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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the takeaway, so we're breaking

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the backswing

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down into two phases.

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The initiation or the first phase of the backswing, we're going to call the

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takeaway, and then

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the second phase we're going to call setting the club.

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Now the takeaway is really a very simple movement.

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It's roughly turning my spine.

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So if I take my normal grip and I have the club, I'll take my normal setup and

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we'll

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demonstrate here first.

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So if I took my normal setup, a good takeaway is basically going to be a turn

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of the spine

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until the club is about parallel to the ground, something like that.

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So if I were standing up straight and tall and I just turned, that would

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roughly be what

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a good takeaway is.

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Now that seems very, very simple, and it is.

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The problem is an execution.

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There are a number of things that can go wrong and there are a number of things

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that can

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complicate things.

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First of all, while it looks like I'm just turning, it's actually a little bit

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more complicated

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than that.

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So in order, if I was standing straight up and down, yes, I would just rotate

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my spine.

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The club would stay out in front of me just like so and everything would be hun

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ky dory.

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Because I've bent from the hips, if I kept my hips flexed exactly the same and

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I was

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to just turn my spine, now you would see that my upper body would get my head

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way outside

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my foot.

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There's a huge myth in the golf swing about this big load in the backswing and

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this big

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weight shift into the backswing.

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There is a little bit of a weight shift, possibly.

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We're not really sure.

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We think there's a little bit of a weight shift.

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What we know is that the pressure is going to shift or where I'm kind of

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pushing into

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the ground is going to shift as I make this backswing.

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So what one person may interpret as weight is probably actually pressure

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because what

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3D shows is that the pelvis and the upper body will have on the upper end about

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a one

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inch shift in the backswing, which is very, very little.

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So there's very little shift away from the target of the upper body and the pel

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vis in

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the backswing.

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Most guys tend to stay a little bit more centered.

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Some even drift a little bit towards the target, but they're all going to press

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into

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that foot and create a pressure shift.

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So let's get into the movements of this simple little one piece takeaway.

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First, the arms aren't going to do very much at all.

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They basically stay out in front and there's little change.

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There can be a little change in the wrist, but there's marginal movement during

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this

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initiation phase.

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It should be led from the rib cage.

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In order for me to turn in what looks like perpendicular or turning in my

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posture or

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in my spine angle, what actually has to happen is a blend of three movements.

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One of them is going to be standing up from the hips.

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One of them is going to be bending to the left and the other one is actually

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going to

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be turning.

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Now if I do this in a one to one to one ratio, what ends up happening is I

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stand up, I side

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bend, I turn.

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I stand up, I side bend, I turn and now I've actually made my rotation movement

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without

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having the upper body translation.

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So it's a little tricky, but there are simple ways to practice it, which we go

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over in the

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drill videos, but more or less we are trying to make a rib cage movement in

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order to move

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the club and the hands to this parallel position, and we're going to call that

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takeaway.