Axial Velocity Explained with 3D

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This video is explaining axial velocity so you'll see that I'm a big

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proponent of the motorcycle move and kind of getting the face to close. So in

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this video we're going to take a look at the 3D graphs that demonstrate axial

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velocity. So axial velocity is looking at how fast the club is rotating kind of

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like so. When it opens you'll see the line go negative and when it closes you

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'll

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see the line go positive. So the club will be like this and then naturally in

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the backswing I'll have a little bit of opening you'll see it go negative and

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then you'll see very different patterns for how the club closes during the

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downswing. One of the trends that you will see with tour pros is that they tend

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to close it faster earlier which is why I'm a big fan of this motorcycle

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movement or getting the club face to start closing either as I'm ending the

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backswing or as I'm starting the downswing. A common amateur issue is you'll

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see almost virtually no club face closing until it gets down to about here and

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then you'll have to close it very quickly. My background from other sports has

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taught me that having smooth movements tends to work better than having complex

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or rapid movements. So just like when I was learning tennis or when I was

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playing

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competitive tennis you would want kind of this feeling of a smooth release

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where

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the ball got hit in the middle. For the same reason I like to have this kind of

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smooth gradual closing of the club face the entire downswing instead of having

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it stay open for most of it and then close down to the bottom. So as you're

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looking through the graphs try to imagine how the swing would look but the

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graphs

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are going to show the actual rate of how fast that club face is closing during

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the golf swing. Okay so now we have an example of an axial velocity graph so

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the position I have right here is where they are in space at this green line.

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So

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roughly around when they start really pouring on the motorcycle movement. This

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graph is a timeline of a golf swing so the first line represents a dress this

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is top of the swing this is impact and then finish. The further away from this

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horizontal black line the faster it's moving so if it's negative it down way

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down here it will be rotating open quickly and the higher up it is the

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faster it's closing. So basically what you see is not a lot of rotation during

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the takeaway pretty much one piece little openings in closing during the

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backswing but mostly opening and then you'll see right around here before the

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top of the swing before the club changes the direction he's going to start

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closing

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the club face closes it more rapidly and then right about here it really takes

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off and he starts closing the face so that's right around this point in time

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in space is when that point in time on the graph happens to occur. It'll make

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more sense or it'll be easier to visualize when we take a look at a few

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others both pros and amateurs. Okay so here's another pro you'll see he has a

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little bit more of the opening during the backswing and during early

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transition but you'll see right around here he starts closing it and then right

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about where I have it in time and space so well well up here soon after he

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started the the downswing sequence he's now gonna start ramping up you'll see a

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bigger difference when we get to comparing the three amateurs. Okay here's one

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more

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pro you can see fairly flat during takeaway opening during the backswing

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starts closing there's in order to kind of hinge the wrists in transition you

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see typically a little bit of this dip and then right around this point in time

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somewhere here you can see that's well above where most of you may be thinking

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about closing the club face this is when he's actually starting to rotate the

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club face closed now remember if you start closing the club face early and it

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causes the ball to hook it means that there's other things going on and you

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holding the club face open is kind of a contribution to your overall pattern so

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now we've got all three pros on screen you can kind of take a look you can

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pause the video and look for some of the details but you can see in general

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that

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they are starting to close the club face while the club is still well up in in

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the air or just after they've started to transition. Now this is the first of

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the three amateurs so you'll see a slightly different pattern not too

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dissimilar in the backswing maybe a little bit more opening during the

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takeaway but then you'll see this flat line through transition where

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basically there's no rotation of the club and then you'll actually see it open

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well into the downswing you'll see he's now down to about belly button height

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where the others were up at kind of eye height or shoulder height or however

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want to look at it and he still has not started to close yet this is right

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about when he's going to start closing the club face so you'll see that he

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doesn't have nearly as much time to rotate the club face closed so he's gonna

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have to do it very quickly in order to get it in the same orientation. Here's

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another amateur so we can see opening and then that same little flat line

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during transition you can see it's not until well down here that he starts to

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close the club face so this is a common pattern that we're gonna see with a lot

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of amateurs who struggle with their transition and release this is kind of

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one of those graphs that kind of tells a lot of the story as to why their swing

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may be being built the way that it is. And then lastly this is a scratch golfer

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a very very good very accomplished amateur so you'll see a still a kind of

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flat line with a little bit of closing but then you'll see it opens he's so he

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a little bit higher up than those first two were who were more in the 10 to 20

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handicap range this is a scratch golfer so he's closing it a little bit early

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but nowhere near as early as the three tour pros. So now if we're comparing all

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three of those amateurs you can see that they are starting to close the club

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face

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around the same time and space you can pause this to look for any of the

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little nuances and variances but I just want you to see kind of the overall

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pattern where most golfers tend to not close the club face early enough or

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aggressively enough to get into the same impact positions that the tour pros

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get into. And lastly this is all six of the graphs that you got to see so that

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you can compare you got the three tour pros up top and you can see the club

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position and then we've got the three amateurs on the bottom and you can also

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see the club positions you can see in general the pros are going to close it

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earlier and faster and more aggressively where the amateurs are going to close

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it later and then they have to close it very rapidly during the release as

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opposed

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to closing it a little bit earlier during transition. There's always variations

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and there's some pros who close it later some pros who close it earlier but

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in general the earliest amateurs are still usually later than the latest

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tour pros. So if you're struggling with getting into the impact position

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hopefully

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this helps you understand what has to happen with the club and then maybe it

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will make a little bit more sense why we're asking you to do some of the body

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movements during the transition and release some of the arm and club movements

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to help make this club face rotating or rotation actually create the ideal

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impact positions that tour pros tend to demonstrate with their stock tour swing

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