Phases of the Swing – Backswing

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The topics today, we're going to cover the 3D of the backswing.

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So what do we see on AMM during the backswing, what's it look like, what are

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some key areas?

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I'm going to give you some homework for the feet.

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We'll look at some other areas, but the feet are definitely under-trained.

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And then we have a handful of coaches swings, so it should be a fun one.

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All right, let's jump into it.

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As far as the backswing goes, the backswing in general, I think, is much

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simpler than the downswing.

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So the backswing is much simpler than the downswing.

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I know in golf instruction, historically, a lot of time has been spent to kind

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of perfecting the backswing.

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And there's probably a little bit of merit to that.

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But in general, I think the way the brain organizes a movement is it decides

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where it wants to go and then how to get there.

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It doesn't just reflexively go somewhere because it started on that path.

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It has to plan it and then execute it.

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And so the backswing often complements what you're going to do or always comple

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ments what you're going to do on the downswing.

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So there are many cases, I had one this week, where he came in wanting to talk

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about his backswing.

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We worked a little bit on how he powered the swing and the thing he wanted to

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change in his backswing went away.

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So while we're going to go through these details, understand that these are

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really related to what we'll cover next month with the downswing.

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Okay, so as far as linear body movements go, these are going to be, I'd say,

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more indicative of helping you decode what they're trying to do than the rot

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ations.

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Unfortunately, the rotations in the backswing are pretty simple.

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You're going to try to rotate in some, you're going to rotate your body to load

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up your glutes, your lats, your big muscles, and then you're going to stay in

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enough tilt or side bend so that you can help control low point and direct that

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force down at the ground.

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So the rotations you'll typically see somewhere around 90 degrees of thorax

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rotation, coupled with about 45 degrees of thorax side bend with close to zero

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extension at the top.

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So I know we've covered that in, or I've covered that in other videos, it's

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definitely something that you'll get a lot of bang for your buck in working on

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extension and side bend, especially with some of your older population who like

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to stay flex forward.

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And when we see in the release, that's a helpful component to the release as

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well.

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But getting back to the backswing, it's the linear movements that kind of give

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you a little indication.

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So lateral shift is sway, so moving towards or away the target.

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With the driver, they tend to shift a little bit off the ball, and then with an

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iron, they tend to shift a little bit towards the target.

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So you got different stance widths, different axis tilt and different

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intentions, whether you're trying to sweep or strike down and compress.

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There's typically a slight drop in both the upper body and the lower body, but

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you'll see a lot of amateurs have a slight lift.

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So if we think about how the backswing relates to the downswing, that slight

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lift is often an indication that they're going to use their upper body to

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create power rather than using their lower body.

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I've never seen someone, if I tell them, okay, I want you to get ready to jump,

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right? And I've never seen them stand up taller to get ready to jump.

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Every time I say, okay, get ready to jump, they squat a little bit.

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So if your brain wants to use your legs to start the downswing, then it has no

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business really raising up.

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But if your brain wants to pull down, right, I'll back up a little bit or

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actually angle that a little up.

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So if your brain wants to pull down, then I'm actually going to be able to do

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that more effectively if I laterally shift and raise up.

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And so a lot of that common pattern of shifting off the ball, raising your arms

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up, tilting a lot away is an indication that they're using more of a shoulder

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pull and less of a leg push against the ground.

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And then you'll see a minimal shift of the upper body towards the golf ball.

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That's mostly from that lateral flexion.

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The pressure stuff will tend to show that you don't want your weight going into

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your toes, so that would be the only other thing that would really do that.

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So it's more from the side bend at the top of the swing.

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Now the arm movements will get into can be a little bit, especially the right

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arm can be a little bit tricky.

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In general, the left wrist is going, or the left arm is going to rotate some.

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So the forearm is going to rotate and the wrist is going to hinge.

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How much flexion extension depends on the timing of your motorcycle movement.

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There'll be a little bit of arm bend at the top.

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I can't remember off the top of my head, but I believe the average is somewhere

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around 30 degrees is average.

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Guys who look like it's dead straight are usually about 10 degrees more bent

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than where they were at setup.

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Now the right arm, oh, and there's some shoulder lift, so at your start

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position.

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If I just stood up, my hands are basically even with my belt buckle, and then

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if I stand up now at the top of the swing they're even with shoulders or even

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more above.

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So during the backswing there's going to be this general lifting, rotating, and

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moving slightly towards that trail shoulder because the right arm is bending

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more than the left.

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Now the rotation of the right arm is just a little bit trickier because when

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the right arm externally rotates then to stay in any type of swing plane and

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not have the club pointing crazy off, the right arm will pronate.

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So most people think that the left arm is going to pronate, so the right arm is

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going to supinate, but because the forearm is the gap between the shoulder and

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the hand in order to match it, it actually pronates as well.

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So it's more like pronate, pronate, and then during the downswing it kind of

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supinate, supinate.

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Seems weird until you get the shoulder involved and then it makes more sense

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because it's not so much that it's kind of the left arm is actively or pron

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ating more from the distal segment, and then this would be pronation from the

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proximal segment.

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So it's kind of like one is more of an open chain and the other is a closed

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chain, but you'll see that the forearms actually kind of go in the same

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direction in terms of rotation.

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And then I know some of you guys love the right shoulder blade action, getting

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that shoulder blade to retract as it goes up towards the top of the swing.

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I don't have data on it, but visually you can see that that's a key component.

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Welcome to see Tim Taylor.

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We're going to look at his swing a little bit later.

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All right, let's jump into the 3D.

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Okay, so here's my normal 3D layout.

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When we're looking at the backswing elbow separation doesn't mean much.

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Arc width doesn't mean a whole lot.

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Axial velocity means tiny bit, but not too much.

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And actually I'm not too worried about the kinematic sequence when we're

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looking at the backswing.

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So it simplifies things a little bit.

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Now we've got, you know, only seven graphs instead of 11.

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But as I go up to the top of the backswing, we'll be able to see some of these

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numbers.

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Hopefully you can see everything pretty good.

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Now, first thing I'll talk about is the takeaway, right?

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So the one, one piece takeaway.

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The one piece takeaway shows up mostly with the wrist and elbow movements.

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So if I blow these three up, you'll see that the first part, right?

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So the first little quarter of this, the backswing, there's very little change

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in the wrist movements.

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And there's very little change in the elbow movements.

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So basically during that first phase, all the movement is happening more from

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the body.

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And you'll see that it's a little bit of like the pelvis starts changing

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quickly.

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And you'll see that it's a little bit more of just some linear movements, a

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little bit of weight shift

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or a little bit of side bend is often a common one that kind of triggers it or

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just the rotation.

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But you'll see that there's not a whole lot of wrist and arm action happening

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in this early stage of the takeaway.

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So then if we go, we'll bring them back up.

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Okay, so if we go back to the full view and go to the top of the swing, we'll

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load up here shortly

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and we'll close out the three or the four we don't need.

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So now if I go up to the top of backswing, this is a driver.

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In fact, the ones that we're looking at today are driver.

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And so with a driver, you will typically see a little bit more of the thorax

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way.

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Now you'll often see kind of like not incredibly smooth motions with the thorax

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Usually when you're positioning and moving a little bit slower, the graphs will

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have a little bit more kind of wobble to them.

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This particular golfer, you can see the drop of about one and a half inches.

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This golfer does shift more towards the towards the golf ball.

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So he's actually shifting that way into the golf ball just a little bit.

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And then pretty stable with his pelvis, not a whole lot of movement there, but

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still a little bit of drop.

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So about one inch is, you know, one to two inches of the drop is fairly typical

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And then here we'll see, I mentioned the arms bending.

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We'll typically see both arms bending up towards the top of the swing, not just

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the trail arm as a lot of people would think.

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So the closest I've ever seen is Ernie Ells. He had like a little less than 10

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degrees of bend from set up to the top of the swing.

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But most of them, part of the reason it doesn't look that dramatic is because

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the arm has rotated, where for many amateurs, the arm doesn't rotate.

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So you're looking more at the angle. I'll show you what I mean with that.

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If, let's say I'm standing here and I'm pretty straight, it's set up and then I

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bend it. So that's probably about 30 degrees of bend there.

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Now, you can see if I'm like this, you can clearly see that it's bent. But if I

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've rotated my arm, now it starts to look pretty straight.

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And so if that arm is rotated, it will look straighter than a lot of amateurs

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who just kind of like hold that arm.

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You can see that's the same amount of arm bend. So that's one of the optical

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illusions depending upon where you're looking at that angle.

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Let's get that out of the way.

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With the pelvis, you typically want to see a little bit of a posterior tilt.

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This golfer has a huge hip trigger causing some of their back pain.

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But you typically want to see a little bit of a posterior tilt in order to

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engage the abdominals and create a little bit more space in the lumbar spine.

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And then let's see if we look at the thorax angles. So he's a little under-rot

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ated at the top, close to zero with the extension, close to 40 degrees side bend

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And typically if they're under-rotated, they'll be a little bit under-side bent

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. Those guys, as you get closer to neutral, are coupled.

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So, yeah, overall pretty classic. Sorry, I was thinking ahead.

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So, as far as the rotations, the backswing stuff is pretty easy as far as you

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're going to see some hinge and you're going to see some rotation.

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It's more about the timing. Now the green line, the flexion extension, looking

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at the timing of their motorcycle movements, you'll typically see a little bit

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of extension as they get towards the top of the swing.

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But some of the more modern guys, you don't see it quite as much. So this is

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not an uncommon pattern where it flexes a little bit in the takeaway as they

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start setting.

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They're hinging their wrist more, so it's extending. And then they go into the

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motorcycle movement there where they're flexing that wrist.

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But we'll talk about the downswing next time.

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Okay, let's jump to the next one. Like I said, the backswing, I wanted to cover

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it, but it's, whoops, you guys aren't letting me know.

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Here we go.

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Okay, so we'll jump on to this next gentleman and cover some of the same ideas.

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So extra long, kind of one piece takeaway, you see very little wrist change.

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One of the longer, there's very little wrist and arm change all the way till

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about here. I'd say about half that is kind of typical, where the core is

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initiating that first movement.

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Yeah, sorry about the graphs there for a second, but we'll cover them again in

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this one. So there's no need to really go back, but you'll see a very long one

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piece takeaway for this golfer.

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So you'll see that the pellet, like the red line here, most of the movement is

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happening from that core rotation. So the body is rotated, you know, good 30

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degrees at this point.

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But the wrists and arms haven't changed very much. Flat lines mean no change.

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So he's also had a little bit of a pressure shift or sway.

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You can see that he shifted both his upper body and his lower body a couple

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inches off the ball, but he'll recollect as he gets closer to the top of the

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swing.

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So then the next part would be kind of that setting phase. So then he's

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continuing to load that glute. So by shifting off like this, he's created some

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momentum going into the hip.

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And now he's setting the arms as he winds up and continues to load that hip.

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Now the lats are getting lined up as well, and he's going to lead into that

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transition. And you'll see, let's see, compared to start position.

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So there's change of direction. So lead arm is at 149. So he's on the lower end

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of like 12 degrees of bend.

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I think he said the average is closer to probably 2030. I haven't checked that

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one in a while. So I can't remember if it's 20 or 30 off the top of my head.

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I know it's 40 at impact that the trail arm is bent. Sorry.

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Okay. So again, pretty classic with the wrist movements.

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You won't see during the backswing a whole lot of crazy wrist movements with

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your better players.

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Sometimes you'll see the trail wrist go way up for amateurs when they're really

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like supinating and spinning the forearm open.

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But this is more typical where you'll see remember down for the wrist graph on

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AMM is pronation up is supination.

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So they're both going down pretty much the whole downswing or sorry the whole

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backswing, which is pronation.

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The green line just gives you an indication of how they're doing the motorcycle

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in which direction, but you won't see a ton of backswing stuff going on from

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the wrist.

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So let's get those out of the way.

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So then I do think some of the more interesting things that when you're looking

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at the backswing positions are looking at the linear movements.

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Because that can give you a little insight into what they're planning to do

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during the downswing or like you can see there's in this particular golfer.

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There's a lot of fluid movement in the red lines. So pretty big sway with both

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of them.

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So there's definitely some lateral stability if we were looking at the pelvis,

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especially compared to that first golfer who didn't really move his pelvis.

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Off the axis very much at all, but you'll still see some drop with both of them

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because he is going to use his lower body.

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Like I said, it's very hard to actively engage your lower body if you've raised

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up in the downswing or in the backswing.

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Your best bet if you raise up in the backswing is you're going to use your

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lower body vertically, but you're not going to get a whole lot of rotation.

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And then he's more classic in terms of not a lot of shift towards the golf ball

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, just a little bit with the pelvis of a tiny bit of early extension.

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His sway graphs, I would definitely be investigating that when we get into the

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fitness component.

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And he's also I just happened to pick two this time who are a little bit more

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under rotated.

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Right, so he's only got 34 degrees of pelvis rotation and 82 of thorax rotation

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So now if I saw this, I'd say, okay, there's a bunch of lateral movement under

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rotated with the pelvis.

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There's a good chance he's loading more his quads than he is loading his glutes

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and his hips.

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Because the lateral movement is going to make a whole lot more sense for

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loading the forefoot and the knee and the quad rather than loading the hips.

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He's getting enough, obviously, he's a Torpo who hits the ball a long way, but

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it's just kind of one tendency that I would see.

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He's also got a fairly early start to his lower body.

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So if I take it back to where he's, whoops, if I take it to roughly where his

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pelvis changes direction.

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So right around there is where these graphs over here, the thorax angles and

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the pelvis angles are really starting to change.

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All that is just kind of like run off of the club or creating a fair amount of

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leg.

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It's almost too much leg, which makes me think that he might not be using his

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transverse abdominis, which would make sense if he's not using his glutes.

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Because the transverse abdominis, the glutes, the pelvic floor kind of all work

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together and internal oblique, those big four, kind of all work together.

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So there's a couple signs in here that even though he's got a good swing, he's

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one on Tor, he's not using his core as optimally as he could.

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And the backswing does show some of those indications maybe even easier than

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just looking at the body graphs in transition.

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So I thought that would be interesting for you guys to see how I kind of jump

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through these graphs to see what muscles and what pathways might be being used.

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Alright, so now let's look at a shorter hitter, another PJ Tor winner, but

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definitely not known for his ball striking, especially distance wise.

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Okay, let's get rid of the graphs we don't need or don't care about.

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You'll see axial velocity can be a little useful for seeing if they're opening

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the face, closing the face in the takeaway, but in general, I don't look at it

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too much in the backswing.

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Yeah, so here's a little more normal so he starts at 173 degrees of lead arm

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straightness, and then at the top of the backswing so he's bent his arm, 50

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degrees you can see it.

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Right, he's a little bit older guy, when you had his 3D collected.

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And you'll see not for a, he's not quite as good at the one piece takeaway you

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can see that that trail wrist is starting to change direction instantly, even

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before the takeaway and so is that lead wrist.

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So he's kind of taking it away a little bit more with the hands, the danger

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with taking it away more with the hands is you're going to load your shoulders

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too early.

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And then once you've loaded a muscle as much as it can, it's going to want to

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get out of that loaded position so it can mess up the sequencing or the engine

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in the downswing.

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Again, he's a tour pro winner so he's not going to be terrible with that but it

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's something to look out for.

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You'll also see that he's got a little less drop of the thorax.

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He's got only 34 degrees of side bend so he's a little bit taller there.

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That one's fine, a little bit extra side bend, a bunch of pelvis rotation so

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not a huge differential or X factor between the two.

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So he's not getting a lot of separation in his core and he's bending those arms

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and lifting up a little bit more.

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There's a good indication that he's firing more from his upper body than from

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his lower body.

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But you'll see that some of the guys who fire more, so one thing I talked about

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if you fire more from your upper body, you're more sensitive to sway and slide

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I think.

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So you've got to be a little bit more precise with controlling the centerness

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of your pivot.

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And he's pretty good with that in terms of the backswing.

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You'll see everything is pretty tight, a little bit of thrust in towards the

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golf ball, so a little bit of early extension, which again might help him pull

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down more a little bit from the arms, especially given the fact that when we

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look in transition he doesn't really come back.

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And then if we look at the arms, not a huge.

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So one thing you might see as a correlation is oftentimes golfers who don't

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have a whole lot of trail wrist hinge will bend the arms more.

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So because they're not loading the risk quite as much they'll get a little bit

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more load from the elbows. It's not the worst thing. This is definitely one of

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my last things to try to correct.

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And it's usually only because sometimes they have a hard time making a good

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transition from there they might get a little steep, they might get a little

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forward lunge, but if they don't have those then I'm probably not too worried

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about that arm bend.

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Got a ton of lag shouldn't he be a longer hitter, not with that pelvis, or not

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with the way he's using his legs and arms.

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Okay so now amateurs you will start to see some stuff so we'll start with the

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amateurs amateur who doesn't hit the ball too far.

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And I've got the old layout hold on one second.

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Okay so we'll take out the four because again you're just not going to get a

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whole lot from any of these graphs here in the backswing.

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That's not the right lead on.

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Okay there we go.

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Alright so first thing we're going to check is kind of the one piece takeaway.

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There's definitely some wrist stuff going on and you'll notice it's almost the

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opposite. There's a lot more wrist stuff going on in the takeaway and these

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lines are all flat lined for that first little phase.

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Not so much from the arms but definitely taking it away more with the hands.

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As we go we'll play it through a little bit.

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Not sure if you can see over here but this is a very different pattern in the

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linear like I said that's probably the most important stuff.

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So through there he's already starting to lift as he goes up towards the top of

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swing he does get his pelvis down just slightly but his thorax is lifted two

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inches.

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He's only got 22 degrees of side bend so he's about halfway compared to the

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tour average even with close to normal numbers in terms of rotation.

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So there's not a lot of side bend going on in this particular golfer.

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You can see how level those shoulders are turning.

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He's bent his arms about 70 degrees so for many golfers I may show you the one

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pro who's at about 50 degrees but the reason why trying to keep that arm

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straight can be helpful is this is not uncommon.

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We've seen 90-100 degrees of arm bend at the top for amateurs.

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But the biggest thing here is the lift and the sway is not awful awful but the

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lift in the backswing combined with the flat shoulder plane.

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He's definitely not loading his lower body so that's not going to fire at the

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top of the swing.

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So here's a golfer where you'll see a little bit more so there's that sup

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ination early in the takeaway.

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So if I zoom that in so you can see so right through there he's kind of like

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rolling that arm open.

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So typically when golfers start trying to supinate that front or the right arm,

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the trail arm, you'll see it sacrifices their one piece takeaway look.

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But we'll talk more about that in transition because you'll see, you know,

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there are definitely some differences like this guy gets way more extended at

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the top of the swing but overall some of the patterns of the arm movements

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in the arm movements in the backswing are close-ish.

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The downswing has some kind of major differences but the backswing, other than

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that little forearm roll, bringing the club inside, not a terrible change in

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the backswing.

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I forgot to mention in the other two looking at the sway oftentimes so there's,

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I've got a video on the lateral versus rotation where I talk about there's kind

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of two different patterns.

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So there's guys who will sway and then load late or they'll just sway once and

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then kind of fire. So he's a loader, a later loader, it's harder to say.

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But you'll see that he gets like, he still gets the sequencing going before the

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top of the swing. That's not his big problem.

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His big problem is more of that lift and the lift flat shoulder plane is

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basically revealing that his engine is more of that chop pull down a lot less

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of the lower body.

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All right, I want to get into the body stuff so let's look at one more. So here

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's a long hitting amateur about a things like a 15 handicap.

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Something with the arm bend. I'll have to fix that later.

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Okay, so this golfer does a good job of keeping that arm straight.

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Right, look at how locked that right arm, the left arm even straightens,

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nothing moving. So the one piece takeaway does seem to correlate a little bit

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with the longer hitter model.

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If you're if you're bringing it back with the.

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If you're bringing it back with the arms and hands, I think you're going to get

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to the end range of those stretches and therefore you're going to fire them

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sooner.

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But if we keep going up to the top of his swing.

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Let's see if there's anything that kind of jumps out.

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So little under rotated and a little flexed forward and under side bent.

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All right, so this guy has a little bit more of a kyphotic or rounded shoulder

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look at the top of the swing so he doesn't get very much extension that'll

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limit some of his rotation looks.

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And he's get he gets a fair amount of that right arm bend.

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And it's an interesting one because if you look at it on video, you'd say like

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he has a ton of of wrist set, but then if you dig into it and look at it from

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behind.

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It mostly just looks like it has a lot of wrist set because of how narrow this

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right elbow got in because of his body staying more in that flex posture.

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So it's not quite as much wrist set as you would think just by looking at it on

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video because I originally thought that was his main power source.

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But then we got him on 3D and didn't look that way.

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There you can see more of his main power source.

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He's more of an upper body spin and just kind of holds on to those angles.

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You'll see when we get in the downswing, next time we'll talk about how long he

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holds that radial, how much trouble that has and how he reaches a fair amount

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of his extension of his wrist, but he does it too soon.

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So the maximum wrist stretch should be reached on the downswing and he's

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definitely doing it here at the top of the swing.

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He's also got a little bit of the lift that's much more common to see with the

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amateur offer is the lift lack of side bent.

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That's a classic, I'm going to use my shoulders, my upper body to pull down to

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create speed versus I'm going to push against the ground and try to create

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speed with my legs.

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Especially since we're looking at drivers, that's not a great pattern to see.

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Okay, nothing else I really want to cover in here.

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If there's any questions, let me know I'll leave this in the background and we

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'll get back into the power points.

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So in your slides, I broke it up into the body and the arms just to make it

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easier to read.

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Okay, so I kind of mentioned this will be, let's get to the.

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Okay, so I mentioned in the email leading into this one that my plan is to do

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probably can't see the mouse if I do this way, but there will be less on the

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screen.

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So it'll probably be more important to be able to see my movements and

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demonstrations and stuff.

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So I'm just going to give kind of some general areas to focus on if your golfer

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is struggling with one part of his body or another.

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My goal is not to be comprehensive with this, but to give you a few of the

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areas that I think in my, you know, in my time of study, these have been some

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of the most important pieces to get working.

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In order to not sabotage your efforts. So I mentioned the foot. I'll give you a

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few of the, what I think are the best foot exercises, because I've, you know,

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other than like scrunching a towel.

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There's not a whole lot of foot exercises, given the most golfers or most

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athletes, but I do think that having a real strong connection to the ground is

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important.

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So there are four big intrinsic foot exercises. So an intrinsic muscle is like

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the stabilizer muscles and stabilizer muscles don't cross the big joints.

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So like, for example, your rotator cuff, they all cross just the shoulder, but

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then your bigger joints like your lat and your pack, they'll cross multiple

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joints.

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00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:15.450
So the multi joint muscles are typically movers and then the intrinsic or

457
00:37:15.450 --> 00:37:19.000
single joint muscles are typically the stabilizers.

458
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:26.000
So for the foot, you're going to have, lower this just a little bit.

459
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:32.180
Let's say this is my foot, my foot's on the ground. You're going to lift, sorry

460
00:37:32.180 --> 00:37:36.000
, my thumb is the big toe, not my index finger.

461
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.270
So you're going to have your foot on the ground and then you're going to lift

462
00:37:39.270 --> 00:37:43.500
the big toe, then your foot on the ground and you're going to lift the last

463
00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:44.000
four.

464
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:49.150
Then you're going to try and squeeze all your toes together and then you're

465
00:37:49.150 --> 00:37:51.000
going to try and separate.

466
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:58.000
And you can really go through that circuit as many times as you want.

467
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:02.580
So let's see if we can do it with a knee bent. It's a little tougher because I

468
00:38:02.580 --> 00:38:05.000
'm going to put some of my muscles on stretch.

469
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:12.350
I've got my foot there. So there's the big toe and then the lateral four and

470
00:38:12.350 --> 00:38:17.000
then you squeeze, come on, this one's a little tougher on the raise.

471
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.800
So you'll squeeze your toes together. You can see I've got a little dysfunction

472
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:27.000
in that third toe and then you're going to try and pull the feet apart.

473
00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:33.000
And then again, I think that's mostly because of the foot angle that I've got.

474
00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.000
There we go.

475
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:43.000
So you'll see it's easiest to do standing compared to having that foot raise

476
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:47.000
because when I raise that foot, it's already activating some of these muscles.

477
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:55.410
But that piece, those four exercises right there are really helpful for getting

478
00:38:55.410 --> 00:39:02.000
your ability to pronate and supinate and your ability to flex and extend.

479
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.080
So if you lose that, you're going to lose dorsiflexion. You're going to lose a

480
00:39:07.080 --> 00:39:09.000
lot of the ankle movements as well.

481
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:14.950
The other ones that I like to do are balance exercises associated with the nav

482
00:39:14.950 --> 00:39:17.000
icular and the cuboid.

483
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:22.000
That kind of, if you remember from that talk in one of the earlier classes,

484
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:27.460
that movement there is what creates pronation, supination, which is a lot of a

485
00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:31.000
component to the lateral movement here.

486
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:36.310
And if you have a hard time with the navicular, oftentimes you'll have a harder

487
00:39:36.310 --> 00:39:38.000
time with the glute.

488
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:46.410
So again, I'm not opposed to towel crunches, but I would do the four little

489
00:39:46.410 --> 00:39:52.390
intrinsic foot exercises first so that you can get the towel movement to be

490
00:39:52.390 --> 00:39:58.000
more of a short foot kind of like this rather than a toe curl.

491
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:03.480
I should point, for the golf pros on the call, this is going to move a little

492
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:07.730
quick and probably feel tough, but for the trainers who've had some of these

493
00:40:07.730 --> 00:40:12.100
fitness questions coming in, hopefully this will give you some good insights

494
00:40:12.100 --> 00:40:13.000
and ideas.

495
00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:22.570
Okay, looking at the knee, I would say your big list of areas to focus on is

496
00:40:22.570 --> 00:40:25.000
knee rotation.

497
00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:30.670
Every kind of guy who I've ever talked to specializes in knee rehab says that

498
00:40:30.670 --> 00:40:36.160
the most important thing is to get that slight knee rotation functioning

499
00:40:36.160 --> 00:40:40.000
properly, and then flexion extension is pretty easy.

500
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:46.440
So that's usually done with some manual therapy or things that are called cars

501
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:52.880
or there's some kind of joint isolation exercises where you can get some of the

502
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:56.390
rotation, but making sure that you're not getting it from the ankle that you're

503
00:40:56.390 --> 00:41:01.560
actually getting it from the tibia rotating so that bone moving compared to the

504
00:41:01.560 --> 00:41:02.000
femur.

505
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.590
And then the other key component here is all this stuff will get compressed,

506
00:41:07.590 --> 00:41:13.000
but there's no, there's no intrinsic muscles that can create space.

507
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.770
So in some of Gee's classes, he talks about El Doa's, which are using the

508
00:41:17.770 --> 00:41:21.000
intrinsic to create more space in the joint.

509
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:25.450
There's no El Doa for the knee, which means you need to maintain flexibility to

510
00:41:25.450 --> 00:41:27.000
decompress the joint.

511
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:30.000
You can't strengthen the muscles that decompress the joint.

512
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:38.920
So fly flexibility, whether it's quadriceps, adductors, the hamstring group, IT

513
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:42.000
band, vastus lateralis.

514
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:48.040
If you break them into those four chunks and kind of investigate, usually some

515
00:41:48.040 --> 00:41:54.000
of the adductors, some of the quad, and then oftentimes one of the hamstrings

516
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:55.000
or both.

517
00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.300
If you get those, usually you can help alleviate some of that compression in

518
00:41:59.300 --> 00:42:06.280
the knee, but regardless, to get fluid moving properly, you need to maintain

519
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:10.000
that knee rotation.

520
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:13.000
Just checking something.

521
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:18.000
Okay, so now we've got the hip.

522
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:22.780
The hip when you, especially as it relates to golf, but when you talk to people

523
00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:27.480
who specialize more in hip rehab, they'll tell you the number one predictor of

524
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:31.000
needing a hip replacement is internal rotation of the hip.

525
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:38.260
So doing stretches and MOVE exercises to maintain the internal rotation of the

526
00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:41.000
hip is vitally important.

527
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:45.760
One of the most important stretches for maintaining internal rotation of the

528
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:48.000
hip is the obturator internist.

529
00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:50.000
Now I'll show you that one.

530
00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:55.080
There's a lot of details to doing stuff correctly, but there's enough like kind

531
00:42:55.080 --> 00:42:59.000
of bootleg versions of the obturator internist stretch.

532
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:04.000
It's just the 90/90 stretch.

533
00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:13.390
And be gentle with this if you've never done it before, but basically, so you

534
00:43:13.390 --> 00:43:20.350
're sitting in the 90/90 position, so you've got thigh and chin parallel, and

535
00:43:20.350 --> 00:43:23.000
then you've got thigh and chin parallel.

536
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:28.000
It doesn't quite look it on the camera, but those are pretty close to parallel.

537
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.230
So now a lot of you just sitting in this posture, you're going to feel

538
00:43:31.230 --> 00:43:33.000
something at the top of your hip.

539
00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:36.000
That is your obturator internist.

540
00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:42.000
It's a deep muscle kind of wrapping around this way there.

541
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:46.690
So now to do the stretch, you're going to try and sit up tall, and then you're

542
00:43:46.690 --> 00:43:50.410
going to try and turn your belly button in towards the back leg while sitting

543
00:43:50.410 --> 00:43:51.000
up tall.

544
00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:55.430
If you can, you'll do it without the plant hand, but most of you are going to

545
00:43:55.430 --> 00:43:57.000
need this plant hand.

546
00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:01.000
You also are trying to keep this knee down as you rotate.

547
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:06.970
So I don't want to be like, this would be turning my upper body and my knee,

548
00:44:06.970 --> 00:44:10.000
that's not a whole lot of stretch.

549
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:17.000
I have way more stretch right here than I did like this.

550
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:25.490
The importance of what's happening at the lumbar spine as well as the hip and

551
00:44:25.490 --> 00:44:29.000
the, basically I'm turning my belly button while staying tall.

552
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:36.000
That keeps this on stretch as opposed to turning my entire upper body.

553
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:41.670
So here if we, the full on stretch, I would sit up nice and tall, push this

554
00:44:41.670 --> 00:44:47.400
down, sit up nice and tall, feel like I'm rolling this forward while posterior

555
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:51.000
tilting, and then turn my body into it and extend the arms.

556
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:59.410
That would create the deepest level of stretch by getting the most factors of

557
00:44:59.410 --> 00:45:02.000
progression online.

558
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:11.730
So the way I explain stretching like that is, if I've got a towel, my goal is

559
00:45:11.730 --> 00:45:15.000
to basically stretch the entire towel.

560
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.150
So if I just kind of like do the basic motion, then I'm just stretching like

561
00:45:19.150 --> 00:45:23.000
this part, but there's a whole bunch of towel that's not under tension.

562
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:31.090
But if I were to then like move my wrists and my ribs and like other parts, I

563
00:45:31.090 --> 00:45:34.980
could start to get more and more of this towel on tension because I'd be

564
00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:38.000
pulling from all the different directions.

565
00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:43.250
And that's essentially what good stretching is, good myofascial stretching is

566
00:45:43.250 --> 00:45:51.000
pulling everything in each direction, not just like one, one line of force.

567
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:55.220
Like you can, if you look at the little model over there, you can see that in

568
00:45:55.220 --> 00:46:00.980
order to stretch all those different fibers, you'd have to pull a little bit

569
00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:04.000
differently to get each fiber.

570
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:11.510
So if you can make those little adjustments, you can get the tighter part of

571
00:46:11.510 --> 00:46:13.000
the fascia.

572
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.390
So these are, you know, glued activation, I'm sure all you guys know, and then

573
00:46:17.390 --> 00:46:21.380
these are kind of your major groups to make sure that you're stretching, but I

574
00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:25.060
put up to radar internists up top, because I think that one's really critical

575
00:46:25.060 --> 00:46:26.000
for golf.

576
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:31.000
That one in the so as.

577
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.000
One bar spine.

578
00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:39.730
This is one of the common causes of golfers getting pissed when they have some

579
00:46:39.730 --> 00:46:41.000
back pain.

580
00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:48.560
So the recipe for improving lower lower back pain, it can be quite complicated

581
00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:55.780
because you've got all your organs and stuff that can create some of this rot

582
00:46:55.780 --> 00:46:57.000
ations.

583
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:01.000
There's tons of ligaments so those can be quite painful.

584
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:07.110
The SI join itself if you remember from the talk on that is quite complicated

585
00:47:07.110 --> 00:47:12.000
and easy to get out and very painful when it's irritated.

586
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:19.040
But if you maintain transverse abdominis, which is that weight belt, you can

587
00:47:19.040 --> 00:47:25.980
see when that tightens, it kind of lifts and creates almost the decompression

588
00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:27.000
force.

589
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.690
It's got a key relationship with the diaphragm we'll talk about in the ribs and

590
00:47:31.690 --> 00:47:33.000
the pelvic floor.

591
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:37.980
If you keep the pelvic floor and the transverse abdominis strong or active, and

592
00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:43.840
then if you keep flexibility in the so as muscle, which goes from here to here

593
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:52.000
or in the quads, which go from there to there, or in the piriformis.

594
00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:58.640
If you maintain a roughly level pelvis, which you can do with aldoas or chirop

595
00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:05.700
ractic or lots of different techniques, that's usually a pretty solid recipe for

596
00:48:05.700 --> 00:48:07.000
back pain.

597
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:14.250
There's a couple kind of magic. If you improve the SI joint, that's hugely

598
00:48:14.250 --> 00:48:17.000
important for back pain.

599
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:22.540
And if you improve, like I said, the so as is just such a pesky muscle for back

600
00:48:22.540 --> 00:48:25.000
pain because it actually connects on the discs.

601
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:30.340
And so when it's tight, it will pull the discs slightly forward, minimizing

602
00:48:30.340 --> 00:48:34.000
their height, creating a lot more compression.

603
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:44.680
So, the simple stuff for TVA exercises is I like, I learned from Guy, a five

604
00:48:44.680 --> 00:48:48.000
breath activation.

605
00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:53.230
So, basically imagine I'm flat on the ground. You've probably done dead bugs

606
00:48:53.230 --> 00:48:55.000
and bird dogs and things like that before.

607
00:48:55.000 --> 00:49:01.340
Well, if I activate my TVA, which is drawing in, so it's pulling in like this,

608
00:49:01.340 --> 00:49:06.930
and then when I'm going to try and maintain that with the pelvic floor

609
00:49:06.930 --> 00:49:12.000
activation, when I breathe in, the air is going to want to expand it.

610
00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:25.070
If I contract against that air, it's almost like increasing the weight. So, I'm

611
00:49:25.070 --> 00:49:25.710
pulling in, and then I'll usually do like five breaths, where I'm trying to

612
00:49:25.710 --> 00:49:28.500
breathe into my stomach, and I'm trying to tighten the abs so that it can't

613
00:49:28.500 --> 00:49:29.000
expand.

614
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:36.560
And that does a really good job of reinforcing or building some more

615
00:49:36.560 --> 00:49:44.000
strengthened tone in transverse abdominis and pelvic floor.

616
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:52.460
If you breathe really well, then barring some major trauma, your ribs and your

617
00:49:52.460 --> 00:49:58.000
thoracic spine will typically move pretty well.

618
00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:58.680
If you lose that function, then you have to get the mobility in the ribs, which

619
00:49:58.680 --> 00:50:09.600
can come from rib-eldoas or stretching of the diaphragm, stretching of the

620
00:50:09.600 --> 00:50:13.000
inner costals.

621
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:19.100
The big movements like the lats and the abs do play a role, but it's some of

622
00:50:19.100 --> 00:50:25.000
these deeper joints that we talked about that are quite important.

623
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:30.380
And what you'll see is this doesn't do a great job of showing it, but the psoas

624
00:50:30.380 --> 00:50:36.870
muscle actually goes up through the diaphragm, and the diaphragm connects all

625
00:50:36.870 --> 00:50:40.000
the way down to the pelvic floor.

626
00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.950
So if the psoas muscle is tight and influences the diaphragm, if the pelvic

627
00:50:44.950 --> 00:50:49.820
floor muscle doesn't have enough tension, then the diaphragm can't have a

628
00:50:49.820 --> 00:50:52.000
strong enough anchor to pull down.

629
00:50:52.000 --> 00:51:01.620
So that's why I included this slide here, where if you follow this pelvic floor

630
00:51:01.620 --> 00:51:05.910
, the muscle and the fibers go all the way up the front of the spine and become

631
00:51:05.910 --> 00:51:07.000
the diaphragm.

632
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:12.280
So there's one chain that goes all the way down from there to there, and it's

633
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:17.780
super important for being able to both mobilize your ribs as well as stabilize

634
00:51:17.780 --> 00:51:19.000
your pelvis.

635
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:29.740
But basic breathing of getting roughly two thirds, one third, so if you're

636
00:51:29.740 --> 00:51:35.590
taking a breath, then the first two thirds of the movement should be all more

637
00:51:35.590 --> 00:51:40.390
in your stomach and abdomen, and then the last third is more in your chest and

638
00:51:40.390 --> 00:51:42.000
upper body.

639
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:53.280
There's tons and tons of breathing exercises out there. It's probably like I

640
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:54.390
recommend yoga for a lot of golfers purely for the breathing aspect, not really

641
00:51:54.390 --> 00:51:58.410
because I think that yoga stretches are better than individual stretches, but

642
00:51:58.410 --> 00:52:07.000
because a good yoga class will focus on breathing just as much as the position.

643
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:15.380
Shoulder. So if you remember from the webinar on the shoulder, we got five

644
00:52:15.380 --> 00:52:19.450
joints, so the shoulder complex is actually 10 joints, five on each side, but

645
00:52:19.450 --> 00:52:23.590
you've got your SC joint, your AC joint, your glenohumeral joint, those are the

646
00:52:23.590 --> 00:52:29.010
three kind of synovial joints, and then you have your subdeltoidian where the

647
00:52:29.010 --> 00:52:34.570
infersprinatus, or sorry, supersprinatus sits, and then you've got your scapul

648
00:52:34.570 --> 00:52:36.000
othoracic joint.

649
00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:41.200
This is a top-down view. One of the most important things for shoulder health

650
00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:46.000
is maintaining, this is called the pinch, between the scapula and the clavicle,

651
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:55.000
and so being able to basically like move that through its full range of motion

652
00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:01.000
is critical to keeping the glenohumeral joint rotating.

653
00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:06.670
So a lot of golfers who get really stuck in not being able to move the glenohum

654
00:53:06.670 --> 00:53:12.930
eral joint, part of it is because their scapula or their clavicle is kind of

655
00:53:12.930 --> 00:53:15.000
frozen or locked up.

656
00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:22.040
One, or two really good exercises that work on just kind of the general health,

657
00:53:22.040 --> 00:53:27.620
and then, so I'll do that for the scapula clavicle, and then we'll talk about

658
00:53:27.620 --> 00:53:29.000
proprioception.

659
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:34.240
So two really easy exercises for working on the scapula health, I should say

660
00:53:34.240 --> 00:53:40.000
easy, but they're highly detailed, is the one is incredibly simple.

661
00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:45.110
You're basically going to try to get your spine as straight as you can, so

662
00:53:45.110 --> 00:53:50.780
everything in line there, elbows out to your sides, and then you're going to

663
00:53:50.780 --> 00:53:54.000
bring one hand in front, one hand behind.

664
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:58.740
So I'm basically bringing my elbows back almost like I'm doing a reverse fly,

665
00:53:58.740 --> 00:54:03.330
but I'm making sure that I'm not arching my spine, I'm keeping all that in

666
00:54:03.330 --> 00:54:10.000
alignment, and while I'm doing that isometric hold, I'm moving one arm in front

667
00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:12.000
, one arm behind.

668
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:19.010
It looks really simple, but it's great for getting the movement between the

669
00:54:19.010 --> 00:54:23.000
shoulder blade and the ribs working better.

670
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:30.040
Then in the analytic warm up video, I have the little, I don't have a great

671
00:54:30.040 --> 00:54:37.400
name for this, I think they call it seven part shoulder neck, or it's cervical

672
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:42.130
thoracic integration, but basically arms out in front, I'm going to squeeze my

673
00:54:42.130 --> 00:54:43.000
shoulder blade.

674
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:47.280
I'm still trying to keep that spine straight, as I bring this in, in fact, I

675
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:51.520
shouldn't even demonstrate it, none of your, very few of your patients or

676
00:54:51.520 --> 00:54:55.630
clients will be able to do it with their hands like this, so you have them hold

677
00:54:55.630 --> 00:55:00.130
a golf club, and the closer they can get the harder it is, but you're going to

678
00:55:00.130 --> 00:55:05.110
squeeze the shoulder blades, bring this up, without bringing your head forward,

679
00:55:05.110 --> 00:55:09.110
try and bring this down, and again, making sure that it doesn't go that way,

680
00:55:09.110 --> 00:55:12.000
but the shoulders are in good alignment, back up.

681
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:17.370
Back down, so the toughest one is right here, you will either arch, you will

682
00:55:17.370 --> 00:55:22.750
round, or you will push your head forward, so making sure that none of that is

683
00:55:22.750 --> 00:55:24.000
happening.

684
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:29.400
It's not just a great warm up for the shoulder, it actually like gets all the

685
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:33.000
shoulder and neck muscles working together.

686
00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:39.260
A cervical spine, if you have an issue there, don't be scared to get help

687
00:55:39.260 --> 00:55:44.570
because soft tissue, especially in this hyoid and all the stuff on the front of

688
00:55:44.570 --> 00:55:46.000
the neck is super important.

689
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:51.860
If the muscles all on the front of the neck get tight, they pull this forward

690
00:55:51.860 --> 00:55:55.000
and this down a little bit like this.

691
00:55:55.000 --> 00:56:00.800
When they get weak, they'll tend to go more into this position here, and so

692
00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:07.030
that's what creates more of a forward head posture, which puts a ton of load

693
00:56:07.030 --> 00:56:12.000
into this area right back here, I know that one pretty well.

694
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:22.580
As a quick little checklist, making sure that you do the best to keep the curve

695
00:56:22.580 --> 00:56:30.600
, which comes from stretching the sub occipital area, strengthening the front

696
00:56:30.600 --> 00:56:35.000
side of the neck or the deep flexors,

697
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:44.130
and then proprioception exercises, so that if your head is too far forward, oft

698
00:56:44.130 --> 00:56:47.700
entimes it's coming from sternocleidomastoid, which we talked about in the neck

699
00:56:47.700 --> 00:56:51.000
area, or some of this tightness in the hyoid muscles.

700
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:59.730
So finding people who can work on those is really key. Also, the jaw, you can

701
00:56:59.730 --> 00:57:05.650
see the relationship between the jaw, the atlas, and the occiput, so the top

702
00:57:05.650 --> 00:57:11.310
vertebra, the jaw, and the occiput are all really close and kind of overlap a

703
00:57:11.310 --> 00:57:13.000
lot of the key muscles.

704
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:17.990
Some of the reasons your upper body or your ribs get tight, your neck gets

705
00:57:17.990 --> 00:57:23.520
tight, is because you don't breathe well, so breathing is really important for

706
00:57:23.520 --> 00:57:28.680
both thoracic spine as well as cervical spine, a little less for lumbar spine,

707
00:57:28.680 --> 00:57:32.500
but it's still involved, as we saw with that connection of the pelvic floor and

708
00:57:32.500 --> 00:57:35.000
the diaphragm.

709
00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:40.760
And then wrist and hand, that's another one that I frequently, that's not one

710
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:45.000
of my strengths, I haven't had a ton of issues there.

711
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:50.450
In theory, it's similar to the wrist, or sorry, similar to the foot, where you

712
00:57:50.450 --> 00:57:54.000
want to get a lot of the intrinsic muscles working.

713
00:57:54.000 --> 00:58:02.380
One of the most important ones is being able to do full range of motion, sorry,

714
00:58:02.380 --> 00:58:09.210
thumb circles, both directions, slow and controlled, and you'll figure out

715
00:58:09.210 --> 00:58:14.280
where there are some places that you kind of skip over, that's where some of

716
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:17.000
the muscles may be tight.

717
00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:22.670
But especially with all the texting, we get really limited in terms of that

718
00:58:22.670 --> 00:58:25.000
extension range of motion.

719
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:30.800
With the wrist, I tend to go more for high volume training, so sets of like 100

720
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:35.000
, not like 10, the way you would do like ab training.

721
00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:43.000
And then in addition to some of the key stretches, those are pretty easy.

722
00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:49.080
There's a car that I like, which is basically keeping this forearm flat, so if

723
00:58:49.080 --> 00:58:55.310
you put something there so that they can't move it and then taking the wrist

724
00:58:55.310 --> 00:58:58.000
through full range of motion.

725
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:03.560
There's a little tightness there, both directions, so it's making sure that I

726
00:59:03.560 --> 00:59:09.160
can move the wrist through its two movements, not just what will happen as golf

727
00:59:09.160 --> 00:59:13.000
ers will move like the whole arm and forearm together.

728
00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:19.020
And one of the common causes of dysfunction, and probably, I haven't seen any

729
00:59:19.020 --> 00:59:25.050
research on it, but it's probably related to quality of movement, is getting

730
00:59:25.050 --> 00:59:27.000
the tissue to slide.

731
00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:36.500
So when they get bound together, when the fascia gets bound together, and then

732
00:59:36.500 --> 00:59:42.450
if I try to move one, if they're both moving, I'm going to have less in theory,

733
00:59:42.450 --> 00:59:45.000
less of the sensory components, so I'm not going to have as much feel.

734
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:50.440
And I'm going to have a lot more friction because these two are kind of tied

735
00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:54.000
together instead of sliding effortlessly.

736
00:59:54.000 --> 01:00:01.000
And then last one, extensor strength, so being able to have enough wrist

737
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:06.840
extension strength that can often help balance out the forearm because we get

738
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:12.000
really flexor, whether it's typing or gripping, we get more flexor dominant.

739
01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:18.130
So, I'd look at that stuff. So these, I just wanted to do a quick little

740
01:00:18.130 --> 01:00:22.000
summary of the key areas to look at for each joint.

741
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:29.010
And the next one will talk more about chains and kind of more of the global

742
01:00:29.010 --> 01:00:36.650
patterns, but these are more like damage control and what you really have to

743
01:00:36.650 --> 01:00:41.000
between the analyzer and the PowerPoint.

744
01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:45.000
Okay, so first one, we got to look at Tim Taylor's stretch.

745
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:50.230
Now, he did not send us the single arms because he didn't like the way they

746
01:00:50.230 --> 01:00:55.540
looked, which is a little disappointing because the single arms, if we're

747
01:00:55.540 --> 01:01:01.600
talking about a release pattern, the single arm movements will give us a really

748
01:01:01.600 --> 01:01:10.000
good indication or idea as far as how the brain is trying to solve the equation

749
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:10.000
.

750
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:16.230
So here we got Tim and you perhaps for next time he can send in some more of

751
01:01:16.230 --> 01:01:23.030
the homework because one of the other things he discussed on the last call was

752
01:01:23.030 --> 01:01:29.000
that he, when he tries the drive hold, he can't hit it far.

753
01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:34.650
So, but he didn't submit like the different videos, so we've got, we've got

754
01:01:34.650 --> 01:01:40.410
iron and driver, so we'll just take a look and discuss kind of his pattern, but

755
01:01:40.410 --> 01:01:45.000
we don't have the different videos to kind of look through.

756
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:52.290
So, we said we were primarily going to be looking at the release, but we can

757
01:01:52.290 --> 01:01:59.000
see as we go up towards the backswing or as we go up towards the top of the

758
01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:07.000
swing, you'll see he's got a little bit of that lift action or sway and lift.

759
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:13.220
These are both indications that he's going to use more of the upper body as his

760
01:02:13.220 --> 01:02:20.000
engine or as his power source. So there's that lift.

761
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:27.220
Now as he starts down, there you can see this position here to me kind of

762
01:02:27.220 --> 01:02:35.000
screams upper body because the arm has come away from the chest already.

763
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:40.450
It'll normally start pulling away from the shoulders with the data shows, but

764
01:02:40.450 --> 01:02:45.890
typically visually it won't look like it's disconnected until later, and you

765
01:02:45.890 --> 01:02:50.000
can see that he's got a fair amount of that wrist hinge.

766
01:02:50.000 --> 01:03:01.930
So, essentially at that position, he's got his arm down wrist up versus arm up

767
01:03:01.930 --> 01:03:04.000
wrist down.

768
01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:09.760
That usually happens if I'm using my tricep or my lat as the main kind of power

769
01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:16.000
source there in transition, which just means the force is going a lot more down

770
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:19.000
than it is around.

771
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:25.800
And then when it goes down, it's got to be kind of unloaded in order to not

772
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:29.000
slam the club into the ground.

773
01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:34.660
So it would have been really interesting to see the left arm versus right arm

774
01:03:34.660 --> 01:03:40.140
release because I think the right arm would have been more like it's a little

775
01:03:40.140 --> 01:03:45.000
hard to see with the frame rate, but it looks like that right hand stays under.

776
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:52.250
That doesn't look like that left hand has a whole lot of rotation to it or sup

777
01:03:52.250 --> 01:03:54.000
ination to it.

778
01:03:54.000 --> 01:04:00.890
And so it looks like the swing is kind of working around the rib cage from a

779
01:04:00.890 --> 01:04:08.020
lot of shoulder movement instead of the arm staying more wide or in front of

780
01:04:08.020 --> 01:04:14.000
the body and having the body bring the club through.

781
01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:21.250
So if I had to pick kind of one frame, this would be the most indicative where

782
01:04:21.250 --> 01:04:28.370
it almost looks like at this point, the club is already back and you'll see

783
01:04:28.370 --> 01:04:36.000
like that relationship there stays pretty much the same through those frames.

784
01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:45.460
It's almost like a really big putting stroke, the way he's controlling the face

785
01:04:45.460 --> 01:04:55.000
is more like a putting style movement rather than a full swing release style.

786
01:04:55.000 --> 01:05:03.660
There's a fair amount of that right arm rotation on the way through, so I

787
01:05:03.660 --> 01:05:11.000
imagine we would have seen that in that right arm only as well.

788
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:17.580
And then when he gets into his finished position, it's a pretty good job of the

789
01:05:17.580 --> 01:05:24.400
body getting through, but because the arms are more around, it'll tend to have

790
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:32.000
a little bit more of a look of this right shoulder getting way way forward.

791
01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:36.850
That's usually to counterbalance kind of the arms pulling the club too much

792
01:05:36.850 --> 01:05:42.000
away from the golf ball or around, but that'd be kind of the smallest things.

793
01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:47.270
I think the biggest thing for us here is we've got more of an arm pull here in

794
01:05:47.270 --> 01:05:52.740
transition and then more of this release here kind of putting release on the

795
01:05:52.740 --> 01:05:56.000
way through for lack of better phrasing.

796
01:05:56.000 --> 01:06:02.820
I would typically go after the putting release first and then circle back to

797
01:06:02.820 --> 01:06:05.000
the powering swing.

798
01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:11.650
So I'd get really solid hitting nine to threes and then work on how to get more

799
01:06:11.650 --> 01:06:14.000
of a lower body engine.

800
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:22.000
All right, let's jump back to the power point.

801
01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:26.700
And Tim even mentioned that over the years, I noticed I have excessive right

802
01:06:26.700 --> 01:06:29.000
lateral bend and upper body sway.

803
01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:36.730
That's related to the power source, but the power source is driven partly by

804
01:06:36.730 --> 01:06:41.000
the pivot or the power or the sorry by the release.

805
01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:47.950
So with that putting release, you need more of a shoulder power source to make

806
01:06:47.950 --> 01:06:49.000
it work.

807
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:52.000
Okay.

808
01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:57.000
So Mike sent a couple swings.

809
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:01.000
This first one's pretty interesting.

810
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:06.400
So you'll see the swing on paper, it looks pretty decent, but you can see the

811
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:11.000
range of the scores 76 to 95 off in mid 80s.

812
01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:16.030
And the face on view was shanked, he shanks a lot and the down the line was a

813
01:07:16.030 --> 01:07:19.000
big pull. He has a lot of power.

814
01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:21.000
Where would we go?

815
01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:25.250
So he sees the left wrist breakdown and the grip seems overly strong. That's a

816
01:07:25.250 --> 01:07:26.000
tough combination.

817
01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:30.370
And his track man data is usually coming four to eight from the inside with

818
01:07:30.370 --> 01:07:34.000
pretty much a zero angle of attack or even up.

819
01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:38.320
Just based on this without even looking at it, I think we're going to see a

820
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:42.000
little bit more of that kind of under scoop style release.

821
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:54.000
But let's see.

822
01:07:54.000 --> 01:08:05.000
Okay, so here we go. So I'll just kind of play it through once.

823
01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:23.000
So again, on paper, a lot of good looking things.

824
01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:33.540
But let's get in a few of the details. So centered pivot looks pretty good. Not

825
01:08:33.540 --> 01:08:34.000
a lot of lifting or anything.

826
01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:38.290
Some good extension there at the top of the swing. I think he's more of a down

827
01:08:38.290 --> 01:08:43.000
swing case, which is as he starts down.

828
01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:48.260
I see that that's a looks like a pretty good squat move, but now his upper body

829
01:08:48.260 --> 01:08:54.000
continues to go down. So if I go back through it, it's not really a squat move.

830
01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.510
It's more of a crunch or a sit up type movement, whereas upper body is going

831
01:08:57.510 --> 01:09:01.420
down, down, down, down, it should be going up now should be going up now should

832
01:09:01.420 --> 01:09:03.000
be going up now should be going up.

833
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:10.090
It never really comes back up. So because it comes down and then never comes

834
01:09:10.090 --> 01:09:11.000
back up.

835
01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:16.010
We're not going to get the shallowing benefit from having more of that vertical

836
01:09:16.010 --> 01:09:23.000
component. So that means that he's got to replace it somewhere else.

837
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:40.000
So it goes down, down, down, down, down. And then we did take a small divot on

838
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:40.000
this. So I'd imagine that on this one, he definitely didn't have a zero angle

839
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:40.000
of attack.

840
01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:49.750
And if I get him just to impact position, you can see that it's a little bit

841
01:09:49.750 --> 01:09:56.200
under owner deviated, which would make sense because it's that vertical coming

842
01:09:56.200 --> 01:09:59.000
up that should help create that owner deviation.

843
01:09:59.000 --> 01:10:05.250
The piece that really worries me through there is how much his hands are going

844
01:10:05.250 --> 01:10:12.000
left while rehinging and how little club face rotation you see through there.

845
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:18.000
So that's kind of what what he was seeing is the left wrist going more under.

846
01:10:18.000 --> 01:10:25.290
And it is, it's going under with very little rotation. And part of the reason

847
01:10:25.290 --> 01:10:32.650
that he can't really rotate it is as you indicated, he's got a very strong grip

848
01:10:32.650 --> 01:10:33.000
.

849
01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:41.410
If he didn't kind of hold off and release the club more under, then the club

850
01:10:41.410 --> 01:10:49.000
face would get even more closed and he'd hit more of this big pull miss.

851
01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:54.210
Because it's just not quite matching up with where his grip is, he would need

852
01:10:54.210 --> 01:10:59.900
to be a little bit more shallow there in transition. And then at impact, he

853
01:10:59.900 --> 01:11:06.610
would probably need to be a little bit more like 20 degrees more open with a

854
01:11:06.610 --> 01:11:08.000
bit more owner deviation.

855
01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:13.850
So you do have the option because that's like for where he has that club face,

856
01:11:13.850 --> 01:11:18.000
he's going to have to hit it really early in the arc.

857
01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:24.640
And he's not doing that. So then he uses his under wrist movement in order to

858
01:11:24.640 --> 01:11:27.000
control the club face.

859
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:32.200
But that under wrist movement while it controls the club face messes up the low

860
01:11:32.200 --> 01:11:37.350
point and it doesn't do that great job of controlling the club face swing the

861
01:11:37.350 --> 01:11:38.000
swing.

862
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:44.000
So the question was, well, where would I start with him?

863
01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:48.760
I would start by matching up the release. That's kind of one of my big

864
01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:50.000
philosophies.

865
01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:56.110
So I would look at where the club is there and where the wrist is there and I'd

866
01:11:56.110 --> 01:12:00.070
say one, like, okay, and where the body is, I'd say one of those is going to

867
01:12:00.070 --> 01:12:01.000
have to change.

868
01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:07.000
Either we're going to have to get much more open at impact or we're going to

869
01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:12.930
freeze him in this position and get the club face a little bit closer to

870
01:12:12.930 --> 01:12:17.000
vertical instead of pointing down quite as much.

871
01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:23.750
Then I would probably want to work on that movement there, working a lot into

872
01:12:23.750 --> 01:12:30.000
the kind of the follow through side and controlling the low point.

873
01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:34.020
And what he'll find is if he does get the low point even with the left foot,

874
01:12:34.020 --> 01:12:42.510
then it's typically going to draw a little bit more unless he tweaked that grip

875
01:12:42.510 --> 01:12:43.000
.

876
01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:47.430
Also, he's going to find that if he has zero club face realization or kind of

877
01:12:47.430 --> 01:12:53.000
that under foot model, it's really hard to have the club still going down

878
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:55.000
without hitting it off to the right.

879
01:12:55.000 --> 01:13:01.110
So that's kind of where I would start with the release and then I would back it

880
01:13:01.110 --> 01:13:05.970
up into, you know, when we needed a little break from it, I'd work on that

881
01:13:05.970 --> 01:13:11.430
movement there, being less of a pull down and a little bit more of a lower body

882
01:13:11.430 --> 01:13:12.000
rotation.

883
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:21.080
But he does look like he's got some tools like I can see why it would be

884
01:13:21.080 --> 01:13:25.580
frustrating because a lot of people would look at that and say it's a really

885
01:13:25.580 --> 01:13:29.260
good swing but there's some dynamics in there that are just not matched up very

886
01:13:29.260 --> 01:13:30.000
well.

887
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:37.000
Okay, so then I'll let you read this.

888
01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:43.000
So this was also from Mike, he wanted looks like he's looking for something to

889
01:13:43.000 --> 01:13:48.870
work on but the summer got to a plus two plus three place fifth in the midam in

890
01:13:48.870 --> 01:13:51.000
Canada so that's great.

891
01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:56.000
Looks like hit 12 to 13 greens.

892
01:13:56.000 --> 01:14:01.000
Now I'd probably want to know how many of those are inside 30 feet.

893
01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:06.000
So how many are kind of like really at that level, how much are inside 25 feet.

894
01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:11.210
So how many are giving me legit birdie opportunities and how much are just like

895
01:14:11.210 --> 01:14:14.000
I'm on, you know, I've got 50 feet.

896
01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:20.560
Because it's more about like 12 to 13 greens is toward level ball striking but

897
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:26.560
plus toward level handicap would be plus five plus eight somewhere in that zone

898
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:27.000
.

899
01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:31.900
So could be that we're losing some strokes with our short game or we're not

900
01:14:31.900 --> 01:14:37.350
hitting it close enough because we don't have enough opportunities because we

901
01:14:37.350 --> 01:14:40.000
're hitting clubs that are too long.

902
01:14:40.000 --> 01:14:44.000
If I try to speed up my swing, then I start to go sideways.

903
01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:46.000
That happens a lot.

904
01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:50.000
Smooth tempo and transition but I want extra distance.

905
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.360
Alright, let's figure out your right hand left hand mechanics of the release

906
01:14:54.360 --> 01:14:56.000
have gotten much better.

907
01:14:56.000 --> 01:15:02.200
That's a common reaction when you work on those for, you know, a season or

908
01:15:02.200 --> 01:15:07.690
months like they get much better and your ball striking typically gets much

909
01:15:07.690 --> 01:15:09.000
more consistent.

910
01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:15.000
Alright, let's look at.

911
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:22.000
Now you also sent in your gears risk data, unfortunately, I'll pull them up.

912
01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:29.040
But what you'll see is the gears data doesn't really match up with the AMM data

913
01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:35.400
and I don't know exactly what the, like, I haven't seen enough of the gears

914
01:15:35.400 --> 01:15:38.000
risk data to know exactly what the.

915
01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:44.000
Differences in either how they're presented or calculated, but you'll see that

916
01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:48.790
some of the things just don't look like they they match up to what I'm seeing

917
01:15:48.790 --> 01:15:50.000
on the swing.

918
01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:56.000
The risks are the hardest for all the systems to calculate.

919
01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:06.000
That's one of the reasons I stuck with AMM for as long as I have.

920
01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:16.000
So as we go up towards the top.

921
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:22.000
So, Tim, I see quick ask, can you summarize what you would like me to work on?

922
01:16:22.000 --> 01:16:26.830
Well, here's the thing, so we need to work on the release, but I still don't

923
01:16:26.830 --> 01:16:30.510
know which one to like what part of a release we need to work on because you

924
01:16:30.510 --> 01:16:35.000
didn't send in your right arm, your left arm, or the drive hold swing.

925
01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:38.000
So we didn't have all the data to compare it to.

926
01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:42.790
So I was just doing that as kind of like going over the overview of what I saw

927
01:16:42.790 --> 01:16:44.000
in your swing.

928
01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:48.090
We know that there's a release issue, but we haven't pinpoint what the release

929
01:16:48.090 --> 01:16:49.000
issue is yet.

930
01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:53.800
So what I need you to work on is pinpointing what's going on in the release

931
01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:58.920
that's not allowing the left arm to supinate or the right arm to extend across

932
01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:03.800
your chest and why you're not able to get low point in front and control the

933
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:06.000
club face that way.

934
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:20.000
So that's the next step is to figure out what's going on in the release.

935
01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:27.000
So Mike here.

936
01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:37.900
So if we're looking at it from a distance perspective, which it seems like we

937
01:17:37.900 --> 01:17:39.000
are.

938
01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:52.000
He feels like when he swings hard, we lose the club face.

939
01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:59.010
So the main thing I would say is from the distance perspective, there's two

940
01:17:59.010 --> 01:18:02.000
things that I would look for.

941
01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:07.490
So I'd want to film a couple where I swung kind of at normal speed and then I

942
01:18:07.490 --> 01:18:11.000
swung hard to see what was the difference.

943
01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:18.220
I'd be curious to see if a we get a little bit more lateral slide when we start

944
01:18:18.220 --> 01:18:20.000
to swing hard.

945
01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:27.390
That could potentially cause some of the issues or probably even more likely is

946
01:18:27.390 --> 01:18:33.000
it looks like it's pretty late with the owner deviation.

947
01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:40.000
So it doesn't look like you've really started doing any of the owner deviation.

948
01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:44.000
It starts kind of more down in this zone here.

949
01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:49.830
And so that's just going to be like that's a little late I think for being able

950
01:18:49.830 --> 01:18:51.000
to time it.

951
01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:57.350
If you pull down harder or if you swing more with your upper body, if that's

952
01:18:57.350 --> 01:19:05.000
what we think is happening through there, then that could increase the gradient

953
01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:05.000
.

954
01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:10.580
It would basically make it so that you'd have to like release the hands even

955
01:19:10.580 --> 01:19:13.000
quicker instead of earlier.

956
01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:20.000
And I never like having to try to time the quickness of it.

957
01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:24.000
It looks like it's under owner deviated here.

958
01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:32.470
And then you get some through the ball so it's not too bad like that's a pretty

959
01:19:32.470 --> 01:19:36.000
good follow through position.

960
01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:41.450
But we've got a little bit of the buckle which usually means under owner dev

961
01:19:41.450 --> 01:19:42.000
iated.

962
01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:48.000
And we've got a look right here of under old new deviated at impact.

963
01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.000
We've got a little bit under owner deviated.

964
01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:57.950
So I think that when you don't have enough owner deviation, it's harder to free

965
01:19:57.950 --> 01:20:03.000
up your brain to use your legs to create more power.

966
01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:09.020
So I'd be worried when you swing hard that yes that would start to cause some

967
01:20:09.020 --> 01:20:10.000
issues.

968
01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:13.000
So you worked on the single arms.

969
01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:19.250
This winter I would probably work on the owner deviation piece and relating

970
01:20:19.250 --> 01:20:25.000
that to pelvis rotation speed.

971
01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:35.000
That's all really good.

972
01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:48.000
So here we've got the kinematic sequence from gears which looks pretty classic.

973
01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:56.410
It doesn't look, looks like maybe a little bit of disconnect from the wrist it

974
01:20:56.410 --> 01:20:58.000
looks like.

975
01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:03.710
I can't zoom in enough to see if the pelvis is leading or what the transition

976
01:21:03.710 --> 01:21:05.000
sequence is.

977
01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:09.930
Looks like a lot of wrist lag, maybe not so much core lag which would make

978
01:21:09.930 --> 01:21:13.000
sense with what we were just describing.

979
01:21:13.000 --> 01:21:21.380
Now here's where, okay, so it doesn't have the scale or anything to be or sorry

980
01:21:21.380 --> 01:21:24.000
it doesn't have the key as far as which is which.

981
01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:30.660
You mentioned in your email like this is when it goes from there to there that

982
01:21:30.660 --> 01:21:37.000
's a marker drop or a sensor moved or something like that.

983
01:21:37.000 --> 01:21:43.690
But even bigger than that if I take this range here so this yellow line I

984
01:21:43.690 --> 01:21:46.000
believe is supination.

985
01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:54.410
But I don't know what it's reference to because I'm never like having a sup

986
01:21:54.410 --> 01:21:55.000
ination.

987
01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:59.000
I'm assuming that this one is supination.

988
01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:03.300
But if so I've never seen someone start with zero degrees supination usually it

989
01:22:03.300 --> 01:22:07.000
would be starting up around here and then getting to that point.

990
01:22:07.000 --> 01:22:15.410
So that would be like, I would have never seen a backswing with this wrist

991
01:22:15.410 --> 01:22:16.000
pattern.

992
01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:20.770
And then if we go from here let's say that's 25 degrees and it's only getting

993
01:22:20.770 --> 01:22:25.240
to 50 degrees so that means that you're only covering an average of 70 degrees

994
01:22:25.240 --> 01:22:27.000
between there and there.

995
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:33.790
That would look like the biggest chicken wing like no wrist rotation that I've

996
01:22:33.790 --> 01:22:35.000
ever seen.

997
01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:40.060
So the average is somewhere around 120 degrees of forearm rotation like the

998
01:22:40.060 --> 01:22:44.000
guys who look like they have a lot are in the 140 range.

999
01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:51.640
And here I'm seeing we'd be maybe 90 degrees probably closer to like 80 degrees

1000
01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:52.000
.

1001
01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:58.530
So the numbers that I don't quite know what these graphs are showing because it

1002
01:22:58.530 --> 01:23:06.350
doesn't match up with how I see the movement on camera or what I've seen with 3

1003
01:23:06.350 --> 01:23:07.000
D.

1004
01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:15.000
Another one is how quickly like we saw that you were increasing your radial.

1005
01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:20.000
We saw that you were increasing your owner deviation through impact.

1006
01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:25.000
But none of them would match up with that either.

1007
01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:33.410
So, again, like I, I believe that the gears has a little bit more trouble with

1008
01:23:33.410 --> 01:23:37.000
the wrist data compared to AMM.

1009
01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:42.300
So, I would go more off of what I saw on video rather than these graphs because

1010
01:23:42.300 --> 01:23:49.000
I just, I don't know how to reconcile or interpret it.

1011
01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:53.780
The other thing there's no scale so it doesn't tell me or sorry there's no key

1012
01:23:53.780 --> 01:23:58.000
it doesn't tell me which direction is pronation supination.

1013
01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:05.040
So some of them could be inverted if they use true right hand rule because AMM

1014
01:24:05.040 --> 01:24:12.240
inverts the flexion extension graph in order to make it look more like a kinem

1015
01:24:12.240 --> 01:24:14.000
atic sequence.

1016
01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:19.000
So, pink is flexion extension. Yep, that one makes sense.

1017
01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:24.000
And then yellow is owner radial. Yeah.

1018
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:30.740
So, if yellow is owner radial like that doesn't look like it's a proper reading

1019
01:24:30.740 --> 01:24:36.980
because there's no like for the lead wrist to becoming that quickly out of

1020
01:24:36.980 --> 01:24:38.000
owner.

1021
01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:43.400
It would have a really fast rotation rate and that would mean that gold or

1022
01:24:43.400 --> 01:24:49.120
light yellow is pronation supination and that just does not match up with a

1023
01:24:49.120 --> 01:24:52.000
normal pronation supination graph.

1024
01:24:52.000 --> 01:24:58.890
So, I'm not quite sure I'm guessing that it's it might be like to the global

1025
01:24:58.890 --> 01:25:04.200
not to the relative, which means that it would be this is a kind of a

1026
01:25:04.200 --> 01:25:10.150
combination of pronation supination as well as internal external rotation of

1027
01:25:10.150 --> 01:25:11.000
the shoulder.

1028
01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:17.380
It's possible, but the way it currently described as a wrist angle that doesn't

1029
01:25:17.380 --> 01:25:19.000
make sense to me.

1030
01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:27.000
So, I'd go off what I said in the by looking at the video.

1031
01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:32.810
Alright, so now we got a couple submissions from Ed looking for suggestions for

1032
01:25:32.810 --> 01:25:34.000
this golfer.

1033
01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:37.000
This is more of our higher handicap.

1034
01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:40.660
So, she has a tendency to have a flat shoulder plane on top and is very narrow

1035
01:25:40.660 --> 01:25:42.000
in the practice video.

1036
01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:50.460
You will see some of the stuff we worked on. We've worked on side bend at the

1037
01:25:50.460 --> 01:25:51.650
top in several different ways to create some width, including the backswing arm

1038
01:25:51.650 --> 01:25:52.000
drills.

1039
01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:58.790
I'm a horse riker Sammy putting a band under the grip and left foot and having

1040
01:25:58.790 --> 01:26:05.400
her feel the stretch at the top. I also work on L to I as it helps with her

1041
01:26:05.400 --> 01:26:10.000
extension in the downswing, which is all good.

1042
01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:18.410
So, sorry, recognize you couldn't see that, but when you download the

1043
01:26:18.410 --> 01:26:24.000
PowerPoint, you'll be able to see that as well.

1044
01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:34.680
Okay, so, here's that we tried to start steep and then got really flatten

1045
01:26:34.680 --> 01:26:43.450
across and then pull down with an open clubface and then hit a nice little, you

1046
01:26:43.450 --> 01:26:47.000
know, floaty, floaty iron shot.

1047
01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:53.890
Pretty good out of the first cut of the rough, probably not the best low point

1048
01:26:53.890 --> 01:26:56.000
off of the fairway.

1049
01:26:56.000 --> 01:27:11.210
So, this would be a little bit of exploratory. So, we can see low point. You

1050
01:27:11.210 --> 01:27:15.350
can see where the grass is already being hit, which makes sense. So, the

1051
01:27:15.350 --> 01:27:18.000
factors of low point are the timing of the arm straightening.

1052
01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:22.330
She's definitely got her arm straight, or her version of straight early and

1053
01:27:22.330 --> 01:27:29.870
then kind of bending it on the way through. So, as you mentioned, the L to I

1054
01:27:29.870 --> 01:27:33.000
helps out with that.

1055
01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:39.940
I'd say there's two different things that I would go after. So, one, I would go

1056
01:27:39.940 --> 01:27:46.000
after this movement here that so the complete lack of motorcycle.

1057
01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:52.050
She's not going to get better low point control unless she gets a little better

1058
01:27:52.050 --> 01:27:54.000
motorcycle control.

1059
01:27:54.000 --> 01:28:03.340
Let's just see. And I would potentially, like, so what I would normally do is I

1060
01:28:03.340 --> 01:28:08.650
would, I'd do something like the visual impact, where I'd show, okay, where do

1061
01:28:08.650 --> 01:28:10.000
we want the club to be at impact?

1062
01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:14.820
We want the club to be essentially 30 degrees closed at impact. And she'd be

1063
01:28:14.820 --> 01:28:19.560
like, no way. And then you'd show how when your hands are ahead and your body's

1064
01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:21.000
rotated it squares it up.

1065
01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:26.770
Because I think she thinks that she needs to get the club back in the same way

1066
01:28:26.770 --> 01:28:31.000
it started. So, that would be the first paradigm that I would try to change.

1067
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:40.450
The second thing is it looks like her brain all through here. There's no

1068
01:28:40.450 --> 01:28:44.000
movement of the body, body, body, body, body, body. It's all arms.

1069
01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:52.150
So, basically, the brain thinks that it's the arms job to end the backswing. So

1070
01:28:52.150 --> 01:28:57.190
, I would try to do something where I wasn't allowed to use my arms to end the

1071
01:28:57.190 --> 01:29:02.000
backswing, and I had to end the backswing with my hips and core.

1072
01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:07.010
And so, if I bring up, this was what you were talking about working on the

1073
01:29:07.010 --> 01:29:12.350
shoulder plate. I definitely agree. Like, this'll look better in terms of the

1074
01:29:12.350 --> 01:29:20.000
position. But if you look at that timing, it hasn't changed a whole lot.

1075
01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:25.490
So, the timing is one of the key components to this, where the body's not

1076
01:29:25.490 --> 01:29:31.470
really moving. So, she's in a better position, but she's still loading the

1077
01:29:31.470 --> 01:29:33.000
shoulders last.

1078
01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:39.360
Or she's loading the shoulders to maximum, and I don't think she's loading the

1079
01:29:39.360 --> 01:29:44.440
core to maximum. So, I would do kind of some baseball swings and things where I

1080
01:29:44.440 --> 01:29:47.000
felt like I was loading my hips and core.

1081
01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:51.390
And then I would try to do it trying to get some ground contact. If you did

1082
01:29:51.390 --> 01:29:54.880
that, it's going right unless you address the motorcycle. So, I would probably

1083
01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:56.000
do visual impact first.

1084
01:29:56.000 --> 01:30:00.340
I may even experiment with pre-setting with the clubface a little bit more

1085
01:30:00.340 --> 01:30:04.710
closed, and then trying to work my way backward out of that. But those are the

1086
01:30:04.710 --> 01:30:06.000
two pieces I would work on.

1087
01:30:06.000 --> 01:30:13.190
The timing of the arm movements and body movements in the backswing, and then

1088
01:30:13.190 --> 01:30:17.000
the clubface orientation at impact.

1089
01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:23.000
Okay.

1090
01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:27.450
And then Jesse has improved from an 11 to a 6. Someone like to continue

1091
01:30:27.450 --> 01:30:32.690
improving, of course. He hits mostly pulls in phase. Okay. It recently did a T

1092
01:30:32.690 --> 01:30:36.000
PI eval with him. He failed the overhead deep squat.

1093
01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:41.000
So, we're hockey player. Cool. The big shoulders and thick chest. So, enforcer.

1094
01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:45.550
When trying to get into delivery, he has a difficult time getting his elbow in

1095
01:30:45.550 --> 01:30:49.000
front of his rib cage. All right.

1096
01:30:49.000 --> 01:30:54.220
So, let's see the X hockey player. Hockey players typically are good with club

1097
01:30:54.220 --> 01:30:58.000
face control, but they're typically steep and deep.

1098
01:30:58.000 --> 01:31:04.000
So, let's see if that's our classic pattern.

1099
01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:16.000
Or if we get a curveball. Sometimes the curveballs are fun.

1100
01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:21.000
All right.

1101
01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:27.530
Yeah, I could see delivery position. If he's doing it statically, can he get

1102
01:31:27.530 --> 01:31:37.670
that elbow in front? Or is it more dynamically? If that's the case, then I

1103
01:31:37.670 --> 01:31:45.000
would probably start by training that lead arm only drills on the way through

1104
01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:54.160
and then trying to match up or, you know, basically doing less with that right

1105
01:31:54.160 --> 01:32:04.000
arm. If that right arm is the big problem.

1106
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:14.000
He's a hockey player. So, he definitely gets that right shoulder like powering

1107
01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:14.000
the swing through there.

1108
01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:25.000
Oh, let's get it. You guys can't see. All right. Sorry about that.

1109
01:32:25.000 --> 01:32:32.280
He can, but it's tough. Yeah, so I would do a lot of education of the left arm

1110
01:32:32.280 --> 01:32:38.940
and basically, like, you know, if you look at someone like Shane Lowry or Kevin

1111
01:32:38.940 --> 01:32:47.000
Stadler before his injury, a lot of the Husky or guys tend to have that right

1112
01:32:47.000 --> 01:32:49.000
arm and the right hand coming off the club,

1113
01:32:49.000 --> 01:32:54.470
because there's so much mass for getting that right arm in front. So he can

1114
01:32:54.470 --> 01:32:59.920
either feel comfortable and keep that right arm on the club, or he could train

1115
01:32:59.920 --> 01:33:04.000
that left arm to control it more.

1116
01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:13.240
Now, the way it's coming through there. Again, I think he's got some club face

1117
01:33:13.240 --> 01:33:18.680
awareness issues as well. I would use a hockey stick to try to help train the

1118
01:33:18.680 --> 01:33:25.140
club face being more close because that's, you know, if he had the stick in

1119
01:33:25.140 --> 01:33:28.000
that position, he would say that's a terrible form.

1120
01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:34.190
And hockey guys can usually feel that stuff quick. So lead arm only getting a

1121
01:33:34.190 --> 01:33:38.000
little bit earlier motorcycle for sure.

1122
01:33:38.000 --> 01:33:46.380
Let's see anything else. And then I would probably work with that left arm. I

1123
01:33:46.380 --> 01:33:49.000
would probably work a little bit on the bracing.

1124
01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:58.810
Let's see. So it looks to me like the upper body gets a little bit ahead of the

1125
01:33:58.810 --> 01:34:02.000
lower body. Imagine that's really tough with the driver.

1126
01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:07.220
So it's very spiny and upper body on top. So I'd work on a little bit more kind

1127
01:34:07.220 --> 01:34:12.400
of hip tilt, hip tuck extension leaning back that way so that the arms could

1128
01:34:12.400 --> 01:34:16.000
get a little bit straighter from that left arm.

1129
01:34:16.000 --> 01:34:22.000
That would help shallow things out a good bit.

1130
01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:40.200
And then I would, I'd work a fair amount on that right shoulder there in

1131
01:34:40.200 --> 01:34:43.000
transition.

1132
01:34:43.000 --> 01:34:50.090
So I'd probably like work on the direction of shallowing more than the amount.

1133
01:34:50.090 --> 01:34:56.950
And I'd like, again, that's that right arm coming up is is a hockey thing that

1134
01:34:56.950 --> 01:35:01.000
would flex the hockey stick pretty good.

1135
01:35:01.000 --> 01:35:11.060
That's causing a bunch of his problems. Yeah, oftentimes with kind of bigger

1136
01:35:11.060 --> 01:35:16.030
guys like this kind of stocky guys, I would do like I'd do the left arm only

1137
01:35:16.030 --> 01:35:20.000
until I could get the left arm only and follow through to be pretty straight.

1138
01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:25.730
And then I'd see if they could reach across and grab it. And they're going to

1139
01:35:25.730 --> 01:35:31.000
feel something is tight, but I would help them see that component.

1140
01:35:31.000 --> 01:35:39.970
We have the work on the motorcycle a lot. What about what about lead arm only

1141
01:35:39.970 --> 01:35:47.000
and that club face kind of relationship position there.

1142
01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:51.860
Shoulder blade challenging is that right arm, but I'm almost hesitant to do too

1143
01:35:51.860 --> 01:35:56.140
much with the right side because I think one of his big things is it'll be

1144
01:35:56.140 --> 01:36:00.690
easier if he can learn to control more of the swing with the left side instead

1145
01:36:00.690 --> 01:36:03.000
of the right side, mostly because

1146
01:36:03.000 --> 01:36:09.240
of where like that gets to there. There's no way that he's actively doing that

1147
01:36:09.240 --> 01:36:15.170
with the left hand. So I'd be curious to see if he does left arm only nine to

1148
01:36:15.170 --> 01:36:20.400
threes, what the finished position looks like, how if this gets disconnected if

1149
01:36:20.400 --> 01:36:22.000
the wrist has no rotation.

1150
01:36:22.000 --> 01:36:26.770
And then I'd use that left arm only nine to three follow through position to

1151
01:36:26.770 --> 01:36:31.000
kind of help his brain figure out where we're trying to get to.

1152
01:36:31.000 --> 01:36:33.000
Does that make sense.

1153
01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.000
That's where I would start.

1154
01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:39.000
I'd start with follow through position.

1155
01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:45.520
And I would probably, and I'd start by training that left arm only because that

1156
01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:50.000
looks, that just looks like a low point disaster.

1157
01:36:50.000 --> 01:37:01.000
Does that make sense, I'd.

1158
01:37:01.000 --> 01:37:08.000
You know, good news is he's got pretty stable pivot. His.

1159
01:37:08.000 --> 01:37:13.000
He's got some good pieces but.

1160
01:37:13.000 --> 01:37:16.000
Yeah that that club face control.

1161
01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:23.000
It's causing him some problems.

1162
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:28.390
Okay yeah, report back let me know how the I think the left arm only like I've

1163
01:37:28.390 --> 01:37:33.780
got a guy that's similar and he does like ten left arm only as his warm up like

1164
01:37:33.780 --> 01:37:36.000
every time he goes to play.

1165
01:37:36.000 --> 01:37:40.850
And it just kind of helps get the sequence of the body turning through with the

1166
01:37:40.850 --> 01:37:44.000
left arm not breaking down a whole lot better.

1167
01:37:44.000 --> 01:37:49.600
And then it helps him feel like the lead arm is controlling the swing more than

1168
01:37:49.600 --> 01:37:51.000
the right arm.

1169
01:37:51.000 --> 01:37:55.020
I always explain it to golfers like this like okay that right arm is causing

1170
01:37:55.020 --> 01:37:56.000
you problems.

1171
01:37:56.000 --> 01:38:00.150
You can either train the right arm to be perfect or you can train the left arm

1172
01:38:00.150 --> 01:38:02.000
to do more of the work or both.

1173
01:38:02.000 --> 01:38:07.230
But let's start with training the left arm to do more of the work so that the

1174
01:38:07.230 --> 01:38:12.000
right arm can be less damaging.