Case Study - My Distance Wedge Stroke

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Hey golfers, let's go through a bonus video here.

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Let's do a little case study of looking at my swing.

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So part of the purpose of doing these video analysis is so that you can see how

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to analyze

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your own video and then how to make adjustments.

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So when I first put together the PowerPoint, I filmed a couple swings and I saw

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some things

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that I wanted to work on but I wanted to get this done so I put the analysis

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out there.

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And now we'll look at what I worked on over the last two weeks to try to

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improve what

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I saw because golf is a game where you're constantly trying to get a little bit

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better.

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Specifically I'm going to look at some stack centers and some smooth force

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concepts.

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Now I'll put the swings down below in the comment section.

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So we'll just look through some stills like we did in the video analysis.

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But I think what you'll see when you look at the video is it's a lot more

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smooth on the

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way through as a result of what I worked on over the last couple weeks with the

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drills.

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Okay, specifically I was looking at how tilt at impact was relating to a little

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bit of

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lengthening radius or arm throw with a little bit of face rotation.

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All right, so with most of the video analysis I'm always going to start at

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impact.

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And when I was looking at impact what I didn't like was how much lower the

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right hip was

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compared to the left.

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So I was kind of more in this position.

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The left hip was kind of pushed out that way and a little bit forward.

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So you can see I got into a little bit more level hip and a little bit more

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stacked position

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this way.

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You can see how much my upper body is out over my toes or leaning forward.

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I was contributing to some pulls and a little bit tendency to get a little dig

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gy on the

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way through.

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I was hitting some good shots, lots of good shots, but overall the ground

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contact wasn't

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quite what I was hoping for.

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So I worked on getting a little bit more level pelvis on the way through so a

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little bit more

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side crunch because if the pelvis is down like this that means that the spine

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is going

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to be straighter.

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So you can see a little bit more of that turtle shell or side crunch and then

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that contribution

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got my abs a little bit more involved allowed me to be a little bit more

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stacked and a little

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bit cleaner on the way through as you'll see in the video if you check it out

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below.

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So setup wise I looked at it and I said hey I'm kind of leaning a little bit

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forward kind

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of reaching for it so I got a little bit more weight kind of neutral and you

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can see I gave

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myself a little bit more sea posture kind of preset some of that turtle shell

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movement

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to keep me a little bit more stacked vertically as opposed to too much out over

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the toes.

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Up towards the top of the swing not much change here except weight distribution

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felt like

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I was a little bit more midfoot by maintaining the space created from that

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turtle shell or

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that setup posture.

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This is probably the smallest change.

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So now as a result of having the rib cage out of the way I was able to bring

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the club

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back a little bit flatter or a little bit more shallow you'll see in the video

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posted

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below and in doing so I had a little bit more space for my right arm to get in

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front.

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So we'll see from delivery position I felt like I was a little bit more stuck

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there.

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That kind of made sense with where my rib cage was and where my pelvis was

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where by being

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a little bit more rounded there I was able to get my arms a little bit more in

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front.

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So a little bit better delivery position there.

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We already saw this impact position wise I was able to get my pelvis to turn a

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little

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bit more level by using my abs as opposed to here I was feeling a little bit

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more kind

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of stuck in the hip from face on I thought there would be fewer changes here.

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But overall most notably you can see that I got my hands a little bit more

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forward and

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my hip a little bit further back.

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So less of a slide which is more common when you're using your back when you're

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reaching

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kind of like that.

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So I got into a better overall impact position you can see right arm a little

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bit more in

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front body has a little bit more space potentially if I was I was getting into

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some good extension

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there that was probably my main thought but by working on this setup posture I

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liked my

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impact and my strike I was controlling the depth better I would probably in the

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next

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iteration I'll probably work on getting a little bit more of the spine

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extension or

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chest bump feel on the way through but overall you can look at the stills and

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see the improvement

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and if you look at the videos down below I think you'll see some noticeable

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changes.

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That's the goal of when you're using your own video is that you're able to

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actually

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use these drills to influence and make your video look different I always

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caution my golfers

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if you're just relying on contact and feedback or or how the shot felt then you

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're going

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to be prone to having much more of those good days bad days but if you are

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consistently

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making the swing look better and it's performing better that tends to hold up

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and build more

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you actually build your skills over time and your swing get technically more

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consistent

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and better.

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So the overall position that we were trying to influence was here in the follow

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through

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let's see we got a little bit more side bend crunch and the pelvis is a little

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bit more

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stacked if you look at the video below you'll see it's much smoother on the way

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through

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that's going to help with my distance control as well as quality of contact so

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if you're

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going to be your own coach you got to know how to analyze your video you got to

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track

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it and make sure that you're making progress hold yourself accountable just

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like I tried

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to do here with these programs if you learn how to analyze your video and make

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these changes

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then you too will be one step closer to being your own best golf coach.

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Okay we've got original swing on the left and then second take on the right.

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So from the face-on view I thought a couple key things we saw arms got a little

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bit more

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behind or here I was able to get my arms a little bit more in front as a result

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of the

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arms being a little bit behind and the tilt of the pelvis you can see there's a

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little

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bit more kind of stall of the body and throw where over here even in slow

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motion you can

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see that the core and the arms kind of rotate through together better so better

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rotation

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better arm extension more synced up from the setup changes with the posture and

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the activation

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of the abs now from the down the line some differences but the major thing I

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was going

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for was the setup changes and the core activation from the down the line you

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can see a more stacked

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posture biggest difference from down the line club gets a little bit shallower

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allowing

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for some better body rotation here we can see again that hip kind of dropping

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down causing

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a little bit more club face rotation or contributing to some club face rotation

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and then over here

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on the right better job of keeping the hips level allowing for more of a body

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driven release

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and less club face rotation so hopefully this helps you see how video can be a

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critically

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important piece of feedback you can use it to manage what's going on with your

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swing and

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by combining that with the feedback as far as contact and ball flight you can

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make impactful

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changes to your game it's one step to becoming your own best golf coach.