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In this concept video we're gonna take a look at the cast or the upper body

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dominant swing pattern. Now the cast or upper body dominant swing pattern is

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really a transition air but sometimes if it's subtle you won't see the evidence

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of the cast until down in the release but overall it's a transition air and

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what it is is getting your upper body too active too soon. So if we were to

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break down your body into thirds say the hips in the lower body and then the

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trunk and the core and then the shoulders and arms we want to control and

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create

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our speed from a blend of all three of these. The cast pattern is getting speed

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primarily from the shoulders and the arms early during the downswing. It shows

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up pretty easy on 3D. It typically looks like the club sensor or the club shaft

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is moving faster than the rest of the body pretty early in the downswing. On

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video if you see someone who's doing it in more of an exaggerated fashion what

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we'll typically look for is a straightening of the trail elbow or a

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flexion of the trail wrist going this way or an early rotation of the upper

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body compared to the lower body. In general that tends to look like something

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like this either the arms kind of getting active too soon or it could be more

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like this where the upper body is rotating on top of the lower body and

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the lower body is not really leading the downswing. Either way it gets the club

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moving faster than your body so it tends to limit your ability to create

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speed. Typically golfers who cast can have pretty good short games but they'll

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struggle off the tee. As you'll see in the analysis video there are a few

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pros who do it. There's even a long drive guy who does it very well but all in

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all it tends to be more of a weak controlled pattern as opposed to a

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maximum power generation pattern. Now often the cast is accompanied by

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something that we call a forward lunge and you'll start to see why these two

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kind of go hand-in-hand. With the cast pattern I'm going to get this club head

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far away from me sooner than if I had a normal tour sequence that we try to

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teach here. So if I was to get that club away from me and I did all the other

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good

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movements that a tour pro would do I'm typically going to have the club bottom

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out. So the forward lunge is a lack of right side bend and a shift of the upper

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body kind of towards the target kind of like so. I'll tend to have my upper

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body

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very much on top of my lower body and have a little amount of side tilt. This

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prevents me from hitting the ground behind the ball but it tends to give me

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a steep angle of attack and a very small flat spot. So this can result in a lot

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of problems with your long irons, your hybrids and particularly the driver.

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Since

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the cast is a downswing problem we know that it relates to how we're

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controlling

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path, how we're controlling face and how we're creating speed. Typically as I

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mentioned earlier in this video it is going to be an upper body dominated

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power producer. So as opposed to getting that initial movement happening from

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the

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lower body I will tend to have the initial movement happening more from the

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upper body kind of like so. So one of the ways that you can work on it is by

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learning to get your lower body to initiate and learning to get the feeling

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of more speed from the lower body. Typically this results in a feeling of a

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later tempo or typically a smoother swing. Now from a face and path perspective

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the

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cast is pretty interesting. Typically what's going on in a cast pattern is you

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are going to have an open club face that you tend to keep open and you use the

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cast in order to get the club to go to the left or rather to get the path to go

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to the left so that this open club face is now pointed at the target. It is

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possible to have my body closed enough so that this cast brings it from the

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inside and I can still hit a draw but typically casters are going to struggle

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with drawing the ball. They'll typically hit poles or slight fades unless they

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hitting down as they would with short arms. So typically the way that that's

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going to look is there my club face is kind of in an open position and now if I

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was too cast by spinning my upper body and straightening my arms kind of like

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so you can see that I can get that club face that is open to the path facing at

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the target by taking this path and moving it a little bit more outside to

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it. That's typically that upper body spin or that upper body dominated pattern.

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Now from a face perspective getting the club to extend out away from me causes

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the club face to actually want to close. The more that I have this club in a

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lag

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position or the more that my hands are leading the club head it will tend to

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force that face open unless I'm doing the motorcycle move which we teach in the

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transition session. So by having that club face open if I could either do the

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motorcycle move to close it or I could cast and release that arm and when I

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release that arm now the club faces point in the direction of the target but I

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so with a very vertical shaft as opposed to in the full swing stock

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program where we're trying to have a little bit of shaft lean that would

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result in an up in a open club face unless I was to close it using this

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rotation. So a caster is typically using the whole shaft to square the club

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face

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instead of just shaft rotation to square the club face. If you're going to work

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on the cast pattern as you'll see in the drills there are three primary areas

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you'll need to improve on. One will be getting your arms to lag a little bit

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and getting the club to be narrow in transition. Two will be getting the club

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to shallow in transition a slightly different way because the the cast

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pattern gets the club out away from me so it creates more of a shallow angle of

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attack just from the simple fact that I'm getting my arms away from me. Now it

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a little tricky because typically that's accompanied with this deep upper body

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movement so those two balance out. So if I'm going to take away the shallow I

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need to add a shallow in a different way. Lastly the thing that I'm going to

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have

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to do that's probably going to feel the most uncomfortable is I'm going to have

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to create the early part of the downswing speed from my lower body and my

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trunk and my core as opposed to you from my shoulder blades my shoulders and my

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arms. So let's go through those one by one. First let's talk about this narrow

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if I go up to the top of my swing the cast pattern tends to get wide very early

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from the top of the swing. So the opposite of that would be as my lower body is

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leading if my arms were to get narrow as we teach in the transition sequence

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as you'll see in this cast section that allows my body to rotate inside bend

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without having my arms extend and bottom out behind the golf ball. As a

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result my arms will extend a little bit later than in the cast pattern and help

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me produce this more shallow angle of attack with a long flat spot. The

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second piece would be looking at the shallowing component. So the shallowing

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component would be letting my arms fall as a result of my lower body leading

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the

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golf swing. So we talk a lot about those hands staying high and letting this

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club

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kind of shallow where a caster will typically shallow by getting the club

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away from me as opposed to getting the swing path of the arms a little bit more

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horizontal. So that's one of the other challenges and then the last one is the

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general sequencing of learning to get that lower body to initiate the downswing

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Now if you've played sports where it was a reward to be kind of upper body

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dominant say you were alignment in football or wrestler something where you

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did a lot with moving your upper body in big movements this is going to be a

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little bit of a challenge. If you played other sports such as

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striking sports like tennis, baseball, hockey, lacrosse or if you played lower

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body dominant sports like soccer this will tend to feel a little bit more

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athletic and it'll actually be reminiscent of how you use athleticism

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in those other sports and typically what you'll have to do is remove the

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barrier

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of how you control the face and path to allow you to be more aggressive with

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the

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lower body or to be more athletic and initiate with the lower body. So the

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cast pattern is a great pattern to keep because you want to use it for your

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finesse wedges your distance wedges but if you're using it for your stock full

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swing it's definitely limiting your distance and power potential.