Why Stabilization Will Help Your Golf Hip Turn In The Back Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Why Stabilization Will Help Your Golf Hip Turn In The Back Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now golf is very similar to a lot of sports that in the backswing motion we’re learning to try and generate power, we’re coiling up trying to generate power. So we look at tennis, a baseball, a golf action, side onto the golf ball here, we’re turning to try and generate power and we’re turning back through again. And it’s that power generation that helps us hit the ball such a long way in golf. Now it’s important during that backswing phase that although your upper body is turning back, it turns back in a stable fashion, there's no point turning back for miles and miles and miles, then having no chance to recoil back and certainly no chance to recoil back and hit the ball consistently, squarely, accurately, whatever you might want to say. So during that backswing phase, it’s important that the lower half helps stabilize the upper half as it turns. So we can focus on how the upper half turns back this way creating about 90 degree of shoulder turn and about 45 degree of hip turn, but making sure the bottom half stays super stable with that. If we were to turn the top half back and then find that we’re over here, you know the hips have turned and the shoulders have turned to the right degrees, but we've got no balance and no stability in the bottom half, therefore really we've got no tension, no winding up, no releasing. Now in recent years kind of buzzword in fitness and in personal fitness and strength and conditioning is all that core strength. You know this is really what we’re targeting here, we’re focusing on this idea that this bit turns and we create a nice strong stable core to turn back and round and through consistently.

You’d find that somebody has a very weak core, they won't be able to do this motion in a consistent fashion, they might swing out this way, they might be standing up during their swing, but certainly won't hit the ball vey consistently. So the core strength and the stabilization of the lower half is very important to generating power in a golf swing. The other thing we've also got to focus on is be nicely balanced and again that’s a key to good stabilization is doing it all balanced. So what I've done here is I’ve just teed the ball up slightly I’ve got my seven iron, I'm going to actually hit shots with my feet together. We often find that when we put our feet together if we’re not stable in the lower half and we’re not strong enough in the lower half, we’ll find ourselves being off balance and therefore hitting poor shots. As you can go down to the range, stick your feet together, the ball goes directly in the center of the feet, we stand nicely with the feet together. Pick a target out there not more than 100 yards away for seven iron, and just try and hit nice, balanced, rhythmical golf shots and I can hold it here and I can feel that I'm nicely balanced and stable. I've clipped the ball off the tee peg nicely and I didn’t fall over. So if you have poor stabilization, you'll feel like your legs are going and they are not able to resist the motion of the hips. So work on good core strength and good stabilization for better hip rotation. 2015-10-15

Now golf is very similar to a lot of sports that in the backswing motion we’re learning to try and generate power, we’re coiling up trying to generate power. So we look at tennis, a baseball, a golf action, side onto the golf ball here, we’re turning to try and generate power and we’re turning back through again. And it’s that power generation that helps us hit the ball such a long way in golf. Now it’s important during that backswing phase that although your upper body is turning back, it turns back in a stable fashion, there's no point turning back for miles and miles and miles, then having no chance to recoil back and certainly no chance to recoil back and hit the ball consistently, squarely, accurately, whatever you might want to say. So during that backswing phase, it’s important that the lower half helps stabilize the upper half as it turns. So we can focus on how the upper half turns back this way creating about 90 degree of shoulder turn and about 45 degree of hip turn, but making sure the bottom half stays super stable with that. If we were to turn the top half back and then find that we’re over here, you know the hips have turned and the shoulders have turned to the right degrees, but we've got no balance and no stability in the bottom half, therefore really we've got no tension, no winding up, no releasing. Now in recent years kind of buzzword in fitness and in personal fitness and strength and conditioning is all that core strength. You know this is really what we’re targeting here, we’re focusing on this idea that this bit turns and we create a nice strong stable core to turn back and round and through consistently.

You’d find that somebody has a very weak core, they won't be able to do this motion in a consistent fashion, they might swing out this way, they might be standing up during their swing, but certainly won't hit the ball vey consistently. So the core strength and the stabilization of the lower half is very important to generating power in a golf swing. The other thing we've also got to focus on is be nicely balanced and again that’s a key to good stabilization is doing it all balanced. So what I've done here is I’ve just teed the ball up slightly I’ve got my seven iron, I'm going to actually hit shots with my feet together. We often find that when we put our feet together if we’re not stable in the lower half and we’re not strong enough in the lower half, we’ll find ourselves being off balance and therefore hitting poor shots. As you can go down to the range, stick your feet together, the ball goes directly in the center of the feet, we stand nicely with the feet together. Pick a target out there not more than 100 yards away for seven iron, and just try and hit nice, balanced, rhythmical golf shots and I can hold it here and I can feel that I'm nicely balanced and stable. I've clipped the ball off the tee peg nicely and I didn’t fall over. So if you have poor stabilization, you'll feel like your legs are going and they are not able to resist the motion of the hips. So work on good core strength and good stabilization for better hip rotation.