Malaska Golf // Swing Analysis // Full Swing - Shoulders, Leg & Hip Movement

Thank you to all the malaskagolf.com members and KZbin followers who are constantly asking great questions. Your questions and comments are helping me deliver more personalized instruction online and, I believe, helping our entire community be more successful on the course.
Congratulations to Mr. Moyer, a recent winner of our Video Swing Analysis sweepstakes. Overall, your swing is looking really good. In this video, I've identified three areas where you can focus to help unlock your natural golf swing.
I see these types of issues a lot, and I hope your swing analysis helps many golfers discover where they can improve in their own golf game as well.
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[@geoffreyliss6817]

For most golfers, especially older weekend warriors, this is THE BEST lesson. Poor posture, lack of flexibility/core strength leads to many of these issues (myself included). Every teaching pro should be required to watch your videos. Biomechanics is key to a better swing. Unless you first understand why and then fix the physical limitations (as much as possible) then you can practice and improve your golf swing. In all my years (56 golfing years) and lessons by atlas 10 pros of all levels, not one recognized my hip issues (hip displazure) or recommended any exercises to address the swing flaws. Players are doomed to mediocrity even if they play every day and hit hundreds of balls unless they 1. understand the proper swing and 2. fix their physical issues. You are the best teacher!

[@MITCHCALLENJAKE]

Fantastic video Mike...…...never thought about the hip issue as you describe it! It has been my problem as well.

[@zoranjovanovski5572]

Just confirmed the leg work…excellent lesson. You have to be a little more advanced to understand it, practice and watch it over and over again until you feel what Mike’s suggests. Got much more precise with this exact lesson. Thank you Mike!

[@Melted_Butter]

These swing analysis videos are great. More of these please.

[@davidweimer9592]

Mike, thank you very much for your videos!! I have been struggling with the over the top move for years and have had thousands of dollars of instruction with little to no success... Two simple suggestions - the hockey stick swing drill and the simple tilt of the head, have made a HUGE difference. I sincerely appreciate your videos!! Thanks again!! Dave

[@darrenkpohl]

I want one of these so bad. What a great couch.

[@Peter4253]

Mike your teachings have made the most sense to me of all the stuff out there and you have helped and still are helping my game enormously...Thank you!

[@lending99]

HOLY CRAP!! I thought my takeaway and turn wasn't an issue but this is a huge eye opener!! I tried this and turns out I was taking the club way too much from the inside....this gets the club takeaway much more out in front, AWESOME! I've been struggling with over the top pulls and this basically instantly cured it! As I've said before Mike is one of the most underrated teachers out there, it's just a matter of time before he's one of the most sought after!!

[@tedpoplawski4325]

Excellent explanation on how the hips move.

[@Macsquirty999]

Mike you are my hero - period! I found your channel 2 days ago after having a very embarrasing round of golf in front of playing partners I hadn't met before. Playing off 14 i had expectations of a good to average round but after a few holes I simply fell apart to the point where i would look at the ball before a swing and feel.................NOTHING! Yep, I hit a new low point in my game whereby I had so many swing thoughts I simply didnt know what or how i should swing the club. I wont labour over my swing type before your input but it was always a bit mechanical and probably very complicated as I do tend to over analyse. So, after watching several of your videos I started to mimick your swing suggestions in my garage and broke it down to where you recommended. My first round yesterday was a bit strange to start but i endeavoured to keep on track with your swing thoughts only and started to see some consistency, to the point where I was hitting some nice draw shot irons with a more neutral grip than with the strong grip I had played with previously. To sum up, I played 9 holes this morning and the swing changes are 80% ish there now and I even experienced an iron shot and the final drive on the ninth with the @opposing forces@ you describe (felt like the hips were travelling back on the downswing to offset the momentum of the club coming round. My consistency in dispersion was through the roof on the final few holes and I can see great things happening from here on, although the short game has suffered slightly with the changes but now I am starting to watch your short game videos to. 5 over after 9 holes and I let 2 short putts go :( Anyway, I just wanted to give you some feedback and to sincerely thank you from the UK.

[@johnr2632]

Brilliant - gets excatly to the points that really help. Helped me so much to create space and it's amazing once that is done how much confidence it gives to go at the ball.

[@walidbahhur8132]

Clear and easy to understand. Thanks Mike

[@robertthomas837]

Your explanations are so elliquint in their simplicity. Can't get enough of your instructions. Everything I have tried that you teach works. My playing partners have noticed how much better I have become. They think I am golfing all the time but I am not. They don't believe me when I say I only golf with them 3 or 4 times a month. Thanks!!

[@jimdickson251]

Tried this today - worked really well! Thanks from Scotland!😀

[@ronthompson8204]

Wow, this is me all day long, thanks Mike. I'll be trying to emulate this later today.

[@benrausch404]

Love your stuff! Having a relaxed and athletic feeling in your body first then working on movements not club positions. I find this approach very accessible, thank you!

[@fredrickmendelsohn606]

Great explanation. Thanks Mike

[@petercrocitto7383]

Thank you sharing very insightful

[@jiml9062]

New to your site and some radical teaching but simple golf logic so I am off to rehash my practice routine

[@angeloc700]

Excellent!

[@tonystewart7872]

I agree,this is great!

[@stephenford3693]

Great videos

[@robertott9925]

Best in the world.

[@gppp11]

Wow you are too good

[@michaelsparks8632]

Wow!

[@yzsong2000]

great video！

[@lobedwonder]

..malaska starts his video showing a swing where he moves his chin and swivels his head dramatically to the left and then his body follows..most instructional videos do this..but never a word is mentioned about this dramatic movement to start the downswing....

[@robertlucy8936]

I top my fairway woods.

[@bradblettenberg1468]

Best shit ever!

[@5184louis]

Here’s the simplest golf swing for us mortals: Ledbetter’s A swing going back. Malaska’s technique coming back down. I refer to Mike’s ‘teardrop drill’. In essence, that’s Ledbetter’s A swing, back swing. It’s literally like playing baseball on an inclined plane. Simple. Your comments please Mike?

[@emncaity]

Another thing Leadbetter is really good at is the nature of the leg-and-lower-body movement on the downswing. But then, so was Toski ("turn-slide-twist" -- "slide" may not have been as good a term as Lead's "bump," because "slide" is seen as too big a movement now, but the point is that there has to be a little movement down or to the right of the line before the hips and legs rotate left inside that front post). But aside from that, I'm wondering -- have you ever read much John Jacobs? I think if you look at the better aspects of Lead's teaching, you'll find a lot of common ground between the Toski-Flick thing (Mike has a lot of overlap with them, I think) and Lead's ideas, and even people like Haney. All of these guys have credited Jacobs directly. John simply insisted that the turn must happen while the arms are swinging freely, against some appropriate amount of resistance or coil or stability in the lower body. It's a totally sane approach to the overall concept of the swing, and you can hear it constantly echoed in Mike's teaching, for sure. Jacobs always said some players, depending on their inclinations and training up to that point, will feel that the swing is primarily a turn with arm and club reacting to the turn by swinging, while other players will feel it as a matter of the arms swinging while the rest of the body enables that swinging, adds range of motion, etc. His idea was just that you swing as you turn, or turn as you swing. Same thing. It just has to happen, regardless of what you think of as theoretically primary. So you might find some resolution in this Malaska-and-Leadbetter thing in what Jacobs has written. (Cf. his book The Golf Swing Simplified, for one.)

[@normankleinberg5525]

I could SWEAR that when Mike is going through the routine pointing out how his right hip moves away from the stick but his left hip stays in about the same position (of course for right-handed golfers) that his backswing looks just like he was doing S&T. I'm sure there are subtle (perhaps also not-so-subtle) differences, but that's how it struck me.

[@richardoliver6763]

Could be your most informative video yet Mike. Nice.

[@garthdownton8645]

Too many videos! It is like asking someone to find a corner in a round room!

[@josephrule9837]

It would be too many videos when you don't know what information to apply to your motion. Educate yourself on your motion and learn how and what to fix.