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this concept video is connecting grip strength to club rotation so part of the

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motorcycle move or is getting the club to rotate the entire downswing so

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getting

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the club to have more of a movement kind of like this rather than what a lot of

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golfers you struggle with consistency they don't rate that rotate the club and

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then they rotate it very fast at impact now that movement that rotation some of

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it could happen naturally and some of it could be more muscular or aggressive

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it

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really depends on what you're doing with your grip so let's take a step back

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and

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talk about the grip when we talk about the grip we usually refer to grip

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strength

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the more that the hands are on top or the thumbs are pointing like straight up

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and down towards you we call this a weak grip the more that the hands are

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turned

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to the side or underneath more like this we call it a strong grip what will

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happen is when we're swinging the club the club is going to pick up some

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momentum and it's going to be pulling on our arms and our arms are going to

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tend to want to approach more of a neutral alignment so if I start with my

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hands way underneath like this then as they approach neutral the club will

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rotate if I have a really strong grip like this then what would happen is if I

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was to let it really rotate then the ball would go way to the left it would be

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a

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big old pull hook so if I have a stronger grip like that then I'm either going

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to

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have to hold the face off or I'm going to have to turn my body so that it

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delays

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the straightening of the the arms until after I've hit the golf ball some

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people

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love that feel of more of a body hit and it feels more like I can kind of hold

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off the hands rather than feeling like the arms have a little bit more release

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I would say that that tends to feel like it's got more passive rotation or

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rotation where I don't have to feel like I'm doing so much if you look at

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your swing and you're if you're hitting slices or pushes and the ball keeps

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going off to the right and you look at the swing and the club is in a good

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position here but then it's just being left open there so it's being left open

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from shaft parallel until impact I would double check your grip because if the

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grip is a little bit too much on top then you might just have to feel like you

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manually close it like you actively close it with the forearm muscles so if I

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if

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I have my grip in a little bit more weaker position I can get a similar

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ball flight but I'm gonna really have to feel like I twist the club down so I'm

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gonna really feel like I had to manually rotate the club now some people love

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that feel because it feels like I'm using my hands into the golf ball so golf

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a lot about figuring out your matchups the stock tour swing is kind of pointing

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out the the commonalities and kind of the baseline of what's what's the

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stronger side what's the weaker side but as long as you find a matchup that

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matches with your tendencies and your personality style you can have great

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consistency whether it's a weak grip or a strong grip you just have to

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understand how to read the club face and what it's like at shaft parallel and

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compare that to ball flight that'll help you figure out how much twist you need

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to get down to the bottom if you need more or less twist down to the bottom

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you can look at what your arms and hands are doing but you can also look at the

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grip looking at the grip is often neglected by a lot of the online

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students so don't neglect that if you're trying to dial in your release and

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dial in your ball flight so real quick a stronger grip to have kind of a more

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neutral ball flight it's going to have more body rotation so it's gonna feel

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like the arms will feel like they're kind of dragging a little bit and like

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the club is way behind I hit that then so I just want to do another one and I'm

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going to make it even stronger I see some some golfers you have really strong

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grips kind of like this it's okay we can still hit a nice little baby draw with

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that grip or a fade and then the other one would be if we have a weaker grip so

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we have the hands way on top now eventually we if you get this hand so

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far on top it's like a bunker shot where we have a hard time over closing so I

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'm

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gonna get this basically as weak as I feel like I can still comfortably really

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twist into impact but now I might feel a little bit less body movement and a

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little bit more arms and hands I was close left it out a little bit so I've

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got to twist it a little bit earlier I could feel like I keep my back to the

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target in order to allow me to close it sooner or I could just feel like I

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twist it I'm gonna try that a little bit more back to the target to allow me to

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have the time to close it so really weak grip a little thin having a hard time

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with that so I would probably err on a little bit more neutral grip or just

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noticing how well that strong grip felt I would gravitate towards that one

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rather

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than trying to fight getting a little bit more supination or motorcycle with

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the weak grip but the choice is yours on how to match it up to dial in your

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ball flight