The Release- Arm Movements of Elite Golfers

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All right, in this presentation, we're going to talk about the release or the

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arm action

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of elite golfers.

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So this is a presentation that I gave at the World Golf Fitness Summit back in

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October,

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and I wanted to share it with our coaches here.

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So before we jump into the release, we've got to define what we're talking

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about when

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I say the release.

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So we're basically looking at this zone here from when the club is roughly

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vertical, somewhere

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between vertical and 45, and it actually goes usually all the way until about

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here.

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So we'll define why I chose those points here in a second.

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But we want to look at what is the release, what are the absolutes, what are my

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preferences,

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and then lastly, what are my favorite drills, and why do I like those?

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So we didn't get through all of it in the World Golf Fitness Summit, but I'll

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make sure

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that I cover everything here, even if we cover it possibly a little bit quicker

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Okay, so the release goes from this zone here, delivery position, to follow

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through position.

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And you might be wondering why I chose those two positions, why not, you know,

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one of the

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normal P numbers, so why not chaff vertical, why not chaff parallel, and why

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not stop it

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at impact.

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So I choose those definitions for the release based on some of the data that I

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've seen.

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So around this point here is typically when the grip is reaching its maximum

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linear speed.

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You can see that right here, and that's typically when the lead arm is reaching

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its maximum rotational

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speed in the kinematic sequence.

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So basically when the front arm, this segment here is reaching its fastest

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speed, and then

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it's going to transfer all that speed out to the club.

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Also this is right around the zone where you're reaching the maximum ground

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force reaction.

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And I talked with a guy, a club fitter, who uses gears a lot.

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This is right around the same time when the shaft is reaching its max def

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lection point.

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So there's a number of these phenomena or events that make it seem like a

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really good

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time to start the release, like prior to that, everything was loading up.

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And then from there, we're going to transfer as much of the energy as we can or

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release

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that stored energy, hopefully into the golf ball.

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So I like to think of it as all this is building up to what's happening here,

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which is the

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transferring stage.

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So you build the power, the power during transition or during the backswing in

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into transition,

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and then you transfer it during the release.

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So from here until somewhere around here.

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Now this is the arc width graph that I look at a lot.

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And when I'm thinking in my head about the release, the max arc width is kind

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of when

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the golfer is really reaching, it's the culmination or the end of all the

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energy going out.

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So the arc width is looking at the distance between the mid-hand point on the

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grip and

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the sternum.

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So basically looking at that width through there.

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So now the interesting thing is this is what an amateur golfer looks like,

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where typically

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they're reaching their arc width graph at or sometimes even before impact.

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And most pros have this arc width where it's reaching the widest point into the

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follow through

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and kind of has more of a gradual curve.

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So this is more of a rounded curve.

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This is more of a peak.

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So amateurs on average, I'd say, especially higher handicap are going to reach

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all those

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other points later.

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So they're reaching maximum speeds and forces later.

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And then they're going to reach their max arc width earlier.

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So their release really goes from somewhere around here down to impact, where

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in the elite

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model or the tour swing I like to look at where they're reaching that max speed

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earlier.

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So they have more time to transfer it and they're reaching that max arc width

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later.

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So when I'm looking at a release, it doesn't necessarily, like, where a pro is

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ending their

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release might not match up exactly with where an amateur would.

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So here's a few arc width examples.

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Basically arc width again is looking at the measurement between the grip and

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the sternum.

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So you'll see one piece takeaway, not a lot of change, and then it starts to

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narrow as

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those arms bend as they get to the top of the swing.

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There's a slight increase, or sorry, decrease where basically it's getting

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closer.

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So one piece takeaway starts to decrease as it bends, starts to decrease a

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little bit more.

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And then it's going to widen all the way from there all the way until that

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point in

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the follow through.

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Here's another pro.

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Again, one piece takeaway, narrows more in transition and then boom, all of it

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's released

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out to after impact.

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Now here's a couple higher handicap golfers.

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This one does have a little bit of a one piece takeaway, but it's shorter,

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reaches the maximum

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width before the top of the swing and then has more of a cast pattern.

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So you can see that this starts going up instead of down.

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So we've got a cast pattern and then reaches its peak just before impact.

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And then narrows very quickly.

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So that would look like just before impact, it's the widest, and then it starts

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coming

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in closely.

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This golfer would look like he had a big scoop in chicken wing.

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Here's another high handicap golfer, less of a one piece takeaway, so more of

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an arm driven

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takeaway.

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Again, reaches the max width near the top of the swing and then reaches that

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maximum peak.

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It's a little more rounded, so this golfer is probably a little bit more

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consistent than

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the other one, but still would have a scooping or chicken wing look and a

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narrowing right

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after impact.

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So now here are two different good player examples.

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And this is a Tour Pro over here, and then this is a college golfer.

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So a one or a plus or a scratch golfer.

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So you can see it reaches a point at impact that's wider than where he started.

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So it is increasing through the downswing, but it's a little bit more of a cast

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pattern

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and a little bit more of a kind of a scoop pattern, not a huge chicken wing,

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but a little

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bit more of that scoop pattern.

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So this golfer tends to struggle a little bit more off the tee compared to the

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classic

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kind of tour arc width pattern.

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This right here is my favorite graph because it's the most predictive for me.

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If you give me the arc width graph, I know a lot about this golfer as a ball

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striker.

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Typically I have, or I have yet to have someone who really broke the pattern,

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basically who

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golfer who looked like this, who said they were a crappy ball striker or a gol

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fer who

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looked like this that said, you know what, I'm amazing, I'm a great ball

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striker.

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So whenever I have a really strong tendency like that, I pay more attention.

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I don't see the same tendency with something like the kinematic sequence.

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Okay, so now what allows a golfer to develop this solid arc width pattern?

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So basically what are we doing between that phase over there and that position

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there?

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So while this presentation is largely based on the wrist, I wanted to get a

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little bit

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into what the body does.

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So the rotational movement, so the angular movement, so you've got side bend

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away from

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the target, upper body starts to extend, left leg starts to straighten and

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upper body

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to continue to rotate.

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So basically the upper body is going to start to side bend the opposite

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direction.

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It's going from its maximum flex to start going into extension.

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That left leg is starting to straighten and the body is continuing to rotate.

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So it kind of has a look of going through like that.

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The linear movements, this is also the same point.

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So this point, this transition from transition to the release, is where a lot

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of these graphs

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change.

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So there's a lot of events and phenomena are happening at this maximum handle

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speed, maximum

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ground force, maximum lead arm rotation speed point.

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This is where the upper body starts moving away from the target, kind of starts

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the

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bracing process, so going more back that way.

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Lower body keeps going forward but is starting to really stabilize.

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The lower body will raise one to two inches.

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The upper body kind of stays around the same height, so that's part of that br

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acing pattern.

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And then the upper body moves slightly away from the golf ball, but it's very

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slight.

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So a little bit of extension away from the golf ball.

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All right, when we start getting into the arm motions, there's three things we

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think about.

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And you can really apply these three questions to any aspect of golf science,

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which is what

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is happening, why might it be happening, and how do we train it, right?

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How do we teach someone to actually do it?

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So now that we're going to jump into the arm motions, we're going to start with

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the

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3D graphs just to kind of get on the same page.

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And the first little exercise that I want you to do is the seated release.

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So hopefully you're sitting in a chair, and then what I want you to do is

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without moving

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your body.

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So torso, ribs, pelvis, if you're sitting, it's even easier, that doesn't move.

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Just show me what you think your arm should do between this point here and that

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point

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there.

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So I'll give you a second, think about it, try it a few times.

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If you're like most people, you either did this, or you kind of pulled it more

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across

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your body, or you went kind of that where it straightened more across your body

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in general, it typically goes across like so.

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If this is the widest point, the widest point is when the hands are in front of

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the chest.

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So question, ask yourself first, did my hands pass the chest?

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If I think that my hand should pass the chest before I reach that point, then

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my release

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is probably early.

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So the seated release would be going more straight out in front, just like this

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Now the other question asked yourself, is did your arms go down more?

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That would be more like a wedge pattern, or did my arms actually lift?

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That would be more like a driver pattern.

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But this is something to kind of think about, because if you're seated, it lets

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you know

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what you think your arms do compared to your chest, and I can tell you if you

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have a feeling

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of your hands passing your chest, there's no way you're going to get your body

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into

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that tour impact position like we were describing earlier.

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So these are more common kind of patterns where it basically crosses the chest

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and reaches

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out versus staying in front of the chest and not quite passing, kind of like

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that.

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Okay, so now looking at the wrist grafts, we're going to be able to investigate

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bit some of these key movements.

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So when we look at this graft, we've got flexion extension, going up and down

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like this, we've

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got radial and ulnar deviation, so hinge and unhinged, and then we've got sup

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pronation.

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First we'll look at flexion extension of the left wrist.

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This is Steve Elkington, and when it's negative, it's going into extension.

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When it's positive, it's going into flexion.

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So basically he starts with about 25 degrees of left wrist extension.

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During the takeaway, he flexes it or he gets more towards flexion.

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Top of the swing, he extends it and then during the downswing, he goes from

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about 30 degrees

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this way to about 10 degrees that way, kind of like that.

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Now we'll look at pronation supination.

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So pronation supination.

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He's going to start somewhere over here, which is roughly 34 degrees supinated,

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so it's actually

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this way, but the reason it looks that way is because the shoulder is rotated

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internally

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like that.

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It's 34 degrees and then he's going to rotate his arm during the backswing.

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You'll see right here starts to want to steepen and then it rotates even more

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right through

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there, and then from here to here, he covers about 130 degrees of supination,

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like that.

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And you'll see that where it crosses impact, so impact is this black vertical

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line here,

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crosses impact is usually a little bit more pronated than where it was to start

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, but it's

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in the process of going through a lot of supination.

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Okay, and then lastly, we've got radial and ulnar deviation, so looking at

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hinge and

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unhinge.

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Now it's calibrated based off of a ski position, kind of like this, so it's not

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100% calibrated

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to zero, like anatomical neutral.

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It's usually going to err on calibration a little bit more towards a radial

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position,

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but so that would affect the height or the shift, but not the magnitudes and

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how the graph

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looks that will be really consistent.

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So basically he's unhinged of 50 degrees, kind of like this, and then he hinges

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it up

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to the top of the swing.

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You'll see that he doesn't increase it, so a lot of golfers are trying to

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really increase

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the hinge.

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Yes, a number of tour pros do, but a lot of tour pros who don't have a cast

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pattern don't

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increase that hinge, he's actually losing some of the angle and then he loses

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it and

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it reaches its peak after impact.

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So again, ulnar is positive, radial is negative.

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So this is what it typically looks like when you see a risk graph.

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They throw them all on the same one, so down in the key you'll see lead wrist

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ulnar and

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radial deviation or flexion extension or rotation.

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So you can look at the colors there, hopefully they show up pretty well on the

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video.

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But you're looking at some of these same inflection points, so you're looking

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at in transition

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did it supinate, or sorry, did it pronate before it supinates, with the radial

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you're

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looking at when did it start to go unhinged, with the flexion extension you're

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looking

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at the motorcycle movement is basically how much of the downswing, when did

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this start

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and when did it stop going into flexion.

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So somewhere right around impact is typically when golfers will start going out

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of flexion.

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All right, so now we've got Grant, wait, another example, we can see he's got a

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different

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looking swing than Steve Elkington, but we can see some similar patterns here.

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You've got the radial ulnar not really going into a big hinge during the down

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swing, it's

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pretty much staying the same.

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We've got the motorcycle movement happening before he gets to the top of the

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swing.

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So he's getting to the top of the swing, it's starting to flex, and then it

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keeps flexing

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all the way into the downswing and then he loses it just a little bit earlier,

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but you

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can see it's about 30 degrees, 20 degrees, somewhere in that zone, more than

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where it

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was at start when he gets to impact.

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And then the rotation, you'll see the shallowing movement of the arm shallow,

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so the pronation

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there followed by a massive amount of supination.

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So he's again covering about 120 degrees of supination, but he's reaching his

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maximum

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supination well after the golf ball is gone.

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Okay, now this would be an inefficient example or a higher handicap.

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So here you will see this golfer did increase the hinge, but they still have a

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cast pattern

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because it shows up in other, other cast graphs.

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The rotation, so the blue line, he has some pronation, but not much after the

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top of the

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backswing, it just all kind of slowly goes there.

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So that would look more like a steepening pattern like this, as opposed to more

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of a

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shallowing pattern motorcycle.

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You see he extends the wrist, so he's actually opening the face down through

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there, and then

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he motorcycles some.

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Everyone will do some motorcycle, but you'll see he doesn't do very much, so it

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's only

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about 10 degrees different at impact than where it was at setup.

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And it never gets too flex given how he only had 29 degrees of extension to

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start.

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You'd expect him to get close to zero at his max.

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So this is the quick scan looking at those lead wrist graphs.

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So when you're looking at the lead wrist graphs, you're typically looking at

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the timing and

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the amount of the flexion or the motorcycle move, timing and amount of the sup

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ination

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or the arm shallowing in transition or the supination in the follow through,

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and how much

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pronated or supinated were they at impact.

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If I jump back, you'll see with the blue line, this golfer is pretty close to

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the same amount

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of rotation at impact that they were at setup, compared that to grant weight or

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he's a little

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bit less or Steve Elkington, who's even a little bit more, you'll typically see

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more

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pronated at impact with the longer clubs or with the driver compared to am

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ateurs.

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They typically are back to about the same position.

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And then the last one is the timing of the owner, the unhinge and how much re

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hinge in

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transition that relates to how much timing of the flexion you're going to be

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able to

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see.

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Okay.

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So that's the lead wrist.

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Now we're going to cover the trail wrist.

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So same parameters.

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First one looking at Steve Elkington starts with about 15 degrees of extension.

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I forgot to put the little keys, so I'll go through it again, but if you look

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at the

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first part where I had them on there, that can help you.

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So 15 degrees of extension, so he's kind of like this.

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And then during the backswing, he extends it 40 or 50 degrees.

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And then during transition, it stays about the same.

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And then during the downswing, it increases another 10, 15 degrees.

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And then through impact, so he started there, he's more like this at impact, so

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about 20

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or 30 degrees more extended, but it's going this way through impact and it gets

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a little

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bit past zero pronation, supination.

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So now we've got pronation on the bottom, supination on the top.

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So he's starting in a position that is about 45 degrees supination.

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Again, that has to do with where the shoulder is pointing as he goes down.

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So this is a tricky one.

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We'll get into why some of the risk graphs or take some interpretation, but

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this one

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you'll typically see it looks like it steepens like this in transition because

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when it goes

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down, it's pronating.

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So the wrist is basically going or the forearm is going this way during the

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whole backswing,

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which would look like it's going to steepen like this.

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But the shoulder is also rotating, which shallows it back out.

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So typically, this movement here is a sign of trail arm external rotation golf

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ers who

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typically don't have that typically look like it goes more, you know, flying

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elbow

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or arm out that way.

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And then you'll tend to see a lot of supination reaching its maximum peak

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pretty close to impact.

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Golfers who have more of a flip roll, you'll tend this peak, you'll send to see

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the peak

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earlier than impact.

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Okay, now we got radial and ulnar.

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This is one of the trickier ones.

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This is one of my favorite graphs to look at because it reveals one of the key

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movements.

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It reveals the wipe from the wrist perspective.

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You can also get a wipe from the lead elbow, but this is where you'll see the

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wipe from

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the wrist perspective.

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So basically he's got a certain amount of unhinged, increases it to the top of

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the swing

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or close to it as he gets to the top, he loses it a little bit, loads it more

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in transition,

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starts to unload, and then rehinges it before he releases it into impact.

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So when it's going down, it's increasing, right?

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So he's increasing the hinge, releases some, increases more, and then releases.

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So he's increasing, releasing some through there, increasing through there in

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order to

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get the energy working more across his body and towards the target instead of

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down.

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Typically, golfers who don't have that second peak where it looks just like a

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straight line,

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you'll tend to see it release more straight behind the body, kind of like this,

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instead

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of getting in front of the body there.

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So that's one of the ways to see the wipe movement.

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If you put all three together, you're looking at, you'll see kind of these dips

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.

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You're looking for the dips in the downswing with all of them.

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So you're looking for the increased extension, you're looking for the shall

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owing movement,

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and you're looking for the wipe by looking at the trail wrist.

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So here's Steve Elkington, again, with similar or slightly different looking

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patterns, but

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similar kind of things.

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Really big white movement there, really big extension movement, not quite as

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big of a arm

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shallowing movement from the trail arm, he had more of it from the lead arm,

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but you can

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see the overall pattern looks fairly similar.

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This is your now, your higher handicap, the guy who didn't have a very good arc

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with.

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You'll see tiny little plateau, but not really increasing, he reaches maximum

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extension well

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before the top of the swing.

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So that's more of a cast pattern, even though his left wrist went like this

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during the downswing.

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Same thing with his radial, tiny little, what not really a wipe, you know, this

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would look

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like it was more of a scoop behind his body.

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And then again, no real continued pronation, it just starts supinating right

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away, and then

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it changes direction well before impact.

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So this would look like steep and then roll on the way through.

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Okay, so trail wrist, you're asking yourself the same question.

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So timing of the wrist extension, did it increase in the downswing, timing of

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the amount of

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supination pronation, did it pronate or supinate in transition?

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That's looking at arm shallowing and giving you an idea of what the shoulder

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did.

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How early before impact did it stop supinating?

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Because that's a sign that the where the shoulder is and how the shoulder is

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working.

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We'll talk about that here in a second.

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Timing of the ulnar or the unhinged, if there's a downswing rehinged, there's a

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good chance

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he's got a solid white movement.

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Okay, so summarizing all the arm movements, the lead arm and trail arm are

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working a little

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bit across the body.

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The lead arm is going to bend.

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We didn't look at the lead elbow, but we saw that the wrist were going to un

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hinged and

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straightened through impact.

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The elbows move closer together through impact.

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Again, we were focusing mostly on the wrist.

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Both arms supinate or work palm up during the downswing and both wrists will un

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hinged

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and then maintain it past impact.

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The other one that I put on there is they're both going to be about 20 to 30

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degrees more

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motorcycle.

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We're rotated that way compared to where they were at set up.

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Kind of looks, that's my version, looks something like that.

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Okay, so when we started, I said we were going to do what, why, and how.

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We covered the what.

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That's what the graphs look like.

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Now we're going to cover the why.

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We're going to look at some of the arm anatomy and we're going to run you

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through a little

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test.

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Basic shoulder movements.

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We'll do some advanced shoulder movements at some point, but basic shoulder

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movements

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is looking at flexion extension.

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Flexion extension this way and then we've got horizontal abduction, adduction,

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so going

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off to the side.

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We've got internal external or medial lateral rotation and then we'll move on

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to the shoulder

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blades.

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The shoulder blades can elevate or depress.

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They can add duct or abduct, which moving in and out towards the spine, or as

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you raise

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your arms up, they will tend to upward or downward rotate.

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There are combos that you'll see where the shoulder does one thing when the

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shoulder blade

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does another.

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It's virtually impossible to move just your shoulder without moving your

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shoulder blade

512
00:25:23.340 --> 00:25:26.660
or to move your shoulder blade without moving your shoulder.

513
00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:27.660
Great.

514
00:25:27.660 --> 00:25:32.490
Normal range of motion for the elbows, pronation, supination, kind of looking

515
00:25:32.490 --> 00:25:33.500
like this, and

516
00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:37.780
then fully unhinged or flexed.

517
00:25:37.780 --> 00:25:41.420
That leaves us with the last two movements being wrist movements.

518
00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:46.260
You've got hinge, unhinged, and you've got flexion extension.

519
00:25:46.260 --> 00:25:52.700
Technically pronation, supination is a forearm movement, not a wrist movement.

520
00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:56.260
These are the two natural combinations.

521
00:25:56.260 --> 00:26:04.620
You've got flexion of the wrist, comboed with ulnar deviation, comboed with sup

522
00:26:04.620 --> 00:26:05.380
ination

523
00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:07.820
like this, and you've got the opposite.

524
00:26:07.820 --> 00:26:12.740
You've got pronation, comboed with slight extension and radial deviation, kind

525
00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:14.580
of like that.

526
00:26:14.580 --> 00:26:16.820
Hey, look at this.

527
00:26:16.820 --> 00:26:21.940
We've got Hogan talking about and demonstrating that natural combination.

528
00:26:21.940 --> 00:26:25.460
He says the left wrist begins to supinate at impact.

529
00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:30.170
The wrist bone, the raised wrist bone, so he's, by raising it, he's talking

530
00:26:30.170 --> 00:26:30.700
about ulnar

531
00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:35.100
deviation, the raised wrist bone points to the target.

532
00:26:35.100 --> 00:26:37.020
Now he says that it begins to supinate at impact.

533
00:26:37.020 --> 00:26:40.890
He may have been really good at feeling when it crossed zero, but what we saw

534
00:26:40.890 --> 00:26:41.460
on those

535
00:26:41.460 --> 00:26:47.510
graphs and what you can see here, the wrist is supinating, starting well back

536
00:26:47.510 --> 00:26:48.380
here, and

537
00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:50.700
then it finishes supinating here.

538
00:26:50.700 --> 00:26:54.460
He's describing that it supinates starting here, but it happens much earlier.

539
00:26:54.460 --> 00:27:00.420
I'm a big fan of teaching kind of a slow, fluid release helps with consistency.

540
00:27:00.420 --> 00:27:06.640
All right, if you have trouble for remembering that combination, just think of

541
00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.460
biting an

542
00:27:07.460 --> 00:27:08.460
apple.

543
00:27:08.460 --> 00:27:11.580
So if you grabbed an apple and you were going to bring it up to your mouth, the

544
00:27:11.580 --> 00:27:12.020
elbow and

545
00:27:12.020 --> 00:27:15.220
supination is the joint of eating.

546
00:27:15.220 --> 00:27:19.360
Now there's one theory that that means it's more precise than going the

547
00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:20.780
opposite direction.

548
00:27:20.780 --> 00:27:25.620
If I'm going out that way, I'm more about defense or attack and it's more about

549
00:27:25.620 --> 00:27:26.340
power,

550
00:27:26.340 --> 00:27:27.900
it's not about precision.

551
00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:30.510
But if I'm bringing something up to my mouth, I've got to make sure that I'm

552
00:27:30.510 --> 00:27:31.180
bringing it

553
00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:32.180
in close.

554
00:27:32.180 --> 00:27:36.330
That's one of the reasons why supination may be a more precise way of

555
00:27:36.330 --> 00:27:37.660
transferring energy

556
00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:41.020
or controlling the club than pronation.

557
00:27:41.020 --> 00:27:47.670
But you can see the natural combination of flexing the elbow, supinating, those

558
00:27:47.670 --> 00:27:48.100
are both

559
00:27:48.100 --> 00:27:53.290
done by the bicep and then ulnar deviating and flexing to bring it towards the

560
00:27:53.290 --> 00:27:54.080
mouth.

561
00:27:54.080 --> 00:28:00.400
All right, so remember, this is the graph that we're trying to discuss as far

562
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:01.060
as why

563
00:28:01.060 --> 00:28:06.620
we can see those combinations of flexion, ulnar deviation, supination.

564
00:28:06.620 --> 00:28:11.060
With the trail wrist, you can see flexion, ulnar deviation.

565
00:28:11.060 --> 00:28:13.840
Now those two are not lined up, so there's some timings for the right wrist

566
00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:14.340
where it's

567
00:28:14.340 --> 00:28:21.020
working against that natural combination, partly fighting or working against

568
00:28:21.020 --> 00:28:21.620
some of

569
00:28:21.620 --> 00:28:24.100
the resistance of the club.

570
00:28:24.100 --> 00:28:29.610
But you'll see the supination, flexion, ulnar deviation, pattern emerging on

571
00:28:29.610 --> 00:28:30.340
both graphs,

572
00:28:30.340 --> 00:28:32.900
just slightly different with the trail wrist.

573
00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:37.040
All right, why, you can see the question mark here, why don't I have 3D motion

574
00:28:37.040 --> 00:28:37.780
measurement

575
00:28:37.780 --> 00:28:40.100
of the shoulder?

576
00:28:40.100 --> 00:28:43.300
Well, from what I understand, it's tricky.

577
00:28:43.300 --> 00:28:46.830
I messaged Sacha Mackenzie and talked to him at one point and he said, trying

578
00:28:46.830 --> 00:28:47.220
to measure

579
00:28:47.220 --> 00:28:52.180
those shoulder movements that I described is similar to trying to measure the

580
00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:53.020
individual

581
00:28:53.020 --> 00:28:54.420
forces of each finger.

582
00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:56.740
It just gets really noisy and messy.

583
00:28:56.740 --> 00:29:02.590
There's something called codman's paradox, which is basically when you have two

584
00:29:02.590 --> 00:29:03.180
linear

585
00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:07.320
emotions with the shoulder, sometimes you get a bleed over, or there's a

586
00:29:07.320 --> 00:29:08.820
natural rotation.

587
00:29:08.820 --> 00:29:12.970
Because the way that the shoulder sits in the socket, it kind of pivots as it

588
00:29:12.970 --> 00:29:13.440
goes up

589
00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:14.440
to the side.

590
00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:17.340
So codman's paradox is usually described this way.

591
00:29:17.340 --> 00:29:23.170
I have my thumb facing you, I'm going to bring my arm out to the side, my thumb

592
00:29:23.170 --> 00:29:23.620
is still

593
00:29:23.620 --> 00:29:24.620
facing you.

594
00:29:24.620 --> 00:29:28.260
I'm going to bring my arm down, so I did a linear movement.

595
00:29:28.260 --> 00:29:32.410
I did horizontal abduction, and then I did extension of the shoulder, and now

596
00:29:32.410 --> 00:29:32.940
my thumb

597
00:29:32.940 --> 00:29:35.460
is pointing 180 degrees behind me.

598
00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:40.420
So I did two linear movements and I ended up with 180 degrees of rotation.

599
00:29:40.420 --> 00:29:44.730
There's some bleed over where possibly shoulder movements could be accurate for

600
00:29:44.730 --> 00:29:45.580
measuring in

601
00:29:45.580 --> 00:29:50.350
certain ranges, close to neutral, but towards the extremes, you have no idea

602
00:29:50.350 --> 00:29:51.380
what movements

603
00:29:51.380 --> 00:29:54.980
were actually happening with the current technologies.

604
00:29:54.980 --> 00:29:58.020
So that creates some noise.

605
00:29:58.020 --> 00:29:59.060
All right.

606
00:29:59.060 --> 00:30:03.620
One way to work through, why does this matter?

607
00:30:03.620 --> 00:30:08.080
I'm a big believer that the shoulder is just as important as the wrist, if not

608
00:30:08.080 --> 00:30:08.740
more so.

609
00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:10.500
So we're going to do a little exercise.

610
00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:18.450
So grab a pen, and you're going to grab a sheet of paper, grab a pen, give you,

611
00:30:18.450 --> 00:30:19.060
I'll

612
00:30:19.060 --> 00:30:21.820
keep stalling, talk for a little bit.

613
00:30:21.820 --> 00:30:24.770
What I want you to do is assuming you've got them both, I want you to just sign

614
00:30:24.770 --> 00:30:25.100
your

615
00:30:25.100 --> 00:30:26.100
name.

616
00:30:26.100 --> 00:30:27.100
All right.

617
00:30:27.100 --> 00:30:30.260
So take 10 seconds, sign your name.

618
00:30:30.260 --> 00:30:35.030
Now I want you to try and anchor your elbow, and you're going to sign your name

619
00:30:35.030 --> 00:30:35.740
just using

620
00:30:35.740 --> 00:30:41.540
your wrist, really hyper-focused on controlling the movement with your wrist.

621
00:30:41.540 --> 00:30:43.300
Good.

622
00:30:43.300 --> 00:30:50.540
Next, or lastly, I want you to now sign your name using your shoulder.

623
00:30:50.540 --> 00:30:52.540
And you may find ones bigger or smaller.

624
00:30:52.540 --> 00:30:55.980
That's not what we're looking at, but just sign it with the wrist, sign it with

625
00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:57.580
the shoulder.

626
00:30:57.580 --> 00:31:00.880
If you're like most people, what you might have found is that one is more

627
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:01.580
comfortable

628
00:31:01.580 --> 00:31:04.980
than the other because you're used to doing it one way or the other.

629
00:31:04.980 --> 00:31:09.120
But what you might have found is that the shoulder produced more fluid lines

630
00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:09.460
while the

631
00:31:09.460 --> 00:31:12.940
wrist produced more sharp and precise lines.

632
00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:17.420
Well the question becomes, what do I want down during this release zone?

633
00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:23.820
Do I want more short precise movements, or do I want larger fluid movements?

634
00:31:23.820 --> 00:31:30.850
Well, if you talk to surgeons, general surgeons, not surgeons who do microsur

635
00:31:30.850 --> 00:31:32.900
gery, like I've

636
00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:37.240
got a surgeon who works on eyes and he does it all with his wrist because it's

637
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:37.700
really

638
00:31:37.700 --> 00:31:42.410
fine movements, but if you talk to general surgeons, surgeons who are known for

639
00:31:42.410 --> 00:31:42.740
having

640
00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:47.300
steady hands typically control it more with the shoulder.

641
00:31:47.300 --> 00:31:52.060
In addition, artists typically do broad smooth lines with the shoulder and then

642
00:31:52.060 --> 00:31:52.540
go in to

643
00:31:52.540 --> 00:31:59.500
do the tiny details with the wrist, and one other that you can tell towards the

644
00:31:59.500 --> 00:31:59.980
end of

645
00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:04.690
the day, I need to shave again, so shaving instructions, if you're ever looking

646
00:32:04.690 --> 00:32:05.260
at details

647
00:32:05.260 --> 00:32:10.100
of shaving, it's more of a shoulder movement to get large smooth lines, not a

648
00:32:10.100 --> 00:32:11.380
wrist movement.

649
00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:17.250
So there's possibly some, maybe some ideas from other activities that could

650
00:32:17.250 --> 00:32:18.140
bleed over

651
00:32:18.140 --> 00:32:23.140
into golf, as far as wanting to control this motion more with the shoulder.

652
00:32:23.140 --> 00:32:26.020
So do we want more of the long gradual or short precise?

653
00:32:26.020 --> 00:32:29.260
I think we might want more of the long gradual.

654
00:32:29.260 --> 00:32:34.780
Here's another argument for it, which is, if I'm controlling the movement with

655
00:32:34.780 --> 00:32:35.100
the

656
00:32:35.100 --> 00:32:40.150
shoulder, then the movement is being driven by the muscles of the shoulder,

657
00:32:40.150 --> 00:32:41.260
that's sending

658
00:32:41.260 --> 00:32:44.580
signals out from the spinal cord to the muscles of the shoulder.

659
00:32:44.580 --> 00:32:48.900
That means that the muscles of the hand can be more sensing and feeling what's

660
00:32:48.900 --> 00:32:49.340
going

661
00:32:49.340 --> 00:32:52.620
on and helping make little small adjustments.

662
00:32:52.620 --> 00:32:58.130
Basically, you can either send the information from the spinal cord out or it

663
00:32:58.130 --> 00:32:59.060
will come back

664
00:32:59.060 --> 00:33:02.940
from the muscle, but it doesn't do both at the same time.

665
00:33:02.940 --> 00:33:07.780
So if you are trying to sense and feel what the club is doing and respond to

666
00:33:07.780 --> 00:33:08.620
each swing

667
00:33:08.620 --> 00:33:12.380
in the little micro movements that are happening with the club, it'd be better

668
00:33:12.380 --> 00:33:12.980
to have one

669
00:33:12.980 --> 00:33:16.780
part listening in order to have the hand listening, that means that you can't

670
00:33:16.780 --> 00:33:17.860
be using the muscles

671
00:33:17.860 --> 00:33:22.030
creating a whole lot of force going out, it'd be better to have the force and

672
00:33:22.030 --> 00:33:22.740
the movements

673
00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:28.900
driven by the shoulder and the fine motions kind of responding more with the

674
00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:29.700
hand.

675
00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:36.620
Okay, so looking at the 3D graphs, we talked about the bleed over the shoulder.

676
00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:39.820
Some of the graphs are more easy to read than others.

677
00:33:39.820 --> 00:33:44.530
Some extension is pretty good, supination pronation, I'll show you, there's

678
00:33:44.530 --> 00:33:45.460
some challenges

679
00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:47.900
with that, radial malnouris thing is pretty good.

680
00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:51.030
This is the one that you have to be really careful about, is interpreting pron

681
00:33:51.030 --> 00:33:51.980
ation, supination

682
00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:57.060
and saying that, yeah, that's exactly what I think I saw.

683
00:33:57.060 --> 00:34:02.000
For example, I've seen both of these 3D graphs, you got Phil versus Henrik, who

684
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.140
has more lead

685
00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:04.260
arm supination?

686
00:34:04.260 --> 00:34:08.400
So in one case, you can see the club is turned on an angle kind of like this,

687
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:08.940
and then the

688
00:34:08.940 --> 00:34:11.620
other one is pretty vertical there.

689
00:34:11.620 --> 00:34:17.140
Well, what gives, we'll get into a test to help determine this, but the

690
00:34:17.140 --> 00:34:18.220
shoulder has

691
00:34:18.220 --> 00:34:22.930
a big impact on how much supination, so Henrik actually has about 20 degrees

692
00:34:22.930 --> 00:34:23.660
more supination

693
00:34:23.660 --> 00:34:25.780
at this point than Phil does.

694
00:34:25.780 --> 00:34:31.680
You can see here that because Phil's shoulder is in such great external

695
00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:33.740
rotation, he wouldn't

696
00:34:33.740 --> 00:34:38.450
also be supinated or else the club would be actually pointing like way down

697
00:34:38.450 --> 00:34:39.060
there.

698
00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:43.200
So the more that the shoulder stays blocked off or in internal rotation, the

699
00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:43.940
more supination

700
00:34:43.940 --> 00:34:48.080
you'll have, the more that the shoulder goes in external rotation, the less sup

701
00:34:48.080 --> 00:34:48.380
ination

702
00:34:48.380 --> 00:34:50.700
you'll have.

703
00:34:50.700 --> 00:34:56.700
Okay, remember what it looked like when we looked at the trail arm only graph?

704
00:34:56.700 --> 00:35:06.550
Well, these 2 graphs, if you were to look from just here over, you'd see that

705
00:35:06.550 --> 00:35:07.940
there's

706
00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:08.940
some similarities.

707
00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:12.350
There's definitely some differences, especially in the blue graph here, but

708
00:35:12.350 --> 00:35:13.100
through impact

709
00:35:13.100 --> 00:35:19.600
from here through here, this is supinating, this is ulnar deviating, this is

710
00:35:19.600 --> 00:35:20.700
flexing.

711
00:35:20.700 --> 00:35:29.940
This is ulnar deviating, this is, yeah, ulnar deviating, supinating, flexing.

712
00:35:29.940 --> 00:35:34.800
So here if we zoom in, okay, there's a little difference here in the blue line

713
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:35.540
where it's

714
00:35:35.540 --> 00:35:41.200
definitely, this guy's got more of a shallow movement than that one, but there

715
00:35:41.200 --> 00:35:41.780
's some

716
00:35:41.780 --> 00:35:48.430
much more similar patterns here than you would expect to see with a good and a

717
00:35:48.430 --> 00:35:49.380
poor golf

718
00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:50.380
swing.

719
00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:55.890
Okay, so first we're going to look at the one, this is the good golfer, and I

720
00:35:55.890 --> 00:35:56.500
'll let it

721
00:35:56.500 --> 00:36:04.100
play through twice, and I just want you to observe.

722
00:36:04.100 --> 00:36:09.320
So there it is, kind of at regular speed, and then here it is, getting in the

723
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:09.860
super

724
00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:16.090
slo-mo, so getting into frame by frame down through here, and just look at the

725
00:36:16.090 --> 00:36:17.220
right arm.

726
00:36:17.220 --> 00:36:26.340
Okay, pretty good looking right arm mechanics.

727
00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:32.200
Now we've got the golfer on the left, so the graphs looked fairly similar, or

728
00:36:32.200 --> 00:36:33.020
slightly

729
00:36:33.020 --> 00:36:42.340
similar, but on video we're starting to see some drastic differences, right?

730
00:36:42.340 --> 00:36:47.060
So the shoulder position is very different on this golfer than the other golfer

731
00:36:47.060 --> 00:36:47.500
, but

732
00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:50.860
the forearm movements are quite similar.

733
00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:55.000
So part of what would give this golfer low point and face control issues is

734
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:55.380
more what's

735
00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:59.640
happening at the shoulder, not necessarily the forearms, and you can use those

736
00:36:59.640 --> 00:37:00.140
forearm

737
00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:04.280
and wrist grafts to see it, but in my opinion the biggest difference is more

738
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:04.500
happening

739
00:37:04.500 --> 00:37:06.740
what's at the shoulder.

740
00:37:06.740 --> 00:37:11.220
So here's a picture, the one is more across his body, kind of like this, the

741
00:37:11.220 --> 00:37:11.860
other one

742
00:37:11.860 --> 00:37:15.950
is way back here, those are very different shoulder position orientations, but

743
00:37:15.950 --> 00:37:18.680
as a result, that

744
00:37:18.680 --> 00:37:25.260
forearm and that forearm are in quite similar positions.

745
00:37:25.260 --> 00:37:29.640
So here it is again, I'll just let you scan that, you can pause it if you want

746
00:37:29.640 --> 00:37:29.980
to take

747
00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:34.690
a closer look, but you'll see that there are some differences maybe in some tim

748
00:37:34.690 --> 00:37:35.620
ings, but

749
00:37:35.620 --> 00:37:40.030
there's not as big a difference here in the graphs as you would expect to see

750
00:37:40.030 --> 00:37:40.620
based on

751
00:37:40.620 --> 00:37:42.700
those two videos.

752
00:37:42.700 --> 00:37:48.210
Okay so, artistry is kind of knowing how to use the science to turn it into

753
00:37:48.210 --> 00:37:48.580
more of

754
00:37:48.580 --> 00:37:52.060
a coaching or more of a practical application.

755
00:37:52.060 --> 00:37:57.570
So these pictures are sketches from Leonardo da Vinci, one of the best artists,

756
00:37:57.570 --> 00:37:58.140
and he was

757
00:37:58.140 --> 00:38:03.280
meticulous about measuring and mapping some of these ratios of how the face

758
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:04.100
looked, how

759
00:38:04.100 --> 00:38:06.260
the body looked, all these proportions.

760
00:38:06.260 --> 00:38:09.780
If you didn't have the proportions right, the artistry looked like it was a

761
00:38:09.780 --> 00:38:10.460
mess because

762
00:38:10.460 --> 00:38:12.500
it just didn't look accurate.

763
00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:17.540
You can use the graphs to kind of pinpoint some of these general things, but

764
00:38:17.540 --> 00:38:18.180
then you

765
00:38:18.180 --> 00:38:22.320
also have to use video and some of your common sense and some of your feedback

766
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.340
based on is

767
00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:28.850
a low point issue, is it a club face issue, is it a power issue, not just going

768
00:38:28.850 --> 00:38:29.260
off what

769
00:38:29.260 --> 00:38:32.020
the graphs say.

770
00:38:32.020 --> 00:38:36.060
Okay so I started at the beginning by saying what are my absolutes?

771
00:38:36.060 --> 00:38:39.740
Absolutes, I want a really good arc with graph, which is longer in the follow

772
00:38:39.740 --> 00:38:40.380
through and

773
00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:42.060
more of a plateau than a peak.

774
00:38:42.060 --> 00:38:45.410
To get that, I want both arms straightening or getting closer together through

775
00:38:45.410 --> 00:38:45.940
impact.

776
00:38:45.940 --> 00:38:50.800
I want my flexion extensions to be 15 to 30 degrees, probably closer to 20 to

777
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.940
30 degrees,

778
00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:55.620
but I included that because of a few outliers.

779
00:38:55.620 --> 00:39:00.480
And then pronation, supination, the longer clubs are going to have more sup

780
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:01.260
ination than

781
00:39:01.260 --> 00:39:06.060
the shorter clubs during the release and the trail arm is going to tend to show

782
00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:06.660
more of

783
00:39:06.660 --> 00:39:08.020
a late pronation.

784
00:39:08.020 --> 00:39:11.500
These are kind of my absolutes for looking at a tour release.

785
00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:12.500
How?

786
00:39:12.500 --> 00:39:16.180
All right, how do we train this whole arm to work?

787
00:39:16.180 --> 00:39:21.690
Well, I'm going to show you, one of the things that was, let's say, more

788
00:39:21.690 --> 00:39:22.980
popular or highly

789
00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:26.360
received at the World Golf Fitness Summit is this test I'm going to show you

790
00:39:26.360 --> 00:39:26.980
now, which

791
00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:30.310
most of you have probably seen the pelvis, the torso disassociation test, which

792
00:39:30.310 --> 00:39:30.980
is basically

793
00:39:30.980 --> 00:39:34.500
getting in your golf posture and seeing if you can turn your lower body or your

794
00:39:34.500 --> 00:39:34.860
upper

795
00:39:34.860 --> 00:39:36.820
body, if you can move them independently.

796
00:39:36.820 --> 00:39:39.540
Well we're going to do the same thing for the arm because we saw that there's

797
00:39:39.540 --> 00:39:40.060
some bleed

798
00:39:40.060 --> 00:39:43.620
over with what happens with the forearm and what happens with the shoulder.

799
00:39:43.620 --> 00:39:45.020
So here's what we're going to do.

800
00:39:45.020 --> 00:39:46.500
We're going to do it at 90 degrees first.

801
00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:48.900
So I've got my arms at my sides just like this.

802
00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:51.980
Can you move your palms out just like that?

803
00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:54.900
This is moving the shoulder without moving the forearm.

804
00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:59.740
Now arms at your sides, you're going to rotate palm up, palm down.

805
00:39:59.740 --> 00:40:03.020
This is moving the forearm without moving the shoulder.

806
00:40:03.020 --> 00:40:05.900
So shoulder, forearm.

807
00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:08.660
Now you're going to take one arm and you're going to put it up to your side

808
00:40:08.660 --> 00:40:09.220
just like

809
00:40:09.220 --> 00:40:10.220
so.

810
00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:14.980
But I want you to do and I'll pull up my sleeves so you can see my elbow.

811
00:40:14.980 --> 00:40:19.270
So without moving your elbow, I want you to try and turn palm up, palm down or

812
00:40:19.270 --> 00:40:19.820
moving

813
00:40:19.820 --> 00:40:22.060
the elbow as little as possible.

814
00:40:22.060 --> 00:40:26.260
So this is moving the forearm without moving the shoulder.

815
00:40:26.260 --> 00:40:29.660
Next some of you may have had trouble just make a note on that.

816
00:40:29.660 --> 00:40:35.140
Next keep the palm facing down and now I want you to turn elbow up, elbow down.

817
00:40:35.140 --> 00:40:41.040
So now this is moving the shoulder without moving the forearm.

818
00:40:41.040 --> 00:40:46.290
So you can do forearm without shoulder or shoulder without forearm just like

819
00:40:46.290 --> 00:40:46.940
you were

820
00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:48.620
doing here.

821
00:40:48.620 --> 00:40:52.840
If you have a hard time differentiating or disassociating the two of those,

822
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:53.780
then typically

823
00:40:53.780 --> 00:40:56.740
what will happen is when you go to move your forearm or your shoulder they'll

824
00:40:56.740 --> 00:40:57.260
be blended

825
00:40:57.260 --> 00:40:58.500
together.

826
00:40:58.500 --> 00:41:02.890
What I've found is that golfers who tend to have more of a really big role

827
00:41:02.890 --> 00:41:03.860
style release

828
00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:06.840
struggle mightily with that disassociation.

829
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:12.350
And golfers who are able to disassociate can more easily get the shoulder in a

830
00:41:12.350 --> 00:41:12.820
better

831
00:41:12.820 --> 00:41:13.820
position.

832
00:41:13.820 --> 00:41:15.620
So that's a good thing that you can practice.

833
00:41:15.620 --> 00:41:19.860
You can easily just put your arm on a bookshelf or something like that to kind

834
00:41:19.860 --> 00:41:22.180
of walk it down.

835
00:41:22.180 --> 00:41:25.710
That'll help you stabilize the hand and you can learn to move the shoulder or

836
00:41:25.710 --> 00:41:26.140
you can

837
00:41:26.140 --> 00:41:28.420
take your arm and turn everything down.

838
00:41:28.420 --> 00:41:30.460
So now everything went down together.

839
00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:35.310
Take the elbow in its position and turn the forearm up because that's usually

840
00:41:35.310 --> 00:41:36.060
easier.

841
00:41:36.060 --> 00:41:40.540
And then relax the shoulder and then try to get it right back where it was.

842
00:41:40.540 --> 00:41:42.060
So I'll walk you through that little sequence again.

843
00:41:42.060 --> 00:41:46.270
To learn how to move just the shoulder, turn everything down, then turn just

844
00:41:46.270 --> 00:41:47.180
the forearm.

845
00:41:47.180 --> 00:41:50.100
Now you're in the position, the end position you're trying to get to.

846
00:41:50.100 --> 00:41:52.220
This is like practicing follow through position.

847
00:41:52.220 --> 00:41:55.420
Now relax the shoulder and then get right back to where you are.

848
00:41:55.420 --> 00:42:01.140
And you'll just get better and better at rotating the shoulder without moving

849
00:42:01.140 --> 00:42:02.420
the forearm.

850
00:42:02.420 --> 00:42:03.420
Okay.

851
00:42:03.420 --> 00:42:06.850
Like I said, that was one of the more popular little segments at the World Golf

852
00:42:06.850 --> 00:42:07.340
Fitness

853
00:42:07.340 --> 00:42:09.540
Summit.

854
00:42:09.540 --> 00:42:13.940
If you have trouble, you can focus on the awareness of doing either supported

855
00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:14.460
or that

856
00:42:14.460 --> 00:42:15.460
end range training.

857
00:42:15.460 --> 00:42:16.660
That's why I just showed you.

858
00:42:16.660 --> 00:42:19.560
And there's two different stretches that you can use.

859
00:42:19.560 --> 00:42:21.460
One is thumb down, one is thumb out.

860
00:42:21.460 --> 00:42:25.000
So the two different stretches, thumb down, you're going to hold your arm out.

861
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.330
And thumb down, you're going to block your hand so this stays vertical and then

862
00:42:29.330 --> 00:42:29.800
you're

863
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:32.420
going to bring it in towards your chest.

864
00:42:32.420 --> 00:42:39.090
Now you can add a little bit extra shoulder movement to help create an extra

865
00:42:39.090 --> 00:42:40.020
stretch by

866
00:42:40.020 --> 00:42:42.860
either pushing away or pushing down.

867
00:42:42.860 --> 00:42:45.500
So that's thumb down.

868
00:42:45.500 --> 00:42:50.140
And then the second one, well I always have to think about these, is thumb out.

869
00:42:50.140 --> 00:42:55.650
So thumb out, now you're going to pull straight down, keeping the hand vertical

870
00:42:55.650 --> 00:42:55.960
.

871
00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:00.100
So you're going basically from your chin down towards your belly button and

872
00:43:00.100 --> 00:43:00.520
then you

873
00:43:00.520 --> 00:43:03.100
can move the elbow slightly away.

874
00:43:03.100 --> 00:43:07.080
So I'm moving the elbow towards the camera to increase the stretch.

875
00:43:07.080 --> 00:43:10.400
You don't, with forearm muscles you don't want to overdo it.

876
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:16.720
So you just want to do a nice gentle stretch, hold it for about 30 seconds or

877
00:43:16.720 --> 00:43:17.320
so.

878
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:22.830
Okay, my favorite drills, if you're a coach on the site, you know that some of

879
00:43:22.830 --> 00:43:23.660
my favorite

880
00:43:23.660 --> 00:43:27.800
drills for training the arms, for golfers who are willing to put in the work,

881
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:28.260
are the

882
00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:33.040
single arm drills, which includes the open trail hand or the homework of doing

883
00:43:33.040 --> 00:43:33.620
the single

884
00:43:33.620 --> 00:43:34.620
arm throws.

885
00:43:34.620 --> 00:43:37.950
I'm not going to go into these in great detail because you have these here on

886
00:43:37.950 --> 00:43:38.780
the site.

887
00:43:38.780 --> 00:43:41.820
In fact, they're linked over on the side.

888
00:43:41.820 --> 00:43:46.900
So lead arm only, big key here is looking at the motorcycle and looking at the

889
00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:47.740
connection

890
00:43:47.740 --> 00:43:51.460
of the upper body, lower body, or sorry, upper body and arm.

891
00:43:51.460 --> 00:43:55.200
So basically making sure that everything comes through together, not pulling

892
00:43:55.200 --> 00:43:56.200
with the wrist,

893
00:43:56.200 --> 00:43:58.740
going into extension or pulling with the shoulder.

894
00:43:58.740 --> 00:44:01.320
So everything going through to control the bottom of the swing.

895
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:07.580
There's really a pivot drill hidden as a hand awareness drill.

896
00:44:07.580 --> 00:44:12.840
Okay, the trail arm, the key to that one is more of having that wipe movement

897
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:13.760
and getting

898
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:15.740
that arm to match up.

899
00:44:15.740 --> 00:44:19.700
Whenever you're doing single arm drills to train educated hands, your goal is

900
00:44:19.700 --> 00:44:20.140
to get the

901
00:44:20.140 --> 00:44:25.380
same contact in ball flight regardless of which hand you're using.

902
00:44:25.380 --> 00:44:28.330
Then the open hand drill kind of combines them together where basically you put

903
00:44:28.330 --> 00:44:28.580
your

904
00:44:28.580 --> 00:44:31.100
hands on, you open the trail hand.

905
00:44:31.100 --> 00:44:34.600
If you keep that connection of the lead arm and you keep that wipe movement

906
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:35.220
going with

907
00:44:35.220 --> 00:44:39.360
some good motorcycle movement, you will be able to maintain some pressure in

908
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:39.780
that index

909
00:44:39.780 --> 00:44:42.500
finger on the club.

910
00:44:42.500 --> 00:44:45.650
If you don't, if you have more of a scoop, then you'll tend to feel your hand

911
00:44:45.650 --> 00:44:46.100
slide so

912
00:44:46.100 --> 00:44:48.980
it gives really good instant feedback.

913
00:44:48.980 --> 00:44:54.460
Okay, so we're just going to look at a couple case studies.

914
00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:59.420
This is more of a golfer who had a lead arm priority.

915
00:44:59.420 --> 00:45:05.710
This is the kind of before version of his swing, I'll just let everything play

916
00:45:05.710 --> 00:45:06.380
out.

917
00:45:06.380 --> 00:45:11.180
You can see a little bit kind of scoopy down there through the bottom.

918
00:45:11.180 --> 00:45:12.860
This was the right arm.

919
00:45:12.860 --> 00:45:16.220
You see decent wipe, decent arm extension.

920
00:45:16.220 --> 00:45:21.780
We'll see it again.

921
00:45:21.780 --> 00:45:23.700
Maybe a tiny bit of rotation.

922
00:45:23.700 --> 00:45:26.820
He's a little stuck with his forearms.

923
00:45:26.820 --> 00:45:28.020
Lead arm.

924
00:45:28.020 --> 00:45:32.820
The wrist position is pretty good, but it's very much pulled across by his body

925
00:45:32.820 --> 00:45:33.180
.

926
00:45:33.180 --> 00:45:36.020
This was actually after trying to train a little bit.

927
00:45:36.020 --> 00:45:39.170
That was him trying to do the shadow for the first time, and then that was him

928
00:45:39.170 --> 00:45:39.580
trying

929
00:45:39.580 --> 00:45:43.900
to do the shadow for the second time leading into the open hand.

930
00:45:43.900 --> 00:45:48.050
This is after doing a little bit of shadow work or trail arm work, and you can

931
00:45:48.050 --> 00:45:48.620
see that

932
00:45:48.620 --> 00:45:53.330
the arms kind of help each other out and sync up and clean up the pivot and

933
00:45:53.330 --> 00:45:54.060
help improve

934
00:45:54.060 --> 00:45:57.060
the low point.

935
00:45:57.060 --> 00:46:00.540
This is more of a trail arm priority.

936
00:46:00.540 --> 00:46:05.060
This one we've got in slow motion.

937
00:46:05.060 --> 00:46:10.580
This is just the swing presented, and you'll see that on the way through, big

938
00:46:10.580 --> 00:46:15.500
chicken wing,

939
00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:22.500
kind of scoop arm going into more trail arm rotation just like that.

940
00:46:22.500 --> 00:46:27.740
This is, I don't think I have the lead arm on here, but looking at the trail

941
00:46:27.740 --> 00:46:28.540
arm, you'll

942
00:46:28.540 --> 00:46:33.420
see his first time has more of kind of a wrist scoop.

943
00:46:33.420 --> 00:46:35.700
Elbow is kind of coming up.

944
00:46:35.700 --> 00:46:36.900
Not so great.

945
00:46:36.900 --> 00:46:41.160
We worked through that of getting a little bit more arm extension, and then

946
00:46:41.160 --> 00:46:41.740
this was

947
00:46:41.740 --> 00:46:45.540
towards the end of the session.

948
00:46:45.540 --> 00:46:48.510
He's worked on this now hard for close to a season, and he's actually really

949
00:46:48.510 --> 00:46:48.940
good at

950
00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:49.940
this now.

951
00:46:49.940 --> 00:46:56.140
His release on his nine to threes is quite solid.

952
00:46:56.140 --> 00:47:00.510
By splitting up the hands, you can get a sense of which do I need to prioritize

953
00:47:00.510 --> 00:47:00.820
?

954
00:47:00.820 --> 00:47:01.820
Is it more of the left arm?

955
00:47:01.820 --> 00:47:02.820
Is it more of the right arm?

956
00:47:02.820 --> 00:47:05.020
Is it more of both?

957
00:47:05.020 --> 00:47:09.900
Then usually it helps kind of lay out the chain reaction of what other things

958
00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:10.380
you might

959
00:47:10.380 --> 00:47:13.380
need to work on.

960
00:47:13.380 --> 00:47:15.020
We'll jump ahead.

961
00:47:15.020 --> 00:47:24.880
This was a case, unfortunately it looks like this clip got inverted, so yep,

962
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:26.140
let's see

963
00:47:26.140 --> 00:47:28.940
if they both get twisted.

964
00:47:28.940 --> 00:47:33.930
You won't be able to see, unfortunately my work computer here seems to have

965
00:47:33.930 --> 00:47:34.780
some issues

966
00:47:34.780 --> 00:47:35.780
with that.

967
00:47:35.780 --> 00:47:39.390
What you won't be able to see is this was a golfer who had kind of a flinch

968
00:47:39.390 --> 00:47:40.380
style movement

969
00:47:40.380 --> 00:47:44.730
of the wrist, and by working on getting the shoulder to lead the movement more

970
00:47:44.730 --> 00:47:45.220
of kind

971
00:47:45.220 --> 00:47:50.400
of this artist's surgeon idea, he was able to clean up some of the wrist stuff.

972
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:55.110
If you see some funky wrist movement in a putting release, you may also want to

973
00:47:55.110 --> 00:47:55.420
look

974
00:47:55.420 --> 00:47:58.400
at is he controlling it too much with the wrist and not enough with the

975
00:47:58.400 --> 00:47:59.260
shoulder because

976
00:47:59.260 --> 00:48:04.380
that was basically what we felt in this one.

977
00:48:04.380 --> 00:48:12.160
Coaching concepts, what makes good shoulder, what can cause shoulder problems,

978
00:48:12.160 --> 00:48:12.780
or what

979
00:48:12.780 --> 00:48:16.260
can cause barriers to having these good shoulder movements.

980
00:48:16.260 --> 00:48:20.180
Even if you can't validate it with 3D, you can observe it pretty well and you

981
00:48:20.180 --> 00:48:20.740
'll know

982
00:48:20.740 --> 00:48:23.760
when you start training it if it was the right thing based on the feedback that

983
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:26.660
we get.

984
00:48:26.660 --> 00:48:30.800
Vertical lag, basically golfers who really try to pull down and create more of

985
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.160
the speed

986
00:48:31.160 --> 00:48:34.730
going at the ball instead of rotating and getting it going through the ball,

987
00:48:34.730 --> 00:48:35.200
that can

988
00:48:35.200 --> 00:48:40.520
be a huge problem for creating proper wrist mechanics.

989
00:48:40.520 --> 00:48:44.200
Golfers who tend to block that forearm from rotating, tend to want to really

990
00:48:44.200 --> 00:48:44.880
hold it off

991
00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:45.880
on the way through.

992
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:49.200
I'm okay with blocking from the shoulder, but if you block from both the

993
00:48:49.200 --> 00:48:50.120
shoulder and

994
00:48:50.120 --> 00:48:55.280
the forearm, you're going to tend to have a lot of problems down at the bottom.

995
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:59.040
Some golfers have the belief that their body should be facing the golf ball.

996
00:48:59.040 --> 00:49:03.490
When the arms pass the body, the arm mechanics are going to change, they're

997
00:49:03.490 --> 00:49:04.440
going to, when

998
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.480
you pass the chest, that arm's going to bend, it's going to chicken wing.

999
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:12.320
So a tour golfer, those arms won't pass the chest until way out here where the

1000
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:13.000
arc width

1001
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:17.710
is the max, amateurs will pass it when the arc width is at the max pretty close

1002
00:49:17.710 --> 00:49:18.520
to impact.

1003
00:49:18.520 --> 00:49:20.520
That's a big barrier.

1004
00:49:20.520 --> 00:49:25.250
Former sports like playing tennis or cricket, hockey, can cause problems, those

1005
00:49:25.250 --> 00:49:25.800
can have

1006
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:31.160
some bleed over, transition power sources.

1007
00:49:31.160 --> 00:49:35.300
So one little diagnostic I'll use is if you can do a good release for a 9 to 3,

1008
00:49:35.300 --> 00:49:35.480
but then

1009
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.710
it breaks down when you go to full swing, that tells me that it's either how

1010
00:49:38.710 --> 00:49:39.120
you're

1011
00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:43.280
creating speed or you're getting into a position when you make a full swing

1012
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:44.560
that makes it impossible

1013
00:49:44.560 --> 00:49:47.480
for you to use what you can do in a 9 to 3.

1014
00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:53.230
But basically looking at transition, is it more of this vertical pull or arm

1015
00:49:53.230 --> 00:49:54.440
tension or is

1016
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:57.340
it more upper body dominant instead of lower body dominant, all those things

1017
00:49:57.340 --> 00:49:57.840
can prevent

1018
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:00.040
you from having really good shoulder movements.

1019
00:50:00.040 --> 00:50:03.400
And then last one is the idea of basically hitting at the ball instead of

1020
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:04.120
rotating and

1021
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swinging through the ball, that's a big problem especially with the longer

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clubs.

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Okay, so we covered where the release is, we covered the absolutes, you can go

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back

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to those slides, some of the other stuff that I talked about here are more

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preferences

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but really look at that absolute slides and then you know how to use the single

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arm drills

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to help train someone's release, if they can do it in a 9 to 3, but can't do it

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in a full

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swing, then it's typically a sign of more power source or they're out of

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position at

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the top of their swing.

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Okay, maximum linear grip speed, we covered this, arc width late, flexion

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extension, more

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at impact, pronation, supination, so getting some forearm rotation.

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What are my favorite drills, single arm drills.

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Alright, so hopefully you learned a lot and hopefully you have some questions,

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if you

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want to post them down below, these are going to be discussions for coaches, if

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there's

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really tough questions, I'll cover them in the upcoming webinar, but thanks for

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watching,

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if you didn't get to attend, hopefully this helped fill in the gaps and if you

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've got

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to see it, you didn't quite see the end of it including the case studies,

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hopefully this

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gave you the pieces that you were missing.

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So, thanks again for being part of our program and we'll keep providing content

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to hopefully

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drive your understanding of the golf swing forward.