How To Move Your Hips (Part 2) | Downswing

In this video, you will learn about the movement of the lower body or your hips from the top of the backswing into the downswing.

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in this video you guys are going to learn about the movement of your lower body or your hips from the top of the back swing into the down swing and at impact okay so if you haven’t watched part one yet I would highly recommend that you do just so that you know what your hips are already doing kind of from setup position into the back swing because it may help your understanding of what I will be explaining in this video and like always if you enjoyed this video please leave a like and if you are visiting my channel for the first time please subscribe to see more golf related content in the future now let’s get into it let’s just quickly just review what I talked about in part one okay because what I discussed near the end of part one is somewhat related or kind of the start of the downswing in this video okay and I’ll explain shortly from the setup position if I put this down for a second right we know that if this is my trail leg here stays pretty solid and pretty strong now there is a change in the knee Flex okay we know that that that’s what allows the hips to turn so we’re basically taking the lead side of our hip and we’re doing a quarter turn into our Trail leg you can see that my right leg isn’t sliding it’s not locking out there is a certain change but it’s still somewhat bent my trail leg but I’m allowing that lead side of my hip to do a quarter turn basically into my trail leg I’m also allowing my lead knee to come in just a little bit okay and that’s going to encourage you to do some rotation we don’t want to kick out that left knee like too much or purposely like this that’ll make it harder for the lead side of the hip to kind of get some rotation in there okay so we’re just doing that quarter turn into the trail leg as we get to this position here right and as we get Beyond as and as we get to the very top I continue to turn a little bit but at at a certain point you’ll see that the trail side of my hip begins to keep turning back around me and it kind of goes around but it kind of starts to move more towards the target this way so if I do that slowly you can see I’m doing a quarter turn into my trail leg and as I get closer to the top you see that my hip is beginning to move a little bit more towards the target okay and that motion right there as we get close to completing the top of the back swing as the hips start to move more towards a Target that is actually the first movement of the transition into the downswing of of what your hip should be doing what your hips do at the top of the back swing into the down swing is kind of happening almost at the same time okay and that’s where the confusion lies for a lot of people is you start to move your lower body into the target while you’re just about to complete the back swing as that’s happening when your lower body starts to transition into the target more that’s when your lower body starts to rotate okay so there’s a bit of Separation you can see my belt is pointing more so kind of towards the ball and my chest is still somewhat closed at this point so you’re seeing that separation happen between the lower body and the upper body now if I were to show you from the side view we know that we take it back there’s some change in the knee Flex my hip is going is already moving a little bit towards the Target and then as I transition down you can start to see that my hips are rotated more than my chest so the other thing that you’ll notice is that my knees have basically returned to basically a neutral position at this point a lot of people I see start the downswing and they’re like this you can kind of see the lead knee still head of the trail knee and that tells me that you haven’t really rotated your lower body or haven’t created any separation yet because technically in the downswing the hips are going to be turning in the opposite direction at a faster rate than the chest we don’t want the chest and the hips to kind of turn at the exact same amount or the same rate okay we go back and your hips will turn faster than the chest so that’s the the kind of checkpoint by the time you get to about P5 or your lead arm returns back down to close to parallel to the ground your knee should be kind of close to a neutral position and that would tell me that your your hips are kind of turning at a faster rate than the chest from that position once we create that separation my hips continue to turn and you can see that because my hips are turning the opposite way now my lead knee has to straighten out and now my hips are are pointing more open relative to the ball they’re pointing left of the ball and my chest by the time I get to impact is pretty much facing the ball right directly at it so you can see that as my hips keep turning I basically have to straighten out my lead knee to allow the left side of my hip to keep turning um or getting out of the way okay and you’ll also notice that my weight is moving to the outside heel of my lead foot which is also very very very important the visual I like to give people is if you were to imagine like a circle right around kind of the right side right around the right side of my hip and the left side of my hip like right here so technically when my lower body turns into the back swing the right side kind of moves up and around and most people what they do is they they basically move the right side of the hip forward to match the left side and you can see what happens to my weight my weight moves more to the toes when I do that so what you want to focus on instead is when you’re going up to the top of the back swing your hip is kind of moving more towards the target you want to actually pull the left side of your hip back to match the right okay so look at the difference again you’re turning right side goes around most people make the mistake of pushing the right side of the hip forward to match the left okay whereas instead when you go back you want to pull the left side back to match the right there’s a big difference in in in that when you’re able to push the left side of your hip back to match the right your weight will will more likely move to the outer heel of the Lead Foot it’ll be easier to get the left side of your hip or the lead side to get out of the way and for your left knee to kind of straighten out again from the front view if I show you the hip is moving towards the Target by the time you complete you’re adding that separation in as you get closer your hips will continue to turn left knee will straighten out and you get to impact basically chest facing forward right at you guys my hip is facing over in this direction more open to the Target so hip is here chest is here my lead leg is pretty much straight my weight is on the outside heel of my lead foot all right so that’s the detailed kind of explanation of all the movements that are happening and the sequence it’s more so about the sequence of things and creating separation just going over the entire sequence I got I can’t repeat it enough okay so we get to the back swing the top of the back swing now we’re already moving the trail side of the hip around us to go back to the left then we’re creating some separation in the rotation right knees are back to neutral then I continue to rotate my my hip my lead side of my leg is straightening out you can kind of see how that happens it get to impact boom that’s the the general sequence of things and the movements that are involved in you being able to pull this off so number one is the most common thing that people don’t get is that idea of moving the hips back to the left as you’re still turning in the back swing and then number two what people have trouble with is creating that separation so you can see my my I can point my chest over this way but I can point my hip to the left so you have to be able to create some amount of that separation okay and that’s going to allow you to create more speed things like this once you create that separation then it’s all about you just getting your weight to go back into the outside heel of the Lead Foot and you totally straightening out that that lead leg to allow further allow the lead side your hip to get out of the way okay so kind of like this if I do it a little bit faster than normal right here so when I take it back there’s some knee Flex change right you can kind of see that as I get to this point here there’s that separation in the hip my knees have returned to neutral and when I get to impact my chest is basically Ally facing forward my hip is kind of pointing left to the ball so that’s the sequence there let me know if you have any questions about this in more detail if you want me to maybe explain um some other parts of this in more detail just please let me know perhaps I can make a separate video on it a very simple drill um now I just have this alignment stick just positioned straight up you can use a wall if you want um if you’re hitting shots then I I’d recommend that you just get some sort of alignment stick you can just stick into the ground basically at the edge outer edge of your heel okay and the purpose of that is just to you know pay attention to the space that’s between the stick and the trail side of your hip when I take it back Remember by the time we get to the top we want to get your the trail side of your hip to kind of pull back around you and and get your lower body to feel like it moves a little bit more towards the Target by the time you get to the top okay so that’s the key is when I’m I’m at the top you can see that I created a bit more space right between the right side of my pocket and that line relative to where I started so this is where I started okay and if I slowly go back you can start to see that there’s some some more space that was created there just be careful not to look like this okay this is not what we want okay you can kind of see my upper body and everything leaning forward yes I’m creating the space there but I’m not actually turning my chest and I’m kind of leaning everything into my lead foot we don’t want that okay so we have to make sure that we still turn our chest right we’re still kind of centered with our head but we’re creating a bit more space between that stick and my hip so that’ll help you to feel out or kind of have some sort of object as an awareness to get your hip moving more so into towards the target as you’re turning and as you get to the top so you can see as I get to the top I’m already creating that space all right so when I’m there then my hips will kind of create that separation so you can see that as I’m turning my whole body and my lower body is kind of leading slightly ahead of my chest my weight’s already mostly on my lead foot and as I keep turning I straighten out my leg then I’m at impact so my chest is right at the camera my hip is pointing left weights on the outer heel of my foot okay so you would I would highly recommend that you kind of just rehearse these things and if you can get kind of this this part in kind of the back swing at the beginning at the start of your transition down that’s already going to going to help you a lot in in being able to do all the rest of the things in the downswing with the lower body but this is probably one of the best awareness drills that you can do the other option is to get like if you have some sort of medicine ball or some sort of ball you can kind of put it against the wall you can kind of rest your your butt against the the medicine ball or something or some small little ball and then practice like turning your hip and making that ball roll or kind of roll to one side now I wish I had a medicine ball I don’t have one but uh I do have this little small little basketball um that you can place basically against your Trail butt cheek okay and the wall so you’re sitting into that ball that’s against the wall and you’re going to turn your hip and you’re going to feel like you’re rolling the ball to one side so you’re going to keep pressure into that ball as well you don’t want to obviously turn and like get the ball to fall you want to kind of keep the your butt against the ball and get it to roll or twist okay if you have a medicine ball even better but that’s just again training your hips to kind of move more into the target by the time you get to the top of the boxing so you’re creating a little bit you don’t have to create a humongous space like this okay but you do have to create maybe a little bit more of a space between kind of where your Trail side of your hip started versus by the time you get to the top now for the rest if you want to focus on creating or feeling out how to create some separation what I would recommend is you can get your alignment stick and you can place it right between the belt loops here so you want to feel like your chest doesn’t move okay so you’re in your posture hands on your shoulders and you want to try to focus on getting your weight on your left foot then you’re going to turn your hip so you can see I’m straightening out my left knee putting my weight into my outside heel and you can see how still my upper body is but my lower body is the one that’s moving so again from the side view if you want to see that so I’m in my posture I’m putting my weight over my left foot and then I’m just kind of straightening out my left knee to get my hips to kind of turn and I’m feeling my weight move into the outside heel of my lead foot and you can see how stable my my upper body is and I’m able to create some separation so if you were to practice this that’s another key movement that not a lot of people kind of get which is why it’s hard for them to rotate their hips early enough and on time once you practice these two two drills separately then you can kind of combine both if you’d like so you can put your Trail foot near the Wall go back you’re creating some space right then you’re creating you’re you’re creating that separation there so you’re going back you’re creating some space and then you’re creating some separation practice these two drills individually make sure you get these down then the next step would be to try and combine both of these then I would I would practice kind of maybe adding a club in there okay kind of creating that separation but these kind of rehearsals if you didn’t understand this before doing these drills individually and then trying to combine them and then adding a club in there following this progression is a lot better for you than just trying to you know beat a bunch of balls um without really understanding it first so hope these drills help and I hope I’ve improved your understanding of what actually happening with the lower body in the down swing so stay tuned for part three where I’m going to talk about the hips kind of in the follow through and into the Finish