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Connect Inside-Out Swing with Low Left for Better Contact
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify how to create a flat spot at the bottom of your swing.
- Understand the relationship between arm movement and body alignment.
- Learn to avoid common pitfalls like steep swings and slices.
In this video, you'll learn how to unify the concepts of swinging low left and inside-out to improve your golf swing. Understanding these principles can help you create a flatter swing path for more consistent ball striking.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.280
In this concept video, we're connecting inside out and low left.
2
00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.480
So I had a question come up that on social media, you often hear what seem like
3
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:14.700
opposing
4
00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:20.180
views that some people advocate you need to swing low left, way down and around
5
00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:20.920
, almost
6
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.710
exaggerating kind of some of these fields, kind of like a Alex Norin type
7
00:00:24.710 --> 00:00:26.360
practice swing.
8
00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:32.760
And then you have swinging out to right field or swinging in to out, out to the
9
00:00:32.760 --> 00:00:33.640
right.
10
00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.010
Those fields, and you have people basically advocating never swing low left,
11
00:00:38.010 --> 00:00:38.680
that's how
12
00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:41.080
you become a chop slicer.
13
00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:46.610
So I thought I'd discuss how those two views can be unified if you understand
14
00:00:46.610 --> 00:00:47.800
the different
15
00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:49.240
pieces of the swing.
16
00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.940
So essentially, in order to create this flat spot down at the bottom, we need
17
00:00:53.940 --> 00:00:54.640
to have our
18
00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:59.190
arms work in more of a shallow or kind of like skimming fashion where the arms
19
00:00:59.190 --> 00:00:59.920
are working
20
00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.720
more kind of parallel to the ground, kind of like this.
21
00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:07.550
And in order to do so, we typically are going to have a fair amount of the
22
00:01:07.550 --> 00:01:08.680
shoulders staying
23
00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.850
closed and side bend of the thoracic spine, a little bit of tilt this way,
24
00:01:13.850 --> 00:01:14.440
right arm kind
25
00:01:14.440 --> 00:01:19.210
of under left, creating this impact window and the arms working more in this
26
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:20.720
kind of supination
27
00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:26.310
ulnar deviation, which is essentially swinging the club just from the arms
28
00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:27.520
perspective out
29
00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:29.120
to the right, kind of like this.
30
00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:36.500
So if you struggle with a steep arm pattern, more of a chicken wing, more of a
31
00:01:36.500 --> 00:01:37.400
big over
32
00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:41.640
the top, down to the bottom movement, then you're probably going to gravitate
33
00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.200
towards
34
00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.670
some of these fields related more of the to the arms swinging out to right
35
00:01:46.670 --> 00:01:47.360
field.
36
00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:52.800
Now, we don't actually want the club to swing 20 degrees out to the right and a
37
00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:53.920
lot of juniors,
38
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:59.900
a lot of good players who get their arms working really well tend to have body
39
00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.000
movements that
40
00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.060
can encourage that and they come in hitting hooks.
41
00:02:05.060 --> 00:02:09.610
So a lot of those players will have either early extension or more of a tilt or
42
00:02:09.610 --> 00:02:10.000
more
43
00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.920
of a stall and so everything is going out to the right.
44
00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:19.130
And so when you get someone who's early extending, tilting overly shallow with
45
00:02:19.130 --> 00:02:19.800
the body, when
46
00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.450
you get them to feel like they're covering the ball or staying more in their
47
00:02:22.450 --> 00:02:22.840
posture
48
00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:27.550
and not early extending and then turning their core, it feels like the core is
49
00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:28.080
now going to
50
00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:34.210
swing the arms low to the left, but the arms themselves are trying to swing out
51
00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:34.800
to the
52
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:39.120
right and together you get a very neutral but long flat spot bottom.
53
00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.570
So if your body pivot is going more this way, you're going to probably feel
54
00:02:42.570 --> 00:02:43.160
some of these
55
00:02:43.160 --> 00:02:48.600
low left moves, but if your arm pattern is pulling in narrowing, getting closer
56
00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:49.160
to you,
57
00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:53.390
you're going to probably feel more of these out to the right shallow arm fields
58
00:02:53.390 --> 00:02:53.680
.
59
00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.610
So the key is to take a look at your swing on video and get a good assessment
60
00:02:58.610 --> 00:02:59.120
as far
61
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.390
as where you think your biggest problem is where you deviate from the model is
62
00:03:04.390 --> 00:03:04.960
it more
63
00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.300
of the body, in which case you need to feel more low left or cover the ball or
64
00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:10.080
maybe even
65
00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.560
just a different feel.
66
00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.170
Not everybody gravitates towards those two, but a lot of people like to kind of
67
00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:17.480
keep
68
00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:22.250
it simple and feel what the club is doing rather than the body, those would be
69
00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:22.760
two of
70
00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:27.960
the more dominant discussion or ideas that you'll see floating around social
71
00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:28.560
media.
72
00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.920
Some people just don't even really feel the club, they feel more of the
73
00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:31.480
movements they're
74
00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:39.140
making, in which case you might feel more of body rotation, side bend, stacked
75
00:03:39.140 --> 00:03:40.120
centers,
76
00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:44.230
things like that in order to get the club to swing low left, and you might feel
77
00:03:44.230 --> 00:03:44.560
more
78
00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:49.750
ulnar deviation or the wipe or more shoulder blade shallowing in order to get
79
00:03:49.750 --> 00:03:50.200
the club
80
00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:51.840
to actually swing out to the right.
81
00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.900
That's where being able to assess your swing on video and decide which one of
82
00:03:55.900 --> 00:03:56.920
these movements
83
00:03:56.920 --> 00:03:59.350
is going to help you the most, help balance it and move it in the right
84
00:03:59.350 --> 00:04:00.240
direction, that's
85
00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.120
the real skill of being your own coach.
86
00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.570
Hopefully, this helps you tie together how you can swing out to the right and
87
00:04:05.570 --> 00:04:06.080
swing low
88
00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:11.680
left in hitting a good neutral shot.
89
00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.680
We'll exaggerate.
90
00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:20.920
Arms out to the right, body kind of low left.
91
00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.760
Hands up with a pretty neutral, tiny little draw.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.280
In this concept video, we're connecting inside out and low left.
2
00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.480
So I had a question come up that on social media, you often hear what seem like
3
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:14.700
opposing
4
00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:20.180
views that some people advocate you need to swing low left, way down and around
5
00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:20.920
, almost
6
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.710
exaggerating kind of some of these fields, kind of like a Alex Norin type
7
00:00:24.710 --> 00:00:26.360
practice swing.
8
00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:32.760
And then you have swinging out to right field or swinging in to out, out to the
9
00:00:32.760 --> 00:00:33.640
right.
10
00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.010
Those fields, and you have people basically advocating never swing low left,
11
00:00:38.010 --> 00:00:38.680
that's how
12
00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:41.080
you become a chop slicer.
13
00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:46.610
So I thought I'd discuss how those two views can be unified if you understand
14
00:00:46.610 --> 00:00:47.800
the different
15
00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:49.240
pieces of the swing.
16
00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.940
So essentially, in order to create this flat spot down at the bottom, we need
17
00:00:53.940 --> 00:00:54.640
to have our
18
00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:59.190
arms work in more of a shallow or kind of like skimming fashion where the arms
19
00:00:59.190 --> 00:00:59.920
are working
20
00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.720
more kind of parallel to the ground, kind of like this.
21
00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:07.550
And in order to do so, we typically are going to have a fair amount of the
22
00:01:07.550 --> 00:01:08.680
shoulders staying
23
00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.850
closed and side bend of the thoracic spine, a little bit of tilt this way,
24
00:01:13.850 --> 00:01:14.440
right arm kind
25
00:01:14.440 --> 00:01:19.210
of under left, creating this impact window and the arms working more in this
26
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:20.720
kind of supination
27
00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:26.310
ulnar deviation, which is essentially swinging the club just from the arms
28
00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:27.520
perspective out
29
00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:29.120
to the right, kind of like this.
30
00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:36.500
So if you struggle with a steep arm pattern, more of a chicken wing, more of a
31
00:01:36.500 --> 00:01:37.400
big over
32
00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:41.640
the top, down to the bottom movement, then you're probably going to gravitate
33
00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.200
towards
34
00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.670
some of these fields related more of the to the arms swinging out to right
35
00:01:46.670 --> 00:01:47.360
field.
36
00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:52.800
Now, we don't actually want the club to swing 20 degrees out to the right and a
37
00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:53.920
lot of juniors,
38
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:59.900
a lot of good players who get their arms working really well tend to have body
39
00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.000
movements that
40
00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.060
can encourage that and they come in hitting hooks.
41
00:02:05.060 --> 00:02:09.610
So a lot of those players will have either early extension or more of a tilt or
42
00:02:09.610 --> 00:02:10.000
more
43
00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.920
of a stall and so everything is going out to the right.
44
00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:19.130
And so when you get someone who's early extending, tilting overly shallow with
45
00:02:19.130 --> 00:02:19.800
the body, when
46
00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.450
you get them to feel like they're covering the ball or staying more in their
47
00:02:22.450 --> 00:02:22.840
posture
48
00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:27.550
and not early extending and then turning their core, it feels like the core is
49
00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:28.080
now going to
50
00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:34.210
swing the arms low to the left, but the arms themselves are trying to swing out
51
00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:34.800
to the
52
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:39.120
right and together you get a very neutral but long flat spot bottom.
53
00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.570
So if your body pivot is going more this way, you're going to probably feel
54
00:02:42.570 --> 00:02:43.160
some of these
55
00:02:43.160 --> 00:02:48.600
low left moves, but if your arm pattern is pulling in narrowing, getting closer
56
00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:49.160
to you,
57
00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:53.390
you're going to probably feel more of these out to the right shallow arm fields
58
00:02:53.390 --> 00:02:53.680
.
59
00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.610
So the key is to take a look at your swing on video and get a good assessment
60
00:02:58.610 --> 00:02:59.120
as far
61
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.390
as where you think your biggest problem is where you deviate from the model is
62
00:03:04.390 --> 00:03:04.960
it more
63
00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.300
of the body, in which case you need to feel more low left or cover the ball or
64
00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:10.080
maybe even
65
00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.560
just a different feel.
66
00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.170
Not everybody gravitates towards those two, but a lot of people like to kind of
67
00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:17.480
keep
68
00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:22.250
it simple and feel what the club is doing rather than the body, those would be
69
00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:22.760
two of
70
00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:27.960
the more dominant discussion or ideas that you'll see floating around social
71
00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:28.560
media.
72
00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.920
Some people just don't even really feel the club, they feel more of the
73
00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:31.480
movements they're
74
00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:39.140
making, in which case you might feel more of body rotation, side bend, stacked
75
00:03:39.140 --> 00:03:40.120
centers,
76
00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:44.230
things like that in order to get the club to swing low left, and you might feel
77
00:03:44.230 --> 00:03:44.560
more
78
00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:49.750
ulnar deviation or the wipe or more shoulder blade shallowing in order to get
79
00:03:49.750 --> 00:03:50.200
the club
80
00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:51.840
to actually swing out to the right.
81
00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.900
That's where being able to assess your swing on video and decide which one of
82
00:03:55.900 --> 00:03:56.920
these movements
83
00:03:56.920 --> 00:03:59.350
is going to help you the most, help balance it and move it in the right
84
00:03:59.350 --> 00:04:00.240
direction, that's
85
00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.120
the real skill of being your own coach.
86
00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.570
Hopefully, this helps you tie together how you can swing out to the right and
87
00:04:05.570 --> 00:04:06.080
swing low
88
00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:11.680
left in hitting a good neutral shot.
89
00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.680
We'll exaggerate.
90
00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:20.920
Arms out to the right, body kind of low left.
91
00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.760
Hands up with a pretty neutral, tiny little draw.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Connect Inside-Out Swing with Low Left for Better Contact
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify how to create a flat spot at the bottom of your swing.
- Understand the relationship between arm movement and body alignment.
- Learn to avoid common pitfalls like steep swings and slices.
In this video, you'll learn how to unify the concepts of swinging low left and inside-out to improve your golf swing. Understanding these principles can help you create a flatter swing path for more consistent ball striking.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.280
In this concept video, we're connecting inside out and low left.
2
00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.480
So I had a question come up that on social media, you often hear what seem like
3
00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:14.700
opposing
4
00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:20.180
views that some people advocate you need to swing low left, way down and around
5
00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:20.920
, almost
6
00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.710
exaggerating kind of some of these fields, kind of like a Alex Norin type
7
00:00:24.710 --> 00:00:26.360
practice swing.
8
00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:32.760
And then you have swinging out to right field or swinging in to out, out to the
9
00:00:32.760 --> 00:00:33.640
right.
10
00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.010
Those fields, and you have people basically advocating never swing low left,
11
00:00:38.010 --> 00:00:38.680
that's how
12
00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:41.080
you become a chop slicer.
13
00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:46.610
So I thought I'd discuss how those two views can be unified if you understand
14
00:00:46.610 --> 00:00:47.800
the different
15
00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:49.240
pieces of the swing.
16
00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.940
So essentially, in order to create this flat spot down at the bottom, we need
17
00:00:53.940 --> 00:00:54.640
to have our
18
00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:59.190
arms work in more of a shallow or kind of like skimming fashion where the arms
19
00:00:59.190 --> 00:00:59.920
are working
20
00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.720
more kind of parallel to the ground, kind of like this.
21
00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:07.550
And in order to do so, we typically are going to have a fair amount of the
22
00:01:07.550 --> 00:01:08.680
shoulders staying
23
00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.850
closed and side bend of the thoracic spine, a little bit of tilt this way,
24
00:01:13.850 --> 00:01:14.440
right arm kind
25
00:01:14.440 --> 00:01:19.210
of under left, creating this impact window and the arms working more in this
26
00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:20.720
kind of supination
27
00:01:20.720 --> 00:01:26.310
ulnar deviation, which is essentially swinging the club just from the arms
28
00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:27.520
perspective out
29
00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:29.120
to the right, kind of like this.
30
00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:36.500
So if you struggle with a steep arm pattern, more of a chicken wing, more of a
31
00:01:36.500 --> 00:01:37.400
big over
32
00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:41.640
the top, down to the bottom movement, then you're probably going to gravitate
33
00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.200
towards
34
00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.670
some of these fields related more of the to the arms swinging out to right
35
00:01:46.670 --> 00:01:47.360
field.
36
00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:52.800
Now, we don't actually want the club to swing 20 degrees out to the right and a
37
00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:53.920
lot of juniors,
38
00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:59.900
a lot of good players who get their arms working really well tend to have body
39
00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:01.000
movements that
40
00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.060
can encourage that and they come in hitting hooks.
41
00:02:05.060 --> 00:02:09.610
So a lot of those players will have either early extension or more of a tilt or
42
00:02:09.610 --> 00:02:10.000
more
43
00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.920
of a stall and so everything is going out to the right.
44
00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:19.130
And so when you get someone who's early extending, tilting overly shallow with
45
00:02:19.130 --> 00:02:19.800
the body, when
46
00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:22.450
you get them to feel like they're covering the ball or staying more in their
47
00:02:22.450 --> 00:02:22.840
posture
48
00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:27.550
and not early extending and then turning their core, it feels like the core is
49
00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:28.080
now going to
50
00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:34.210
swing the arms low to the left, but the arms themselves are trying to swing out
51
00:02:34.210 --> 00:02:34.800
to the
52
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:39.120
right and together you get a very neutral but long flat spot bottom.
53
00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.570
So if your body pivot is going more this way, you're going to probably feel
54
00:02:42.570 --> 00:02:43.160
some of these
55
00:02:43.160 --> 00:02:48.600
low left moves, but if your arm pattern is pulling in narrowing, getting closer
56
00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:49.160
to you,
57
00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:53.390
you're going to probably feel more of these out to the right shallow arm fields
58
00:02:53.390 --> 00:02:53.680
.
59
00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.610
So the key is to take a look at your swing on video and get a good assessment
60
00:02:58.610 --> 00:02:59.120
as far
61
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.390
as where you think your biggest problem is where you deviate from the model is
62
00:03:04.390 --> 00:03:04.960
it more
63
00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.300
of the body, in which case you need to feel more low left or cover the ball or
64
00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:10.080
maybe even
65
00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.560
just a different feel.
66
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Not everybody gravitates towards those two, but a lot of people like to kind of
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keep
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it simple and feel what the club is doing rather than the body, those would be
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two of
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the more dominant discussion or ideas that you'll see floating around social
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media.
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Some people just don't even really feel the club, they feel more of the
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movements they're
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making, in which case you might feel more of body rotation, side bend, stacked
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centers,
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things like that in order to get the club to swing low left, and you might feel
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more
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ulnar deviation or the wipe or more shoulder blade shallowing in order to get
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the club
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to actually swing out to the right.
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That's where being able to assess your swing on video and decide which one of
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these movements
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is going to help you the most, help balance it and move it in the right
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direction, that's
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the real skill of being your own coach.
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Hopefully, this helps you tie together how you can swing out to the right and
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swing low
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left in hitting a good neutral shot.
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We'll exaggerate.
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Arms out to the right, body kind of low left.
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Hands up with a pretty neutral, tiny little draw.
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In this concept video, we're connecting inside out and low left.
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So I had a question come up that on social media, you often hear what seem like
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opposing
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views that some people advocate you need to swing low left, way down and around
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, almost
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exaggerating kind of some of these fields, kind of like a Alex Norin type
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practice swing.
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And then you have swinging out to right field or swinging in to out, out to the
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right.
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Those fields, and you have people basically advocating never swing low left,
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that's how
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you become a chop slicer.
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So I thought I'd discuss how those two views can be unified if you understand
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the different
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pieces of the swing.
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So essentially, in order to create this flat spot down at the bottom, we need
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to have our
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arms work in more of a shallow or kind of like skimming fashion where the arms
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are working
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more kind of parallel to the ground, kind of like this.
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And in order to do so, we typically are going to have a fair amount of the
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shoulders staying
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closed and side bend of the thoracic spine, a little bit of tilt this way,
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right arm kind
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of under left, creating this impact window and the arms working more in this
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kind of supination
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ulnar deviation, which is essentially swinging the club just from the arms
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perspective out
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to the right, kind of like this.
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So if you struggle with a steep arm pattern, more of a chicken wing, more of a
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big over
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the top, down to the bottom movement, then you're probably going to gravitate
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towards
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some of these fields related more of the to the arms swinging out to right
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field.
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Now, we don't actually want the club to swing 20 degrees out to the right and a
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lot of juniors,
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a lot of good players who get their arms working really well tend to have body
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movements that
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can encourage that and they come in hitting hooks.
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So a lot of those players will have either early extension or more of a tilt or
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more
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of a stall and so everything is going out to the right.
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And so when you get someone who's early extending, tilting overly shallow with
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the body, when
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you get them to feel like they're covering the ball or staying more in their
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posture
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and not early extending and then turning their core, it feels like the core is
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now going to
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swing the arms low to the left, but the arms themselves are trying to swing out
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to the
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right and together you get a very neutral but long flat spot bottom.
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So if your body pivot is going more this way, you're going to probably feel
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some of these
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low left moves, but if your arm pattern is pulling in narrowing, getting closer
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to you,
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you're going to probably feel more of these out to the right shallow arm fields
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.
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So the key is to take a look at your swing on video and get a good assessment
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as far
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as where you think your biggest problem is where you deviate from the model is
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it more
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of the body, in which case you need to feel more low left or cover the ball or
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maybe even
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just a different feel.
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Not everybody gravitates towards those two, but a lot of people like to kind of
67
00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:17.480
keep
68
00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:22.250
it simple and feel what the club is doing rather than the body, those would be
69
00:03:22.250 --> 00:03:22.760
two of
70
00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:27.960
the more dominant discussion or ideas that you'll see floating around social
71
00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:28.560
media.
72
00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.920
Some people just don't even really feel the club, they feel more of the
73
00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:31.480
movements they're
74
00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:39.140
making, in which case you might feel more of body rotation, side bend, stacked
75
00:03:39.140 --> 00:03:40.120
centers,
76
00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:44.230
things like that in order to get the club to swing low left, and you might feel
77
00:03:44.230 --> 00:03:44.560
more
78
00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:49.750
ulnar deviation or the wipe or more shoulder blade shallowing in order to get
79
00:03:49.750 --> 00:03:50.200
the club
80
00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:51.840
to actually swing out to the right.
81
00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.900
That's where being able to assess your swing on video and decide which one of
82
00:03:55.900 --> 00:03:56.920
these movements
83
00:03:56.920 --> 00:03:59.350
is going to help you the most, help balance it and move it in the right
84
00:03:59.350 --> 00:04:00.240
direction, that's
85
00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.120
the real skill of being your own coach.
86
00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:05.570
Hopefully, this helps you tie together how you can swing out to the right and
87
00:04:05.570 --> 00:04:06.080
swing low
88
00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:11.680
left in hitting a good neutral shot.
89
00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:12.680
We'll exaggerate.
90
00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:20.920
Arms out to the right, body kind of low left.
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Hands up with a pretty neutral, tiny little draw.
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