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In this Golf Smart Academy Insight, we're going to take a look at the Long

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Drive Tour and how those golfers hit the ball 400+ yards using a pattern

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slightly different than what we advocate during the stock tour swing.

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So I had a question a few weeks ago about the Long Drive guys and how they're

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able to generate 400-yard drives and how it looks slightly different than what

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we advocate.

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So I'm going to cover in this video what they do, especially during the down

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swing, the transition, and the release.

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So I'm just going to briefly cover the backswing because they'll tend to have a

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lot of little goofy movements, but as a whole, compared to the stock tour swing

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, you're going to see a wide stance and a strong grip and a slight shift off the

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ball.

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You're not going to see as much of the centered pivot in general.

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So you'll see that wide stance, you'll see that strong grip, and the shift off

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the ball. Now we'll cover why they have that strong grip as we get into

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transition, but just in general, those are the three things that we're going to

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see from setup to the top of the swing.

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Now the meat of this video is going to be what do they do during transition,

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what do they do during the release, and why are they so critical.

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During transition, they're actually going to use a little bit more of the upper

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body lunge. They're going to extend that lead risk, so they're actually going

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to be the opposite of the motorcycle to help them really pull with the upper

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body.

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And then they're typically going to use early extension hangback and excessive

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amount or maximal ulnar deviation in order to shallow out the club and reach

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speeds of 140 miles an hour plus angles of attack of plus four plus five.

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So I'm not advocating that you change your swing, just necessarily understand

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how these long drive guys are doing what they're doing so that you can

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understand where your possible limitations restrictions might be.

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If you're going to try to compete on the long drive circuit, you will want a

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wide stance, you will want a strong grip, and you will want to have a little

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bit of upper body shift off the ball.

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Now let's get into what they do during the downswing. So if we start over on

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the right with Jamie said Lowsky.

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We will see that, and just a quick recap, if we break down the downswing into

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transition is when you are creating speed in the grip. So I call that kind of

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the build phase and that'll be right up until right around a little pass left

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parallel left arm parallel somewhere in there.

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He's building speed in the grip and then the release is when he's transferring

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that speed from the grip to the club head. So the first part is going to

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largely be the big muscles of your core creating speed.

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Now what we'll see is during transition, there's going to be a couple things

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that you'll be able to highlight on. One, I talk about the motorcycle move and

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starting to square the club face by flexing that lead wrist.

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Now that is more for a low point control than it is for a sheer power. What you

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'll see these guys do is you will see most of them get into a fairly extended

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position with the lead wrist. Carl's a little on the lesser side Jamie's a

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little on the higher side.

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We'll look at a number of them so that you can kind of visualize it. But

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getting into that extended position on the with the lead wrist is going to open

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up the club face to the shaft.

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Now luckily these guys have super strong grips. So the club face is actually in

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an okay position if you say compare it to the arm. But we know that what the

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wrist is doing by itself is opening the club.

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They're also going to be pulling more with their left shoulder. So you'll tend

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to see a little bit more of this upper body drift. You won't see quite as early

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a Jackson 5 type movement or creating that axis tilt.

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So that upper body is going to really pull. They're pulling with their arms as

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they're pushing with their legs. They're basically using everything they've got

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in order to create speed.

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Now if you had a normal grip and you did this the club would the club face

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would be open and the path would be very very steep.

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So here we have over on the left Joe Miller during his transition you can see

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that lead wrist going into extension as he's really pulling with that lat in

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that lead shoulder because they tend to be connected.

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And then what we'll see from the down the line is that the shaft gets very very

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steep and then he'll use kind of that early extension to reshallow it back out.

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But you'll tend to see this common pattern of extension and very narrow. You'll

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see I used to kind of train with a guy. Basically I would toss a medicine ball

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back. I wouldn't actually do his workout.

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But he was a long drive competitor and one of the things that he said was very

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common was trying to keep that shaft almost up against your shoulder until you

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got to the delivery position or somewhere right around in there.

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So obviously he's not actually doing it but in this transition he's fairly

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close. So then over here we have Mike and you'll see less of the super long

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backswing but you'll see a tremendous extension of the wrist and a great job of

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keeping that shaft close to that shoulder

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kind of retaining that leg until he decides to let it go right in kind of this

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range here which is when we're starting to get more into that release.

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So you can see very vertical arm movement pulling a ton with that lead lat a

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little bit of that upper body lunge and then he's going to use shallowing moves

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like hanging back and early extension during the release as his main methods to

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square the face or to shallow out the path I should say.

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So over on the left we have Joe Miller you'll see as he goes down there's those

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arms in that kind of very vertical position but that's a great platform to

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really pull from.

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And as long as you have a very very strong grip it's not going to open the club

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face enough to get you in problems but you'll see major early extension the

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point where when he gets to impact he's very very vertical.

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And that's what he does to balance out how he's creating power more with that

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upper body pole.

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I remember having a conversation with a golf by a mechanist who was saying that

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what he's seen is that the rotary speed that these guys are able to create isn

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't that much different than the longer guys on tour.

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But they are able to create more speed and transfer more speed from their

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shoulder to the hand so whether it's the tricep whether it's the lat whether it

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's the forearms they're able to get more of the energy to the club head through

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that platform than what they're doing with their body.

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So this makes sense with why they're able to use this early extension and not

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have it cause any sacrificing speed in fact in general early extension tends to

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help build speed not sacrifice it.

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The thing is that early extension tends to mess up the path which if these guys

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had to hit the ball off the ground I don't think you would see nearly as much

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early extension.

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So then over on the right this will be fun because it's a much older video so

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you'll see that it's kind of tricky to figure out exactly where things are but

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you'll see that wrist going into extension during this transition and then that

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major early extension

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as his main way of shallowing it out. So just as a quick little recap before we

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get in the release so far we've seen they're going to have the super strong

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grip and wide stance set up during transition it's going to be more of an upper

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body lunge arm pull and they're typically not going to have motorcycle.

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In fact they're going to do the opposite of the motorcycle and they're going to

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extend the wrist. So now during the release we're going to see a couple key

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things. One we're going to see that they may hang back as they go into this

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early extension those are some of the major shallowing moves.

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The big one that we're going to look at with the release is you're not going to

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see a golfer on the long drive he doesn't fully unhinge and one of the

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interesting things is you're going to see a lot of golfers who are actually

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doing the motorcycle

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going to be very late through impact as opposed to doing it during it doing it

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during transition and then extending late what we would typically see on the P

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GA Tour.

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So this will be an example over on the right you'll see that upper body hang

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back move to help create the the axis still it'll be easier to see from his face

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on camera.

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You'll see the unhinge from typically easiest from this down the line obviously

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this camera with the kind of the phantom or the mirrored shaft isn't going to

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be very useful for us.

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So let's look at Joe Miller so there's in his transition he's already started

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that release where he's already started that extension pattern that early

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extension and now what you'll see is between there and there he's going to

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extend his wrist.

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And this fully unhinged is easiest to see in the follow through position so he

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's starting the unhinged right in here.

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Right at about shaft parallel and you'll see that he finishes it right around

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here so you could see that that right arm and the left arm and the shaft almost

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form a line.

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That's indicating that he's fully unhinging and he's getting that club as far

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away from him as he can helping to maintain some of the path but really to

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transfer energy to the club head.

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This is a common trait that you'll see even with PGA Tour golfers who are

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really good combo drivers of the golf ball as far as distance and accuracy.

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So now we'll look at Joe Miller's release from the face on view and what you'll

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see there's that arm pull.

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You'll tend to see a little bit more of that hangback move where the upper body

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Even though he kind of lunges a little bit there you'll see that that's as far

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as he gets and then his upper body starts really working behind the golf ball.

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Now right about in here is where he's starting that unhinged process and you'll

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see that that tends to finish kind of in this position here.

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So even though that the left arm is really broken down you will tend to see

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this angle here where the wrist is unhinged or what we call ulnar deviated.

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That's a big component important component. Now as I talk about in the club

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face section that by itself is going to open the club face so that allows them

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to use a little bit more of that shaft rotation which can also help with their

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speed.

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So now over on the right we have Mike Dobbins the legend and you'll see he's

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starting that unhinged process and you can see a fairly pronounced kind of

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upper body moving away from the golf ball going into that side tilt as he's

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pushing that front leg into the ground and that's going to help him transfer

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more of the speed to the club head.

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Now you'll see compared to where he was here he's got a ton of extension in

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that lead wrist still at this point and then as he goes through you'll tend to

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see him more bowing that wrist all the way up until the golf ball is gone.

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And then it starts to extend just slightly afterward but what you'll really be

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able to focus on is that fully unhinged look right about here where basically

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that right arm left arm and shaft are fully extended and in this position.

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In case you're having trouble visualizing that I'll actually bring up a tour

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pro who and an amateur so that we can isolate that unhinged move because that's

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such a big key for these long drive guys.

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So now since we're talking about this unhinged move I want to show a couple

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examples of golfers who don't necessarily do that full unhinged.

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So over on the left we have tour pro Tim Clark he's very accurate golfer but

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you'll see that he's very low in the distance ratings that tends to go hand in

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hand.

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And what you'll see is through here you can see that it's more of a forearm

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rotation and you can see that there's a fairly pronounced angle between the

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right arm left arm and club.

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If we look at it from the face on view and with an iron this may be kind of a

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special shot but what you'll tend to see is you'll tend to see more of that

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look there where you can still see a little bit of radial deviation if you're

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looking at that right wrist.

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So over on the right we have an amateur demonstrating it and it'll tend to have

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this kind of narrow look right here where even though it looks like he didn't

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necessarily roll it over and flip.

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If you know what to look for you can see that there's still an angle in that

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trail wrist.

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If we take a look at him from the down the line you'll be able to see it even

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more pronounced.

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So to give you that reference here we can take a quick look at an amateur from

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the down the line and you'll see that as he comes through you can see that

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there's a fairly pronounced angle.

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What we'll see when we look at these long drive guys is that that's going to be

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fully unhinged and their arms are going to be in line with the shaft as they

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approach follow through position.

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So now over on the left we have almost down the line of Aaron Mansfield and

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then over on the right we have Jamie Sudlowski.

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Now I wanted to use this video from Aaron Mansfield because we'll be able to

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highlight a few things there.

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You'll see that more vertical arm movement you'll see the hangback early

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extension where that body is kind of approaching more vertical.

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Now you'll also see his contact location is pretty much on the hosel because

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these guys will sacrifice five out of six golf balls in order to get that one

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perfect one.

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Now as he's approaching impact even though he has a fair amount of extension

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here you can see that as he's unhinging that lead wrist is starting to go

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towards that motorcycle movement or flexion we'll look at it from the face on

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view it'll be easier to see.

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But you can see from the down the line view that great unhinging where

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everything is in a straight line where the lead arm, the trail arm and the

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shaft are pretty much dead in line because he's fully unhinged to this wrist.

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So now we can look at Jamie Sudlowski doing kind of that a little better job of

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the shallowing move than most of these long drive guys and we'll see that as he

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comes through you can see very nice looking unhinged where everything is kind

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of in a straight line where that's closest to his follow through position where

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everything is getting released out away from him.

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So over on the right we're going to take a look at Jamie we can see that there

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's that lunge and pull with those arms in order to help him create the speed and

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then during the release you'll see more of that upper body kind of hangback

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move and you'll see

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that really good full unhinged where even at this point you can see that the

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wrist is fairly straight what we saw from the down the line is here he's still

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kind of in that almost fully unhinged or fully on there deviated.

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So now over on the right we have Aaron Mansfield and this is kind of a goofy

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camera where it jumps around a lot but what you'll be able to see is if I take

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it back to right here we can see that there's still some extension in that lead

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and then as he's going through as part of kind of that white movement you can

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see that he's maintained or he hasn't really gone into massive extension of

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that lead wrist but he's going into massive ulnar deviation as you'll see by

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looking at that right wrist

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and you can see that left wrist as well it's a beautiful straight line position

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there this is a useful wrist mechanic for hitting the ball far as well as

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hitting the ball off the tee.

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So now over on the right we have Jason Zubak he's in that extended wrist

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position he'll kind of do that motorcycle late where he's kind of starting to

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really unhinged right about here and part of the reason you'll tend to see them

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do that motorcycle late is as you try to unhing it's going to encourage the

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wrist to want to go towards flexion.

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If you focus on letting it go towards extension that's going to encourage

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radial deviation and that's going to cost you some speed.

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So as he goes through you'll see that full unhinged very wide again as you get

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better at kind of recognizing this from the face on it'll be easiest to see

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from the down the line from the face on you can really see his hangback move

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where basically he gets into this good little delivery position

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where everything's almost in squat stance pretty vertical and then as he goes

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through you'll see that upper body shift back four or five maybe even six

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inches in order to help create that positive angle attack and big frontal plane

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movement.

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So now over here on the left we have the current long drive champion and again

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he has more of that classic look to it but you'll still see he gets into that

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extension position during transition.

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And then right around here he's going into that unhing and even though it's a

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little blurry you can see that in order to maximally unhing you will tend to

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see a little bit more of that flexion pattern of that lead wrist through impact

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Again the main reason is not that he's trying to go into flexion it's these

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trying to fully unhinge and transfer all that speed and help encourage that

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shallow angle of attack.

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Very key contributor to the path for good driving of the golf ball whether it's

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long drive or just good drivers on the PGA Tour.

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So the last little group we'll look through is Jason Zubak and Jeff flag from

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the down the line.

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So here you'll see that great again I think it's easiest to see from this down

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the line because you'll be able to see that wrist kind of fully unhinged.

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It's easiest to see on 3D but obviously I don't have 3D of most of these guys

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so we'll use video as best as we can as the alternative.

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So now as he comes through again this is a kind of a terrible camera angle but

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you can really see that he's unhinging as he's going through the ball.

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So he starts that unhinged process right around when shaft is parallel and then

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you'll see from underneath that he's not letting that lead or trail wrist re

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hinge quickly on the way through.

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So he's maximizing that unhinged before he then lets the speed of the club re

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hing it later in the swing.

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So just as a quick little recap you're going to tend to see exaggerations in

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every power source that they can use.

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So whether it's the rotation, whether it's the pulling in the arms or whether

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it's pushing at the ground they're trying to create as much speed as they can.

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Rather to do that they're going to start off with a strong grip and wide stance

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they're going to pull and lunge a little bit more in transition than I would

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advocate for doing with an iron.

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And then during the release they're going to fully unhinge and they're going to

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hang back.

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And oftentimes because of how they're hanging back and pushing through the

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ground you'll tend to see their feet get off the ground and all kinds of goofy

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stuff through the release.

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But if you just focus on the critical movements that makes their swings work

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perhaps you too can help unlock where your power sources are coming from, where

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you might be able to get more from.

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And by looking at your swing on video you can see if you're setting yourself up

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for success with the driver or possible failure with the irons which most of

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these guys technique would not work very well in trying to hit four degrees

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down off a really tight lie.

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So hopefully that helps you understand your pattern a little bit better and how

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these guys are able to hit it 400 yards. If you have any questions feel free to

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shoot us an email or take a look at the other videos at golfsmartacademy.com.