Swing Analysis - Distance

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Alright golfers, in this one we're going to take a look at analyzing distance.

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Specifically

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we're going to talk more about how far you're hitting it. So trying to maximize

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distance.

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When it comes to just controlling distance, it's more about sequencing and kind

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of matching

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up some of the rates that you're using your arms and your body at. When it

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comes to assessing

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am I getting the most out of my swing, there are two main ways to create speed.

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I can either

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lengthen the distance, so create a bigger backswing, or I can improve the

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sequencing and how I'm

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applying force along that path. So with top of swing or P4 we're going to look

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at are we

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making a full turn and loading the lower body in an appropriate way and then by

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P6 we can

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look at delivery position to see well did I release the energy in a poor way.

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And then

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with P7 we can see again did I release the energy in a way where I'm not

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getting enough

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compression in shaft lean. So with the top of the backswing position we want to

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look at

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making as full a turn as we can while still maintaining our tilt and rotating

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that lower

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body enough so that we're loading the hip but not swaying off the side. So we

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don't want

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to load with a whole lot of wobble to our upper body position. Instead we want

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to stay

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pretty centered in order to do that we have to have more of this rotational

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load. We can

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also look at the top of the swing for looking if you're making a full hip turn

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for seeing

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if there's any gap in between those knees. So if I turn my hips you'll be able

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to see

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a little bit of a gap there. If I don't turn my hips and I just kind of turn my

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upper body

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or just lift the arms you won't see that gap. We can also look at arm depth or

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height so

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if I keep my arms way down here connected to my sides that's not going to be as

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powerful

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as if I'm loading the lats and creating a little bit more arm height. So from

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this view

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we're looking at the amount of extension, looking at if the spine has a little

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bit of

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a curve to it or if I'm still rounded. So if I'm still pointed down there

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versus there

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and then looking at the lower body as well. So if I'm making a full turn then

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it comes

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down to sequencing. But if I'm a really short swing that's usually the low

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hanging fruit

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as far as creating more speed. So then from a distance standpoint if we're

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looking at

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this shaft parallel checkpoint, I want to look specifically at how well I've

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got the

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wipe going and if my body has led that early part of the downswing. So are my

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arms still

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in front and loaded or have they released and straightened and got the club

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back there.

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From the down the line it can be helpful to look at my body rotation. So from

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the down

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the line are my hips already pointing at the golf ball or out past the golf

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ball and is

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my chest pointing at the golf ball. If my body is still pointing back at the

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camera and

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the club has come down then I had to do it more by releasing the arms. So this

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view is

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a great view for looking at your sequencing and then this view is a great view

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for looking

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at your leg checkpoint. I can also look at how well I'm maintaining my posture

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that helps

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create the space and it's a sign that I didn't fire the body too early in

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transition.

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And then at impact primarily looking at shaft lean and body rotation as they

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relate to distance.

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If I have to circle back for the control elements then I can look at some of

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the other pieces.

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But primarily looking at leg/shaft lean and body rotation as my two big

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indicators for

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distance when I'm analyzing impact. So here's full spine turn, good arm height,

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good leg,

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good shaft lean. This is how quickly it can be when we're looking at analyzing

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distance.

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From here we can kind of see how quickly that body has rotated. So from the top

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of the swing

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you can see that the hips and the chest get pointing back at the golf ball

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faster than

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the arms. That's a sign of the sequencing and he's using his body during

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transition.

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Again even though he's angled because of his hips you can see his spine has

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reached good

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extension and he has a decent arm height. If he had a little different hip

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position

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then the arms would be pretty close to vertical so he's loaded most things

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there.

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When he gets into this leg checkpoint he's done a great job of leading with the

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body so the hands

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are well out and fret ahead and then he gets into a good shaft lean position

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for compression.

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So again from this top of the swing we can see to that first checkpoint his

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thighs have rotated

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back to parallel by that second checkpoint his chest is pointing at the golf

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ball and then

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getting into the third checkpoint his body has stayed down and rotated. One

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more Justin Thomas

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up at the top so good spine extension good leg checkpoint good shaft lean if we

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look at the top

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of the swing and then to this first checkpoint you can see that the lower body

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is pointing at

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the golf ball and then between here and here his chest is pointing at the golf

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ball while his arms

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have kind of rode the body movement and then between there and there is when

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the arms start

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to fire but he maintained that spine angle and turned around it both sides of

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really good sequencing.

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Sorry last one here we've got Rory getting good spine extension good leg good

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shaft lean

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all three keys I guess I have a few more in here. Robert Rock good spine

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extension good leg good

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shaft lean Adam Scott good spine extension good leg good shaft lean and Van Dam

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good spine

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extension good leg good shaft lean so if you're struggling with distance this

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is the real quick

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version you're just going to look at that spine extension completing the back

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swing with no sway

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you're going to look at your delivery position to look at your sequencing and

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how well you're

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using your body and then you're going to look at shaft lean to see how well you

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're compressing

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the golf ball and transferring that power to the golf ball.