Right knee and right hip on downswing

[benben]

My pro told me that my right knee should be moving towards left knee on downswing. In past, my right knee and right hip were pulled towards target by shoulders unwinding on downswing after the hip turn. After following my pro’s advice, I found as I moving my right knee to left knee intentionally, my right hip will be pulled towards target by the right knee action. My question is why we need to move right knee to left knee on downswing intentionally, secondly, should the right knee pulling right hip on downswing or the right hip pulling the right knee or right hip and right knee moved towards target by themselves simultaneously. Would you share your experience? Thank you.

[shootin4par]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

if your right knee moves sideways instead of rotate, you will sway and get outside your left foot, meaning you will not post up that left leg. so if you are going to focus on the right knee to the left leg make sure the right knee points to the right hip, rather then sliding sideways

[BrianW]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

To create a powerful golf swing you must fire the right side through in the downswing. When I say the right-side I mean everything, the arm, hands, shoulder, torso, hips and knee.

The left side of the body prepares the hitting area while the right side slams into it. For total right-side release encourage the right knee to fire in at the ball at the same time as the club head.

[pnearn]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

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The hip turn is a natural response from the weight being maintain on the inside of the back foot, Loading the Spring and the knees being flexed.

Very true. I say this a lot but at the risk of repeating myself if you learn to coil properly and feel reistance all the way up the inside of the right leg and inside of the right knee, the whole right side will spring back quickly and naturally as you unwind the upper body. And it will naturally move faster than the upper body due to the fact you have all that tension

If you have no tension in your lower right side because your lower body didnt provide the stable base in the BS, then you have to force the lower body to go quicker by kicking in the right knee or whatever which is incredibly hard to do

If you learn to set up right and coil right and feel all that tension at the top then the lower body will take care of itself on the DS as the hands drop and the shoulders unwind. You will naturally spring out of that tension and onto your left side, indeed you cant help but do that as its the bodys natural reaction to the forces being applied on it. If you have no resitance then you are having to add a whole lot of moves

[pnearn]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

Cmays

I dont know what your trick is but I do know what it feels like to be properly loaded into that right leg and yes the foot is drilled into the ground, almost like screwing your right foot into the ground like a corkscrew as you rotate the body and lift the arms

I spent a long time with my arms across my chest learning to feel that motion right, turning and coiling, right foot into the ground, tightness up the right leg. Only when I could do it again and again did I then start blending the arm lift back into it and only when I could do both did I pick up a club and try to do it with that. This was last winter and ive been trying hard all summer to ingrain it.

You can really see this in Tigers swing for example, that sit down move as his lower body pushes off that right coil, uses the ground for leverage, and then his lower body unscrews itself just amazingly fast .. of course he is also insanely flexible which must help!

[shootin4par]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

in golf all the "magic moves" are out. No more magic moves left to be discovered.

[msklar92]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

According to Bradely, a big key is to keep the hips LEVEL as you are going back and through. If you look at your belt buckle it shoud stay on the same plane back and through - no tilt. I only mention this, because trying to push the right knee can also push up the left hip. When the hips tilt, you have lost your foundation.

[shootin4par]

Re: Right knee and right hip on downswing

G1, First I appologize, I did not explain myself well in that post and I can see how it bothered you. You have always tried to answer my questions to the best of your ability, and I appreciate that.

let me try and clarify a little my opinion on "magic moves" or "secrets"
and this is only my opinion.

this is how I see it. Look at golf, what gets all the attention, where do most all people look to find their answer on why their golf swing has gone wrong? there is one move more glamourized and misunderstood then possibly all the other moves combined. Why is that
in life apperance of how you live is what gets all the glamour as well, but quality of life is not based on apperance.


Ask a content man why he is content. what will he say? Do you think he will give some very detailed complicated answer? Or will content people give you a basic answer that has you scratching your head and wondering "there has got to be something more to it then that"
My point is life and the golf swing is all about the basics, get the basics right and you should succeed at both, if you dont have the basics in life then you probably will never pay enough attention to the basics in golf, that is why I beilieve the 1/10 student ratio of who you improve is probably a reflection on the students more so then the teacher. Some people are just not ready.
Those people who come to you who say they want to learn golf, want a magic pill. That is the same reason for all the antidepressent, anxiety, hypertension, weight loss, and other drugs that have saturated our society, people want the miracle cure.


so in life a lot of money, great big fancy house, fast cars, etc.. get all the hype while the most important things in life are overlooked, how we breath, what we eat, how honest we are with ourselves, and how we treat others
In golf the transition is probably written about or discusesed then any other move becasue it is so "elusive" but the people in the know understand that if you get the backswing righ then the downswing will come a lot easier. But most golfers dont want to take the time to change their basics like grip, stance, posture, balance, etc... They just want the pill that will cure all.
life and golf go hand in hand, it is all about the basics. when have you seen someone with good basics struggle real bad, not very often

again G1, I appologize, to me you have only tried to be helpfull