Smart Pivot
 

The smart pivot is the natural rotation from only one hip socket. This would be the right hip socket for the right hand golfer. For the human body to make a pure rotation from the hip socket only one hip pivots at a time and the other is passive.

If both hips are pivoting at the same time the result is a twist (Chubby Checker). Most golfers are taught to twist today as many golf instructors do not know the difference and teach the left heel on the ground in the golf swing.

For the right handed golfer the right hip does the rotation in the golf swing while balancing the weight on the right leg. The left hip socket is passive.

The left heel lifts at the start of the back swing from the bending of the left knee (Knee Action) and the right hip rotation. As the smart pivot continues the back swing pivot, the left foot rolls inward form the right hip rotation with the ball of the left foot only left in contact with the ground to help with balance at the top of the back swing.

The same pivot action is used in the wind-up of a baseball pitcher but his left foot comes of the ground. The upper body rotates in a circle with the Smart Pivot of the right hip as if the upper body and lower body were fused.

The down swing of the smart pivot is still the rotation from the right hip socket. When you combine the rotation or the right hip, knee action and down swing momentum the smart pivot will have the look of an orthodox down swing pivot you see with tour players.

The Smart pivot was the pivot used by great golfers of the past. Bill Mehlhorn taught this smart pivot to Sam Byrd and Sam was the only pro baseball player to have success on the PGA tour.

Today this once natural motion know too many has been replaced with a variation of hip twisting motions with weight moving all over the place and taught as a pivot.

It is not a pivot but an unbalanced twist.

If you look very close at Tiger, Jack and many of the great players of the past and present you will see this Smart Pivot.

It has never left. It will always be present in all the great golfers because it is the way the human body is designed to pivot.

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Pivot
 

I see alot of my students who are ex baseball players with this rt hip action but at times it appears the timing is off in there golf swings almost a collision of elbow to hip? Yet when they make a baseball swing with a golf club looks great.

There should not be a problem if the down swing sequence is correct. Maybe if a golfer is using maximum trigger delay with a pitch elbow and the down swing sequence is off they might have this problem but it would be rare.

This link has many of the top tour pros swing in super slow motion (320 or more frames per second).

Ian Pouter’s swing is a good example of the Smart Pivot. Watch it over and over you will see what I am talking about.

The great thing about super slow motion is it allows you to see different pivots, takeaways, loading and releases.

At 30 frames or even 60 frames per second many of these swings would look similar.

With the super slow motion (320 or more frames per second) many look different.

http://www.pgatour.com/swingplex/02/41/38/index.html

Enjoy :golf: