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This video is looking at the bent lead armament impact.

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So there's, with Jordan's beef being now the number one golfer in the world, at

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least

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at the time of filming this video, I've had a number of questions about how

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does he use

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a chicken wing in order to, and play so great, you know, hit it so far, not as

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far as some

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other guys, but still has the wall plenty far, how does that all work out?

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So I figured I'd do a video to help clarify the difference between having a

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bent armament

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impact and a chicken wing.

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So let's start with the assumption based on my 3D data, or the data that I have

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in my

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database, that if we compare where a golfer is set up, the tore average is

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going to be

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about 5 to 10 degrees more bent at impact.

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That's what often looks straight because of the amount of shoulder rotation

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that these

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golfers have when they're at impact, but they are more bent slightly at impact

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than they

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are at straight.

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So, or sorry, then they are at setup.

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Jordan obviously looks very obvious to having more bended impact.

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Some other golfers don't look quite as obvious.

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The important distinction for me is there is a big difference between bent and

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bending.

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Since most golfers are more bent at impact, it's important to look at what they

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're doing

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with that arm, and the important thing is that that arm is straightening

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through impact.

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So I do have a handful of golfers who, similar to what Jordan does, kind of do

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that white

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movement, that arm bends, and then instead of posting up and straightening that

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arm, they

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basically hold on to that elbow position, and then use more of the wrist and

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the hands

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to create some of that extension through the ball, and they don't get a ton

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from that elbow.

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That is a huge difference from what I consider the chicken wing.

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The chicken wing would be using bending of the lead arm in order to help you

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avoid fat

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shots and square up the face, and that's not what they're doing.

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So, when a golfer is doing a chicken wing, what they end up looking like is

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they get

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to about here, and the club face is in an open position.

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And so now I would have to do something major because if I were to rotate

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through, I'd probably

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shake the ball, so with this club face in an open position, what they end up

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doing is they

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bend that arm in order to get the club to line up, so it bends like this, so

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there would

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be, you know, with lean and flexing that wrist, and what they'll usually do is

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they'll bend

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so that the club points at the target this way.

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What Jordan is doing is he's kind of in this pattern here, and he's still

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rotating around

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a stable bent arm.

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Even what happens is he gets to a point where now because he isn't using the

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shoulder to

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rotate, he's got to figure out how to absorb the force, and so that arm kind of

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bends a

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little bit more once the club passes his body.

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So I think there's a very important distinction when we're talking about a bent

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versus a bending

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arm, and how it relates to the chicken wing.

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I don't think it's a problem to have a bent arm similar to say a Lee Westwood

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or Retiff

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Goosen or current number one golfer in the world, Jordan Spieth, but I do think

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it is

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very problematic to have that arm bending through impact.

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I've only seen one tour pro who bends that arm and it's minor, and then it just

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starts

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straightening right after impact.

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Most of the golfers, even if they look like that arm is bent, what usually is

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happening

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is that arm is bending through to about here, and then it straightens to about

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there, and

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then sometimes it'll continue straightening, sometimes it'll bend, but that's

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now in kind

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of the bracing pattern, and less of the clubface squaring pattern, or how they

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're directing

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the club to the golf ball.

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So if you look at your video and you see that arm working way behind your body

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and bending

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through impact, there's a very good chance that you're doing it to help control

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the clubface.

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That's not what Jordan Spieth doing, and I don't think you should do it either.

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I thought it would be fun to take a look at a few lead elbow graphs.

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So here are four different players who kind of demonstrate a similar looking

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pattern to

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say Jordan Spieth.

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So on these graphs, we're looking at the amount of bend or straightening of the

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lead

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arm.

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So if it was 180 degrees, that would be a straight line, so that would be a

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perfectly

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locked arm for someone who has full, full range of motion.

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As the degrees get lower, so as the graph goes down, they are bending their arm

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So basically what you'll see is four different timelines for four different

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golfers.

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So you have address, top of the swing, impact, and finish.

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So the typical pattern is you'll see that elbow bend a little bit during the

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backswing,

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and then it'll start to straighten during transition, and then about midway

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between top

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of the swing and back and impact when they start to execute the white movement

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if they're

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doing it more from the lead arm, you'll typically see that lead arm bend.

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So there is a couple examples, like if you look at the bottom left, you'll see

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a golfer

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who looks like that elbow is bending, and what will happen is right before

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impact, it

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starts to straighten.

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Now the total, it's kind of a little plateau from when it starts to bend to

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where it would

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be after impact.

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So this would be a guy more like Jordan Spieth who would look like he's bending

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his arm through

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impact, but the graph clearly shows that he's not totally bending his arm.

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In fact, he's straightening it through impact, but it is more bent than it was

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it set up.

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So not every golfer executes this pattern.

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Some will just straighten it more from the top of the swing, and they'll

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execute more

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of the white from the trail arm.

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But I wanted you to see the difference between an arm that is bending just

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prior to impact

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and then straightening through impact.

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And if we compare that with golfers who tend to look like they're doing the

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chicken wing

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or are doing the chicken wing, you will see the line dropping down

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significantly through

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impact.

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That is an actual chicken wing where these golfers who demonstrate an arm that

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is bent

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at impact, but slightly straightening are not executing a chicken wing.