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Focus on the space, or angle, around your right hip. If you were to sway, then often your hip will open up, as if pointing away from you. If you were to make a pivot with the hip staying closed, then it would be virtually impossible to sway. This is a fun drill that can be combined with others like the band resisted backswing or the door stop.
Tags: Sway, Backswing, Drill, Beginner
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This is the right hip closed drill for helping you overcome your sway pattern.
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If you remember from the overview video, when you sway, your pelvis tends to shift into the trail leg,
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and your weight tends to go to the outside of your foot.
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Now what we're going to do here is we're going to pay attention to the space between your right hip.
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If I were to get in my golf posture and you were to look at the space between my spine and my leg,
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when I sway, that space kind of increases, almost like I'm showing my hip off to my neighbor over there.
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When you pivot around the hip or rotate through the hip, what will happen is it will actually possibly increase an angle,
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and it will stay very much closed as opposed to open, like I was pointing it over there.
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So this is just a little kind of imaginary visual drill to help you with the concept of what it's going to look like
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for this part of your body when you make the proper pivot.
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You can combine it with any of the other drills to feel weight or pressure,
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but this drill can help you overcome if the right hip is really the issue with why you're swaying.
