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In this analysis video we're going to look at bracing strategies. So bracing is

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a component

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of the release which is going to begin somewhere around this part of the swing

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and transfer

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or travel all the way until this part of the swing when basically the club

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passes the body.

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So bracing is essentially a pulling away or a counter movement to help shallow

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out the

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angle of attack, curve the hand path inward, but also from a mechanical

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perspective to

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transfer the speed from the handle to the club head and prepare the body or get

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the body

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in position and get the right muscles active to be able to handle all that

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speed. So in

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the case of someone like Jamie said, Lowski, you can see that his lower body is

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starting

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to push as upper body is starting to kind of crunch and pull away. And then as

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those

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arms extend now he's in a great position where if I had a cable pulling away

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just like the

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club over here, he's in a good position to be able to pull on that with a lot

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of force.

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So that means that his body will safely be able to handle a lot of speed. There

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's one

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argument that essentially your body can only speed something up as fast as you

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can slow

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it down. So if you can't handle a lot of speed from a deceleration perspective,

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it'll be

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very hard to create a lot of speed from an acceleration perspective. In this

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video we're

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going to take a look at different strategies of how golfers use either their

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lower body,

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their core, their upper body, or their whole body to initiate and complete this

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bracing

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strategy that is so critical for a good release. Now technically you can

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observe a bracing

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strategy with any club, but it's going to be more exaggerated. It's going to be

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easier

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for us to see bracing strategies when we look at driver. So over on the left we

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have Tom

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Watson. And the beginning of the release is kind of in this zone here. And then

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we're

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going to look at a couple examples of total body bracing before we then get

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into comparing

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that to people who use more of a lower body or an upper body strategy. So you

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're not going

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to see a major movement through any one particular area in his body. He's using

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a little bit

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of his hips, he's using a little bit of his core, he's using a little bit of

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his neck,

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he's using a little bit of his shoulders. He's kind of distributing the load

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very, very

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throughout his entire body. And so what you'll tend to see in this pattern is

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golfers are

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going to look like they have a lot of rhythm and they're going to look very,

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very smooth

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through the ball, because there's going to be no look of kind of aggression and

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there's

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going to be no look of a stall. Now over here on the right we have Adam Scott.

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He's also

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a total body bracer. If we look at his lower body in his core, you can see a

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lot of activity

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going on in his glutes. But if we start looking right around here, you'll also

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see that he

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has a fairly pronounced neck movement. In fact, he's using his SCM pretty

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aggressively

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in order to create stability in the rib cage to help create that platform for

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the right

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side abdominals to really grab onto and decelerate from. So these are two

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different examples

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of what it looks like to use your entire body. We'll explore a few more. So

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the left we have Graham McDowell. He's another kind of total body bracer. You

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'll see a fair

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amount of this side crunch movement, but he's not doing it just from the neck.

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doing it just from the core or just from the hips. He's kind of distributing it

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through

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his entire body and through the entire load. So you'll see it kind of initiate

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there with

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the legs, but he's using a lot of his total body. This helps create that look

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of really

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fluid tempo, gets him in a good position so that if there was a cable machine

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pulling

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where the club is pulling, his body would be able to handle a lot of force that

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Over here we have Bubba Watson. You'll see he's a little bit more of a legs and

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upper,

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he doesn't use as much of his core, so you can see he's doing a fair amount

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with the

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knees in there and at about the same time you'll see his head start to or his

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neck doing

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a little bit of a crunch as he tries to stabilize his shoulder girl. There are

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some schools I

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thought that basically look at the shoulder and the neck as kind of a whole

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complex. So

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the shoulder, the scapula and the neck kind of all work in integration. A lot

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of their

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muscles kind of have multiple roles. One muscle that can move the neck, that

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same muscle can

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also move the shoulders depending on which is the fixed point. So they tend to

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work in

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conjunction so you'll see a lot of people using their shoulder and neck

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mechanics. Here's

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an example of someone using knee, some core and shoulder and neck so we put him

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in the

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total body category. So now the last one we're going to look at for a total

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body is going

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to be Jordan Spieth. You can see that there's a fair amount of leg activity

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going on kind

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of through there and you'll see his upper body kind of working himself away.

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though he incorporates more of that left shoulder shrug, you can see the amount

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of glute squeeze,

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you can see the amount of side bend and kind of core activity. He's using his

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total body

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to be able to handle the speed of the club right about there and then all the

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real goofy

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stuff is more during the kind of the real deceleration phase. So after the club

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has reached, it's

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furthest point away and he's just finding a way to kind of handle the force.

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a very solid bracing and deceleration pattern. I think that's part of the

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reason why he has

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such consistency. You'll notice that a lot of the golfers who we've shown in

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the total

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body bracing strategy tend to have some really good levels of consistency. So

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now over here

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on the left, we have John Sandin. Now I wanted to use him because you'll see

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that it looks

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very fluid through the ball. Now part of that is because he's more of an upper

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body dominant

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swinger. In fact, he's one of the most accurate and consistent upper body

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dominant swingers

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on tour, at least in my opinion. But he's also not someone who swings very hard

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. So what

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you'll tend to see is there's not a lot of bracing going on from the lower body

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mostly from the rib cage up. So from about this level up is where all of his br

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is actually occurring. But because he's not swinging very hard, it doesn't look

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very exaggerated.

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So this is one example where you can't just look at tempo, it might throw you

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off a little

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bit if you're looking at bracing strategies. But if you kind of look at the

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frame by frame

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and what's moving and what's stabilizing, you can get a pretty clear picture.

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Sandin's going to be the first of what we're going to call more of an upper

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body bracing

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strategy. But we'll look at a few more who are a little bit more obvious. Okay,

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so over

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on the left, we have Corey Paven. And on the right, we have Lee Westwood. These

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are both

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more of the upper body bracing strategy golfers. So there are a couple big

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shoulder neck muscles.

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We'll see Corey Paven doing a pretty good little crunch movement where this

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part of his body

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is kind of working away from the golf ball. That's going to help him shallow

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out the angle

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attack as well as initiate this transfer from the handle to the club head. But

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you won't

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see a ton of kind of is you won't see a ton of dynamic bracing happening from

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his hips, his core, all that area is more passive and kind of supporting what

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you're doing as opposed to really driving them through that phase. Now over on

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the right,

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we can see an even more pronounced kind of neck crunch movement. The neck

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crunch movement

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really helps stabilize the shoulder girdle and gives the arms a stronger

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platform to

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really push off of. So you'll see that he's doing much more of this neck and

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crunch as opposed to what we'll see later when we look at the lower body guys

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who were

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using more of their legs to drive the pattern. He's still using some legs

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tour pro, but he's one of the most obvious kind of neck, shoulder, upper body

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strategy golfers that we can look at. So now finally, we have a couple examples

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of amateurs

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we're going to be able to see more of this upper body bracing strategy.

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I don't have any amateurs who use the total body bracing strategy because it's

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optimal. And usually the guys who have really good upper body or total body br

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acing strategies

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end up playing really well and possibly getting on tour. So here's an example

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you'll see not

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a ton of movement happening from the lower body a little bit from the legs kind

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of down

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here in the bottom to get, you know, create a little bit more momentum to brace

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away from

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the club. But you'll see the big thing is his upper body working away right

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here, which actually helps kind of round the rib cage and puts his chest in a

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good position

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to be able to handle the speed of the club right through there. And you'll see

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that he

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adds a little bit of that left shoulder shrug through that phase there. The

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shrug can be

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a large muscle used for upper body bracing in addition to some of the other

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back muscles.

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But you can also use your your chest or your abs as if you were doing kind of a

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crunch away

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from the pull of the club. So he does it a little bit more with his upper body

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moving

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away and that left shoulder shrug. Over here on the right, we're going to see a

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very good

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example of someone who uses more of that neck crunch strategy. So that's more

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crunching and bringing your chin in towards your chest helps if helps you do

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sit up some

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things like that more functionally, right, because it kind of it activates some

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of the

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muscles that run all the way from your chin down towards your pelvis. See if

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your neck

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flexors, your trunk flexors and your hip flexors, they kind of all work in

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chains. So by flexing

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his neck like so, he's going to allow his abs to be able to handle a little bit

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more

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force or a little bit more speed. So this is a very common pattern that you'll

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guys who look really, really rounded at impact. If their chin goes down at the

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start of the

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release, that's usually a good indication that they're using this type of upper

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neck bracing strategy. So now we're going to get into a few of the lower body

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bracing

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strategies. Now Lexi could, you can make an argument that she's more of the

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total because

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she does use a fair amount of the neck, but you can also see a very pronounced

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movement

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from more of her knees less than less of her hips. She tends to get some hip

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action, but

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very pronounced quad, very pronounced knee action to help kind of get her in

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good position

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for that her bracing strategy. But she does use some of that neckside crunch

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that you'll

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see that's prominent with a few other golfers that we'll look at. So over here

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we have Jim Furyk. He's one of the more lower body dominant bracing strategy

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golfers. That

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buckle move that you'll tend to see in the follow through will usually happen

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right

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when the club passes the body. So you can see that little knee buckle happening

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there.

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That's usually instead of using the glutes and the abs, that's usually more the

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hip flexors

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in the quads. And that will tend to cause that little look of the knee buckle

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or the look

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of the drop when you're using the hip flexors and knee extensors of the hip

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flexors and

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the quads instead of the glutes and the abs. But you'll see that there's not a

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lot going

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on with his shoulders. His arms are more kind of extending out to control the

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path and really

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work on that flat spot, but he's not using his arms a ton or his upper back or

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neck as

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his bracing pattern. So very similar to Lexi's move, Rory over here uses kind

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of a combination

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of both, a lot of lower body activity and a fair amount of neck. Again, I could

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have

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made an argument that he's more of a total body, but he does such an

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exaggerated job

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of using the lower body to really get himself in position or to handle that

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speed and transfer

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all that speed from the handle into the rotational speed of the club that I

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feel like he belongs

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in the lower body category. And then we're going to use Phil Mickelson to

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bridge us more

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into kind of a back category. So he does a lot of his movement. It's not a ton

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from the

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shoulders and neck. He's getting most of his crunch and most of his movement

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kind of between

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his rib cage and his hips. So you'll see definitely some lower body action, but

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a lot

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of it is going to be that mid back crunch. You can actually see the shape if I

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create

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that there, not just from rotation, but you can see that he's actually going

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into more

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of a abdominal crunch and flexion to basically pull away from the handle and

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start that bracing

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process. So now we've got a couple more examples of amateurs working more with

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their lower body

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and/or trunk. Again, the guy on the right you're going to see a bit of the neck

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movement as well,

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but he tends to be more of that trunk right side. And you'll see as a result he

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gets a little bit of

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the almost gym-furic knee buckle on the way through. And then over here on the

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left

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we'll have another example of kind of more of a pure back movement. So you'll

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see that as

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opposed to getting the crunch pattern that a lot of the good tour pros get

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where they're using more

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of their abs with their hips, because his back stays very, very straight you

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can see that he's

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using much more of this mid-back extension strategy with a little bit of a

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shrug here

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towards the end as the club goes from really accelerating to really deceler

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ating.

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Now lastly we'll look at a couple others who use more of that back extension

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strategy. So

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here's another one of our amateur golfers and you'll see anytime that you've

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got that core

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buckle on the way through that's going to be more of an avoidance of the glutes

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and abs

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and relying more on the back and hip flexors. But you'll see he does a decent

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job of using a

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little bit of his abs in order to get the crunch, but it's definitely more of a

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back extension

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strategy in order to stabilize the speed through there. And then over here on

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the left,

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again as he gets down you can start to see the kind of extension as he works

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away from it and

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then really through the ball you'll see that the major movement is going to

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happen in this area

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here as opposed to a really pronounced shrug or really pronounced knee buckle.

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You can see that

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his absorption method is going to be more through the back right in through

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there.

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That's going to be one of the more common patterns that we're going to see

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among amateurs,

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pros have demonstrated that you can use either an upper body, a lower body or a

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total body pattern.

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But the I feel that the best strategy to create maximum speed, maximum safety,

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maximum consistency is to develop a bracing strategy using your whole body.

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If you find that you're either lower body dominant or upper body dominant that

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will help you understand

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a little bit more how you're releasing the club and potentially why you're

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releasing the club

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that way and what you could do about it. If you have any questions about your

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bracing strategy,

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feel free to submit your swing here at GolfSmart Academy.