Initiating versus accommodating movement is the difference between activity and passivity. Any and all initiating and accommodating movement is valuable to a golf swing. However, we should not be confused about our role. We can both initiate and accommodate movement, but intention only pertains to initiating it, because action has equal and opposite reactions.

Passive movement accommodates active, initiative motion. Passive motion is our counterbalancing mechanism for imbalances initiated by intentional, primary movement. For instance, the hands, arms and shoulders begin moving the clubhead into our backswing. The hips do not begin the swing. They accommodate the initiating parts of our body.

I’m reminded, again, of a conversation with a prominent instructor who suggested our hips are hinges. Of course, our hips are not hinges, because they do not actively do work. Moreover, they are not necessary to strike a golf ball. They are passive, and therefore, accommodative. The arms, hands, and shoulders initiate and substantiate the swinging motion. If our hips move to accommodate the momentum created, so be it. I could just as easily say the further a body part is from the ball, the more passive it’s role in our golf swing.

“What about firing the hips to make (good, powerful, consistent) contact? Isn’t that initiative motion?” No, it isn’t. The fact that some golfers concentrate on moving their hips does not confer initiative movement. Think of what motion your hip movement counters, and you’ll realize pretty quickly that your hips only aid adaptation.

If you “Fire” your hips intentionally, you have made a change in the initiating part of your swing to make it work. You keep your backswing and alter your transition, or you change your backswing and keep your transition. When we make passive, accommodative body parts active, we disturb the initiative parts, and compromise timing to do it. Either way, our hips do not move fast enough or with enough range to add speed. I could even argue that the more our hips turn, the shorter we hit our ball.

Initiation begins the adaptive process. The Open Stance begins the initiative step. Only The Open Stance Academy will give you this information.

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder The Open Stance Academy

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