Release vs Flip

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In this content video, we're going to discuss some of the common issues of the

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release.

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So what's the difference between the tour release and more of the flip style

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release?

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We're going to highlight three keys that I commonly see with my students in

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person and

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online so that you can kind of prioritize when you're analyzing your own video.

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So the difference between, let's say, a tour style release where the body is

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down, the

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hands are ahead, kind of has this classic look here, low point is out ahead of

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the golf

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ball so you're reaching that low point line even with your left foot.

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Kind of more of the flip style release would tend to be a stand up move, early

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straightening

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in the arms and then a bending of the arms on the way through.

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So tour release pattern would look a little bit more in sound a little bit more

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like that

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where flip release pattern would be a little bit more stand up, throw, bend the

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arms kind

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of more like that.

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You can hear a difference in compression, you can see a difference in the video

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Let's discuss those three keys or three keys that relate to this that I want

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you to focus

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on when you're looking at your video.

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So the three keys would be the arms kind of bending or releasing early coming

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into the

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ball.

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We'll discuss that.

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Second key would be standing up versus staying down.

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And then the third key would be the arms bending or collapsing as they pass

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your body on the

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way through as opposed to extending and creating more of that width in the

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follow through position.

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So by focusing on one of those three, you'll usually have a big impact on the

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way your

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swing looks and how you control the ground contact for solid contact.

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So the first trait is looking at the difference between that movement there and

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then that

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movement there.

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There's a couple keys to it.

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One is the arms working a little bit more in front of your body instead of

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being behind

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your body.

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Two is the arms going into more of this ulnar deviation instead of rehinging or

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pulling

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in.

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And then three would be the white movement where the arms are working more

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across your

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body as opposed to that trail arm going into internal rotation.

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Typically I break this down into, there's two big movements that get you in

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trouble with

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the early release.

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One is the arm going into the trail arm going into internal rotation or the

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lead arm going

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into external rotation early.

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So kind of steepening it like this.

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If that happens down here, it's not really a steep movement as far as swing

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plane early

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on, but you'll see that that tends to get the club head to pass the grip too

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quickly,

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which gives it more of a flip style look.

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So one would be going this way and then two would be rehinging or pulling the

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club in

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this way.

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If I pull the grip in this way, that does tend to kind of whip the club through

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so it can

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create this feeling of speed, but you can see as it does that, it pulls the

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club up very

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quickly.

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So I have this really narrow bottom of the swing.

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When you listen to a lot of good ball strikers discuss the feelings down at

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impact, it's typically

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more of this staying in the impact zone longer or the club staying down or the

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common one

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is just width, smoothness.

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All those happen from keeping that unhinged a little bit longer.

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So if you're looking at your video on or if you're looking at your swing on

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video and

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you see the club kicking out from the down the line or passing the hands, it's

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probably

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going to be either the unhinged or a little bit more of this wipe or the arm

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rotation.

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So a little bit more of the shallow arms that one of those three will usually

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clean up that

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look and create a much better strike contact.

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So you'll probably have to experiment with each of them to figure out which is

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the one

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that's afflicting you the most.

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Okay, the second key is looking at the stand up move.

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The stand up move is complimentary to the flip or the arm release because it

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creates

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the space so that I can straighten the arms early.

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And that straightening the arms early helps close the face and it helps get the

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club down

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to the ground.

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So it can help with low point control as well as hitting it straight.

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Some golfers who first do that merry go round, you might be in this group.

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Some golfers who get into a better impact position as a result of not being

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able to

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close the face their normal way will tend to do that where you saw from the

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down the

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line that I kind of just flared that off to the right because I had shaft lean

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but didn't

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have any of this club face twisting or club face closing.

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So on its surface, the difference between standing up and staying down is the

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difference

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between side bend of keeping that shoulder down as I rotate through versus no

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side bend

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which is accompanied by straightening the arm because as this arm comes through

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or sorry

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as the shoulder comes through if I was to straighten the arm early that would

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bottom out

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way back here.

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So I'm going to be forced to keep this arm bent a little bit longer and hit it

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with more

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lag and when I have more lag that tends to open up the club face.

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So what I have to experiment with is as I'm playing with staying down does that

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cause

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me to hit it fat then that's mostly just the arm timing or does that cause me

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to hit

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it right that's more of a club face control issue.

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So the stand up versus staying down is one of the easier parts of the release

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to clean

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up you just have to figure out is it more of a low point issue or more of a

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club face

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control issue.

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Okay the third piece is looking at this arm being straight on the way through

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rather

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than bending.

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So a lot of golfers tend to have more of this arm kind of pulling the club

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around especially

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with more of an arm throw has this classic chicken wing kind of flail look

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usually accompanied

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by standing up because the back muscles that pull the arm into that position

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also pull

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you up out of posture.

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So typically that comes from one of two things either I'm doing that to square

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the club face

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and I need to work on a little bit more of this face rotation and motorcycle or

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to it

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comes down to more of a tension thing if I'm in a pretty good posture I'm in

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pretty

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good position here but then I tense my arms up an impact that will tend to

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prevent the

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club face closing rotation and it will tend to pull my arms in.

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So this is one of the ones where we'll do a lot of kind of softness and letting

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the weight

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of the club pull the arms into extension towards that follow through and you've

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heard many

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golfers talk about kind of this easiness or smoothness down at the bottom this

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has one

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of those feel so if you tend to get more kind of tense embracing your whole

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body and really

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feeling a lot of grip squeeze and forearm tension that can limit your ability

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to help

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let the club help it straighten.

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My coach used to say that you should feel this tug from the club where

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basically on the way

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through you'll feel the club pulling your arms out into this position again if

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you do

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that and that tends to hit it right you might need some face control or to if

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you do that

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and you tend to hit it fat then you might need to work on that body position

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being a little

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bit more on top because some golfers who who have that pattern tend to be too

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far behind

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and too up and then they use this arm bending to swing outside in and move the

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low point

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forward it helps you make solid contact but it does it at the expense of a poor

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path.

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So when you're looking at the details of your release you can break down is it

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more

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of a arm release issue is it more of a body pivot issue or is it more of a

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tension follow

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through position that'll help guide which of these big pieces is preventing you

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from

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having more of the tour style or release and keeping you more in the flip.