Video Analysis - Stock Distance Wedge

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Hey golfers, in this video we're going to discuss how to analyze your own video

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Now a big part of being your own golf coach is knowing how to look at yourself

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on video

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because there will be times, sometimes more frequent than others, but there

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will be times

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when your feel is not really matching up with reality and you need to recalibr

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ate.

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Using video is one of the fastest ways to help identify what you need to work

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on in

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terms of the drills and where you want to kind of take your swing over the next

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weeks

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and months.

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When it comes to wedge play, there's three main goals that we're going to look

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at.

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We want to try to keep our center stacked, which is basically keeping your

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upper body

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or your rib cage more or less on top of your pelvis, on top of the inside of

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the left ankle.

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A constant radius, you can see it in air quotes, which is basically keeping the

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arms relatively

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straight and the shoulders relatively packed in.

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That will help control low point contact and is one of the traits that I see

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with good wedge

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players.

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And then smooth force, which is basically using our core in order to move our

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hands instead

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of using a lot of arm and shoulder action.

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So we're going to look at the stock distance wedge swing so you know how to

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look at these

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three goals as well as a few other things.

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So when you're looking at your video and you're looking for stack centers, we

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're basically

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going to use that impact line and we're going to look at setup, so where we get

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set up.

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And then top of backswing into transition and actually into the follow through

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I should

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add on there.

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These are all a sign that you're using more of your core muscles.

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So the upper body staying on top requires a blend of using your core muscles to

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help

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rotate, extend and side bend your upper body on top of your lower body.

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With the constant radius, good places to look are in the backswing.

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So from setup position through takeaway and setting the club all the way up to

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the top

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of the swing.

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In transition that's a common place where people either throw aggressively or a

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lot

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of good players actually create more kind of shoulder lag like you might do in

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your

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full swing.

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And then during the release is another common time where those arms will tend

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to either reach

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away or tend to pull in instead of having the arms being a little bit more

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stable and

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the engine coming from the body rotation.

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This comes down to using the core muscles but also good scapular control to

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help feel those

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the arms stay in front of your body as well as keeping that right arm more

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straight and

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feeling more of a kind of width in the swing rather than narrowing and kind of

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a floating

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in a snap.

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And then lastly the smooth force.

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How can we look at video in order to see that there's a little bit of a slight

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cast in transition

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and then more of a more of a coasting on the way through.

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There's not a really hard bracing action and that also is a sign that we're

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using more

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of our core muscles, not using a ton of our legs or our shoulders.

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It's mostly from here in the mid section.

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Okay, so when we're looking at practice centers we'll look at a few examples

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here and I've

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got the impact line drawn on this video and we'll just play it once or twice.

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You'll see as he goes up towards the top of the swing, if you look at his head

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compared

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to that line or if we look at his head compared to the tree you'll see it

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actually moves slightly

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towards the target and then through the ball it stays very vertical.

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Bad wedge players oftentimes have a lot of linear movement of their upper body.

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So we'll jump to another good wedge player, Dustin Johnson, we'll see the same

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thing.

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You can look at the fence post or the impact line, little shift.

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So basically getting onto that left side and then posting up when everything is

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more stacked

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like that more of your force is going to be done vertically as opposed to lin

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early towards

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the target.

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So watch that one more time.

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So we've got stacking.

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We're just looking at upper body compared to this line right here.

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We'll look at the other things when we look through some of the other videos.

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Okay, so here's what that looks like visually if we just take those snapshots.

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So from P1 to P4 we can see that the upper body, if anything, shifted a little

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bit towards

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the target.

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Getting on top of that leg early is critical for good ground contact.

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Having a little shaft lean, still staying stacked, upper body on top of lower

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body but

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right shoulder lower than left, we'll talk about that later.

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And then getting into a good finish position while staying pretty stacked.

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So that requires a little bit of chest extension or rib cage extension while

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you're rotating

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in order to stay more stacked like that.

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With Dustin, really good job staying stacked, gets into that left side, stays

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over that left

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side and then rotates through.

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He does a little less of the rib cage extension so he has a look of a little

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bit more arm throw.

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But all in all, keeps it within the parameters of stack centers and pretty

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constant radius.

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It might disrupt smooth force a little bit.

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Okay, so now when we're looking at constant radius, I've got a orange line here

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from basically

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his chest or sternum to the midpoint of the grip.

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And what we'll see is clip a little trouble earlier but as it plays through,

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those orange

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and yellow lines are just that same relationship.

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So looking at the space between the hands and the rib cage.

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And you'll see this gets a little shorter at the top of the swing but the arms

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stay in

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front and they kind of get wider pretty quickly and then they're coming through

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maintaining

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that width.

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We'll see if we can play that one more time.

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So you'll see the hands, the glove hand kind of staying out in front of the

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chest instead

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of pulling way behind or getting sucked in.

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There's a little bit of arm bend at the top that's pretty much unavoidable and

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then on

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the way through you'll see the delivery position or even P6 to P8, there's a

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really good maintenance

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of that width.

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Same thing here, let's play one of these.

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So we got Dustin Johnson doing a good job going up towards the top of the swing

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It didn't like the graphics that I put in so the video is a little bit grainy

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but I can

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post them below if you want to check those out.

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Okay, so here's what it looks like picture wise, again, not a lot of arm bend.

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What we'll typically see when we're looking at constant radius is either the

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shoulders

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kind of raise a narrow like this or the elbows pull in during the backswing and

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then on the

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way through, like I said, either lengthening there or sometimes pulling in and

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bending.

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Things can all create contact problems.

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All right, now when we're looking at smooth force, you'll see how smoothly, if

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I just kind

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of play this back and forth, you can see how the chest, the hips, the right

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side kind of

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all come through together and when he gets that follow through position,

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essentially

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his hips and his chest are pointing in the same direction as the arms.

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Really good smooth movement controlled mostly by the torso.

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Let's see if we get the same thing here, so clip kind of freezes again.

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I'll post these below so that we can look at it again but you'll see just a

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slight little

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cast upper body kind of connected right in through there and then it cuts off a

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little

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short.

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I'll post this one below so you can check it out.

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Now let's dig into a little bit more of the details.

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We're going to look at the pivots and then we're going to look at what the arms

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are doing.

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When it comes to the pivot, how we get some of these, the stack centers and the

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smooth

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force as well as some of the constant radius because the shoulder blades aren't

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doing a

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ton other than stabilizing.

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We've got a narrower stance with our upper body and our lower body a little bit

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more over

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that front foot.

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By having the upper body more over that front foot, the force pattern of using

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your body

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is more vertical against the ground where if I have a wider stance it's a whole

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lot easier

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to get more side to side so when we get that stacked, the force through the

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ball is going

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to be much more up away from the ground rather than kind of pushing towards the

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target.

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The wide spot because we get a little bit more of this cast the wide spot is

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just after impact

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as opposed to with the driver where the widest point is pretty close to follow

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through position.

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So pivot is more stacked and the force is more vertical.

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There's a slight little bump with slight little Jackson 5 and the sequence here

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is still the

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lower body leads then the upper body then the arms and the club but the peaks

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if you look

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at the 3D are much more gradual, it's much more smooth and it's more of a

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casting type

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pattern.

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The big death moves for wedge play are getting too much access till getting

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those arms behind

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and then having them kind of catch up which leads to that last like typically a

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lot of

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the golfers who struggle with wedge play have more of kind of a stall and throw

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pattern.

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This is where getting smooth and coasting through is one of the hallmarks of a

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really

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good wedge play.

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The pattern you want to get used to seeing when you're analyzing your video.

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From face and path keys I would say more important to be relatively on plane

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you have less time

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to kind of make up for some of these motions and you can't really use access

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till to help

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if your path is a little too steep or too shallow which is a common thing that

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we do

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in the full swing.

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There's definitely some motorcycle movement we'll look at that to make sure we

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get some

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good shaft lean and then there is a shallowing or a rotation of the arms as

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well as a good

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amount of side bend or side crunch but is where it's important to understand

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the difference

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between side crunch where my right shoulder got well under my left but I stayed

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centered.

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That's all the spine movement as opposed to doing more of a hip bump which is

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more of

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the Jackson 5 movement.

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So we want to avoid having too much access till and we want to avoid getting

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those arms

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sucked behind so that they don't throw down at the bottom.

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Alright so we'll look through each of those pieces, we'll start with the pivot

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stuff.

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So nearer setup you'll typically see a stance width somewhere around pelvis

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width, maybe

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up to shoulders width but no wider where driver will see wider than shoulders.

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As we go up towards the top like I said you'll often see the upper body move a

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little bit

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closer towards the target average as the upper body moves about an inch closer

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to the target

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so it moves this way to kind of line up more on top of the golf ball and on top

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of that

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left leg.

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And then from there you'll see we want to get if you do have any shift you

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better get

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back early and not by shifting the lower body so get that upper body on top.

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I like to see the upper body getting on top of the lower body by about P5 or

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when the arm

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is parallel to the ground, if you're still tilted back there you're almost

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always going

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to struggle with either contact, launch or spin.

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And so this relationship is what helps create that pattern being more vertical

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force because

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all everything is lined up.

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Again similar stacked position, you'll get used to looking at these and looking

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at kind

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of some of the hallmarks where the feet compared to the hips or sorry yeah

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where the feet compared

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to the hips and where are the hips compared to the upper body trying to get

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kind of that

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good stacked impact position.

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That's one of the first things you want to look at when you're analyzing your

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swing on

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video.

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Okay, last one, have some decent clips of these three so we're using these as

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here in the stock wedge program.

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Okay so that's kind of the pivot section now let's take a little bit of a look

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at the face

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and path.

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So more from down the line when we're looking at face and path, you'll see the

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club relatively

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on plane pointing kind of in the general direction of the golf ball early on so

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if you either

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dropping it way inside or getting way over the top you can investigate what

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movements

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might be taking you there but that's something that you'll want to quickly

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correct.

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Now if we look at these same three from a club face position this is where we

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can start

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to look at the face rotation and motorcycle so actually in the next one.

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So if we look at the motorcycle here we have a set up position and we can see

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Dustin has

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some extension of the wrist and then here at impact we can see that the left

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wrist has

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gone flat so the left wrist has gone this way and we can see here in that

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delivery position

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or just a little pass delivery position if we're looking at P6 that wrist has

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already

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gone into a good flat position and then it will more or less maintain it will

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lose some

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because of the arms straightening some and the vertical force but we want to

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make sure

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that we're getting into that position early a lot of bad wedge players kind of

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have an

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overly aggressive flick with the extension of the wrist down at the bottom so

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we'll

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look a couple more so here again we've got a little extension there and then

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even a little

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bit bowed you can see he gets into that slight bowed position already there and

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we've got

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Rory doing the same thing we've got a little extension there to pretty flat at

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that position

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bowed club face in a good position so down the line is really helpful for

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looking at the

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motorcycle position here as well as looking at the club face as well as looking

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at the

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path being shallow enough in the follow through when we're looking at club face

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rotation you

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tend you won't see a lot of really good wedge players where the club has turned

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over you'll

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see it kind of it might get to the plane kind of like that but you're not going

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to see it

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go rapidly over and a lot of them will be more like Dustin where you'll see it

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just kind of

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come through where it's even closer to vertical you see that both with Adam

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Scott Rory has

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a little bit more kind of right arm action but and that might be why he

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struggles a little

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bit statistically in that 100 to 120 yard range shallow arms and side bend so

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what we'll see

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here is the the arms get into a really good position where that right arm is

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underneath

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the left and then side bend through the ball you can see the hips are a little

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bit more

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level than we might see with the driver but the shoulders are tilting down

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towards the golf ball

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that indicates a lot of this right side bend now you see if I just right side

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bend my shoulder

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goes behind my hip but we saw from that face on view that his shoulder was

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actually ahead of his hip

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and we'll see this similar pattern we'll look at it when we can see both of

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them together

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but basically the side bend looking at the levelness of the hips in this

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position

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compared to the shoulders we want to see that right shoulder down in those hips

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a little bit

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closer to level they won't ever be totally level but and I don't think that's

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necessarily goal but

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you don't want to see a huge hip drop so arm shallow in that position good side

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bend that's how

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we're going to get kind of a nice shallow bottom of the swing with the wall the

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core is powering

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the swing and creating that body rotation last one here so similar little less

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of the arm

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shallowing he kind of like I said he uses a little bit more of that throw

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pattern but still gets

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pretty good here good shallow position good side bend that's what we're looking

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for when you're

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analyzing your wedge by oftentimes one of the hallmarks of poor wedge by is the

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shoulders will

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be a little bit more level shoulder kind of coming through like this and then

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you'll see

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either buckling or standing up or just the club swinging way outside in so this

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is one of the

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traits that I look for first when analyzing your video here's a few more where

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we can see this

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levelness of the hips compared to the shoulders so there's definitely a good

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amount of side bend

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but remember from the face on view the shoulder is almost past the hip or at

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least in line with it

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it's not tilting way back so learning how to get this side bend with the

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rotation is is critical

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for being good at the wedge play I mentioned a number of times but I remember

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Sam's need saying

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or reading that Sam's need one said he hits his wedge shots with his abs I

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think this is the feeling

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that he's probably referencing okay last section we'll go through the peas or

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the positions but

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typically when you're starting with your wedge play you want to look at either

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the stack center

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smooth force or constant radius in the order of stack centers first constant

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radius smooth force

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that's probably my hierarchy but let's go through the positions just for fun as

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well so looking at

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setup we can always start with our posture and our spine bend our alignment

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looking at shoulders

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shoulders forearms hips feet a lot of people play a lot of golfers make

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adjustments with

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the feet to to get the pelvis working better so I don't I go from forearm

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shoulder like I go from

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the closer it is to the club the more important and relevant it is so I don't

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worry too much of

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the feet aren't perfect if the pelvis rib cage shoulders are all and forearms

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are all pretty good

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in line we want to see a nice arm hang where the club is hanging just under the

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shoulders you want

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to be reaching too far or too close in for wedges I would typically think that

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reaching is a little

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bit worse but we want to give you close there weight distribution heel toe this

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is a good place to

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look at it from face out we can for our catty view face on we can look at

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stance width if the foot

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is turned out so if you have some extension or loss of posture on the release

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always check the foot

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to make sure that it's not too square we can see if there's a little bit of

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tension with the arms

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being connected there weight distribution are you more over the front foot or

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more over the back

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foot we can look at grip strength that's going to have a big impact on how much

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you're going to have

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to get your hands forward as well as how much body rotation you're going to

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have to have

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and then we can look at axis tilt okay in the takeaway we're starting to look

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at this stacked

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and constant radius so when we're looking at the stacked and constant radius

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especially with

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the wedge blade we're looking to see how much your upper body is moved off the

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ball if it stays

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centered then you've blended the amount of turn rotation and side bend and had

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very little sway

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that's one of the things that we're constantly monitoring you also want to look

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to see that the

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right arm hasn't really pulled in and that the left arm hasn't reached or the

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shoulder blades

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haven't done too much movement one check for that is looking to see that the

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hands are still out

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in front of the shirt buttons and because of a shoulder injury i tend to get a

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little bit of

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the lead arm reach so that's something i'm constantly kind of monitoring and

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paying attention when i

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look at my own video okay so trail arm bend trying to keep that trail arm

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pretty straight club face

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getting close to spine angle or somewhere between spine angle and vertical you

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don't want to see

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it pointing straight at the ground and you don't want to point it straight up

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at the sky because

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the takeaway is more of this one piece movement and then path depends a lot on

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camera angle but

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looking at the club being close to in line with your within with your hands we

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don't want to see

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it coming way inside that usually indicates either some pivot or some arm

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issues and we don't want

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to see it just lifting up either and then starting to look at the shoulder tilt

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the shoulders are

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going to work in a steeper direction because you're closer to the golf ball so

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they're going to work

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down towards the golf ball hopefully okay getting to p3 lead arm parallel this

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is a common place where

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you'll start to see some of the radius collapse where you've got to make sure

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that the torso and

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the ribcage continues to move if it stops there and everything just goes into

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the arms you will

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typically lose that radius and you will then most likely fire the arms early

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during transition

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you can also look at the shoulder's shrugging to raise so even if this is

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straight what you'll

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see is that right shoulder kind of starting to get closer to the ear either

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here you'd see it coming

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up or more likely this would be a place where you'd see that space decrease

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that's also loading the

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shoulders getting ready to fire those instead of the core during transition. S

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wayverse turn versus

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extend again it's a blend of rotation side bend and extension that keeps us

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centered

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looking at the shoulder tilt looking at the arm depth so good reference at p3

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is kind of

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hands in line with midfoot or shoe laces they're going to keep getting a little

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bit deeper as we

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get up but you don't want to be just picking them straight up and some golfers

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get them a little

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bit too far inside especially bad wedge players wrist position being close to

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getting neutral

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because we already started as we've set we're probably starting that motorcycle

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movement

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right there and then making sure that there's a little separation of the knees

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making sure that

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your pelvis is turned that you haven't just kind of put your lower body in

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stone and had no movement

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there okay top of the swing so shoulder tilt looking for lower body or upper

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body sway but lower body

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at the top is a kind of a common trigger making sure that we're controlling

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that stacked also

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looking still at that constant radius i like to be able to see that right arm

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outside of the framework

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of your body if it gets too far behind then as you start down it's going to be

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behind and you're

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going to have to do some type of catch-up move it's hard to do that catch-up

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move without

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rapidly applying force or lengthening the radius so armed at depth pretty

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trying to get the hands

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close to in line with more the back half of the foot it might be a little steep

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in that position

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shoulder tilt so that left shoulder getting more down you definitely don't want

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to see

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the shoulders more horizontal still seeing club face at the top and that wrist

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position so we can

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start to see if the motorcycles happen if the club face is just slightly close

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to the forearm

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it's kind of ideal or it just requires less adjustments on the way down and

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then looking at

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loss of posture early extension okay p5 really important position again getting

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that upper body

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stacked this is on your video a great place where you can start to see some of

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the smoothness of the

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force versus like a big kick from the lower body in either direction a big pull

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of the arms or a

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big pull of the shoulders you want to see kind of a blend where that shoulder

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will tend to stay a

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little bit more closed longer as opposed to spinning very rapidly always

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checking that impact line

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lead hip to shoulder kind of getting onto the inside of the ankle looking from

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here again we saw

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that it was a little steep at the top so it makes sense it's a little steep

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here probably getting

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that shaft closer to mid bicep so maybe a little bit more arm shawling or even

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keeping my shoulders

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closed a little bit longer would have accomplished that trail arm might be

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getting a little bit more

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bent in this position than we'd want to see no early extension or moving in

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towards the golf ball

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kind of maintaining that that spine angle as we're rotating around it and then

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club kind of pointing

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just outside the golf ball some good parameters okay getting into P6 here

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looking at the

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lag position or the hand still being in front of the chest and kind of even

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with the golf ball

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looking at the lead shoulder on top of the hip on top of the left ankle so that

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's we're starting

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to go into that extension hopefully so we're going to stop any forward momentum

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for sure by this

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00:25:58.380 --> 00:26:03.800
point or maybe even earlier looking at the club head being slightly inside the

516
00:26:03.800 --> 00:26:04.780
hands that even

517
00:26:04.780 --> 00:26:10.120
with the hands but not majorly one way or the other and the club face close to

518
00:26:10.120 --> 00:26:11.260
spine angle or

519
00:26:11.260 --> 00:26:14.370
anywhere between spine angle and vertical more vertical it is the more you're

520
00:26:14.370 --> 00:26:15.260
going to be having

521
00:26:15.260 --> 00:26:20.430
to release the club with with more face closing down there at the bottom and

522
00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:21.900
then looking at some

523
00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:27.240
turn versus thrust so making sure that the pelvis is rotating and kind of

524
00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:28.140
staying more level as

525
00:26:28.140 --> 00:26:35.990
opposed to thrusting in towards the golf ball at impact here P7 so the place to

526
00:26:35.990 --> 00:26:36.940
look at the

527
00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:41.600
shaft lean as well as the stacked centers so left shoulder on top of hip on top

528
00:26:41.600 --> 00:26:42.780
of ankle hands

529
00:26:42.780 --> 00:26:47.600
kind of even with the left thigh or even I'm more on the inside of the thigh I

530
00:26:47.600 --> 00:26:48.140
'd probably want to

531
00:26:48.140 --> 00:26:51.980
try to get that a little bit more towards the middle or even outside which

532
00:26:51.980 --> 00:26:53.180
would come from a little

533
00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:59.960
bit more motorcycle and a little bit more right arm in front or wipe from this

534
00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:01.580
perspective looking

535
00:27:01.580 --> 00:27:06.140
at that right shoulder lower than the left so almost imagining the shoulders

536
00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:07.180
are still moving

537
00:27:07.180 --> 00:27:10.970
on plane that's one of the first things that I look at that has a big impact on

538
00:27:10.970 --> 00:27:11.900
low point control

539
00:27:12.860 --> 00:27:18.800
pelvis turning more level I've got some tilt but if you start to see that pel

540
00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:19.660
vis really drop you

541
00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:25.000
can have a lot of contact issues the forearm the shaft plane there and then

542
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.460
being able to see the

543
00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:30.150
lead arm I'd like to see a little bit more of it I think my shoulders are just

544
00:27:30.150 --> 00:27:31.980
a touch too open

545
00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:36.530
there so I'd like to see this is here I'd like to see a little bit more of that

546
00:27:36.530 --> 00:27:37.660
which would be a

547
00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:42.080
little bit more side bend and right arm in front but overall not too bad these

548
00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:43.580
are some so the

549
00:27:43.580 --> 00:27:49.930
trail elbow to hip from the face on camera seeing if that trail arm is behind

550
00:27:49.930 --> 00:27:51.340
kind of like this or

551
00:27:51.340 --> 00:27:55.010
if it's gotten even and making sure that it has a little bit of forward

552
00:27:55.010 --> 00:27:56.700
movement through the release

553
00:27:56.700 --> 00:28:03.580
so you should see it moving past the hip from the space on camera angle and

554
00:28:03.580 --> 00:28:04.940
trail shoulder height

555
00:28:04.940 --> 00:28:10.280
obviously we we saw earlier that they get into a lot of side bend but the trail

556
00:28:10.280 --> 00:28:10.540
shoulder is

557
00:28:10.540 --> 00:28:16.480
actually ahead of the hip getting into the follow through position so

558
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.460
everything stacked up over

559
00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:23.740
this ankle hip to ankle weight is forward chest is going into some extension

560
00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:24.620
here arms are pretty

561
00:28:24.620 --> 00:28:31.450
straight and in out and we can see I cut this one a little bit short because it

562
00:28:31.450 --> 00:28:32.460
mine the club

563
00:28:32.460 --> 00:28:36.750
actually disappears but that's pretty close to p8 and you can see the club kind

564
00:28:36.750 --> 00:28:37.420
of staying here

565
00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:43.940
as opposed to spinning over path check point two club being in line with the

566
00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:45.020
hands you don't

567
00:28:45.020 --> 00:28:49.420
want to see it too far too out the way you might see with a driver that can

568
00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:50.780
cause low point issues

569
00:28:50.780 --> 00:28:56.120
or launch and spin issues again looking at the hip levelness this is my

570
00:28:56.120 --> 00:28:57.420
favorite picture to look

571
00:28:57.420 --> 00:29:01.820
at and again I think I I have a little bit of scoliosis so I have to work

572
00:29:01.820 --> 00:29:02.940
really hard on

573
00:29:02.940 --> 00:29:08.280
getting enough crunch and I tend to lose that hip if I'm not practicing it so I

574
00:29:08.280 --> 00:29:09.980
want to see a nice

575
00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:15.320
symmetric curve here of the core the ribcage the shoulder the head that kind of

576
00:29:15.320 --> 00:29:16.140
creates this

577
00:29:16.140 --> 00:29:20.610
staying in the spine angle all the way through to there we'll come up out of it

578
00:29:20.610 --> 00:29:21.180
a little bit

579
00:29:22.140 --> 00:29:28.470
later so here's best place to see more that spine curve I want to see the hands

580
00:29:28.470 --> 00:29:29.340
disappeared I don't

581
00:29:29.340 --> 00:29:33.880
want to see them reappearing so if I'm here and I'm in this position I don't

582
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:35.420
want to see the hands

583
00:29:35.420 --> 00:29:38.870
coming way across over here that's usually a sign that I've lost some of this

584
00:29:38.870 --> 00:29:39.900
constant radius

585
00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:45.410
you can look at the knee thrust I don't want to see the knees going out past

586
00:29:45.410 --> 00:29:46.700
the toes at this point

587
00:29:47.420 --> 00:29:51.980
that usually is a I didn't have enough side crunch didn't get that shoulder

588
00:29:51.980 --> 00:29:52.460
down

589
00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:58.400
until I'm doing some extra stuff with my legs to make up for it from the face

590
00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.660
off and then

591
00:29:59.660 --> 00:30:05.150
club face being no more turned than kind of the swing plane line so that was

592
00:30:05.150 --> 00:30:06.460
pretty okay there

593
00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:12.810
looking at chest and hips and arms all facing the target and looking at the

594
00:30:12.810 --> 00:30:13.660
timing of kind of

595
00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:19.600
rehinging or bending okay as we get to the finish position I like to see the

596
00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:20.540
arms still in front of

597
00:30:20.540 --> 00:30:24.950
the chest nice and stacked and in a little bit of extension so feeling or

598
00:30:24.950 --> 00:30:26.380
seeing that chest up a

599
00:30:26.380 --> 00:30:31.680
little bit of this arch here a lot of bad wedge players kind of stay down and

600
00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:32.700
don't turn so you'll

601
00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:38.040
see the trail shoulder being passed good wedge players are typically looking at

602
00:30:38.040 --> 00:30:38.620
their back at

603
00:30:38.620 --> 00:30:43.120
this follow-through position not looking at a profile view you got to have

604
00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:45.020
enough turn lead foot turnout

605
00:30:45.020 --> 00:30:48.640
to make sure that you can get into that position the arm swing will typically

606
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:49.740
be shorter than your

607
00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:55.670
stock swing and the arms will stay more or less in front of your chest so I don

608
00:30:55.670 --> 00:30:56.780
't like to see kind

609
00:30:56.780 --> 00:31:02.120
of wild finish on a scale of one to ten I know James Seekman says that most

610
00:31:02.120 --> 00:31:03.340
players report

611
00:31:04.060 --> 00:31:07.480
trying to hit a wedge shot swinging at about four or five out of ten if your

612
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.300
driver is your

613
00:31:08.300 --> 00:31:12.920
ten out of ten so more of a controlled swing and getting really good distance

614
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:13.500
from having

615
00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:17.980
shaft leaning compression rather than getting maximum maximum swing swing speed

616
00:31:17.980 --> 00:31:26.300
okay so that's how you look through your positions now if you're looking from a

617
00:31:26.300 --> 00:31:26.940
skill if you're

618
00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:31.040
looking at man I'm having poor contact or trajectory or distance control if you

619
00:31:31.040 --> 00:31:32.300
're having poor contact

620
00:31:33.020 --> 00:31:37.810
look at the stack centers first and then look at constant radius and then check

621
00:31:37.810 --> 00:31:38.380
kind of the

622
00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:43.720
smooth force which has a big impact on that constant radius it's really hard to

623
00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:43.980
have an

624
00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:50.540
aggressive force pattern if you're not changing the radius for trajectory you

625
00:31:50.540 --> 00:31:51.420
want to look at

626
00:31:51.420 --> 00:31:55.490
your face-on and look at your shaft lean which will come from your stacked as

627
00:31:55.490 --> 00:31:56.860
well as the motorcycle

628
00:31:56.860 --> 00:32:01.650
and then you really want to look at the smooth force on the way through you can

629
00:32:01.650 --> 00:32:02.220
be in a pretty

630
00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:05.740
good position but if you have a lot of flip so you're not hitting it with your

631
00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:06.300
quarter which is

632
00:32:06.300 --> 00:32:10.570
what produces that smooth force then you'll tend to have trajectory issues and

633
00:32:10.570 --> 00:32:11.500
if you're having

634
00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:17.820
distance control issues then it's again this stacked loft control the smooth

635
00:32:17.820 --> 00:32:18.940
force but also

636
00:32:18.940 --> 00:32:23.310
looking at length of swing so I recommend looking from the face-on view do a

637
00:32:23.310 --> 00:32:25.100
swing where you go to

638
00:32:25.100 --> 00:32:29.400
about belly button height chest height shoulder height and then compare them

639
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:30.300
oftentimes what

640
00:32:30.300 --> 00:32:34.910
you'll see is a couple of them will be the same length of swing and so you just

641
00:32:34.910 --> 00:32:36.220
need to work a

642
00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:42.160
little bit on either your rhythm tempo the smoothness or the length of swing if

643
00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:43.260
you're controlling

644
00:32:43.260 --> 00:32:50.220
your lot but that's your first priority so then real quick if you just get a

645
00:32:50.220 --> 00:32:51.420
quick snapshot of

646
00:32:51.420 --> 00:32:57.810
some tour pro swings you'll see from here now you can start to see all the big

647
00:32:57.810 --> 00:32:58.780
pieces of

648
00:32:58.780 --> 00:33:04.710
the body being pretty stacked especially this classic position here maybe is a

649
00:33:04.710 --> 00:33:04.940
little bit

650
00:33:04.940 --> 00:33:09.500
more tilted there at the top but you re-center is very quickly and then keeps

651
00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:10.540
it smooth on the

652
00:33:10.540 --> 00:33:17.320
way through good shaft lean good body rotation again narrow stance club arms

653
00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:18.940
still in front of the

654
00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:23.340
chest and we know that everything was pretty smooth from the down the line love

655
00:33:23.340 --> 00:33:23.980
this position

656
00:33:23.980 --> 00:33:27.400
here that's what I mean by you can still shoulders pretty square right shoulder

657
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:27.660
down

658
00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:32.740
but if we looked at this one right shoulder is kind of in line with the hips so

659
00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:33.500
it's down and

660
00:33:33.500 --> 00:33:37.000
forward not just down because a lot of people when they go down they go back

661
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:37.740
and they get some

662
00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:43.100
poor contact and then this follow through position love this shoulders pointing

663
00:33:43.100 --> 00:33:43.260
down

664
00:33:43.260 --> 00:33:47.340
towards the golf ball and the pelvis turn more level Justin's a great whichfire

665
00:33:47.340 --> 00:33:49.980
okay Adam Scott

666
00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:57.420
similar things so again we can see really good stack centers here shoulder is

667
00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:58.780
in in line or

668
00:33:58.780 --> 00:34:03.540
past the hip but also really down we can see this tilt here but everything is

669
00:34:03.540 --> 00:34:04.860
in line that's a big

670
00:34:04.860 --> 00:34:11.030
side crunch using a lot of the obliques from the down the line this impact

671
00:34:11.030 --> 00:34:12.700
position of that shoulder

672
00:34:12.700 --> 00:34:18.040
being down all the creasing we see here that's an indication that that right ob

673
00:34:18.040 --> 00:34:19.100
lique has been

674
00:34:19.100 --> 00:34:26.540
driving some of this motion nice shallow arms really good classic positions

675
00:34:26.540 --> 00:34:34.220
Rory good shaft plane right shoulder down maybe not quite as much crunch there

676
00:34:34.220 --> 00:34:40.380
which we get it a little bit later but potentially that's part of the reason

677
00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:41.180
why that right shoulder

678
00:34:41.180 --> 00:34:44.930
looks like it's just a touch higher than the left and part of the reason why he

679
00:34:44.930 --> 00:34:45.260
might have

680
00:34:45.260 --> 00:34:48.800
a little bit more throat but he's a great wedge player especially around the

681
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:49.660
greens but he does

682
00:34:49.660 --> 00:34:56.990
struggle a little bit in that 80 to 120 range from the face on view he covers

683
00:34:56.990 --> 00:34:58.780
really well stack

684
00:34:58.780 --> 00:35:04.120
centers are really good and follow through position love he gets into some

685
00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:05.660
really good spine extension

686
00:35:05.660 --> 00:35:09.620
which is one of the traits that I look for so really good pattern here all

687
00:35:09.620 --> 00:35:12.060
right Dustin again

688
00:35:12.060 --> 00:35:16.350
love that creasing the shoulder down the hips pretty level here you can really

689
00:35:16.350 --> 00:35:17.020
see that left

690
00:35:17.020 --> 00:35:21.390
shoulder even though we saw from the face on how far forward his hands are at

691
00:35:21.390 --> 00:35:22.460
impact so he's

692
00:35:22.460 --> 00:35:27.880
shallow but also having shaft lean at the same time from the face on there

693
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:28.940
again we can see the

694
00:35:28.940 --> 00:35:33.780
hands well ahead shoulder is down but even or in front of the hip so that's how

695
00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:34.620
he's getting all

696
00:35:34.620 --> 00:35:38.550
this nice stack right shoulder well underneath the left end of the follow

697
00:35:38.550 --> 00:35:39.500
through and then

698
00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:43.400
kind of coasting up from there so really quickly if you're just doing a

699
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:44.940
snapshot you can look at

700
00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:49.410
the the key from kind of delivery position to follow through and you can get

701
00:35:49.410 --> 00:35:50.060
the moral of the

702
00:35:50.060 --> 00:35:54.170
story as far as what you want to look for with your wedge play so hopefully

703
00:35:54.170 --> 00:35:55.100
this helps you

704
00:35:55.100 --> 00:35:59.500
understand how to use video to get extra feedback because using video is one of

705
00:35:59.500 --> 00:36:00.940
the fastest ways

706
00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:05.560
to dial in your feels and become your own best golf coach once you've used

707
00:36:05.560 --> 00:36:07.020
video enough then

708
00:36:07.020 --> 00:36:10.720
you can rely solely on your feels but until it's calibrated your feel can

709
00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:12.220
sometimes mislead you

710
00:36:12.220 --> 00:36:18.380
especially when you get into a little bit of pressure on the course