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This content video is connecting the obliques to the trail hip

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so I've drills on

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trying to get the core more involved like beat the drum

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and the Merry-Go-Round and staying down in your posture head

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on a pillow like all those things they get the upper body

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down and forward and then we have drills focusing

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on pushing through the ground pushing the

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legs, but I want to do a video here to

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help kind of connect how those two relate and how the oblique in

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the trail hip work together. So we'll do it in a

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couple different ways. First version we're going to do is actually seeded.

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So I want you to scooch to the front of your chair and

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I'll grab a chair so we can demonstrate it. Okay. So I want you sitting to

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the front of the chair so that you're not leaning backward, but

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your upper body is kind of stacked on top of your pelvis and your

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body is unsupported. And now what we're going to do

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is we're going to put our arms across our chest like

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this and you're going to try and move your shoulder towards

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your opposite knee or

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the inner thigh. So I'm gonna do

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Right side. This is my downswing side. Now. I'm talking

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because hopefully you've tried it because you were not patient

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enough to watch me oftentimes I have to

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queue in correct on how we do it. So first I'll do

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it the way that I want and then we'll talk through a couple of the common problem

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scenarios. So what I'm going to

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try to do is you'll see from the down the line. There's a

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blend of a little bit of crunch and

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a little bit of rotation and a little

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bit of side Bend. So this shoulder is going down

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towards this opposite hip

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Kind of like this and it's reaching its lowest

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point and furthest forward at the end

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of the movement.

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There's two common problems that I see one would

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be going into kind of side Bend and then rotating.

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Kind of more like this where I'm going actually towards that right

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shoulder or sorry that right leg. So I

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want when I finish that the shoulder feels like

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it's crossing the midline and going in the up in the direction of

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the inner thigh. The other one I see is more of

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a full hip hinge kind of

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like this and turning if I come back up you can see this right shoulder

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is actually higher than the left. So I'm trying to get a

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blend of right shoulder down but also right shoulder

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forward. So it goes kind of right in between

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my legs towards there. When I do that. I feel a good

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contraction on this side. I'm just gonna

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Even it out a little bit before we talk about it. Okay. So

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now

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how does it relate to the right hip if I was to have my legs and

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kind of a unsupported position where they can move

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freely what you'll see is as this

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shoulder comes down and through as the oblique

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starts to contract. This leg will actually want to

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go into a little bit of external rotation. Now, if

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on the other hand, I was gonna go into just a

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pure side Bend movement you would see that this

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leg has a little bit of a tendency to want to go more inward

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or into internal rotation. So

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I'm going to move the chair out of the way when we're gonna talk through how

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that implication works and

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then I'll show you a little more advanced version you can do for building some

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of the strength in this movement at home.

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Okay, so we just went through that little exercise to feel

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the oblique working correctly. Now,

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we're gonna feel it while we're standing up. So

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if I just played around with that movement if

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I brought the club back kind of in nine to three and I did

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that movement where the shoulder comes down and forward

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it's gonna feel like it goes more like this and if

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I

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Use that trail leg like I felt when I was doing that exercise,

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it's gonna actually rotate out

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that way.

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a little bit like this and

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Go into some extension or actually straighten when I

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do that. I feel a little bit of a stretch on the inside of

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my right hip but I really feel a strong

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contraction in my oblique.

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So what I what I demonstrated there at the end is if

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you do more of just a side Bend movement kind

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of like this then naturally what would happen from

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the lower body is they would the right leg would tend to kick

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in more this way when the right leg kicks in like that.

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It makes pulling with some of the back muscles a little bit more effective

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which can help when you're doing this side Bend movement,

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but it doesn't make your abs any any

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stronger when you do this

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movement here where it comes down in front and

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your shoulder is actually trying to get past that hip

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then it makes sense anatomically to

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get that trail leg to straighten and go

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into more of an external rotation.

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So golfers who tend to have more of a

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stall kind of go this way that shoulder

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stays back that's more of using this backside

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of your body going into more side

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Bend as opposed to using the

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oblique.

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Which brings that shoulder down from

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the down the line camera, but forward from the face on

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camera a lot of golfer struggle when we talk about getting side Bend

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without creating a lot of access till especially for the

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shorter irons. Let's say eight iron and

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down where that shoulder is covering the ball, but

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it's also going downward from the

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down the line camera and this is part of the reason why

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using the oblique versus using the back muscles,

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so,

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Once you've got that feeling I recommend trying some

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of the nine to threes or trying some of these

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kind of easier shots where you feel that

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combination of that trail leg straightening with the

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oblique action. Okay. So let's just

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demonstrate a couple real quick. So if

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we were to do that trail using the

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oblique with the leg going into more extension,

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That would look more like that. This can

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be

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This pivot movement is a big component

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to getting shaft lean. What we'll see is

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when I do the other version if I do more of a side

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Bend movement.

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You'll see that I can still hit it. Okay, it's just

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going to go a little bit higher and you'll see that I had to throw the

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arms because the shoulder stayed more back. So oftentimes

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I'll have golfers trying to work

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on this oblique.

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Kind of trying to hit the ball purely with

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the direction of the Torso pivot and using

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that core muscle as opposed to trying to hit

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it more with arm action. So I'm going to keep this arm kind of

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pinned close to my side and I'm

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just gonna use that upper body going down and

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forward to help move the low point forward ideally in

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the actual nine to three shot. I'm gonna do that

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move.

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But I'm going to time and get a little bit of

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arm extension through the ball instead of just keeping it pin the

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entire time, but as a awareness drill as an exaggeration

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drill, I love doing.

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Little nine to as short as possible where I'm

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purely hitting it.

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Just with that oblique movement and getting no no

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extension of the yarn so.

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The next I will show you a simple way

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that you can work on this at home to help strengthen that

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oblique movement and kind of coordinate it with

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that hip extension. Okay. So now we're gonna get into

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a little bit more of a core strengthening exercise.

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We're gonna start at the end of the movement. So we're gonna do the same

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thing we did seated but now I have to resist or fight against

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gravity again. The goal here is that I'm not coming up and

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then across by rotating with the shoulder High rather.

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I'm reaching across with

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this right arm almost like I'm reaching under the

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left side. The shoulder is going down from

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the rib cage contraction on this side, but it's

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also going forward if I was then to reverse the

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movement I can bring it back.

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Kind of like this.

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And you can go all the way down and

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when you do that the key

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here is as soon as you start coming up.

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It should start rotating. I don't want to do a

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movement where I come up and then rotate I want

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to start that rotation and

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finish in that rotation and crunch and of

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course you would do

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Both sides, even though you'd be playing golf from one

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side. I like to aim for sets of 20 30

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even up to 50 doing three sets or

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so helping to build the awareness

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of using the obliques and what you'll find.

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Is when I do that movement.

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You'll see that as I come across this leg

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is going to want to push out. I can actually encourage that.

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To feel a little bit of a straightening of

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that heel.

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Of that leg of that hip while it's rotating out and

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that actually makes me feel like I can get an even better contraction

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there in the oblique. So hopefully this video

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helps tie together a number of the different concepts here

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where I talk about using the core or using the legs.

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They're gonna work together in this pivot during the release.