Bracing vs Coasting

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This finesse wedge video is bracing versus coasting.

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So in this video we want to talk about the body pivot.

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And a term that I kind of coined a couple weeks ago is for the full swing, I've

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used

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the phrase of bracing of that kind of whip action and that firm left side and

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that body

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kind of bracing for all the speed of the release to give you a safe platform to

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be able to

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absorb as much speed as possible so therefore your brain is free to create as

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much speed as

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possible.

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Well, we were comparing graphs and talking about what we wanted to do during

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the short

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game and with the short game there's a distinct pattern that we're looking for

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with the body

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that we'll see on 3D.

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So on the full swing it will basically accelerate and then decelerate coming

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into impact.

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With the wedge shots you will tend to see a more of a fanning pattern and you

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will tend

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to see even if the peaking order stays the same or the transition order stays

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the same

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you will tend to see after it peaks it just kind of coasts through impact.

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So I came up with the phrase of coasting for these wedge shots as opposed to br

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acing.

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You don't want to feel any real kind of aggression or stall or whip action when

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you're hitting

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these short shots.

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You want to feel more of a coasting action where the body kind of continues

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moving through

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the shot and the ball just happens to get in the way of that body coasting

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through impact.

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If you tend to brace it will tend to cause club face issues and low point

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control issues

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and those are just going to give you tremendous difficulty for these precise

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shots that we're

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trying to hit around the greens.

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So this does work all the way up until distance wedges so if you're hitting a

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40 or 50 yard

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shot you want that feeling of the body kind of coasting through impact as well

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not really

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bracing but once we start getting into your full swing it starts matching

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closer to that

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bracing feeling that we train in the stock tour swing section.

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So now to demonstrate in the full swing we're going to have that sequencing

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where the body

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is well open and then boom those hands are going to be the last piece to kind

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of go through

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but your body is essentially stalled just a little bit because it is deceler

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ated in order

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provide the platform for those arms to accelerate from.

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In the wedge shots we want to have more of this constant acceleration.

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So we want to think of the club moving at a constant speed all the way until

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waist height

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in the follow through and you'll see that there will be some core and upper

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body continued

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rotation and some just gentle lower body movement.

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We don't want to have really fast changes of directions.

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We want it to match closer to the underhand toss so the underhand toss kind of

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has this

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real syrupy slow smooth tempo as opposed to a overhand throw which has kind of

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a little

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whip action where there's an acceleration and then a deceleration.

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So the coasting feeling would be more of that body continuing to rotate through

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.

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So whether you are doing this one handed whether you are doing this with your

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normal shot you

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want to get that feeling of the body working all the way until finished kind of

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at one

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speed and the ball just getting in the way.