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This concept video is breaking down, spinning the shoulders. So spinning the

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shoulders is

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a term that we're going to use for the shoulders going from the right side of

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our body to the

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left side of our body, kind of going more like this. So right shoulder back,

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left shoulder

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forward to left shoulder back, right shoulder forward. And in many actions that

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would be

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a kind of a big source of creating hand speed. It would be a big power source

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for creating

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a whip of that trail side. However, my experience for the golf swing, the later

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you can get that

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to happen, probably within reason, you probably do it too late. But in general,

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the timing

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of that, the later that you can get it to happen, typically the better your

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golf swing

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is all else being equal. Many amateurs struggle with the shoulder spin

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happening either early

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in transition or dominating the release. So I wanted to talk through how that

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shows up

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and what you can watch out for. There's a bunch of drills that will work on the

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complementary

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pieces, but sometimes that shoulder spin is kind of the underlying mechanism

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that makes

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it really hard to break certain patterns. In transition, if we get up to the

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top of the

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swing and at the top of the swing, the shoulder, the right shoulder is back and

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the left shoulder

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is a little bit forward, kind of more like this. If I immediately start

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spinning the

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shoulders, then that's one of the classic steepening over the top type

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movements. From

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the down the line camera angle, if you do this, you'll tend to see the hands

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travel

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well outward towards the golf ball. And the shaft will tend to get vertical and

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out away

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from you, often accompanied with some early extension. Now, the sneakier

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version is if

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we look at delivery position, if I do a little bit of this movement, if I do a

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little bit

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of that, then I would typically be steep unless I added an extra shallowing. So

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a lot of players

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who have more of this excessive tilt of the upper body back, or the arms

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getting more

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behind the body. So if you're tending to see more of this gap and throw there,

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this shoulder

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spinning might be one of the key components or the key kind of culprits. In

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order to get

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the arms to be in front of your body here, you'll see if all I did was spin my

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shoulders,

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it becomes a lot harder to get that elbow in front compared to if I had my

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shoulders

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pointing more back behind the golf ball. So this is where some of the ideas of

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kind of

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developing that scapular feel, whether you feel your chest or your shoulders

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back, that

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allows for the arms to get into a better delivery position. But it requires

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that you

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get more of your speed from kind of the below your chest or below kind of like

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T six middle

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of your thoracic spine, getting more of the motion there, and some of the

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motion in the

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arms, but not so much in the shoulders getting that shoulder spin. Some people

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do a good

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job of getting into a more or less good delivery position, but then they spin

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the shoulders

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as a dominant mechanism during their release or through the ball. So they'll

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get into a

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position kind of like this, and then through the ball, we'll see those

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shoulders tend to

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spin that shoulder spin through the ball is often accompanied with more of an

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kind of

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a throw or an early release of that right arm, that right wrist or that right

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shoulder,

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or it'll accompany more that left wrist pulling getting into more of a chicken

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wing pattern

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kind of like this. And almost always it's accompanied with staying in the flex

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ion longer.

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So that can cause on the way through the head to drift forward, or the body to

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stay more

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down and have more of kind of a disconnected look, sort of like that, where if

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I was to

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go up and prevent the shoulders from spinning there during transition, and then

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prevent

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the shoulders from spinning there during the release, you could see that that

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will create

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some of these looks of my body and my arms working more kind of in sync, where

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when I

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do this shoulder driven motion either early or late, it tends to have more of a

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kind of

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a disconnected look, and often golfers will complain that the swing feels quick

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when the

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shoulders have spun too soon. So this can be one of the engines and one of the

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glues

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that drives a bunch of the looks that we hate when we see our swings on video,

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and a bunch

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of the miss patterns that create a lot of inconsistency. So I highly recommend

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that you

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investigate a way to feel the shoulders staying a little bit more closed. It

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may be the missing

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link for either your transition or your release issues. So real quick, kind of

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shoulders

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are back saying to the target while I get into a good delivery position, and

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then more

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or less feeling like the whip of the shoulders is happening late through the

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ball that gives

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the feeling of swinging through the ball, more width on the follow through,

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lots of good

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things that help with consistency of ground contact and consistency of waffle.