Lateral Movement or No Lateral Movement?

[acq111]

I am a little confused as to if there should be lateral movement on the downswing. I read all these articles about the downswing, and they all very. Some say no lateral movement, and some say to start your downswing with a lateral movement, and some say to just turn.. Which one is it. I have a little lateral movement in my downswing to transition my weight, and get things moving. Am I wrong in this? Mt head stays back and my hips start forward a little. Not an overly aggresive thrust just a little slide...Any insight????

Nick

[bill reed]

Re: Lateral Movement or No Lateral Movement?

hi nick
two schools of thought here, one that thinks that a lateral shift and turn helps move the weight onto the left foot and clears the hips, and the other that think the hips only piviot round the spine and there is no lateral shift. i think some lateral shift is needed and that it also starts the downswing.
if you have some shift and you have no swing problems then i would not worry about it, its how i swing and lots of good pros do it too.
even tiger has a little lateral shift with his driver.
bill

[rharris06]

Re: Lateral Movement or No Lateral Movement?

Seems you are doing everything fine to me!

[lgskywalker37]

Re: Lateral Movement or No Lateral Movement?

the more lateral shift you have before you rotate the more open your face will be. but everyone has a lateral shift..... your weight goes from back foot to front foot....lateral weight shift. but as far as having you hips move lateraly that you can see, that depends on what kind of swing you have. when you want to hit a draw just rotate, but when you want to hit a fade get a bit more sliding is one way becuae that prevents you arms from rotating as fast and your club will be more open at impact, but sliding the hips is a power leak too. so for most swing i would say that very little visual latteral hip movement should be seen on camera. put a line on a captured swing front hip, if that line (at impact) is past your front leg tan you have too much lateral movment. if you don't rotate and clear your hips out of the way for you arms to move through then a lateral shift will naturally happen in order to give you room for your arms to hit.

i like to have start to BS by moving all my wieght to the back foot then rotate around that.... then trastion is moving all the wieght to my front foot then rotating around that.

[jamesh]

Re: Lateral Movement or No Lateral Movement?

even tiger has a little lateral shift with his driver.


I have a great ultra slow motion video of Tiger's swing. I will try and upload it later - I tried earlier but I had technical difficulties - the origins of which I didn't understand....

[lgskywalker37]

Re: Lateral Movement or No Lateral Movement?

theres a god slow mo of tiger http://www.nike.com/nikegolf/swingpo...gportrait_tout

you can grab the play bar as slow as you want adn go frame by frame

there is another one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iTtarBUX5E

1 more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy9GTAENiJA this one is a great view, man that guy is flexible...... also talk about solid contact! his smash factor is close to 1.6! usually 1.5 is seen as near perfect, i guess tiger perfect is 1.6 lol