Exploring Arc Width, Axial Velocity, and Training 'Feel'

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We're going to cover axial velocity and arc width.

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We're gonna cover instead of a biomechanics lesson

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or anatomy discussion on a body part.

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We're gonna talk more about the brain

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and how it builds awareness.

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So hopefully that'll give you some really good ideas

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for adjusting your structure

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or adjusting your lesson plans.

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We're gonna talk about John Dunnegan's book "Holet",

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which we didn't get to cover last time.

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Hopefully I'll give you a few nuggets

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to make you want to get the book as a good reference

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and enough that you'll have some takeaways

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that you could start implementing right away.

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And then we'll look at a case study,

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the drill that we didn't get to look at last time

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and answer coaches questions that were submitted.

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But if you have any questions in the meantime,

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just go ahead and submit.

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Any questions into the chat box,

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I'll keep going over and checking it.

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So I use this slide in a bunch of presentations.

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This is kind of, as we move into,

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we'll discuss the axial velocity and arc width.

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So I use this slide as kind of the hierarchy

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of ways to categorize what you're working on.

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Still hearing two voices.

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Is that everybody else having the problem

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of hearing two voices or just Ed?

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So since Lawrence is Ed, double check and make sure

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that you've either got one browser open

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'cause it sounds like everybody else

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is getting it okay from YouTube.

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All right, so I'm gonna,

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hopefully you can get that figured out quickly.

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Otherwise email support and hopefully Lawrence

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can get in and help you out.

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Okay, so going back into this slide that I love to use,

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helps categorize what we're trying to do.

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So today we're gonna talk a lot about club hit,

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the shape of the club or the shape of the swing.

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So axial velocity and arc width.

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And then we're gonna talk about

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how the brain controls the body.

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We're not gonna get into a ton of the details

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as far as the body swings the club,

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but that's what we do when we're covering

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some of the more isolated graphs or detailed graphs

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as well as the body segment or as well

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as the other 3D graphs about say the wrist,

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the arms or the anatomy lessons.

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All right, so then I frequently always begin

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with this overhead image or these two images

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and just looking at the overall shape,

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the overall shape of the swing.

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So creating this flat spot,

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a little bit more of an elliptical shape

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and working from that backwards into the details.

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Today we're gonna talk about

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how can we kind of measure some of this 3D flat spot

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or goals of consistency?

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'Cause I think that that's one of our students' common goals

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is to strike the ball more consistently.

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How could we measure what differentiates

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between a more consistent swing and a less consistent swing?

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So the images are really helpful.

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I just wanted to give you a few of the larger images here

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in case you want to take screenshots

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and share them with your students.

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But today we're going to talk about two

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out of what I consider the three kind of big graphs.

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So the three big graphs being kinematic sequence

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or looking at how this golfer creates speed,

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ArcWit looking at the overall shape of the path of the club

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and then Axial Velocity looking at how they control

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the club face.

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So we're gonna talk about the second two ArcWit

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and Axial Velocity because those two

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are directly connected to each other.

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All right, so before we get into any specifics

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I usually do just kind of a basic description of the ArcWit.

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So the ArcWit is looking at the distance

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between the middle of the grip

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and looking at the sternum or the upper part of the sternum.

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So basically, hopefully you can see me right here,

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looking at the distance between the middle of the grip,

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basically where the hands meet on the club

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and the top of the sternum are right around here.

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And it's just measuring the distance in inches.

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So the overall number isn't that important

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because if you have longer arms,

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if you have, you know,

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shorter posture, shorter clubs,

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like all those things can influence the ArcWit,

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but it doesn't change the shape.

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So the overall shape is looking at this one piece takeaway.

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You'll see the flat line there

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and then the arms start to bend as it sets.

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You'll see that this gets a little bit closer.

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That's the narrowing during transition.

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And then you'll see a rapid widening

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and the impact location being during that widening

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and then having kind of this plateau after impact.

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You'll be able to see some of the subtleties

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of this a little bit clearer

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when we look at different examples.

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So then this would be another golfer,

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a little shorter arms,

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'cause we can see he's just a little bit less

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than the other gentleman,

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but that same similar pattern, one piece takeaway,

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setting the club, narrowing in transition,

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reaching impact during this widening

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and then reaching its widest point after impact

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with more of a plateau.

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You can compare that to a higher handicap golfer,

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which will typically have less of a one piece takeaway.

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So you notice this starts curving down quicker.

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So that's using more of the arms and the shoulders

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in order to move the club reaches its widest point

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before the top of the swing.

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So more of a cast pattern

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and then reaches its widest point just before impact

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and then bends quickly.

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So that's gonna have a chicken wing or a scoop look to it

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because the main influences here

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that influence the arc width

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is the distance from your serum, right?

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So when my arms and my wrists

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and my shoulder blades are kind of extended,

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this is as far away as I can get

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if I bring the shoulders back,

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if I bend the elbows, if I extend the wrists,

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that all brings this closer.

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In addition, if I did only one side,

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so if I bring the arm more behind my body like so,

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this is closer than it would be here.

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So where many amateurs break down with their arc width

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and why this is a good measurement

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is it's basically if my arms extend into impact

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and then they pass my chest,

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this point is gonna start getting closer

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and it'll typically have the look

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that you're seeing on screen there.

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Here's another one.

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We'll look at a few more examples a little bit

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after we look at some tour pros,

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but here's another high handicap beginner

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kind of that same pattern of bending the arms

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more in the takeaway, less of a one piece,

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reaching the widest point just before the top of the swing

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or at the top of the swing

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and then reaching the widest point

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just after impact or right at impact.

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So these golfers typically are less consistent

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than golfers who have that better arc width pattern.

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Here's an example again,

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so that you can compare them on screen.

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So you've got kind of the one piece takeaway

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versus the arms takeaway.

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You've got the continued

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or a little bit more of a lag move there

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as opposed to a cast

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and then you've got the widening after impact

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as opposed to right at impact.

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One good way to look at it

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is if you have access to an overhead camera,

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you can look at the spacing or the difference

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between the club and the arms

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or the club and the body through impact.

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So if the arms are straightening

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and staying behind the chest,

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then that will typically give the look of a later arc width.

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If they are passing the chest and bending,

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the grip will be getting closer.

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So that will prevent you

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from getting the width after impact.

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You can see the Tour Pro up top,

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this is narrower coming into the ball

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and then wider on the other side of the ball

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or through the ball.

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The amateur is wider coming into the ball

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and then narrower on the way through.

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Here's the other way you can do it

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is if you're just looking at this,

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you can hold the camera up

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so you're basically perpendicular to the swing plane.

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So we'll say you've got the golfer standing right here

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in front of you.

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You can hold the camera, here I'll get down low enough

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so you can see this.

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You can hold the camera up

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so it's at about a 30 degree angle

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and then you'll be taking a picture more

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in the perpendicular to the swing plane

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and you'll kind of get this view

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that you're seeing here on screen.

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And what you'll see is this top one has more of a scoop style

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where you can see the club head is passing my chest

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and so it's really getting narrower

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between these last three frames.

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The one down below has more of the motorcycle,

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more of the lag move coming into impact

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and then those arms are extending

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especially that right arm extending through impact

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as opposed to what we saw see up top.

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So then one of the,

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we're gonna look at a couple anonymous pros

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and then we'll look at some pros who I can identify

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so that way you can compare them

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to the swings that you might see on YouTube.

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So this is over on the left axial velocity.

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So this is the first time some of you may have seen this

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but axial velocity is looking

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at the rotational speed of the grip.

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So basically what it's looking at

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is we've got the sensor on the shaft here

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and it's looking at shaft rotation.

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Now when I talked with Sasha McKenzie about this,

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he said that that is the main contributing trainable factor

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to rate of closure or club face rotation.

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So I think that it's got a huge effect

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in looking at how a golfer is controlling the club face.

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And this right here is close to the pattern

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that I like to see which is basically a smooth

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and gradual closing of the club face.

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As opposed to what we'll see

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in some of the more inconsistent golfers

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is they'll wait to close the club face

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so therefore they'll close it faster.

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There's a pretty good connection.

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I wouldn't say it's one to one.

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You can definitely have, depending on the grip style,

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you can have some variance in the relationship between the two.

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But the more that you have a gradual closing

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in the club face, the more you'll have that later arc

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with the more of that plateau afterward.

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So this is another very good tour pro,

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little bit less consistent ball striking,

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but you'll see a very good club face rotation.

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So the axle velocity, you'll see

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this kind of gradual shape there.

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And then the arc width, he's got a little kind of stall

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in his release pattern.

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So that could potentially create some inconsistency,

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but overall kind of plateau-ish,

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his club face control, however, looks near textbook.

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Okay, this would be another elite level ball striker

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and you'll see the closing early and gradual.

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So you'll just see this general shape.

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When you look at these first few,

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you're going to say, okay, they kind of all look alike.

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And then hopefully you'll see the subtleties

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when we look at the higher handicap.

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But that pattern there of the early club face closing

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helps produce the arc width getting wider,

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longer, more of the tour pattern.

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Okay, so now getting into some of the guys

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you'll be able to go back and investigate.

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So here's one of the demos they let us use,

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which is Steve Elkington.

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He's got a little bit more of a kind of a stall

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and really throw those arms through impact.

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And so as a result,

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you'll see a little bit sharper arc width afterward,

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but he's got a really good kind of narrowing movement,

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pretty efficient use of the arms there.

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You will see a fair number of guys have

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kind of this little plateau or even dip

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where it's not that the club face is opening,

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it's just closing at a slower rate.

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So if we're looking at the club closing

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compared to the path,

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that the first few would kind of have a look more like this.

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If we could just,

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if we put a GoPro on the wrist

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and we could kind of see the closing in the club face,

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it would go gradually kind of like this,

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maybe picking up speed as it's going down.

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What we're seeing here on screen with Elkington

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is it would start to close and then close slower

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and then keep closing.

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So it would kind of have almost like a two part movement

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to it kind of like that.

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The guys who get in a lot of trouble,

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you'll actually see it opening in transition

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and then closing.

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Oops, you'll see it open in transition

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and then close really fastly

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as opposed to just kind of a little bit more gradual

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but constant closing,

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which is more of the pattern that I like to see,

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especially for the longer clubs.

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Okay.

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I'm not sure if we have permission to use Nick Faldo,

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but here's another,

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I wanted you to see that it doesn't have to be,

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like it's not just guys like Dustin Johnson

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who have like a really bowing of the club face.

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You can have a little bit more kind of classic looking swing

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and still have this gradual club face

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closing method pattern.

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Now you'll see that he's a little bit more

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of kind of a castee transition.

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He doesn't have a really big narrowing.

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He gets a little bit early right arm action,

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which I think ultimately has prevented him

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from creating as much speed as he was capable,

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but he was very consistent with what he did

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and these two graphs kind of are a good measure

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of where he gets his consistency from.

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Okay, so then I thought this one would be interesting

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because Grantweight shares his stuff pretty openly.

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I've got two different Grantweight files

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and what I want you to see is some of the comparison

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or trying to compare the two.

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So this was in 2012 when he was still playing pretty actively

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and you'll see, okay, he's got a little bit

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of that kind of decrease closing mid transition.

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Sometimes that can be a power move,

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but the general shape is more of that close it early

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and close it pretty consistently through impact.

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Maybe a tiny little plateau coming into impact,

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but overall pretty good looking pattern.

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The arc width has the one piece takeaway,

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that slight narrowing and then width on the way through.

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Now, if we compare that to this was kind of

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when he was more Grantweight, the teacher.

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So I'll pop back and forth from those a few times.

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Just pay attention, you'll see the same pattern,

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but you'll see it's now starting to get into some

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of the trouble zones with both his axial velocity

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as well as his arc width.

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So this is probably four or five years later

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and you'll see this is closer to when he was starting

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to play senior tour.

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Now it's still closing early,

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but then it actually starts opening probably

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when the shaft is vertical somewhere around there

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and then it has to close quick.

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And over here, you'll see as a result

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of that quicker closing, typically the arc width

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is a little bit peak sooner after impact.

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So I'd imagine with this change to his release pattern

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in club base control and width control,

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he'd be a little less consistent

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than when he was playing full time.

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So that could be a good one to check.

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I'm not exactly sure on the date of this capture

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that Phil did, but I know that the other one

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was 2012.

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So if you can compare, find his swing on YouTube,

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you can see how it might have evolved

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as he went more down the stack and tilt pattern

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or for whatever reason, we can see a difference here

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in the club face control as well as the arc width.

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It's hard for, I've got a video on the site

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on seeing face rotation in 2D.

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That's where I walk through kind of the easiest ways

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to try to see as best you can, the axial velocity on 2D.

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Because without the 3D, you won't be able

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to see some of these subtleties,

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but you can get a decent look at the overall pattern.

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So college kids.

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So these are good level ball strikers,

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but not quite what I would consider elite.

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You'll see this particular gentleman had that kind of,

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it's almost as part of their white movement.

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Some golfers create a little bit too much tension

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in the wrist, which then can cause this delayed closing.

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This guy struggled a little bit more with his driver.

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Can you run simultaneously 3D and show us the pattern?

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I recorded a video, which I think I,

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I recorded a video and I'll throw it into the PowerPoint

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real quick, but I tested it in the 3D program,

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I think is a little too graphics intensive.

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And so it kind of made it really, really laggy

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to do it in real time.

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Let me, I did, here you'll be able,

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hopefully this pops up pretty quickly.

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Okay.

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So here's looking at grant weight

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from the overhead view.

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Okay, if I can,

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there we go.

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You'll see some of the videos,

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when I'm running the screen capture and the streaming

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and the software get a little bit more kind of laggy,

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but this is kind of the angle that I'd be trying to create

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or that I'd be trying to get

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if I was using a video camera.

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So here you can see this is a higher handicap,

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not very good looking release.

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You'll see it working through.

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And as he goes through, you'll see it bend

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and you can see, it can be subtle in terms

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of some of the shapes of the arc width

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because the difference between increasing by an inch

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and decreasing by an inch might not look that dramatic

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when you're looking at the video,

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but it would show up very clearly on a graph.

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That's one of the advantages of looking at graphs.

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So hopefully that little video helped you kind of see,

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you can go back when you re-watch the video

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and kind of click through by frames.

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So this is closer to kind of a normal college level

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where we start to see not quite as clear

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a ramping up of the cloud face control.

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It's a little bit late,

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so this golfer will tend to possibly have

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some bigger misses directionally wise,

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but overall pretty good arc width,

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so possibly consistent with his strike,

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but maybe not quite as consistent with his direction

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if I was gonna break it down that way.

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But I just wanted to see these two graphs

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'cause I know that the kinematic sequence

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gets a ton of play and I think these two together

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give a better insight into consistency

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than the kinematic sequence.

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And you'll see when we look here at the high handicaps,

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the arc width you've already seen,

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this is almost a universal pattern for a,

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I'd say above 85,

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so above 12 to 15 handicap,

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they'll almost always look something similar to this,

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but you will see differences

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in how they control the cloud face,

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and sometimes that gives you a better idea

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as far as which direction to go after first.

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So this golfer has an opening of the club face

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kind of mid downswing.

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That looks like the same driver file.

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Sorry, yeah, so here you'll see a golfer

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who very little club face closing,

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very little, very little, very little,

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and then has to close it very quickly down at the bottom.

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This can be the ideal pattern for hitting some wedge shots.

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I'll expose his bounce pretty well,

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but not too repeatable for the longer club.

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Now, one of the theories why,

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or okay, I see that I wasn't on the cursor mode,

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but one of the potential theories why

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is when you get the driver swinging fast,

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because it's a longer club, it has a whole lot more inertia.

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And so it's gonna take a greater force to change it.

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And what ends up happening is if you try to

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perfectly time the magnitude of that force,

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it tends to cause some problems.

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Analogies are always good for these type of things.

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So the one, the analogy that I like the best is,

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imagine you're playing badminton,

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and you had two different rackets, a regular badminton racket,

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in which case it's super light,

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you can just flick it around and change the face angle,

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no problem.

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That's closer to like a wedge,

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shorter, a little less inertia going on.

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You can flick it last minute and control it to some degree.

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Now imagine that I gave you a badminton racket

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that weighed 10 pounds.

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It would now be a lot harder,

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you'd have to apply that flick force a whole lot sooner,

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and it would be harder to be as precise with it.

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So what you would do is if the rules of badminton changed,

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and you had to use a 10 pound racket,

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you would get lined up sooner

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and do less with the face last minute

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and try to control everything more with the path,

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which is what you tend to see with the driver

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with that axial velocity graph.

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You tend to see it getting lined up sooner

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so that then you don't have to worry about the precision

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when it's moving quite as fast.

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Okay, so we went through this little video.

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I would recommend when you're,

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if you have the opportunity to,

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if you've been on AMM, if you have the opportunity to,

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you can always go back and pull up these graphs specifically

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to look at yourself or your players.

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But I think that the arc width for me

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is the number one for consistent strike.

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Axial velocity reveals a lot about

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how you control the club face,

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and then when you layer on that kinematic sequence,

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now you have how do they control the path,

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how do they control the face,

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and how do they control speed?

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Those are the three main big buckets

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that all your students' issues are going to fall in.

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I'll glance over at the chat.

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If you have any questions about those two,

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my plan is to move on to how we build feel,

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'cause this one could get a little intense.

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We'll see if there's some questions with it.

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Okay.

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So I wanna be clear when I'm talking about awareness,

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'cause I know that some golf instructors

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would hear this and say that you shouldn't,

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you don't wanna be aware,

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'cause that's like an internal focus.

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So think of awareness as a quality.

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The better your awareness,

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the more precise your movements are,

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and the more that you are able

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to accurately control those movements.

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So don't think of it as a mental capacity,

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like a quality, like you're focusing on something,

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think of it more like a trait as almost like strength.

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When you're doing training,

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it's important to work with the student,

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but one of my mentors, Dr. Givoye,

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he has a fun little phrase where he says,

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"You wanna speak to the brain, not to the client."

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You don't really care if your student

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can explain what's going on,

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but you want them to be able to demonstrate

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what's going on,

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which means that the brain is picking up

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what you're trying to communicate to it.

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Okay.

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Here's the little flow chart.

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Take a second and look through that.

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So this is essentially how we build awareness.

526
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So sensations come into the body.

527
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:35.460
We'll talk about how.

528
00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:41.800
And then the information gets filtered in the brain,

529
00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:44.340
out in the outer regions of the cortex.

530
00:28:44.340 --> 00:28:49.440
Then takes that movement through the cortex

531
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.640
and integrates it into the limbic

532
00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:53.800
or a little bit deeper system.

533
00:28:53.800 --> 00:28:56.280
That system is connected to emotion.

534
00:28:56.280 --> 00:29:00.320
So basically any sensation, any movement,

535
00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:03.040
is filtered through the emotional system.

536
00:29:03.040 --> 00:29:03.880
Is this good?

537
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:04.720
Is this bad?

538
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.540
Is this safe?

539
00:29:05.540 --> 00:29:06.800
Is this dangerous?

540
00:29:06.800 --> 00:29:12.880
And then based on what the emotional system says,

541
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.280
the body prepares for the action it's going to do.

542
00:29:17.280 --> 00:29:20.160
And then it kind of reads the feedback

543
00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:22.400
and the more that you execute that,

544
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.360
this pattern, one, two, three, four,

545
00:29:25.360 --> 00:29:27.040
the more you repeat that,

546
00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:29.080
the better the system becomes,

547
00:29:29.080 --> 00:29:33.360
the more sensitive it becomes to detecting variants

548
00:29:33.360 --> 00:29:38.080
and the more likely you could potentially repeat it.

549
00:29:38.080 --> 00:29:39.640
So we'll break up some of these.

550
00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:44.080
So receptors, that first segment

551
00:29:44.080 --> 00:29:46.720
sends information through the nervous system.

552
00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:48.720
These are your main,

553
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.000
or these are your sources of information or receptors.

554
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:54.680
So you've got chemical smell and taste,

555
00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:58.640
not a smell has a little bit affecting golf,

556
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.920
tastes probably very little.

557
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.440
Physical, the big three that you're used to, touch.

558
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:08.040
So tactile, vision, what you see in auditory,

559
00:30:08.040 --> 00:30:11.920
what you hear, you could also put balance,

560
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.080
vestibular information in the auditory.

561
00:30:15.080 --> 00:30:20.080
Then you have kind of the deeper or the inter receptors,

562
00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:24.920
which would be like visceral.

563
00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.920
So whether there's tension or pressure

564
00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.160
around any of your organs, proprioceptors.

565
00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:35.560
So this is another common buzzword that you'll hear.

566
00:30:35.560 --> 00:30:40.640
So looking at the tendons or the muscle tissue,

567
00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:43.400
it's really the fascia around the muscle tissue

568
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:45.840
that has a lot of the information.

569
00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:48.280
But this one gives you lengths and tensions

570
00:30:48.280 --> 00:30:49.840
and gives the brain a lot of information

571
00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:51.160
as to where the body is in space.

572
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:53.240
This is a good one to train.

573
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:57.840
And then pain and thermo receptors were temperature.

574
00:30:57.840 --> 00:30:59.840
So the big ones for golf are more looking

575
00:30:59.840 --> 00:31:02.420
at the physical and the proprioceptors.

576
00:31:02.420 --> 00:31:07.520
The whole takeaway from this is there's two main keys

577
00:31:07.520 --> 00:31:11.640
for golf, which would be if you're trying to improve

578
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.640
the quality and movement, you want to improve

579
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:18.360
the quality of the information coming from these receptors.

580
00:31:18.360 --> 00:31:21.840
And you want to improve the integration of the system

581
00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:25.080
as it relates to the emotional system.

582
00:31:25.080 --> 00:31:30.080
So as I showed on this slide here,

583
00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:34.560
you cannot execute a movement without integrating

584
00:31:34.560 --> 00:31:35.700
the emotional system.

585
00:31:35.700 --> 00:31:39.160
I'll say that again, you cannot move something.

586
00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:41.240
So even something as simple as like,

587
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:43.240
I'm going to go pick up the pen.

588
00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:47.400
The brain ran a filter to see emotionally

589
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:48.240
what's going on.

590
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:50.880
There were no warning signs, so it was easy to do.

591
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:54.560
If just before I went to reach for the pen

592
00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:56.600
or as I was reaching for the pen,

593
00:31:56.600 --> 00:32:01.600
something disrupted or created a sense of stress,

594
00:32:01.600 --> 00:32:07.000
what would end up happening is my body would change

595
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.960
that movement pattern to accommodate.

596
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:14.960
Essentially, the way I understand it is basically you're,

597
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:18.200
it would either open up more receptors or close off receptors.

598
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:21.600
So the gradient between the normal charge

599
00:32:21.600 --> 00:32:25.440
that would trigger the movement is now different.

600
00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:31.360
For example, let's say normally when I go to,

601
00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:33.960
let's say reach for the pen,

602
00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:35.880
because we'll keep it really simple,

603
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.640
I might engage 10% of my strength.

604
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.600
And it might be, I sent a certain number of signals

605
00:32:41.600 --> 00:32:45.160
and based on those signals compared to the number of receptors,

606
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.640
it recognized that's 10% of my strength.

607
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:51.280
If I was nervous, some of those receptors would be shut down.

608
00:32:51.280 --> 00:32:55.200
So the same signal might actually be 20% of my strength

609
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:57.640
and I might like grab the pen too hard

610
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.720
and possibly break it if it was really fragile.

611
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.000
And what you'll see is that's one of the main issues

612
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.080
and challenges facing a lot of your golfers,

613
00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:11.960
is how to manage the emotional system component

614
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:13.680
to motor learning.

615
00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:18.160
Some golfers neutralize it without golf.

616
00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:22.640
Some golfers neutralize it with breathing.

617
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:27.640
Some golfers work on training in a more stressful environment

618
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:30.920
so that then when you're on the course,

619
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:33.560
it doesn't seem as different.

620
00:33:33.560 --> 00:33:35.480
There are lots of ways to handle this.

621
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:41.200
For managing emotions, I've read like four books on it

622
00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:45.640
and pretty much every single one dealing with stress management

623
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.560
or emotional management basically says create room for it.

624
00:33:49.560 --> 00:33:54.560
So they almost all focus on awareness training,

625
00:33:54.560 --> 00:34:01.360
basically taking breaths and focusing,

626
00:34:01.360 --> 00:34:03.160
emotions can feel very constricting

627
00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:08.160
so they can feel like they occupy all of your mental capacity

628
00:34:08.160 --> 00:34:10.880
but you actually have a tremendous amount.

629
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:13.880
So if you imagine you have a ball

630
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:17.080
and the emotion is filling up the entire part of the ball

631
00:34:17.080 --> 00:34:19.440
and then you imagine, okay, I'm not that ball.

632
00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:20.640
I actually have a bigger ball

633
00:34:20.640 --> 00:34:22.640
and so the emotion can be here

634
00:34:22.640 --> 00:34:26.360
but there's actually room for the rest of me to continue on.

635
00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:30.440
That imagery and enough time allows the emotion

636
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:33.440
to kind of dissipate and move on.

637
00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:36.360
Where it becomes a main issue is if you feel that emotion

638
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.480
and then you just focus on it, focus on it, focus on it,

639
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:43.760
you actually amplify the emotion

640
00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.720
and it creates a bigger difference

641
00:34:46.720 --> 00:34:48.840
between those receptor sites.

642
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:52.480
Okay.

643
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:56.080
So the simple mantra that I tell my students

644
00:34:56.080 --> 00:34:59.080
is to play how you practice and practice how you play.

645
00:34:59.080 --> 00:35:01.560
If you get stressed out when you're on the course,

646
00:35:01.560 --> 00:35:02.840
then you better figure out ways

647
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:05.720
to get stressed out when you're on the range.

648
00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:09.640
If you practice and you're pretty calm

649
00:35:09.640 --> 00:35:10.960
when you're on the range,

650
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:15.200
then you have to find ways to be more calm on the course.

651
00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:18.520
But basically that simple mantra,

652
00:35:18.520 --> 00:35:22.320
as you see by that little flow chart has a,

653
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.640
it's one of those things that sounds easy in practice

654
00:35:25.640 --> 00:35:29.960
but is quite tricky in actual application.

655
00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:33.480
So you've got to be patient with yourself and your students.

656
00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:34.320
Okay.

657
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:38.200
So now getting back to working through

658
00:35:38.200 --> 00:35:39.680
how do you teach awareness?

659
00:35:39.680 --> 00:35:43.280
How do you teach better quality receptor information?

660
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:46.160
These are the four different stages

661
00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:50.800
of awareness training from a fitness standpoint.

662
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.960
So I'll walk through these and then we'll discuss

663
00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:57.720
how you would apply this to golf.

664
00:35:57.720 --> 00:36:01.440
So the first stage would be a transcendental reference,

665
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:04.880
which is just something that is beyond contestation.

666
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.840
Your brain will accept it as truth.

667
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.240
So example, let's say you had a wall and the wall was flat,

668
00:36:11.240 --> 00:36:13.960
your brain would not argue that the wall is curved.

669
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:14.800
It would buy it.

670
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:16.840
So if you were working on posture

671
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:20.640
and you were working on trying to have your whole back flat

672
00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:22.200
up against this wall,

673
00:36:22.200 --> 00:36:24.880
it wouldn't argue that the wall moved.

674
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:26.680
So if you weren't touching the wall,

675
00:36:26.680 --> 00:36:28.760
it would assume that I'm not touching the wall.

676
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:30.440
Therefore, I'm not straight.

677
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:34.640
So having a fixed reference or a transcendental reference

678
00:36:34.640 --> 00:36:37.480
is the base level of awareness training,

679
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.920
helping you figure out something quite simple.

680
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:43.500
Like where is my arm compared to straight?

681
00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:47.040
Number two is receptors.

682
00:36:47.040 --> 00:36:51.120
So this is now using a little bit more

683
00:36:51.120 --> 00:36:55.200
of your imagery and spatial awareness,

684
00:36:55.200 --> 00:36:56.360
but basically taking some

685
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:58.640
of those physical and proprioceptors

686
00:36:58.640 --> 00:37:03.640
and using that information to adjust your movement.

687
00:37:03.640 --> 00:37:05.360
So we'll look at video,

688
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:10.040
but this might be like in the posture example,

689
00:37:10.040 --> 00:37:11.920
instead of having a wall,

690
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:13.800
I would have you stand and try to get straight

691
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:14.840
and I'd say, are you straight?

692
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:16.600
And you'd say, yes or no.

693
00:37:16.600 --> 00:37:19.360
And then I'd have you look in a mirror.

694
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.080
So the mirror would be a visual or a physical

695
00:37:22.080 --> 00:37:26.680
and you would be able to then adjust your pattern

696
00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:30.600
based on the new information from your physical receptors.

697
00:37:30.600 --> 00:37:36.120
Chortical would be just using your map.

698
00:37:36.120 --> 00:37:40.060
So this is where now you're giving less and less information.

699
00:37:40.060 --> 00:37:44.840
So cortical would be, I'd look at you

700
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:47.720
and I would say, your posture is wrong.

701
00:37:47.720 --> 00:37:49.320
Where is it wrong?

702
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:51.960
Or I'd say your posture is wrong, fix it.

703
00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:53.760
And then I'd watch you try to fix it

704
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.560
and say, nope, that way you did it in the wrong direction.

705
00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:58.560
You did it in the wrong place.

706
00:37:58.560 --> 00:38:02.800
And it would only be giving you information,

707
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.200
but not letting you have heightened feel,

708
00:38:06.200 --> 00:38:08.640
not letting you have heightened vision

709
00:38:08.640 --> 00:38:10.520
from mirror or video.

710
00:38:10.520 --> 00:38:14.640
So video and a lot of training aids

711
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:17.080
typically only focus on these first two.

712
00:38:17.080 --> 00:38:19.040
They don't go into that third step.

713
00:38:19.040 --> 00:38:23.520
So that third step is usually later in the lesson process.

714
00:38:23.520 --> 00:38:25.320
And I'll ask something like,

715
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:27.040
hey, something was wrong in your release.

716
00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:28.920
What do you think it might have been?

717
00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:31.160
And that's where I'm just kind of testing

718
00:38:31.160 --> 00:38:36.160
and evaluating where they are in this awareness stage.

719
00:38:36.160 --> 00:38:37.920
If they have a hard time with that,

720
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.440
then they're gonna have a really hard time

721
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.760
with the fourth step, which is the complexity

722
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:47.040
or basically making that movement

723
00:38:47.040 --> 00:38:49.240
or that awareness more automatic.

724
00:38:49.240 --> 00:38:51.400
In order to test that,

725
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.920
you have to do at least two things at once.

726
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:56.040
So they call that perturbation training.

727
00:38:56.040 --> 00:38:59.120
So in the example of using the wall,

728
00:38:59.120 --> 00:39:01.240
maybe I'm using the wall to work on my posture,

729
00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:05.880
and then I have to keep posture while playing catch.

730
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.680
So now my brain is focused on what's the,

731
00:39:08.680 --> 00:39:11.240
on the ball coming and going and all that stuff.

732
00:39:11.240 --> 00:39:13.880
And it's kind of losing sight of the posture

733
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:17.280
because I have to, it takes a significant amount of energy

734
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:22.360
to pay attention while doing another task.

735
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.520
So in the golf example, this might be,

736
00:39:24.520 --> 00:39:26.160
okay, I'm working on the release.

737
00:39:26.160 --> 00:39:29.440
I can hit the impact bag the way that I want,

738
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.720
but now let's see if I can hit the impact bag

739
00:39:31.720 --> 00:39:34.320
and lead the movement with my hips.

740
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:36.800
So I'm doing two things at once.

741
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.720
I can't focus quite as hard

742
00:39:38.720 --> 00:39:42.280
on the first thing I was trying to do or be aware of.

743
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:46.160
So it forces me to do it in more of an automatic pattern.

744
00:39:46.160 --> 00:39:47.520
This is where you have to get

745
00:39:47.520 --> 00:39:51.040
before you're going to have predictable success

746
00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:52.800
on the course.

747
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:57.600
So from a applying this little four step recipe to golf,

748
00:39:57.600 --> 00:40:00.120
you've got your transcendental reference

749
00:40:00.120 --> 00:40:03.480
would be shafts on the ground, lines on the ground.

750
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.320
So like in the stack until a grid,

751
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.840
or you know, I use the gate drills and head covers

752
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.640
and all that stuff, your brain will not argue

753
00:40:12.640 --> 00:40:15.520
with that is straight, lines on the ground,

754
00:40:15.520 --> 00:40:17.040
transcendental reference.

755
00:40:17.040 --> 00:40:22.720
That's a good entry level awareness exercise.

756
00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:27.240
Step number two is video.

757
00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:32.240
So bringing the student by or having live video or mirrors

758
00:40:32.240 --> 00:40:37.520
or training aids or the instructor touch.

759
00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:40.120
So as you know, in level two,

760
00:40:40.120 --> 00:40:42.480
I'm going to go over a lot of my instructor touch.

761
00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:46.400
So how do you amplify certain body parts

762
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:50.480
or make them more aware or kind of dial up the awareness

763
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.960
by increasing the resistance at certain body parts?

764
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:55.640
Those all, they're great.

765
00:40:55.640 --> 00:40:58.520
They help students have these big aha moments,

766
00:40:58.520 --> 00:41:01.520
but it's only stage two of awareness training.

767
00:41:01.520 --> 00:41:06.160
Stage three is where I think the, you know,

768
00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:09.240
now you're starting to really be ready for the course,

769
00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:12.120
which is what wasn't right?

770
00:41:12.120 --> 00:41:14.160
It's a very open-ended question.

771
00:41:14.160 --> 00:41:17.120
Like in posture training, you would say,

772
00:41:17.120 --> 00:41:18.980
possibly your head is off.

773
00:41:18.980 --> 00:41:21.800
What's, which way, what's wrong?

774
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:23.200
Fix it.

775
00:41:23.200 --> 00:41:25.640
And your look, 'cause oftentimes,

776
00:41:25.640 --> 00:41:27.280
let's say that someone's standing like this

777
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:29.640
and you say, hey, your head is not on street.

778
00:41:29.640 --> 00:41:31.080
Oh, okay.

779
00:41:31.080 --> 00:41:32.520
And they'll do the wrong movement

780
00:41:32.520 --> 00:41:34.280
or they'll do it in the wrong direction.

781
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:39.280
So now they're aware with stages one and two,

782
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:42.520
but their stage three is still way out of order.

783
00:41:42.520 --> 00:41:44.280
Now you can fix that pretty quickly,

784
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:48.320
but it means that they're not gonna be trusted

785
00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:52.520
for interpreting the information right away.

786
00:41:52.520 --> 00:41:55.600
And then complexity is doing two things at once.

787
00:41:55.600 --> 00:41:59.040
So for example, quite often, let's say you're working

788
00:41:59.040 --> 00:42:01.360
on some sequence training, you're doing some rope stuff,

789
00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:03.600
you're getting your hips more involved,

790
00:42:03.600 --> 00:42:05.320
and you're hitting it thin.

791
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:06.880
So now you gotta work on low point control.

792
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:08.400
You gotta do two things at once.

793
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.120
Or you're hitting it right.

794
00:42:10.120 --> 00:42:12.200
Now can you add some motorcycle

795
00:42:12.200 --> 00:42:14.200
while still doing the same motion?

796
00:42:14.200 --> 00:42:17.400
The problem with most golf instruction

797
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:20.200
falls into that fourth stage of the complexity,

798
00:42:20.200 --> 00:42:24.440
but typically golfers need to go through this process

799
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.760
at least a couple times before they can do

800
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.560
a real good job of complexity.

801
00:42:30.560 --> 00:42:32.960
They kind of need awareness on part one,

802
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:35.640
awareness on part two, and then patients

803
00:42:35.640 --> 00:42:38.000
while trying to do part one and two together.

804
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:46.200
One of my favorite phrases that he says

805
00:42:46.200 --> 00:42:48.600
in his awareness or proprioception class

806
00:42:48.600 --> 00:42:51.000
is to master a global movement,

807
00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:53.920
you must master all segments involved.

808
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:57.960
That doesn't mean that you need to have conscious awareness,

809
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:00.960
but it means that you need to have the ability

810
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.240
to adjust individual segments if they're off.

811
00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:10.040
So I know that we have a few trainers in here,

812
00:43:10.040 --> 00:43:13.600
so I wanted to add, what can you do in the gym?

813
00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:17.120
So most of that stuff was all instruction-based,

814
00:43:17.120 --> 00:43:19.560
but as far as what you can do in the gym,

815
00:43:19.560 --> 00:43:24.600
if someone is having a hard time of kind of feeling

816
00:43:24.600 --> 00:43:26.520
where movements are in space,

817
00:43:26.520 --> 00:43:29.160
then you can close down the kinetic chain.

818
00:43:29.160 --> 00:43:33.960
So if you then provide a little bit more stability

819
00:43:33.960 --> 00:43:36.720
at the end, it's much easier for the brain

820
00:43:36.720 --> 00:43:39.400
to figure out what's going on in the middle,

821
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:41.560
as opposed to when you have open kinetic chain

822
00:43:41.560 --> 00:43:44.160
or when the distal part is moving.

823
00:43:44.160 --> 00:43:49.120
You can break down the speed or exaggerate the movement.

824
00:43:49.120 --> 00:43:51.080
So if you only need them to do it 10 degrees,

825
00:43:51.080 --> 00:43:53.240
maybe you'll try to get 30.

826
00:43:53.240 --> 00:43:54.800
If it normally takes half a second,

827
00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:57.440
maybe you'll try to do it in three seconds.

828
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:02.200
Those two can heighten that second stage

829
00:44:02.200 --> 00:44:03.480
of being able to feel it

830
00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:06.680
and get them into that third stage quicker.

831
00:44:06.680 --> 00:44:11.680
You can add resistance to the area or instability.

832
00:44:11.680 --> 00:44:16.000
So like, for example, let's say they can balance train

833
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:21.000
really well on a hard surface with no shoes on.

834
00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:22.840
Well, then we put the shoes on,

835
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:24.240
so it's a little less stable.

836
00:44:24.240 --> 00:44:26.880
Then you put them on a Bosu ball or a Dyna disc

837
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:28.640
or Eric's pad.

838
00:44:28.640 --> 00:44:31.040
Those are ways that you can increase it.

839
00:44:31.040 --> 00:44:34.600
This one was interesting for me.

840
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:37.360
The antagonist.

841
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:42.360
So Gui talked about how in soccer training,

842
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:48.120
the muscle that's most required for kind of precision

843
00:44:48.120 --> 00:44:51.120
and positioning of the foot is not the quad.

844
00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:54.920
The quad is being used for the engine of the movement,

845
00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:58.160
but the precision comes primarily from the bicep

846
00:44:58.160 --> 00:45:00.200
or the hamstring muscle.

847
00:45:00.200 --> 00:45:06.560
So oftentimes, if they are too force driven

848
00:45:06.560 --> 00:45:12.120
by training the antagonist muscles,

849
00:45:12.120 --> 00:45:17.120
you can help the quality and the timing of the activation

850
00:45:17.120 --> 00:45:21.640
as opposed to focusing just on the amount.

851
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.080
So this is one that from a practical standpoint,

852
00:45:27.080 --> 00:45:29.000
you really have to kind of like think about it

853
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:30.360
with individual cases.

854
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:32.680
There aren't a whole lot of general rules,

855
00:45:32.680 --> 00:45:37.680
but looking at it as a lot of their feel of their timing

856
00:45:37.680 --> 00:45:42.240
will come from the antagonist, not the agonist muscles.

857
00:45:42.240 --> 00:45:46.640
And then training timing.

858
00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:49.840
And this is where I think that the rope training

859
00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:52.880
that I talked about in the first webinar comes into play.

860
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:57.880
In the golf swing, you want to have,

861
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.840
you don't want to have a flash of speed in transition.

862
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:03.360
You want that speed to be building over some time

863
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:06.840
to help load the shaft and keep you in position

864
00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:10.280
to then have that flash spot or that arc width.

865
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:13.280
If you apply this force a little bit too fast,

866
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:16.280
then typically you'll have that more peak

867
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:18.840
or narrowing arc width on the way through.

868
00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:22.760
So the rope, compared to say a cable machine,

869
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.400
forces you to apply the force late

870
00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:27.200
because if you applied it really fast,

871
00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:29.360
the force would go perpendicular to you

872
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:30.960
not towards the target.

873
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:34.440
Where with a weight, you're going to apply that force

874
00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:36.200
quickly to overcome the inertia

875
00:46:36.200 --> 00:46:38.920
and then kind of ride it out on the way through

876
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:42.200
with the rope, you can apply it more gradual.

877
00:46:42.200 --> 00:46:45.680
So one things that I try to do in my off season,

878
00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:50.720
and this will segue into the little note there at the bottom.

879
00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:52.800
One of the things that I'll try to do in the off season

880
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.440
is I will focus a lot on trying

881
00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:00.440
to get an even pace of movement the whole way through.

882
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:04.640
So in season I might try to get a little bit more explosive

883
00:47:04.640 --> 00:47:07.640
but out of season I'm going to try to get more

884
00:47:07.640 --> 00:47:10.720
like a rhythmic smooth contraction

885
00:47:10.720 --> 00:47:15.320
'cause that will allow them to do a better job

886
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.080
of moderating and regulating the timing of their force

887
00:47:19.080 --> 00:47:20.200
not just the amount.

888
00:47:20.200 --> 00:47:25.880
So in season I try to get as close to the pattern

889
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:27.240
that they're training as possible.

890
00:47:27.240 --> 00:47:30.840
So I don't want to prevent,

891
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.000
present too much of a conflicting idea for them,

892
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:39.160
but out of season I'm going to try to train timing

893
00:47:39.160 --> 00:47:42.760
that's a little different and tagginess muscles.

894
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:46.440
I'm going to do things that might not help the best

895
00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:50.040
with the short term but help educate the brain

896
00:47:50.040 --> 00:47:53.760
and get better at using this receptor flow chart.

897
00:47:53.760 --> 00:48:00.800
So like I said, this section here I thought would be fun

898
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:03.840
and the main goal is to get you thinking

899
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:08.840
about like staging your drills so that you're not just

900
00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:12.480
looking at it like, okay, this is a visual drill,

901
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:13.720
this is a field drill.

902
00:48:13.720 --> 00:48:16.960
But thinking about where they are in the process,

903
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:20.000
can they do it on their own, can they do two things at once?

904
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.200
Can they handle emotional input in different ways

905
00:48:24.200 --> 00:48:25.960
and still do it?

906
00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:27.800
If you're not thinking about these things

907
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:29.600
when you're designing your programs,

908
00:48:29.600 --> 00:48:33.120
I think you're missing out on a good opportunity.

909
00:48:33.120 --> 00:48:37.920
So I'll check over to the chat

910
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:41.280
and we'll just see if there's anything

911
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:44.840
okay, so that's the last one.

912
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.520
The last question it looks like was related to that club swing

913
00:48:47.520 --> 00:48:50.240
if you have any or to the 3D.

914
00:48:50.240 --> 00:48:53.160
If you have any questions on the awareness training,

915
00:48:53.160 --> 00:48:55.240
this will be a good time but I'll keep coming back

916
00:48:55.240 --> 00:48:56.600
to it and check it out here.

917
00:48:56.600 --> 00:49:06.560
All right, next step, we'll keep it moving.

918
00:49:06.560 --> 00:49:10.580
So these were some of the questions that came in.

919
00:49:12.560 --> 00:49:15.600
And I know that this, I knew that this one

920
00:49:15.600 --> 00:49:19.360
would be kind of one of the slower in terms of questions

921
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.360
and swing partly because you're in the off season.

922
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:24.480
So some of you aren't teaching quite as much

923
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:28.000
and be, if you're like me, the last month

924
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:29.960
is pretty much a blur with all the holiday stuff.

925
00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:32.800
But got a few questions from John.

926
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:34.440
So I thought we'd go over these before we looked

927
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:38.200
at the case studies and talked about John Dunnegan's book.

928
00:49:38.200 --> 00:49:40.080
His first question, can you explain

929
00:49:40.080 --> 00:49:42.160
how you look at match ups in the swing?

930
00:49:42.160 --> 00:49:46.040
OK, so I thought that this one related pretty well

931
00:49:46.040 --> 00:49:49.680
to this webinar context here.

932
00:49:49.680 --> 00:49:55.200
Let me get it back to the PowerPoint.

933
00:49:55.200 --> 00:49:58.320
All right, so I thought that can you

934
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.600
explain how you look at match ups in the swing related

935
00:50:00.600 --> 00:50:03.920
pretty well to what we were talking about today?

936
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:08.440
I think of match ups in terms of creating speed,

937
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:09.560
controlling the path.

938
00:50:09.560 --> 00:50:11.600
The path has two main components to me.

939
00:50:11.600 --> 00:50:16.200
One is the swing direction, and then two is the low point.

940
00:50:16.200 --> 00:50:19.160
And then three, how did they coordinate the face?

941
00:50:19.160 --> 00:50:23.120
So I'm almost always thinking about it

942
00:50:23.120 --> 00:50:27.560
in terms of balancing either the path or the face.

943
00:50:27.560 --> 00:50:30.600
Or how does this relate to creating speed?

944
00:50:30.600 --> 00:50:32.840
So therefore, what's going to happen

945
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:36.200
if they try to do more of it?

946
00:50:36.200 --> 00:50:39.520
So I'll give you an example.

947
00:50:39.520 --> 00:50:47.040
I did a Skype call a couple days ago on a junior.

948
00:50:47.040 --> 00:50:48.680
I was talking with his dad.

949
00:50:48.680 --> 00:50:51.880
And the junior kind of gets a little bit steep here.

950
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:56.000
And then he goes really shallow, really shallow back

951
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:59.640
and stops the rotation and kind of throws the hands out

952
00:50:59.640 --> 00:51:00.720
this way.

953
00:51:00.720 --> 00:51:05.000
So now, thinking through the match ups,

954
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:08.720
first thing I wanted to think about was the path, right?

955
00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:11.960
So OK, he's got three big shallow movements happening

956
00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:13.480
down during the release.

957
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:16.360
Where's the steepness coming from?

958
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:19.040
Or else he's going to have a shallow miss pattern.

959
00:51:19.040 --> 00:51:20.440
And he did have a shallow miss pattern.

960
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:24.280
He had a lot of bottoming out behind the golf ball.

961
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:28.240
He had a lot of thin shots.

962
00:51:28.240 --> 00:51:33.280
So you've got to think through, well, what would happen

963
00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:36.280
if I replaced one of those steeps?

964
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:41.680
Well, in talking through his dad and kind of thinking through,

965
00:51:41.680 --> 00:51:44.320
it looked like more of those shallow components

966
00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:51.040
were a way for him to raise the grip to open the club face

967
00:51:51.040 --> 00:51:54.160
and to keep the path of the grip moving out to the right

968
00:51:54.160 --> 00:51:57.080
instead of to the left to keep the club face open.

969
00:51:57.080 --> 00:51:59.800
Part of that was because he had a really, really strong grip.

970
00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:02.840
So he kind of had this kind of hold off,

971
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.840
but stand the club up, look, down at impact.

972
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:13.600
So in thinking through it and balancing these match ups,

973
00:52:13.600 --> 00:52:15.800
some of the things that he's doing

974
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:19.000
that make his path less than ideal

975
00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.600
help him control the club face.

976
00:52:21.600 --> 00:52:23.320
So the match ups we have to decide

977
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.400
is like, OK, which is going to be less emotionally

978
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:29.000
stressful on this player?

979
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.280
Hitting the ball more solidly, but losing some of the club face,

980
00:52:32.280 --> 00:52:38.280
so losing some direction, or keeping the direction,

981
00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:43.440
but still hitting the ball a little bit less solidly.

982
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:48.280
I think that every golfer has their own kind of core DNA.

983
00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:50.640
Some golfer is really prioritized hitting it solid.

984
00:52:50.640 --> 00:52:53.440
Some golfer is really prioritized hitting it straight.

985
00:52:53.440 --> 00:52:58.560
Some people really prioritize maximum club head speed.

986
00:52:58.560 --> 00:53:04.440
So when you know, and you could go in even a step further,

987
00:53:04.440 --> 00:53:06.840
some people prioritize missing it right

988
00:53:06.840 --> 00:53:09.920
versus missing it left, when you know all those things,

989
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:13.040
you know how you can affect their mispattern

990
00:53:13.040 --> 00:53:15.600
and which mispatterns might be the most stressful.

991
00:53:15.600 --> 00:53:19.320
Now you understand, based on that awareness section,

992
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.320
why creating a stressful mispattern

993
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:24.480
is going to be harder for them to play with

994
00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:26.080
than a less stressful mispattern.

995
00:53:26.080 --> 00:53:29.920
So my goal in what matchups to choose

996
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:34.840
is based on what mispattern I think

997
00:53:34.840 --> 00:53:38.280
they'll be most able to score or play with.

998
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:41.120
The only times would be like, in this particular golfer's case,

999
00:53:41.120 --> 00:53:43.800
I think that he's 14 years old.

1000
00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:45.600
In order for him to get to that next level,

1001
00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:48.120
I think that contact and the release pattern

1002
00:53:48.120 --> 00:53:49.120
are going to have to change.

1003
00:53:49.120 --> 00:53:50.800
And I don't think he's going to be able to do that

1004
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:53.240
with his current club face position.

1005
00:53:53.240 --> 00:53:56.600
So we're going to discuss different ways

1006
00:53:56.600 --> 00:53:58.160
that we can control the club face.

1007
00:53:58.160 --> 00:53:59.840
It's probably going to end up with a grip change,

1008
00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:01.920
but he's really resistant to that.

1009
00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:03.680
That's a stressful word for him.

1010
00:54:03.680 --> 00:54:06.280
So we'll figure it out.

1011
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:07.720
But that's how I look at the matchup.

1012
00:54:07.720 --> 00:54:10.480
So whether they open, close the face,

1013
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.480
whether they move the low point forward backward,

1014
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:14.640
whether they shift the swing direction to the right

1015
00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:17.640
or to the left, and then how do they contribute

1016
00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:18.720
to creating speed?

1017
00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:20.880
How do they relate to the other parts of the body?

1018
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:24.640
That's how I look at matchups.

1019
00:54:24.640 --> 00:54:27.800
With all the 3D I've seen on tour players,

1020
00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:30.120
what are the similarities you see in the backswing?

1021
00:54:30.120 --> 00:54:32.120
So the interesting thing with 3D is

1022
00:54:32.120 --> 00:54:36.960
you don't see as big--

1023
00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:38.440
you're not looking at path.

1024
00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:42.200
The axial velocity is really hard to look at in the backswing

1025
00:54:42.200 --> 00:54:46.760
as far as the timing, just because the rates are so slow.

1026
00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:49.680
So I'd say that the most common similarities

1027
00:54:49.680 --> 00:54:54.880
that you'll see is a fairly stable upper body,

1028
00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:59.240
not much of a lower body sway through us.

1029
00:54:59.240 --> 00:55:04.560
So in the backswing, from a body position standpoint,

1030
00:55:04.560 --> 00:55:10.680
you don't tend to see lots of upper body or lower body shift,

1031
00:55:10.680 --> 00:55:15.560
either vertically or sway off the ball towards the target

1032
00:55:15.560 --> 00:55:17.480
or towards the ball away from the ball.

1033
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:21.520
When you start having too much of those in the backswing,

1034
00:55:21.520 --> 00:55:27.920
you can create a little bit more challenging to analyze.

1035
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:29.880
I see a question come in.

1036
00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:31.200
When teaching awareness, it would

1037
00:55:31.200 --> 00:55:34.600
seem that the more feedback occurring simultaneously

1038
00:55:34.600 --> 00:55:36.920
during the lesson swing would translate

1039
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.120
into a quicker learning process.

1040
00:55:39.120 --> 00:55:42.440
For example, using concurrently 3D animation

1041
00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:48.680
or something like a KVEST while you train or give a lesson.

1042
00:55:48.680 --> 00:55:57.240
So yes, but it also fits in the stage 2 of awareness.

1043
00:55:57.240 --> 00:56:03.920
So I guess it would depend if you were using it for awareness

1044
00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:08.760
or using it so that when they told you what they thought

1045
00:56:08.760 --> 00:56:12.800
was going on, you would have a measurable component to it.

1046
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:17.720
But if you basically just doing reps

1047
00:56:17.720 --> 00:56:21.760
where you're trying to hit a specific target

1048
00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:26.600
is a lower level of awareness than having

1049
00:56:26.600 --> 00:56:32.200
to read the feedback on your own and after the fact.

1050
00:56:32.200 --> 00:56:39.040
But I do using it for multiple pieces

1051
00:56:39.040 --> 00:56:41.680
would fall into the perturbation.

1052
00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:44.840
But the key is that they're able to self-correct

1053
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:48.840
and not that they need the external feedback

1054
00:56:48.840 --> 00:56:51.840
to tell them what's going on.

1055
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:55.640
But good question.

1056
00:56:55.640 --> 00:56:58.840
OK, so the main thing on the backswing

1057
00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:03.680
is this centeredness of pivot idea.

1058
00:57:03.680 --> 00:57:07.360
The one piece takeaway is pretty, pretty common.

1059
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:11.280
I don't see a whole lot of the arc with breakdown early

1060
00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:15.600
or the arm starting to bend really early.

1061
00:57:15.600 --> 00:57:20.000
So that's kind of a good trigger for the swing.

1062
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.760
The arm height is across the board

1063
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:25.320
because you've got Matt Kuchar and then you've got Jim

1064
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:30.080
here at Bubba. I mean, they can be 50 degrees different.

1065
00:57:30.080 --> 00:57:34.560
Risk positions at the top, not a real strong pattern.

1066
00:57:34.560 --> 00:57:36.280
Hard to say.

1067
00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:38.640
All right, how much does the pelvis drop on average

1068
00:57:38.640 --> 00:57:40.760
for a full swing in the downswing?

1069
00:57:40.760 --> 00:57:44.000
That's a tricky one.

1070
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.480
Some of the twergolfers don't drop it all during the downswing.

1071
00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:51.200
They drop it during the backswing.

1072
00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:56.400
So I'd say somewhere between 0 and 1 to 1 and 1/2 inches.

1073
00:57:56.400 --> 00:58:01.800
It's not dramatic from the top of the swing.

1074
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:05.680
But you can see compared to setup as much as 2, 2 and 1/2

1075
00:58:05.680 --> 00:58:11.600
inches drop of the pelvis, which is quite a lot.

1076
00:58:11.600 --> 00:58:13.520
How much does the head move in the backswing?

1077
00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:17.200
You know, I actually don't look at the head data.

1078
00:58:17.200 --> 00:58:20.280
I personally don't even attach the head sensor

1079
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.880
because it's the only piece of the AMM system

1080
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.560
that's snap aligned.

1081
00:58:25.560 --> 00:58:32.240
I haven't found the information to be very usable

1082
00:58:32.240 --> 00:58:35.200
because the head size and head shape

1083
00:58:35.200 --> 00:58:37.280
and the amount of head rotation will

1084
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:39.320
affect the amount of sways and slides.

1085
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:44.120
So it's really hard to interpret the data.

1086
00:58:44.120 --> 00:58:45.840
I like to go off of where the sternum is

1087
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:49.880
because I know that that one is accurately digitized.

1088
00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:55.040
And that one I covered in what happens in the backswing

1089
00:58:55.040 --> 00:58:58.800
where basically the upper body is going to slightly drop.

1090
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:01.840
It's going to shift 1 to 2 inches away

1091
00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:04.040
from the target with the driver or 1 to 2 inches

1092
00:59:04.040 --> 00:59:07.560
towards the target with an iron, not have very much lift

1093
00:59:07.560 --> 00:59:13.040
and not have movement in towards the golf ball or too much.

1094
00:59:13.040 --> 00:59:14.840
It's just kind of a tight little bubble

1095
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.480
that the upper body tends to stay in.

1096
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:20.200
How much does the trail knee straighten in the backswing

1097
00:59:20.200 --> 00:59:22.040
and what causes that?

1098
00:59:22.040 --> 00:59:24.120
Numbers-- I've looked at it a couple of different times.

1099
00:59:24.120 --> 00:59:28.440
If I remember right, it's like 5 to 8 degrees of straightening.

1100
00:59:28.440 --> 00:59:30.600
So it's not very much.

1101
00:59:30.600 --> 00:59:34.520
But what I think causes that straightening

1102
00:59:34.520 --> 00:59:41.920
is the rotation of the hip, the rotation of the ankle,

1103
00:59:41.920 --> 00:59:47.880
and the bending primarily, the bending of the left knee

1104
00:59:47.880 --> 00:59:51.800
or the left side kind of rotating and loading up.

1105
00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:57.000
So the left side working more kind of down and back

1106
00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.680
facilitates the pelvis rotating and straightening

1107
01:00:00.680 --> 01:00:03.160
of that right leg.

1108
01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:05.760
But because it's only 5 to 8 degrees,

1109
01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:09.280
I tend to think it's more of a eccentric load.

1110
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:11.760
So I don't want it to be actively straightening.

1111
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:17.360
I want it to be resisting straightening but losing.

1112
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:20.480
I think if you're actively straightening it,

1113
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:26.520
which would be primarily more of a quad exercise,

1114
01:00:26.520 --> 01:00:29.280
that I think that you're typically

1115
01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:31.920
going to have a harder time loading the glute properly.

1116
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:44.200
So now, I wanted to jump back through and go through--

1117
01:00:44.200 --> 01:00:47.360
everybody's asking for some case studies.

1118
01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:51.480
So I had a gentleman come out here who

1119
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:54.360
I used to coach in Texas.

1120
01:00:54.360 --> 01:01:00.840
He just made it through European Challenge Tour Q School.

1121
01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:06.600
So he's-- he didn't make it full status,

1122
01:01:06.600 --> 01:01:07.840
but he has some conditional status,

1123
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:10.600
so he's going to go out and be able to play.

1124
01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:14.440
His big complaint has been his release.

1125
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:17.680
He gets very flippy down at the bottom.

1126
01:01:17.680 --> 01:01:20.600
Used to have to lunge a whole lot to get any flight.

1127
01:01:20.600 --> 01:01:22.400
Into the wind, I kid you not.

1128
01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:25.040
He often has to take three extra clubs

1129
01:01:25.040 --> 01:01:28.840
because of how spinny he can get.

1130
01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:37.400
So we'll just let this one over here, kind of the before swing.

1131
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:38.600
Sorry for the frame rate.

1132
01:01:38.600 --> 01:01:41.280
We are getting some new cameras that

1133
01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:43.600
should be a little bit higher speed in the studio.

1134
01:01:43.600 --> 01:01:49.760
All right, so basically, we were trying

1135
01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:54.480
to uncover what's going on with a flippy release.

1136
01:01:54.480 --> 01:02:00.400
The first thing we tried to do was more of a low to high pattern.

1137
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:02.160
So here you can see the low to high drill

1138
01:02:02.160 --> 01:02:04.760
where he's bringing the hands low.

1139
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.360
But you can still see the timing of the flip there.

1140
01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:10.600
This one-- this drill over here on the right

1141
01:02:10.600 --> 01:02:12.320
did not clear it up.

1142
01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:14.800
And I should say I had him for one hour

1143
01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:16.560
and then a couple hours the following day.

1144
01:02:16.560 --> 01:02:20.000
So I had a few different options.

1145
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:25.240
Fortunately, this impact bag drill--

1146
01:02:25.240 --> 01:02:26.160
oh no, OK.

1147
01:02:26.160 --> 01:02:31.800
So that one, while he was able to do--

1148
01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:36.240
you can see if I get him there to impact,

1149
01:02:36.240 --> 01:02:41.400
you can see that with the stick, he liked the way it looked.

1150
01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:46.800
But he did not like the way it felt to swing with the stick.

1151
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:51.200
So this is where you have to make the judgment call

1152
01:02:51.200 --> 01:02:54.120
based on the emotional management.

1153
01:02:54.120 --> 01:02:57.440
I made the call that it wasn't actually

1154
01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:00.440
going to stick.

1155
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:06.760
I didn't quite like what the left wrist

1156
01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:09.360
was doing through there, kind of holding off.

1157
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:11.720
He was still hitting himself.

1158
01:03:11.720 --> 01:03:14.280
And he was trying to solve it more with his shoulders

1159
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:17.280
and not quite as much with the pivot and with the arms.

1160
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:19.200
So even though this one looked better,

1161
01:03:19.200 --> 01:03:21.920
it was going in the right direction.

1162
01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:24.960
I didn't stick with that.

1163
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:27.800
This one right here.

1164
01:03:27.800 --> 01:03:29.240
Oh, this is the same.

1165
01:03:29.240 --> 01:03:32.360
So this was where he described just

1166
01:03:32.360 --> 01:03:35.320
trying to get the body open, which

1167
01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:39.720
was his main thought through Q-School.

1168
01:03:39.720 --> 01:03:40.920
So it's a little out of order.

1169
01:03:40.920 --> 01:03:44.360
You could see that he still got a bit more

1170
01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:47.740
of that flip style release on the way through.

1171
01:03:47.740 --> 01:03:50.800
So day one was experimenting with the low to high.

1172
01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:53.680
I thought that was going to be the big aha moment.

1173
01:03:53.680 --> 01:03:56.400
We also did a drill with the impact bag,

1174
01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:59.560
but I didn't get a video of that.

1175
01:03:59.560 --> 01:04:02.760
The impact bag one was basically putting the impact bag

1176
01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:07.560
outside the left foot and then checking where the handle

1177
01:04:07.560 --> 01:04:13.320
and the grip was compared to the club head when it made contact.

1178
01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:21.960
OK, so then here we've got just a reminder of that.

1179
01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:24.720
This was the full swing starting day two.

1180
01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:31.880
I'm looking forward to getting double the frame rate here.

1181
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:39.440
But you can see, OK, he gets most of the shaft lean,

1182
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.720
because obviously he's a very--

1183
01:04:42.720 --> 01:04:46.960
he shot even over four days in some pretty tough conditions.

1184
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:48.520
He can make a bunch of birdies.

1185
01:04:48.520 --> 01:04:52.320
One of his greatest skills is he is great at knowing--

1186
01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:55.440
he's great at predicting how he's going to misfit it

1187
01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:58.960
and giving himself enough chances.

1188
01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:03.000
And he's really good at managing his mistakes.

1189
01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:06.160
So he doesn't have many blow-up holes,

1190
01:05:06.160 --> 01:05:10.600
and he has enough birdie opportunities

1191
01:05:10.600 --> 01:05:12.560
that he can get by.

1192
01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:15.360
So this is the one-- oh, good.

1193
01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:19.000
So this was the impact bag drill, where basically you

1194
01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:22.440
can see where the setup was and the whole goal.

1195
01:05:22.440 --> 01:05:26.480
In one iteration, I had a foam thing up

1196
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:28.880
at about the same height of the impact bag,

1197
01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:32.840
just trying to get him to feel an exaggerated relationship

1198
01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:35.520
of where the hands would be.

1199
01:05:35.520 --> 01:05:38.680
Key here being I wanted the club to brush the ground.

1200
01:05:38.680 --> 01:05:41.520
You can see the club face is in a tough position.

1201
01:05:41.520 --> 01:05:43.000
I wanted the club to brush the ground,

1202
01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:45.440
and I wanted the club to make contact with the impact bag

1203
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:48.200
low on the face, or low on the bag.

1204
01:05:48.200 --> 01:05:52.200
Golfers who tend to scoop and bend the arms

1205
01:05:52.200 --> 01:05:55.080
a little bit on the way through, when they try to get their hands

1206
01:05:55.080 --> 01:05:57.840
ahead, will tend to have the club coming up too quickly

1207
01:05:57.840 --> 01:05:59.560
and hit the top of the impact bag.

1208
01:06:02.720 --> 01:06:10.560
So then this is now following that impact bag drill.

1209
01:06:10.560 --> 01:06:13.120
Now he's starting to get a little bit better sense

1210
01:06:13.120 --> 01:06:16.400
of the handle relationship, and he's

1211
01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:18.960
feeling a little bit more forearm rotation.

1212
01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:24.200
One of the things that he felt coming into the week

1213
01:06:24.200 --> 01:06:29.440
was a supination of the left arm was really helpful in getting

1214
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:33.720
the width there in the follow through.

1215
01:06:33.720 --> 01:06:35.920
OK, we also did the shark spin.

1216
01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:43.560
He kind of liked that image, but it didn't

1217
01:06:43.560 --> 01:06:48.440
do as much on the wrist release as the impact bag

1218
01:06:48.440 --> 01:06:49.600
or the supination idea.

1219
01:06:53.120 --> 01:06:59.560
Then the other one that he liked a lot

1220
01:06:59.560 --> 01:07:02.240
was the jet stick and the rope training.

1221
01:07:02.240 --> 01:07:06.240
So he actually went home and bought a rope,

1222
01:07:06.240 --> 01:07:09.440
set it up in his backyard so that he could practice

1223
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:12.880
getting the energy going more out in front,

1224
01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:16.560
because he saw this position and didn't really recognize

1225
01:07:16.560 --> 01:07:18.120
who that was.

1226
01:07:18.120 --> 01:07:23.000
So he ended up leaving with the thought using the impact bag,

1227
01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:25.920
using the rope.

1228
01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:29.280
He didn't really like the low to high image.

1229
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:32.240
He liked the rope feeling and kind of the sequencing

1230
01:07:32.240 --> 01:07:36.000
and attacking onto that the lead arm supination.

1231
01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:43.280
So this was the video he sent me about two weeks later.

1232
01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:44.120
He sent these two.

1233
01:07:48.280 --> 01:07:49.280
Let's try that again.

1234
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:58.920
OK, so here's the practice swing where

1235
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:01.240
he's feeling the rope action.

1236
01:08:01.240 --> 01:08:08.960
And I don't care what he--

1237
01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:11.480
for me, the handle is working much better low to high,

1238
01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:14.120
even though that's not his main intent.

1239
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:22.960
So overall, pretty good.

1240
01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:28.800
And then here it was, again, from that same session.

1241
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:34.120
So about two weeks after our visit doing an actual--

1242
01:08:34.120 --> 01:08:36.440
he called it kind of a half shot punch shot.

1243
01:08:40.320 --> 01:08:46.240
And for me, that's a pretty good--

1244
01:08:46.240 --> 01:08:50.800
for going close to speed with a longer swing,

1245
01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:53.840
he had a lot of success doing the rope

1246
01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:56.600
in kind of below belly button height.

1247
01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:59.760
And he said he had to add it inch by inch by inch by inch.

1248
01:08:59.760 --> 01:09:04.560
If he went from a 9 to 3 swing all the way up to full swing,

1249
01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:06.000
the release totally broke down.

1250
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:08.480
And he could feel the energy or the rope

1251
01:09:08.480 --> 01:09:12.120
being thrown more at the golf ball less of the target.

1252
01:09:12.120 --> 01:09:16.080
So I was just kind of a cluster.

1253
01:09:16.080 --> 01:09:18.320
We had already done some single arm training,

1254
01:09:18.320 --> 01:09:21.280
so he was kind of aware of some of that stuff.

1255
01:09:21.280 --> 01:09:25.120
There's two main components when you're

1256
01:09:25.120 --> 01:09:28.520
working through a release or transition issue.

1257
01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:33.640
One is the positions, and two is the timings.

1258
01:09:33.640 --> 01:09:36.040
He was decent at doing the positions,

1259
01:09:36.040 --> 01:09:38.240
but he had a hard time feeling the proper timing.

1260
01:09:38.240 --> 01:09:42.160
And so that's where I think the rope training gave him

1261
01:09:42.160 --> 01:09:45.220
a really good sense of the sequencing.

1262
01:09:45.220 --> 01:09:51.040
He also did this drill.

1263
01:09:51.040 --> 01:09:52.800
I don't think I have him recorded in here,

1264
01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:56.440
but this was the video that I was talking about last time.

1265
01:09:56.440 --> 01:09:59.280
It's really helpful for training positions.

1266
01:09:59.280 --> 01:10:01.960
It's not very good at training the timing,

1267
01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:05.280
so you have to be careful with how you dose it.

1268
01:10:05.280 --> 01:10:07.640
But it's really good at training the positions.

1269
01:10:07.640 --> 01:10:10.480
And basically, what the student has here

1270
01:10:10.480 --> 01:10:13.440
is they've got one of my old putters,

1271
01:10:13.440 --> 01:10:21.040
and they are going to try and hit about a 20-foot putt.

1272
01:10:21.040 --> 01:10:25.160
And the whole instruction is OK.

1273
01:10:25.160 --> 01:10:28.280
They're at the top of the swing.

1274
01:10:28.280 --> 01:10:29.760
Let's see if we can--

1275
01:10:29.760 --> 01:10:31.520
so they're at the top of the swing.

1276
01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:34.880
There's a certain relationship between the club head

1277
01:10:34.880 --> 01:10:36.000
and the hands and the chest.

1278
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:38.520
And the club head is well behind the chest,

1279
01:10:38.520 --> 01:10:40.760
but the hands are in front of the chest.

1280
01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:43.840
Then the goal is to keep that same relationship

1281
01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:48.720
and to just move the lower body or the core

1282
01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:51.880
to bring the handle in place.

1283
01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:54.600
What I found is that with the putter,

1284
01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:58.800
golfers are much better able to delay the flip

1285
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:00.240
or the straightening of the wrist,

1286
01:11:00.240 --> 01:11:02.320
and they're able to get a sense of hitting it more

1287
01:11:02.320 --> 01:11:03.840
with the body.

1288
01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:09.000
So then, here's the same golfer trying

1289
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:16.560
to make the same movement trying to make the same movement

1290
01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:20.480
with a 7 or 8 iron.

1291
01:11:20.480 --> 01:11:23.800
So you'll see a little less lower body action,

1292
01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:27.000
but pretty good for this golfer as far as the flip

1293
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:30.800
on the way through.

1294
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:34.680
And I wanted to show you a couple different golfers going

1295
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:37.760
through this drill.

1296
01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:40.200
So this, again, was a golfer who tends

1297
01:11:40.200 --> 01:11:44.200
to get a lot of right arm throw scoop down at the bottom.

1298
01:11:44.200 --> 01:11:47.960
With the putter, they're able to get a sense

1299
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:53.840
of doing nothing with the hands and rotating it with the body.

1300
01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:55.680
Then what you end up having to do

1301
01:11:55.680 --> 01:11:58.720
is you have to work on, OK, instead of doing nothing,

1302
01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:03.480
how do you release the club without flipping the wrist.

1303
01:12:03.480 --> 01:12:10.200
But this gives a really good feeling of the positions.

1304
01:12:10.200 --> 01:12:11.680
OK.

1305
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:15.320
This gives a really good feeling of the positional differences

1306
01:12:15.320 --> 01:12:19.840
between the club, basically, of the club staying

1307
01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:22.520
behind the chest for a longer period of time.

1308
01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:24.440
So you can see there's still some remnants.

1309
01:12:24.440 --> 01:12:26.680
There's still some work to try to clean up

1310
01:12:26.680 --> 01:12:30.720
that the arm release action on the way through.

1311
01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:35.640
But this guy normally stands up and has some of the worst

1312
01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:37.920
early extension that I've ever measured.

1313
01:12:37.920 --> 01:12:40.600
And you can see on this, he's doing a much better job

1314
01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:44.680
of maintaining his posture by having the intention of leaving

1315
01:12:44.680 --> 01:12:45.920
the club behind his chest.

1316
01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:53.760
We've got one more here.

1317
01:12:53.760 --> 01:13:00.040
So one of our favorite students, going through the putter drill.

1318
01:13:00.040 --> 01:13:09.040
Sculfer had some baseball background,

1319
01:13:09.040 --> 01:13:10.800
so it kind of felt like a check swing.

1320
01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:13.800
Now you can see how well he did in terms of hitting

1321
01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:16.040
with the body and doing very little with the wrist,

1322
01:13:16.040 --> 01:13:18.520
a little straightening the arm.

1323
01:13:18.520 --> 01:13:20.400
What he'd have to do going forward

1324
01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:25.320
is to get the timing more out towards the target.

1325
01:13:25.320 --> 01:13:30.640
But here's trying to do the same thing with an iron,

1326
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:32.400
kind of pre-setting it.

1327
01:13:32.400 --> 01:13:34.680
And now, again, this really helps

1328
01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:38.760
with the positional difference, because this golfer normally

1329
01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:41.040
has the hands well behind his body

1330
01:13:41.040 --> 01:13:43.920
and getting the hands in front.

1331
01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:47.280
But the club's still behind, required body rotation.

1332
01:13:47.280 --> 01:13:50.520
And you can see, creates an over-exaggeration

1333
01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:53.160
of the shaft lean at impact.

1334
01:13:53.160 --> 01:13:56.880
So it's really good for getting this positional sense.

1335
01:13:56.880 --> 01:13:59.600
Oftentimes, if a golfer goes straight from doing this

1336
01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:01.400
to the full swing, it totally breaks down,

1337
01:14:01.400 --> 01:14:05.160
because it doesn't have enough of the timing component to it.

1338
01:14:05.160 --> 01:14:10.160
So while I think this is a good component,

1339
01:14:10.160 --> 01:14:14.480
I get some pretty dramatic looks on 9 to 3s.

1340
01:14:14.480 --> 01:14:17.120
It doesn't have a huge carry over to the full swing,

1341
01:14:17.120 --> 01:14:20.800
so you have to then layer it more in a drill series

1342
01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:22.520
instead of one individual drill.

1343
01:14:22.520 --> 01:14:23.720
Like, this is your only drill.

1344
01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:31.800
OK, so that's the drill, the questions.

1345
01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:36.880
The last thing kind of lingering from last time

1346
01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:41.800
was looking at this book here.

1347
01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:43.440
Highly recommend it.

1348
01:14:43.440 --> 01:14:48.040
I figured I flipped through books a fair amount,

1349
01:14:48.040 --> 01:14:49.280
especially when I'm on the road.

1350
01:14:49.280 --> 01:14:52.720
So when I find some good ones, and if I'm traveling a lot,

1351
01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:56.760
I figure it'd be good to give you a little kind of cliff

1352
01:14:56.760 --> 01:14:59.480
notes version, my cliff notes version.

1353
01:14:59.480 --> 01:15:01.720
While I'm going through this, if you have any questions

1354
01:15:01.720 --> 01:15:04.120
you want me to discuss, go ahead and put them in the chat

1355
01:15:04.120 --> 01:15:09.520
and I'll get to them after I cover the little book report.

1356
01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.000
So John Donegan's book, I really enjoyed it.

1357
01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:18.280
In fact, it's a good combination of some short anecdotal stories

1358
01:15:18.280 --> 01:15:21.760
that I think are pretty powerful and a reference book

1359
01:15:21.760 --> 01:15:25.480
of skill-based games.

1360
01:15:25.480 --> 01:15:30.480
So it was not very much into the technique.

1361
01:15:30.480 --> 01:15:35.680
It was more into the process and more into how to practice.

1362
01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:39.440
So for that, I thought it was a really good compliment.

1363
01:15:39.440 --> 01:15:41.000
Now, if you don't know, John Donegan

1364
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:42.920
kind of helped turn Sean O'Hair's around

1365
01:15:42.920 --> 01:15:46.040
by working on his putting.

1366
01:15:46.040 --> 01:15:50.040
The intro is kind of the story of what he did with Sean

1367
01:15:50.040 --> 01:15:53.280
and what they focused on and some really good pearls

1368
01:15:53.280 --> 01:15:58.440
as far as to share with your students about expectations.

1369
01:15:58.440 --> 01:16:04.800
So the first lesson John gave Sean

1370
01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:07.280
was to go out and stop trying to make putts

1371
01:16:07.280 --> 01:16:09.640
and focus only on trying to make the ball stop

1372
01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:12.240
one foot behind the cup.

1373
01:16:12.240 --> 01:16:15.360
So the three essential skills that pretty much every putting

1374
01:16:15.360 --> 01:16:18.240
book I've ever read talk about are speed control,

1375
01:16:18.240 --> 01:16:23.160
starting the putt online, and reading the green.

1376
01:16:23.160 --> 01:16:29.920
So John believes in I do as well, which is part of the reason

1377
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:34.240
I liked it, why or what is the most important skill?

1378
01:16:34.240 --> 01:16:35.800
Probably speed control.

1379
01:16:35.800 --> 01:16:37.480
What's the hardest skill to train?

1380
01:16:37.480 --> 01:16:39.120
Probably speed control.

1381
01:16:39.120 --> 01:16:41.760
What's the skill that differentiates good putters

1382
01:16:41.760 --> 01:16:45.320
from bad putters more than anything else, speed control?

1383
01:16:45.320 --> 01:16:48.920
So he focuses a lot and he's got a lot of good games

1384
01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:53.000
in the book on how to work on speed.

1385
01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:55.440
That was the first thing he gave Sean O'Hair,

1386
01:16:55.440 --> 01:17:00.040
that Sean's speed control was well below what he was expecting

1387
01:17:00.040 --> 01:17:03.160
to see for a tour pro.

1388
01:17:03.160 --> 01:17:04.720
One of the interesting parts of the story

1389
01:17:04.720 --> 01:17:07.680
was when Sean was playing in the web.com finals

1390
01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:11.920
and getting his card back, he made three good putts

1391
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:16.600
down the stretch to get his card on the number by one stroke.

1392
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:19.720
I can't remember, but he had a quote of basically,

1393
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:22.640
"I couldn't even breathe out there."

1394
01:17:22.640 --> 01:17:29.400
And John added to it that courage is not absence of fear,

1395
01:17:29.400 --> 01:17:32.320
but doing your job in the face of fear.

1396
01:17:32.320 --> 01:17:35.560
This is where I think a lot of our students,

1397
01:17:35.560 --> 01:17:38.040
especially the mid-handy caps, have this belief

1398
01:17:38.040 --> 01:17:41.120
that when you get good, you're not nervous.

1399
01:17:41.120 --> 01:17:45.080
And I try to get them out of that mindset instantly.

1400
01:17:45.080 --> 01:17:47.680
I say, look, if you don't like adrenaline,

1401
01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:49.200
you pick the wrong game.

1402
01:17:49.200 --> 01:17:51.200
You're going to be nervous playing golf.

1403
01:17:51.200 --> 01:17:53.600
The goal is that your swing and your putting

1404
01:17:53.600 --> 01:17:55.880
and your short game and everything holds up

1405
01:17:55.880 --> 01:17:57.800
when you're nervous.

1406
01:17:57.800 --> 01:18:00.240
And now that you've seen that little flow chart as far

1407
01:18:00.240 --> 01:18:04.480
as how the brain builds feel, you can understand why emotions

1408
01:18:04.480 --> 01:18:07.600
play such a disruptive role, because they literally

1409
01:18:07.600 --> 01:18:16.480
change the sensitivity of the movement patterns.

1410
01:18:16.480 --> 01:18:19.400
So it's not that they just distract you.

1411
01:18:19.400 --> 01:18:23.600
They literally change when you run the pattern,

1412
01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:27.360
what that actually does to the muscles and to the body.

1413
01:18:27.360 --> 01:18:30.400
So anyway, I thought that was a good little story

1414
01:18:30.400 --> 01:18:31.960
that emotions don't go away.

1415
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:36.080
You just learn how to succeed in spite of them.

1416
01:18:36.080 --> 01:18:39.640
Each practice, he wants you to do two short putt games

1417
01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:43.160
and two lag putt exercises at minimum.

1418
01:18:43.160 --> 01:18:45.800
He recommends for, if you're a competitive golfer,

1419
01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:48.760
one hour of putting practice per day,

1420
01:18:48.760 --> 01:18:55.680
if you are a casual golfer 10 to 15 minutes before each round.

1421
01:18:55.680 --> 01:18:58.920
He had a little section on purposefully trying

1422
01:18:58.920 --> 01:19:01.680
to create errors to enhance the learning.

1423
01:19:01.680 --> 01:19:05.760
So the book was very process driven and very much

1424
01:19:05.760 --> 01:19:11.920
into not necessarily trying to be perfect, but trying to learn.

1425
01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:19.200
So he has the three R's of re-roll and reflect,

1426
01:19:19.200 --> 01:19:21.480
and he had a good little section on reflection.

1427
01:19:21.480 --> 01:19:24.400
So the reflection process includes

1428
01:19:24.400 --> 01:19:26.520
thinking back to what you had in mind,

1429
01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:29.280
both before, during the stroke, and what

1430
01:19:29.280 --> 01:19:31.640
you felt upon observing the results.

1431
01:19:31.640 --> 01:19:35.160
Basically, managing or getting in touch

1432
01:19:35.160 --> 01:19:38.320
with what kind of triggers and what kind of emotions

1433
01:19:38.320 --> 01:19:42.880
are present on your good shots compared to your bad shots.

1434
01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:46.760
It's very important to not try and fix every missed putt,

1435
01:19:46.760 --> 01:19:51.720
but to recognize your pattern's bigger picture.

1436
01:19:51.720 --> 01:19:54.640
In practice, he's less tolerant of process errors

1437
01:19:54.640 --> 01:19:57.720
than he is on the course, but of course,

1438
01:19:57.720 --> 01:19:59.520
those things will happen.

1439
01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:03.240
If you're too negative, negativity shuts down learning.

1440
01:20:03.240 --> 01:20:05.240
It turns errors into threats, which

1441
01:20:05.240 --> 01:20:08.040
have a stronger emotional component,

1442
01:20:08.040 --> 01:20:09.880
rather than learning opportunities, which

1443
01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:12.120
has more of a positive emotional component.

1444
01:20:12.120 --> 01:20:20.800
Consistency is not ever going to show up in golf.

1445
01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:25.400
There's too small margin of error, too high speed.

1446
01:20:25.400 --> 01:20:28.480
The goal is adaptability, in my opinion,

1447
01:20:28.480 --> 01:20:32.120
and John kind of echoes that point.

1448
01:20:32.120 --> 01:20:35.720
So the goal is to learn how to read and react

1449
01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:38.520
to what's going on with your game so that you can make

1450
01:20:38.520 --> 01:20:42.880
adjustments day to day.

1451
01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:45.920
Reading Greens is not easy.

1452
01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:49.640
Sorry, Reading Greens is, he believes, the easiest skill.

1453
01:20:49.640 --> 01:20:52.800
I think that there are definitely tricks

1454
01:20:52.800 --> 01:20:56.440
becoming an elite green reader is not the easiest thing,

1455
01:20:56.440 --> 01:21:00.800
but I agree with his process or his overall scoring.

1456
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:02.200
Reading Greens is easy.

1457
01:21:02.200 --> 01:21:04.200
Starting online is a little harder.

1458
01:21:04.200 --> 01:21:07.800
Controlling speed is the hardest skill.

1459
01:21:07.800 --> 01:21:12.360
So learn-- and the problem is if your speed is off,

1460
01:21:12.360 --> 01:21:13.800
your green reading will be off.

1461
01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:16.120
And so then it's hard to pick your start line.

1462
01:21:16.120 --> 01:21:20.000
So I agree with him that focusing on speed control,

1463
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:23.120
which he has a bunch of different ways to do,

1464
01:21:23.120 --> 01:21:28.240
is a really good goal, especially off season.

1465
01:21:28.240 --> 01:21:32.520
The main factors for speed are stroke lake rhythm and timing.

1466
01:21:32.520 --> 01:21:34.080
He's a big fan of using metronomes.

1467
01:21:34.080 --> 01:21:37.040
That's not something that I've done a lot with,

1468
01:21:37.040 --> 01:21:39.440
but I'm going to play around with it.

1469
01:21:39.440 --> 01:21:44.600
So he basically has golfers go get a metronome,

1470
01:21:44.600 --> 01:21:46.720
make some strokes at 76 beats per minute,

1471
01:21:46.720 --> 01:21:49.320
then jump up to 82 and kind of play around in the middle

1472
01:21:49.320 --> 01:21:53.920
until they find whichever one produces their most kind

1473
01:21:53.920 --> 01:21:58.320
of natural feeling swing.

1474
01:21:58.320 --> 01:22:01.400
And then last, I thought this was a really powerful image

1475
01:22:01.400 --> 01:22:04.440
in the page where he talks about,

1476
01:22:04.440 --> 01:22:06.080
I think, what good players do well

1477
01:22:06.080 --> 01:22:08.800
is they kind of know what works for them.

1478
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:13.840
So when hitting a putt, should you focus on the entry point?

1479
01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:17.360
Should you focus on an aim point, a start line?

1480
01:22:17.360 --> 01:22:19.480
He kind of gives the different options and ways

1481
01:22:19.480 --> 01:22:21.240
that you can experiment and figure out

1482
01:22:21.240 --> 01:22:23.440
which ones work best for you.

1483
01:22:23.440 --> 01:22:28.640
His book was very experiential, so I highly recommend it

1484
01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:30.760
for just kind of building up your role

1485
01:22:30.760 --> 01:22:34.960
at X as far as building up your library

1486
01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:38.680
as far as if a golfer needs to work on speed or line what

1487
01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:41.360
are 10 or 15 different ways that they can do it.

1488
01:22:41.360 --> 01:22:44.760
Highly recommend it.

1489
01:22:44.760 --> 01:22:47.560
So I see a question from Chris.

1490
01:22:47.560 --> 01:22:50.080
Can you go over the COMO flat spot?

1491
01:22:50.080 --> 01:22:58.240
So the COMO flat spot is basically looking at the theory

1492
01:22:58.240 --> 01:23:02.880
that having less change going on with the club face

1493
01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:05.080
or the club head, down at impact,

1494
01:23:05.080 --> 01:23:07.640
should give you increased repeatability.

1495
01:23:07.640 --> 01:23:12.320
And so in order to have more of a flat or straight line

1496
01:23:12.320 --> 01:23:15.840
trajectory through impact, the handle

1497
01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:19.880
has to move kind of in opposite to what the club is doing,

1498
01:23:19.880 --> 01:23:22.520
meaning if I freeze the--

1499
01:23:22.520 --> 01:23:24.800
you're all back up.

1500
01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:26.640
So if I freeze the handle here and just

1501
01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:30.160
swing it like a pendulum, then it would have a single lowest

1502
01:23:30.160 --> 01:23:31.200
point.

1503
01:23:31.200 --> 01:23:35.280
But if I swung it at the same time I swung it like a pendulum,

1504
01:23:35.280 --> 01:23:40.880
if I was to pull the club up, then as it's swinging down,

1505
01:23:40.880 --> 01:23:43.400
if I did this in a really good fashion,

1506
01:23:43.400 --> 01:23:45.320
now the club would basically almost

1507
01:23:45.320 --> 01:23:48.120
hover along the ground.

1508
01:23:48.120 --> 01:23:51.000
So if I could angle that hovering along the ground

1509
01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:55.560
slightly down ahead of the target or ahead of the golf ball,

1510
01:23:55.560 --> 01:23:59.560
now I have a much longer and more gradual change

1511
01:23:59.560 --> 01:24:01.440
to the path of the club.

1512
01:24:01.440 --> 01:24:04.000
The same thing happens coming up and in.

1513
01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:07.320
If I was to freeze the grip like this and swing it,

1514
01:24:07.320 --> 01:24:10.680
then it would have a single point where it's out

1515
01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:12.160
and it's widest path.

1516
01:24:12.160 --> 01:24:15.680
But if I got it out there and pulled the grip in

1517
01:24:15.680 --> 01:24:18.280
as it was swinging, then now it's

1518
01:24:18.280 --> 01:24:20.400
going to travel in more of a straight direction

1519
01:24:20.400 --> 01:24:22.120
towards the target.

1520
01:24:22.120 --> 01:24:26.680
So if I do those two together, if I bring the grip up and in,

1521
01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:29.560
then while the club is going down and out,

1522
01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:35.760
it's going to do so on a more gradual rate, which ultimately

1523
01:24:35.760 --> 01:24:37.720
should give me more repeatability.

1524
01:24:37.720 --> 01:24:41.200
Now the trick is, how do I get this coming up and in

1525
01:24:41.200 --> 01:24:42.360
without bending the arms?

1526
01:24:42.360 --> 01:24:45.160
Because we saw on the arc with that the most consistent

1527
01:24:45.160 --> 01:24:49.320
strikers of the golf ball are letting the arms extend

1528
01:24:49.320 --> 01:24:52.160
and widen through impact.

1529
01:24:52.160 --> 01:24:54.400
So then it becomes OK.

1530
01:24:54.400 --> 01:24:58.240
If this is widening or going down and out,

1531
01:24:58.240 --> 01:25:01.760
then in order for the net effect to be my handle coming up

1532
01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:06.040
and in, my body has to be rotating, extending,

1533
01:25:06.040 --> 01:25:10.200
and side bending so that that left shoulder is coming more

1534
01:25:10.200 --> 01:25:15.800
back up and in while the hands are lengthening through.

1535
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:18.640
So that's kind of the crux of the discussion

1536
01:25:18.640 --> 01:25:22.360
of the coma flat spot, which is basically

1537
01:25:22.360 --> 01:25:28.480
trying to get a long, unchanging, or decreasing

1538
01:25:28.480 --> 01:25:31.520
the rate of change down at impact.

1539
01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:33.640
In order to do that, you need to have the club face

1540
01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:37.440
a little bit more rotated, so the motorcycle movement.

1541
01:25:37.440 --> 01:25:40.200
You need to have the sequencing being more rotary

1542
01:25:40.200 --> 01:25:44.920
from the hips and core, less of a vertical arm pull.

1543
01:25:44.920 --> 01:25:48.240
And then those two combined with the pattern

1544
01:25:48.240 --> 01:25:50.840
of extending those arms on the way through

1545
01:25:50.840 --> 01:25:54.320
tend to produce a little bit more repeatability.