The Golf Pivot [From This View] Makes It So Much Easier To Understand

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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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