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This concept video is connecting the dots between face rotation and body

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rotation and impact. So I've done another video working on helping you

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understand how the shaft has to flatten if you want to have body rotation. This

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is going to talk about what happens if the clubface is open or closed. Now

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frequently we'll use these magnets on the golf club. If you want to do this at

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home just take a golf tee and some tape or stick them and you can put it on the

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clubface and it'll point where it's pointing. The other way that you can do

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it that's not quite as accurate but is a more powerful visual is this way right

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here. So I've got a just a piece of cardboard that's taped to the club

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perpendicular to where the face is pointing or pretty close to it. Putting

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the magnet on the face is definitely more accurate than this this little airfo

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il

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that I've created but the airfoil does a really good job especially from down

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the line like so of seeing roughly where this face is pointing. It doesn't take

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into account this kind of upward and downward motion and how that affects the

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clubface but it gives a good general representation of either if I have

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rotated it forward or backward or if I have rotated the club or the clubhead

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forward backward. So I'm going to show you what body rotation does to this

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shaft

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and why we're going to have to have the clubface more closed at impact than it

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was at setup. So the more that I get body rotation if my hands stay roughly out

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in front of my body then what you'll see is that's going to point the clubface

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much more to the right or in an open position. So what'll happen is if you're

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in transition and you tend to open the clubface now if I was to continue

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rotating you can see that that clubface is actually pointed over there so

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about 80 degrees away from the target. So what'll happen is my body is smart I

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'll

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get to this position where that clubface is open and I'll stand up instead of

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rotating so that my hands can pass and now that is pointed in the direction of

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the target. But what Torpros are doing is they're getting a certain amount of

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shaft lean whether it's 10 degrees, 15 degrees they're getting the handle

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slightly ahead of the club which just by doing that if I keep the club's center

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of gravity in the same place what happens is it opens the clubface. So then my

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only

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other options would be to lower it like so but I can only do that so much and I

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'm

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not ever going to get it pointed at the direction of the target. So the best

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option I've got is this rotation or the motorcycle move that I talk about. Now

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that can come from either the left or the right hand as whether it's the

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motorcycle or the throwers catch they're the same thing they're basically

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rotating the clubface so now it's pointed in the direction of the target.

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Now the change in that if I'm facing you is if I rotate it like so and then I

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turn kind of looks like that. So instead of this little airfoil being

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perfectly level and pointed at the target it's actually pointed down and

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pointed

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at the target. But again the only way that I'm going to get that is if I've

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rotated my club closed and the more that I rotate my body and get my body in

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this

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open side bent position like so it impact the more that I'm going to have to

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close

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the clubface. Now you have three options as far as closing the clubface. You

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can

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adjust your grip it set up you can change the arm movements or you can change

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the

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body movements. But the the big ones are going to be this grip it set up and

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body

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movements. So the motorcycle or sorry the grip it set up in the arm movements

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so

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the motorcycle movement is kind of trying to get this airfoil pointed down

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towards the ground as soon as possible so that when I just rotate my body now

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that's pointed just slightly right of my target. But with a path that's going

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slightly in out so I can hit that nice draw. So again if you're you're

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struggling

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with getting that motorcycle movement and the clubface is pointing up it would

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end up looking something like this and there's no way I'm going to get good

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rotation side bend and get that good flat spot down at the bottom. So if you're

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struggling with that while you're working on this arm shallow piece you can

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also work on that clubface closing both of those are going to allow that body

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rotation. Now one interesting point is if we look at the finesse wedge we're

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gonna see that we're gonna square the clubface in a different way than we're

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going to do it with the full swing. So here we've got a 52 degree wedge with

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that same or sorry I think this is a 50 note 52 degree wedge with that same

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piece of cardboard or similar piece of cardboard kind of pointing in the

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direction of the clubface. So for these shots we're going to come into the golf

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ball with the shaft a lot more vertical. James Seachman who I think is one of

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the

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best of this says it's about a three to seven degree amount of shaft lean. Not

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sure where he's getting his numbers but we know that if you look at video they

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're

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not going to have nearly as much lag in shaft lean compared to the

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compared to the full swing. So what we're doing with the finesse wedge is we're

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basically releasing it and getting it pointed square like so where in the full

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swing we're getting it square like that. I'll demonstrate from down the line.

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So in

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the finesse wedge I'm basically releasing so that this is now pretty much

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straight up and down and pointed it at target. That allows me to use the bounce

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as opposed to what a lot of people who struggle with this finesse wedge will do

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is they'll get too much lean and now the only way that they could close it is

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by

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slamming down the face but that takes away bounce in your margin of air. Now I

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called this video rotation the club face but this could very easily be shaft

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lean

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to club face. So the more that I get body rotation the more that the handle

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gets out in front and the club face points off to the right. So in order to

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hit it relatively straight I'm gonna have to close that club face that gives me

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that delofted look of the club but a face that's pointed in the general

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direction of the target. So if you're struggling with getting body rotation or

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shaft lean you're gonna have to look at the timing and how much you're closing

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the club face whether with your setup grip or mostly with these arm movements.