In this video, Mike Granato and Shaun Webb of Athletic Motion Golf show you how to fix one of the most frustrating elements of the golf swing: sliding or over-sliding in the downswing.
We’ll break down where you need to be at the top and at the halfway point, which is a great benchmark to look at, and where you need to be by the time you strike the ball. We’ll cover the A-frame setup, re-centering at the top, and the downswing, including how to drill it for your golf swings.
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Keeps the buttons on your shirt and the buttons on your pants inline or over each over when moving forward. What happens when the button on the shirt get slightly ahead of the buttons on the pants? In your demonstration of getting pressure on the lead leg your shirt buttons got slightly ahead of the pants buttons. Do you see top players with a slightly more forward shirt buttons at club parallel on the downswing? Or is it highly recommended that the buttons on the shirt and pants always stay inline?
Mike and Shaun, once again you've made perfect sense and practical data work together. My golf game is not great, but definitely better because of you two. Thanks for your help along the way!!
Love this oneπͺ
I remember when I first learned how to get pelvic tilt (left hip lower) in transition.
Itβs probably the best thing Iβve ever done for my swing.
Another great video – thanks! One point of confusion for me – how do we reconcile the goal of 'fingerprinting' the buttocks against the 'wall' (like in earlier videos), while not moving the left hip BACK. That's the visual I've using and it's been causing me to keep the upper body back while hips stay forward. If I don't press that left hip back I feel like I'm early extending – what's the secret to opening up properly, 'fingerprinting' the butt and NOT EE?
Holy bejesus! Brilliant analysis and explanation. Thank ye.
Great stuff!
I know some gals would be doing the splits in stance to get their feet outside the hips
Been working on this for the past month. Great video. Thanks
Great video! If the torso and pelvis move forward 4", how do you keep your head back in the center as the video shows?
Superb explanation and visuals, boys! Especially appreciate around the 7:40 mark where you explain the right hip coming around and allowing the left hip to move just a bit more forward as we find the "end point" of the forward movement. Back to more slow motion work as I allow the correct movements to create my feels.
Mike and Shaun, you Guys are just awesome I've watched hours and hours of your you tube videos loving everyone but eliminate sliding along with pros v ams shallowing , having the slide and the arm path explained like you guys have done is just gold thanks so much
Russ and others hit the key insight for me….Based upon other instruction, driving the left hip back was the focus – leading to struggle with right side getting 'stuck'. Low/left (pull) exit was a miss pattern. The video/checkpoint/data around left and right leg pattern and sequence is a powerful explanation and point-of-reset.
Data always wins. Thanks guys.
This really will help me out, just knowing what Not to do, as do to my narrow frame/skinny legs I tend to get out ahead of the ball….but the right hip is now stuck. Due to my build and 5-11 height some would think my stance is to narrow but it really isn't. Narrow hips and somewhat wide shoulders. Another thing I'm glad you mentioned was the "falling" more than forcing to recenter. Guilty there too. Sounds a bit like David Lee's gravity golf "counter fall", although not so drastic.
Hi guy's
I've got a comment request from over here in UK.
Can I get your thoughts on trail side bend !!!
How and when should you add it ?
For the record, I've just turned 69 and playing twice a week of 13
Loving you channel
Kind regards
Dave G
Hey Mike and Shaun I was wondering whatβs the program you use on your iPad to draw the straight lines and angles with the ipen? I have both and Iβm wondering if thereβs a reasonable app to buy weβre I can video myself and use that to check angles and swing plane. I saw you guys use it in a different video couldnβt remember witch one. Thanks.
Another breakthrough for me..thank you.
Funny this video came out. I was working on this today. For me personally I find my slide, when it happens, seems to be because of slight early extension. So trying to make sure my backside stays back and pushing my left hip back with my left foot seemed to really help. It's that push with the left foot and pull with the right foot.
Great stuff again
Great video guys πποΈββοΈβ³οΈ
the new mic is not good.. Yall sound completely different
With regard to your last advice not to pull the lead hip back and away, I recall other videos you have made using the avatars that show pros do pull their lead buttock back, while amateurs often keep the lead hip in place and rotate the trail hip out toward the ball and around, messing up their swing plane and contact. And here the pro avatar at minute 8:50, looking down from the top, pretty clearly shows the lead hip pulled back. So it seems you are talking here about a violent move back with the lead hip while the trail hip remains fixed, pulling the entire body back. There is a difference.
Also, do these movements apply to every club, wedges, irons, fairway woods and drivers?
I just noticed from the menu over to the right that you did a similar video 5 years ago, How to Stop Sliding in Your Downswing. Of course, good advice bears repeating and you always have new viewers.
Posture question: should I have my shoulder blades pinched backwards, thereby opening my chest up more (i.e. not slouching over the ball), at address?
Thanks!
this was not one of your best explanations. Hint look at you off -skreen model as you explain.
Mike and Shaun, excellent stuff as always. Big fan of your content. Does this apply to the driver swing as well? Do you still want to cover the ball or will that prevent hitting up on the ball with a driver?
Another excellent video. Been working on trying to smooth this out in my own swing. Just seems every time I start push into my left leg the transition at the top of my swing gets shorter and quicker. Iβm sure i just need to work slowing it down. There is definitely an increase in speed through impact, but think Iβm leaving some power left on the table.
I dropped a bunch of money on a chain lessons place that uses tech as well, and what I'm realizing as I watch these videos and try these drills is the place I went to is all wrong. They were too focused on symptoms and not causes, and trying to manufacture a forced move to make a video look right, where these guys get right down to the root causes. The approach on this channel is way better I think. Plus these methods actually take less effort during the swing. I'm really impressed.
You need to demarcate the differences in the width of the stance between a driver and short irons . The driver requires a wider stance( a frame ) than short irons. And because the stance is wider with a driver there will be more lateral motion by the end of transition .
One very important point which must be made is that once the outside of the lead hip moves laterally beyond the outside of the lead foot, a golfer runs out of range of motion to rotate the pelvis . In a very real anatomical sense , ( excess) lateral motion is the enemy of rotation
Ya'll didn't mention how straight the lead arm gets, i.e., from shoulder to club head/ball making good impact and compression occur…from the lead thigh moving slightly forward :<))