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this analysis video is driving the ball on the champions tour so we're going to

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take a look at some of the top ball strikers and how they kind of use the

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movements that I talk about here in the Gulfsmart Academy system with some an

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aging body so we're just going to go through some of the guys who are in the

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top 10 in driving or total ball striking and here we've got the top two now I

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got some good videos on using the Jackson 5 and the importance of side

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bend and shallowing out in order to be a good driver golf ball you're going to

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have to shallow your out your swing out some way because the driver has very

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little loft in order to launch it high you have to hit slightly up on it

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especially if you're trying to maximize distance and in order to do so you'd

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either have to add a lot of loft with your wrist down at the bottom or do what

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most of these guys do and create a fair amount of access tilt and now you won't

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see it as quite a dynamic movement as say some of the younger guys like Dustin

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Johnson or Justin Thomas but you'll see that the geometry you know and the the

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physics still holds up so here we have the number one ball striker he's number

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three in driving number one in greens and regulation you got Tom Lehman and

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with a

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driver you'll see right about here his upper body is fairly vertical and you'll

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see that he's still got a fair amount of lag you know that's we know that this

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a 3D image so it's kind of angled a little bit away from us but his posture

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here is fairly vertical if he was to keep his body shifting towards the

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target and this and and just extend his arms we would finish with the upper

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body

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even more on top of it here but what we're gonna see is as he comes down

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through

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the ball you'll see that that upper body tends to back up now as you get older

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most of these guys aren't quite there yet but as you get older you'll lose a

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fair amount of your spine lateral bend usually around the age 65 you'll there's

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a kind of a tipping point where what happens to your discs affects the way

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that you side bend but you'll see that he still creates that good kind of

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Jackson

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5 alignment where he gets a fair amount of tilt away from the ball and you can

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see that he's doing it more from his pelvis and less from his spine so some of

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the younger guys may have a little bit more of kind of a side bend through the

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spine he has some you can see if we clear all these lines you can see the kind

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of

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point key points of his rib cage are on an angle about like this but the key

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points of his pelvis are on a pretty good angle as well something like that

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that allows him to get into this classic position here that we see for really

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good drivers the golf ball where the body is angled away from the target most

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golfers think that they need to finish forward in order to kind of swing in

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balance but balance is really a sign of what's going on with the whole system

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if the club is going to be pulling more horizontally because you swung on a

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more

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shallow path then your body has to angle away from it in order to actually stay

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in balance so now let's take a quick look at Bernhard Longer the number two

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ball striker on the senior tour now I know from a pretty good source that

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Bernhard Longer is one of the hardest workers out there he practices you know

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ten eleven hours a day and that's part of why he's able to just dominate on the

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champion's tour because many of those guys they work hard at it but not ten

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eleven hours a day so again if we get him into that halfway point of the

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downswing you can see that while he's had some shift of his body you know he's

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had a little bit of that pressure shift into that front foot he's not tilted a

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ton if he kept his body moving he would be very steep but he's not going to he

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going to get into a good bracing position that upper body is going to fall away

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from the target as those arms extend more towards the target and while we can

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see that there are some subtle differences the or not so subtle differences

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big differences in the legs and the feet and even the arms you can see that the

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overall shape of angling the body away whether it's through the hips or through

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the spine or using the knees or the ankles angling the body away while those

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arms extend is a classic position that you will need to be a very good elite

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level driver of the golf ball or in your case probably to reach your maximum so

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we'll look at a handful more but we're here we've got Kenny Perry and Colin

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Montgomery unfortunately you know finding good swings of guys on the

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Champions Tour while they're on the Champions Tour is harder than it might

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sound and I wasn't able to find good video on Jodorant who is actually one of

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my favorite ball strikers so if anybody out there has some good Jodorant video

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please send me the link okay so over on the left we've Kenny Perry it's not a

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perfect camera angle you can see he does set up with his stance a little closed

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but you can tell that that's well back that's not a truly good face-on but we

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will see that really good tilt away from the ball

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harder to see from this point of view I'd have to use a swing from when he was

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much younger to highlight that tilt but again as you get older it's more

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important to do it through the pelvis or the knees and to get that lower body

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ahead while that upper body stays back if you want to be an elite driver of the

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golf ball or at least the best that you can so this is Colin Montgomery is one

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of my favorites just because he's got he was such a consistent driver of the

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golf ball for so long and has some I don't say swing quirks but he he's found a

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good way to manage having steeper arms and we'll we'll take a quick look at him

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from down the line because I think he's a good lesson for a lot of you but here

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he is right at this position and we know he's gonna try to get into about this

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position from here seems like it would be hard to do but you'll see a fair

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amount of that upper body just kind of falling away as those arms extend on

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more of a horizontal path and so he gets into that good side bend tilt through

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his hips uses a bit of his knees to do it again maybe not quite as much through

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the spine but that does get a little bit harder to do as you get older great

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arm

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extension fully un-unhinged but basically keeping all the same geometry

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constraints that I talk about when I look at the guys who are dominating the

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regular tour you know the younger more athletic guys what you'll see on the

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champions tour is that they'll do it in a more kind of blended or smooth or

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rhythmic way but they'll still get into those patterns so here's Colin from the

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down the line and one of the reasons that I like his move so much is you'll

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see that he balances his steeps and shallows he has some fairly vertical and

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fairly steep arm movements but you'll see that he has this combination of

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really falling really doing a great Jackson 5 almost looks like he does it

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more from the upper body falling but if you look at it in transition you can

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see those muscles in the right hip and the right thigh kind of initiating the

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movement and then he just kind of carries it on more with his upper body

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but from the down the line you'll see that he also shallows it out by having a

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fair amount of early extension now most people who do that combination would

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tend to have some face control issues down to the bottom but he still has a

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very good stable release where he's he's executing you know he's not really

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breaking down with his wrist he's got still a fair amount of that kind of

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shot put or move or that white movement he he does some really good things with

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his release and gets into a really classic follow-through position okay I

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wanted to do one kind of non-classic example so I've got Rocco mediate he's

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not one of the elite ball strikers but you know he's in the top 20 in terms of

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total driving and he's you know in the middle the pack is for far as ball

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striking goes and you'll see that that upper body does not really you know stay

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behind his lower body you'll see that he gets into a position that would look

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a lot more like a wedge shot where everything is much more stacked up on

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top of the front foot this is actually what I find a lot of my amateur students

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trying to do when they say don't I have to get my weight forward you'll see the

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in order to get your weight forward he's gonna have to shallow it out

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somewhere because you can see from this position at upper body is well on top

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the lower body he should have a pretty steep angle of attack and he very well

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hey but you'll see that he gets the club down low to the ground it'll just

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tend to have a little bit more of a U shape less of a flat bottom but if his

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rhythm is on he'll be able to figure it out or do it relatively consistently so

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then how is he able to have his upper body in the steep position and still get

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the club down there it'll be revealed more from the down the line because the

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the rules of physics and needing a shallower path for the driver are pretty

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absolute they're I've never seen anyone who is a very you know who has a steep

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angle of attack and steep path who really excels with the driver it just

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doesn't happen so over here we can see Rocco at about this position here so he

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actually steep with his arms as he's steep with his body so he's got a shallow

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it out some here or some way what we'll see is through here he has what I would

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consider one of the more impressive owner deviation moves you can see a fair

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amount of that unhinged because you know that he's not getting any of that

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shallowness from the body his body stays on top but the club is lower and

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closer

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to the ground without really getting out over the swing plane in fact if

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anything he gets it under the swing plane and you can see in this position how

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much bow how much of the motorcycle move and how much of the unhinging he's

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done

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to complement that upper body lunge and you'll see so you'll see why I tend to

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teach both of those key shallowing movements both giving you the options of

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either having more of the Jackson 5 and shallowing it in transition or if you

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're

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going to be steep you can do it all with the arm shallowing and owner

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deviation or ideally you would do a little bit of each a little bit of the

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Jackson 5 little bit of the arm shallowing in transition and then you keep it

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shallowing with the major arm shallowing movement down in the release which

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would

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be either the Jackson 5 in the bracing or the unhinging of the wrist or the

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owner deviation so you'll see through there even with an iron he does a great

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job of unhinging gets into you know still has a fair amount of bow and

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unhinged there at impact and that's one of the ways that you can make a more of

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a upper body lunge work but it's not quite as good as what we were seeing with

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the classic drivers the golf ball the Bernhard Longer the Kenny Perry Tom

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Layman column Montgomery the list goes on if you look at good drivers the golf

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ball they're gonna tend to get into that classic follow-through position if you

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see golfers who have a little bit of an unusual move and not quite the classic

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follow-through position then you know that they are getting their shallowness

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somewhere other days otherwise they would continue to struggle with the

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driver so the good news is just because you get older and lose a little bit of

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club at speed your driving game doesn't have to completely suffer I'd still

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work

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on getting some of that shallowness you'll do a lot of it more with the hips

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maybe even the knees in order to help get the lower body ahead and get into

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that really strong bracing position and classic follow-through if you do that

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even if you have a number of swing quirks like some of the knee buckle or

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some of the you know let's say a little bit of kind of some poor wrist

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mechanics you can usually get away with it if you've created an overall shallow

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shape for the driver