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This discussion video is looking at bracing strategies. Bracing strategies

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is basically looking at the body movements to start the release and the

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release. The body movements during the release. During transition, I'm going to

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use my body to really get this speed going into the handle of the club. But

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then during the release, my goal is to use my body along with my arms to help

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transfer the speed from the handle down to the club head. So what will end up

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happening is I'm going to have to work away from the direction that I

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originally

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started. So similar to if I was throwing a ball, I'd kind of step and then

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stabilize. If I was hitting something, let's say tennis, I'm going to step and

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then stabilize. If I was snapping a towel, I'm going to accelerate and then

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decelerate. It kind of works along that pattern. Now I'm not trying to get you

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to

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actively feel like you're stopping your body. But what's going to happen is it

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going to move in a counter direction. And that's what I call bracing. And that

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bracing is going to basically cause all that speed to get out to the club head.

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Now there's a variety of different ways that you can do it. You can brace with

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your lower body, you can brace with your core, you can brace with your upper

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body.

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The most consistent golfer is the guys who exemplify this stock tour swing

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pattern tend to use their entire body. So they tend to use their hips by doing

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a

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little bit of this pelvis tuck and bridge. They tend to use their core by

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doing a little bit of a crunch. And they tend to let those arms kind of

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stabilize, retract and rotate kind of like this to use their upper body. Some

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of the other patterns that you'll tend to see would be an overly done lower

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body,

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which will tend to look a little bit more like a buckle type movement. You can

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tend to see a core crunch pattern. So something like a Lee Westwood where this

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club is going way away from me like that. And I'm going to brace kind of like

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so

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to get all that speed to transfer after the club head. Or I could use my

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shoulder

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neck area. So a lot of golfers will get to about this point. And then you'll

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start to see their neck kind of crunch in to stabilize the upper part of their

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shoulder girdle so that their rib cage can kind of act as the bracing

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mechanism. Or through the ball, you'll tend to see more of this shrug pattern

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where I'm basically pulling my shoulders up towards my ears like so. So it does

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a

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couple things that it helps transfer the speed from the handle to the club. But

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the other big important thing is now I've got the club head moving at a really

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good clip. I'll say 120 miles an hour or so with the driver. I need to be in a

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position that I can handle that speed. So different than say a tennis or a

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baseball like in a baseball I'm going to throw the ball and I don't really have

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to worry too much about how I'm going to handle decelerating all the speed I

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created because the ball is gone. So now it's just stabilizing my body. Tennis

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racket doesn't weigh a whole lot and I'm not in too many compromising

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positions. So it's not too challenging either. When this club is moving a

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hundred

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120 miles an hour, it has a lot of force to it. And so I have to be in a

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position where my body can safely absorb that force. I liken it to if you were

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gonna jump off a two-story building, if you belly flopped, you didn't absorb

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the

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force very well. But if you landed and rolled, you'd have a lot more time, you

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'd

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use your whole body and you'd absorb the force much easier. Similarly, a good

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bracing pattern is going to allow me to absorb the force through my whole body

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in a safer fashion. So if I'm doing it all in my legs, if I'm doing it all in

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my

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upper body, those can can lead towards injuries at the very least they can

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lead towards path and face issues. So if you're struggling with understanding

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your release, look at in your swing right around here, that will give you an

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idea as far as how you're starting this bracing process and then look through

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the ball between there and there and that will see kind of how you're ending

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that bracing process and that will give you an idea of how your body is

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transferring and absorbing the speed that you've created during transition. It

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's a

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very critical part to understanding your release. It's a little bit tricky at

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first but once you get used to looking at it, you'll start to understand how

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your

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arms and hands and your body are all working together to control your swing.

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And the shoulder shrug is not terrible because it can be really useful for

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these

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finesse wedge shots where I don't want to have this huge axis tilt. I don't

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want

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my body to be ultra shallow because my arms are going to be shallow.