Hip action on the backswing

[shortgamer]

A little or a lot? I know the X-factor wants to limit hip rotation although I was thinking about the book search for a perfect swing and the sequence of mantained tension. If the spring A is the hips, spring b the torso and shoulders and spring 3 the arms and club. Wouldn't we want spring a stretched to the max just like the other two springs? Why would you stretch b and c and not a? Is this theory more of a upper body swing than a wallop the ball with your pivot theory? Please discuss.

 

[JeffM]

I thought that the only spring in the X-factor is the torso between the hips and shoulders, and that the hips and shoulders are the two end-points that must move in a contrary direction of movement to maximise coil. I think of the arms and club as being part of the double pendulum swing action ( see http://www.tutelman.com/golfclubs/DesignNotes/swing1.php?ref=golfcoast )
and not as part of the central body's torque generator.

Jeff.

 

[shortgamer]

What about the spring between the feet and hips?

 

[shortgamer]

In the Wei thread she doesn't seem to have the hips quite as open as Nelson and Trevino yet has the same or more shoulder rotation. Tighter spring b but less tension in spring a.

 

[shortgamer]

C'mon guys-nobody have any thoughts on hip rotation?

 

[Spike]

Hip rotation is paramount to a good backswing, especially if you want to achieve the corkscrew effect (heavy feet in the earth). Even if you are trying to resist the hip turn there will be some for sure. The x factor is not something I would ever teach as I believe it is very hard on the body.

 

[puttmad]

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C'mon guys-nobody have any thoughts on hip rotation?

Restricted hip turn is for the young bucks....:0

For mere mortals all you have to do to create the perfect tensions in your body is activate your lower LEFT back muscles to start the bakswing. DON'T RESTRICT ANYTHING!....Magically you will do a perfect backswing with just the right amount of HIP TURN tension for your own body.
Once you are at the top all you have to do is release the tensed muscles and activate the equivalent ones on the right side of your body...

KISS....

 

[Bigwill]

Jim Mclean himself did an article not too long ago said that he "created a monster" with the x-factor thing, saying that people were overdoing the hip restriction.

 

[rwh]

Watch the Tiger Woods' super-slow swing on the Nike commercial. From takeaway to the top of the backswing, his hips are moving only to the extent that they are being pulled around by the movement of his upper body.

 

[tourdeep]

Holy moly...

Brian,,,,

you've got to be kidding me...

 

[mb6606]

Daly, Mickelson, Snead unrestricted hip turn either direction.
All depends on your plane angle. Why not just get your hands on plane and have unrestricted hip movement in either direction?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYAzjlx8Y1s

 

[shortgamer]

Holy moly...

Brian,,,,

you've got to be kidding me...

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