Let’s get rid of that HIP SWAY

This is for all of you who sway too far away from the target in the backswing, causing poor hip rotation and a reverse pivot with your upper body.

You’ll notice the visuals and exercise are very exaggerated here but it’s done on purpose to create change!

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so if I sway if I’m somebody who sways in the early stages of my back swing the first thing I’m going to do is obviously bump laterally if it happens too severe I’m going to push this chair way off and in fact I’m lifting the feet obviously because I’m swaying so much right so you want something light that you can move but obviously something that’s sturdy enough that you’ll feel it i’ve seen people put alignment sticks in the way sometimes you can’t even feel the alignment sticks so obviously the chair is a little bit sturdier it’s a little bit more dense you’ll feel that contact point pretty quickly so we’re going to set up to the ball and then the first thing we want to do is we want to create rotation now where in theory if I do this well my hips should actually be moving somewhat away from the chair i’m not saying you have to do this when the chair is not there to like keep all of your weight on your front side and almost feel like your pelvis is getting closer to the target but you will need to feel that in theory to get rid of any sort of lateral component you’re adding in your back swing and don’t get me wrong some small amount of lateral is is a good thing like there’s a lot of really high-end players right you’ll see this a lot on tour as well if I get rid of the chair for a second where you’ll actually see almost like an early pressure shift into that trail side and it adds just a subtle bump to the right for a righty and then they load but they’re still relatively centered with their pelvis even after the rotational component is added in if I’m somebody who just sways and doesn’t really turn number one the lateral typically will get too extreme now I’m going to start to compensate for it and my upper body is going to lean towards the target to keep me balanced outvious and then obviously we’ll see a limitation in how much the golfer’s turning their hips all these things kind of fall in line with what I see with your pattern so having the chair here obviously it’s going to be it’s going to feel very extreme early on in this process it’s not going to be extreme forever uh but we do want to limit that lateral so it’s got to feel like we’re doing very little of it so having a chair here you start actually with your leg connected to the chair and then we actually create a little bit of space in our back swing so this is giving us very much the sensation like I’m actually moving almost away from um you know the chair in the back swing i’m almost going to feel like my pelvis is actually recentering a little bit closer to the target so lot of drills in your house you can do in front of the mirror with this sensation if you’re somebody obviously who sways and then gets a little bit like this where we just create a little bit of distance between our hip and our chair and if we want to make sure we’re still loading correctly even though we’re creating some distance with the pelvis to the chair you could still feel like most of your pressure and your weight are on the inside of this back foot so I’m not doing it where I’m leaning my weight forward right even though I’m moving my pelvis a little bit away from the chair I’m still very much unweighted on this front leg most of my weight is still feeling like it’s shifting to the trail side to some degree and obviously it’s going to recenter after that so this is a really good exercise you could do uh it’s very basic