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This concept video is connecting the leg buckle to the release.

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So many golfers complain and struggle with, uh,

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what looks like kind of this little leg buckle movement on the way through, um,

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where the pelvis is actually going down into the ground. Um,

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and that lead knee is going quite far forward like this. Um,

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so obviously that's gonna do a couple things that's going to lower me down

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towards the ground, and that's going to shift my low point forward. Um,

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so when I'm thinking through this movement and why you might be doing it,

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you want to think about, well,

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what am I doing that's moving the low point backward so that I feel like I need

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to move the low point forward? And what am I doing that's, um,

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kind of raising the low point where I feel like I need to drop it down? Okay,

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so the most common culprit is a little bit too

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much arm extension or throw on the way through,

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especially a feeling of that right shoulder kind of getting on top,

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or, um, winning an arm wrestling or body slamming the club.

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If that right shoulder kind of gets on top like this, well that's a big,

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uh, contributor to moving the low point backward,

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and that tends to cause the path to want to go, um,

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outside in and get very steep. So to balance that out,

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the buckle accompanies a little bit of side bend.

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So now when I do this movement where the club would be going like this if I made

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a pretty good pivot, um, but now by sacrificing that pivot,

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by sliding a little bit forward, tilting a little bit more back, um,

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I can get the club to swing pretty straight, but you'll see that the low point,

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uh, tends to bottom out.

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So oftentimes what'll happen is when this goes this way,

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that lead arm starts pulling and that lead arm starts pulling to avoid going too

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deep with the divot. And what happens is when that lead arm starts pulling,

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you start hitting some thin shots. And so the buckle accompanies the slide.

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Um, so those two kind of match up and they can work pretty well with the longer

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clubs, but they tend to create some real contact problems. Um,

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with the shorter clubs, with the longer clubs, more often than not, they create,

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um, kind of quick hooks or pull hooks. Um, but the,

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usually the bigger issue with that pattern is the low point control on the

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shorter irons and especially wedges. Um,

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so that's kind of the, the geometry of how those two patterns fit together.

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If you're gonna work on one, you kind of have to work on both. Um,

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so if you're gonna work on taking away some of this throw so that the,

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the arms are a little bit more in kind of this classic, um,

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impact position where, you know, the,

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the don't break my arms idea or the feeling of that right shoulder in and that

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left shoulder up and away, um,

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if you did that and tilted and bo you'd bottom out way back here.

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So then you have to feel like your upper body is more on top and

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your legs are straightening to kind of control low point and pull yourself away

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from the golf ball. Now,

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from a kind of body swing connection standpoint,

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these also compliment, compliment each other.

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As I start really trying to extend this, um,

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this right side or extend that right shoulder like this,

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that tends to be more of a front side dominant pattern.

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And it can encourage my body to go into a little bit more of this kind of

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flexion pattern. Like this, almost like I was throwing a punch.

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I wouldn't really throw a punch by going into a extension.

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I would throw a punch by rounding my body and getting my abs and my,

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my pec to all work together with my pelvis. Now, when I do a crunch like that,

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oftentimes one part of it is this hip flexion or basically, um,

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you've probably seen when people do crunches in the gym and they'll start

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kicking their legs to activate their hip flexors and make it easier.

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So if I get into this posture and really start to throw,

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then I'm gonna feel like I activate those hip flexors in order to

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accompany that right arm extension. So it,

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some of the real powerful patterns and some of the kind of tricky patterns to

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change are the ones like this where, um,

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it not just balances each or compliments each other from a muscle standpoint,

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but it compliments each other. From a geometry standpoint,

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it's usually easier to fix it when, um, the,

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the main problem is causing an obvious disconnect from the rest of the body.

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These two compliment each other.

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So you'll have to work on getting a feeling of more covered

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and extending the legs and to support that,

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you'll have to have this arm staying, uh,

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kind of restricted or in close longer.

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And then having that lead arm higher in that follow through. Um,

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if you do that, your shoulders get a little bit more shallow,

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your body is able to cover, which helps control low point,

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and you overall get a much better flat spot in contact consistency.

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So if you struggle with a buckle, a buckle and you hate the way it looks,

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look at the shoulders and look at the core, um,

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you're gonna have to figure out how to rework those two so that they match a

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little bit better. Um, if you're gonna improve your overall contact,

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you can't just work on one of these pieces.