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Well, how wide should I place my feet when I’m getting set up? Should I be, you know, as wide as I can go, very close together? Um, for your stock swing, they’re going to be within a relatively small range, roughly between your hip and your shoulder width. Um, there’s a biomechanist by the name of Michael Bentley, who helped create the Kvest, and uh, and I’ve heard through the grapevine of this formula that he uses that’s pretty neat. um where if you take your golf shoe and you take the the length of your shoe in inches and you add the width of it um the longest part that essentially will give you how wide your stance should be. So I’ve got about a size 9 and 1/2 shoe um you add the 4 to 5 in it ends up being about 15 in which believe it or not is almost exactly the same distance from shoulder to shoulder. So, the biomechanist found out that what they’ve been telling you for a hundred years in golf instruction that your stance should be about shoulder width is pretty close for if you want to maximize what we call ground force reactions or the ability to use the ground to create movement and speed. Um, so if you’re trying to figure out where your hips are, which would be kind of the narrow end of the range, they’re roughly where your belt loops are. If you remember from the hip hinge video, um, which would be kind of right about here. So, this may be what I’m using for a wedge shot where I don’t have to create a lot of power. Um, with my driver and my stock iron swing, it’s probably going to be closer to that 15 inch or the the stance width of my shoulders. Um, if you want to put if you have a practice area, um, you can put TE’s in the ground uh to kind of help yourself while you’re a beginner. Um, otherwise, you can just really eyeball and get this one pretty close. I don’t think that having the stance width be exactly the same every time is absolutely critical, but being within the window is probably pretty important.
