Balance in your body for sports is when your feet are both touching the ground but your toes are not engaged they are quiet. If you get to much to the balls of your feet where your toes grab. You are off balance and all your structural muscles engage anticipating a fall. So when you set up. Stand with your toes quiet. Then push your hips back. Your toes should still be quiet. Your knees should be directly over your ankles. This is a balanced ready to move in any direction position. In this position your structural muscles are relaxed so you are able to move easily.
On the back swing you do not want to create tension in your hip socket. You want your trail hip to move away from the target line and for your trail leg to straighten out just a little. You do not want it to hyper extend but do not try to stabilize and not mover your trail hip or knee. So ideally...
In the golf swing you are not moving weight, you are transferring force. If you try to shift weight you will tend to sway. So it is not a weight shift, it is a force transfer. On my backswing I move force into the trail heel. Then as I change directions, force goes into my lead foot, towards the ...
In the golf swing your lead arm stays fairly straight. Not because you keep it straight. It stays straight because of what your trail arm does. As you start the club back. Your wrists begin to hinge. As they hinge your trail arm is always trying to push your lead hand away from you. So the pushin...
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