Understanding The Golf Pivot Movement
The golf pivot is one of the most crucial movements in golf. In this video Chris Ryan gives you a behind the swing view and does an exceptional job at explaining the proper movements in your golf pivot.
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so today's topic is the pivot and more
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specifically how you move your hips and
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your pelvis in the back string and we're
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going to show you the goal swing from a
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slightly different view that you might
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never seen before
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so thank you for joining me here at the
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Forest of Arden today we're talking
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about the pivot and more specifically
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how the hips and the pelvis moving the
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backswing something which I think can
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help a lot and lots of golfers just for
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we get started if you're new to my
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it there is a subscribe link down below
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and there is a clickable link at the end
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of the video if you would rather wait
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for that so for many golfers improving
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their pivot can really improve many
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aspects of their game if you can get the
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pivot moving better we often see the
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Golf Club tracing around the body much
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better and that can result in much more
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solid shots I do spend a lot of time in
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my day to day coaching improving how a
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golfers body works and that very much
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works on the ground up so we can get the
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hips working we often see the upper body
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on top of that working much better as
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well so to really understand what
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happens in the pivot we need to use a
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camera angle which is maybe less used
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and it should be when we're looking at
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the golf swing and it's this camera here
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so we're going to be looking at the golf
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swing from behind him because it's a
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much better place to see exactly what
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those hips do and how they should move
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in the golf swing we're specifically
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looking at the tail bone which would be
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around about here
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and we're looking at the right hip and
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how they function through the golf swing
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so the first thing we're going to do is
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I'm just going to stand here with seven
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are just gonna hit a shot we're just
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gonna have a look at it from that
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different camera angle so this is just
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me attempting to hit my kind of stock
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standard 7-iron
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and I'd be pretty happy with that it's
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gone exactly where I wanted to strike
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was good curve was pretty good and
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that's for me a pretty good seventh line
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so what did we see from this camera here
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well when we play that back and we show
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you what you will actually see is both
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my tailbone and my right hip actually
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would move towards the target in the
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back team so they actually move towards
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the target now if you look at my lead
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hit my left hip that doesn't move
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towards the target so it's not me kind
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of slide in my hips towards a target
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it's just that the way my pelvis works
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in this rotation my hip and my tailbone
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work towards the target part the reason
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for that is because my hips are rotating
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on this good angle my right leg is
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starting to lose some flex my left leg
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is starting to increase in some some
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flex and what this really enables me to
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do is in the second part of my backswing
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it really enables me to kind of resend
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to my weight and ultimately get my
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weight about 80% into my lead side by
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the time that my left arm is around
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about halfway down about parallel with
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the ground that's what we tend to see
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from the elite golfers when the lead arm
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is parallel to the ground they've got
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about 80% weight into their trail side
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how their hips working that back swing
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in that transition phase plays a huge
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role in that what do I tend to see from
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a lot of golfers well I tend to see a
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lot of golfers making a movement off the
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ball this way and so from here becomes
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incredibly difficult to get back onto
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that lead side quickly enough we often
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see they do that but it can be a little
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bit too late so what I tend to find
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really helps golfers is actually just
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having that knowledge just appreciating
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how those hips should move and what it
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should look like from that behind view
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because when you take your starting
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position you can start to think about
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this right hip moving in a few different
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places it starts to move behind you it
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starts to move upwards and it starts to
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move towards the target so if I use this
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golf club to represent my hips this
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being my trail hip that's going to move
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back up and towards the target that
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helps me create these good pivot in my
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lower body it helps me get my upper body
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working much better above that
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as we said a moment ago it helps me get
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my weight left much earlier which helps
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a lot of golfers and it helps we then
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deliver the club to the ball in a much
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more successful manner so using this
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camera angle is not something that we
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tend to do a lot we don't really look at
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golf swings from this angle but we see
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in a very very different way and there's
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lots of things that we see from this
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angle we don't generally see from the
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kind of typical down the line based on
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angles that we use before so improving
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your pivot can be very simply a case of
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appreciating what the movie should look
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like and starting to think about how you
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move your trail hip your tailbone in
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that backswing definitely going to help
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you transition better and hit those iron
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shots much more crisply I always get
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asked this question in the comments box
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so this does apply for driver as well we
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would just have Emily see a different
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starting position we would generally see
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a different upper body position but the
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same movement in the pelvis would apply
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to the driver hopefully that video helps
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a different way of looking at the pivot
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but one that might give you a different
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view on it and maybe open your eyes to
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what you should be doing in your
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backswing to help you strike those irons
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a little bit better thank you very much
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Once you have mastered your pivot the golf swing becomes so much easier. Your confidence will sky rocket and you'll have less swing thoughts.
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