2016 WGFS - Driver Vs Iron Presentation

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Hi, I'm Tyler Farrell with Golf Smart Academy.

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This webinar, I'm going to present the presentation that I gave at the World

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Golf Fitness Summit

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in October of 2016 in New Orleans.

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The topic is looking at the 3D differences between the driver and the iron

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swing.

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Basically addressing the question, is there one swing that you can use

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throughout the

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bag or do you need to make adjustments to your swing other than just setup when

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you're

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going from, say, a driver to a short iron?

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Now in this presentation, I'm going to break it down into two different parts.

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In the first part, we're going to look at a bunch of 3D graphs.

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So if you're a golf coach or just a 3D golf nerd and you want to see some of

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the data

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behind the concepts that I tend to teach, I'm going to present that for about

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15 minutes

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or so.

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If you want to just jump to the end, you know, if you're not really into the 3D

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space and

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you really just want to jump to the end and see some of the before and afters

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and look

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at more 2D video practical applications, I think that that's fine.

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I'll put a little link here where you can jump right to when we start looking

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at golf

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swings instead of looking at 3D graphs.

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So I'll show you how understanding some of the differences between driver and

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iron can

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help you make changes.

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So this was one individual lesson who basically by understanding a different

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pivot concept

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was able to completely change his release and ball flight.

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And then I have another example where we'll go through a golfer who was driving

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the ball

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really well but struggling with his iron play.

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Because what I've noticed with both my students as well as myself is it's rare

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that you have

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the best driver day and the best iron day on the same day.

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So in this, the rest of this presentation, we're going to take a look at why

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that might

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be the case.

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Before I get into the data, I interviewed a number of coaches trying to figure

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out what

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they thought might be the difference between the driver swing and the iron

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swing.

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Now some coaches continue to stress that there's no difference, it's just set

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up.

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But many golf instructors focus on the access tilt or the position of the body

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and what

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changes during the swing with a driver and during an iron.

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Other coaches tend to focus more on what the goals are.

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So with a driver, you're trying to hit for angles and you're trying to maximize

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distance

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where with an iron, you're trying to strike it solidly and control trajectory

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and proximity

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to the hole.

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Now a few biomechanists described the driver swing as more of a total body

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activity while

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the iron swing is more of an upper body activity.

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Let's look at the data and see which ones of these hypotheses the data supports

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So before we jump into the data, I want to give a big thank you to Johnson-Cl

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aire for

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providing some of these tour pro folders.

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I have a lot of driver swings, but he was able to share 31 different tour pro

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folders

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which had driver, five iron, a short iron, whether it was eight iron through

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wedge as

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well as a 30 yard pitch shot.

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So I was able to analyze some of these patterns and see if it was more of a

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spectrum or see

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if they were the same or where it changed and come up with some theories as to

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why.

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So the first section, we're going to go over the kinematic sequence, some

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positional changes

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between the upper and lower body and then some movements during the release

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looking at supination.

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Again in the second half of this presentation, you can just jump ahead and see

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some case studies

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of how we apply this 3D data because I don't necessarily think every golfer out

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there needs

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to understand the 3D data, but if you're a coach, it can be really helpful for

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helping

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you think about the movement patterns in a more specific way.

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So my goal is to present you with the data and visuals and let you come up with

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ways

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that you can teach it.

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I'm not here to say that there's one perfect way to adjust the swing just

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because the graphs

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are a little bit different, but I want to get your brain thinking about the

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actual differences

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between the two and hopefully you can come up with some creative ways to get

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your students

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to make these changes and make it feel as seamless or athletic as possible.

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Now we know that the angle of attack tends to change throughout the bag.

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We know that with the short iron it's going to be somewhat down and with the

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driver it's

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going to be flat or even up.

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Hopefully up if you're trying to maximize distance.

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One of the questions is that we've kind of struggled with is is this purely a

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setup change,

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purely a equipment change or is there an intentional change to how the golfer

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is trying

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to swing the club.

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Hopefully the 3D data will shed a little light on which of these is the case.

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Now with the 3D data I took a look at a number of different parameters, but in

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this presentation

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because I was limited to 45 minutes I focused on the kinematic sequence changes

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, the axis

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tilt changes which would be we'll look at the differences in the sway graphs

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and then

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the lead wrist looking at supination.

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But as you can see if you want to pause this slide you can see that there were

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changes

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in what the body did, in how the club worked, as well as in the arms and the

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legs and if

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you have a good data set you can take a look at some of these patterns as well

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and see

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if your data matches the data that I was looking at.

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So the general change in the kinematic sequence, if you've looked at 3D and you

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've seen some

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of these 3D graphs you may be familiar with the two on screen.

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We have kind of the standard or classic full swing kinematic sequence and then

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the standard or classic 30 yard wedge shot.

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The 30 yard wedge shot has more of a fanning pattern, more of a cast pattern

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where the club

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is moving faster than the arm, arm moving faster than the torso, the torso

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moving faster

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than the pelvis even though the transition sequence is the same.

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With the full swing we see more of a downswing loading pattern so we see more

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of a lower body

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moving faster than the upper body, upper body moving faster than the arm, arm

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moving faster

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than the club to help maximize the speed gains and to potentially help with a

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bit of the path requirements for the driver.

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The question is, is this more of a switch where you go from driver and all your

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full swing

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should look like the top graph and then once you get to these half shots it

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switches or

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is it more of a spectrum?

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Let's take a look at some different full swing graphs to help possibly explain

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that pattern.

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Is it more of a switch or is it more of a spectrum?

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The general trend with the kinematic sequence was that the driver swing was

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more of a loading

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pattern and then the wedge swing was more of a cast pattern so we'll look at a

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number

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of different examples so you can visualize what I'm talking about but while

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each individual

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golfer kept a little bit of their own signature and their own pattern, you'll

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see from looking

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at these graphs that tour pros do make some subtle shifts to how they're

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applying energy

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and how they are swinging the golf club within full swings, whether it's a

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short iron like

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an eight iron iron wedge or a full swing with the driver, it is not exactly the

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same pattern.

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What was interesting was tour pros pretty consistently made these changes to

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their swings

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where amateurs usually made the same swing with every club in their bag and

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tended to

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struggle with one end or the other depending on which end their pattern better

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matched.

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So here's how we're going to look at these graphs.

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I'm going to put up the driver and the iron version and then we're going to

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eyeball some

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of these differences.

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I'm not going to throw a ton of numbers at you, we're just going to look at the

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general

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movement patterns.

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Now if you've never seen a kinematic sequence graph, basically we have a

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timeline of the

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golf swing so we have a dress, top of the swing, impact finish.

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So this is all backswing, right here is downswing and then between these two

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lines is the follow

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through, when a line is negative it's rotating away from the target, when it's

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it's rotating towards the target.

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And what we can see is the red line is the pelvis, the green line is the thorax

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, the blue

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line is the left arm or lead arm and then the brown line is the club.

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So this particular golfer you can see is lower body change direction when it

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went from

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a negative to positive change direction here, clearly before the upper body

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body before the arm before the club and you can see that the red line is above

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of the downswing, the blue line is above for part of the downswing, that's more

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of a

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loading pattern.

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What we see here is the, when we now look at the wedge swing we can see that

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the red and

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the green kind of change direction together and the red is underneath the other

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for the entire downswing.

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We can see that the blue and the brown are pretty much mirrored on top of each

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I kind of toggle back and forth, you can see the general shift of being less of

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a load

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and more of a cast when we get to the wedge.

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So here's another golfer and in this one we'll see primarily a lower body or a

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hip change.

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So we can see the red line being well above the green line and kind of going

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first and

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faster and then if we shift we can see that the red line is now kind of in with

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going

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at about the same speed as the other parts of the body, kind of like so.

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Here's another example of a golfer who makes adjustments to both the hips and

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trunks.

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You can look at that transition starting sequence and we can see pretty clearly

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that that red

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line goes from leading the early part of the downswing to now just kind of

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supporting.

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We can see that the torso kind of follows in that same casting pattern as well.

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Okay, so we see that the tour pros tend to use a similar pattern throughout the

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bag but

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it's more of a cast.

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What about amateurs?

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Now amateurs are typically going to struggle with one end or the other and more

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often than

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not they struggle with the driver.

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So here's a mid-handicap golfer with their driver and we can see that it's

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already a

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cast pattern.

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We can see that it's going to be difficult to be or even if it becomes more of

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a cast

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pattern it's never a loading pattern which is part of what's required to have

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the proper

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angle of attack and hit a driver well.

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So we can see that yes the lower body does get a little bit slower but you can

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see for

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all intended purposes most of the swing doesn't really change.

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In fact if we compare this as his driver this is his wedge we can see that the

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lower body

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actually has better sequencing and starts earlier with the wedge than it did

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with the

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driver.

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So again this is an example of a golfer failing to make the changes between a

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driver and a

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wedge swing so this golfer is much better with hitting the short irons than he

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is with

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hitting the driver.

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Here's another golfer who has a pretty clear cast pattern and we can see the

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shift between

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these two you can see that the overall pattern looks about the same.

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The scale is just a little different so the graph is kind of jumping around but

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you can

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see that the pattern between the two is pretty close to the same.

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One last example we've got driver here and wedge here you can see that if

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anything this

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golfer actually struggles with having more of a load pattern with the wedge

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here than

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he does with the driver.

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So he has more of a cast pattern with the driver than he does with the wedge

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but the

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wedge he actually demonstrates more of the downswing loading pattern.

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So this 10 handy cap tends to struggle a little bit more with wedge consistency

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contact.

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Okay so we saw that pros made these adjustments to their patterns where am

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ateurs typically

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kept the same pattern or in one case actually reversed the pattern in the wrong

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direction.

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So looking back at our hypotheses we can rule out that the swings are identical

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or at least

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I'm willing to rule out that the swings are identical and that it's a just ball

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position.

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I think we've built some support for the case that it's a total body versus an

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upper body

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move and I think we've built some case for the speed versus precision argument

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but we

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haven't done much to address some of the other goals like the angle of attack

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or the

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axis tilt or a sweet verse strike.

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So that's what we'll look at next when we talk more about these positions.

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Now this image up here is the same golfer hitting a full swing with a sand

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wedge on

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the right and a driver on the left.

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Now we can see that there are some different looks to these movements.

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We can see that the upper body is a little bit more on top of the lower body

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there's

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differences in the extension or the width between the upper body and the hands

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and we

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can see that there's differences in the arm straightening.

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Now again I'm not here to tell you that these need to be intentional

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differences but I am

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going to show you the data that shows that you do need to make some adjustments

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if you're

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going to have success with both clubs.

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What I found looking at the general trends is that there is a big difference in

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the sway

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pattern.

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So the sway is the movement of the upper body or the lower body either towards

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the target

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or away from the target.

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So it's not just a bad thing like a sway in the backswing it's just the term we

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use

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for the linear movement of the body in that plane.

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The general pattern was the the irons were more stacked and the driver had more

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of a tilt

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away from the target.

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Most golfers adjusted the thorax while keeping the lower body the same but

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about or a small

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percentage adjusted the pelvis while keeping the upper body the same and a

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handful of them

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changed both.

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But it was about two thirds of the golfers who kept the lower body or the pel

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vis pretty

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consistent and made mostly adjustment with the thorax.

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There was a difference in both the lift and the thrust pattern but they aren't

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as significant

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so we're not going to look at them in this video.

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Okay so this golfer is that typical pattern that adjusts the thorax.

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This graph is now looking at the pelvis, sway is thrust and lifts.

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The pelvis sway is the main graph we're going to look at which is the red line.

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So the red line is looking at the linear movement of the pelvis towards or away

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from

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the target.

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When it goes negative it's swaying off the ball or it's moving away from the

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target

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when it goes positive it is swaying towards the target.

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So this golfer had a little bit of a weight shift during takeaway and then more

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of a centered

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pivot and then shifted towards the target and the downswing and kind of slid on

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the

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way through.

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If you look down at the bottom of the screen, bottom left you can see the

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amount of sway

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at impact.

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So I have all these graphs kind of frozen at that point in time.

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So between setup and impact the golfer shifted 5.4 inches closer to the target

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for the driver.

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Now with an eight iron the golfer shifted 5.1 inches so it was a little bit

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less but

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pretty close and if I toggle back and forth you can see the overall pattern for

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the red

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is pretty consistent, pretty similar between these two.

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Now if we look at the upper body it's the same graph so we're looking at the

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red line

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which is the thorax sway and we'll see a little bit of a shift during off the

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ball during

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the takeaway and then a little bit of a shift towards the target during the

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early part of

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the downswing and then once they've done that little shift towards the target

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you'll

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see with the driver there's a pretty significant movement away from the target.

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I refer to that movement as part of the bracing strategy or how they use their

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body to help

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stabilize and get in the position to deliver the arms in the right way.

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So this golfer shifted about two and a half inches towards the target and then

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by the

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end of their release so roughly when the club's about parallel they're about 1.

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5 inches away

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from wherever they started but you can see that between those two there's a

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pretty consistent

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movement away from the target.

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Now here we have that same golfer with an iron and we saw that the pelvis was

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about the

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same we can see that the pattern, the shape of the red line between these two

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looks pretty

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similar but we can see that some of the magnitudes are different so this golfer

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had about the

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same shift towards the target during transition that movement helps create the

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pressure in

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the lead foot and then during the release we can see that this golfer didn't

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shift nearly

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as much off the ball, in fact or sorry away from the target, not off the ball.

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So this golfer shifted towards the target and then when they made contact they

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're about

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1.6 inches closer to the target than where they started.

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So because we're comparing where they started if a golfer sets up with more

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tilt and gets

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more behind the ball with a driver and then sets up more stacked with an iron

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we're going

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to tend to see even with that the upper body is going to get more in front of

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where they

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started with the iron where with the driver they're going to work their way

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more behind

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where they started.

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So even though they're starting further away they still work more behind with

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the driver.

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But this golfer if we toggle back and forth we can see the differences even

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though the

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pattern looks similar we can see that this golfer is not shifting their upper

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body nearly

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as far away from the target during the release and that creates the difference

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in the axis

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tilt.

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So this golfer had the pelvis move about the same amount but there was a little

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over a

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one inch difference in where the position of the upper body was and that helped

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create

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the axis tilt different for the driver compared to the short iron.

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Now here's a second golfer looking at another one of the classic patterns of

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more of the

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thorax adjusters.

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So this golfer actually shifted their lower body 3.7 inches with both the

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driver and the

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iron driver and nine iron you can see very little difference in the pattern of

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the red

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line.

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There's a little difference in the pattern of the blue line and green line but

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we're

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primarily looking at the red line for this section.

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So now we can go back and forth between the driver and the iron and we can see

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again

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that similar shift so while they shifted about the same amount towards the

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target to help

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apply the pressure into the lead foot we can see during the release with the

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driver this

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golfer works about two and a half inches or a total of about four or five

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inches away

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from the target from the maximum point there to the maximum point there and at

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impact it's

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about half an inch further away than where he started with the driver and then

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with an

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iron we can see that he goes from about a little less than two and a half to

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right

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around zero so he has about half the amount of shift away from the target even

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though the

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pelvis was in exactly the same position so you can see the general slope change

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as well

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as the magnitude change.

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Here's one more thorax adjuster because it's the more dominant pattern I wanted

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to show

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a few examples.

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So this golfer shifted seven point one inches towards the target with the

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driver seven inches

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with the eight iron and again you can see a pretty consistent pattern or

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similar looking

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graphs between these two that's clearly the same golfer.

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Now if we look at the adjustment of the upper body we can see that there's a

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pretty big

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difference between the upper body.

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Now this golfer doesn't get quite as far away from the golf ball so this golfer

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is

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probably going to or sorry away from the target this golfer is probably going

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to have more

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of a downward angle of attack because his upper body is still two point one

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inches closer

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than where it started he doesn't really have a big shift away from the target

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but with

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the iron you can see that it's less so you can see that this is a more of a

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gradual slope

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it's not quite as sharp and you can see that he finishes two and a half inches

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closer you

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know his lowest peak is two and a half inches closer than where he started so

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that upper

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body is definitely shifting more towards the target with the iron than he was

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with the

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driver while the blue and the green stay somewhat consistent.

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Now there was a small subset of golfers who tended to adjust the pelvis instead

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of the

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upper body so that looks more like this.

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With the driver this golfer if I just showed you these two without us looking

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at the scale

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you would say that that's pretty close to the same pattern but if we look at

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the values

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we can see that in the bottom left hand corner with the driver he's shifted

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nine inches towards

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the target with the pitching wedge he's only shifted 6.3 inches towards the

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target so about

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a three inch difference between where his lower body was compared to the start

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position.

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So now what we'll see by looking at his upper body is we can see that the upper

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body graphs

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tend to have a more consistent pattern so he only had a shift of a difference

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of about

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point eight inches so the difference between his lower body and his upper body

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still increased

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about two inches based on the difference between the driver and the iron but he

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did it more

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by increasing the lower body not by moving the upper body back and that two

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inch the the

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average in the database was about two point one inches of additional shift.

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So now here's the smallest subset was more of the adjuster of both so neither

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of them

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is going to stay the same they're going to change kind of different amounts in

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order

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to create that two inch difference between the upper body or the two inch

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greater difference

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between the upper body and the lower body for their own pattern.

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So here we've got golfer going six point four inches with the driver and then

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five point

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eight inches with the iron and then with the upper body we can see a similar

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looking pattern

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but his upper body moves about point six inches closer to the target with the

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iron than it

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did with the driver.

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So he had a little bit of shift from lower body and a little bit of shift from

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the upper

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body and that combo gives him the access tilt that he's looking for.

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In general there's a pretty big difference in the pattern when we compare the

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two ends

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of the spectrum when we're looking at this axis still or we're looking at this

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way those

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irons there tend to be more stacked so you know just a couple inch difference

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whether

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it's two to four or something like that difference between the upper body and

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the lower body but

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with the driver you'll see a much greater difference especially if you look at

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the maximum difference

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such as at the end of their release it can be somewhere in the you know five

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six even

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up to eight inch difference between the upper body and the lower body.

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So if your upper body is directly on top of your lower body you're probably

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going to

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struggle with the driver.

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So what about amateurs if we look at them we're going to tend to see a little

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bit of

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change right similar to what we saw with the kinematic sequence.

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So here's a amateur golfer who's wedge swing so the driver swing he had an

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extra inch of

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shift towards the target so it went 4.8 to 3.8 but we can see over all the

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patterns kind

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of about the same.

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So that'd be fine we're expecting to see a little bit more shift away from the

520
00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:50.220
target

521
00:24:50.220 --> 00:24:57.360
with the with the iron than we do with the driver and we can see that there's a

522
00:24:57.360 --> 00:24:57.700
little

523
00:24:57.700 --> 00:25:03.520
bit of a shift but again these two are also very close four inch shift with the

524
00:25:03.520 --> 00:25:04.140
driver

525
00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:08.440
so we were expecting to see that actually be less than the wedge he shifted

526
00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:09.100
more than

527
00:25:09.100 --> 00:25:13.000
the wedge so the actual difference between the axis tilt stayed about the same

528
00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:13.460
because

529
00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:18.940
he he gained some with the pelvis but then he lost some based on the pelvis and

530
00:25:18.940 --> 00:25:19.620
thorax.

531
00:25:19.620 --> 00:25:23.820
So both shifted but the difference was pretty much the same on that case.

532
00:25:23.820 --> 00:25:31.070
Now we've got another golfer who we can see has a about a one inch difference

533
00:25:31.070 --> 00:25:32.020
between

534
00:25:32.020 --> 00:25:37.420
where the pelvis is and then if we jump to the lower body this is the driver

535
00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:38.140
and then

536
00:25:38.140 --> 00:25:42.230
this is the wedge we can see one point five inch difference but the driver is

537
00:25:42.230 --> 00:25:42.820
actually

538
00:25:42.820 --> 00:25:49.640
more ahead or closer to the target than the wedge so he negates what he gains

539
00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:50.220
with the

540
00:25:50.220 --> 00:25:54.170
pelvis again it ends up being about the same relationship and that's a very

541
00:25:54.170 --> 00:25:54.700
consistent

542
00:25:54.700 --> 00:25:58.500
pattern that you'll see with kind of the mid handicap level where whatever that

543
00:25:58.500 --> 00:25:58.820
axis

544
00:25:58.820 --> 00:26:02.620
tilt relationship is with one swing they'll typically have that with all of

545
00:26:02.620 --> 00:26:03.260
their full

546
00:26:03.260 --> 00:26:05.940
swings.

547
00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:10.460
So amateurs frequently retain those similar axis tilt relationships and that

548
00:26:10.460 --> 00:26:11.140
typically

549
00:26:11.140 --> 00:26:16.380
causes a problem at one end of the spectrum or the other.

550
00:26:16.380 --> 00:26:20.430
Back to our hypotheses we know that there's some differences but we're starting

551
00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:21.060
to confirm

552
00:26:21.060 --> 00:26:24.620
what a lot of the coaches thought the one piece that I couldn't really confirm

553
00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:25.220
was standing

554
00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:28.920
further away from the golf ball and that's just not measured on the 3D system

555
00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:29.340
but the

556
00:26:29.340 --> 00:26:35.200
good news is pros were or coaches were kind of looking in the right areas and

557
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:35.900
the data

558
00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:42.470
is supporting the difference in the patterns of the load versus the cast and

559
00:26:42.470 --> 00:26:43.500
the more axis

560
00:26:43.500 --> 00:26:48.510
tilt versus less axis tilt so amateurs really just need to learn to adjust a

561
00:26:48.510 --> 00:26:49.940
few key parameters

562
00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:53.660
in order to have success throughout the bag.

563
00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:57.680
Now let's look at one thing that was not mentioned by the coaches but that I

564
00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:59.060
think is incredibly

565
00:26:59.060 --> 00:27:04.390
useful which is looking at the amount of supination because the what the body

566
00:27:04.390 --> 00:27:05.740
does and what happens

567
00:27:05.740 --> 00:27:10.530
in the load pattern is typically going to affect what happens in the release

568
00:27:10.530 --> 00:27:13.940
and vice versa.

569
00:27:13.940 --> 00:27:16.910
So what we're going to look at is just one simple parameter we're going to look

570
00:27:16.910 --> 00:27:17.220
at the

571
00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:18.420
blue line.

572
00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:23.330
The blue line is looking at pronation supination when it is negative it's pron

573
00:27:23.330 --> 00:27:24.340
ating and when

574
00:27:24.340 --> 00:27:26.740
it's positive it is supinating.

575
00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:32.110
So what we'll see here is the golfer with the left wrist is going to have some

576
00:27:32.110 --> 00:27:32.980
pronation

577
00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:39.000
and reach maximum value somewhere in mid downswing and then supinate during the

578
00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.020
entire release.

579
00:27:41.020 --> 00:27:47.780
Now what's interesting is you'll see a similar pattern but the supination value

580
00:27:47.780 --> 00:27:48.700
will tend

581
00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:52.300
to be increased on the driver swing.

582
00:27:52.300 --> 00:27:56.980
So he's going to get into a more of a supinated position by the end of the

583
00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:58.020
release when he

584
00:27:58.020 --> 00:28:03.820
gets up here compared to what he does with the wedge.

585
00:28:03.820 --> 00:28:08.020
So here's another example and we can look at the actual numbers.

586
00:28:08.020 --> 00:28:14.590
So somewhere down here you know whether that's 60 just below 56 we can see he

587
00:28:14.590 --> 00:28:15.220
gets close

588
00:28:15.220 --> 00:28:20.140
to 70 degrees of supination by the end of the release.

589
00:28:20.140 --> 00:28:25.770
Now if we look at the wedge swing we'll see a little bit less or pretty close

590
00:28:25.770 --> 00:28:26.540
to the same

591
00:28:26.540 --> 00:28:32.520
amount of pronation during the downswing but we'll see significantly less sup

592
00:28:32.520 --> 00:28:33.260
ination

593
00:28:33.260 --> 00:28:36.180
on the way through.

594
00:28:36.180 --> 00:28:40.680
One of the interesting ones that I saw looking at the amateurs was this golfer

595
00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:41.340
who actually

596
00:28:41.340 --> 00:28:46.580
had more supination with his wedge swing than he does with the driver swing.

597
00:28:46.580 --> 00:28:50.800
This is also the golfer who tended to have more of a cast pattern with the

598
00:28:50.800 --> 00:28:51.620
driver than

599
00:28:51.620 --> 00:28:54.700
he had with the wedge.

600
00:28:54.700 --> 00:29:00.670
So what you'll see is the more that you load those risks by using good

601
00:29:00.670 --> 00:29:02.460
sequencing, good

602
00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:07.540
proximal to distal loading patterns you'll tend to see more of this supination

603
00:29:07.540 --> 00:29:08.040
value

604
00:29:08.040 --> 00:29:10.700
increase with the release.

605
00:29:10.700 --> 00:29:16.390
So this golfer gets close to 80 degrees supination on the way through with the

606
00:29:16.390 --> 00:29:17.460
driver close to

607
00:29:17.460 --> 00:29:19.060
60 degrees.

608
00:29:19.060 --> 00:29:25.780
This relates to a lot of the arm tension that amateurs describe.

609
00:29:25.780 --> 00:29:30.290
When they feel like they're bracing or they're squeezing their forms to help

610
00:29:30.290 --> 00:29:31.300
control the club

611
00:29:31.300 --> 00:29:33.900
face on the way through or to start bending their arms like they're getting

612
00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:34.480
into a chicken

613
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:40.830
wing pattern those will tend to diminish the amount of supination on the way

614
00:29:40.830 --> 00:29:41.940
through.

615
00:29:41.940 --> 00:29:48.650
So that was just a quick little point that I think gets overlooked when talking

616
00:29:48.650 --> 00:29:49.240
about

617
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:51.220
the differences between the iron and the driver.

618
00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:56.800
But there are definitely some differences between the amount of supination in

619
00:29:56.800 --> 00:29:57.780
the driver and

620
00:29:57.780 --> 00:30:01.060
the iron swing if it's going to look the same on video.

621
00:30:01.060 --> 00:30:04.580
I'll show you what I mean.

622
00:30:04.580 --> 00:30:07.700
So we're going to get into some case studies.

623
00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:12.490
We're going to look at some 2D examples so that you'll be able to relate what

624
00:30:12.490 --> 00:30:13.060
you're

625
00:30:13.060 --> 00:30:20.740
seeing on these graphs to what actually happens with 2D video, the way most of

626
00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:21.500
us are used

627
00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:22.940
to looking at it.

628
00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:27.050
So the coaching keys would be looking at the access tilt, the power source, the

629
00:30:27.050 --> 00:30:27.580
release

630
00:30:27.580 --> 00:30:31.990
style and something that I don't have data for but has worked very well for me

631
00:30:31.990 --> 00:30:32.380
which

632
00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:35.260
is looking at club height to ground.

633
00:30:35.260 --> 00:30:39.370
Now in this presentation we're going to look at a couple of different key

634
00:30:39.370 --> 00:30:40.220
concepts.

635
00:30:40.220 --> 00:30:45.300
So the follow away from the target or the access tilt movement when we look at

636
00:30:45.300 --> 00:30:46.980
the driver's

637
00:30:46.980 --> 00:30:51.610
case study and with the iron we're going to look at a little bit of low point

638
00:30:51.610 --> 00:30:52.540
training.

639
00:30:52.540 --> 00:30:56.820
So here is a single lesson before and after.

640
00:30:56.820 --> 00:31:02.180
This is looking at a case study looking at the amount of tilt.

641
00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:07.300
So this golfer we had been working together for a few lessons already mostly

642
00:31:07.300 --> 00:31:07.980
working

643
00:31:07.980 --> 00:31:13.290
on the release and I'll show you what we did during this lesson to get the

644
00:31:13.290 --> 00:31:13.940
changes

645
00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:18.590
to go from this over here on the left, this amount of extension to this over

646
00:31:18.590 --> 00:31:19.260
here on the

647
00:31:19.260 --> 00:31:21.660
right.

648
00:31:21.660 --> 00:31:25.460
So here's the initial swing.

649
00:31:25.460 --> 00:31:30.140
This was one of his swings during warm up and you can see those arms bending on

650
00:31:30.140 --> 00:31:30.620
the way

651
00:31:30.620 --> 00:31:32.980
through.

652
00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:38.300
Now here he is during warm up with an iron and he described having some good

653
00:31:38.300 --> 00:31:39.020
success

654
00:31:39.020 --> 00:31:42.820
with his iron consistency and most of the pros who I showed this to at the

655
00:31:42.820 --> 00:31:43.460
World Golf

656
00:31:43.460 --> 00:31:46.300
Fitness Summit agreed that this looks better.

657
00:31:46.300 --> 00:31:50.160
He's got more arm extension, there's still a little bit of maybe a scoopish

658
00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:51.500
pattern but

659
00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:54.220
he's got much better arm extension on the way through.

660
00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:58.410
It looks like he's doing something different with the driver than the iron but

661
00:31:58.410 --> 00:31:58.940
now from

662
00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:02.960
looking at the data perhaps you'll understand that he's actually doing closer

663
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.580
to the same

664
00:32:03.580 --> 00:32:09.140
thing with the driver and the iron and that's why it looks different.

665
00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:13.760
So I wanted him to understand the difference in the relationship of the axis

666
00:32:13.760 --> 00:32:14.340
tilt.

667
00:32:14.340 --> 00:32:19.060
So I gave him a drill that we have on the site to help him feel pushing into

668
00:32:19.060 --> 00:32:19.860
that front

669
00:32:19.860 --> 00:32:26.010
leg while those arms extend past his body and making sure that his upper body

670
00:32:26.010 --> 00:32:26.900
fell away

671
00:32:26.900 --> 00:32:31.520
from the target a little bit helping to create that improved axis tilt.

672
00:32:31.520 --> 00:32:36.270
So we discussed it and he did this drill took about three minutes in between

673
00:32:36.270 --> 00:32:36.980
that first

674
00:32:36.980 --> 00:32:40.380
swing and what you're going to see right here.

675
00:32:40.380 --> 00:32:43.960
So this was the very next swing after doing his drill and understanding the

676
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:45.860
concept better

677
00:32:45.860 --> 00:32:50.370
and he was able to increase his launch angle and pick up about 30 yards but the

678
00:32:50.370 --> 00:32:51.020
big thing

679
00:32:51.020 --> 00:32:56.780
was he was able to control his trajectory in the amount of curve.

680
00:32:56.780 --> 00:33:02.550
He was no longer afraid of the smother hook after practicing it for the rest of

681
00:33:02.550 --> 00:33:05.820
the session.

682
00:33:05.820 --> 00:33:11.280
Okay, so he had been working on the supination and we added the axis tilt and

683
00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:12.500
the difference

684
00:33:12.500 --> 00:33:13.980
between the two.

685
00:33:13.980 --> 00:33:20.100
Now his iron swing and his driver's swing the release looks very similar but

686
00:33:20.100 --> 00:33:21.300
the important

687
00:33:21.300 --> 00:33:24.420
thing is it looks similar because he's now doing different things.

688
00:33:24.420 --> 00:33:29.280
If you were to now use some of this information that you've been presented with

689
00:33:29.280 --> 00:33:30.060
take a look

690
00:33:30.060 --> 00:33:33.750
at the location of his upper body compared to either the golf ball or compared

691
00:33:33.750 --> 00:33:34.140
to the

692
00:33:34.140 --> 00:33:38.090
pelvis and you can see that they're pretty much on top of each other just a

693
00:33:38.090 --> 00:33:38.820
slight tilt

694
00:33:38.820 --> 00:33:39.820
away.

695
00:33:39.820 --> 00:33:43.840
Now over here with the driver we can or with the afterversion we can see that

696
00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:44.540
that right

697
00:33:44.540 --> 00:33:49.040
shoulder is well behind the golf ball the chest is behind kind of his right hip

698
00:33:49.040 --> 00:33:49.300
.

699
00:33:49.300 --> 00:33:54.260
He's got a lot more axis tilt which helps produce more of this flat bottom to

700
00:33:54.260 --> 00:33:55.060
the swing.

701
00:33:55.060 --> 00:33:59.570
Now we have a golfer demonstrating some low point control so this golfer was

702
00:33:59.570 --> 00:34:00.260
struggling

703
00:34:00.260 --> 00:34:04.420
more with iron consistency was driving the ball great.

704
00:34:04.420 --> 00:34:10.660
So what you'll see here I'll let this play a couple times is you'll see the

705
00:34:10.660 --> 00:34:11.940
club working

706
00:34:11.940 --> 00:34:15.580
up quickly after impact.

707
00:34:15.580 --> 00:34:20.730
Now I had him in slow motion show me the release that he was training and you

708
00:34:20.730 --> 00:34:22.460
can see that

709
00:34:22.460 --> 00:34:28.290
the low points pretty much in the middle of his stance and then starting to

710
00:34:28.290 --> 00:34:29.180
work up very

711
00:34:29.180 --> 00:34:35.500
quickly right through impact and you can also see that the club face is tending

712
00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:37.160
to stay open.

713
00:34:37.160 --> 00:34:42.740
We've addressed all those issues with a cluster of drills and I'll show you

714
00:34:42.740 --> 00:34:44.260
here in a second.

715
00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:47.860
Now if you're not used to seeing that drill of just like a slow motion release

716
00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:48.060
here's

717
00:34:48.060 --> 00:34:55.110
a student who has more of a iron base wing demonstrating kind of the same thing

718
00:34:55.110 --> 00:34:55.700
and what

719
00:34:55.700 --> 00:35:00.770
you'll we're doing the same drill I should say and what you'll see is that his

720
00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:01.540
tendency

721
00:35:01.540 --> 00:35:06.140
is to have the club working much more high to low where the golfer previously

722
00:35:06.140 --> 00:35:06.900
was having

723
00:35:06.900 --> 00:35:10.500
much more low to high.

724
00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:15.820
So now after doing a drill called nine to low point that we use on the site he

725
00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:16.540
was working

726
00:35:16.540 --> 00:35:20.100
on getting without letting his upper body lunge that's why he had the stick

727
00:35:20.100 --> 00:35:20.620
here he was

728
00:35:20.620 --> 00:35:25.220
working on getting the club to bottom out more in front of the golf ball.

729
00:35:25.220 --> 00:35:29.630
So now what you'll tend to see is a little bit more neutral pattern where the

730
00:35:29.630 --> 00:35:30.180
club is

731
00:35:30.180 --> 00:35:34.660
coming down through contact and then working up on the way through.

732
00:35:34.660 --> 00:35:38.730
But you'll see that after impact the club is lower to the ground with that arm

733
00:35:38.730 --> 00:35:39.420
extension

734
00:35:39.420 --> 00:35:44.180
it's less of a club working up pattern.

735
00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:52.370
So here we've got both versions we'll try to get them about even after impact

736
00:35:52.370 --> 00:35:53.220
you can

737
00:35:53.220 --> 00:35:56.710
see this is a little bit more of that driver base movement where the club is

738
00:35:56.710 --> 00:35:57.280
coming up

739
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.580
pretty quickly this is more of the iron base movement where he's got a little

740
00:36:00.580 --> 00:36:01.140
bit better

741
00:36:01.140 --> 00:36:04.820
access tilt and that club working more down.

742
00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:09.720
So it doesn't have to look perfectly but if you make some smart adjustments to

743
00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:11.060
your pattern

744
00:36:11.060 --> 00:36:15.460
you can make progress with either the iron or the driver.

745
00:36:15.460 --> 00:36:21.320
The next goal is then to train going back and forth between those two shots so

746
00:36:21.320 --> 00:36:21.780
that

747
00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:26.140
you have a better success rate of being able to pull it off on the course.

748
00:36:26.140 --> 00:36:30.680
If you struggle with one area of the other I would tend to suggest with the

749
00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:31.420
driver you

750
00:36:31.420 --> 00:36:35.940
would want to focus on access tilt the club path as well as the face-to-path

751
00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:37.040
relationship.

752
00:36:37.040 --> 00:36:41.560
I use a number of drills on the website frequently to help people with these

753
00:36:41.560 --> 00:36:42.500
concepts mostly

754
00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:46.290
revolving around how the lower body works since it's more of a total body

755
00:36:46.290 --> 00:36:47.060
activity and

756
00:36:47.060 --> 00:36:51.440
how to create the proper access tilt as well as how to release the club with a

757
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.060
little bit

758
00:36:52.060 --> 00:36:55.780
more supination to support more of that loading pattern.

759
00:36:55.780 --> 00:36:59.920
With iron consistency I'm typically working on more low point control or face-

760
00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:00.580
to-target

761
00:37:00.580 --> 00:37:05.800
relationship so things such as the open right hand or getting a little bit more

762
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:06.500
access tilt

763
00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:10.000
and learning where the upper body should be in space and potentially tempo

764
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:10.660
drills work

765
00:37:10.660 --> 00:37:14.940
really well for this particular problem but one of the goal standards I go for

766
00:37:14.940 --> 00:37:15.420
with low

767
00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:19.260
point control is the arm extension timing and direction which I have a number

768
00:37:19.260 --> 00:37:19.940
of different

769
00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:21.860
videos to help support.

770
00:37:21.860 --> 00:37:25.320
If you enjoyed this presentation and getting into a little bit more of the

771
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:25.900
details of

772
00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:31.180
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773
00:37:31.180 --> 00:37:31.580
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774
00:37:31.580 --> 00:37:36.610
you are interested head over to galsmartacademy.com that's my site where I kind

775
00:37:36.610 --> 00:37:37.540
of share all the

776
00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:42.440
thoughts of what I learn from doing classes and what I come up with when

777
00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:43.460
working with

778
00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:48.390
my students and what I learn from other instructors so it's kind of my drop box

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for all the different

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swing ideas to help amateur golfers and those do-it-yourself style golfers as

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well as golf

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coaches.

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I've got an upcoming book called the stock tour swing which should be around

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either

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by the end of the year or early in 2017 and I'm working on a coaches

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certification but

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if you have any questions about anything presented in this webinar or anything

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else please don't

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hesitate to contact me Tyler at Golfsmart Academy or you can submit a question

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through

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the site.

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Thank you for taking a look at my presentation from the World Golf Fitness

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Summit 2016 on

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driver versus iron differences.