most difficult, even I try to rotate quite a lot, on video showed only may be half an inch.
Thank you very much for the elaboration.
regards,
SS
@@somritsoonthornrangsi7269 my pleasure. Do remember the strike is mostly a hand slap. Let your body support that. We don't want the tail to wag the dog. I see many focus on the hips and body too much. Malaska is good. Study some Mike Austin and Lee Comieux. Old timers Henry Cotton. Get the hand strike first, then let the support whatever force you can generate with the hands. We can't make speed with the body.
@555Trout Thanks. I studied Mike Austin a while back when I was curious how he hit the ball so far.. Recently, found Mike Malaska and really love his Momentum oriented swing.
On the downswing, which triggers the downsing, the push of the left hip OR the downswing? Thanks in advance!
I need help understanding the sequence. In the downswing are your hips stationary? When does the hip movement begin on the downswing? Thanks
Excellent !!!
basically allow yourself maximum room to swing by getting out of your own way, and allowing the momentum of the club to control when the hips rotate...getting out of your own way, seems to be the hardest issue with the golf swing
It stands to reason if the left hip pushes back on the downswing then the right hip pushes back on the backswing. My question is "How much should the right hip push back." I tend to straighten my right leg when I push the hip back. Is that where it is supposed to be?
Mike on down swing when do you move your left hip out of away..
Jim Emann just do it as soon as possible. Probably you will still be too late. Don’t overthink it. Just do it. And after while get your swing connected.
how do you get left hip back without straightening left leg...??
Hi Mike, I finally learned how to hit over the top from the inside from one of your other videos. I understand and don't have trouble with short pitch shots and how the hips work. Where I am still having trouble is in the full shot with counter balance. That is, getting the feeling of pushing back with the balls of the feet or in my case, the rear end. Like you always say, the toes tell the story and I can feel when things go wrong. So, do you have any tips on how to put it all together. When I do everything correct it works awesome, when I don't it gets ugly. Thanks.
Well said!!
Mr. Makaska would you happen to be LDS?
Thanks 👍
Freaking GENIUS!!!
Works for me Thanks
"Turn it relative to what?" Thank you.
if you turn your back hip forward your weight ends up on the toes of your rear foot and you fall off balance. If you turn your front hip back your weight ends up on the heel of your front foot and you are in balance
Joe Velri and yellow is not green
Freaking brilliant
what about getting the right hip back during the back swing (and I don't mean sliding it back. I mean turning it back around the invisible center of the rotational axis)? how could this concept have been left out of a video explaining how to, "get your hips to work?" very strange.
I feel like I’m snapping and hurting my lead knee when I do that. I’m certain I’m doing something wrong. Thoughts? 🤷♂️
Michael Ardelean yes
@@arjanpetersen dont hurt yourself expounding
It should not be a snap but a smooth turn
Ardelean - Malaska has another video on this. You should be pushing away from the club with slow and steady force and the club feels heavy. The left leg may never even lock out completely. Certainly it doesn't snap straight.
STAY HEALTHY!
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now i know...thanks!
I told a golf pro that when I hit a real good shot I feel my left hip does something different. He just looked at me with no answer.
Might want to send him a link to this video... 😆
Great stuff I think I might finally get the message!
Over Thetop yep wish he would answer questions like most UA-cam teachers. Yes you can’t come over the top if you use your hips right.I have added a slight squat in my transition that really helps to drop the club on plane.
Cheers, mate I’ll give it a shot!
The video is answering someone's question. Do you mean he doesn't answer you tube comments ?
I doubt he even reads them.
He gives free instruction in the form of these videos and that's not enough for you ? Really ?
With 31,000 subscribers, average views approx 40,000 and only about 2 posts per month he won't be making much money from that.
He would earn more from a couple of lessons.
seth1455 bingo
@@jboy5744 Nothing wrong with coming over the top..., PROVIDING IT'S FROM THE INSIDE... AYE ..., THIS SYSTEM WORKS SOOOO GOOD REAL LONG AND DEAD ACCURATE... KUTOS TO MALASKA >> JohnALan
Gold
When that left hip doesnt get out of the way it is like a trai derailment...the right hip has nowhere to go nor the arms.
Mike, foot pressure....
Do you subscribe to the notion that the right foot pushes out in the direction of the right toe in the backswing (pressuring the right hip back) and then the left foot pressures out in the direction of the left toe pressuring the left hip back?
I have watched quite a few videos of Mike describing how to turn the hips and I think he believes that the right leg works down and in, kind of the opposite of what you’re describing. Golfletics one of Mike’s former assistants subscribes to the right leg rotating as you describe the right foot turning away from the target which I believe to be the correct biomechanics. Anyway what’s most important is that you don’t move the pelvis into the ball.
Ablgolfmom
Pelvis shouldnt move out to ball
agreed
I think you misread what I wrote
right foot pressure is forward in backswing pushing right hip back
left foot pressure is forward in downswing pushing left hip back
right leg can work to ball in downswing
B Johnson I see I did miss read your original comment. I think you definitely push back with the trail foot in the Backswing and then the lead foot in the downswing. Anyway I do find it interesting that Mike says your right leg rotates down and in or internally to rotate the hips and Golfletics says it rotates externally to rotate the hips.
@@ablgolfmom6211
agree
First
basically you straighten your left leg