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Guys thanks for having a place to learn and grow. I'm a G.S.E.M that has a question concerning the hips.

I Know and implement the down the line slide of the swinger and the crossline slide of the hitter. I have devices which keep the bottom of the spine out (no crossline slide) that I use a lot for juniors.

My question is what is the best way to teach the correct hip slide to juniors. I have so many that learned the game with a closed face grip and rotated the the pivot very aggressively to square the face. A real mess.

thanks

vj: vj: As a person who was badly taught and taught to turn the hips not bump and turn I can see where you are coming from with your question. Most grotty positional taught golf instruction is based on hitting certain check points and if you do it well everything goes swimmingly. We know that this is rubbish. For me the key for getting the hip bump was training and understanding a good impact . Knowing where I wanted to be at impact and training the impact feelings meant that I had a better understanding of where I wanted to be at impact at the top of the swing so I would find a way to get there in the downswing . Your article where you go into hip axis tilt helped a lot and I left a post on this subject in the Manzella forum. You can't get to a good impact by turning the hips from the top so for me training in impact by working on half swings and mashing the impact bag was key. Kids want to kill the ball so if you can get them into a good delivery position and get them thumping the hell out of an impact bag training in power where you want it they will WANT to find a way to reproduce this rather than just following good advice and bumping the hips from the top or even worse just exploding from the top with downswing blackout. I used to box as a kid and young adult and my coach used to train us to get power into short shots . Most kids can not throw good hooks and upper cuts using big loopy slappy moves. If you get kids working on short shots using close in work on the pads the loopy moves disappear when the kid has a real sense of power and has his mind is in the short movement. Then he just does not want to do the loopy slappy moves which are really a a sad attempt to create power . I think it is the same thing with golf.
I understand you are a super putting guru. My putting is dreadful. I average 36 putts a round. I will be leaving a post on the putting section where I would like you to go into your insights. Thanks