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The lateral bump of the lower body is one of the critical moves for a solid golf swing. The tour average amount of shift during the downswing is 3 to 6 inches, and most of that shift happens before the arms drop below chest height. This movement is critical for getting a shallow angle of attack and a path that isn't too far to the left. Meaning, that this move is more critical for the longer clubs than it is for the shorter clubs.
How to do it
To execute the Jackson 5 move, place a club or alignment stick across your hips the same way you did in the find your hips drill. Practice bumping your hips laterally toward the target using a mirror to make sure that you don't make the common errors:
- Rotating before you bump
- Letting the upper body create the bump
- Moving toward the golf ball as you bump, if anything, you want to let your chest drop down during this move
Progressing the move
Once you can do the basic move make a backswing pivot and try to recreate the same bump feeling. The image that has helped many golfers is the old Motown dance move where the backup singers would slide to the left and push their right hand down to the right. Once the left hip is sufficiently higher than the right hip, go ahead and begin rotating into the Merry go round position that you practiced in the impact section. When you feel proficient you may hit 9 to 3 shots or even full swing shots trying to recreate the Jackson 5 feeling.
For more ways to understand this movement, check out the Jackson 5 progressions in the related video section.
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This drill is the Jackson 5 drill and this is the work on the lateral movement of the pelvis during transition
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So you're going to take the club and you're going to place it across your pelvis
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If you remember we found how to find your hip joints
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So you're going to put it across your hip joints
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And then what you're going to do is without rotating you're going to slide your pelvis
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So that this hip joint is pretty much over the lead foot
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Now when you do that you're not going to let your upper body go with it
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If you need a feedback on that you can either have someone hold a club here
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As you practice it or you can put your head near the corner of a wall
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So if the wall was right here here is the corner
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I could practice working on this lateral movement without my head going forward
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But this lateral movement is going to happen during this first transition phase
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Which is from the top of the swing
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That lateral movement is going to happen
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Before that left arm is about parallel to the ground
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So it happens very very quickly
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It's about a four to five inch shift over to the left foot
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Right away before you start rotating
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So what a lot of amateur golfers do is they go to the top of the swing
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And without shifting they're going to spin
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And start rotating right away
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This shift is what helps us have a shallow angle of attack
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And hit a draw as you may have learned in the ball flight videos
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So the Jackson 5 move is practicing this little bump
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Call of the Jackson 5 drill because one of my students who was a dance instructor said
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It was kind of like that old Motown move the backup dancers would do
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So you can go to the top of your swing after you've practiced this enough
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You can go to the top of your swing holding the club like you did in the Marriott round drill
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And then you do the Jackson 5 and then you do the Marriott round
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So this is now working from the top of the swing down working from transition down
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And we're going to start with this lateral movement we call it the Jackson 5
