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Resisted Trail Leg Buckle

In this video, we'll explore the common issue of trail leg buckle in golfers. You'll learn how excessive bending of the trail leg can affect your swing, particularly during the transition and release phases. Tyler provides practical drills and techniques to help straighten the trail leg, improve weight shift, and enhance overall stability in your golf swing. Watch the full video to understand how to achieve a more controlled and powerful swing.

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Israel is resisted trail leg buckle.

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Um, so a, a number of golfers,

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or a category of golfers tends to have, um,

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a little too much bending of this trail leg.

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It can happen in a, uh, the transition where it's bending in

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or more likely during the release

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where it continues to bend in.

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Um, often, uh, I'll put something here

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and basically say that once you get halfway down, you want

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to be, uh, moving your legs away from it.

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That's kind of an anti early extension.

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It creates some of the space,

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it creates the weight shift away from the golf ball.

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Um, it creates a little bit more, um, kind of stable pelvis.

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Uh, it creates a little bit more height,

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so you control low point.

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It does a lot of good things.

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Um, I typically highlight that we're trying to get that leg

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to straighten from somewhere around belly button height

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or around P 5.5 all the way until the club is close

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to follow through around P eight.

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Um, so feeling like that leg is straightening through there,

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um, can help if you get into more of this category

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or kind of more of that category.

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Um, so a couple different kind

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of pivot problems now on the range

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or, uh, in my studio, I will hold onto the band

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and place it around their leg

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and kind of pull in this direction.

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Um, closest I could do here

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would be basically getting set up

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and feeling like I'm straightening this leg

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as I'm turning my hips, as I'm doing a little bit

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of this turtle shell bracing, extension, uh, kind of all

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that good, um, kind of body pivot on the way through.

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This gives me a little bit extra feel of kind

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of like squeezing the glute and squeezing, uh, or,

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and extending the back of the leg.

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Um, but the problem is the band gets in the way

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of actually hitting the balls.

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So, um, so the alternative is

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we can use a wall.

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If you have kind of the corner of the wall in your backyard,

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you can use or you can place this up against,

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uh, a firmer object.

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Now there, I think I've got enough that I can

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push against it a little bit

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and hopefully it won't, um, topple over.

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So now it's gonna be hard to do kind of a full swing

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'cause this is gonna prevent me from

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straightening it some in the back swing.

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Uh, so I mostly use this for release training, um,

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where I'm gonna bring it back to about here,

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and then I'm gonna feel like I extend that leg

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as my body is turning.

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So it's gonna feel like I have, um, some pressure going

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into the wall that way.

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This helps with getting my hips

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to go more in this back 45 rather than going into early

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extension and having my,

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my lower body drifting into the golf ball, uh, too long.

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Now the hard thing if you're gonna try to hit this is,

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is kind of finding the right distance

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and weight distribution.

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So I'm, I'm usually pretty kind to poor, um, poor contact.

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Uh, but if I get it close to right,

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I'll feel like in the end there I'm getting a really good

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squeeze of the glute

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and it might feel like I'm a little bit taller

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and further away.

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Um, if I'm used to here, we'll do kind of the poor one.

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If I'm used to kind of driving the leg down, kind of like

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that, you'll see that okay, I,

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I did hit that more shallowly.

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Um, but when you look on camera, you'll see

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that there was more of a stall

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and more of this big arm throw down to the bottom.

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Those two tend to create some more contact, um,

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and direction inconsistency with time.

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So here again, we'll place it kind of behind the leg,

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again, being a little bit lenient

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with ball position and contact.

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But the goal here is now from that waist height.

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That was a pretty good one. I'm gonna feel like I'm

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squeezing as I'm turning, so I'm extending that leg,

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squeezing the glute as I'm turning to get into this good,

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um, kind of bridge follow through position.

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It really helps with cleaning up a lower body buckle from

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that trail leg.

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