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Revisiting Internal Vs External Rotation of Trail Hip

Discover the crucial distinction between internal and external rotation of the trail hip during the golf swing. Explore the differences between the classic Sam Snead squat and the knee caving in movement, and understand how these variations affect your weight distribution, core engagement, and overall swing efficiency. By revisiting and refining these concepts, you'll learn how to enhance your pivot for a more powerful and controlled release.

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This concept video is revisiting internal versus external

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rotation of the trail hip.

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Um, so the look of kind

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of the Sam Snead squat versus the knee kind of caving in,

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um, has been a hot topic in golf instruction

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for for many years.

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Um, I did a video on it, uh, talking about its relationship

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to weight distribution, which I do think is relevant,

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but I think I have a better description of it now.

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Um, so from talking with, uh, some, some of the people i,

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I bounce my ideas off of on the body, the medical side.

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Um, what the way I would phrase it now is, uh, the one

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that looks external rotation is more of a disassociation

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of the hip and the one

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that looks like internal rotation is more

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of a connection of the hip.

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And what's likely happening is the disassociation.

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So the more of the kind of the squat look is

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using the glute, creating a stretch

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so we can get a little bit more of a,

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a whip effect on down through the release.

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And the look of going into internal rotation is likely

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using my abs,

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but creating this whole region as a fixed point so

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that my abs can work

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through the leg into the foot to spin my body.

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Um, so the look

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of the internal rotation is typically gonna be more

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associated with an upper body kind of, uh, dominant pattern

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or a little bit more of a spin of the shoulder girdle, um,

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compared to the, the look of going into external rotation,

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which is going to be a little bit more

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of an independent hip movement.

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And while that's happening, um, your core is staying back

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and you're kind of spring loading the muscles in your trunk.

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Um, so one way to look at it is as you're going up to the,

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as we're going up to the top of the swing,

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if you look at basically where is the knee pointed compared

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to where the belt buckle is pointing, um, as we go up

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to the top, some golfers like Minu Lee,

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you'll see the knee kind of comes in

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and other golfers like Rory

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or the classic one with Sam Snead, um, you'll see

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that the knee stays kind of pointing out

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and the belt buckle rotates away from the knee.

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If the belt buckle rotates away from the knee,

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then I'm actually getting hip rotation.

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Um, if the belt buckle

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and the knee move together,

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then I'm not really getting a lot of hip rotation.

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I'm more moving the pelvis, um, with some other muscles,

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some other structures either down from the leg, um,

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or what I likely believe it's

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more from the abs and the core.

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Um, so my preference has shifted to, I don't really care to.

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Now my preference is a little bit more towards that, um,

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the look of the disassociation, um,

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because it tends to load the core better for more of the,

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the negative torsion

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or what I think is one of the big hallmarks of, um,

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the really good re body release pattern.

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Um, where if you tend to do too much

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with your abs this way it can encourage a

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little bit more of a stall.

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It can encourage this hip kind of dropping down

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and causing low point issues.

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Um, it creates a little bit more timing

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and a little bit more inconsistency, um, than

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that external rotation.

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Uh, so I have other videos as far as the, you know,

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the hip action and how to get the combination

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of extending the leg, rotating the hip, extending the hip,

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um, and going into slight abduction.

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So, or, uh, abduction, sorry.

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Um, so getting kind of that movement going from the hip.

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Uh, if you do that, then

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while the shoulders stay a little bit more closed,

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that's gonna get you into this really good loaded

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delivery position for the spine.

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Um, and now you're pretty much set up in a position where

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if you go into that, um, negative torsion,

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straightening the leg, um, all that, uh,

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good release movement, we're in a position

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where our low point control is gonna be really, um,

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precise and kind of gradual.

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We can be off by a bunch and still hit it pretty solid.

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Um, and it doubles in giving us pretty good face control.

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So I think it's one of the hallmarks

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of the more consistent ball strikers.

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Uh, so if you haven't messed around with it,

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I think it's a good piece to work on in transition, trying

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to get more of this disassociation of the hip, um,

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rather than more of a connected hip, what we used to refer

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to as more of a external rotation

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of the hip versus internal.

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So again, quick, quick demo.

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If I was to do kind of this movement right there,

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that would be more of the disassociation,

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which would have a look a little bit more

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kind of like that.

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Um, where if I was to basically bend this knee

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and really kind of rotate the shoulder, um, the shoulder

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and abs, it would have more of a look kind of like this.

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Um, this is going to encourage

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a little bit more of kind of a, a stall down at impact.

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Um, so if you see that as one of your patterns

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and you're fighting this stall

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and kind of flip down to the bottom, look at transition,

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especially that trail hip, it may be relevant

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for getting rid of that, uh, kind

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of quick upper body dominant pattern.

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