Hey golfers, in this next video i'm going to be talking about golf swing left knee movement is key, keep watching. Hi it's Troy from https://hittingitsolid.com here, thanks for watching. So we're talking about golf swing left knee movement is key, and the left knee movement is really key in the golf swing. So let's start off and have a look at the backswing because even though it will be slightly different for a lot of players but if you look at any of the really good players out there even top amateurs the left knee does move in a certain way that dictates the whole golf swing and enables them to make a great swing.
So i've got a driver here, it doesn't matter if you've got an iron it will be the same principle for both. I'm set up to one here. Now as I make my backswing, now for me my left knee will either point at the golf ball. Well quite often for me it's even pointing pretty much straight ahead, but for a lot of players that's angled slightly in towards the golf ball.
What I probably wouldn't like to see you do is just have that left knee really collapse like that and get into that really awkward position that'll put a bit too much pressure on your right side. So if you can get it sort of pointing either forward or angled slightly in towards the ball and that's a good place to start for that left knee. Now the other key thing will happen in the backswing with the left knee. It will increase its flex so this line here probably will show it a little bit better. As I make a backswing you'll see my left knee pop out there, it regains flex, it doesn't get straighter and I get taller. It will actually get more flex to it. Okay so there's a a couple of key positions for that left knee in the backswing. All right, so let's talk about the downswing.
Now for me the left knee movement is key particularly in the downswing this is where it really separates the really good players the way they move their left knee in the downswing to what most amateurs will do on the weekend. So let's have a look at it so from face on. So again it'll be slightly different for every player depending on your flexibility and range of motion you can do. So as I get to the top of the backswing and make my nice good turn, as I start the downswing that left knee will begin to externally rotate. So it's going this way around and it's moving in behind me and it's clearing out of the way with the left hip, really key move. It's not driving this way laterally towards the target, it's externally rotating as I come down, it's externally rotating now as I get close to impact it will begin to straighten and it gets very close to it won't lock out, but it'll certainly begin to straighten a whole lot more when I get to impact.
You see it's rotated around my hips, are rotating around and once i've struck the ball it'll move completely out of the way and you won't be able to see it from that angle there. So it's really key on that downswing that left knee really externally rotates around like this and clears with the left hip giving you room to rotate your body and get into that solid impact position. So that's a really powerful move, i'll try and do one towards the camera here and see if this shows a little bit clearer for you. So if we go to the top, you see it externally rotating now it begins to straighten as I get close to impact and we get into that position there.
Hips are open, shoulders are open and as we go through it moves right around so that left knee really key that you externally rotate that in the downswing. Now the best way to practice that is just jump into your backyard or inside your house and just practice even without a club. Practice doing slow rehearsals really feeling like that left knee externally rotates around and then it straightens like that and if you do slow rehearsals take yourself to the driving range and just hit small shots practicing getting that left knee movement right and that will improve your downswing. Now coming up really important i've got a video that talks about how to clear your hips in the downswing. Now I just touched on that before, this video ties right in with this to help you make a great downswing, so make sure you watch it, it's coming up. Do you want to know how to make an even better golf swing? click and watch the video on your screen Now.
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