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Analysis - Supination Examples
There are a lot of adages related to supination, or forearm rotation, and its role in a great release. Renowned ball striker, Ben Hogan, wrote about supination and how important he felt it was to the swing, in his classic book, "Five Lessons". Nowadays, many golfers have misconstrued this element of the release and may be surprised to see how it actually functions in an efficient swing, along with how it differs in PGA Tour professionals and amateurs. We know that touring professionals typically have a greater amount of supination in the release, but a slower rate at which it occurs. On the opposite end, higher handicap players have a faster rate of change and a smaller total range of supination. Overall, this analysis video should provide you with a clear picture of how supination actually works in the release and how you can properly train it to create a larger "flat-spot" and ultimately, more consistent ballstriking.
There are a lot of adages related to supination, or forearm rotation, and its role in a great release. Renowned ball striker, Ben Hogan, wrote about supination and how important he felt it was to the swing, in his classic book, "Five Lessons". Nowadays, many golfers have misconstrued this element of the release and may be surprised to see how it actually functions in an efficient swing, along with how it differs in PGA Tour professionals and amateurs. We know that touring professionals typically have a greater amount of supination in the release, but a slower rate at which it occurs. On the opposite end, higher handicap players have a faster rate of change and a smaller total range of supination. Overall, this analysis video should provide you with a clear picture of how supination actually works in the release and how you can properly train it to create a larger "flat-spot" and ultimately, more consistent ballstriking.
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In this video, we're going to discuss supination during the release.
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Now, Hogan famously wrote about supination starting at impact,
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but I'm going to show some 3D and some videos to show you
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how I like to look at supination during the release.
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It was once more common to talk about supination
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and the forums rolling over during the release
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but that kind of got a bad rap as golfers started to think more about
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rate of closure.
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What I'm going to show you in this video is that Tour Pros typically
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have a greater range of motion of supination compared to, let's say,
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higher mid-handicap amateurs, but they typically do it slower.
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So before we look at some video to understand the look of supination
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and discuss this particular clip, let's take a look at some 3D graphs
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to see what the numbers say as it relates to supination during the release.
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All right, so on the screen, you see a supination graph of a Tour Pro winner.
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So you can see the P standing for pronation, anything negative is pronation
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compared to where it was digitized, and then S is supination.
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And this is looking at the difference between the wrist joint and the elbow
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joint.
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So there's a sensor for each of those and there's a virtual sensor created
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in the center of the wrist on AMM.
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This graph is demonstrating the relationship between the elbow and the wrist
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or specifically looking at the forearm in space.
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So what we'll see is this golfer starts because the elbow is pointing a little
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bit
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towards the target.
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The golfer is actually going to start in a slightly supinated position.
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During the backswing, they're going to pronate or roll the palm more down.
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There's a little bit more pronation as they shallow the club here in transition
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And then through the release.
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So this is about shaft 45 here.
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And then out about here is close to shaft vertical after impact.
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You'll see a relatively smooth and constant supination from somewhere around
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20 degrees pronated to a little over 100 degrees supinated.
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And what you would kind of recognize is that 100 degrees supination is probably
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close to this golfer's max.
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So while this supination pattern wouldn't appear like the club is whipping over
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or rolling over really aggressively, you would see that by the time they finish
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their release, they're reaching close to maximum supination.
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All right, now here's a second golfer demonstrating a very similar pattern.
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So even more shallowing during transition.
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And then in this particular case, you will see a slight increase in speed
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as the slope gets more vertical here.
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But you will see this gradual supination all the way to follow through.
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Take note that this golfer reaches close to 110 degrees of supination
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at the end of their follow through position.
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All right, last pro that we'll look at.
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This golfer has a characteristically strong grip.
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So that's part of the reason why you'll see so much supination
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because the shoulder is more internally rotated.
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You will see that this golfer with a strong grip tends to have one of the
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slower rates of supination.
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So the slope is less vertical than two of the more classic swings.
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But this major champion winner with a strong grip is still demonstrating
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over 100 degrees of supination from their maximum pronation here,
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the start of the release to their maximum supination here at the end of the
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release.
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So while you're seeing some slightly different shapes and magnitudes,
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you'll see that the common trend is especially, these are all driver swings.
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With the driver, you will see a great amount of supination at the end of the
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release
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and a smooth constant supination from the start of the release until the end of
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the release.
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We won't really get into why these golfers are going through that supination
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pattern,
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but we are going to discuss how they do it and how you can train it later in
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this video.
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Okay, now let's take a look at two different amateurs.
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These are mid handicap, so about 10 to 15 handicap golfers who typically battle
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a little bit
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more of a fade, complain about fat shot thin shots.
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Here we'll see a golfer who does have a little bit of the shallowing in
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transition,
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but you'll see a fairly rapid increase to the supination as they are
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approaching impact.
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So this golfer would actually look like he's holding off the supination
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or holding off the forearm rotation, but you can see by the magnitude that he's
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actually
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speeding it up faster than any of the pros.
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The other thing that you'll notice is the scale at the top there is 60.
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He's reaching almost half as much supination as the pro who had the greatest
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amount,
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and a third less than the golfer who had the fewest amount.
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So basically this golfer is restricting or not nearly as supinated in the
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follow-through position
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as the tour pros.
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We'll see a couple video examples here shortly that'll help you visualize what
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this actually looks like.
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And now here's one more golfer.
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This golfer, you can see, tends to get steep with the left arm in transition
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and then really has a hold-off chicken wing.
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So even though they do have a more of a smoother or slower rate of supination
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through the swing,
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they don't reach a maximum supination amount.
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And part of that is because that lead art starts bending, which tends to
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prevent the arm
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from getting into its maximum supination in the golf swing.
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Because the lead wrist will start to go into more extension rapidly through
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impact
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as part of more of a scoop or flip style release.
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Again, this will make a little bit more sense when we look at the amateur
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videos a little bit later in the video.
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But for right now, let's put to bed the idea that it's possible to have a full
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swing release
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without a fair amount of supination because you can see that even golfers
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who have a restricted amount of supination during their downswing are still sup
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inating 100 degrees or so.
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So if anyone tells you that you should not have any rolling over your forearms,
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they're probably talking about a feel they haven't actually looked at the data
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because all golf swings have supination during the release.
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We're mostly going to talk about the speed and the range of motion,
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which differentiates a good release from a poor release.
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Now, the classic way to look at the amount of supination in the follow-through
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is to look at the follow-through position.
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So as the golfer comes through, you can see that the elbow is pointing roughly
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behind his body
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and the back of the hand is roughly pointing in the same position.
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If the back of the hand is pointing straight down, as the elbow is pointing
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straight down,
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that is your maximum supination amount.
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The classic look is basically seeing the fingers of the glove hand underneath
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the fingers of the...
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or underneath the palm of the trail hand roughly in this shaft follow-through
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position.
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But we're going to take a look at it more from the target view
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because it can be a little bit easier to see than looking at it from purely
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this face-on view.
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But as you train your eye, you will be able to see the amount of the form or
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the degree of the form rotation
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through the release from any camera angle.
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But let's make it easier for now and let's take a look from the target view.
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It's rare to get a pure target view for obvious safety reasons.
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So most of the other ones we'll look at are going to be more from a 45-degree
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angle.
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But here's a great look at Rory McElroy.
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And you'll see at this point right here in the swing, his elbow is roughly
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pointing out in this direction
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or in the direction of the camera, and his palm is turned just a little bit
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more to the right of that,
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so it's in a slightly pronated position.
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As he comes through, it will approach neutral, but still probably be closer to
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the pronated position
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at least that's what it would look like on his 3D graph.
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Now from here, you'll be able to see the bones of the forearm rotating over
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while the elbow is rotating around his body at a much slower rate.
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So at this point now, the elbow is pointing back this way and the back of the
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hand is pointing in roughly the same direction.
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That only happens from a supinated position.
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Right here, the back of the hand is pointing still out away from Rory.
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It's not pointing directly at the target line, and the elbow is actually
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pointing left of the target line.
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So he still has some room to supinate at this point, and he's going to do it
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smoothly until he reaches his maximum
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somewhere right around here, and then it will start going back into pronation
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or less supination as he goes up towards the top of his swing from there.
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Here's two more toward golfers, where you'll see from, again, this more like 45
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degree angle position,
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it is easier to see the supination through here from this angle, and this angle
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is safe enough to try and take photos with,
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where if they shank it, hopefully you'd still be out of the way of getting hit
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if you decide to look at your own swing.
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I use a selfie stick whenever I'm trying to record this view with my students,
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but as we look at it, we can see again the back of the hand facing closer to
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the golf ball,
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and the elbow pointing towards the target line, and you'll see through here as
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he goes through the inside of the forearm facing more towards the camera than
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it was through here,
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and the elbow changing at a slower rate. The elbow is still rotating around,
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but it's rotating at a slower rate because the wrist is supinating.
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It's my belief that the supination helps to do more with the control of the arc
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width and the path,
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and that tends to produce a lower rate of closure than golfers who have less
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supination, but more wrist extension and a narrower arc width on the way
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through.
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Over here with Tommy Fleetwood, we can see a similar pattern as he's coming
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through, where golfers who tend to have more of that supination and tend to
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create more extension of that lead arm.
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If you see a golfer who has a look of really wide arms in the follow through
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and the glove hand underneath the trail hand, that's typically a sign that they
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've reached one of the tour level of supination, which is closing in on maximum
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supination value.
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Now we'll take a look at a couple amateurs from that same view. At this point
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here, the supination graph would look fairly similar, but then on the way
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through, instead of letting that arm rotate, you'll see that the palm stays
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facing more towards the target, or more to the right of where the elbow is
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pointing as the right hand stays more under.
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From the pure face on camera angle, this would have more of a look of a flip,
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and you could see it when the club reaches chaff parallel, we would be looking
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from this direction. You can see that the glove hand would be above the trail
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hand.
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Now, one of the ways that I do like to train it is with single arm only drills,
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because it's very hard to hit the single arm or the lead arm only drill
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correctly without having a fair amount of supination.
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This golfer hadn't quite cleaned up the body pivot to match the supination, but
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you'll see on the way through, he has a harder time of doing the smooth fluid
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rotation, and you'll see it turns into a quick supination, but at least now he
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's closing in on more of a maximum supination value.
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If you were to imagine him reaching his right arm across, you would be able to
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see those fingers more underneath. This would be getting closer to a look of
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having a great width in the follow through, which tends to produce more of a
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consistent flat spot and ball striking consistency.
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All right, one more amateur example. This is a single digit golfer, and you'll
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see there is some supination going on through here, but you'll see that it's
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got a little bit more of that look of the back of the left hand staying facing
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the sky instead of that lead arm rotating over.
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Now over here on the right, we'll look at what it looked like after doing a
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lead arm drill that we'll discuss a little bit later.
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So you'll see it's still resisting the rotation, maybe more so than what we saw
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with Dustin Johnson or Tommy Fleetwood, but you can see that if you compare
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those two positions and you were looking from the face on camera angle.
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Because he let that lead forearm, not whole arm, but that forearm rotate, he
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reached more of a classic looking position where the fingers are underneath
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here, where in this view from the face on through impact, you would see the
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glove hand on top of the trail hand.
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The difference in this look was able resulted in moving the low point forward
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and the golfer taking a little bit better divots and much more solid ground
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contact, where here he was having more of a picking or kind of a scooping style
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release pattern where he was hitting it low on the face and just barely
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brushing the ground.
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So if you struggle with your release and you have more of a flip style release,
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more of a chicken wing or an upper body stall and a wrist that's really
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breaking down on the way through, you may benefit from having some supination
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train.
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Now at the beginning of the video, I highlighted this little video I took of
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Tiger in 2005.
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This was at his tournament, he was doing a clinic for kids and he was just
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answering questions and as he was answering questions, he was just swinging the
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club with his lead hand.
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And I captured it in slow motion and you can see very clearly that the shoulder
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is not doing most of this movement, it's actually going more from the elbow and
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then transferring that movement into the supination and rotation of the wrist
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and then finishing back in the elbow.
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So there's a very fluid pattern to the amount of rotation here. When I ask golf
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ers to swing the club just with the lead forearm, this is more commonly what I
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see and you can see not a whole lot of rotation of the wrist through impact and
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you see a lot more shoulder movement.
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This is more of a chicken wing style and the elbow flip the wrist where this
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over here is a little bit more of what I would consider a tour release pattern
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that would create a very wide arc width and have a really good look of arm
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extension in the follow through.
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I'm a big fan of doing single arm drills and I've got about a dozen videos on
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the site relating to the lead arm only training.
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One of the keys to solving hitting the ball with just your lead hand for a 9 to
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3 is learning to get more of the absorbing of the force through impact with sup
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ination of the lead wrist instead of doing it more with the extension of the
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wrist or doing it more with the shoulder.
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So I've got a couple of different videos to help with connecting the pivot to
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the arm motion and then I've got a number of drills once you've figured out how
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that lead arm releases to then connect it to the right side of your body.
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One quick word of caution if you are going to take on working on the supination
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the biggest mistake I see is as golfers are trying to supinate they will try to
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do it too rapidly.
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So typically when you have more of a scoop style release the wrist holds on,
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holds on, holds on and then right down at the bottom it tends to release very
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quickly or go through that movement in a more exaggerated fashion
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or a more abrupt fashion.
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And so golfers typically keep that same tempo when they start working on sup
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ination and they reach their maximum supination right about here when you're
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doing these lead arm onlys or you're comparing it to your full swing.
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You want your swing to reach its maximum supination around when the club is
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parallel to the ground or even a little bit after.
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That requires more of the gradual supination instead of whipping it closed
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through supination which I think is part of the problem when most amateurs try
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to apply this on their own.
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So try some of those single arm drills if you're working on your supination
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pattern that will help you learn how to use that lead forearm correctly in
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order to create a wide and classic follow through looking position.
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In this video, we're going to discuss supination during the release.
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Now, Hogan famously wrote about supination starting at impact,
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but I'm going to show some 3D and some videos to show you
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how I like to look at supination during the release.
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It was once more common to talk about supination
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and the forums rolling over during the release
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but that kind of got a bad rap as golfers started to think more about
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rate of closure.
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What I'm going to show you in this video is that Tour Pros typically
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have a greater range of motion of supination compared to, let's say,
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higher mid-handicap amateurs, but they typically do it slower.
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So before we look at some video to understand the look of supination
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and discuss this particular clip, let's take a look at some 3D graphs
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to see what the numbers say as it relates to supination during the release.
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All right, so on the screen, you see a supination graph of a Tour Pro winner.
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So you can see the P standing for pronation, anything negative is pronation
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compared to where it was digitized, and then S is supination.
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And this is looking at the difference between the wrist joint and the elbow
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joint.
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So there's a sensor for each of those and there's a virtual sensor created
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in the center of the wrist on AMM.
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This graph is demonstrating the relationship between the elbow and the wrist
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or specifically looking at the forearm in space.
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So what we'll see is this golfer starts because the elbow is pointing a little
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bit
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towards the target.
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The golfer is actually going to start in a slightly supinated position.
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During the backswing, they're going to pronate or roll the palm more down.
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There's a little bit more pronation as they shallow the club here in transition
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And then through the release.
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So this is about shaft 45 here.
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And then out about here is close to shaft vertical after impact.
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You'll see a relatively smooth and constant supination from somewhere around
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20 degrees pronated to a little over 100 degrees supinated.
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And what you would kind of recognize is that 100 degrees supination is probably
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close to this golfer's max.
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So while this supination pattern wouldn't appear like the club is whipping over
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or rolling over really aggressively, you would see that by the time they finish
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their release, they're reaching close to maximum supination.
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All right, now here's a second golfer demonstrating a very similar pattern.
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So even more shallowing during transition.
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And then in this particular case, you will see a slight increase in speed
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as the slope gets more vertical here.
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But you will see this gradual supination all the way to follow through.
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Take note that this golfer reaches close to 110 degrees of supination
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at the end of their follow through position.
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All right, last pro that we'll look at.
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This golfer has a characteristically strong grip.
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So that's part of the reason why you'll see so much supination
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because the shoulder is more internally rotated.
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You will see that this golfer with a strong grip tends to have one of the
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slower rates of supination.
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So the slope is less vertical than two of the more classic swings.
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But this major champion winner with a strong grip is still demonstrating
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over 100 degrees of supination from their maximum pronation here,
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the start of the release to their maximum supination here at the end of the
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release.
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So while you're seeing some slightly different shapes and magnitudes,
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you'll see that the common trend is especially, these are all driver swings.
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With the driver, you will see a great amount of supination at the end of the
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release
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and a smooth constant supination from the start of the release until the end of
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the release.
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We won't really get into why these golfers are going through that supination
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pattern,
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but we are going to discuss how they do it and how you can train it later in
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this video.
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Okay, now let's take a look at two different amateurs.
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These are mid handicap, so about 10 to 15 handicap golfers who typically battle
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a little bit
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more of a fade, complain about fat shot thin shots.
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Here we'll see a golfer who does have a little bit of the shallowing in
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transition,
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but you'll see a fairly rapid increase to the supination as they are
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approaching impact.
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So this golfer would actually look like he's holding off the supination
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or holding off the forearm rotation, but you can see by the magnitude that he's
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actually
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speeding it up faster than any of the pros.
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The other thing that you'll notice is the scale at the top there is 60.
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He's reaching almost half as much supination as the pro who had the greatest
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amount,
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and a third less than the golfer who had the fewest amount.
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So basically this golfer is restricting or not nearly as supinated in the
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follow-through position
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as the tour pros.
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We'll see a couple video examples here shortly that'll help you visualize what
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this actually looks like.
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And now here's one more golfer.
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This golfer, you can see, tends to get steep with the left arm in transition
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and then really has a hold-off chicken wing.
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So even though they do have a more of a smoother or slower rate of supination
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through the swing,
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they don't reach a maximum supination amount.
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And part of that is because that lead art starts bending, which tends to
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prevent the arm
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from getting into its maximum supination in the golf swing.
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Because the lead wrist will start to go into more extension rapidly through
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impact
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as part of more of a scoop or flip style release.
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Again, this will make a little bit more sense when we look at the amateur
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videos a little bit later in the video.
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But for right now, let's put to bed the idea that it's possible to have a full
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swing release
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without a fair amount of supination because you can see that even golfers
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who have a restricted amount of supination during their downswing are still sup
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inating 100 degrees or so.
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So if anyone tells you that you should not have any rolling over your forearms,
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they're probably talking about a feel they haven't actually looked at the data
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because all golf swings have supination during the release.
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We're mostly going to talk about the speed and the range of motion,
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which differentiates a good release from a poor release.
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Now, the classic way to look at the amount of supination in the follow-through
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is to look at the follow-through position.
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So as the golfer comes through, you can see that the elbow is pointing roughly
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behind his body
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and the back of the hand is roughly pointing in the same position.
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If the back of the hand is pointing straight down, as the elbow is pointing
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straight down,
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that is your maximum supination amount.
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The classic look is basically seeing the fingers of the glove hand underneath
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the fingers of the...
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or underneath the palm of the trail hand roughly in this shaft follow-through
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position.
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But we're going to take a look at it more from the target view
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because it can be a little bit easier to see than looking at it from purely
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this face-on view.
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But as you train your eye, you will be able to see the amount of the form or
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the degree of the form rotation
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through the release from any camera angle.
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But let's make it easier for now and let's take a look from the target view.
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It's rare to get a pure target view for obvious safety reasons.
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So most of the other ones we'll look at are going to be more from a 45-degree
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angle.
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But here's a great look at Rory McElroy.
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And you'll see at this point right here in the swing, his elbow is roughly
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pointing out in this direction
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or in the direction of the camera, and his palm is turned just a little bit
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more to the right of that,
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so it's in a slightly pronated position.
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As he comes through, it will approach neutral, but still probably be closer to
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the pronated position
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at least that's what it would look like on his 3D graph.
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Now from here, you'll be able to see the bones of the forearm rotating over
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while the elbow is rotating around his body at a much slower rate.
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So at this point now, the elbow is pointing back this way and the back of the
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hand is pointing in roughly the same direction.
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That only happens from a supinated position.
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Right here, the back of the hand is pointing still out away from Rory.
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It's not pointing directly at the target line, and the elbow is actually
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pointing left of the target line.
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So he still has some room to supinate at this point, and he's going to do it
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smoothly until he reaches his maximum
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somewhere right around here, and then it will start going back into pronation
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or less supination as he goes up towards the top of his swing from there.
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Here's two more toward golfers, where you'll see from, again, this more like 45
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degree angle position,
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it is easier to see the supination through here from this angle, and this angle
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is safe enough to try and take photos with,
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where if they shank it, hopefully you'd still be out of the way of getting hit
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if you decide to look at your own swing.
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I use a selfie stick whenever I'm trying to record this view with my students,
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but as we look at it, we can see again the back of the hand facing closer to
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the golf ball,
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and the elbow pointing towards the target line, and you'll see through here as
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he goes through the inside of the forearm facing more towards the camera than
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it was through here,
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and the elbow changing at a slower rate. The elbow is still rotating around,
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but it's rotating at a slower rate because the wrist is supinating.
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It's my belief that the supination helps to do more with the control of the arc
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width and the path,
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and that tends to produce a lower rate of closure than golfers who have less
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supination, but more wrist extension and a narrower arc width on the way
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through.
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Over here with Tommy Fleetwood, we can see a similar pattern as he's coming
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through, where golfers who tend to have more of that supination and tend to
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create more extension of that lead arm.
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If you see a golfer who has a look of really wide arms in the follow through
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and the glove hand underneath the trail hand, that's typically a sign that they
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've reached one of the tour level of supination, which is closing in on maximum
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supination value.
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Now we'll take a look at a couple amateurs from that same view. At this point
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here, the supination graph would look fairly similar, but then on the way
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through, instead of letting that arm rotate, you'll see that the palm stays
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facing more towards the target, or more to the right of where the elbow is
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pointing as the right hand stays more under.
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From the pure face on camera angle, this would have more of a look of a flip,
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and you could see it when the club reaches chaff parallel, we would be looking
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from this direction. You can see that the glove hand would be above the trail
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hand.
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Now, one of the ways that I do like to train it is with single arm only drills,
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because it's very hard to hit the single arm or the lead arm only drill
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correctly without having a fair amount of supination.
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This golfer hadn't quite cleaned up the body pivot to match the supination, but
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you'll see on the way through, he has a harder time of doing the smooth fluid
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rotation, and you'll see it turns into a quick supination, but at least now he
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's closing in on more of a maximum supination value.
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If you were to imagine him reaching his right arm across, you would be able to
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see those fingers more underneath. This would be getting closer to a look of
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having a great width in the follow through, which tends to produce more of a
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consistent flat spot and ball striking consistency.
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All right, one more amateur example. This is a single digit golfer, and you'll
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see there is some supination going on through here, but you'll see that it's
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got a little bit more of that look of the back of the left hand staying facing
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the sky instead of that lead arm rotating over.
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Now over here on the right, we'll look at what it looked like after doing a
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lead arm drill that we'll discuss a little bit later.
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So you'll see it's still resisting the rotation, maybe more so than what we saw
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with Dustin Johnson or Tommy Fleetwood, but you can see that if you compare
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those two positions and you were looking from the face on camera angle.
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Because he let that lead forearm, not whole arm, but that forearm rotate, he
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reached more of a classic looking position where the fingers are underneath
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here, where in this view from the face on through impact, you would see the
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glove hand on top of the trail hand.
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The difference in this look was able resulted in moving the low point forward
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and the golfer taking a little bit better divots and much more solid ground
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contact, where here he was having more of a picking or kind of a scooping style
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release pattern where he was hitting it low on the face and just barely
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brushing the ground.
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So if you struggle with your release and you have more of a flip style release,
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more of a chicken wing or an upper body stall and a wrist that's really
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breaking down on the way through, you may benefit from having some supination
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train.
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Now at the beginning of the video, I highlighted this little video I took of
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Tiger in 2005.
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This was at his tournament, he was doing a clinic for kids and he was just
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answering questions and as he was answering questions, he was just swinging the
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club with his lead hand.
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And I captured it in slow motion and you can see very clearly that the shoulder
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is not doing most of this movement, it's actually going more from the elbow and
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then transferring that movement into the supination and rotation of the wrist
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and then finishing back in the elbow.
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So there's a very fluid pattern to the amount of rotation here. When I ask golf
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ers to swing the club just with the lead forearm, this is more commonly what I
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see and you can see not a whole lot of rotation of the wrist through impact and
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you see a lot more shoulder movement.
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This is more of a chicken wing style and the elbow flip the wrist where this
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over here is a little bit more of what I would consider a tour release pattern
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that would create a very wide arc width and have a really good look of arm
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extension in the follow through.
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I'm a big fan of doing single arm drills and I've got about a dozen videos on
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the site relating to the lead arm only training.
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One of the keys to solving hitting the ball with just your lead hand for a 9 to
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3 is learning to get more of the absorbing of the force through impact with sup
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ination of the lead wrist instead of doing it more with the extension of the
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wrist or doing it more with the shoulder.
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So I've got a couple of different videos to help with connecting the pivot to
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the arm motion and then I've got a number of drills once you've figured out how
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that lead arm releases to then connect it to the right side of your body.
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One quick word of caution if you are going to take on working on the supination
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the biggest mistake I see is as golfers are trying to supinate they will try to
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do it too rapidly.
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So typically when you have more of a scoop style release the wrist holds on,
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holds on, holds on and then right down at the bottom it tends to release very
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quickly or go through that movement in a more exaggerated fashion
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or a more abrupt fashion.
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And so golfers typically keep that same tempo when they start working on sup
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ination and they reach their maximum supination right about here when you're
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doing these lead arm onlys or you're comparing it to your full swing.
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You want your swing to reach its maximum supination around when the club is
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parallel to the ground or even a little bit after.
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That requires more of the gradual supination instead of whipping it closed
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through supination which I think is part of the problem when most amateurs try
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to apply this on their own.
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So try some of those single arm drills if you're working on your supination
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pattern that will help you learn how to use that lead forearm correctly in
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order to create a wide and classic follow through looking position.
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Analysis - Supination Examples
There are a lot of adages related to supination, or forearm rotation, and its role in a great release. Renowned ball striker, Ben Hogan, wrote about supination and how important he felt it was to the swing, in his classic book, "Five Lessons". Nowadays, many golfers have misconstrued this element of the release and may be surprised to see how it actually functions in an efficient swing, along with how it differs in PGA Tour professionals and amateurs. We know that touring professionals typically have a greater amount of supination in the release, but a slower rate at which it occurs. On the opposite end, higher handicap players have a faster rate of change and a smaller total range of supination. Overall, this analysis video should provide you with a clear picture of how supination actually works in the release and how you can properly train it to create a larger "flat-spot" and ultimately, more consistent ballstriking.
There are a lot of adages related to supination, or forearm rotation, and its role in a great release. Renowned ball striker, Ben Hogan, wrote about supination and how important he felt it was to the swing, in his classic book, "Five Lessons". Nowadays, many golfers have misconstrued this element of the release and may be surprised to see how it actually functions in an efficient swing, along with how it differs in PGA Tour professionals and amateurs. We know that touring professionals typically have a greater amount of supination in the release, but a slower rate at which it occurs. On the opposite end, higher handicap players have a faster rate of change and a smaller total range of supination. Overall, this analysis video should provide you with a clear picture of how supination actually works in the release and how you can properly train it to create a larger "flat-spot" and ultimately, more consistent ballstriking.
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In this video, we're going to discuss supination during the release.
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Now, Hogan famously wrote about supination starting at impact,
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but I'm going to show some 3D and some videos to show you
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how I like to look at supination during the release.
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It was once more common to talk about supination
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and the forums rolling over during the release
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but that kind of got a bad rap as golfers started to think more about
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rate of closure.
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What I'm going to show you in this video is that Tour Pros typically
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have a greater range of motion of supination compared to, let's say,
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higher mid-handicap amateurs, but they typically do it slower.
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So before we look at some video to understand the look of supination
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and discuss this particular clip, let's take a look at some 3D graphs
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to see what the numbers say as it relates to supination during the release.
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All right, so on the screen, you see a supination graph of a Tour Pro winner.
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So you can see the P standing for pronation, anything negative is pronation
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compared to where it was digitized, and then S is supination.
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And this is looking at the difference between the wrist joint and the elbow
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joint.
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So there's a sensor for each of those and there's a virtual sensor created
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in the center of the wrist on AMM.
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This graph is demonstrating the relationship between the elbow and the wrist
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or specifically looking at the forearm in space.
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So what we'll see is this golfer starts because the elbow is pointing a little
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bit
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towards the target.
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The golfer is actually going to start in a slightly supinated position.
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During the backswing, they're going to pronate or roll the palm more down.
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There's a little bit more pronation as they shallow the club here in transition
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And then through the release.
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So this is about shaft 45 here.
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And then out about here is close to shaft vertical after impact.
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You'll see a relatively smooth and constant supination from somewhere around
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20 degrees pronated to a little over 100 degrees supinated.
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And what you would kind of recognize is that 100 degrees supination is probably
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close to this golfer's max.
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So while this supination pattern wouldn't appear like the club is whipping over
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or rolling over really aggressively, you would see that by the time they finish
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their release, they're reaching close to maximum supination.
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All right, now here's a second golfer demonstrating a very similar pattern.
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So even more shallowing during transition.
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And then in this particular case, you will see a slight increase in speed
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as the slope gets more vertical here.
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But you will see this gradual supination all the way to follow through.
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Take note that this golfer reaches close to 110 degrees of supination
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at the end of their follow through position.
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All right, last pro that we'll look at.
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This golfer has a characteristically strong grip.
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So that's part of the reason why you'll see so much supination
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because the shoulder is more internally rotated.
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You will see that this golfer with a strong grip tends to have one of the
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slower rates of supination.
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So the slope is less vertical than two of the more classic swings.
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But this major champion winner with a strong grip is still demonstrating
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over 100 degrees of supination from their maximum pronation here,
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the start of the release to their maximum supination here at the end of the
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release.
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So while you're seeing some slightly different shapes and magnitudes,
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you'll see that the common trend is especially, these are all driver swings.
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With the driver, you will see a great amount of supination at the end of the
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release
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and a smooth constant supination from the start of the release until the end of
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the release.
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We won't really get into why these golfers are going through that supination
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pattern,
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but we are going to discuss how they do it and how you can train it later in
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this video.
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Okay, now let's take a look at two different amateurs.
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These are mid handicap, so about 10 to 15 handicap golfers who typically battle
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a little bit
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more of a fade, complain about fat shot thin shots.
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Here we'll see a golfer who does have a little bit of the shallowing in
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transition,
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but you'll see a fairly rapid increase to the supination as they are
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approaching impact.
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So this golfer would actually look like he's holding off the supination
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or holding off the forearm rotation, but you can see by the magnitude that he's
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actually
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speeding it up faster than any of the pros.
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The other thing that you'll notice is the scale at the top there is 60.
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He's reaching almost half as much supination as the pro who had the greatest
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amount,
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and a third less than the golfer who had the fewest amount.
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So basically this golfer is restricting or not nearly as supinated in the
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follow-through position
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as the tour pros.
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We'll see a couple video examples here shortly that'll help you visualize what
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this actually looks like.
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And now here's one more golfer.
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This golfer, you can see, tends to get steep with the left arm in transition
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and then really has a hold-off chicken wing.
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So even though they do have a more of a smoother or slower rate of supination
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through the swing,
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they don't reach a maximum supination amount.
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And part of that is because that lead art starts bending, which tends to
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prevent the arm
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from getting into its maximum supination in the golf swing.
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Because the lead wrist will start to go into more extension rapidly through
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impact
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as part of more of a scoop or flip style release.
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Again, this will make a little bit more sense when we look at the amateur
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videos a little bit later in the video.
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But for right now, let's put to bed the idea that it's possible to have a full
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swing release
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without a fair amount of supination because you can see that even golfers
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who have a restricted amount of supination during their downswing are still sup
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inating 100 degrees or so.
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So if anyone tells you that you should not have any rolling over your forearms,
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they're probably talking about a feel they haven't actually looked at the data
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because all golf swings have supination during the release.
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We're mostly going to talk about the speed and the range of motion,
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which differentiates a good release from a poor release.
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Now, the classic way to look at the amount of supination in the follow-through
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is to look at the follow-through position.
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So as the golfer comes through, you can see that the elbow is pointing roughly
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behind his body
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and the back of the hand is roughly pointing in the same position.
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If the back of the hand is pointing straight down, as the elbow is pointing
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straight down,
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that is your maximum supination amount.
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The classic look is basically seeing the fingers of the glove hand underneath
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the fingers of the...
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or underneath the palm of the trail hand roughly in this shaft follow-through
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position.
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But we're going to take a look at it more from the target view
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because it can be a little bit easier to see than looking at it from purely
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this face-on view.
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But as you train your eye, you will be able to see the amount of the form or
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the degree of the form rotation
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through the release from any camera angle.
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But let's make it easier for now and let's take a look from the target view.
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It's rare to get a pure target view for obvious safety reasons.
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So most of the other ones we'll look at are going to be more from a 45-degree
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angle.
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But here's a great look at Rory McElroy.
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And you'll see at this point right here in the swing, his elbow is roughly
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pointing out in this direction
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or in the direction of the camera, and his palm is turned just a little bit
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more to the right of that,
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so it's in a slightly pronated position.
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As he comes through, it will approach neutral, but still probably be closer to
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the pronated position
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at least that's what it would look like on his 3D graph.
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Now from here, you'll be able to see the bones of the forearm rotating over
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while the elbow is rotating around his body at a much slower rate.
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So at this point now, the elbow is pointing back this way and the back of the
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hand is pointing in roughly the same direction.
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That only happens from a supinated position.
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Right here, the back of the hand is pointing still out away from Rory.
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It's not pointing directly at the target line, and the elbow is actually
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pointing left of the target line.
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So he still has some room to supinate at this point, and he's going to do it
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smoothly until he reaches his maximum
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somewhere right around here, and then it will start going back into pronation
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or less supination as he goes up towards the top of his swing from there.
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Here's two more toward golfers, where you'll see from, again, this more like 45
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degree angle position,
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it is easier to see the supination through here from this angle, and this angle
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is safe enough to try and take photos with,
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where if they shank it, hopefully you'd still be out of the way of getting hit
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if you decide to look at your own swing.
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I use a selfie stick whenever I'm trying to record this view with my students,
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but as we look at it, we can see again the back of the hand facing closer to
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the golf ball,
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and the elbow pointing towards the target line, and you'll see through here as
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he goes through the inside of the forearm facing more towards the camera than
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it was through here,
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and the elbow changing at a slower rate. The elbow is still rotating around,
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but it's rotating at a slower rate because the wrist is supinating.
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It's my belief that the supination helps to do more with the control of the arc
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width and the path,
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and that tends to produce a lower rate of closure than golfers who have less
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supination, but more wrist extension and a narrower arc width on the way
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through.
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Over here with Tommy Fleetwood, we can see a similar pattern as he's coming
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through, where golfers who tend to have more of that supination and tend to
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create more extension of that lead arm.
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If you see a golfer who has a look of really wide arms in the follow through
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and the glove hand underneath the trail hand, that's typically a sign that they
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've reached one of the tour level of supination, which is closing in on maximum
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supination value.
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Now we'll take a look at a couple amateurs from that same view. At this point
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here, the supination graph would look fairly similar, but then on the way
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through, instead of letting that arm rotate, you'll see that the palm stays
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facing more towards the target, or more to the right of where the elbow is
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pointing as the right hand stays more under.
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From the pure face on camera angle, this would have more of a look of a flip,
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and you could see it when the club reaches chaff parallel, we would be looking
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from this direction. You can see that the glove hand would be above the trail
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hand.
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Now, one of the ways that I do like to train it is with single arm only drills,
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because it's very hard to hit the single arm or the lead arm only drill
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correctly without having a fair amount of supination.
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This golfer hadn't quite cleaned up the body pivot to match the supination, but
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you'll see on the way through, he has a harder time of doing the smooth fluid
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rotation, and you'll see it turns into a quick supination, but at least now he
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's closing in on more of a maximum supination value.
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If you were to imagine him reaching his right arm across, you would be able to
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see those fingers more underneath. This would be getting closer to a look of
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having a great width in the follow through, which tends to produce more of a
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consistent flat spot and ball striking consistency.
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All right, one more amateur example. This is a single digit golfer, and you'll
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see there is some supination going on through here, but you'll see that it's
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got a little bit more of that look of the back of the left hand staying facing
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the sky instead of that lead arm rotating over.
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Now over here on the right, we'll look at what it looked like after doing a
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lead arm drill that we'll discuss a little bit later.
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So you'll see it's still resisting the rotation, maybe more so than what we saw
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with Dustin Johnson or Tommy Fleetwood, but you can see that if you compare
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those two positions and you were looking from the face on camera angle.
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Because he let that lead forearm, not whole arm, but that forearm rotate, he
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reached more of a classic looking position where the fingers are underneath
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here, where in this view from the face on through impact, you would see the
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glove hand on top of the trail hand.
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The difference in this look was able resulted in moving the low point forward
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and the golfer taking a little bit better divots and much more solid ground
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contact, where here he was having more of a picking or kind of a scooping style
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release pattern where he was hitting it low on the face and just barely
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brushing the ground.
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So if you struggle with your release and you have more of a flip style release,
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more of a chicken wing or an upper body stall and a wrist that's really
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breaking down on the way through, you may benefit from having some supination
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train.
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Now at the beginning of the video, I highlighted this little video I took of
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Tiger in 2005.
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This was at his tournament, he was doing a clinic for kids and he was just
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answering questions and as he was answering questions, he was just swinging the
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club with his lead hand.
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And I captured it in slow motion and you can see very clearly that the shoulder
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is not doing most of this movement, it's actually going more from the elbow and
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then transferring that movement into the supination and rotation of the wrist
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and then finishing back in the elbow.
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So there's a very fluid pattern to the amount of rotation here. When I ask golf
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ers to swing the club just with the lead forearm, this is more commonly what I
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see and you can see not a whole lot of rotation of the wrist through impact and
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you see a lot more shoulder movement.
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This is more of a chicken wing style and the elbow flip the wrist where this
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over here is a little bit more of what I would consider a tour release pattern
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that would create a very wide arc width and have a really good look of arm
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extension in the follow through.
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I'm a big fan of doing single arm drills and I've got about a dozen videos on
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the site relating to the lead arm only training.
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One of the keys to solving hitting the ball with just your lead hand for a 9 to
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3 is learning to get more of the absorbing of the force through impact with sup
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ination of the lead wrist instead of doing it more with the extension of the
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wrist or doing it more with the shoulder.
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So I've got a couple of different videos to help with connecting the pivot to
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the arm motion and then I've got a number of drills once you've figured out how
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that lead arm releases to then connect it to the right side of your body.
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One quick word of caution if you are going to take on working on the supination
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the biggest mistake I see is as golfers are trying to supinate they will try to
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do it too rapidly.
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So typically when you have more of a scoop style release the wrist holds on,
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holds on, holds on and then right down at the bottom it tends to release very
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quickly or go through that movement in a more exaggerated fashion
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or a more abrupt fashion.
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And so golfers typically keep that same tempo when they start working on sup
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ination and they reach their maximum supination right about here when you're
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doing these lead arm onlys or you're comparing it to your full swing.
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You want your swing to reach its maximum supination around when the club is
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parallel to the ground or even a little bit after.
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That requires more of the gradual supination instead of whipping it closed
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through supination which I think is part of the problem when most amateurs try
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to apply this on their own.
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So try some of those single arm drills if you're working on your supination
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pattern that will help you learn how to use that lead forearm correctly in
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order to create a wide and classic follow through looking position.
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In this video, we're going to discuss supination during the release.
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Now, Hogan famously wrote about supination starting at impact,
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but I'm going to show some 3D and some videos to show you
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how I like to look at supination during the release.
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It was once more common to talk about supination
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and the forums rolling over during the release
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but that kind of got a bad rap as golfers started to think more about
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rate of closure.
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What I'm going to show you in this video is that Tour Pros typically
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have a greater range of motion of supination compared to, let's say,
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higher mid-handicap amateurs, but they typically do it slower.
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So before we look at some video to understand the look of supination
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and discuss this particular clip, let's take a look at some 3D graphs
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to see what the numbers say as it relates to supination during the release.
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All right, so on the screen, you see a supination graph of a Tour Pro winner.
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So you can see the P standing for pronation, anything negative is pronation
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compared to where it was digitized, and then S is supination.
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And this is looking at the difference between the wrist joint and the elbow
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joint.
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So there's a sensor for each of those and there's a virtual sensor created
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in the center of the wrist on AMM.
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This graph is demonstrating the relationship between the elbow and the wrist
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or specifically looking at the forearm in space.
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So what we'll see is this golfer starts because the elbow is pointing a little
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bit
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towards the target.
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The golfer is actually going to start in a slightly supinated position.
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During the backswing, they're going to pronate or roll the palm more down.
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There's a little bit more pronation as they shallow the club here in transition
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And then through the release.
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So this is about shaft 45 here.
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And then out about here is close to shaft vertical after impact.
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You'll see a relatively smooth and constant supination from somewhere around
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20 degrees pronated to a little over 100 degrees supinated.
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And what you would kind of recognize is that 100 degrees supination is probably
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close to this golfer's max.
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So while this supination pattern wouldn't appear like the club is whipping over
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or rolling over really aggressively, you would see that by the time they finish
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their release, they're reaching close to maximum supination.
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All right, now here's a second golfer demonstrating a very similar pattern.
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So even more shallowing during transition.
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And then in this particular case, you will see a slight increase in speed
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as the slope gets more vertical here.
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But you will see this gradual supination all the way to follow through.
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Take note that this golfer reaches close to 110 degrees of supination
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at the end of their follow through position.
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All right, last pro that we'll look at.
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This golfer has a characteristically strong grip.
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So that's part of the reason why you'll see so much supination
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because the shoulder is more internally rotated.
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You will see that this golfer with a strong grip tends to have one of the
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slower rates of supination.
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So the slope is less vertical than two of the more classic swings.
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But this major champion winner with a strong grip is still demonstrating
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over 100 degrees of supination from their maximum pronation here,
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the start of the release to their maximum supination here at the end of the
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release.
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So while you're seeing some slightly different shapes and magnitudes,
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you'll see that the common trend is especially, these are all driver swings.
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With the driver, you will see a great amount of supination at the end of the
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release
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and a smooth constant supination from the start of the release until the end of
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the release.
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We won't really get into why these golfers are going through that supination
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pattern,
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but we are going to discuss how they do it and how you can train it later in
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this video.
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Okay, now let's take a look at two different amateurs.
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These are mid handicap, so about 10 to 15 handicap golfers who typically battle
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a little bit
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more of a fade, complain about fat shot thin shots.
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Here we'll see a golfer who does have a little bit of the shallowing in
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transition,
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but you'll see a fairly rapid increase to the supination as they are
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approaching impact.
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So this golfer would actually look like he's holding off the supination
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or holding off the forearm rotation, but you can see by the magnitude that he's
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actually
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speeding it up faster than any of the pros.
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The other thing that you'll notice is the scale at the top there is 60.
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He's reaching almost half as much supination as the pro who had the greatest
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amount,
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and a third less than the golfer who had the fewest amount.
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So basically this golfer is restricting or not nearly as supinated in the
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follow-through position
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as the tour pros.
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We'll see a couple video examples here shortly that'll help you visualize what
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this actually looks like.
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And now here's one more golfer.
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This golfer, you can see, tends to get steep with the left arm in transition
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and then really has a hold-off chicken wing.
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So even though they do have a more of a smoother or slower rate of supination
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through the swing,
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they don't reach a maximum supination amount.
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And part of that is because that lead art starts bending, which tends to
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prevent the arm
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from getting into its maximum supination in the golf swing.
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Because the lead wrist will start to go into more extension rapidly through
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impact
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as part of more of a scoop or flip style release.
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Again, this will make a little bit more sense when we look at the amateur
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videos a little bit later in the video.
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But for right now, let's put to bed the idea that it's possible to have a full
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swing release
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without a fair amount of supination because you can see that even golfers
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who have a restricted amount of supination during their downswing are still sup
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inating 100 degrees or so.
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So if anyone tells you that you should not have any rolling over your forearms,
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they're probably talking about a feel they haven't actually looked at the data
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because all golf swings have supination during the release.
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We're mostly going to talk about the speed and the range of motion,
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which differentiates a good release from a poor release.
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Now, the classic way to look at the amount of supination in the follow-through
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is to look at the follow-through position.
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So as the golfer comes through, you can see that the elbow is pointing roughly
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behind his body
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and the back of the hand is roughly pointing in the same position.
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If the back of the hand is pointing straight down, as the elbow is pointing
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straight down,
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that is your maximum supination amount.
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The classic look is basically seeing the fingers of the glove hand underneath
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the fingers of the...
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or underneath the palm of the trail hand roughly in this shaft follow-through
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position.
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But we're going to take a look at it more from the target view
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because it can be a little bit easier to see than looking at it from purely
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this face-on view.
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But as you train your eye, you will be able to see the amount of the form or
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the degree of the form rotation
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through the release from any camera angle.
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But let's make it easier for now and let's take a look from the target view.
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It's rare to get a pure target view for obvious safety reasons.
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So most of the other ones we'll look at are going to be more from a 45-degree
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angle.
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But here's a great look at Rory McElroy.
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And you'll see at this point right here in the swing, his elbow is roughly
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pointing out in this direction
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or in the direction of the camera, and his palm is turned just a little bit
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more to the right of that,
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so it's in a slightly pronated position.
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As he comes through, it will approach neutral, but still probably be closer to
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the pronated position
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at least that's what it would look like on his 3D graph.
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Now from here, you'll be able to see the bones of the forearm rotating over
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while the elbow is rotating around his body at a much slower rate.
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So at this point now, the elbow is pointing back this way and the back of the
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hand is pointing in roughly the same direction.
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That only happens from a supinated position.
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Right here, the back of the hand is pointing still out away from Rory.
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It's not pointing directly at the target line, and the elbow is actually
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pointing left of the target line.
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So he still has some room to supinate at this point, and he's going to do it
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smoothly until he reaches his maximum
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somewhere right around here, and then it will start going back into pronation
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or less supination as he goes up towards the top of his swing from there.
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Here's two more toward golfers, where you'll see from, again, this more like 45
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degree angle position,
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it is easier to see the supination through here from this angle, and this angle
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is safe enough to try and take photos with,
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where if they shank it, hopefully you'd still be out of the way of getting hit
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if you decide to look at your own swing.
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I use a selfie stick whenever I'm trying to record this view with my students,
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but as we look at it, we can see again the back of the hand facing closer to
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the golf ball,
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and the elbow pointing towards the target line, and you'll see through here as
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he goes through the inside of the forearm facing more towards the camera than
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it was through here,
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and the elbow changing at a slower rate. The elbow is still rotating around,
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but it's rotating at a slower rate because the wrist is supinating.
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It's my belief that the supination helps to do more with the control of the arc
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width and the path,
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and that tends to produce a lower rate of closure than golfers who have less
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supination, but more wrist extension and a narrower arc width on the way
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through.
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Over here with Tommy Fleetwood, we can see a similar pattern as he's coming
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through, where golfers who tend to have more of that supination and tend to
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create more extension of that lead arm.
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If you see a golfer who has a look of really wide arms in the follow through
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and the glove hand underneath the trail hand, that's typically a sign that they
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've reached one of the tour level of supination, which is closing in on maximum
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supination value.
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Now we'll take a look at a couple amateurs from that same view. At this point
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here, the supination graph would look fairly similar, but then on the way
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through, instead of letting that arm rotate, you'll see that the palm stays
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facing more towards the target, or more to the right of where the elbow is
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pointing as the right hand stays more under.
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From the pure face on camera angle, this would have more of a look of a flip,
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and you could see it when the club reaches chaff parallel, we would be looking
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from this direction. You can see that the glove hand would be above the trail
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hand.
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Now, one of the ways that I do like to train it is with single arm only drills,
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because it's very hard to hit the single arm or the lead arm only drill
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correctly without having a fair amount of supination.
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This golfer hadn't quite cleaned up the body pivot to match the supination, but
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you'll see on the way through, he has a harder time of doing the smooth fluid
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rotation, and you'll see it turns into a quick supination, but at least now he
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's closing in on more of a maximum supination value.
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If you were to imagine him reaching his right arm across, you would be able to
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see those fingers more underneath. This would be getting closer to a look of
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having a great width in the follow through, which tends to produce more of a
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consistent flat spot and ball striking consistency.
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All right, one more amateur example. This is a single digit golfer, and you'll
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see there is some supination going on through here, but you'll see that it's
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got a little bit more of that look of the back of the left hand staying facing
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the sky instead of that lead arm rotating over.
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Now over here on the right, we'll look at what it looked like after doing a
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lead arm drill that we'll discuss a little bit later.
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So you'll see it's still resisting the rotation, maybe more so than what we saw
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with Dustin Johnson or Tommy Fleetwood, but you can see that if you compare
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those two positions and you were looking from the face on camera angle.
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Because he let that lead forearm, not whole arm, but that forearm rotate, he
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reached more of a classic looking position where the fingers are underneath
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here, where in this view from the face on through impact, you would see the
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glove hand on top of the trail hand.
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The difference in this look was able resulted in moving the low point forward
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and the golfer taking a little bit better divots and much more solid ground
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contact, where here he was having more of a picking or kind of a scooping style
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release pattern where he was hitting it low on the face and just barely
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brushing the ground.
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So if you struggle with your release and you have more of a flip style release,
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more of a chicken wing or an upper body stall and a wrist that's really
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breaking down on the way through, you may benefit from having some supination
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train.
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Now at the beginning of the video, I highlighted this little video I took of
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Tiger in 2005.
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This was at his tournament, he was doing a clinic for kids and he was just
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answering questions and as he was answering questions, he was just swinging the
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club with his lead hand.
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And I captured it in slow motion and you can see very clearly that the shoulder
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is not doing most of this movement, it's actually going more from the elbow and
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then transferring that movement into the supination and rotation of the wrist
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and then finishing back in the elbow.
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So there's a very fluid pattern to the amount of rotation here. When I ask golf
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ers to swing the club just with the lead forearm, this is more commonly what I
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see and you can see not a whole lot of rotation of the wrist through impact and
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you see a lot more shoulder movement.
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This is more of a chicken wing style and the elbow flip the wrist where this
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over here is a little bit more of what I would consider a tour release pattern
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that would create a very wide arc width and have a really good look of arm
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extension in the follow through.
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I'm a big fan of doing single arm drills and I've got about a dozen videos on
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the site relating to the lead arm only training.
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One of the keys to solving hitting the ball with just your lead hand for a 9 to
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3 is learning to get more of the absorbing of the force through impact with sup
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ination of the lead wrist instead of doing it more with the extension of the
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wrist or doing it more with the shoulder.
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So I've got a couple of different videos to help with connecting the pivot to
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the arm motion and then I've got a number of drills once you've figured out how
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that lead arm releases to then connect it to the right side of your body.
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One quick word of caution if you are going to take on working on the supination
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the biggest mistake I see is as golfers are trying to supinate they will try to
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do it too rapidly.
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So typically when you have more of a scoop style release the wrist holds on,
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holds on, holds on and then right down at the bottom it tends to release very
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quickly or go through that movement in a more exaggerated fashion
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or a more abrupt fashion.
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And so golfers typically keep that same tempo when they start working on sup
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ination and they reach their maximum supination right about here when you're
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doing these lead arm onlys or you're comparing it to your full swing.
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You want your swing to reach its maximum supination around when the club is
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parallel to the ground or even a little bit after.
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That requires more of the gradual supination instead of whipping it closed
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through supination which I think is part of the problem when most amateurs try
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to apply this on their own.
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So try some of those single arm drills if you're working on your supination
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pattern that will help you learn how to use that lead forearm correctly in
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order to create a wide and classic follow through looking position.
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