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Connecting Scapular Alignment To Impact Alignment

Understanding the shoulder blades can unlock some keys for your swing. They bind the arms and the core and make the swing feel more connected and "easy" when used correctly. When used incorrectly, the swing will feel quick and unpredictable. In this concept video, Tyler discusses what you want your shoulder blades to do and why it's so important.

Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Concept

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This concept video is connecting scapular alignment to

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impact alignment. So when we

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look at impact we're looking at kind of

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the Merry-Go-Round and the impact line and getting the upper

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body in a good kind of stacked position over

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the golf ball to help control low point but we're also

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trying not to be too Steep. And so

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what can often happen is if your shoulder blades

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don't do the right thing, then it prevents your body

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from getting into more of that open classic impact look

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so oftentimes the way I'll demonstrate

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so I held a club out in front of me like this. Then

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we have different videos relating to

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the downswing in the release and even transition where

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we feel more of a movement kind

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of like this where essentially if I was to pull if you

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imagine that my hands or my shoulder blades if I was to pull my

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right shoulder blade down and back

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kind of down towards my left butt cheek

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kind of down this way and if I was to reach that,

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Left shoulder blade up and forward that would create

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a shoulder alignment that was pointing way out there

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to the right 30 degrees 40 degrees out to the right kind of

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like this. So if I got down into this posture and I kept the shoulders in

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that position now if I was to turn my

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belly button my hips can be open but my

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shoulders are relatively square and I

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can do that.

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And get my upper body on top of my left foot.

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A common dysfunctional pattern is

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if you get too much either throw from

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this right shoulder where this right shoulder is going up or too

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much pull from this left shoulder. Essentially. What

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happens is the shoulder blades start till to tipping this

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way now with my shoulders tip this way. If

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I was to get into that same impact position, you could see how steep

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I would be from this down line. So the classical compensations

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is from this steeper shoulder

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position. I will either slide and

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tilt back now, I got this steep arm

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motion pointing in the direction of

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the Target or was in

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this position. I'll do more of an early extension kind of

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like this where that also helps prevent getting

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too steep. So if you're struggling with getting your

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body open, one of the kind of

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hidden places that's hard for a lot of golfers to identify is

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the shoulder blades. The easiest

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way to see is from the down the line video.

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As we approach impact we still want to

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see that right shoulder kind of scrunch down

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here where we'll see this right side creasing or

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compressing more like this. If you already see that

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right shoulder up double check in transition oftentimes,

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you'll see that right shoulder coming up towards the

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ear. What a lot of really

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good ball Strikers do is they create more space there where that

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shoulder is coming down and away

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from the ear as the body is

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rotating into position kind of like this.

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so

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we've drills on isolating either the left arm not pulling

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down kind of blocking and staying up or the right arm

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staying more down and back.

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When you do that making sure that you don't get too much

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tilt so some we have some anti tilt drills

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to help combo that but this is this concept

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video is a way for you to kind of think about and

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start exploring. Well, how could I be upper upper

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body stacked on top of the Lead Foot and

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rotated but still have those shoulders in

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a more square or close position

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in order to do that. I'm gonna have to feel the shoulder

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blades being more tilted out to

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the right and kind of connected now the other

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little benefit to this is if you get the hang

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of it what It ultimately feels

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Is as I'm more as I'm more connected

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kind of like this my body and my

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arms will have a tendency to rotate through together. And

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so when the when the arm gets

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up, it gets kind of disconnected, but when it's down like this my body

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and my arms tend to work more in harmony

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or together, so it'll feel maybe a

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little bit stiff. But as you do it

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more it will feel shallow compressed as

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well as

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Connected so it'll feel like there's a lot

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less of throw. I got a little bit tilted back

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on that one. So I caught that a little thin and

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that is one of the most common compensations if

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you start working on this you want to really monitor

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from the face on video that you're still able.

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To get forward as that shoulder is down not

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just going down this way when I

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go down that way. It's more of I'm cheating from the pelvis and

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the spine instead of just doing it from the

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shoulders. So

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You're struggling with your impact position check out your shoulders.

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They may be sabotaging you and refer to

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looking at your video so that you can see which one

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might be throwing you off. And when that'll help you point you

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in the direction of some breakthrough drills that might really help improve

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your overall contact and flat spot control

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during your release.

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Kind of like that.

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