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Speedo is how much lower body shift? So frequently I get asked you know how much lower body movement

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Am I doing it too much? Am I not doing it enough? So I'm going to give you some kind of guidelines so that you can figure out what's best for you

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Because what you'll see is that I tend to be very good at using my lower body and so I will exaggerate some of these movements

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The the tour average for lower body shift during the golf swing is going to be about 46 inches

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And that seems to be pretty consistent whether you're hitting a seven iron or you're hitting a driver

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Now the upper body shifts the different amount depending on those different clubs

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But the lower body is going to shift again this 46 inches so the average pelvis is somewhere around a foot

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So you can think of this as a

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Third or a half of a pelvis so if I was to put

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Two alignment sticks on the ground

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Let's put one

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Kind of even with the ball and we'll put one that's

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About four inches in front or so

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I'm gonna get set up and then when I do the Jackson five you can see that I'm shifting slightly past that because this is a

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A drill to kind of feel some of this exaggeration

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But in the golf swing you can see that my belt buckle or the center block of my pelvis is going to shift

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A little bit more than that because I tend to be closer to that six inch range than the the four inch range

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Well, there's some feelings that you can use to help you figure out if you've shifted too much or too little

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The hip actually has kind of a shape to it something like this

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So here's my pelvis and then here's the hip bone

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So the part that we see and that we feel way out here is actually the outside of the hip

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The actual rotation of the hip is gonna happen kind of right in here right underneath this belt buckle somewhere right around this area

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Well, if I get this the center of my hip

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Passed the inside of my ankle now

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I'm gonna have a difficult time

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Bracing and pushing with this lead leg if I go too far

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You'll see that I'll lose my balance on a line-up falling

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So if I'm looking at video and I'm trying to see even with rotation

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I'm trying to make sure that the inside or where the actual hip is rotating is not going past the inside part of the ankle

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If it if it stays behind the inside part of the ankle then I'm pushing against the ground kind of in that fashion

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And that's gonna help me rotate later in the down swing

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So during this transition move of the Jackson five

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I'm basically shifting laterally to about that point and then I'm applying the brakes and kind of pressing in order to or pushing through that ground in

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In order to help stimulate that rotation

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Now

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There's some that's kind of the the best feeling I can give you

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If you're if you have a wedge shot and you're you've got a smaller stance

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You'll see that when I then go to push it'll be a little bit more vertical and I'm not gonna shift quite as much

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But if I have a

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driver or a seven iron

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I'm gonna still kind of have this step or this weight shift

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Before it rotates

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My upper body will feel a little bit more on top for the iron compared to the driver because it actually will be and

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That's one of the ways that you can kind of use some feedback as far as am I doing this too much or too little

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So how would I know if I'm not doing enough of this?

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If I'm not doing enough of this lateral movement and not having enough of this

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Access tilt I'm gonna struggle with having my path a little bit steep and a little bit left because this is one of the big shallow moves

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The other option is I'm not gonna struggle with those

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But I'm gonna be standing up so I either need to have this access tilt to shallow the club or I'm gonna stand up to shallow the club

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Those are really your two major body shallow options

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So you're gonna choose one of them

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So if you're standing up, there's a good chance you don't have enough of this lateral movement or if you're struggling with

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Driver and long irons because you have a steep angle of attack

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You're hitting more on the toe and you're just having a hard time getting the path far enough out to the right

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There's a good chance you're not having enough of this lateral movement or using your lower body properly

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How do you know if you're having too much?

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What's kind of the opposite if you're struggling with wedges if you are hitting two big of hooks and you're having

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the bottomless wing shift too far behind the golf ball so you're kind of picking the ball and

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You're doing a great job with the driver so you're having a lot of success with a driver

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Those could be symptoms that you're doing too much of this lateral movement

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So I never want you to try to emulate

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exactly how my swing works

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My goal is to communicate the movement and the way that those moves work together so that you can ultimately

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Kind of put it together and figure out how much works best for you

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So I'll demonstrate one and just kind of give you a visual as far as how much lateral shift

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I have and if you see me exaggerating it in the drills

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Know that that's part of my DNA and my makeup is to be more towards the higher end

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If you shifted two inches less than me you'd still be in the toward normal if you shoot shifted

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Three inches left than less than me

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You'd still be in the very very playable zone

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So you don't have to have as much lateral shift as I demonstrate

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But understand how it's going to affect the other pieces that you may be working on