Swing Analysis - Positions

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Alright, golfers, while I do recommend approaching fixing your swing from your

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most common miss

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or your worst miss, there is some validity to understanding the whole swing and

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building

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pieces as they fit or form from the ground up.

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So let's go through all the different P's and talk a little bit about what you

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can glean

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from each one as it relates to the whole.

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So P1 is a dress position, when we're looking at setup, we can look at our

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alignments and

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we can look at our grip.

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So with our alignments, we've got the arm hang, basically are the hands hanging

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underneath

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the front of the shoulders or kind of underneath your neck.

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We can look at weight distribution by like how much pressure you have in your

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heels versus

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your toes or the alignment of where your belly button is compared to your feet.

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And we can look at the spine bend or curve.

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When it comes to alignment, you can look at the forearms, you can look at the

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shoulders,

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we can look at the pelvis and we can look at the feet.

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In general, I look at them in that order, the closer they are to the club, the

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bigger

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the influence that they're going to have.

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When it comes to the face on, we can look at grip strength, so where are the V

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's pointing?

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We can look at lead foot turnout or trail foot turnout and we can look at

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weight distribution,

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where are we compared to the center of our stance?

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We can look at axis tilt and arm connection.

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So what's going on there?

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With P2, we're going to look at club shaft parallel.

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Here we can look at our first kind of path checkpoint during the takeaway, did

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I bring

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it inside or did I lift it way up?

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So did I use my arms or did I pull my arms inside?

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We can look at the amount of hip turn versus the amount of chest turn and the

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angle.

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So the shoulder tilt is my shoulder starting to tilt down towards the ball or

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are they

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starting to turn level?

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And we can look at how much of this is happening from the trail arm bending or

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how much is

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happening from the body rotation.

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We can also take a look at the club face compared to this path.

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That usually lets us know either if there was a big arm movement during

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takeaway or just

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what your grip orientation is.

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When we look at, from the face on we can start to see early sways, we can look

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at that trail

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arm bend and we can look at if you are starting to extend or if your upper body

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is swinging

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off the ball as well.

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At lead arm parallel, we can look at the shoulder tilt, we can start to look at

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arm depth and

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we can look at the club path relationship to the goal or swing plane.

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We can start to see some knee separation if you are turning with your hips or

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if you have

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kept your knees to bent and we can look at the wrist position.

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So has the left wrist started to cup or are we getting a lot of wrist hinge?

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With the face on, we can continue to look at turn versus extend so we can look

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at sways

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as they relate to turns.

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Now as we get further into the swing, the more we are going to see the upper

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body stay

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over that right foot, that typically is a lack of extension.

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If we see the shoulder not pointing down, that is a lack of side bend and we

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can look

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at is the trail arm starting to work behind the body, either from this view or

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from that

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view or the wrist starting to set the club.

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At the top of the swing, we are change of direction, so P4, we can continue to

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look

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at the knee turn and separation, we can look at early extension, did your butt

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move towards

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the golf ball, we can look at arm depth as well as arm height, as well as that

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trail

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arm bend.

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Did it get behind me or did it stay in front of that peck?

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We can look at the shoulder tilt and the club face orientation at the top of

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the swing to

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see if I had any funky arm movements or wrist movements.

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Again looking at the sway versus turn versus extend, looking at the shoulder

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tilt so is

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the left shoulder lower than the right, on the outside of my foot has my knee

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shifted,

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basically looking at how much sway I have had there, and then the width of the

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hands,

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can I still see that trail arm or has that drifted behind me.

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All those are good indicators as to the movements that you are making towards

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the top of your

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swing.

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One of the more important changes, lead arm parallel is looking at that

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transition move,

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has my lower body started moving in towards the golf ball, has my lower body

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rotated,

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so at this point I like to see the thighs getting close to parallel to the

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target line

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we put on the ground.

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Have I changed my spine angle, have I actually increased my flex a little bit,

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and has my

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trail arm working in front of my body, or is it getting behind my body, is that

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trail

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shoulder elevating going like this, and has my shaft angle starting to get more

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in line

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with that right forearm or pointing in the general vicinity of the golf ball.

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From the leg, have I gotten any increase in my wrist angles or have they

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started to push

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them away, that's usually a trail or a reflection component, or is the right

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arm starting to

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straighten early too soon.

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I can look at, am I turning or sliding or lunging, and I can look at this

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reference of

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the lead shoulder to hip, has it gone too far past, or started to tilt way

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behind or

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stayed roughly just a little bit behind it, close to ideal.

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As we get down to shaft parallel this is one of the key positions to analyze,

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we can look

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at the club face orientation, we can see if the path is going to have a problem

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, or if

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we're in good position there, we can see if we've maintained our spine angle,

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and we can

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look at the trail wrist position to see if it's still loaded, or if it's

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unloaded, and

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we can look at the pelvis turn versus thrust as the lower body moved in towards

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the golf

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ball as the knee passed over the foot as the hip moved past the middle of the

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foot, etc.

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From the face on view we can look at leg and we can look at the hands

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relationship to the

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shoulders as well as the butt end of the club compared to the ball, so that's a

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really clean

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good indicator there, roughly the butt end of the club is even with the golf

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ball but

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the hands are in front of the shoulders, that means that you couldn't have lun

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ged too much

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or hung back and still gotten into that good position.

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We're also now looking at the lead hip position as we continue to analyze, are

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we swaying,

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are we turning, or are we starting to stand up if we're going into extension

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too soon.

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As we jump to impact, most important position, this is what actually compresses

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the golf

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ball and sets all the physics and motion as to why the ball will fly the way

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that it does,

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we want to look at the spine angle as well as the amount of body rotation, we

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want to

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look at the forearm to shaft plane, we want to look at can we see the left arm

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compared

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to the right arm and that the angle of that lead wrist, or trail wrist, and we

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want to

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look at the amount of bend in the right arm.

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From the face on view we want to look at the axis tilt, we want to look at the

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shoulder

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height, we want to look at the trail elbow as it relates to the hip, we want to

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look

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at shaft lean, we want to see if the body is bracing and extending those legs

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or if they're

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bending and collapsing, and we want to look at the lead shoulder compared to

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the hip,

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that'll give us really good indication of what's going on with our pivot.

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As we jump to P8, this is another really important position to understand, we

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've got

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looking at our spine angle, looking at the shoulder height, if you're starting

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to look

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at the golf ball as your head turning on its axis or as it started to pull you

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out of

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position, how much body rotation, we can also look at if you're maintaining

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this position

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the hip will be behind the ankle instead of on top of it.

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This is the second big path checkpoint for looking at the overall shape of your

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swing

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down at the bottom, and if it's not dead in line you can look at the club face

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orientation

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there to see what was going on during your release.

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You can still look at axis tilt, this is the classic bracing position to get

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into that

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slight lean away from the golf ball, having a good squeeze in the glutes and

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extension

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of the upper spine while not doing a ton of extension in the lumbar spine, we

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can look

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at that good arm extension, getting older deviation and supination, supination

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be looking at the glove hand being slightly underneath the trail hand, kind of

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like this.

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Classic position gives us a lot of really important information as to what was

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happening

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during the release.

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P9, which would be just past there, this isn't exactly the same, but looking at

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if the hands

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have disappeared or if they've stayed out there, the angle of the shaft plane,

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again

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looking at the shoulder and head tilt as you're rotating through, so head on a

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pillow type

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thing, or the arms straight, or the shoulders absorbing more of the movement,

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and which

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happens first, so do the arms move or do the wrist rehinge, so you can continue

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to look

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at the bracing and see if the legs have buckled or if they're pretty straight

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in term.

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And then lastly looking at the finish position, we've got the spine angle, the

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height of the

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arm compared to the body to see what your arms were probably doing during that

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follow-through,

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the angle of the shaft compared to the head can, the more vertical, typically

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the more

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into out the path, the more pointing straight up, the more outside in, you've

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got the relationship

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of the hip to foot, so basically in that follow-through position is the hip

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still behind,

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is there a little angle there, or is it more in towards the toes, here we can

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look at the

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extension of the spine and the elbows still in front of the chest, or have I

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come through

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mostly with those arms going around my body, what's my body rotation like, and

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what's

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going on at my left ankle if I kind of collapsed and done a lot of the movement

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there, or am

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I rotating throughout the hip, so by going through all the pieces you can

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understand

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more about how the pieces fit together, but I still recommend when you're going

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to work

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on improving one piece at a time, focus on the one that has the biggest impact

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on your

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miss pattern, it'll be the most satisfactory for you to improve that piece, so

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this gives

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you the, okay, so here's just kind of quick collage of how the swing fits

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together, you

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can work on it in relationship to the key pieces and the key skills, those

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should improve your

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benchmarks, by understanding how to analyze your video, you are one giant step

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closer

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to being your own best golf coach.