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In this video, we're going to take a look at a common complaint, which is, why

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doesn't

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my practice swing feel anything like my full swing?

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Or rather, why am I able to do this in my practice swing when I can't do it in

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the full

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swing?

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So we're going to take a look at one of our members who is going through a

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series of

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progressions of trying to take a practice swing and make a move, trying to then

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make

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contact with the ground and then trying to hit the ball.

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Hopefully you'll learn something about your own game from watching this golfer

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struggle

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with making those transitions.

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So part of the reason why I stress, figure out the movement, try and find the

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ground

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and then let the ball get in the way, I hope we'll be explained by watching one

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of our

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members go through that progression.

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So he sent me an email basically saying, "Why can't I do what I do in my

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practice swing?"

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And I explained to him that what he did in his practice swing wouldn't work.

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So here he is making a practice swing and he sent this to me and he said, "How

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come

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I can't get this amount of kind of side bend and rotation?"

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And I said, "Well, if you were to look at the club face right there, you can

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see that

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it is pointed way off to the right and it's about three inches or so, you know,

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it's

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above the ground.

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So basically the only way this would work is if he was trying to hit it over

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there

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and the golf ball was well above the ground.

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Otherwise, the brain hasn't done what I've called solve the equation.

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It hasn't figured out how to get the path of the club to hit the golf ball with

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a face

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and having the side bend.

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So the next thing I did was I responded, I said, "Okay, now take a practice

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swing and

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I want you to try and make contact with the ground."

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So this is his next attempt, which is trying to take a practice swing and make

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contact with

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the ground.

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Now if we get it to about the same point, you can see that the club face is a

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little bit

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open as well, but you can see that the major change has come from his arm.

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Basically the only way that his brain knew how to find the ground was to abort

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what he

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was doing with his body and extend that right arm.

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So then the last piece I said, "Okay, why don't you go ahead and hit a golf

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ball?"

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So I'll bring that over here on the right.

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Now this is him making his swing at the golf ball.

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And so what we can do is we can compare the practice swing and look at the real

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details

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of the timing and the movements and what's going on, but we can kind of get

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this general

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picture that here he's making contact and the club face is pointing in the

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direction

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of the target.

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So he's not doing what he did in the practice swing because if he did, he'd

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miss the net.

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The issue is that with this practice swing, he's figured out how to make a

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really good

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efficient path.

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But the problem is his brain hasn't figured out how to get a club face that

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works for

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that path or a club face orientation that works for that path.

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So when he goes back to hitting a golf ball, his brain figured out to stop

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rotating and

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release the club, which gets the club pointing at the target, but not using

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that motorcycle

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or that rotation of the club.

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So he squared it by kind of casting or slightly scooping, not by motorcycling.

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So this tells me that this is a clear club face issue because he can make a

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good path.

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He does so sort of with this practice swing.

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But when he makes a good path, the club face is in an unusable position.

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So if you're having a hard time taking the movements from practice swings to

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full swings,

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I recommend videotaping yourself and really looking at what is different.

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And you'll start to see how your brain is controlling where that club is and

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how your

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brain is controlling how you're creating the speed.

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In this particular golfer's case, you can see that yes, what he does with his

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practice

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swing does look better from the body standpoint.

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The hand pass better, the club path is all better, but the problem is the

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bottom of the

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swing is not in the right place, so it wouldn't strike the ball solidly and the

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club face

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is not in a good position, so it wouldn't hit the ball even close to straight.

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So until you figure out how to take a practice swing, getting the bottom of the

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swing to brush

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the ground, even with the golf ball or slightly ahead of it, and get the club

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face to be square

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through that phase, you're going to have a hard time taking it from your

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practice swing

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to your real swing.