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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at the overall shape of the

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club during

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the release.

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So you'll hear me mention about brushing the ground, and what I think can be

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very helpful

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is if we look at the overall path of the club and how it's able to create this

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brushing

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phenomenon.

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So what you'll tend to see if we fill in some of these gaps is that the club

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will be in

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a higher position and then kind of have this smoothing out piece to it as it

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goes through

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there.

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One of the ways that I like to explore this brushing or explore these release

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movements

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is to scrub back and forth.

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So to just take the video and kind of scrub back and forth, and what you can

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see is that

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the club is coming from a higher position down almost like it was going to slam

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into

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the ground, and then the movements of the arms tend to cause the club to just

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gently

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brush the ground.

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Here we'll see Justin Rose demonstrating kind of a similar pattern where the

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club is going

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from this high to low position, and you can see that it's got an overall shape,

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kind of

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if I exaggerate it, kind of like that, where it's coming from high to low and

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then just

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kind of brushing out in front.

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A lot of amateurs get somewhat confused focusing on what the body is doing, and

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sometimes just

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tying it all into the general look that we want to have the club doing can open

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up or

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cause a higher Eureka moment.

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Now what you'll see is that even with non-traditional looking golf swings, you

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'll tend to see this

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kind of high to low of the club going through impact and through the release as

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a consistent

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pattern among tour pros.

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Pretty much you would have a hard time competing at this level if you didn't

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have this pattern,

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even if you had some funky body movements in order to create it.

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So you'll see low to high or sorry, high to low.

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So the club is higher here, looks like it's coming down very steep, and then as

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it gets

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very close to the ground starts just skimming or brushing the ground.

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So now let's take a look at a few amateurs, and we can see their overall

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pattern which

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typically airs more on being very circular, or even going from low to high as

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opposed

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to this high to low club path through impact.

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So here we can see a couple amateurs, and if we scrub back and forth and we're

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just looking

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at the overall path of the club, you'll see that it's going to have a lot more

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of a almost

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U-shape or circular as opposed to where the pros had it really creating that

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wide point

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after the golf ball.

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So you can see the overall look tends to be a little bit more of this airing on

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low to

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high.

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Golfers who have the path of the club going more low to high are going to

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struggle with

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having early arm extension timing, and they're typically going to struggle with

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getting their

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body open through impact.

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And so I've found that by addressing this overall look of what we want the club

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to do

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or the overall pattern of what we want the club to do, that frequently unlocks

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and allows

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some of the body movements like the wipe and continued rotation and reducing

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early extension

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to fit their swings a little bit better.

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So here's another student who's kind of demonstrating just a little bit more of

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this low to high

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pattern where you can see the club is coming up very quickly.

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Now it's possible to get down into a very low single digit golfer with this low

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to high

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pattern, but it's very hard to get to that plus three, you know, and below that

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really

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high level of ball consistency without having the pattern of having the club

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working its

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way down and kind of forward ahead of the golf ball.

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Now we can look at two low handicaps and we can see a kind of a similar pattern

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where

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it's not quite really low to high, but it's definitely not high to low.

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So it's kind of in this middle zone where the club is just kind of brushing

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right around

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impact instead of having that flat point a little bit further after the golf

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ball.

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And you'll see that he's pretty much in position where he could continue

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rotating side bending

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and extend those arms, but his overall pattern usually revolves around how he's

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going to

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get that club face pointed at the target.

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So frequently you'll see golfers who have a pretty good looking transition and

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look like

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they could get into that tour impact position who tend to bail on it will tend

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to bail on

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it because the club face is a little bit too open.

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And so they're using getting the shaft vertical as a way to square the club

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face as opposed

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to using the motorcycle and using shaft rotation.

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So two different examples of kind of the same symptom of having the club face a

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little bit

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more open than you would want kind of in this zone here.

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And then as a result, they're not able to get that tour look of having the club

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brush

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and stay low to the ground through the follow through.

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This movement of the club is definitely something that you can train with

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better movements during

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the release.

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Here you've got a student who is demonstrating and a little bit more of this

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low to high

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pattern where the club is working not quite up on the way through, but you can

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see that

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the radius is narrowing very, very quickly.

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And the club is working up off the ground quickly compared to what we were

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seeing in

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the early part of this video.

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And we can see after doing some wipe training and working a little bit more on

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that release

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in the brace, you can see that the club stays lower to the ground and has a

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little bit more

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of that look like so.

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So sometimes taking the big picture and focusing on the overall movements of

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the club will

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help you understand and dial in some of these movements that we train here

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during the release.

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One of the key movements is going to be having the club working from high to

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low, even though

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the hands are going to be working from low to high and working in.

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The combination is that wipe and then extend with a little bit of the bracing

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and continued

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body rotation and side bend.

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Those pieces that we train together help get a really consistent bottom of the

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swing through

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the release, which ultimately will help you strike the ball as well as you

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possibly can.