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This concept video is connecting the leg buckle to the release.

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So many golfers complain and struggle with what looks like kind of this little

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leg buckle

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movement on the way through where the pelvis is actually going down into the

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ground and

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that lead knee is going quite far forward like this.

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So obviously that's going to do a couple things that's going to lower me down

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towards

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the ground and that's going to shift my low point forward.

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So when I'm thinking through this movement and why you might be doing it, you

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want to

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think about well what am I doing that's moving the low point backward so that I

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feel like

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I need to move the low point forward and what am I doing that's kind of raising

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the low point

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where I feel like I need to drop it down.

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So the most common culprit is a little bit too much arm extension or throw on

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the way

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through especially a feeling of that right shoulder kind of getting on top or

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winning

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an arm wrestling or body slamming the club.

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If that right shoulder kind of gets on top like this well that's a big

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contributor to

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moving the low point backward and that tends to cause the path to want to go

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outside in

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and get very steep.

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So to balance that out the buckle accompanies a little bit of side bend.

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So now when I do this movement where the club would be going like this if I

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made a pretty

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good pivot but now by sacrificing that pivot by sliding a little bit forward

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tilting a

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little bit more back I can get the club to swing pretty straight but you'll see

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that the

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low point tends to bottom out.

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So oftentimes what will happen is when this goes this way that lead arm starts

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pulling

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and that lead arm starts pulling to avoid going too deep with the divot.

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And what happens is when that lead arm starts pulling you start hitting some

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thin shots and

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so the buckle accompanies the slide.

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So those two kind of match up and they can work pretty well with the longer

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clubs but

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they tend to create some real contact problems with the shorter clubs.

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But the longer clubs more often than not they create kind of quick hooks or

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pull hooks.

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But usually the bigger issue with that pattern is the low point control on the

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shorter irons

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and especially wedges.

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So that's kind of the geometry of how those two patterns fit together.

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If you're going to work on one you kind of have to work on both so if you're

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going to

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work on taking away some of this throw so that the arms are a little bit more

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in kind

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of this classic impact position where you know the don't break my arms idea or

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the feeling

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of that right shoulder in and that left shoulder up and away.

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If you did that and tilted and bottom out way back here so then you have to

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feel like your

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upper body is more on top and your legs are straightening to kind of control

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low point

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and pull yourself away from the golf ball.

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Now from a kind of body swing connection standpoint these also complement each

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other.

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As I start really trying to extend this right side or extend that right

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shoulder like this

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that tends to be more of a front side dominant pattern and it can encourage my

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body to go

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into a little bit more of this kind of flexion pattern like this almost like I

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was throwing

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a punch I wouldn't really throw a punch by going into extension I would throw a

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punch

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by rounding my body and getting my abs and my pec to all work together with my

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pelvis.

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Now when I do a crunch like that oftentimes one part of it is this hip flexion

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or basically

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you've probably seen when people do crunches in the gym and they'll start

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kicking their

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legs to activate their hip flexors and make it easier.

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So if I get into this posture and really start to throw then I'm going to feel

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like I activate

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those hip flexors in order to accompany that right arm extension.

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So some of the real powerful patterns and some of the kind of tricky patterns

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to change

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are the ones like this where it not just balances each other or complements

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each other

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from a muscle standpoint but it complements each other from a geometry

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standpoint.

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It's usually easier to fix it when the main problem is causing an obvious

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disconnect from

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the rest of the body.

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These two complement each other.

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So you'll have to work on getting a feeling of more covered and extending the

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legs and

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to support that you'll have to have this arm staying kind of restricted or in

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close longer

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and then having that lead arm higher in that follow through.

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If you do that, your shoulders get a little bit more shallow.

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Your body is able to cover which helps control low point and you overall get a

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much better

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flat spot in contact consistency.

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So if you struggle with a buckle and you hate the way it looks, look at the

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shoulders and

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look at the core, you're going to have to figure out how to re-work those two

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so that

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they match a little bit better.

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If you're going to improve your overall contact, you can't just work on one of

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these pieces.

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