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This concept video is answering the member question, "Can I preset the shoulder

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blade

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shadowing at address?"

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So, the simple answer is yes, I think you can do a little bit, but no, you can

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't do

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it to the maximum amount or the amount that you would want in the swing, so I

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'll walk

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you through two different scenarios or two different times where I think if you

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preset

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it at address, it's going to really restrict your swing.

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So, during the downswing, if we just kind of recap of where we're trying to get

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to, we

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want to have the shoulders to be a little bit more in the shoulder closed

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position where

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that right shoulder blade is back and that left shoulder blade is forward.

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If I combine that with some good body rotation, that gets me into a pretty good

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body impact

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alignment, kind of more like that, where a lot of amateurs struggle with

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getting the

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club into a steeper position and that is usually from either the arms kind of

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pulling down

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or most commonly, the shoulder blades spinning this way, so they're actually

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silted that

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way as opposed to that way.

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So, I do think it's helpful to preset a little bit of it.

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I do think it's helpful to have that shoulder blade back a little bit.

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But if we look at the differential that we're going to get in transition, your

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shoulder blades

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are going to be somewhere around 40, 45 degrees closed compared to your pelvis.

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So, if I preset that, this now becomes challenging to get into a good setup

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position.

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That means I would either have to set up like this with my hips wide open or I

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would

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be kind of tilted behind the ball and further away from it kind of like this.

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It's hard to get into this good kind of flexed athletic position with my

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shoulder blades

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in that amount of closed position.

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The other thing would be then, if I was in this position, it'd be really easy

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to kind

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of have a flat shoulder blade and come off the ball or get some backswing early

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extension.

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If I preset this a ton, it's a little bit challenging to ghost into the side

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bend or

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the left tilt during the backswing that will help keep us a little bit more

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centered.

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So, that's scenario one as it can kind of mess up the backswing.

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Area two is from a power perspective.

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It will mess up your sequencing where your body will move more as a block

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rather than

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kind of as a whip.

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So, as a little exercise, if you were to hold up your arm and we'll take your

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trail

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arm and we'll stick it out, you know, not quite as far back as you can, but

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more towards

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the side kind of like this.

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And then if you were to turn your body towards the target, what you will feel

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is you're going

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to feel that your shoulder blade actually slides towards your spine if you keep

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your

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arm in the same position.

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So, if I turn this way so that the back camera can see my shoulder blade, if I

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'm like this

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and I turn my body towards the road over there, you'll see that the shoulder

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blade kind of

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glides along the spine backward.

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So, if I started with it kind of in this locked position, if I started with it

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as far back

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as I could go, then when I turn my body forward, my arms are just going to come

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with it.

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So, what that would look like is if I preset this close to the max, which will

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be really

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hard to do, but if I get it to pretty much the max there, I don't really have

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any room

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to increase the second I want to start turning my lower body and my core, my

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arms are going

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to come with it.

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Where if I have a little bit of slack, it doesn't have to be a lot.

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So, that's why I say you can preset some of it, but if I have a little bit of

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slack in

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that shoulder blade, then when I turn my lower body, I can kind of lag those

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arms behind

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where the shoulder blade connects and I still am getting kind of the energy or

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the connection

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from my lower body through my core into my arms and get me into this really

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good delivery

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position.

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So, shoulder blade challenging is one of those important pieces that helps with

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path,

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but it also helps with sequencing and power.

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So, while you can preset a little bit of it setup, I'd be cautious of doing it

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to your

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maximum.

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It could mess up either your power production or your backswing pivot position.

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So, here's a little bit of kind of preset shoulders, which from the down the

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line is

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going to look fairly neutral, where this would be if I was presetting kind of

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to my

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maximum.

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If I was to preset to my maximum kind of like this, I will hit a draw most

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likely from

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that amount of closed position, but you'll see how flat the shoulder plane was

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and you'll

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see how it'll be difficult to get the ribcage sway because that's evolved, so

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it's hard

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to get low point far enough forward.

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Now, let's just throttle back off that, instead of all the way, we'll throttle

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back off that

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maybe 20%.

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For some golfers, I think that that can be plenty, especially if you battle

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with a really

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severe over the top shoulder move.

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So, experiment with the different amount and confirm it with down the line

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camera that

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way, you'll be able to buy in that what you're exaggerating isn't really that

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exaggerated.