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This concept video is connecting the quiver pulls to shoulder blade movement.

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So first off, let me just say, if you're more of a newer golfer, casual golfer,

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not really

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into the detailed discussions online, go watch another video because I'm going

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to connect

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a concept that is, I think, trickier for new golfers and would probably add

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more confusion.

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But if you've been trying to understand the quiver pull feel and how force

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happens at

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the top of the swing, this might help connect some dots for you.

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So the quiver pull is basically from the top of the swing, the dominant force

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pattern is

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going to be going that way.

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What we're going to discuss is, well, how does that happen?

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So the primary mechanism for the force pattern going that way at the top of the

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swing instead

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of down is going to be the inside of your armpit connected to your leg or your

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serratus

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anterior sling, so the oblique, the serratus and the rhomboid.

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What'll happen is, if I'm making a good golf swing and I get up towards the top

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of the

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swing, what'll happen is the momentum of the club is moving in the direction of

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the target.

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In addition, the momentum on my body, I've already re-centered starting right

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around here,

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so my body is actually shifting towards the target, too.

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So I have the mass of the club and the mass of my body moving this way.

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This shoulder blade movement is going to be able to resist the arm getting

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pulled that

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way from the momentum of the club and the momentum of the body.

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So that shoulder blade, staying a little bit more connected with the inside,

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has this rebound

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or spring like action like that.

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So what happens is as you get up to the top of the swing, it's that shoulder

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blade as

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I'm changing direction that delivers the force moving out that way.

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If on the other hand, I had in my mind, I was doing more of a weight shift like

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this and

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picking the club up, now I'm creating some stretch in my arm muscles and those

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arm muscles

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are going to do more of a force pattern coming down instead of out.

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So that force pattern driven by the arm dominance wing is kind of coming too

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steep or too vertical.

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If it's delivered more from this serratus interior with the oblique, then it's

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going

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to be going out that way with the quiver pull.

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Oftentimes, timing-wise, it will also align with having a faster top of back

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swing position.

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So you'll hear a lot of kind of the sports guidance guys and the long drive

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competitors

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talk about trying to speed up the backswing.

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That's done in a way to really load the sling so you get this rebound effect.

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I think that similar, if I was trying to throw a ball really hard, I wouldn't

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bring it back

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slow and then try to rapidly speed up.

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I would bring it back faster so that my body would be resisting more momentum,

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it could

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activate even earlier and stronger so that then at the point where it overcomes

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the force

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and propels it towards the target, it's at a higher activation and I get more

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speed out

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of it.

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So this shoulder blade kind of quiver rebound feel, kind of that movement there

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, looks different

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when I have the hands on the club, it looks more like that, but you can still

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see that

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the rebound and the force of the hands are going out that way.

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It's not that I'm actively pushing with my triceps and my arms out that way, it

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's that

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it's rebounding in that direction because of the rotational sling.

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So as a quick demo, I usually show two options.

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One would be I'm going to shift backward and kind of load and pull down with my

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arms so

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I loaded everything up and I pulled down kind of like that.

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So that was more of a one and two with a kind of a up and down type motion.

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So now the second version, and I'll do it pretty slow like that, like I

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demonstrated

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the first version, but pretty slow, now I'm going to feel more of this inside

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of the armpit

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getting stretched, the ribs getting stretched and you'll see timing-wise, it

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has a little

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bit more of this like smoothness or blended transition.

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Now if I tried to do it with speed, that's where the real magic of this

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movement tends

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to creep in.

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So if I was to do the first version hard, if I was to kind of bring back nice

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and slow,

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you'll see A, low point is a nightmare when I get really steep like that, so I

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shanked

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it.

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And B, if you put it on launch monitor, it's actually not that fast.

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I was demonstrating it for a student when I was pretty warmed up and I was able

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to swing

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just on two reps, six miles per hour faster focusing on the rebound rather than

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a dynamic

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pull.

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So now, I'm going to focus not on pulling down hard, I'm going to focus on

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speeding

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up the top of the backswing while loading into that lead foot to get more of

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this rebound

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effect.

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So now we'll do more of that rebound fast load.

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And it has a very different cadence and feel, it feels like tons of speed down

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at the bottom,

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and it feels like I'm kind of moving in two different ways at the top.

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But it does a better job if you're looking at a video of getting that quiver

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pull, the

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center mass of the club kind of traveling more that way as opposed to straight

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down.

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So if you struggled with it and don't totally understand the quiver pull, one

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of the kind

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of sports science topics, look at it from a body perspective and trying to get

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more of

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this oblique swing with this top of the backswing kind of rebound feel rather

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than an active

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load-in pull.