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This concept video is connecting extra angles to side bend.

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So there's a population of golfers who tend to really hold on to this vertical

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angle like

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this.

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And if I did that and I didn't have a lot of side bend, you could see how steep

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and narrow

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this would be.

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So oftentimes, if I have a super steep arm pattern like this, then what I'll do

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is I'll

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get a lot of side bend kind of like this.

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So now, when I'm here and I ultimately do release it, I'm going to have some

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ability

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to kind of shallow it out.

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Oftentimes, these golfers really struggle with the fairway woods and the long

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irons.

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And they can get into really bad contact with the short irons.

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So it's usually the middle irons, like the nine iron through six iron when they

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tend

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to be okay.

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It's actually quite good.

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So this can be a tricky pattern because two things, one, that wrist angle is a

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feeling

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of power.

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Now, it's localized.

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It's a feeling of power mostly in the arms.

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There's not a lot of feeling of power in the core, but it's definitely a power

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feeling.

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And two, oftentimes, golfers have a hard time feeling that their upper body is

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too far back.

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Downswing happens very quickly.

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Visually, you get used to seeing it from this kind of backward sideways

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position.

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And it can be tricky to rebalance that.

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When I do, when I do want to work on that, there's usually two directions that

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you have

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to go.

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One is getting used to being wider, earlier, and more stacked.

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So getting used to having the arms a little bit wider, the upper body more

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forward, and

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then basically getting used to hitting it more from going into extension rather

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than buckling

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down, which often accompanies this really steep arm pattern.

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What happens is the arms get really steep, and then as they release or as they

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throw,

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the upper body tends to flex forward kind of like this.

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And then the lower body, you can see, accompanies that and kind of like flexes

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with it.

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So we're going to focus on the follow through side first of feeling like our

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arms are a little

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bit straighter and a little bit wider.

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And then we're going into some good extension and turn on the way through.

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So I'm more over that front foot, and then I'm extending through, just getting

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used to

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having this wide to begin with.

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Second piece we have to do is we have to decrease the incentive to get narrow.

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And there's two big places where that happens.

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One is that trail shoulder, and this is probably the most common, is that trail

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shoulder tends

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to get up, forward, high, steep, whatever we want to call it kind of gets this

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way, which

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accompanies kind of narrowing and pulling that arm in.

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So the combo there is more tension in the front side of the shoulder.

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If I was to bring that shoulder blade down and straighten the arm a little bit,

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it stays

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more in front of my pec, and it's going to be instantly wider.

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Now this is not going to feel like I have a lot of chop power, but this is

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going to feel

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more like I have more kind of rotational throw or rotational push pattern from

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my core.

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It's going to feel like I'm using more of the ribcage in this area, as opposed

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to just

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hitting it with this.

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So I usually focus on more of the shoulder blade, feeling like it's down and

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connected,

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and the hands are a little bit wider.

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And then if I did that, and did the old side bend move, I'm going to bottom out

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way back

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there.

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So what I'll feel is I can start to get into a little bit more cover.

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Now oftentimes when this goes this way, your upper body gets on top of it.

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So what almost always starts to happen is the first few times you do this, you

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get really

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steep from that down the line camera angle.

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And so if I get my shoulders a little bit better and get my wrists in a little

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bit more

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shallow position, now I can be more on top of it, but still coming from a

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shallow position.

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So phase one, we're going to get more on top of it and feel wider and some

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extension.

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And then phase two is we're going to make a backswing where we feel like we

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keep that

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shoulder blade in better position and connect those two.

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So the shoulder blade is going to get in better position.

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It's going to feel wider, maybe even.

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And it's going to feel wider because the arm is straighter, but it's also going

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to feel

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shallower because the wrist has show it instead of keeping it up here and using

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only the

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body to shallow it.

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That combination is going to support a more gradual kind of arm movement on the

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way through,

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but a more explosive body movement going into this extension.

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So it's going to be a little tricky pattern to work through, but most of the

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players who

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have had work through it ultimately feel like they get way more consistent.

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Really that narrow tilt pattern is one of the more inconsistent patterns.

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You can hit really good shots, but then you can hit terrible shots, terrible

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contact,

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shanks, big pull hooks, really big fat shots, lots of poor patterns.

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So I think it's to work on.

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You start with the follow through side and then work to the top of the swing.

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That's going to help you connect or get out of this really narrow arm movement

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with excessive

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side tilt pattern.

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Kind of like that.