Wipe Analysis - Back Side Visual

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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the white movement from

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the back view.

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I think the white movement is one of the hallmarks of a really good release. It

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's

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been referred to by other instructors as getting the arms back in front of your

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body,

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the extending the arms in front of the golf ball. I think of it as both the

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position of the arms

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as well as the timing and the arms working a little bit more extending through

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the ball and

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instead of at the ball and the arms specifically the upper arms or the elbows

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getting more in front

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of your body. When you do that, it helps eliminate fat shots and it helps

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eliminate hook shots.

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So it's a very helpful movement for a lot of highly skilled golfers. It also

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allows you to

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use your body a little bit more powerfully rotationally and again not struggle

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with

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contact issues or overdraws. So we're going to look at a number of different

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examples of golfers

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from this back view and we're going to highlight specifically where the right

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arm is in space

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compared to the body. Unfortunately, I don't have a really good 3D parameter

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for looking at the

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white movement so I can't just put up some graphs and show a clear pattern but

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I think that it can

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be helpful to look at it from this back view perspective. Many golfers struggle

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to see the

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subtle differences between kind of an amateur style of a release and a tour

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style of a release

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but I think this view can help. So we're just going to look at where is the

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right arm compared

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to the body. We're going to use a couple different references or checkpoints

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but I guess the main

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one we're going to look at is when the golf club is roughly shaft parallel to

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the ground somewhere

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in here. How much of the right arm can we see? So as we go back up towards the

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top of the swing

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you'll see that Dustin here over on the left gets his arm more or less just to

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the side of his

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pack but not all the way on the side of his rib cage. Now as he starts down you

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'll see that

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we can clearly see that arm starting to work in front and that elbow is

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actually disappearing

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well before he gets the club to parallel. He's probably the golfer who exagger

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ates this movement

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most but I think it's no coincidence that that's part of why he's such an elite

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wall striker.

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Over here on the right we've got Ricky Fowler and you can see that during his

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transition his

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early movement the arm gets a little bit behind his ribs. You can see some of

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the tricep getting

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on the backside of the rib cage there but he does a great job of delaying the

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straightening of his

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arms while his arms start to work more in front. So here we are again at that

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shaft parallel

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checkpoint. You can see that about half the elbow has disappeared. I'm not

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really picky as far as

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how much of the arm has disappeared. The more that the arm is in front of you

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the more that you will

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tend to have a look of really good left arm extension on the way through and

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the more that you can see

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this right arm the more you'll tend to have a look of the arms getting bunched

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on the way through

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or chicken winging or scooping. We'll take a look at a couple examples of both

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elite golfers as

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well as amateurs who tend to have more of that pattern. But again seeing by

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about the time he is

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the club the shaft parallel you can see that the elbow is starting to get in

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front and then

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the other checkpoint that can be helpful is when the golf ball is actually

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being struck

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can you see any of the right arm. There are a number of twerpros where yes you

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can still see some of

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their arm and they will have a little bit more of a roll look to their release

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but many of the elite

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ball strikers you'll see their right arm is almost completely disappeared when

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they're making contact

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with the golf ball. The only way that would happen is if the right arm is more

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in front of the body.

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There is virtually nothing you could do with your body that would guarantee

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that the arm is going to

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get out in front of you so I think this is a helpful movement that you actually

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have to train.

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I thought the most helpful thing to do in this video would be to just show a

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variety of different

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examples and relate it to what we're trying to do but mostly just show a bunch

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of examples so

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that you can start to visualize how this movement could work. I also want this

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to help you understand

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why I advocate not letting that right arm get too far behind your body at the

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top of the swing.

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If the goal is to get it back out in front of your body as you can see Mo

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Norman here on the

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left demonstrating pretty well by the time the shaft is parallel you can see

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that the more that

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it gets behind or wrapped around your body that's going to add an extra level

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of a kind of challenge

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during that transition. Over here on the right is the video that actually

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inspired this video. I was

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talking with a student of mine and he was talking about how the right arm gets

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onto your side and

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just kind of stays there and he actually talked about this specific video

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because you can see that

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Sergio gets that his arm almost on the backside similar to what we saw with

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Ricky but now you'll

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see that by about the time the club is parallel which is somewhere in here you

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can see that that

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arm is worked from behind his body to in front and you can relate that to the

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timing of when

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it's straightening. So you can see that his arm is straightening through this

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phase but it's also

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working across his body. That's why I refer to it as the timing and direction

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in the arms. If it's

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working across his body as it's straightening then it's going to have a feel or

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an appearance of the

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arms extending out in front of the golf ball through there instead of at the

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golf ball.

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There are a few more examples. We got Michelle Wie over here on the left and we

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'll see that

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she hits the arm in front checkpoint and then by the time she gets the impact

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there's virtually

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no appearance of that right arm because it's worked a little bit more out in

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front of her body

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instead of releasing more behind her body or on the right half and that helps

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get that look of the

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arm extension on the way through or the good width on the way through. Next we

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'll look at Tiger Woods

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over here on the right. This is from 2009 back at Hazelteen so prior to some of

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his injuries he's

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he's had a laundry list but prior to some of his injuries and you can see that

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arm working

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nicely in front of his body that was one of his kind of early coaching cues

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with Butch of trying

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to get the arms in front of his body. Now he did it by trying to slow down his

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body but you can also

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do it by trying to actively move the arms and you'll see that by the time he

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gets to impact there

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you can see very little of that right arm. Now we have two elite level ball

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strikers who

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who don't demonstrate that movement quite as well as some of the others. We've

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got Henrik Stenson

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over on the right and Louis Oustacean on the left and we'll see that as Henrik

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gets down

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to about shaft parallel you can see that that arm is behind his body a bit. You

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can see that the

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front or the inside part of the elbow it started to disappear so it's not as

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dramatic as some of

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the amateurs that we're going to see here in a second but you'll see that when

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he makes contact

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with the golf ball you can still see a little bit of his elbow. Now it's

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important to note that Henrik

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has one of the higher amounts of lower body lateral slide and so when the lower

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body slides that far

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from the setup or from the top of the swing to impact it's going to be harder

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to keep the arm

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out in front. That's part of the reason why a lot of golfers who have a slide

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and buckle

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will tend to have the look of more of a scoop release because they're either

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not doing the

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white movement and therefore they slide to make up for it or they're sliding so

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if they did the

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white movement they'd be too steep and therefore they can't have a great

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looking release pattern.

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So here we have Luiou stays and gets it a little bit more on the side of the

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body

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but then you'll see he does make it pretty close to that checkpoint where by

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the time he makes

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contact the majority of that right arm is going. There's just a little bit of

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kind of a glimmer of that right arm. So hopefully this helps you visualize what

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I mean when I say

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I want you to get those arms working a little bit more in front of your body.

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You can see a number

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of examples of elite level ball strikers and how they and kind of a little

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checkpoint on how

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they accomplish that. Now let's take a look at a couple amateurs so you can see

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what is typically

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happening with more of a 90s golfer as they're entering their release. All

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right so I got a

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couple different amateur examples that I filmed last week. Just wanted to have

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examples to be able to compare with what's going on with the tour pro and the

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one over here on the

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left is actually what inspired the video. He was talking about that Sergio

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video. Now what you'll see

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is from the top of the swing you'll see that arm wants to straighten quickly

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and you'll see that

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when we get to that shaft parallel checkpoint there's a fair amount of daylight

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here right we can see

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that the arm is nowhere near in front of his body and it's not even up against

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the side it's well

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off to the side. Over here on the right we have a golfer who at the time had

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not broken 100.

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Happy to say that he's not only broken 100 he's broken 90 I was pretty proud to

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hear that but we

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can see kind of a similar distance in space when we get to that checkpoint and

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or if we look at kind of the straightening of the arms you can see that his arm

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is straightening

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while it's more or less behind his body and so when he makes contact which is

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that frame there you can still see almost both of the points of the elbow so

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that right arm is

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well behind his body compared to what we were seeing with most of the tour pros

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Similar thing here if we get it to making contact you can see there's roughly

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three

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points or three bony landmarks that make up the visual appearance of the elbow

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and you can see

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two of them you can see the the main point and the outside of the right arm as

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he's making contact

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so in both these cases you see the right arm is more behind the body and so as

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a release or

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as a result you'll see a little bit more of a scoop style release.

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Now I wanted to add one more little point which is using video to monitor your

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progress.

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Many amateurs when I show them what I consider improvements on video they'll be

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disappointed

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that it's still in the same pattern. You have to get skilled at being it if you

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're going to coach

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yourself and you're going to use video you have to get skilled at being a

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detective and being able

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to identify when things are moving in the right direction. So here we have the

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same golfer you can

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see that his little practice move he's getting used to that feeling of that arm

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in front. Now his

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brain still has to figure out how to control low point and how to hit the golf

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ball from there

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so it's going to want to revert more towards his normal pattern but you can see

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if we get him

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to about the same shaft position which is probably that frame there you can see

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that the amount of

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space has been decreased and now if we get him down towards impact so we'll go

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that frame just

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before impact and we get this one to that frame just before impact which is

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there you can see

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that more of the right arm has disappeared over here on the right so while you

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could look at this

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and say yeah but he's still doing the same pattern you can see that it's

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trending in the right

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direction and with so it shows that the drills he's using will help shape the

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swing in the direction

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that we want it to go and we should be able to get the results of less hook

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shots less fat shots

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that we're trying to achieve so hopefully this video helps you visualize and

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start to understand

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the white movement of getting the arms in front of your body specifically the

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upper arms in the

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right elbow in front of your body during the downswing so that when you extend

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your arms during the

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release it's extending more out in front of the golf ball that helps delay the

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closing the club

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face so eliminate hooks and it helps control low point so eliminates fat shots

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this should

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also help you see that if the goal is to get those arms back in front of your

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body having your arms

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closer to in front of your body at the top of the swing should make the

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movements you're trying to do

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during transition and ultimately preparing for you for the release it should

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make those movements

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that much easier.