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The “Symple Turn” is a less complex method of coordinating the movement of the legs, hips and torso.  We use it with Symple Power Swing but there really is no reason it can’t be used with other swings also.Why Is the Symple Turn Easier?
1. Causes less stress on body
2. Helps in making solid crisp shots
3. Simplifies the swing because fewer body parts are moving
4. Easier to repeat improving consistency
5. Provides a strong stable base for a powerful swing

Symple Swing is all about simplifying the golf swing thereby making it more efficient and more consistent.  One of the key ways we have made the golf swing simpler is by using a “simplified hip turn”.  This is a less complicated method of turning the hips yet still generating significant power.

With using the traditional swing, golfers try to rotate their hips around their spine.  In order to turn their hips around their spine they have to bend their front knee which brings their front hip forward (toward the ball) sometimes straightening their back leg pushing their back hip away from the ball.  While that does rotate the hips it means moving and coordinating a lot of body parts.  That requires a lot of timing and practice.

THE KEY TO THE SYMPLE TURN IS THAT THE UPPER BODY MOTION IS DONE ON A STABLE BASE.  With the Symple Turn your torso or core is rotating around your spine.   When you’re on a stable base it’s significantly easier to generate power.

HERE’S HOW TO MAKE A SYMPLE LOWER BODY TURN

Stand up straight with feet a little wider than shoulder width.  Then lock your front leg straight. (we normally do not “lock” the front leg but when trying to learn the correct motion it’s okay).  Then pull the back hip back away from the ball. As you pull the back hip away from the ball (keeping the front leg locked straight) the front hip should act as pivot point.   Do this a number of times feeling the pivot point of the front hip.   Do this a number of times turning your upper body with your hips.  Next, get in your address position and try that lower body motion a few more times just as you would in your swing.  Your core (shoulders, chest & abdomen) should start the backswing.

Here’s the sequence.
1. Begin the swing by turning the torso (around the spine)
2. Then let the turning of the torso pull that BACK HIP AWAY FROM THE BALL. (Your front hip doesn’t’ move toward the ball it just becomes the pivot point which allows you to turn your hips.

SO NOW WE HAVE THE UPPER BODY TURNING AROUND YOUR SPINE AND THE LOWER BODY TURNING AROUND THE FRONT HIP AS A PIVOT POINT.  In a traditional turn the hips turn around the spine. With the Symple Turn the hips turn around the front hip.  Keeping the front leg straight allows your to swing or brace into your front leg on the downswing very much like a home run hitter does in American baseball.

To put this another way HERE IS WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO DO:
Don’t move your front hip towards the ball to begin your backswing.  If you do that will force the front leg to bend.   The problem bending the front knee and moving the front hip toward the ball on the backswing is that you have to straighten the knee and move the front hip back away from the ball on the downswing.   It’s when you have to move the front hip back that most people wind up over rotating that front hip and opening that hip up (moving it too far back past square and back away from the ball).   That opens the hips up too much, pulling the shoulders open and causing either a pull or a slice (depending on the position of the club head at impact.)

If you do “rotate your hips around the spine” as in the conventional swing that means you have to coordinate the motions of the front hip, front leg, rear hip and rear leg.  With the Symple Turn the hinge or rotation point is your front hip so you only really have to move the back hip and back leg.  Again the main thing we’re trying to do is create a stable base for the upper body (shoulders, chest & abdomen) to provide the power for the swing.

Simple Swing will help make you a better golfer in a short period of time.