MGR Detailed Breakdown

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In this concept video, we're going to take a look at the breakdown of the merry

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-go-round

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drill.

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So, the merry-go-round drill is one of my favorites.

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It's one of the best or the simplest ways to get your body into a good impact

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position.

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And in this video, we're going to talk about a few of the key areas that I want

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you to

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hone in on when you're trying to dial in some of your feels as they relate to

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your

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body position or your pivot at impact.

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So just a quick refresher, the merry-go-round drill, you're going to put a club

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across

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your shoulders, get down to your posture, and then basically rotate until the

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shoulder

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or the club is pointing in the general direction of the golf ball.

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So now, in the simple version, I'm pretty much only looking at, did your head

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move forward

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backward?

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Are the shoulders pointing more level or pointing more down and is your chest

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pointing more

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out?

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And this gets you in the rough ball park.

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In this video, we're going to highlight a couple things that I think are more

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like

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extra credit.

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So the three things that we're going to look at are we're going to look at the

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bending,

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we're straightening of the legs, we're going to look at the flex or extending

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of the spine,

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and then we're going to look at the timing or the amount of tilt.

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So those are three little bit more nuanced or detailed things that you can look

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at when

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you're looking at this merry-go-round drill.

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So first, we're going to look at the leg extension.

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So a lot of golfers will tend to do this merry-go-round drill, and if I do it

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too much from

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my upper body, you'll see that this left leg will kind of brace, and sometimes

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this

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right knee will really kick in sort of like this.

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So what I want to do is when I'm focusing on the legs in this merry-go-round

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drill, I

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want this left leg to straighten, and I want this right leg to straighten.

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From the down the line camera, I want to see a little bit of a hollowing out or

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a pelvic

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tilt kind of like this, as opposed to keeping my back arched and sagging my

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knees in towards

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it like this.

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So both legs are straightening as I'm rotating.

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You can see I'm still getting more of my lower body forward, so I'm getting

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into that good

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Jackson 5 position where the hip is in line with the ankle, but I'm not doing

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it by kind

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of pushing through the toes.

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When I straighten these legs and pelvic tilt, that tends to get my weight to

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work a little

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bit more in towards the heels.

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That can help clean up a lot of swing patterns that have a little bit more kind

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of buckle

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slide look, as opposed to you'll see that that will now create, if I straighten

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the legs,

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that will create a little bit more of this good bracing or posting action.

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If I get too much into the legs, that forces me to brace more with my arms and

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shoulders.

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Where if my legs are straightening, I'm able to use my core to absorb the speed

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of the club.

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So when we're doing this merry-go-around drill, they're not totally locked at

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impact,

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but they're straightening both legs and my pelvis is tucking.

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That'll help create some of the stability and impact.

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So key number two is looking at the chest, and basically is my chest or my

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upper body

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flexing forward kind of like this, or is my upper body starting to extend?

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Ideally through this release pattern, as I'm doing this merry-go-round drill, I

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'm in the

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most flexed right around here, which would be kind of more in this delivery

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position.

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And then as I'm starting to go through, this spine is going into a little bit

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more extension

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as those legs are straightening like we talked about in subtle key number one.

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So that helps prevent the upper body from finishing way forward like this.

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So that helps create this angle so that my body can push away from the target a

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bit.

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That allows my arms to extend towards the target without fear of pulling me out

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of my balance.

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So if I'm practicing that at home, what I would want to look for is when I'm

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checking

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in the mirror, that's actually what helps prevent that upper body moving too

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far forward.

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So by going into a little bit more chest up while keeping that shoulder down,

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that helps

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keep me in line with the golf ball that shallows things out and helps a lot

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with the width on

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the way through.

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So it's one of the more subtle keys, but a big difference between kind of a low

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double

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digit handicap and a mid to low single digit handicap body position at impact.

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And then lastly, we have tilt from the down the line.

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So this is not so much looking at the amount of access tilt from the face on

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camera, because

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I can get that either with my hips or with my spine.

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This is looking at more the side tilt of the spine.

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So what you'll see from the face on camera, I'm more on top, but from this down

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the line,

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this right shoulder is low.

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The key here is that that right shoulder or that tilt is reaching its maximum

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right

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around follow through position.

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A lot of golfers kind of reach their maximum right about here.

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And then as they're going through, that shoulder is starting to come up.

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So when they do the merry-go-round drill, it'll kind of look like this, and you

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'll see right

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around here, it kind of levels off.

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So this is a really subtle, subtle key that I want to continue feeling like I'm

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bringing

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that shoulder down all the way until impact.

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If I do that in the actual swing, that shoulder reaching its lowest value or

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lowest point after

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impact really helps create this long, flat, shallow bottom of the swing.

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It also prevents me from getting too much right arm or too much arm throw,

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because you

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could see if I was continuing to go down and straightening this early, I would

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bottom out

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behind the golf ball.

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So by keeping it down, it forces a little bit more of the wipe, and my arm is

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getting more

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extension through the ball.

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So if I tie those three keys, those three subtle keys to the advanced version

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of the

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merry-go-round drill, if I tie those together, then in one movement it ends up

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looking like

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this.

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I'm going to make a little bit of a backswing, I'm going to come down, now I'm

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in my loaded

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position, from here I'm going to straighten the legs, bring that shoulder down,

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and extend

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the spine.

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So it kind of looks more like that.

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As opposed to, let's do all three of them wrong, that would be more like this,

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you could see my legs are bending, I'm kind of turning and staying flexed and

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my right

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shoulder is going high.

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So we'll do one more good one just to kind of get me in the right frame of mind

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before

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demonstrating it.

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So then if I did our first version, so nine to three, going through just like

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that, maybe

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I could have got that shoulder a little bit lower.

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But like I said, this is a good way to really refine and clean up some of the

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subtle differences

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in the merry-go-round drill.

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That was pretty close, again fighting that shoulder a little bit today, what

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you'll find

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is every day, you'll have a few one key or another that's a little bit harder

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for you

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to focus on.

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So we'll see if we can do one more good one, nine to three, that was pretty

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good.

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So I'd be happy with that, probably move on to some ten to twos, but that's one

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of the

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ways you can work on some of the fine details, details of the merry-go-round

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drill.