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In this golf-smart insight, we're going to discuss the shallowing as it relates

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to supination.

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So I see frequently that a lot of instructors are really big on the shallowing

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of the club

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during transition.

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Some of the mechanical research to back that up was modeled by Sasha McKenzie,

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presented

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with Chris Como in a video a few years ago.

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So everyone says, "Hey, you shallow the club and it helps create this passive

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torque that

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helps square up the face."

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And all that is mechanically correct.

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The problem is I then see some of the same instructors advocating a hold-off

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release or

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advocating minimal supination.

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So what I'm going to show you is that the whole purpose of this shallow move is

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to allow more

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supination or greater force with supination or allow you to supinate early.

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So if you're teaching someone not to supinate, I can actually make the argument

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that it doesn't

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make sense the shallow, you should actually just kind of stay with everything

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in plain

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similar to what we would do in the finesse wedge swing, where we have none of

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that shallow

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because we're going to square the face more with in-plane movement and we're

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not going

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to use as much of the supination during the release.

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So there was a video done a few weeks ago by Michael Finney talking about the

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components

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of alpha and he was talking about the moment of force.

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And that's really what we're talking about here and what this passive torque is

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when

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you shallow in transition.

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And the moment of force is going to allow us to supinate either harder or

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earlier depending

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on how you want to look at it.

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So I want to explain that moment of force, they've used a couple analogies that

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I think

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are pretty good, but just demonstrating with a golf club here, right?

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If I'm going to pull the handle and apply kind of a linear force that way, this

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club

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will want to line up with that force and basically it will want to move across

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just like this.

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So if the center mass is way down here, then when I pull it, it's going to want

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to move

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up towards that lining up basically with the direction that I'm pulling.

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If I headed up here and I did the same movement, yes gravity is going to help,

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but if I was

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in a vacuum and didn't have gravity, it would still want to move in that

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direction.

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So what happens is when I have that shallow movement during transition, now I

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can start

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supinating this forearm earlier without having an effect.

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So basically as this is just shallowing, I can start supinating, supinating,

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supinating

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and now it starts to move in the direction of supination.

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If I kept it in a straight, if I didn't allow that arm shallowing, then what

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will happen

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is the second I start supinating, the club is essentially going to move with it

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.

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So I am an advocate of supination during the release, I've never seen on 3D a

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good release

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that doesn't involve a fair amount of supination.

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So it makes sense to me that this arm shallowing allows golfers to feel like

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they start that

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release sooner.

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I teach the different methods that I think are common among the great golfers

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and how

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they release the club, how they do the shallowing movement and how they work in

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transition.

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But in this video, I just wanted to kind of help you with the thought puzzle of

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basically

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if you're advocating this shallow movement during transition, then what happens

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is when

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you go normal and when you start getting those things to line up, it's allowing

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you to supinate

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earlier and harder, which are good components of a release.

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So if you're teaching more of a hold off release, there's no real reason to

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then shallow

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during transition.

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And if you're teaching shallowing during transition, it should be to help

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support what you're trying

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to do during the release.

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Hopefully this helps.

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