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This content video is connecting scapular control to spine extension, so this

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is primarily

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talking about tapa swingin into transition, but there's a big relationship

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between what's

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going on with your shoulder blades, how they're moving, and what's going on

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with your spine.

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And so a common complaint of golfers is one of two-fold, either intend to shift

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their upper

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body off the ball so they can get kind of flat shoulder plane, no extension,

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have kind

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of upper body sway, or more commonly, golfers will complain of kind of bending

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the arms

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up at the top, especially getting in that right arm behind into more of a

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flying elbow

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or getting across the line at the top.

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So the relationship between these two is loading different kind of fascia lines

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or loading

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different muscle patterns.

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Often times, if you're struggling with getting spine extension, what's

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happening at the shoulders

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is contributing to you having trouble getting spine extension.

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The two things that tend to happen is if I kind of turn like this and stay flex

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ed forward,

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then when I reach my arms up, I feel a big load on the underside of my arms,

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kind of

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in my tricep and my lat.

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I've really loaded this arm to be able to pull down, or I've loaded it to be

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able to

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rotate down kind of like this.

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And if I were to get into more spine extension there, that it doesn't feel as

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strong because

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I've kind of limited how well I can anchor it down here in my pelvis and my

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lower back.

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From the left arm, the more that I kind of reach that shoulder across like here

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, I've

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loaded the lat to really pull.

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I've loaded the shoulder blade into a position to pull.

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Again, if I got into this position here, if I pulled really hard, I would be

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really over

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the top.

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And so from this position, it wouldn't make sense to pull.

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So the connection is if you're struggling with keeping your centered pivot, you

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want

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to look at your shoulder blades, and you want to see if the right shoulder is

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staying

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more retracted, especially tapa swing and into transition, and you want to see

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if the

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left shoulder is having too much kind of reach and disconnect.

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There oftentimes when it disconnects, it pulls around, and you'll see this

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right arm

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go shoulder up.

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Sometimes that's coming from the left shoulder, sometimes that's coming from

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the right shoulder,

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so you might want to experiment with some different fields or drills working on

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each

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individual shoulder to see where the real culprit is.

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Alternatively, if you're having trouble getting your arms out of a really

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narrow bent position,

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kind of like this, then you don't want to just focus on keeping your arms

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extended,

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because if you did keep your arms extended, that's probably about as long of a

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swing you

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as you would make, and you wouldn't hit the ball anywhere.

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So if you are struggling with the arms tending to bend, then if you're getting

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those shoulders

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more back, you can experiment with getting the chest pointing a little bit more

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up or

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going into more of a neutral hip position or a little bit more spine men.

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So top of the swing, trying to get it looking kind of more up in that position,

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as opposed

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to there, highlights the reason why we get in that position is usually this

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relationship

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between spine men and shoulder connection.

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So if you're struggling with either width at the top or more of a centered

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pivot and getting

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good spine extension, then look at the relationship between the two, check

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yourself on video and

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see if the shoulders are kind of breaking the pattern first, or if it's the

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spine that's

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causing the arms to bend.

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And I promise if you work on both of those, you'll figure out which is the key

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component

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for you, and that'll have a big impact on how you're improving your top of back

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swing

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position and your transition sequencing.

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Okay, so demo wise, let's take a look at a couple of these patterns.

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So kind of the classic one, I'm going to keep my arms a little bit more

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straight, kind

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of like that.

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And now if we, I'm going to let this right shoulder kind of pull the club back

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and you'll

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see that naturally, I'm going to stay a little bit more flexed.

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Now I hit the classic pull from there, got a little steep and throwy, felt like

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it got

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way around me.

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If you have a tendency to hit pulls or slices, that could be one of the

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contributing factors.

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Now on the next one, I'm going to try to stay flexed over.

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I'm not going to focus too much on the arms, I'm going to try to stay flexed

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over.

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And what we'll see is once I get to about here, because I'm going to stay flex

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ed over

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it's going to limit some of my body rotation, and my arms are going to have run

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off to try

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to complete a backswing.

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So we're going to stay flexed over and turn, and again, hit it okay, felt very

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armsy, but

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hit more of a pull pattern, typically both of these will contribute to pulls

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and slices.

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Okay, so let's see if you can identify now if I make what I feel like is a

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pretty good

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backswing.

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If you can see the relationship between these shoulders and spine a little bit

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better, close.

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Let's do one more, I want to end on that one.

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More for me than for you guys, all right, so good backswing, that was better.

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We'll hide your eye.

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So investigate this shoulder spine complex if you're struggling with your top

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of the

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swing or transition.