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This concept video is asking the question, "Am I a candidate for motorcycle

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training?"

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So many golfers submit questions into the site and describe that they are

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working on the motorcycle

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movement and they're just hitting low smother hooks or they're hitting big pull

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hooks, they're

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hitting fat shots. And one of the questions I will usually ask is, "Well, why

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did you decide you

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wanted to work on the motorcycle?" And nine times out of ten, the answer is

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just, "Well, you know,

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I make it sound like it's a very important movement and it is." So they, many

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golfers jump right in

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whether or not they know that they're doing the motorcycle movement or

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struggling with the motorcycle

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movement or not. So in this video, I'm going to try to give you a little

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checklist as to decide,

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"Do I need to work on the motorcycle movement?" So the motorcycle movement

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really addresses a

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couple key primary skills. One, it closes the face to path. So if you struggle

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with a golf ball that

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curves to the right too much, so if you slice the ball or you hit weak flares

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where it just kind of

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curves off to the right at the end, then yes, you would benefit from doing some

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face to path

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awareness and working on the motorcycle movement. We're basically working on

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the shaft rotating

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compared or the club face rotating closed compared to the shaft. One of the

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other areas is if you

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are working on getting more of a divot, so you're trying to get better

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compression, you're trying to

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hit it higher up on the face with your irons. You're used to being more of a

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picker style golf ball.

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Well, if you're used to being more of a picker of the golf ball, then when you

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go to add shaft lean,

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that's going to open the face and you're going to hit it right, assuming you

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were already hitting

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it straight with your picking motion, you're going to hit it right unless you

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add the motorcycle.

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So the third reason that you might want to add the motorcycle is similar to

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that, but some golfers

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who even take divots still hit the ball really high. So if you're trying to

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bring the flight down,

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if you're trying to take more of a divot and get the bottom of the swing out in

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front of the golf

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ball with your irons, or if you are trying to get the ball to stop curving to

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the right, those are the

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three main reasons you would want to do motorcycle movement. If for some reason

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you are working on

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you're thinking you're needing to do the motorcycle, but you're hitting more

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pull draws and that's

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your main miss, you're hitting shots that start to the left and then curve to

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the left, it's unlikely

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you really need to train the motorcycle and it's probably some other aspects

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that you need to train.

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So we want you to be a smart golfer here at Golf Smart Academy, so make sure

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that you are

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only working on the motorcycle if you have one of those three key symptoms of

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ball curving to the right, not taking divots or ball launching way too high. If

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you don't,

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I would challenge you to submit your swing and that way we can help you work

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through it,

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or look at your own video, look at your mispattern, and figure out which of the

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other key movements

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your swing may be lacking because it's probably not the motorcycle.

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