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This video is discussing across the line and the flying right elbow so I'm

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gonna group these two together because frequently they show up with pretty much

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the same swings it you can get the flying elbow and be laid off or even on

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plane but frequently they kind of go together. So it's quick definition if we

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go to the top of the swing across the line it's typically going to be pointed

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right of the target or target line I should say on plane is typically

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referred to as parallel and across the line would be left of it. Now the

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problem

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is that's given some arbitrary back wing position so what I what I would

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challenge you to do is don't get so obsessed with how it looks at the top of

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the swing as far as where it's pointing compared to the target but recognize

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what

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that means and what it's gonna do for you in transition. So if you're gonna

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have

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more of this body driven swing then you need to get your arms to work into more

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of a shallow position or more of a horizontal position during the down

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swing kind of working more around your body as opposed to vertical straight up

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and down. So the problem is with the across the line or flying elbow is if I

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get to the top of the swing kind of like so if I was to stand up and bring my

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arms

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where they are kind of down in front of me you can see that it's gonna take a

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pretty major shallow movement and a major right arm movement in order to get

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from this position to that position. So what will typically happen is instead

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of

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getting to here I'll pull down and I'll be more in this vertical position. So

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when

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I get across the line I will tend to pull down this way which means I have to

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stall my body pivot and release those arms. Now if I power the swing by pulling

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down with your arms getting across the line and having that flying right elbow

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actually makes me more powerful. It's one of the reasons why you'll see a lot

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of

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long drive golfers and some senior tour players gravitating towards that more

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across the line position because it allows them to pull down harder and not

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really mess up that arm pull kind of downswing sequencing. Now what I normally

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like to do is I like to build what you're gonna do on the downswing and then

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make

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the backswing corrections. So I would work on if I'm trying to get out of

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across

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the line I'm trying to get more of that body pull I would work on the impact

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position and the follow-through and the release and the body sequencing and

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some

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downswing stuff and see what kind of natural changes happen to my backswing

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or once I've put in you know six weeks a couple months working on some down

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swing

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stuff then I would go after working on the backswing position because if I get

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into kind of a tour classic kind of backswing position this is going to be very

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weak for pulling down. So as long as you stay in more of that arm pull model if

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you get into a better backswing it's gonna tend to make you hit the ball just a

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little bit shorter. Some golfers are okay with that most golfers are not so

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that's why the brain keeps gravitating towards more that flying elbow across

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the line position. So if you decide that you don't want to use more of the body

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driven swing and you want to basically pull with your arms and just kind of

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work with that pattern then I would highly recommend that you get a little

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bit more upright and a little bit more across the line because that'll make it

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so that when you pull you're actually gonna have a little bit more power. If

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you're worried about the way it looks at the top of the swing make sure you

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understand how it's connected to what you're trying to do in transition.

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Ultimately by working on the downswing first I've seen have bigger effects in

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then being able to change the top of the backswing rather than just trying to

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change the top of the backswing to some arbitrary position so that you can have

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a swing that quote-unquote looks pretty. So if I'm doing more that arm pull

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model

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I can go across the line kind of like so and then I'll basically pull down

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vertically and then fully release the arms and just let my upper body kind of

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drift. This involves a lot less body speed but a lot more kind of arm speed.

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Kind of like that. The opposite would be instead of using more of that arm pull

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I'm going to use more of the body turn more of the motorcycle kind of the the

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pattern that we teach more in this program. So you'll see that both of them

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can work but they require very different downswing mechanics.

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So if you're going to try to work on the overall downswing pattern to be a

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little bit more body driven then ultimately you will want to get out of

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across the line. I just like to build the downswing before I go after the

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flying

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elbow or across the line at the top of the swing. Tends the work better in my

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experience.