 Right welcome back to another episode of testing the tips and today we're going to look at what I think is a real issue with a lot of golfers. I know it's something certainly that I have suffered from over the years and is a real back swing destroyer as Eric Cogorno calls it and it's what we do with our hips that is causing the major problem. Right before we go into the drill if you're new to the channel let me explain just what testing the tips is all about. I'm an average golfer just like you and I'm pretty much obsessed with watching golf YouTubers tuition videos and trying to improve my swing and all I simply do on this video on this channel is relay what I'm seeing all the good stuff hopefully stuff that's perhaps worked for me and hopefully will work for you so please consider hitting that subscribe button but on to today's video and it comes from Eric Cogorno golf who to be honest with you has become a real favorite of mine some real simple and straightforward tuition breaking down elements of the swing and that's what we're going to look at today. First of all let's look at what the issue is and the issue is all about swaying the movement of the hips that can be really lethal to be honest with you and again like I said in the intro something that I really suffer from. If we take a look now at essentially what is the wrong position if we can draw a bit of a line up onto my right leg my hips here as you'll see start to there's two well there's two options really we start to sway and turn which can mean real inconsistency in terms of being able to return back to the ball in the correct position really relies heavily on your timing and tempo being spot on every time and we know that's not going to happen so what we need to do we need to change the way that turn happens and we need to not sway we need to stay a little bit more rigid if you like with the hips in terms of the right position but obviously we've still got to create some turn to generate that power and we're going to look at is very simple drills in terms of how you do that how you look at the second swing which you'll see my weight staying predominantly more to the left side hip stays in line with well it doesn't move really maybe moves an inch or so towards the left when the downswing starts the question is how do we do that what kind of impact will it have on the quality of the strike and trust me from my experience of this one only in the last week or so my sort of ability to strike the ball cleaner has improved significantly and it's been concentrating on one thing and that's how I turn how I rotate these hips how I rotate the shoulders and how I start delivering the club head a lot more consistently so basically what we're trying to achieve is to stay more centered and less sway that's all we're trying to do and a lot of it starts with the legs themselves and a basic concentration on what effectively what your two knees are doing and it starts off with an encouragement to start the rotation or allow a little bit more rotation we've seen this in other videos is sort of flaring both left and right foot out and also that sort of flares the knees out as well and what that'll always allow you to do is turn a little bit more freely so that's the first step that we're going to do to stop us swaying we need to do one thing we need to stay a little bit more forward and what going to feel like and this is the only thing that I've been concentrating on after Eric's video is that our first movement is the knee is going to go towards the ball so as we're coming back the knee moves towards the ball what that means is that I'm trying to concentrate on keeping my knee cap over my lead foot my left foot so if I keep that there what I mean straight away is I can't move that way my hips can't move that way I'm staying over the ball what then also does is you'll see that the right leg starts to straighten and it's as simple as that that is all I've concentrated on doing what it then needs you to do is start to turn and rotate the upper body a little bit more as well and that's where the next element of this and a little bit of a drill that you can start to use with all these I would suggest where possible is you try and get these things filmed so you can see and play back to yourself exactly what you're doing and understand what you're doing with your swing so simply if I do this in full speed I would be looking to that's me done that's me to the top of the backswing I've kept my hip I would say still in in that position it hasn't moved that greatly it's turned it's rotated rather than swayed that's the first bit done very very simply the next thing you're going to need an alignment club an alignment stick or a golf club and I'm just going to move that forward slightly and I want it inside I want it touching my left heel or your lead heel back into position from behind now if you have a little bit of a look at what I'm trying to do I'm trying to rotate their hips the shoulders and what I want to feel is that my spine is starting to move towards the left foot or towards the left alignment stick so my concentration now is I'm left knee over the ball turn but I want to encourage my hips and shoulders to turn at the same time and feel like the movement is starting to make its way towards the alignment stick so the bottom of your spine starts to feel like it's on the alignment stick and then again there are two very very simple concentration points where you're not moving that way and your whole emphasis is staying more centered over the ball and creating far better rotation which will give you far better consistency there it goes on this is a long video and I must admit I'm good this is short and sweet but essentially that's all it boils down to two points of contact that you need to remember your knee moving towards you your front left foot and your coccyx whatever you want to call it get that idea that it's coming towards your left your left heel if you like in my case right is a few shots that I've attempted to play at least with this same kind of theory so what you see first of all and if I look down there's a good contact in its ball and then ground so I'm getting also ball then turf which is a good strike position and why that's important well because a lot of the time what I will do and I comment on some of the videos you hear me say I got it off the bottom grooves and what that'll mean is my low point is behind the ball so I'm hitting I and behind the ball not getting that divot well that's that thing well that's because of that sway again and I'm not returning to that low point at the correct time what this means or this drill means is that you should in theory stay centered hitting that ball so it improves compression it improves strike it's got a lot of important factors to help you in this case hit irons but the same principle would obviously apply through to driver as well so another really important tip I would say from eric agorno and for me what testing the tips has done this is a move that I used to make a few years ago but I also questioned if it was correct or not and having that sort of confirmation from Eric to see that yeah you know that first movement knee towards the ball or towards the cover your left lead foot is a good starting point for the swing that's encouraging and it's nice to know you're doing the right thing so like every tip it takes practice you're going to have to kind of work with this it's a new movement it's almost a new little sequence as well of those movements so take it to the driving range give it a go let it see what it does for you but if you're swaying watch yourself back on camera see if that's a move you can you are making it can be really dangerous it is a destroyer of many a good golf swing so concentrate on their movements hopefully it helps right another tip video done as ever give me some feedback in that comment section below point me in the right direction of some other youtubers that I might have caught on to yet and there will try those tips and feed them back to you on this channel thanks for watching and I'll see you soon