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in this golf smart insight we're gonna

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look at straightening the trail leg to

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increase hip turn so we like to be as

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specific as we can here at golf Smart

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Academy and I see a lot of videos

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talking about increasing or I have

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students send me videos about whether to

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straighten the leg or keep that trail

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leg bent so I'm just going to give you a

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little overview of how I would walk

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through this thought process so one of

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the things that you'll see is on video

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if a golfer tends to keep their trail

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leg bent from the down-the-line camera

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angle you'll only be able to see a

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certain amount of pelvis and then if you

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see them straighten their leg you're

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gonna be able to see more pelvis so this

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is commonly thrown around as increasing

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your hip turn now I'm gonna talk you

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through why it's not actually increasing

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your trail hip turn it may actually be

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increasing the lead hip turn so that's

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where breaking things down looking at

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them logically can help you understand

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why a movement may or may not be working

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for you or be doing the right thing that

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you're trying to Train so let's talk a

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little bit about what's going on with

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this hip and then we'll go through a

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little exercise to kind of feel what's

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happening and it how straightening this

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trail leg it's probably not causing you

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to increase the amount of turn into that

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trail hip so when I make this backswing

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where you see a different amount of my

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pelvis there's a lot of things that

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could do it besides hip turn a very good

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reference for looking at hip hip

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rotation is looking at where the belly

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button or where the belt buckle would be

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and comparing that to where the knee is

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so if I'm facing the camera just like so

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and my knee is facing the camera if I

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turn so that my pelvis is pointed to the

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right of my knee that is internal hip

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rotation in this trail hip if I rotate

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it so that my belt buckle is pointing

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way to the left of where the knee is

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that's external hip rotation so what

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you'll frequently see is here's where

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I've rotated 20 degrees or so into my

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hip and now if I straighten the leg you

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can see that the knee changes about the

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same amount as the pelvis because it's

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most of the movement there may be coming

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from the ankle the other common

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would be if I increase the external

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rotation of this trail leg that can give

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the appearance that I've turned into

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this leaf or sorry if I increase the

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external rotation so if I'm rotating

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that way more with the lead leg that'll

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make it look like I rotated into that

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trail leg even more so if I get here and

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I allow this leg to Street and what that

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frequently does is that allows this leg

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to bend a lot more and allows that hip

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to open up so when this lead hip is

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opening up even though I haven't really

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turned more into this trail hip I've

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gotten more rotation so one way to kind

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of feel this is if I stand on this leg

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and I keep my pressure even throughout

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my foot so I'm gonna make sure that I

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keep the pressure on the inside of the

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foot kind of like this and I'm going to

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rotate while keeping that leg fairly

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straight just a little bit event so 10

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and 15 degrees event now if I was to

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bend that knee a whole lot more it's not

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going to restrict how much hip rotation

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I'm going to have now what's interesting

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is if I flex forward and rotate that

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will tend to restrict the hip rotation a

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little bit and that's partly because

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there's some really deep muscles that as

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the hip comes up get restricted when we

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start looking at internal hip rotation

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so that's the other little piece to this

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puzzle is as I make a backswing the more

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that I tend to straighten that trail leg

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the more that I'll tend to have this hip

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go backward and in order to keep my

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spine angle while having that hip go

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backward I'm actually going to be

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flexing into this hip so the more that

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now it's probably only 5 10 maybe up to

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15 degrees so it's not gonna change at a

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time but the more that I flex this hip

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the more that that's going to restrict

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the amount of actual hip rotation so I

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just like to be clear as far as what's

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happening and if we're looking at pelvis

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rotation if we're looking at maybe it's

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the lead leg that's bending more just

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because we see more pelvis we're not

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going to assume that it's the hips that

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are actually doing it because we can we

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can think through it we can measure it

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we can look at it and decide if it's

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actually

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increasing hip rotation by straightening

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the trail leg my take is that no it's

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not you're either getting it more from

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the foot or you're getting it from the

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lead leg but I'm not an advocate of

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trying to keep that knee perfectly

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locked or perfectly flex the same amount

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frequently what happens is these golfers

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tend to sway off the ball a lot more the

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pressure goes to the outside foot and

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they have trouble making solid contact

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on the way down so if you like the way

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we break this down check out our other

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videos here or submit your swing through

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our membership site and we can tell you

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what's going on in your swing and where

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you can improve the fastest and what

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drills you should do to get there