How To Apply Force In Transition - Quiver Pulls Explained

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This video is explaining the quiver pole, so there's a common phrase that's

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been

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around golf for a little while and I've used it a few times on this site from

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the

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top of the swing kind of feeling like you're pulling an arrow out of the quiver

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I'll use the whiteboard here in a bit to kind of draw where the force should be

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going but roughly the force should be working in the general direction of where

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the grip is pointing during the entire downswing. So at the top of the swing,

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if

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the shaft is pretty close to parallel, I want to basically be pulling along the

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grip that way. Now that doesn't mean that I want to throw my arms and kind of

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get

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the whole grip moving this way. What it means is that if that's at the top of

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the circle, if I rotate my body, you could see how the force would be going

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more in

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the direction of where that grip is pointing. But by the time it's here, I'm

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no longer pulling out that way. I'm now pulling more in the direction of the

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grip. When it's straight up and down, now I'm pulling kind of there. When it's

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at

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in delivery position, kind of like this, now I'm pulling out in front of the

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golf

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wall. When it's here, I'm pulling towards the target. As it releases, now I'm

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pulling a little bit more in the direction of my body. So I just kind of

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think of it as more working around my body as opposed to pulling straight down.

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Where you can get in trouble is if you get to the top of the swing and you're

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basically instead of pulling around kind of like so by using your body, if you

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get to the top of the swing and you're basically pulling more down kind of like

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this, it's going to create some awkward flat spot control. That's usually going

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to lead into a little bit more of a flip-roll style release which can hit the

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ball plenty straight but tends to have very limited contact with the ground or

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flat spot down at the bottom. So the the arc width that I talk about will tend

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get come start getting narrow too quickly after impact and that tends to

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cause some inconsistency. So in order to get that feeling of a little bit more

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of

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that pulling around your body, you just want to make sure that you're using

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your

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body to initiate transition as opposed to pulling down with your arms. It's

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really not that complicated to get the force going in the right direction. If

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you

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use your body, your obliques, your back, your hips, your legs, that's going to

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tend to create the right pattern as opposed to arbitrarily just trying to

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throw those arms out. So I've seen that misinterpreted. I thought it'd be

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helpful

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to clarify. I'll draw it on the whiteboard which hopefully will help you be

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able to

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visualize it even more. So here we've got kind of my crude Franken golfer at

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top of the swing. So you can see here's that club position and then this is

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roughly the direction that the force will be being applied. So the danger here

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is

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that if you were to pull down with your arms and kind of really narrow like so,

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like some people have described this pulling down on the chain, I don't think

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you if you were actually pulled down it would lead to good mechanics down here

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at the bottom. So what'll happen is if you're just rotating your body, so if

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your

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body is rotating around that way, you can see that because of where it is at

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the

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top of the swing, that force is going to be much more out along this way as

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opposed

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to straight down. Then when you get to about waist height, if you're continuing

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to rotate with your body, it's down. And now as the body starts bracing right

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around here, right, the body is now going to start pushing that way, that's

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going

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to cause the club to want to line up and fly out. So now by this point, I'm

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kind

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of pulling a little bit more in my direction and then at impact, I'm bracing

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away from here and I'm actually, the force is going back up towards me, even

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though the club is moving, or sorry, the club head is moving down out and away,

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as

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the handle is moving just slightly up and in, kind of like so. So in order to

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get

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that transition movement going in the right direction, you want to pull with

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your body. For some people, it's very helpful to feel that initial pull a

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little

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bit more along the axis of the club as opposed to if it's more of kind of an

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arm pull, it will feel like it's pulling a little bit more straight down.