Is the step drill congruent with ABS protocols?

Public Forum—Concepts in Advanced Ball Striking
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Set up at address. Move your lead leg so it’s almost touching your trail leg. This moves your body and if you keep the shaft straight … it moves the clubhead many inches behind the ball (depending on the length of the club).

Swing the club back and simultaneously replant your lead foot somewhere near where it was at address to recenter.

I like how it teaches you that it is a swing and the ball simply gets in the way. I also like how it can delay the opening of the hips so that post impact acceleration has leverage.

What I’m confused about is if it causes too much lateral movement of the hips. When you step your lead foot to almost your trail foot at set up … it literally moves your hips a few inches (to the right if a righty).

I guess … the meat of the swing only commences from the 4:30 line so if that looks good … it is all good … regardless of what came beforehand?

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Bradley Hughes did a video about the Adam Sandler swing. He is actually in agreement that the step drill does a good job of teaching the weight shift. As long as at P3 your weight is still significantly on you back foot and by P4 it’s on your front foot you should be good.

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Ben did a similar thing but there is a step back, and then a smaller step forward.

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Ahhh I see the little motion.

But I’m talking a more pronounced step with the hips moving a much greater distance towards the target.