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Analyzing Movement - Fascia and Movement

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A basic structure for analyzing any movement. A key primer for analyzing the golf swing. 

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All right coaches so in this series of videos we're gonna look at analyzing the

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the golf swing so we're gonna talk about the different phases and we're gonna

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connect a lot of the anatomy that we covered in the level one we're gonna

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connect the anatomy to the movements of the golf swing so the first step is we

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're

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gonna talk about just assessing any movement in general and that'll help us

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understand how to apply it specifically to the golf swing so in this in this

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series we are going to as I mentioned we're gonna dive into some of the

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detailed movements of the takeaway setting the club in the backswing the

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transition the release that will those two will have a good amount of depth to

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them and then we'll look at follow through and finish and we'll just learn

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how to observe either on video or understanding the 3D graphs how to tie it

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all together and know what's happening during that phase of the swing as well

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as what we're seeing on the video and what's happening anatomically so I will

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dive right into this we're gonna we're gonna start with some kind of general

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principles and then we're gonna look at specific segments and how they work so

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here we go first rule the simplest model for looking at how you want to just

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analyze any generic movement is looking at us like a five-sided starfish so

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basically we've got this star for starfish over here on the right whenever

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you're looking at quality movement it originates from the core and then

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basically this would be the head this would be your left arm right arm right

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leg left leg so it's going to originate from the core and then work its way out

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whether you want to go call that inside out or proximal to distal or deep to

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superficial all of those kind of apply the same principle and so we'll talk

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about some specific examples first we're gonna look at just reaching for a

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bottle okay so as a quick way to just look at a movement here we've got me

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reaching for a bottle right so I'm just sitting there and then I'm reaching for

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the bottle and then relax for a second alright here we go again I'm gonna reach

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for the bottle as well and then we're gonna talk about these two different

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movements okay now my first question and if you want to watch that a couple

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times before but my first question is basically which one looks better which

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one looks more natural so we've got this is option number one and then here we

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've

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got option number two okay now maybe I look a little over zealous in the second

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one but part of that is because I used an unnatural grabbing pattern or it

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tried

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my best to so in this first one you'll see before my shoulder before the arm

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moves can you see the little movement in the core and basically the ribs right

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here are gonna start moving over that way and then the shoulder is going to

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reach so basically I'm using my core first and then I'm using the shoulder

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and it's a well kind of you know coordinated movement where I grab the

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bottle here the second one you'll see there's no movement in my core I tried to

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keep my core relaxed as best I can and lead the movement with the shoulder

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first

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and then once the shoulder was going I tried to go with my body and because of

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that broken order by going with the shoulder and then going with the body

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my body went a little bit too far so I lost balance you'd actually see this

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foot come off the ground like there's a lot of what would look like compens

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ating

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movements but that can really just be broken down into one was core then arm

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and the other was arm then core you're gonna see a lot of those scenarios of

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inside out versus outside in when we start breaking down the golf swing but

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first let's go over a few more rules for looking at this movement okay so here

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are just some simple movement guidelines and we'll go back and look at the the

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picture there or the movie a little bit as we go through these so first rule

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looking at what's moving and what's not basically what part of their body are

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you seeing the movement with and then what part of the body looks like it's

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stabilizing or providing support for that movement so what's moving first thing

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we see move is the ribs maybe a little bit with the pelvis you can actually see

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the right leg lift just slightly so that right knee is moving then the pelvis

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then the rib cage at the same time the shoulder is moving a little bit but you

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don't see the arm really disconnect off the body until late right so we got

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that order so what's moving well let's see what's not moving this left shoulder

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is not moving this left leg is not moving when we come over and we look at the

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second one you'll see as it goes a little bit further but there's a little bit

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more movement late in the torso compared to this one but by seeing what's

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moving

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and what's not you can kind of get night and identity of the second piece

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which is the second piece is find the fixed point so what I mean by that is

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basically in order to in order to move I have to I've really two options or let

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say three options so I'm gonna move my arm I'm gonna move my bicep here I could

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either tighten the bicep or activate the bicep and pull my arm towards me I

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could

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activate the bicep and pull so if this had some type of resistance then when I

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activated the bicep it would pull me towards the arm so I could do arm there

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or bicep going that way or I could do both where the shoulder in the arm are

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kind of coming together but those are all driven by this this bicep and then I

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guess theoretically I could have a fourth one where basically nothing is

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moving it's just activating and and kind of I'm

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isometrically activating the muscle as opposed to concentrically moving it but

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I could concentrically move it either proximal to distal or distal

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approximately so why does that matter well we're gonna try to find the fixed

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point whenever we look at what's moving so for example oftentimes in the golf

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swing we're going to have the fixed point either at the foot or the pelvis or

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the

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ribs or potentially the shoulder and the elbow so just as a quick way of

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looking

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at that it would say what would be a simple way that I can do this so right

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now I'm anchored on the foot my pelvis and everything is moving but if you

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looked at the foot it's a pretty solid foundation well angle that down a little

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bit so go this way so this foot is my anchor I can turn my hip I can turn my

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body away from that foot if the foot was kind of sliding then you would see the

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same movement wouldn't create the same movement so when I have my foot anchored

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I'm coordinating a chain of action from my center down to my foot to kind of

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link up those segments and then use that link to create my movement so first

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option is the foot second option is the pelvis so I could potentially pull my

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knee

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up so my hip flexor locks the pelvis I could push laterally so my glute locks

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the pelvis I could squeeze my legs together so then my adductors lock the

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pelvis I could just tighten my my abs so that my abs lock the pelvis but any of

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the muscles around my pelvis could lock that down so that it becomes the new

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fixed point you'll often see that for golfers that don't get a lot of pelvis

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rotation they lock down that pelvis and then they just fire that upper body the

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next segment up we could look at the ribs or the rib cage right so usually if

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you're gonna lock down the rib cage you also locked down the pelvis but it's

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totally possible that you could be moving your legs so I've got a fixed point

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at

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the foot I'm moving my legs but I'm not moving my core so my ribs are a new

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fixed point this is common I'm gonna use my ribs as a fixed point in order to

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then

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use my arms in different directions if the ribs are kind of moving around and

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sloppy then I won't have as strong a platform for my arms to then work

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against so then the last one would be the shoulder elbow so if I if I'm just

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trying to like use my wrist you'll see if my shoulder is loose as I try to do

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that I don't have nearly as much power or control as if I lock in that that

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shoulder now I could lock in that shoulder from protraction from using the

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peck I could lock that in from adduction from using more like subscap or

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serratus or something like that I could lock in that shoulder there's lots of

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different ways that I can lock in that shoulder with muscle or or fascia by

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following the fixed point you can kind of get an idea as far as where the

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movement is really originating so it can be really helpful for seeing how

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they're coordinating this inside-out pattern okay that's one of the important

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ones so I wanted to spend a good amount of time on that next piece is we want

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to

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think relationships or relationally so what's happening at that specific

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segment but then what else is happening at the same time and how do those two

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relate so if you recall from the anatomy sections we talked about kind of the

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the areas not just in one specific joint but around that joint so that you

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could potentially see the connections common one would be okay the ribcage

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almost flexes like this as the arms straighten those are both actions

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happen from the peck the peck is gonna have an attachment all the way down to

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the pelvis kind of right around here so in order to fire my arm I'm expecting

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to see this slight contraction and fixing of the ribcage that's because those

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two

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are gonna be connected so I'm looking kind of further down the chain in order

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to identify where the movement's happening so I might see the ribcage

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really starting to brace before the arm goes but in my mind I'm thinking that

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they originated that movement when the ribcage started to brace not just when I

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saw the arm go okay inside out versus outside in so there's a phrase that

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Paul check uses called the inner unit versus the outer unit basically joints

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and

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four and five relate to each other so I'll I'll kind of tackle them together

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inner unit versus outer unit so the closer to the center of the joint that

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those muscles should fire first centralize the joint and kind of start it

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moving in the right direction and then the outer unit is responsible for

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creating the majority of the force now when we're looking at outer unit

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segments there's a phrase that Givoya uses where it's the short levers are for

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speed long levers are for force short levers are for speed long levers are

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for force basically if I was just trying to create a lot of speed here I put my

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hands really close together it's like fly fishing I think so I can't create you

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know if this was a really heavy object I wouldn't be able to move it very fast

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but when it's light I can create a lot more speed this way then if my I had my

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hands separated but this way I can create a lot more force so there are

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certain movements or there are certain areas where we want to get the axis

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of rotation far away from the application of force for example your

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center of mass versus center of pressure you get them far away so that you can

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create a lot of force with the lower body not necessarily speed but then we

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look at the grip and we put our hands close together so that we can create a

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lot of speed with the hands but this limits the amount of force that we can

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create so we'll talk about that in the specific phases but that can be an

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important one when you're looking globally at how each part of the body is

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moving

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just as a quick little like not totally useful but interesting fact the reason

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that bones are shaped the way that they are like bones is so that you get the

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lever further away from the axis of rotation so it creates a bigger moment

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arm when you have it like bone shaped then if it was just a straight bone and

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you had muscles attaching right to the joint so it actually makes them more

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stronger it makes them capable of creating more force with the same amount

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of muscle contraction okay um next piece is when we're thinking about it

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from a golf swing perspective we want to think about what when we see the

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movement happening what what's going on in that particular phase so why would

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this golfer be doing it are they doing it to create power are they doing it to

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adjust the path are they doing it to help control the face

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if that's real specific to the downswing but then

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when we look at the backswing we want to keep the principles in mind that

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what gets loaded will get unloaded so if i'm going to fire a muscle during the

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downswing it makes more sense for me to stretch it during the backswing

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part of the reason why golfers don't make a full turn in the backswing is their

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brain has no intention of using their body

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their hips and their core rotation later in the downswing

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they have a a bigger intention of using their arms

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vertically or creating more shoulder pull so then they do load those muscles

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but they don't load the hips so that would be one one way to kind of

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think about it also um we can work the pattern

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backwards if you're not quite sure what started the pattern then you can look

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at the end of it and work backwards muscles are

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really simple on off switches the the intelligence of the body is in the

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fascia we'll talk a little bit about that later

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but the muscles just basically either contract or

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relax contract or relax the timing how much all that is controlled more by

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the fascia but working the pattern backward i use

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the example of you want to learn to land before you

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jump and you can see how a person is going to jump based on the way that they

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land uh so are they distributing that landing

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over multiple joints are they just doing it in their knees or just doing it in

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their back that can give you um and kind of a

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simple way of looking at some of the small details of how they might be

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initiating the pattern and then last one i use the analogy of

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pushing a car so when we talk about creating force

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it's part of the reason we want to go inside out and proximal the

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distal is you get momentum going in the right direction so then the little

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guys can add more um so i use the example of

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imagine you add a car stuck in neutral on a slight um uphill and you had two

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people who were going to push the car you had kind of a scrawny guy

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and a bigger guy you would want the big guy to overcome inertia

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get the car moving and then the little scrawny guy to add to it and he would

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be able to add to it once the momentum was going

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but he probably wouldn't have enough force to be able to overcome so he would

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tire himself out getting very little out of it

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and then when the bigger guy came in he would basically have to start from

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scratch uh the example um or what i did with the

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bottle reach is basically the bigger guy went first the core went first got a

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little momentum going in that direction so then the deltoid

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didn't have to do very much when i did it out of order i actually felt more of

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a activation or more of a strain in the shoulder

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and then when i felt my body move um the shoulder and kind of finished its role

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um so thinking about this momentum that's that's one of the reasons why

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it's bad form in the gym to kind of like swing the weights around because

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the muscles aren't actually working you want to be inefficient in the gym in

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order to train the muscles um harder but when we're looking at a quality

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movement we want to use momentum and use inertia

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to our advantage in order to do that we want to get the big things moving

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before the small things in general okay so those are some simple

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little guides i'm not going to call rules but those are guides for when

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we're looking at the movement so now we're going to break down our

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skeleton our five-sided starfish and we're going to look at how to look at

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kind of each of the bigger bigger pieces

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um so first piece we're going to look at is

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spine so when we're looking at spine movement um you want to look for a fluid

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or gradual curve um looking at the ribs to the pelvis is a good

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indicator especially for rotation and side bend um it's not as easy to see

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flexion extension from that perspective there it's better to look at the

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the curve um and we want to watch out for the shoulder blade and the hips

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changing the appearance especially in rotation or side bend um so basically

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if i'm like let's say i'm side bending my spine

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and we'll do it so i'm side bending my spine

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you can see that by hiking my shoulders i might

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or adding a little bit of hip action i can change the appearance

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in the amount of side bend so this has a certain amount of side bend

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i'm going to side bend less and move my hips that way

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so i have less side bend of the spine but it might appear

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that i've side bent a little bit more so we want to look at the shoulder blades

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and the hips to help clarify how much is happening at the spine how much is

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happening um at the you know more distal segments

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in general you want to look for the opposite of a smooth curve is a hinge or

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an angle um so this is easy for me to demonstrate

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because i've got some some back issues so if i go to

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bend down you'll see that um and we'll look at some other examples

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you'll see that there's not an even distribution there's one part of my

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spine that looks like it's pretty straight um because it has a

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slight reversal of curve um and so you'll see more movement happening

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at one area than another so that's a blocked or stuck

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section of the spine it's kind of stuck together

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compression versus extension this is useful for seeing what

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the core is doing so basically as like we'll use rotation

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i could rotate and kind of sag into the spine or i could rotate and elongate

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so rotate and kind of sag versus rotate and elongate

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and that'll give me a little extra insight into what core muscles might

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be active we'll we'll save that for when we look at specific phases

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um and then again always checking out what's happening with the hips

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and with the scapula so here's two examples

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uh i'll see if i can find a better resolution of that

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so this golfer over here you can see that as they went to rotate they also

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lost their pelvis a little bit and kind of decreased so this would be more of

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that compression as opposed to elongation we can see some of these

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details but it looks like it's pretty good quality as far as like a

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a smooth amount of rotation um now this would be easier to see from

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the back view um but we can see it's pretty straight

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kind of curved here not a lot of curve there so not a lot of even distribution

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we can see a fair amount of of hike from the hips

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and you can also see a compensation happening here in the shoulder

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the only reason this elbow would bend is um if he was using the bicep

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uh to help elevate this um shoulder or create kind of like a hike

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in that shoulder oftentimes that's done with a little bit of bicep activation

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so he's kind of faking the spine movement by doing it more at the shoulder

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if he was doing it legit then you wouldn't see any change

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in the arm so if i i kind of hike it like this

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i'm lifting it more with the bicep instead of with the side then

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the body is great at cheating we're going to get better at recognizing

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how and when our golfers are cheating

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so then here's some classic just kind of looking at that fluid curve so this

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one's pretty good this one's pretty symmetric we can

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see a little bit more of a hinge there and a little bit more of a hinge there

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this is kind of a more of a classic right down at the base of the ribcage and

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then thoracic spine pretty flat um this is mic bender

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he's got a pretty good hinge kind of in the lower that's probably like mid

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thoracic t t 67 and if you're looking at it from

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behind this is actually how you do a scoliosis test

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to see rotationally if it's pretty evenly distributed or symmetric you can

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see one side will go up when the spine is rotated in that direction

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okay so we're going to keep this in mind when we're looking at

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our spine movements hip movement so first one um we're looking for

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how because we're just remember we're working from

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the center out so our first goal when looking at hip movement

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is looking for minimal comp compensation from the lumbar spine or the pelvis

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um the spine movement if they're in concert the spine movement

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should happen uh first or the spine should kind of stabilize before the hip

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moves and we also want to look at which leg has the weight on it because that

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will create a closed chain function where

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basically the the ilium of the hip doesn't move because of the force going

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through it um we're on the open side when you go

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to move the ilium will move so when there's a weight shift you

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basically go from one side is locked and the spine moves around that

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so then the other side is spot is locked and the spine moves around that

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if there's no weight shift then it would just this ilium would get

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kind of pretty much locked and the spine would move in relationship to that

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ilium okay for a few kind of guides when

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you're looking at internal versus external rotation

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you want to look at as is so this point here um

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right around the belt line um and compare that to the knee so if i

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if i bring that down if i bend the knee so that you can see where the kneecap

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is pointing that would be internal rotation

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and that would be external rotation that's the same

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that would be internal rotation knee pointing in compared to the belt

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that would be external rotation um so that's one of the real you want to be

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careful with this whole idea of dual external rotation

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it's not actually external rotation the knee is moving out but the hip is

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actually going into internal rotation we talked about that

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in level one stuff um flexion extension you're going

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to compare the as is ps is line so basically

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we'll see a good example of that but here's the as is and then

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back here the kind of the the point or what's called the dimple of Venus

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right there is the ps is um so then when i move my hip

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i'm looking at the hip movement compared to that line

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so this is all hip movement and then this is all back movement it kind of

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looks like my hip is moving but i'm doing a pretty good job of holding it so

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it's not moving um most of the movement there was

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all happening at the spine um and then with the adduction

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adduction uh you're going to look at either the as is or the ps is so

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here we've got the as is line which would be one side to the other and we're

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looking at the angle of the leg compared to that

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so if i'm down to my golf posture and i shift like this

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um compared to the ps is line this line leg is in this leg is out

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so this one is in a reduction this one is in uh adduction

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so here's a couple examples of just looking at the lumbar spine

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so i like this one because you can see actually at the top position it's

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pretty good as far as pretty neutral curve um so the hip did a good job of

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moving there but as she goes to the starting

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position like if we worked it in reverse we can see that there's a lot more

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curve there and if we're using the as line here

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the leg is actually forward of it so she didn't go into extension if you're

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doing that exercise correctly then it would look

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i'm going from here so you can see compared to my line

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my hip is back her hip is right about here to start

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so my hip is in extension and then i'm raising that hip

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forward and then putting it back into extension

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she's putting it here and then extending from the back so the hip

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doesn't actually get into full extension

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uh the one over here is better um it's hard to do single leg and be in

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extension so that's pretty good and neutral

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we'll also see compensations when we're looking at the hip rotation you can

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also look at the shoulder girdle um so

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there's i couldn't find any great examples but um

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here's just a few to kind of remind you oftentimes when golfers when you say

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hey

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turn their trunk they'll go like this and

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basically cheat and rotate their shoulders like this now

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if i want to rotate my shoulders bending my knees actually helps that

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um so if i bend my knees it actually creates a little bit of slack so i can

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turn my shoulders further but you notice i didn't turn my hips

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where straightening the leg will help me turn my hips

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but it might limit my ability to turn my shoulder blades

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so if golfers are fighting turning their shoulder or sorry turning their

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hips it may be an indication that they're

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controlling the movement more with the shoulder blades and less with the spine

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in the hips so we'll we'll keep working through

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these movements it'll be fun when we dig dig into the different phases and the

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rest of the series okay so next one knee movement

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um knee movement is probably the i'd say the easiest to assess

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um the main thing you want to look at the ankle look at the hip

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and then if you visualize a line in between the ankle and the hip

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the main thing we're looking for is that the knee is close to in that line

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so that it's not in what's what we call valgus or baris too much

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that's where you can start getting some knee issues in golf

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so right here right here the the ankle knee hip

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are in a straight line and then they're they're out of line

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one direction or the other so let's say at the top of the swing

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that would be out of line that would be in line that's a better

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transmission from the hip to the ground this would be

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out of line the wrong direction so um you can also look for knee rotation when

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we're looking at the foot um but that's uh that's

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not they you can also look for hip rotation when

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looking at the foot um but that's not the most important

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movement of the knee so kneecap orientation

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basically here's a good example where that kneecap would be pointing forward

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here's a point where the kneecap would be

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rotated in you can see the classic internal rotation pronation

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compensation when the knee is in like that

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it just puts a lot of stress on some parts of the knee and foot

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okay looking at the foot and ankle movement we want to look at the angle of

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the heel compared to the angle movement basically is the foot

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flat or coming up off the ground as it's moving

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um when we're looking at the downswing here's the

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rough classic sequence so if this is my foot on the ground

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it's going to pronate first what some guys call banking

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then it's going to go into extension and then lastly it's going to go into

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rotation so some golfers go into rotation first some golfers go into

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extension and then rotation and then pronation um we can look at the ankle

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sequence uh for how figuring out um how they might be using their hips and

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their core against the ground as a real general guide you can look

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at the foot um pressure against the ground so are they pushing more in the

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toes or the heels or are they pushing more on the inside or the

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outside edge of the foot um toes will generally be associated

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more with the quads and the front of the body the heel will generally be

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associated with the glutes and the back side of the body um

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the medial um if they're towards the inside of the foot that's going to be

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more connected to the hip and if they're on the lateral side of the foot

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that's typically more connected to the upper body or the quads um so

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this would be more kind of glutes this would be more kind of knees or

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upper body so here you can see um at the top of the

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swing you can look for a little spacing and it's easier to see when we see it

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in videos we'll we'll look at that a lot um when we're

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looking at these different phases um but you can see the foot coming slightly

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up or staying flat um and then same thing here so you're looking for kind of

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spacing and where the pressure is um some of those rules as far as what part

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of the foot uh depend on how the foot

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functions so if a golfer has you know compromised

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foot function you might see some funky ankle movements as a result

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um but those can be tricky to change um so but this is ideally what a foot

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looks like um until we start messing with it with

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funky shoes and movement patterns

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okay looking at the shoulder slash elbow um scapular movement spine movement

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glenohuber movement these are all connected so what happens at the spine

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influences the shoulder blade what happens at the shoulder blade

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influences the glenohumeral joint or the shoulder and vice versa so these three

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you got to look at together um similarly and i didn't mention it earlier i know

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i talked about in the webinar but um the hip

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the the hip the pelvis and the lumbar spine

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work together and in concert you can't really move one without moving the other

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same thing with these three um so you can look at kind of the

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spacing of the neck for like shrugging um the back view is really good at

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looking

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at how the shoulder blades are moving um and you can look at the elbow location

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like where is the pit of the elbow compared to the shoulder to look for

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internal and external rotation so here would be

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a couple examples of using the pit or the neck to see what's going on

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at the shoulder blade this guy's kind of trying to fake

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the look of a shrug because that's not actually how he would look

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um because the pelvis wouldn't be that level if that was his

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like the lumbar spine would have some amount of curve to it if he had that

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much like but here's a good example of uh you know i just found

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somebody doing a lateral raise um and you can see that there's some asymmetries

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going on potentially shoulder injury potentially some scoliosis

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but you can see as he lifts that right shoulder is getting more elevated than

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the left you can kind of see if i put my cursor there

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there's more it's kind of cramped over here compared to this side

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so those are some of the keys you can look for as far as the shoulder in the

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scapular movement last one looking at wrist so pronation

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supination you will compare where the elbow is

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to the hand so elbow is pointing this way this would be um

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supination this would be pronation so this is supination this is supination

453
00:34:22.520 --> 00:34:25.560
this is supination this is all supination i'm just

454
00:34:25.560 --> 00:34:29.080
changing my elbow here's pronation i'm staying in

455
00:34:29.080 --> 00:34:32.920
pronation as i do uh different shoulder movements

456
00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:38.120
flexion extension um good way is there's a couple times that the camera will

457
00:34:38.120 --> 00:34:41.720
usually be in the line and you can look at the angle of the back of the hand to

458
00:34:41.720 --> 00:34:47.000
the flat side of the forearm um radial and ulnar

459
00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:50.600
that it's easier i find it's easier to look at the bottom

460
00:34:50.600 --> 00:34:55.160
um so neutral would be roughly when your middle finger is in line

461
00:34:55.160 --> 00:35:00.120
so if i just let my arm hang you can see that it's not totally flat

462
00:35:00.120 --> 00:35:05.080
so this when this is flat that's not neutral that's slightly radial

463
00:35:05.080 --> 00:35:08.280
that is neutral there's a slight angle down here at the bottom

464
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:11.800
so that's full radial which is about uh 40 degrees

465
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:15.000
and that or sorry full ulnar which is about 40 degrees

466
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:20.200
and that's full radial which is about 25 hammering is a good example so

467
00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:24.040
this is a little bit in ulnar this one's pretty neutral

468
00:35:24.040 --> 00:35:27.400
this is this is pretty close to neutral um

469
00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:31.240
this one's definitely an ulnar this kid's totally an ulnar with some

470
00:35:31.240 --> 00:35:36.680
flexion um so we we just want to get used to

471
00:35:36.680 --> 00:35:40.040
looking at the wrist from different angles and kind of seeing

472
00:35:40.040 --> 00:35:42.840
okay there's maybe a little more extension there

473
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.280
a little less extension because the tool he's using is different

474
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:49.560
a little more extension this guy hasn't figured out the hammer quite yet

475
00:35:49.560 --> 00:35:53.960
so not enough extension there um but you get the gist we just want to be

476
00:35:53.960 --> 00:35:57.240
able to see and then if we're looking at pronation

477
00:35:57.240 --> 00:36:00.680
supination we're imagining where that elbow is pointing

478
00:36:00.680 --> 00:36:06.040
and then connecting these two bones so this one is a little bit pronated

479
00:36:06.040 --> 00:36:09.800
this one is more pronated because you can see where the elbow is

480
00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:14.760
um this one is a little bit pronated and then

481
00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:17.640
same thing here we can't quite see the elbow over there

482
00:36:17.640 --> 00:36:21.480
we can see this one is quite pronated and extended

483
00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:25.240
so again just getting used to spotting these

484
00:36:25.240 --> 00:36:29.960
now um you'll see a lot more with regular tools pronation than

485
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:33.560
supination but in golf supination is going to be one of the

486
00:36:33.560 --> 00:36:38.120
more important movements that we're going to talk about at different phases

487
00:36:38.120 --> 00:36:41.480
okay now i had a request to talk a little bit about fascia

488
00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:44.120
um as it relates to these movements so the

489
00:36:44.120 --> 00:36:48.120
um in preparation for the next webinars you can kind of

490
00:36:48.120 --> 00:36:51.090
look at some golf swings and start using some of these framework and just try

491
00:36:51.090 --> 00:36:51.240
to

492
00:36:51.240 --> 00:36:53.720
identify what's happening at each different segment

493
00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:57.240
we'll talk more about why in the upcoming webinars

494
00:36:57.240 --> 00:37:02.200
um all right but fascia fascia is kind of one of the

495
00:37:02.200 --> 00:37:06.280
the buzzwords that kind of gets thrown around more and more it's really been

496
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:11.320
studied over the last ten years um before then it was kind of discarded

497
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:15.320
as just this white stuff when they did dissections

498
00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.400
but now we know there's a lot to it um the american term for it is

499
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:23.800
connective tissue which is great um because that's really what it does

500
00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:28.360
you have one fascia so if you have a tendinitis

501
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:32.680
in some part of your body then your fascia is inflamed and you're

502
00:37:32.680 --> 00:37:37.560
you have one fascia um it's one giant sheet or one giant web with all these

503
00:37:37.560 --> 00:37:41.800
little different little compartments for each muscle, organ um

504
00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:47.240
you know vessel whatever the fascia is made up of fibers, cells, and

505
00:37:47.240 --> 00:37:52.200
liquid um and the ratio of those changes depending on

506
00:37:52.200 --> 00:37:56.600
um the the tissue so you'll have some tissue that's a lot more liquid

507
00:37:56.600 --> 00:38:01.720
um and then you'll have others like say a ligament which is a lot more fibers

508
00:38:01.720 --> 00:38:05.720
and a lot more dense uh so fascia comes in different forms

509
00:38:05.720 --> 00:38:10.280
the key to maintaining healthy fascia is the distribution and circulation

510
00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:16.600
of the liquid within within the tissue so when we move we basically

511
00:38:16.600 --> 00:38:19.720
redistribute this tension through the fascia

512
00:38:19.720 --> 00:38:26.360
um and the the tissue is adaptable so that we can handle more load

513
00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:29.640
um and so that we can be flexible if it was

514
00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:33.400
fascia allows you to injure one part of the system and still function because

515
00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:37.400
it's very adaptable where if it was just like more like a machine where you had

516
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.040
each joint had a specific role and there was no kind of backup system

517
00:38:42.040 --> 00:38:45.080
like the fascia helps provide some of the reinforcement

518
00:38:45.080 --> 00:38:48.920
then if that joint went down you'd be screwed so

519
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:52.120
fascia allows us to be very flexible and very adaptable

520
00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:58.200
um but those adaptations tend to create um our

521
00:38:58.200 --> 00:39:03.000
habitual pattern so one classic one you know the the tissue adapts the tension

522
00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.880
so one classic one is if you're if you're sitting in this

523
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:08.920
position all day working on the computer or driving

524
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:11.960
you know if you do that for a little bit no big deal

525
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:15.720
right but if you do that eight hours a day many days in a row

526
00:39:15.720 --> 00:39:19.640
what ends up happening is you end up developing some thickening of the

527
00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:23.240
the tissue back there because it's constantly under load and the muscles

528
00:39:23.240 --> 00:39:25.240
aren't strong enough to do it just on its own

529
00:39:25.240 --> 00:39:30.040
so the body reinforces what's kind of denser more fibrous tissue a little less

530
00:39:30.040 --> 00:39:33.960
liquid and boom now you are stronger but you also

531
00:39:33.960 --> 00:39:39.000
lost some mobility um so the the shirt analogy

532
00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:44.920
is basically like this is one shirt if i if i deform this part over here

533
00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:48.520
um there's some response that's happening i can even feel there's a

534
00:39:48.520 --> 00:39:51.320
little bit of movement over here right it's all connected

535
00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:55.560
now if i were to hold the shirt out like here just for a second or two

536
00:39:55.560 --> 00:39:59.320
no big deal it springs back but if i was to hold this out here and hold it

537
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:04.440
there for let's say ten hours when i go to let go of it it would

538
00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:09.400
actually maintain some of that deformity um so that's more or less how fascia

539
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:14.920
works um when i look for quality movement from the

540
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:18.600
fascia perspective i'm looking for no slack so i'm looking for

541
00:40:18.600 --> 00:40:21.960
kind of even tension through that whole chain from the fixed point to the

542
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:22.360
moving

543
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:28.120
point um that typically results in more uh coordination or

544
00:40:28.120 --> 00:40:32.680
um like quality of movement and then from a power standpoint i

545
00:40:32.680 --> 00:40:36.360
imagine that the muscles inside those little sacks of fascia are almost like

546
00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:43.000
firecrackers so you know if i if i have a rubber band

547
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.960
let's say this is fashion i've pulled it back as i'm letting it go let's say

548
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:52.200
these firecrackers kind of fire first to pull and then these ones pull and then

549
00:40:52.200 --> 00:40:55.320
these ones pull last i'm going to get a lot more um

550
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:58.680
then potentially if these ones pulled and then these ones pull

551
00:40:58.680 --> 00:41:02.520
like if the order jumps around um it won't be

552
00:41:02.520 --> 00:41:05.880
like in as much harmony and i think of

553
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:10.120
the that momentum analogy of of like swinging a weight or

554
00:41:10.120 --> 00:41:12.920
or you know when i went to reach for the water bottle

555
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:16.840
if they don't fire in the right order then you don't get to capitalize on the

556
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:21.160
momentum gains so it also if they don't fire in the right

557
00:41:21.160 --> 00:41:23.880
order you will lose the tension too soon

558
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:27.960
and it's one of my beliefs that when you lose that tension

559
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:33.160
you lose some of the the detail um or some of the

560
00:41:33.160 --> 00:41:38.920
precision of the movement okay i had another question about

561
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:43.880
injuries so i saw this little meme and i thought it was pretty brilliant

562
00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:47.480
most injuries occur from doing too much too fast after doing too little for

563
00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:51.000
too long so basically every tissue has a tolerance

564
00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.720
and an injury happens when you pass that tolerance

565
00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:56.760
the the most common ways to pass that tolerance are

566
00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:01.240
doing too much going too far so end range of motion or going too fast

567
00:42:01.240 --> 00:42:06.280
basically you know stretching or um overloading the system's ability to

568
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:09.960
handle the the eccentric load that tends to

569
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:14.840
so um too fast means i'm not able to slow it down safely

570
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:18.600
so um end range of motion with a lot of speed is a

571
00:42:18.600 --> 00:42:22.280
with a lot of volume is the ultimate recipe for

572
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:27.800
injury so if we work up slowly which is hard for most people to do

573
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:32.040
that's the safest way to avoid injury so

574
00:42:32.040 --> 00:42:35.640
all right in the next videos so in the remaining

575
00:42:35.640 --> 00:42:38.600
in the we're going to do seven videos breaking down the difference

576
00:42:38.600 --> 00:42:41.720
the full swing and we're going to be looking at kind of the main segments

577
00:42:41.720 --> 00:42:45.960
and how they relate to take away backswing transition release follow through

578
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:47.960
finish so we'll basically going be going through

579
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:53.000
the p-system as well as muscle phases to talk about

580
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:56.200
how the body looks a certain way and what's really going on

581
00:42:56.200 --> 00:42:59.720
so if you got any questions please comment them below

582
00:42:59.720 --> 00:43:04.040
or we can start a thread on the forum but hopefully this gives you a little

583
00:43:04.040 --> 00:43:07.000
different perspective of how you can look at analyzing movement

584
00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:10.840
we'll get into the specifics of the golf swing in the next video.

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