Hackmotion Swing Analysis Overview

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Hello, golfers, and welcome to the Hack Motion Swing Analysis Guide here

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presented by me,

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Tyler Farrell, and Galsmart Academy.

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So in this series, I'm going to show you how to get started with the data.

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So I'm going to assume you already know how to set it up, how to collect the

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data, and

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you have a bunch of swings, but you're not sure how to interpret them.

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So we're going to dig a little deeper into how to analyze your swing and how

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you can

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use Hack Motion to speed up that process.

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So when you're analyzing your swing with Hack Motion, there's lots of different

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approaches.

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I'm not saying that mine is the best, but this is the one that works really

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well for

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me.

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I tend to analyze from setup first on a big general scale, just making sure

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that you're

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not kind of horribly out of positions, and then looking at impact.

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Ultimately the golf ball is going to fly based on the interaction between the

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golf club and

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the golf ball.

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So we need to get the golf club to strike the golf ball differently, or we need

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the golf

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club to move in a way that gives us more consistency in how we strike the golf

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ball.

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Once we decide what we need to change about the golf club, then we want to look

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at the

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body.

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And so we're going to look at the body, both in terms of how the body is moving

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, but also

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how the arms and the hands are moving.

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So Hack Motion is great for looking very quickly and very accurately at how the

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lead wrist

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is looking.

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In this program we're going to focus on the lead wrist.

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We may do another one for the trail wrist, but this is all about the lead wrist

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We're going to start at impact and then work our way backwards.

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So we'll go from impact.

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If impact is off, we're going to look at the top of the swing to see if that's

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largely

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off or contributing to what's going on at impact.

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That's okay.

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We'll look at the downswing, we'll break it down into the transition or the

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release.

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Oftentimes, what your wrist is doing is a result or a compliment to what your

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body is

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doing during the downswing.

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And if those are okay, or let's say we're trying to work on those, but we're

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still kind

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of fighting it, having some trouble, then we're going to look at the backswing.

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We'll break the backswing into the takeaway and setting the club at the top.

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So in this program, you'll see some sections below where we're going to cover

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each of

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these major sections, whether it's the setup, the impact, top of swing position

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, the downswing

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or looking at your backswing.

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Okay.

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For setup, from the body perspective, we're just going to, I'll have some

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videos to help

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you with kind of your body position.

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You might have to use some video to complement the data that you're getting

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from the hack

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motion.

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The hack motion is going to help you standardize as well as get more consistent

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with your

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grip.

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So when we're looking at the lead wrist, the main parameter that we're going to

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be looking

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at is the amount of extension or flexion in that wrist.

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But for most people, it's going to be a little bit of extension.

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John Romm's fairly flat.

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We can see a little bit more extension here with Justin Thomas.

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From the posture, we want to be relatively balanced over our feet.

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We want to be kind of hinging from the hips and have our spine in a good

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position to

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rotate and extend.

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And we want to have the arms and shoulders connected, but also not in a case or

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a state

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of extreme tension.

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So they're hanging a little bit with good alignment in the direction that we

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want to

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swing.

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So these are some rough guys, but we'll have some other videos in the setup

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section.

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When we're looking at this extension parameter, here's kind of a spectrum.

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This golfer here has a lot more extension in the wrist, a little bit of an

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extension,

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and then virtually none.

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So I'm not here to say that one is better than the other.

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I have a video to help you understand how the key is matching up how your grip

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matches

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to your sternum or your body position.

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Basically what's going to happen is when you swing a golf club, your hand's

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going to

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fling away from you and it's going to air towards getting into a neutral lineup

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Whether it's this way or this way, it kind of depends a little bit more on the

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shoulder

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and some of the forearm rotation, but it's going to tend to want to snap into

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more neutral

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alignment as the forces of the club are pulling on it.

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So what happens is the more that you grip your hand underneath or on the side,

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kind of

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over this way, the more that the wrist is going to be an extension.

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And when it snaps towards neutral, you can see that closes the face and that

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hits the

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ball low and far and we call that more of a strong grip.

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If the grip is more on top or more kind of this way where it's more on the left

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side,

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then as it approaches that neutral position, you can see the club face is

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pointing more

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to the right compared to when it was on the side or underneath.

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And so when it's more on top, we call that a weaker grip, it tends to hit the

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ball a

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little bit higher and it requires some different match ups in order to square

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the club.

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So I'm not going to say that you have to have one perfect, but as a rough kind

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of general

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guide, somewhere in the 10 to 25 degree range is probably the window for

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neutral, less than

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that would be more considered a weak grip and then stronger than that would be

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definitely

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considered a strong grip.

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25, I might even consider a strong grip.

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But the actual number is not as important as the consistency of the number.

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We'll talk about that in the next slide.

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The other thing to factor in is you can see that these golfers have a similar

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amount of

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extension, but because of the body positions, one golfer being more behind,

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that will actually

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create a little bit more arm rotation, which will strengthen the grip.

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So we can't just go off of that number and determine if it's a strong weak or

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neutral

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grip, but it gives us a really good indication, especially if we're using some

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face on video

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to match it up.

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Like I said, the bigger goal is trying to get some grip strength consistency.

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So this particular golfer, you can see in their course of 11 different swings,

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it went

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from basically flat at minus one to minus 12.

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So changing 10 or 11 degrees is probably a little bit too much.

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Now it's possible that this golfer was working on the grip, in which case, okay

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, good job.

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You were changing your grip pattern, but if you're trying to be more consistent

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, the

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hack motion will help you zero in or know kind of how far away from having a

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repeatable

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consistent grip you're having each time.

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So goal is consistency somewhere in that neutral range.

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So I've got the video on matching where is this body position with the general

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position

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of the grip.

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But as a rough guide, we're going to say that at impact our big goal is to be

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15 to 30 degrees

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more flex than wherever we started.

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So if we start with, let's say, as an example, if we start with 15 degrees kind

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of like this,

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then at impact, we would want to be anywhere from zero to 15 flexed.

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If you started with more 45, then you would want to be somewhere in the 30

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degrees extended

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to 15 degree extended range.

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So one of them would look kind of like this at setup.

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And you can see as I move my hands forward, I'm going to lose some of the

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extension.

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So that's one of the big reasons why we tend to see this pattern with tour pros

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is because

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you can see in both cases the arms are going to be where the handle is going to

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be more

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forward of the golf ball than where it was at setup.

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And the simple act of getting it more forward requires that the wrist get into

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a little

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bit more flex position than where it started unless you have a super strong

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grip in which

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case you get it forward with a little bit more older deviation.

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But that's only in extreme cases.

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For most people, our goal is to get to this impact position where we basically

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have a

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flat left wrist because we're assuming that we have more of a normal grip.

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And just for comparison, you can see this collage where we're going to look at

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a bunch

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of different golfers here, all from John Michael Field's YouTube channel.

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If you're looking for good camera angles, good swings, he does a great job.

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So here we've got more flat left wrist, a little bit more extended here.

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That's why I'm saying it's not an absolute, it has to be perfectly flat.

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It just has to be more flexed or less extended than where it was at setup.

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Okay, so the way that that shows up on video is that flat left wrist.

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The way that you can quickly look at it on hack motion is looking at where the

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flexion

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extension line is crossing the impact line compared to where it's set up.

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So you can see that shape wise, these are somewhat similar.

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But this pattern here, we're crossing impact down here.

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This is 20 degrees less than where it was at setup.

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Over here, you can see it's crossing here.

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This is about five or ten degrees more extended than where it was at setup.

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So even though the pattern or the shape looks pretty good, the value of when it

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's crossing

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tells you that the timing and the way that these golfers are using their wrist

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is different.

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In fact, this one over here is this swing here that I was making to try to get

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more

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extended and you can see how scoopy or flippy that looks like.

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So if we are starting with the premise that we want to have a good impact

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position, this

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is the first thing that we want to look at is where is the wrist position at

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impact.

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And in general, if you're struggling at impact with this lead wrist position,

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it's going

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to tend to be too extended.

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It's rare that it's going to be too flex.

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So that too extended position, we're going to call flipping at impact.

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Now too much extension at impact, which we call flipping, could come from two

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different

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scenarios.

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In this case, the two different scenarios would be you got into enough flexion

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at some point

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in the downswing, but then you just lost it.

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So if our goal was to be 15 to 30 degrees less extended than where we were at

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setup,

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here you can see the scoffer started at plus 20 and they got to slightly below

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zero here

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in transition.

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So they flexed it enough, but then you can see impact was basically the same at

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setup.

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So even though they flexed it enough in transition, they had a tendency to kind

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of stall and flip

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and let that angle out.

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The other option would be if you just never got enough flexion, some people

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will tend

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to have a lot of grip pressure and if you keep that grip pressure and the wrist

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doesn't

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move, then the wrist will stay extended for the majority of the swing.

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So this golfer will call them not having any or not having enough flexion in

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downswing.

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So they never got into that 15 to 30 increased wrist flexion category.

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Here's where they started at somewhere around plus eight and then we can see at

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their peak,

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they only got down to zero.

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So they only flexed it a few degrees or compared to where they were at setup.

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Here's another case where again, maybe flexing 10 degrees or so and so at

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impact they're

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more extended than we want because they never got enough of this extension.

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So that's going to be one of the root causes of flipping and this is going to

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be one of

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the most important parameters that you're going to be checking when you're

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using the

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hack motion system.

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Now unfortunately, just because you try to flex the wrist doesn't mean it's

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automatically

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going to happen.

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So if you're flipping at impact and you don't have enough flexion there, that's

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one of our

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big causes for intervention.

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That's one of the things that's going to give us a lot more consistency and

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quality and compression.

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So if you're flipping at impact, what are we going to do about it?

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Okay, I have a little test for you which is called a nine to three test which

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is basically

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you're going to go out the next session and you're going to see if you can get

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more flexion

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if you do a little half swing.

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If you do a half swing, we're taking away some of the timing and some of the

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movements

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of the backswing.

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So we're really looking to answer the question, could you make contact in a

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perfect scenario?

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Would you make good contact with more flexion on a shorter, slower swing?

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If you're able to do it on a slower, shorter swing like that, so if you're able

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to do it

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on the nine to three, but you still can't do it on the full swing, then it

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tells us it's

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more likely what you're doing in the backswing or how you're creating speed in

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the downswing.

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But if you can't do it on the nine to three, then it's more likely telling us

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that your

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brain just doesn't quite know how to deliver the club with the proper wrist

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position.

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And so we're going to do more release training.

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Now you're welcome to do release training even if you pass the test and you're

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welcome

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to work on the top of the swing even if you can do it.

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But this just gives you a starting point as far as how to classify what will

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improve

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your impact position the fastest.

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So you'll see that on the right in the category of videos, we have impact

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drills first and

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then we have some release drills and then we have some top of the swing and

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transition

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drills that you can go through to pinpoint the one or two drills that will help

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you change

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the graft the fastest.

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So release or top of the swing slash transition.

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So if it's a release issue, our drills in this section or in the release

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section are going

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to focus on the body position it impacts.

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We already said the body position and the arm position have to match in order

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for it

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to work out.

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And then we'll work on the arm education.

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The other component to this is where are you creating your speed.

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So hitting it more with your body and less with your hands will typically help

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get that

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wrist to be in a little bit more flex position as well.

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So we got a couple of big buckets body position arm education and kind of tempo

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hitting it

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with the body.

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If we're doing okay with that but we're still breaking down when we do the

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bigger swing which

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is very common a lot of you are going to be in that category then we have to

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look at

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the backswing and transition issue.

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In transition simply from the graph we have to look at are we getting enough

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flexion but

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as far as kind of complementary pieces we want to look at are we putting

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ourselves in

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position at the top of the swing where we're too extended or where we're

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powering it more

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from our arms and not enough from the body.

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Now one other category that we'll look at in the backswing is an inside

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takeaway.

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What can happen when you do too much of an inside takeaway is you run out of

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rotational

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room and then your backswing gets very lifty late and when it gets lifty you're

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going

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to tend to have more of a vertical pull of the club and that vertical pull of

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the club

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is going to tend to mess up the wrist movements.

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We want to get a little bit more general width and we want to get a little bit

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more hitting

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it with the body in order to get that wrist in that really good toward impact

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position.

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So for circling back to the top of the swing goals we've got avoiding being too

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extended

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at the top of the swing.

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So the general goal is wherever you were it set up to be about plus five to

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minus ten.

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So basically five degrees more flexed or ten degrees, sorry five degrees more

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extended

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or ten degrees more flexed at the top but basically being at about the same

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position.

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If the wrist is in about the same position then that usually means that I've

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created

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the backswing more by using my body and kind of finishing and making a really

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good turn

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or pivot.

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In addition what will usually happen is I'll be able to maintain some of the

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width that's

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one of the trademarks you'll see with really good golf swings.

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If my body doesn't turn and I just use my arms then the arms will lift, right

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arm kind

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of or the trail arm kind of gets more into this flying elbow position and the

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leader

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wrist gets more into that extended position as it picks up and that's going to

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tend to

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encourage you to get a little bit more choppy or vertical on the way down.

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But the quick way we can look at it on the graph is by looking if we've been

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too extended

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at the top or in so here you can see where I set up the top of the swing is

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kind of in

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a close bend with to where I set up.

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Over here you can see the top of the swing is way up above it that would be a

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really

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exaggerated extension movement.

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So the great thing about the graph is you can kind of get a snapshot of the

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entire swing

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all at once which is harder to do on video.

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So that's one of the reasons I love 3D you can see the whole swing at once and

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you can

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see which area is most likely causing the other dominoes to be out of whack.

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So within range pretty close to the same outer range it's going to be

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dramatically above.

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Now I will point out on here some golfers do extend say a friend couples or

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Bernhard

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Longer or Henrik Stenson or some who have a little bit more extension at the

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top.

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But getting a little bit more flat wrist or even bowed is the kind of the

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typical pattern

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that sets up for more of a body rotation downswing.

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Now one thing that the app will trigger is if you have a weaker grip on a

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certain percentage

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of your swings then oftentimes you're going to be more likely to get into this

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extended

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position of the top.

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So it's just going to recommend that you take a look at your grip.

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Now remember I said as long as your grip is consistent and you're moving it

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into an appropriate

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position to match what your body is doing that's probably okay.

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But if you have a weak grip and a flip and a slice it's definitely something I

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would

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consider working on.

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So we've got the top of the swing kind of figure out let's talk a little bit

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about some

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takeaway problems that could contribute to the top of the swing issue.

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And basically the takeaway problems are going to be largely using your arms too

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much and

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your body not enough.

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So if I'm using my arms too much it will typically show up in one of two

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exaggeratedly

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different patterns.

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One would be adding extension.

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So you've probably seen that most of these graphs have more flexion going on on

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the early

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part of the takeaway and then extension during the second half.

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And that's because when you hinge your wrist and set your wrist it tends to

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want to extend.

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Well some golfers will extend right away and that tends to show up as very much

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an armsy

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lifting type motion but on the graph it will show up like this where it's going

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positive

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right away.

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It's usually accompanied by an arm lift and occasionally it can be accompanied

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with an

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arm roll which makes the club too inside.

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But I would say the more common cause of two inside would be either getting a

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lot of

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arm rotation or even more common would be going into that flexion movement too

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soon

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especially while having an upper body sway or having your upper body stay inf

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lection or

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stay bent over.

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So if it goes kind of like this the wrist is going to flex and it's going to

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take the

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club way inside.

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And then what will happen is you've kind of used all your around components and

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so then

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the second half of the backswing is typically going to be very vertical and

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very lifty and

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it's going to encourage you to then come steep or over the top on the way down.

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That's the danger of too much inside.

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If you don't do that if you do come inside and then find a way to still use

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your body

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it can be an okay pattern but oftentimes that will give you some problem on

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either wedge

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play or like half shots.

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So something to consider when you're analyzing your swing.

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The additional component would be having too much wrist hinge in the backswing.

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So the lead wrist doesn't actually hinge that much because the right hand or

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the trail

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hand is on a little differently it will tend to have a little more extension

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during the

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backswing.

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But the lead wrist is only going to extend I would have said more in the 15 to

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20 degree

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category but the hack motion data shows more than 35 degrees is kind of

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excessive.

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It depends a little bit on your grip setup but more vertical wrist extension is

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also

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going to be associated with extension of the wrist or wrist hinge is going to

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be associated

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with extension of the wrist.

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So oftentimes what will happen is this golfer will under rotate get pretty

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steep here and

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then if I were to rotate my body you could see that would be very vertical.

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So this will tend to accompany more of a stand up and kind of a throw or a cast

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pattern.

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But the important thing here is to get good at kind of identifying some of

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these key benchmarks.

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So is the top of the swing roughly at the same position where it was at setup

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even if

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it has a little bit of this movement.

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Do I then flex enough during the downswing and am I still flexed somewhere at

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impact.

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If I'm struggling with one of those components and I try to directly fix it

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then I need to

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look at some of the indirect fixes which would be looking at some complimentary

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video to

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see if I can if my body is causing me to have some of these issues.

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And that's how to use the arms as well as how to relate the body is what we

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have in

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these different sections here in this hack motion analysis course.

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So one last pattern is in transition.

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In transition most of the problems are going to show up on video as kind of

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like a body

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pattern of either spinning the shoulders too soon or pulling with the arms,

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hanging back

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some of those things but the one that will show up the most on the hack motion

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sensor

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is getting extended in transition or not flexing enough in transition.

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So here you can see this vertical line is the top of the swing and you'll see

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it continue

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to go upward after the vertical line.

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That basically means that during that first phase of transition this wrist is

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going more

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like this and that's often accompanied with a big arm pull pulling the club in

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and then

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it will almost always accompany more of a flipping down at the bottom.

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So I call that pattern steep early shallow late and it's one of the biggest

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causes of

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a two way miss and a lot of inconsistency.

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So we got a video that can help you understand the body components that but it

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shows up on

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video looking just like that where it's or sorry it shows up on the graph like

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that where

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it's going up following the top of the swing.

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Okay so the general plan attack we're going to start at impact and then work

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into the

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nine to three or full swing so we can figure out is it more of a release issue

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or is it

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more of a top of backswing slash power slash pivot issue.

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If we go directly like maybe I just didn't know what I need to do with my wrist

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but if

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you try it like let's say you said okay I need to be more flexed at impact and

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you try

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it and the graph just isn't changing then you want to use some complementary

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video in

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order to see why the body position might be fighting what the wrist is trying

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to do but

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then you can use the wrist as the primary source of feedback so as you're

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working on

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your body you should be able to see some of those wrist graphs change so that's

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going

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to be our general pattern of starting an impact and working better backward.

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In the other sections we'll have more details into the drills that will help

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either improve

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the wrist mechanics, the body mechanics or help you understand the patterns

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even deeper.