Unlock Your Trailing Side

I'm constantly searching out new ways to describe old issues. Generally, all of us have the identical handful of problems, again and again, but we do them in barely extraordinary approaches. Today we are looking at what happens you return over-the-top, however from some other perspective.

Some gamers, even if they use a one-piece takeaway, can nevertheless find themselves locking their trailing leg and hip. For some, this is simply negative footwork; for others, a sway; or maybe even some other trouble. At any fee, locking your trailing side causes you to pivot around your trailing hip joint instead of your spine.

I found this quick tip at golftipsmag.com called Take a Seat . You can read the tip to see how it works; I want to focus on the problem it's intended to help you solve.

The key line I want to examine is this one:

If your decrease body isn't always in the ideal position on the begin of your downswing, the left aspect of your bottom will make contact with the chair in advance.

Let me explain why this happens. When you lock your trailing side, you can't shift your weight forward as you start your downswing. Instead, your lead hip (your left hip if you're a right-hander) will immediately swing back away from the ball. That makes your lead hip move backward too much while your trailing hip doesn't move toward the ball at all.

To placed it any other manner, considering that your trailing knee is directly, it simply acts like a post caught within the ground. When your trailing side locks, it pushes your trailing shoulder up too excessive. Then, when you begin down, your trailing shoulder twists ahead, over the ball, and your lead hip twists backward too soon. The result is that your downswing plane is modified from straight toward the goal to a pulled shot.

Now, if you try the drill in this tip and you find that your trailing hip is locked, the simplest way to fix it is to make sure your trailing knee stays slightly bent all the way through your swing. If you don't straighten your knee, it won't lock.

If your knee do not lock, your hip might not lock.

If your hip don't lock, it may not push your shoulder up too excessive.

And if none of that takes place, you are an awful lot much less probable to make an over-the-top downswing.

Keeping that trailing knee flexed is one of those key factors in your swing that, if you do it, it takes care of an entire load of different things mechanically. Just making sure you've got a one-piece takeaway and a flexed trailing knee at some point of your swing can paintings miracles.

Oh yeah... And if you've ever heard instructors communicate approximately "firing your proper facet" (for proper-handers, that is), retaining that trailing knee flexed is the number one key to that pass as properly. You can not fireplace a gun with the protection on (a safety is only a lock), and also you can not "fireplace your trailing aspect" if it is locked in place.