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P5.5 to P8 - Release

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From delivery position to the follow-through position (shaft parallel after impact). This is where the magic in the golf swing really happens.
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Alright coaches, we made it to the release. This is probably my favorite

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general topic when it relates to the golf swing. If I had Jim Hardy kind of

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stole the title for the book but if I was gonna write another book I would

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probably talk all about matching pieces especially during the release. So in

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this

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presentation we're gonna cover P5.5 or delivery position where we left off at

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the end of transition. We're going to go from delivery position until follow

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through position or P8 when the shafts parallel in the follow through. So we'll

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talk about arms versus body, coasting or bracing like bracing strategies so how

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someone goes normal and and how they kind of post up the path contribution. So

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steeps and shallows, wide and narrow, low point forward, low point back, all

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those

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considerations and then how you control the face whether with more with

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shaft irritation or more with in-plane movement or the flip. Okay so just like

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the last section we're analyzing movement the same way. We're looking at

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we're gonna scrub back and forth and look at what's moving and what's not. We

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're

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gonna look for fixed point. I'm gonna build on those a little bit more. We'll

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talk about the foot, the pelvis, all the key areas. Think relationally not just

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in

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terms of the specific body parts that are going on but what should be happening

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during this phase of the swing. So we're gonna talk about what might be

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going on with a number of different case studies or release. As always when we

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looking at the movement patterns you're looking for the stabilizers to do their

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job and the movers to their to do their job. Lever arms is more of a

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transition thing but we will talk about a tiny bit during the bracing. So which

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swing phase goal during the release it's primarily about power or sorry it's

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primarily about path and face. So most golfers are trying to create solid

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contact but you will find that some golfers have a a hit impulse or they

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have more of a fear of not hitting it far enough and so that's where power

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definitely comes into play. What gets loaded gets unloaded is more of a

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backswing to transition. So this is a little less relevant but we're gonna

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connect with work the pattern backwards. We're gonna look back at transition

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and

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try to understand why a student might be doing what they're doing as it relates

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to the release. So those will be the big ones we're gonna cover in today's

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presentation. So just a quick recap P1 to 4 we had some specific checkpoints. I

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'm

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not gonna go into too much detail because otherwise this presentation is

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gonna get pretty long but basically we're shifting pressure we're moving the

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hand path we're creating a length of backswing we're loading specific muscles

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and then during transition we are trying to create some force in that lead foot

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some speed in the handle and we're trying to start lining things up both

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from a face perspective or sorry from a swing plane perspective from a low

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point perspective looking at that impact line we'll talk about and from a club

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face perspective. So if you remember from the last one our goal was all these

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things the high lead foot pressure the grip speed getting the shaft underneath

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the hand path start squaring the face we're gonna dig into some of these ideas

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more as we move further down the swing. So if you remember there were a handful

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of movement goals here in transition we had the left side crunch the arm

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loading

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the lower body doing the squat end turn or the lower body applying that max

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lead

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foot pressure and then path related things such as shallow arms and turning

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the shoulders versus turning the spine. These are gonna show up much at a

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higher

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level while we're looking at the release. Now let's jump into the release so

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primarily is where we're looking from about shaft 45 degrees somewhere around

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here until shaft parallel in the follow through. So it goes from this late

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transition or even a little past this where again we're looking at some of the

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relationships of where the body is and where the arms are and then this is a

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key

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we talked about that other position in the last webinar so this is a really key

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downswing checkpoint. So from this face-on view this is where I look at this

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lag

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position and basically are the hands in front of the shoulder or are they

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behind

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the shoulder. If they're behind the shoulder right so if compared to the

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shoulder joint they're more back here that's usually going to be accompanied

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by some poor trail shoulder blade mechanics or the arm going into more

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internal rotation instead of external rotation. That can also happen if I'm

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doing too much with the wrist too early. So someone like a Jim Fürich who

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still

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gets this who gets that arm way behind still gets into a good position where

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the wrist is in front of the shoulder that sets up being able to get into a

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better shaft lean impact position so a little bit better compression. The lead

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shoulder to hip line we'll look at coming very quickly and then we're

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always kind of looking at this blend of how much of my turning versus in this

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case extending more from the legs and hips. I don't want to see a ton of

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elevation from the upper body but you do want to see the legs straightening as

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the arms. Right around here is where I like to see the the legs straightening

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they'll start right around delivery position but you don't want to see the

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legs diving down like hard at this point. And then from the down the line we're

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always looking at this path checkpoint we're looking at how much body rotation

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we have. This is a common place where golfers who have more of a like shoulder

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pull or scapular pull will start you'll start to see the shoulders working

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more around the spine and the spine rotation stopping. This is a great place

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to check the club face compared to the path. This is a good place to look at

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spine angle. Looking at P7 or the impact line which is P7.1 you know just past

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the MAC line as some call it is basically looking at the vertical

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alignment of the shoulder, hip, hands and leg. So just past impact with the

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with

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the iron you'll want to see all of those pretty much in line with the driver

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you'll

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see the hip and the shaft pretty close to in line. So this is the like the key

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for key place for looking at axis tilt. You can relate that to arm bend and

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shoulder height. Again the trail elbow to hip relationship is pretty important

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so

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this is a place where I like to see the white happening. I like to see the the

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elbow working slightly across so as they're coming down from this delivery

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position I don't like to see that arm staying in the same place. I want to see

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it drifting across the body even though the body's rotating. So this trail

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elbow

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to hip you'll start to see a relationship of better ball strikers having some

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visible appearance of the hip on the other side of the elbow. Okay and then

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from the down the line looking at the forearm plane to shaft plane so basically

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looking at this line right here that's a good place to look at ulnar

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deviation. So if like we'll see in one of the case studies if this is too low

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then that's a good sign that there wasn't any ulnar deviation and so they'll

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end up kind of getting it more in line with a lot of rotation instead of the

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ulnar deviation. Lead arm to trail is looking at this space here so you know

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you'll see a lot of your more upper body dominant swings where you can't see

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that left arm you know if I'm facing this way I want to see that left form

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above the right still at impact. How much depends a little bit on how much body

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rotation how much side bend but I want to see it at least a little bit above

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and

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then body rotation you know the classic can I see part of the left

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shoulder can I see both cheeks you know we're looking for minimum 30 degrees

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but somewhere in the 45 degree pelvis rotation 30 degree chest rotation this

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is kind of a good view for being able to see those relationships. And then

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looking at follow-through we'll do a whole shorter webinar just looking at

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this position because I think it's so key but this is a good place to check in

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we'll move a couple of these so we can see the hands this is a good place to

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check in on the elbow extension we'll talk about the supination so I can I see

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the glove hand underneath the trail hand ulnar deviation how well is the club

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still in line with the forearms bracing position so looking at you know knee

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buckles and sags or upper body lunging forward can be a shoulder my shoulder

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struggling elbow bending all those can be bracing strategies and then still

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looking at axis tilt so is the upper body past the lower body from the down

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the line we can see if we stayed in our spine angle or look at this shoulder

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tilt this is the the second piece of the club checkpoint so the first one

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looking

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here where is the club head compared to the hands slightly inside is neutral in

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line with the hands is a little outside in and then well inside would be more

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inside out so this second piece would be the more the club is out in this space

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the more it would be inside out the more that the club exits underneath the

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hands that would be more outside in and then you can look at the trail leg and

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where the where some of the body rotation is coming from you can look at the

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trail shoulder connection you can look at the lead shoulder pull all these

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things give a good sense or good idea okay so the overall goal I've got a

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handful

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of points here they're not necessarily in the order of importance but more

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just kind of like a quick check of how I look at it so looking at stability in

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the pelvis slide looking at the elbow separation or arm connection or the

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elbows getting like or the elbows getting closer together or further apart that

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was one of the kind of initial things that I saw a lot on 3D was that golfers

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golfers with a lot of the releases I like their elbows would get three four

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inches closer together between impact and follow through where a lot of the

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amateurs they were actually getting wider or further apart looking for the

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the wrist to be wherever they were it set up being more extended this way

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somewhere in the 25 30 degrees for there will be a dominant normal force

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unavoidably just because of how the club is gonna be swinging the the goal is

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looking at where is that normal force being absorbed so am I doing it more

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from the body am I doing it from the shoulders am I doing it from the elbows

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am I doing it from the wrists like what what is creating that normal force

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that's my bracing idea okay then looking at shaft lean versus no shaft lean or

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again looking at that impact line looking at those path checkpoints and then

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low

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point and depth so I'd like to you know discuss with golfers who are having

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more

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contact issues kind of the location of the center of their swing and how deep

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it might be going all right so now we'll jump into our amateur cluster so we

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got

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the knees and arms guy right so now here's where we saw some little

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indications throughout the swing but now if we look at the release pattern we

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can see things that kind of jump out this trail elbow going into more of this

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internal rotation you can see the pit of the elbow disappear and right or

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starting right around here that elbow is kind of hanging out more on the

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backside of its body his body we would if we saw it from down the line we would

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see the space increase which we'll see some others in addition if we take it

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all the way to here we see there's very little axis tilt you know if we looked

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at this let's say impact line you'll see that as we go through more and more

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spaces appearing from the pelvis so the hip joint is actually still behind the

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golf ball so very little axis tilt and as we kind of scrub back and forth we

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can

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see the lower body is acting more for balance and kind of absorption where

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it's more of a shoulder girdle you know left shoulder really pulling right

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shoulder pushing in order to swing the club past as a result you can see very

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little flat spot the the club has blurry because of the camera in the frame

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rate

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but you can see the club coming up off the ground pretty quickly not giving us

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a whole lot of margin of error all right so mr. happy feet there there are some

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good things going on we'll see it especially from this down the line that

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there's a lot I would consider this almost more of like a wedge style release

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pattern where there's definitely some elbow separation going on meaning you

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can see if we're looking at the distance between the elbows from there to there

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it's getting wider that left shoulder is pulling around his body you'll see

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there's a lot of trail arm connection and the whole body kind of comes through

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together if we're looking at the impact line we can see upper body's back hands

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are back wrists if we're comparing where they were it set up to impact are very

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similar in terms of it's not more flex than extended it's pretty close to the

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same all that's pretty solid for wedge but that's gonna limit our ability to

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get

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shaft lean that's gonna limit our ability to hit it high enough on the face but

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perhaps some of that is because this guy looks like he practices off of some

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quite thick fairway okay so from the down the line we'll see through here

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there's very little arm shallowing like the the arms are pretty much the club

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head is almost catching up with the chest so if he had a lot of body

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rotation and the arms were here body rotation would move the club this way

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on the screen and so that wouldn't match up he would be too steep so part of

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the

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reason why he has this low body rotation is to help him accommodate for this

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kind of arm dominant release and now if we look at this position here we can

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see

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there's not a lot of ulnar deviation especially in that lead wrist and

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timing wise that would have happened right around here if we had more of that

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ulnar deviation the club would be coming down this way so then his body could

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get more open the other place that you can check and look for that ulnar

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deviation is here and you can see there's a decent angle there so not a ton of

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ulnar deviation also as he comes through that piece isn't too bad but if we're

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looking at okay matching some of these pieces if he was gonna have more body

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rotation that would create more arm bend arm bend would narrow things so he

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would have to they would that would also steepen things so he would shallow it

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out by getting the ulnar deviation and the hands more up that would also

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because

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the way the wrist work that would move the hands more up and forward but that

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as

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we can see that would take a couple changes he would have to have more

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spine rotation so right now because he tends to really kind of pull with the

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shoulders on the way through in concert with straightening his legs that might

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be a tricky pattern for him to work out all at once I would probably work on

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some arm shallowing first and then add the body rotation to avoid hitting it

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that okay so now we got this overswing pattern if we come on down we'll see

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pretty big-time trail elbow stuck behind the body going more into internal

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rotation never even fully gets straightening but it's much more internal

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rotation this is this puts the low point behind and then he balances that by

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having a fair amount of lower body slide so getting the lower body further

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past the the rest of the body to help move that low point there's not much

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vertical action happening in the his golf swing it's much more kind of sliding

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towards the target you can see the twist and the creases created in the in the

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yoga mati setting off of oftentimes that slide move is to get the low point far

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enough forward to not hit it fat so you oftentimes see if you don't have a lot

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of verticals you usually don't have a lot of wipe because if you if your if

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your arms are in front and then you had no verticals you'd be very steep you

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would come into it with a massive amount of shaft lean and angle of attack or

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other way would be if your arms are more behind you like that and you went

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vertical you'd hit it six inches fat so this is a common pattern that you'll

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typically see late leg drive very little vertical you'll see with this

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particular golfer where the leg is driving in that way that's more of a

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knee or quad driven activity so you see very little extension of the hip again

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the extension of the hip requires so the extension of the hip would work better

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with core rotation the core rotation would work better with the arm more in

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front and the arm more in front would compliment or work better with some

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side bend that whole kind of cluster of no side bend no hip extension no elbow

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in front sorry I was counting like this but all those patterns are

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complementary

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so this is where you get to decide okay am I gonna break down the arms first am

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I gonna break down the pivot which one you know I would usually kind of try

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both and see which one he will leave them with a playable pattern but this is

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where this can get tricky because you have a couple a few complementary pieces

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that you're gonna have to adjust and if you pick the wrong one he's gonna have

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some bigger misses so thinking through which one or two at the most would I

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be able to potentially add and work on and then kind of work through iterations

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of details I think is a good overall framework in general sometimes I like to

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just kind of classify what's going on this golfer appears to me like he has

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pretty stiff wrists and very mobile or movement in the shoulder blades and

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knees so he doesn't use his hips a lot he doesn't use his wrist a lot he uses

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a lot of his ankles feet and then he uses a lot of his shoulder blades very

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you know very much an under flip not a lot of supination pattern that fits with

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the no wipe thing so this would be a fun case because you could have a really

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big impact but it would also be kind of a little bit of one of those cases

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where

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there's a chance you could lead him down the wrong direction pretty quickly if

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you didn't help him understand how these pieces fit and hopefully pick the

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right

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one to start on all right so now we got the the ladies all arm swing super weak

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grip some of these compensations are going to be working her brain working

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out how do I get a clubface that's in that position with a hand position just

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kind of like that one of the one of the relationships I look at for grip

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strength is right here where's the V on the right hand compared to the club

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face usually you would want the clubface pointing a little bit to a right or

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target side compared to the V so she's in a very weak position she has not a

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lot of ulnar and deviation we look from this view here

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there's a lot of excessive bend of the arms this will be typically very little

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rotation so very little supination the lead hand will stay on top for a long

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period of time into the follow through the elbows are definitely getting wider

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I think of this pattern is kind of swinging the club around my body with

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my shoulders and elbows instead of swinging the club in front of my body

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with forearm rotation so that's zero supination a first thing I would

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probably be going after would be follow through position of getting those

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elbows

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closer together in the forums close to the touching and then because the arms

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are getting away from each other kind of like this that pulls the radius away

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from the ground and so we'll see a little bit more of kind of a drop through

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impact instead of a vertical bracing so she's bracing all with the shoulders I

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'd

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be concerned if she had any history of neck issues you know I'm pretty sure

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she's she's youngish so she might be okay but from a longevity I'd be trying

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to get a little bit more evenly distributed bracing and I would start

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with the follow through position because we can basically see most of the

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things

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that you would want to improve going more vertical getting more in front

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getting more leg a little less you know a little more body rotation it impact

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although that's not too bad a little more ulnar deviation most of those things

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are going to open the face and she already has a massive open face problem

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not just because of the grip but also the way that she's releasing the club

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with very little face rotation so that's probably where I would start with her

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but you can see how these pieces fit all right so last one we've got the

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over setting the wrist oftentimes with this pattern you'll see very little

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ulnar deviation and you can see that with him very little he does he ramps up

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kind

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of bigger and bigger practice swings but you can see both these positions

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that's a very vertical wrist set so you know he might have over practiced with

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the swing guide he has also not none but a low level of supination and so I

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think

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there was one one of his little practice swings maybe was this first one where

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you can see that the club face is in a quite open position with an excessive

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amount of shaft lean so that no supination with a super strong face

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attachment there is potentially going to cause a lot of thin it's going to

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cause

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a lot of low point issues it would be my kind of biggest concern so then if I

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look at impact position I'm just going to take a mental snapshot as far as the

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wrist position here and then when I go to use the further one doesn't look like

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he has a lot of increased flexion of the lead wrist extension of the trail

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wrist it looks like he's bringing him back pretty close to the same position

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so he's just started them in a quite strong position which unfortunately if

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you don't have a ton of body rotation which he doesn't especially hip rotation

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then your only way to avoid hitting it left causes low point issues so that can

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be that can be tricky people fall in love with the strong grip and then build

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wrist mechanics that move the low point backwards so they get stuck hitting a

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lot of thin shots and they have to hit a bunch of left shots until they are

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able

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to rework that pattern together. It's very little lower body bracing you'll see

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again little sag it's not it's not terrible but you know there's kind of a

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little bit of that knee buckle a little bit of the leg trail leg not really

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having any hip extension as well oftentimes I'll talk about a little bit

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later but oftentimes you'll see a lot of if they're dominant with their arm

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action that will tend to cause a little bit more sagging in the lower body

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through the release. Okay so before we look at the tour examples let's just

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kind

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of talk a little bit about the scoop or flip versus tour release so typically

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with the scoop or flip you'll see one or more of these pieces with the trail

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wrist you'll have more of a flexion or more of a rehinge oftentimes it's

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driven by trail arm going internal rotation like that the lead wrist will

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be going into extension or more often going into a rehinge as well kind of

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almost like I call it fishing we're bringing it up back up like this oftentimes

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with a trail arm retraction which oftentimes doesn't have any supination

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versus getting some forearm rotation supination and ulnar deviation. I do talk

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I don't want to get on it but I do talk about pressure points and oftentimes

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you

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know getting that pressure point on that trail hand index finger helps maintain

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the extension and the white movement where if they're pushing more with the

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thumb if you were pushing on something from this finger applying resistance you

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would tend to kind of get across this way and you can see I'd be encouraged to

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pull more with my body if I'm pushing more from the thumb this way it would

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tend to want to accompany more of that pattern so sometimes if you're really

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struggling trying to get the arm to move in the right direction look at the

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finger and the attachment the elbows closing versus elbows getting further

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apart so the more that the elbows are going this way you'll tend to see low

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supination in order one way to get my elbows closest together is to touch my

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forearms together so part of that would be more from this lead arm supination

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you can see when I do that my elbows can get quite close together so that's

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part of the reason why you'll tend to see higher supination values with pros

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versus amateurs and you'll also see the arc width getting closer together or

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the

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arc width widening because the elbows are getting closer together through that

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release the classics for the body leg buckle is oftentimes so your pecs and

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your lats both connect on the pelvis if you recall and so if I get really

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active

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trying to hit something hard with my arms kind of like this my my core

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stability pattern will be more of this kind of knee buckle versus if I was

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getting more of the the hit from the extension of the arms the extension of

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the arms and the extension the hips are more complementary and the kind of whip

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of the wrist and the bending of the arm of the legs is more complementary so

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oftentimes you'll have a hard time getting someone out of a buckle move just by

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working on the buckle you also have to work on kind of the intensity of the

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release from the hands the no rotation so if I'm trying to really use my pecs

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and

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really use my lats they're in a weaker position if I have spine rotation so I'm

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gonna tend to pull those in line the more that I'm using my arms lastly the

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stand-up move so you can just think about it from pure geometry perspective if

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I

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the more that I stand up all this is going to get long so if I side bent and

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rotated this would get long behind the golf ball so standing up no rotation and

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a little bit more on top of the ball tend to help with low point control if my

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arm mechanics aren't quite or if they're more in the scoop pattern instead of

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that tour release or if I'm squaring it more with the in-plane movement rather

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than shaft rotation but so now let's take a look at a handful of professionals

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looking at their release so Rory has some interesting stuff in his arm

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mechanics but here we'll take a take a quick look so from this delivery

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position we'll see he's really good at going into that bracing movement early

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we'll see that even though this elbow is behind as he continues to go through

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you can see how that elbow doesn't just stop on his side as it rotates it's

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being brought around by the movement of the trunk or the the obliques and the

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pull of that lead shoulder if we go to that impact position we see you know

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in line with that right arm so the the right arm plane is good the body

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rotations are good the side bend is good the difference between his wrist

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position at setup and impact we can see he's gone into a significant amount

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more

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trail wrist extension maybe not quite as much on the lead but definitely more

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trail wrist extension and then as he continues to go through really good job

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of getting those arms to get closer together he works into some fluid

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supination elbows get closer together I mean this is this is one of the

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positions that I think is more consistent at torpo level than kind of

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anything else because there's just there's only so many ways that you could

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have

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a good flat spot club face control and create speed and most of them would get

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you in this overall follow-through position I think a couple good ones of

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Justin Thomas so we'll see again let's run through stable pelvis so we'll see

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right around here there's not much pelvis slide it goes more vertical we'll

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see the arms extending on the way through not as much of the forearm

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rotation as say more golfers fair amount through there and then not quite sure

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what shot he's hitting here but later on that forearm rotation but still gets

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the

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elbows closer together good bracing and dominant you know that follow-through

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position the impact line of the shoulder hip arm hand I think he's one of the

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best of this as far as getting the hands ahead but even even though he does

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that you'll see it's kind of a shallow ground contact so really good flat spot

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from the path side of things bring it down you know checkpoint one club kind of

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more in line with that right forearm rather than the left good amount of

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pelvis rotation trunk rotation kind of gets close to pointing at the golf ball

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right around this P6 we didn't look at too many of those but you'll see the

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this

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is that checkpoint that I look for as far as the hands more in front of the

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shoulder really good P6 there looking at a little maybe under-onored at this

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point but again I think that could be related to the shot and where he's

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playing

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typically guys who are a little bit more under-onored will tend to have a

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lower launch like a Sergio Garcia guys who have a lot more owner deviation will

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tend to have a little bit higher launch really good maintaining his spine angle

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rotating is thrown through all that good classic stuff alright in general the

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pros are a lot more boring to analyze their release compared to the amateurs

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because we'll see a lot more creative things happening with the amateur

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pattern this isn't a great video of Sam's need just because the sweater is so

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bulky

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that it's hard to see what the arms and hands are doing through there but you

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will see kind of getting back into that classic position legs extended good

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axis tilt good hip extension enough owner deviation elbows close together

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supination going on there good width in the follow-through Robert rock

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good leg extension good supination elbows wider there closing together there

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so not a real strong shoulder pull more bracing from the hips great hip

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extension there so all these classic things again you'll start to see a lot

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more similarities between the release compared to say some transition stuff

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or some backswing stuff when looking at the tour level and it's one of the

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more constant areas or consistent areas where pros almost have to find this

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pattern if they're going to have the level of consistency required to be a

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pro okay so going through this zone as far as video checkpoints if we're going

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p5.5 or even down to p6 you're looking at steep shallow balance this is the

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shift point so we'll start to see a lot of the body movements change from one

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direction to the other and we're looking at where is that trail elbow and those

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wrists compared to the body we saw p6 as a key position for looking at lag and

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body rotation sequencing impact is you know if you only had one position to

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look at this tells you a whole lot looking at the axis tilt and the impact

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line the wrist orientations the forearm plane all that's going to start you're

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gonna look at it pretty quickly and be able to take a good guess at what their

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mispatterns might be what their strengths might be you know who runs the

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risk of getting in trouble from swinging hard versus who runs the risk of

450
00:39:22.780 --> 00:39:26.580
swinging getting in trouble when they swing easy some of these things will

451
00:39:26.580 --> 00:39:32.140
show up in what's going on here during the release follow through position

452
00:39:32.140 --> 00:39:33.100
again

453
00:39:33.100 --> 00:39:37.260
I almost always work from impact and follow through backward just a really

454
00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:43.620
dig into the release and then jumping into how the rest of the movements relate

455
00:39:43.620 --> 00:39:50.180
to or complement the release okay so looking at the key body relationships this

456
00:39:50.180 --> 00:39:55.780
is kind of the face and path phase from here to there where the transition

457
00:39:55.780 --> 00:39:55.980
phase

458
00:39:55.980 --> 00:40:01.580
is more about creating power so here we're looking at shoulder rotations

459
00:40:01.580 --> 00:40:09.580
scapular movements and connection and the arm bends as kind of the key arm not

460
00:40:09.580 --> 00:40:09.780
so

461
00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:14.540
much wrist but the key arm relationships come the the wrists are yes there's

462
00:40:14.540 --> 00:40:19.940
some physical abilities but that's a lot more coordination where the arm

463
00:40:19.940 --> 00:40:26.780
motions that's more like a physical breakdown off more frequently so shoulder

464
00:40:26.780 --> 00:40:32.780
rotation not being able to go into external rotation to easily can make

465
00:40:32.780 --> 00:40:37.700
this position hard to get into and the second you start adding more of this

466
00:40:37.700 --> 00:40:40.940
which is internal rotation you're gonna have to have some type of

467
00:40:40.940 --> 00:40:46.860
computation whether it's a shallow from the body that way a shallow from having

468
00:40:46.860 --> 00:40:52.860
more tilt that way I'm gonna balance it with some body movement scapular

469
00:40:52.860 --> 00:40:58.220
connection so when I'm down in this zone I'm looking at you know what's going

470
00:40:58.220 --> 00:40:58.460
on

471
00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:05.460
with this side here and what's going on with this shoulder pulling forward and

472
00:41:05.460 --> 00:41:11.420
backward like that oftentimes you'll start to see right around here a big pull

473
00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:16.820
from this left shoulder or shoulder blade almost like doing a row kind of

474
00:41:16.820 --> 00:41:21.300
like this that will pull on the club and throw the club that out create some

475
00:41:21.300 --> 00:41:27.700
speed but creates a whole host of contact and face control problems same

476
00:41:27.700 --> 00:41:33.540
thing with kind of the arm bend the arm bend can pull to help the club whip

477
00:41:33.540 --> 00:41:33.780
pass

478
00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:42.580
but that creates a really narrow low point or narrow arc width looking at the

479
00:41:42.580 --> 00:41:48.140
abs in the core so are they using their obliques is are these ribs

480
00:41:48.140 --> 00:41:52.780
continuing to rotate down through there or have I gone into more of an

481
00:41:52.780 --> 00:41:53.900
extension

482
00:41:53.900 --> 00:42:00.260
movement or too much of a crunch movement kind of going that way but be

483
00:42:00.260 --> 00:42:04.820
careful because oftentimes what you see happening at the spine is actually a

484
00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:07.940
connection and a compensation for what's happening at the shoulder blades and

485
00:42:07.940 --> 00:42:17.220
shoulders the pelvic tilt in TVA so seeing like a good glute hip activation

486
00:42:17.220 --> 00:42:22.700
we're a little bit more of a pelvic tilt kind of going this way as opposed to

487
00:42:22.700 --> 00:42:31.700
more of a hip flexor or quad type sag the so the quad indicators would be more

488
00:42:31.700 --> 00:42:36.020
that I'm going in towards my toes more than my knees are getting bent more than

489
00:42:36.020 --> 00:42:40.980
I'm going side to side laterally where the glued indicators are going to be

490
00:42:40.980 --> 00:42:41.260
more

491
00:42:41.260 --> 00:42:50.180
of a pelvic tilt more of a hip extension so you'll tend to see from this face

492
00:42:50.180 --> 00:42:50.180
on

493
00:42:50.180 --> 00:42:54.450
view if the knee is kind of like in front of the pelvis like this that's more

494
00:42:54.450 --> 00:42:54.580
of

495
00:42:54.580 --> 00:43:01.980
a ankle and knee where if the hip is almost passing the knee that's more of a

496
00:43:01.980 --> 00:43:06.460
glute activation especially looking at the trail side from the foot if we're

497
00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:12.970
looking at the lead foot if I get to more into my toes pivoting more on the

498
00:43:12.970 --> 00:43:13.140
ball

499
00:43:13.140 --> 00:43:21.060
on my foot instead of getting more into that cuboid that can be a sign of again

500
00:43:21.060 --> 00:43:32.150
knee versus glute or and the trail foot so if it's overly kind of pronating

501
00:43:32.150 --> 00:43:32.940
down

502
00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:38.420
this way that's more that creates slack from the glute so that's not going to

503
00:43:38.420 --> 00:43:38.540
be

504
00:43:38.540 --> 00:43:43.540
a real strong platform for being able to push if you one little exercise I do

505
00:43:43.540 --> 00:43:43.700
for

506
00:43:43.700 --> 00:43:47.460
my students is if I get in this position and I really squeeze this butt you'll

507
00:43:47.460 --> 00:43:52.870
see that the foot wants to kind of like go into external rotation and straight

508
00:43:52.870 --> 00:43:52.940
en

509
00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:59.020
out like that so oftentimes it's getting this bracing or getting this glute

510
00:43:59.020 --> 00:44:03.940
squeeze and then bringing that glute squeeze or using that glute squeeze and

511
00:44:03.940 --> 00:44:07.780
the momentum of the body turning to pull my foot up as opposed to really

512
00:44:07.780 --> 00:44:08.660
driving

513
00:44:08.660 --> 00:44:13.140
that foot in and forward that in and forward movement is typically more of a

514
00:44:13.140 --> 00:44:18.580
knee complement with a back action instead of like a gluten core action

515
00:44:18.580 --> 00:44:25.540
okay so now let's go through some of the coaches submissions kind of keeping in

516
00:44:25.540 --> 00:44:30.780
all this framework so here's Kellen really good looking swing but we said

517
00:44:30.780 --> 00:44:34.180
hey there might be some stuff going on that we're gonna be able to see here in

518
00:44:34.180 --> 00:44:40.180
the in the release so I'm gonna work from this impact stuff backwards so if

519
00:44:40.180 --> 00:44:45.580
I'm just scrubbing back and forth first thing that jumps out to me you know

520
00:44:45.580 --> 00:44:51.340
relatively good impact line but hips are a little bit ahead upper body is a

521
00:44:51.340 --> 00:44:58.100
little bit more tilted back and now if I look at this shoulder we'll see it

522
00:44:58.100 --> 00:45:05.100
kind of freezes in this or that elbow freezes freezes freezes so there's not

523
00:45:05.100 --> 00:45:10.700
a lot of movement of the center of the elbow compared to his ribcage between

524
00:45:10.700 --> 00:45:15.140
there and there it's just going into more of a rotation movement so this slide

525
00:45:15.140 --> 00:45:15.340
of

526
00:45:15.340 --> 00:45:21.180
the hips helps to move the low point forward since that wipe is kind of on

527
00:45:21.180 --> 00:45:28.900
the lower end now I think he has pretty good hip bracing so

528
00:45:28.900 --> 00:45:35.110
potentially it looks like the shoulders and the core aren't really rotating

529
00:45:35.110 --> 00:45:35.260
with

530
00:45:35.260 --> 00:45:41.940
the arm so he's hitting it more from the hips and that trail shoulder if we

531
00:45:41.940 --> 00:45:42.180
look

532
00:45:42.180 --> 00:45:47.820
from here we might even see we can see that trail shoulder blade kind of

533
00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:48.180
getting

534
00:45:48.180 --> 00:45:54.620
up and off of his body kind of more aggressively that way again I like what

535
00:45:54.620 --> 00:45:58.420
is lower bodies doing but it does look like there's a little avoidance of the

536
00:45:58.420 --> 00:46:07.140
core and kind of over over activation of that trail shoulder so I would imagine

537
00:46:07.140 --> 00:46:12.460
that because of because of the shoulder doing what it's doing he has to get

538
00:46:12.460 --> 00:46:12.620
that

539
00:46:12.620 --> 00:46:17.020
lower body a little bit more in front that creates more tilt that tilt will

540
00:46:17.020 --> 00:46:22.420
tend to cause more thin misses and kind of a feeling of not real solid

541
00:46:22.420 --> 00:46:23.020
compression

542
00:46:23.020 --> 00:46:28.660
potentially and where it really might show up would be he might not be quite

543
00:46:28.660 --> 00:46:36.620
as tight with his short irons it's also possible that he could have some club

544
00:46:36.620 --> 00:46:41.500
face issues off the tee because of that shoulder but I'm guessing kind of his

545
00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:45.860
mid and long irons he'll be pretty good with just looking at other players who

546
00:46:45.860 --> 00:46:52.100
have that pattern so this is just an example of how I dig through a better

547
00:46:52.100 --> 00:46:58.140
players swing because there's not a you know there's no gross things to look at

548
00:46:58.140 --> 00:47:02.580
but we can see that there's some some physical connections that aren't quite as

549
00:47:02.580 --> 00:47:07.780
clean as I would like to see primarily in the core in that trail shoulder blade

550
00:47:07.780 --> 00:47:13.980
all right so here we have this other submission we've been talking about him

551
00:47:13.980 --> 00:47:17.940
for a few webinars that like hey nothing's too bad so if I start at this

552
00:47:17.940 --> 00:47:26.900
follow-through position for him we can see okay he's got a really steep body

553
00:47:26.900 --> 00:47:32.540
position so no real access tilt there in fact if we you know draw that kind of

554
00:47:32.540 --> 00:47:39.380
impact line like we've got a gap between his hip and his upper body or hip in

555
00:47:39.380 --> 00:47:44.460
that line that would tend to produce some real trouble with the driver so he's

556
00:47:44.460 --> 00:47:48.700
probably better with the three wood rather than the driver off the tee and

557
00:47:48.700 --> 00:47:57.420
we can see that trail knee and foot kind of more just spinning out so there's

558
00:47:57.420 --> 00:48:02.100
not a lot of verticals going on he he kind of has to throw the arms past and he

559
00:48:02.100 --> 00:48:07.780
does so with that kind of upper body really or that shoulder girdle rotating

560
00:48:07.780 --> 00:48:14.700
forward if you want to move your shoulder girdle as far as possible

561
00:48:14.700 --> 00:48:19.900
that's easier to do with kind of soft knees compared if you wanted to move

562
00:48:19.900 --> 00:48:24.300
your core then that actually works a little bit better with a bending and

563
00:48:24.300 --> 00:48:30.420
straightening of the legs so anytime you see like no bracing whatsoever that's

564
00:48:30.420 --> 00:48:36.220
usually a dominant shoulder girdle type action okay if we now if we look at the

565
00:48:36.220 --> 00:48:40.500
arms and hands from this perspective we can see oh man he's already in a steep

566
00:48:40.500 --> 00:48:46.340
body position and the club is in a steep position but his body is under-rotated

567
00:48:46.340 --> 00:48:52.180
well now if we go to a couple of our checks specifically if we look at this

568
00:48:52.180 --> 00:48:59.860
foreign plane wow there's very little like that's a that's a very under ulnar

569
00:48:59.860 --> 00:49:10.220
deviated position so right around here he's you know he's kind of retaining

570
00:49:10.220 --> 00:49:10.340
that

571
00:49:10.340 --> 00:49:14.740
angle and then he goes into more of almost like a swivel type movement

572
00:49:14.740 --> 00:49:20.300
instead of getting that ulnar deviation and getting that good arm rotation so

573
00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:26.520
he gets more he's in this position here and then he gets that rotation going

574
00:49:26.520 --> 00:49:26.780
more

575
00:49:26.780 --> 00:49:32.220
around this way instead of like under and then rotating it looks like the

576
00:49:32.220 --> 00:49:36.700
sequence is kind of rotating without ever getting under so I think the big

577
00:49:36.700 --> 00:49:40.980
driving force is that ulnar deviation that ulnar deviation is one of the big

578
00:49:40.980 --> 00:49:47.420
width mechanisms so part of why I think he has to sag and stay so much down on

579
00:49:47.420 --> 00:49:54.540
the way through is to account for the the lack of depth because he's missing

580
00:49:54.540 --> 00:50:01.460
one of that the big pieces with that ulnar deviation so that's pretty much

581
00:50:01.460 --> 00:50:06.220
where I would be going at with him would be adding ulnar deviation and then

582
00:50:06.220 --> 00:50:11.020
working into some sequencing so now it makes sense that he gets more of this

583
00:50:11.020 --> 00:50:16.340
kind of shoulder pull steep and then kind of swivel everything rotates through

584
00:50:16.340 --> 00:50:23.700
so you know good looking finish position in the sense that his hips get into a

585
00:50:23.700 --> 00:50:28.020
really good extension position I'm not really worried that he's doing this

586
00:50:28.020 --> 00:50:32.460
movement because he has really poor hip function it looks like it's more of a

587
00:50:32.460 --> 00:50:37.540
pattern that he had to build around this lack of ulnar deviation so I would

588
00:50:37.540 --> 00:50:45.020
definitely explore that and then work backwards from there oh man the most

589
00:50:45.020 --> 00:50:52.180
interesting golf swing in America here we go looking at Brooks so if we get it

590
00:50:52.180 --> 00:50:57.020
down you know the more I look at just the more amazed I am by the golf swing so

591
00:50:57.020 --> 00:51:02.900
again club face is in a crazy closed position there as you go up towards the

592
00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:06.260
top of the swing I don't think I highlighted this last time but it has a

593
00:51:06.260 --> 00:51:10.900
big influence on what's going on in the release notice how in these blurry

594
00:51:10.900 --> 00:51:18.780
frames you'll see if you look at that lead wrist it goes from severely bowed

595
00:51:18.780 --> 00:51:23.660
to pretty well cupped so he gets into this power pole pattern but when he does

596
00:51:23.660 --> 00:51:30.500
that watch what happens to the club face so now when he regrips the club face

597
00:51:30.500 --> 00:51:30.660
is

598
00:51:30.660 --> 00:51:34.740
actually in an open position so I'm sure at some point he struggled with an

599
00:51:34.740 --> 00:51:35.020
open

600
00:51:35.020 --> 00:51:40.280
club face and then he just overworked because he wasn't using any system to

601
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.940
look at when was the club face getting open he just over closed the face in the

602
00:51:43.940 --> 00:51:51.380
takeaway but that didn't change the fact that now at this position here you can

603
00:51:51.380 --> 00:51:56.020
see that's a pretty open club face position he can't close it anymore so

604
00:51:56.020 --> 00:52:01.860
he's in this open position and then he has to really close it with this in-

605
00:52:01.860 --> 00:52:02.060
plane

606
00:52:02.060 --> 00:52:11.420
movement probably the most I've ever seen so massive flip kind of lack of

607
00:52:11.420 --> 00:52:14.380
unhinged because unhinged hope and opens the face so yeah he's not gonna

608
00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:21.210
unhinged the wrists essentially have this big rotation movement which should

609
00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:22.140
move

610
00:52:22.140 --> 00:52:28.420
the path outside in but then because the shoulders have a big kind of

611
00:52:28.420 --> 00:52:33.900
elevation movement and the body stays closed that balances it out but it

612
00:52:33.900 --> 00:52:41.540
balances it out with a shaft that is pretty close to vertical or way behind

613
00:52:41.540 --> 00:52:48.420
his body so this is the classic example of shallow body except for the fact

614
00:52:48.420 --> 00:52:49.300
that

615
00:52:49.300 --> 00:52:54.580
I'm so I've had so much lateral movement that that's the only steep I can't add

616
00:52:54.580 --> 00:52:59.460
staying imposter steep body rotation steep because I'm so far past the golf

617
00:52:59.460 --> 00:52:59.660
ball

618
00:52:59.660 --> 00:53:06.740
with my upper body that I can't add any more steeps also geometrically because

619
00:53:06.740 --> 00:53:06.860
I

620
00:53:06.860 --> 00:53:12.700
squared the face with all of this straightening of the club I would

621
00:53:12.700 --> 00:53:18.140
bottom out way behind unless I slid forward so his body movement is the

622
00:53:18.140 --> 00:53:27.140
all shallow no rotation early extension lift and complemented by kind of more

623
00:53:27.140 --> 00:53:27.260
of

624
00:53:27.260 --> 00:53:33.540
a arm pull or back pull kind of almost like a chop-type movement with the back

625
00:53:33.540 --> 00:53:43.740
muscles as a power source and then the good news the good news is that if I go

626
00:53:43.740 --> 00:53:48.300
into looking at the follow-through position it's decent there's he's got

627
00:53:48.300 --> 00:53:53.980
some soup a little bit of supination he's got no real chicken wing and then

628
00:53:53.980 --> 00:53:59.180
he's actually got some decent core movement oftentimes you'll see like a

629
00:53:59.180 --> 00:54:04.140
really massive buckle but he's actually got a little bit of hip extension and

630
00:54:04.140 --> 00:54:13.980
you know belly button movement through there so I think you know I'm not no

631
00:54:13.980 --> 00:54:20.200
sugar coating he's got a lot of kind of arm pattern to clean up but the

632
00:54:20.200 --> 00:54:20.700
evidence

633
00:54:20.700 --> 00:54:27.620
is there that his body might actually be able to move pretty well if he wasn't

634
00:54:27.620 --> 00:54:28.020
in

635
00:54:28.020 --> 00:54:32.700
such a hampered position because of what the arms are doing okay last but not

636
00:54:32.700 --> 00:54:39.100
least I do think it's interesting that whoever is operating this camera kind of

637
00:54:39.100 --> 00:54:45.310
stopped at my delivery position and then picks it up and goes from follow all

638
00:54:45.310 --> 00:54:45.420
the

639
00:54:45.420 --> 00:54:51.700
way to follow through so here we'll see tremendous like really good job of

640
00:54:51.700 --> 00:54:58.780
bracing really good you'll watch the elbows get closer together you'll see the

641
00:54:58.780 --> 00:55:02.380
glove hand is blocked by the sweater this was the same day when he was playing

642
00:55:02.380 --> 00:55:09.740
with Sam's need but you can see the supination and arm rotation there so you

643
00:55:09.740 --> 00:55:15.180
can also see that it's not so much of a lead shoulder pull a lot of the golfers

644
00:55:15.180 --> 00:55:18.820
you see with the big lead shoulder pull that shoulder will be disappearing

645
00:55:18.820 --> 00:55:19.140
behind

646
00:55:19.140 --> 00:55:24.780
their body and you won't see much of their tricep or bicep there so really

647
00:55:24.780 --> 00:55:33.540
good arm extension really good hip extension right so essentially the plane

648
00:55:33.540 --> 00:55:38.540
of the pelvis is right about there and the plane of the leg is behind that so

649
00:55:38.540 --> 00:55:43.060
that's really good trail hip extension that's you know tucking the hips or

650
00:55:43.060 --> 00:55:48.220
getting that belt buckle brought up the pelvic tilt all that creates really

651
00:55:48.220 --> 00:55:55.060
good transfer of energy from the glute to the abs to the ribs so really rock

652
00:55:55.060 --> 00:56:00.660
solid release pattern so we're we're winding into the follow-through which is

653
00:56:00.660 --> 00:56:04.220
gonna be more of the absorption of speed phase so how do I safely get

654
00:56:04.220 --> 00:56:08.460
through we'll talk about that in the the next webinar and then we're gonna do

655
00:56:08.460 --> 00:56:13.580
some other stuff relating to just kind of tying all the pieces together so if

656
00:56:13.580 --> 00:56:18.940
you have any questions please send them any send me an email or comment below

657
00:56:18.940 --> 00:56:24.100
and we'll keep working through the different phases and working through

658
00:56:24.100 --> 00:56:28.300
dissecting or breaking down the body movements as they relate to the key

659
00:56:28.300 --> 00:56:31.140
swing phases

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