[12 piece bucket]

Hello everyone,

I'm struggling big time with the hip slide. I can't seem to get my hips to cooperate and I was wondering if any of you had thoughts on the matter.

I can get my hips to slide.

I can get my hips to rotate.

I simply cannot get my hips to slide and then rotate. When I try to do so I make the slide, then there is a gigantic pause, like a hiccup in my swing literally, and then the hips can turn.


Any thoughts?

I think it is the dual move of the hip slide to the hip turn that just won't gel. I feel like I'm just grinding gears.

I have heard some say feel like you are pushing your left foot into the ground. Will this give me the same results? It seems to but I'm unsure.

At what point in my should I be shoving that foot into the ground if that's the remedy? Back swing? Transition?

At risk of getting hammered unmercilously. . . and this is a SERIOUS post . . . squeeze your butt cheeks tight through the ball and push your belly UP.

Stick the left side of your head on a door jam where like the left part of your head at like the ear is touching it. Do the move SLOW . . . note what your spine and hip joints have to do inorder to keep going forward and turning. If your hip joints don't "release" you can't continue to turn.

Look at Hogan . . . note how his hip joints are flexed and then get "in line" to keep going forward and turn . .