Swing Analysis - Overview

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Alright, golfers, welcome to the program for analyzing your swing.

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Remember, you are your own best golf coach, and to be your own golf coach,

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there are two

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big things that you have to know how to do, you have to know how to assess your

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game to

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figure out where you're at, and then you have to know how to train your game to

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improve.

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In order to assess your game, you need to be able to compare your stats or your

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benchmarks

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to whatever skill level you're trying to get.

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Basically you need to break down the score that you're trying to get to into

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manageable

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chunks, and then you have to figure out where you are compared to the technique

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that would

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get you to that next level.

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That's what we're going to cover in this program, where we're going to look at

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how to analyze

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your video and compare it to our swing model.

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Then when it comes to how do you want to train, that's where it's experimenting

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with

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drills and fields until you get the change that you're looking for on video,

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where your

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swing moves closer to the model, by moving closer to the model for whatever

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skill you're

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trying to train, your benchmarks should improve.

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In addition to working on your techniques with drills and fields, you'll want

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to practice

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your skills, and the skills are usually giving yourself some type of game or

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test or scenario

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where you can practice on the course based on those benchmarks.

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This is the whole system of how you become your own golf coach.

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The rest of this program, we're going to talk about analyzing your own video.

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Quick visual recap, you play to get your benchmarks, and then you diagnose

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using video in order

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to compare yourself to the model, and then you train your game using drills and

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fields,

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and you go back and forth through this process.

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Benchmarks, models, fields, that's how we ultimately refine and get better at

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our scoring

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with this great game.

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Okay before we get to actually analyzing a video, let's talk about the setup

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for how

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you should analyze your video.

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A couple little keys, you want to make sure that you have a stable base, so put

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the camera

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on a tripod or a stable object.

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If you're using your phone, then you can't really control the shutter speed, at

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in the current models, but if you have a camera where you can't adjust the

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shutter speed, then

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aim for at least 1/2000 or set it to sport mode.

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If you're doing, if it is an adjustable camera, aim for a frame rate of at

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least 120 frames

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per second.

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240 seems to be pretty close to ideal, 500 is great for some impact stuff, but

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kind of

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overkill for the backswing.

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We want to make sure that the camera is level with the ground, so you don't

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want to be shooting

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too much up or down, and then position compared to the hands here, you want to

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be at about

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the height of the hands.

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So the horizon should be roughly in the middle of the screen, and your hand

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should be roughly

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in the middle of the screen.

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I want you to put an alignment stick down on the ground, that way we can tell

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from the

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down the line, that alignment stick should be in the middle of the camera, and

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your hands

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should be roughly above it.

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With the face on view, it should be towards the bottom of the screen, but it

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should be

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parallel to the bottom of the screen.

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Those are just a few easy checkpoints to make sure that we're on the same page

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when

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we're analyzing the video, because what you'll see is if you get off, it's

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going to change

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the way some of these relationships look, especially if you're looking at swing

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plane

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or path issues.

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So make sure it looks more like this, not tilted this way, not tilted this way,

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and not

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angled down from the down the line.

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You'll notice I tend to have a little bit of a closed stance because of an

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issue I have

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with my left hip.

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So this is set up square to my shoulders and hands and my target line, not

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necessarily

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to my feet.

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This would be, if I was more square to my feet, and you could see that this

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would exaggerate

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things, it would start to make the path look a little bit more outside on the

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way back

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and on the way through.

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This one is just at a more open angle.

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So you can see that the stick isn't vertical on the screen.

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So trying to get the stick vertical or from the face on view, we're trying to

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get it parallel

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to the bottom of the screen just like that.

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All right, so now when it comes to analyzing your swing, I always ask my

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students what

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they're looking for, because you want to have a goal.

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There's so many things going on in the golf swing that just looking at it and

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trying to

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address something to improve, I found that that doesn't work very well.

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You want to have a way to track if you're actually improving.

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So there are two different ways I phrase that you could go about golf and

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improvement.

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You could either fix your worst miss and by consistently improving your worst

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miss, you'll

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get better.

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Or you could just work towards a model where you say I want to look like this

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and this is

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how I want to work through it.

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Fixing your worst miss is the easier plan and it has the faster improvements,

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but you

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might not fix everything that you're trying to change in your swing.

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When you're fixing your worst miss, I typically look at the three criteria of

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solid contact,

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straight-ish ball flight, and then controlling distance or hitting it far.

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And I usually work in that order unless we have a grave difference between how

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straight

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you're hitting it and how solid you're hitting it.

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So some golfers hit it a little off, not too bad contact, but their club face

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is wide open.

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In that sense, I would probably start with hitting it straight as opposed to

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hitting

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it solid.

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But if you approach your video analysis by looking for something related to

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your issue,

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it makes it easier to self-diagnose.

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So we'll cover that when we're looking in the details of solving each of these

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problems.

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But like I said, I think this one typically works best for most golfers.

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So if you're looking at your video and you're complaining about hitting it

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solid, look for

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the components that relate to solid contact.

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If you're looking for hitting it straight, look at the components that relate

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to hitting

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it straight, and you're looking for more distance, look at the components that

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relate

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to speed and hitting the ball far.

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That'll get you two-year solution and get to your ultimate swing potential a

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lot faster

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than if you just try to do it step by step of like, here's the proper setup,

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here's the

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proper takeaway, here's the proper backswing.

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At least that's how I've experienced it in my years of coaching.

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Okay, now almost regardless of which system we're using, we're going to start

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at impact,

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which is P7.

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You might be asking yourself, what's P7?

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Well, one of the easy ways, just for communication, one of the easiest ways to

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break down the

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golf swing is by looking at it as a timeline and looking at these different

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positions.

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So in general, the system was largely developed by Maco Grady, so yeah, we can

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break it down

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into phases or looking at these positions.

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So P1 is your address position, and then P2 is when the shaft is parallel to

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the ground.

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That's part of the reason why it's important to have the camera at the right

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height and

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angle.

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P3 would be when the left arm is parallel to the ground, and then P4 would be

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at the top

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of the swing or when the club is changing direction.

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We're just going to continue on that pattern.

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P5 is when the arm is parallel to the ground, P6 is when the shaft is parallel

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to the ground.

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P7 is impact, that's where we said start at P7.

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P8 is when the shaft is parallel to the ground, and P9 would be when the arm is

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parallel to

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the ground, oftentimes they're at a similar point or very close to each other,

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depending

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on the swing style.

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And then P10 is the end of the swing.

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So if we're going to start at impact, let's give a couple different ways of

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analyzing

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your swing.

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So when you videotape yourself and we look at it, here are just a few things

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that we can

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look for at impact.

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From the face-on view, I've got this left, I've got the yellow line there just

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as a reference.

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We want to have a little bit of shaft lean, which means that the trail wrist or

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the right

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wrist is going to have a little bit of extension in it, and the lead wrist is

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going to be pretty

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flat or slightly flexed.

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We can look at the height of the shoulders, so we can look at how much tilt we

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And compared to this line, we'll look one frame further where we'll discuss

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this line

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even more.

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But we can also look at the overall bracing pattern, so am I bending the leg

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and using

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more of the arms or am I straightening the legs or legs and bracing more with

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the body.

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From the down the line, I can look at, is the club in line with my trail

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forearm or is

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it below or is it above?

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Is my trail arm bent or is it pretty straight?

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And I can look at the body angles or tilts, so am I bent over or have I stood

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up and how

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much body rotation do I have?

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Can I see the left side of the body and the left side of the back?

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That's basically breaking down the merry-go-round position that we use as a

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reference of where

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we want our body to get at impact.

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Now a real quick snapshot, especially when it comes to looking at solid contact

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, is looking

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at the MAC line or looking at just past impact, basically, when the club is in

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line with your

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left foot.

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With an iron, we are roughly looking to see that the left arm, left leg, left

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shoulder

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and club are all in line.

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So potentially I'd get maybe my hands just a touch forward and maybe my

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shoulder just

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a touch forward, but those are pretty close.

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Looking from the driver, it's more the hand and the hip ankle line in line with

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the club

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shaft, because the upper body is going to have about 20 degrees of axis tilt in

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order

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to create a flat spot down at the bottom.

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We'll talk about that more when we look at the driver analysis video, but if

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you're looking

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at solid contact, this is the first place to analyze, especially if you're

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looking at

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low point control with the irons, just look at how many elements are behind

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that line

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and then usually target one or two of those and by doing so, we will start to

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uncover

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a little bit more solid contact.

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So all of these pictures that I'm going to show are slightly different clubs,

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different camera angles.

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I do believe they were taken on a tripod and most of them are pretty good, but

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you'll

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be able to see the general trend of the golf ball has already been hit and the

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club head

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is even with the left foot, or at least part of the left foot, and you'll see a

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roughly

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straight line shoulder, hip, left arm, club shaft, left leg, all that good

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stuff.

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So here are a few more, we've got Adam Scott, we've got John Rum, and then we

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've got Robert

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Rock in the middle there, demonstrating, again, typically the longer clubs,

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this is a little

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bit more of a long iron, you'll see a little bit more axis tilt, short iron,

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you'll see

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it a little bit more actual vertical.

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We've got Justin Rose, Justin Thomas, Ernie Els, demonstrating similar concepts

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, again,

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slightly different camera angles, slightly different clubs, but the overall

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concept,

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this is what you're going for if you're looking at solid contact, then we've

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from the LPGA, again, slightly different camera angles, but you're starting to

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get the gist

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here.

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This is one of the easiest ways to assess your video if you're looking at what

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or what's contributing to solid contact.

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So now adding a little bit more detail to the layers of understanding impact,

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a few things other than just looking at the line, the impact line, or things

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that relate

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to the impact line.

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So from the face-on view, which if I'm looking at solid contact, the face-on

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view is a little

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bit more relevant than the down the line.

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and staying in your posture, looking at down the line, but a lot of the little

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nuance stuff

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that really separates skill levels can be seen more from the face-on camera

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angle.

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So if I just have one, I would prefer to see face-on versus down the line.

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I know that down the line is usually easier to get at most ranges, but face-on

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One of the phrases that I use with a bunch of my students is, "Straight is easy

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, solid

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is hard," and straight comes more from looking at swing plane and face angle

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and things like

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that.

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flat spot,

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and some of the things that are a little bit more tricky to see.

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So digging into this, we can look at the lead shoulder to hip to see how much

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access tilt

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we have that can relate to early extension or using the back more during the

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downswing.

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We can look at shaft lean, so are the hands, even with at least the inside of

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the thigh,

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the left thigh, or preferably even all the way more towards the outside.

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down at

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the bottom, you will see the hit, the trail elbow on the outside of the hip

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during the

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majority of the release.

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So if everything is very tall, then you're going to have to straighten your

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arms in order

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to get the club all the way down to the golf ball, and that straightening of

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the arms is

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going to tend to cause a little faster club face closure as well as a little

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more V-shaped

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bottom of the swing.

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We can also look at your bracing pattern to see if you're straightening the

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legs and getting

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into a little bit more side bend, or if you're bending the legs and having a

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little bit more

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arm throw on the way through.

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to see

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kind of how much arm throw.

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So notice how you can see part of the left arm above the right arm.

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If you release the arms a lot, and that right arm is straight, typically it

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will be a little

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bit more pointing to the left like this, as opposed to that left arm staying up

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in more

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of a shallow position.

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We try to coach here.

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That can relate to how well the elbow is in front, because typically when it

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straightens

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it will tend to stay behind the body, it won't continue moving in front.

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So we've got a forearm to shaft, trail arm bend as well as trail arm to lead

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arm, and

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then again looking at the body rotation.

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So just getting an overall sense of the pivot.

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Have I stood up, or have I stayed down and rotated, have I had more of a lunge

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or a hangback.

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So all this compared to this impact position gives you a rough sense of what's

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going on,

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and we can prioritize based on solidness of contact or trying to hit it

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straight, which

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piece we're going to identify and focus on.

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So here's a couple, here's Justin Thomas.

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far versus

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too close.

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trail wrist still

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an extension, left wrist pretty flat, forearm structure there, maintained his

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posture but

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rotated so we can see the left leg and back, elbow in front of hip, right

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shoulder down,

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all those good elements that make up a classic impact position.

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Here we have Anne Van Dam, similar, hands even with the left thigh, trail elbow

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, maybe a

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touch back, she has a little bit more throw, and then, but lead arm to trail

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arm looks

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all good.

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If we're looking at the posture we can see maybe a little bit more vertical

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lumbar spine, maybe not quite as symmetric a curve as we saw with Justin Thomas

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So there could be a little bit more extension there, we could investigate the

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bracing pattern

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but we can see that just going into some good leg extension there, very good

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looking position.

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So Tommy Fleetwood, hands are ahead, shoulder is well down, really good spine

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position,

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lots of rotation, elbow might be just a touch on that back side, so perhaps he

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's having

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a little bit more arm action there, but wrist are still good so it hasn't been

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too early,

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still has shaft lean, pretty good impact alignment there with the shoulder.

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access tilt,

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but overall hits all those classic positions for arm plane, shoulder height,

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body rotation,

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all those good elements that allows him to control impact consistently.

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Now last little piece here for just learning to identify your impact position

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is a quick

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snapshot of what's different with driver versus iron.

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So in general with the iron, the hands are going to be in a similar position

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compared

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to the body but because the body is tilted more back, it has more of a look

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like this.

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What I mean by that is the hands are, let's say I'm at this angle kind of

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my body, when I go to dry iron, my left shoulder is on top of the ball so this

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is leaning out

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in front, that's how I'm getting shaft lean, but if I had a longer stance so

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now I'm behind

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the golf ball and then I kept the arm at the same position compared to my body

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and just

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turned more, side bent more, now the hands are still ahead of my body but the

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club is

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more vertical compared to the golf ball which helps me have more of this flat

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bottom of

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the swing and hit up on the ball or have more of this low point down in front

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of the golf

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ball and compress it and hit down.

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So you will see some differences, it's more of a spectrum depending on what

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club we're

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looking at.

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Here a few examples, Dustin Johnson, this is a longer iron so there's still

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some tilt

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but then if we look at the driver there's plenty more especially with that

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upper body

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right shoulder down a lot more.

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This is probably the biggest difference because this is just a little kind of

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punch nine iron

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versus a full out drive, you'll see the lower body is doing some different

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stuff, upper

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body is well back of that impact line but hands are still pretty vertical or

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even maybe

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even just a touch of shaft lean.

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So you will see a lot of similar elements but there's also some differences

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which we'll

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get into more in the driver video.

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And then Rory, so you can see lead shoulder all the way up against, you're

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having more

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tilt, that's how we get sweeping slightly up with the driver versus compressing

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or driving

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down with the irons, again the hands are roughly in the same orientation

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compared to the body

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but because the body is in a different orientation they're slightly different

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compared to the

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golf ball.

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Alright so that's a great starting point, if you're looking at your video check

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out your

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impact position and compare it to the model, decide if you want to work on

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solid contact

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or hitting the ball straighter, if that doesn't answer all of your questions we

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can dig into

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more specific issues with some of the other videos.

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So by getting good at analyzing your impact position is one of those big steps

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for becoming

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your own golf coach because it's ultimately what happens at impact and that's

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that fraction

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of a section second that the golf ball is in contact with the golf club that

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determines

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the physics of how the ball flies so you want to be a pretty good detective at

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being able

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to diagnose your key impact issues.

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So in the rest of the videos we will take a look at more specific issues and

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expand impact

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as it relates to the rest of the swing.