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In this case study, we're gonna take a look at a golfer who came to visit for a

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couple hours looking for more distance

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so we've got his before swing here and

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Before we get into looking at analyzes analyzing his swing, let's take a look

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at his trackman data

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Before we started the lesson and then what it looked like after working on some

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distance stuff for two hours

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All right, so over here on the right is the before and then over here on the

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left is the after

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now, I'll talk you through what we worked on and why we

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Went that direction you'll see that we gained a marginal amount of club at

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speed a couple miles per hour

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which isn't

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Which isn't too uncommon when you're working on some sequencing and some br

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acing

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so we did get a little bit of speed but two miles an hour would only account

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for you know six yards seven yards of

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Extra distance what you'll see is that the total distance on one of his better

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shots during the warm-up to his best shot

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Towards the end of the lesson

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improved by about 37 yards

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So pretty significant in terms of total distance and you'll see that the

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biggest change we made was going from a

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downward attack angle of eight degrees and

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a launch angle of three degrees to a positive attack angle of 2.4 and a

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positive

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launch angle of 11

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Created a much better max height

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with a ball speed that was

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Relatively close to the same you can see that that results in a large amount of

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distance

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So that's why in the video the fastest way to gain distance

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I talk not so much about making big swing changes just for the sake of gaining

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speed

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But more for the sake of improving your launch characteristics just like this

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guy

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All right, so now that you know what we're gonna do. Let's take a look at how

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we did it

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So when he came in he was talking about

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Working on getting shallow in transition, which you could see yeah, we could

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use some arm-showering there

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But we also ended up talking a lot about the steepness during the release

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Now you'll see from the face-on view

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While he does have the ball position

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Just outside of his ear for where we would like it with a driver

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More outside of the shoulder. You can see that it's well behind so that was one

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of the

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First changes that we are going to make is improving that ball position now

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The second thing is getting some shallowing during the release

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while working on some

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sequencing embracing

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So let's bring up a

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drill video so you can see kind of what he was working on in order to make this

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change now

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He was more of a

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slow-motion style learner, so he was really

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Kind of immersed in the movement and not so much into

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The drill style so you can see I had him doing some pump drills

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kind of stopping in the middle

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Checking that checkpoint and then working on the we we use some spatial

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awareness to work on the path of

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the club more on the way through now the reason we went

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Directly after the path is you can see in his before video that he's got a bit

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of club face rotation

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Through this zone here, so he had already kind of been working on

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Squaring the face a little bit better, but he was blocked by where the path was

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so you can see that when he in when he started working on the path

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Getting a little bit better sequencing and a little bit better shallowing

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You can see that the club face was able to orient pretty easily

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We didn't have to spend a lot of time on that many golfers if the club face

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doesn't rotate during that early phase

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And you start getting more shallow. You're actually going to tend to hit the

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ball further off to the right

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okay, so now we've got the

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final result he was working on a

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little bit of

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Body sequencing a little bit of arm-shallowing you can see a pretty dramatic

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difference in the ball position

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Both compared to his feet and to his upper body

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That helped him shallow things out, but what we'll what we'll see is the

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sequencing the path and the bracing is

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Going to create some pretty good change in the release. So pretty

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Previously, you can see that his upper body was kind of well on top of the golf

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ball

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And as a result the arms had to bend to add some amount of loft to get the ball

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airborne

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Now because he was in the afterversion

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Because he was in a better position

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Working on falling away that way

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You'll see that he has a much better chance of getting his arms to extend at

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about the same position

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Now I also wanted to use this as a case study to show

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You know a lot of many golfers would look at this and say that I didn't make a

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whole lot of improvement

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Because the pattern kind of looks pretty much the same

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But I'm showing you that the difference between these two swings is about 40

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yards

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So if you're using video and you're looking for

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enormous global changes like your swing is going to

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change from

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lunge and chicken wing to you know Dustin Johnson kind of overnight

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Doesn't happen that way and what tends to happen is you get more subtle changes

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like this that do have a big impact in terms of your

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Your distance or your consistency, but your overall performance now. It is

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possible to get

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very big changes on video quickly, but this is more than norm, especially when

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I'm

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Doing more of the distance coaching now if your goal is to make your swing look

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a specific way that's actually a harder

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Performance goal than if you say I want to gain distance. I want to hit the

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ball consistently

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I want to hit a draw anything that's more outcome based

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So if you struggle with distance, hopefully you can learn a thing or two from

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this case study

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Make sure that the clubface is rotating before you try to add some body

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sequencing or body speed

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But if your clubface is working in a good pattern then adding some

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body sequencing some body speed maybe even just playing around with the ball

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position

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To give yourself a little more positive angle of attack is one of the fastest

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ways to add speed to your swing

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Now if you've played around with those factors and you feel like you've maxed

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out your launch capabilities

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Then the only way you're going to get extra speed is by improving your swing

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mechanics