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This video is Hips Lead the Torso.

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Now, when we're looking at a good impact position, you'll tend to see that the lower body

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is pointing somewhere out in that 45 degree range, and the Torso is pointing somewhere in that

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30 degree range.

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So what you'll see by that is that the Hips are going to be open compared to the shoulders

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for a full swing at impact.

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A great way to train that, because a lot of golfers while they're aware of it, and they

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do that when they practice in their impact position, frequently what will happen is on

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video or 3D, you'll tend to see that Torso kind of matching up the lower body.

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So even golfers who try to get their lower body started, sometimes they don't lead long

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enough with their lower body to kind of leave behind the upper body.

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So I've got a little drill here to help you feel it, it involves two sticks.

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So I'm going to take one, and I'm going to place it through my belt loops.

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You could always just hold onto it, but this will make it a little bit easier for me to

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control the Torso stick with the microphone.

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So now I'm going to hold the Torso stick across my chest just like so.

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Now I want to play around with just the movement first, so I can feel that there's my upper

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body close to my hips.

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There's my upper body open to my hips.

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Now in the line, there's upper body closed, there's upper body open, and I can do the

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opposite.

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I can open the upper body compared to lower body from the lower body or I can close the upper

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body to the lower body from the lower body.

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So basically getting used to these different orientations.

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Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a backswing where I'm going to create a

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little bit of a stretch in my rib cage, and then I'm going to try and keep that stretch

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all the way until impact.

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It's not really possible and it's not really what you would want, but for a lot of

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golfers, they need to feel like they keep that stretch a lot longer.

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So from the face on view, I'm going to make a backswing, and then I'm going to try and

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keep that stretch as long as I can.

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So it would ultimately still have that 15-20 degree stretch amount, kind of like so, when

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I'm reaching impact.

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For a lot of golfers, that's going to feel just like the lower body has led a long way

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into the down swing.

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So then what I can do is I can work on positional drills, and I'm going to keep this

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one between my belt loops, just as a little reminder.

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So I'm trying to get kind of back to here, and I'm just going to feel like my hips lead

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my upper body while I do some 9-3s.

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Once I have a good feel of that, I can take bigger and bigger swings, I can go from that

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9-3 up to 3-4, again, trying to feel like the lower body leads, take out the belt

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shaft before I did do anything bigger than about 9-3.

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But then what I can do is I can get into some of these feelings of these pump drills,

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where I'm feeling like the lower body leads the upper body well into the down swing, or

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even all the way to impact.

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So if you tend to see on 2D video that your body is facing the golf ball, that means that

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your chest and your hips are both rotated about the same amount, and for a Tory impact

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position, you're going to want to have your lower body rotated about 15 degrees more

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than the upper body.

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Use a couple of sticks to help build an awareness of that, and then try to take that awareness

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into your practice swing and ultimately your full swing.