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Understand How Your Setup Affects Your Golf Swing
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify how posture impacts your backswing and transition.
- Understand the role of grip and ball position in creating speed.
- Recognize how each phase of the swing connects to enhance overall performance.
In this video, you'll learn how each part of your setup directly influences the various phases of your golf swing. By connecting these movements, you can improve your swing efficiency and consistency.
Video Transcript
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this concept video is connecting the dots. So we at the Golfsmore Academy we
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like to take the movement of the golf swing and break it down into a minimal
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number of positions and movements. Well in this video we're going to take kind
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of a broad perspective and help connect the dots as far as how these movements
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and positions kind of tie to each other. So we'll I'll try to kind of keep it a
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streamlined as I can but we're going to try to cover a lot of information. So
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hopefully then when you go through the different movements or positions in the
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stock full swing it makes a little bit more sense. So let's start with the
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three
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kind of things that we are trying to do or the three goals or drivers of the
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golf swing. I'm trying to take this implement take this golf club and the
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club head is all that really matters. I'm trying to create speed and get this
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club head moving. I'm trying to get this club head to move on a specific path
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so
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that it makes contact with that golf ball down there and I'm trying to
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orient the face in space to that path. So that sounds pretty complicated but
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those
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are the three major goals of a golf swing and we can use different feedback as
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far
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as what we're doing with setup and what we're doing you know backswing
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transition release they all give us effects to those three keys. So let's
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just go through almost as a timeline how setup affects the backswing how back
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swing affects transition how transition affects the release and how release
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affects the follow through. So we'll start with setup let me grab a chair
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because
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we're actually going to do a quick little demo.
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Okay so I'm back with my chair we're going to talk about three different
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aspects of setup. First is going to be posture second is going to be the grip
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and then third is going to be the ball position. So posture the main reason we
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want to get into this kind of athletic posture or the main reason we want to
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hinge from the hips as opposed to hinging from the spine this would be more of
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what we call S posture in my lower back or rounding my spine which would be
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more
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of C posture is we want the spine to be able to rotate and we want the hips to
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be
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able to rotate and function as well. Part of the reason why is the backswing
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pivot one of the big goals is to create the opportunity for speed and so
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the whole picture of the backswing is we're trying to get that face oriented to
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this path absolutely but the big thing is we need to create what's called
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displacement the further I can move the further I can move this golf club away
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from the golf ball the more potential power I have or really the longer I'm
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going to have or the more distance I'm going to have to apply force to this
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grip which is going to help speed up the club head. The whole purpose of this
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backswing is we're trying to displace or move this club as far away from the
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golf
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ball as we can now in doing so I also need to make contact with it right so I
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need to be able to control that path so it wouldn't work too well if I were to
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kind of go away like this because then when I got moving I would have a harder
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time making solid contact so we have some requirements that that limit a
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little bit the creativity that most of us would have with hitting this golf
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ball
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so let's go through this setup posture and why we want to hinge from the hips
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and to do so I think it's always easier to just kind of go through a little
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example so that you can figure this out so I'm going to have you sit towards
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the
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front edge of your chair get my microphone out of the way so you're
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going to sit towards the edge of the chair so your feet are flat sit up nice
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and tall put your arms across your shoulders and then go ahead and rotate
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your upper body just like so now try to do it without really
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shrugging your shoulders so you're really just trying to rotate your spine
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and your ribcage so I'm trying to turn like this okay that gives you a base
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line
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of how much you can turn just your upper body now what I want you to do is
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slouch or round your back and try to do the same movement and what you'll find
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is that it's going to limit how much you're able to turn and so what most
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people will do is they'll start moving more with their shoulder blades now
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during the golf swing and during the backswing section we talk about how that
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spine is going to straighten up or lengthen so it's not so much that if I
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start bent over I'm not going to be able to rotate because I'm going to
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lengthen my spine anyway so I will be able to rotate as it lengthens the bigger
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issue is if I start with this rounded posture it's going to make it much more
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difficult for me to start the swing with my core so I'll be more likely to
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start
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it with my arms and my shoulders if I start the swing with my arms and my
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shoulders then my shoulders are going to run out of range of motion before my
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body does and when the shoulders run out of range of motion when they get kind
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of across your body and up that's frequently when you'll feel this
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stretch and the brain gets the impulse I've kind of completed my backswing it's
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time to go into the downswing so if I'm in this rounded posture and I just pick
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up my arms the club is not going to cover nearly as much distance and I'm not
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going to use the big muscles which can apply more force as if I would make a
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good pivot the way we describe in the backswing so keeping this spine
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relatively neutral helps support all that that we're trying to do in the
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backswing so now what about the hips because my glutes are one of the most
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powerful muscles in my body if not the most powerful muscle in my body what
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could how could set up affect that well if we bring our chair back in because
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that'll just unweight the leg and I'll do it facing you so you have a perfect
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vantage point for my range of motion so if I was to raise this leg up and then
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try to rotate here we have compared to zero I'm just going to rotate my hip
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out like so and I can actually feel like glute medius starting to want to
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crimp so you saw as I had this leg up I had X amount of range of motion so now
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if I have that leg down here here will we'll do it this way so if I have that
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leg down there you can see that I can turn my hip a little bit more than if I
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have my hip up here you can see the range of motion increase so essentially if
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I
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get into S posture that's pulling my pelvis down towards my thigh it's almost
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like pulling my thigh up towards my pelvis which typically limits range of
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motion same thing if I were to flex my knees a whole lot that can limit my
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ability to turn into my hips as well so that's why we want to bend from the
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hips and let those arms hang with our weight kind of evenly distributed with
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our within our feet depending on the shot we're trying to hit so now let's
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take a look at the grip and how that affects what we're going to do in the
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backswing so during the backswing we're trying to get these this displacements
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happens that we're trying to get the club as far kind of up and back away from
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here as we can while preparing to use those big muscles during transition so
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that displacement during the backswing is going to come from the arm working
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somewhat across my body as well as slightly up if I compliment with the
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right side it ends up looking like that well what so I'll do demonstrate it
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with
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the club so if I was to have those arms work kind of across and up just like
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so well that up is going to largely be an extension of this trail wrist and a
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hinge of this lead wrist and some golfers either start the transition
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motorcycle or they wait until actual transition to begin it but the wrists
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need to have free motion in order to get into that set position otherwise so if
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I grip it more in my palm I have to have more of the displacement done by my
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elbows and you can see that that's going to affect how my wrists are going to
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be
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able to transfer that speed and energy on the downswing so the whole purpose of
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this really good grip is to allow freedom of motion of the wrist and to
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give us a good platform for being able to start orienting that face now the
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last
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piece is ball position so if I was to get set up either with the ball too far
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back or too far forward let's just explore those so if I was to set up with
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a ball position too far back in setup that's I'm still gonna be able to hinge
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from my hips I can still take a good grip but now what would happen is if I
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make the exact same swing it's going to increase my angle of attack so what
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will frequently happen is that will mess up my sequencing because my body
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will have to stay a little bit more behind I won't be able to get that good
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transition shift that we'll talk about here in a minute. Conversely if I play
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the ball too far forward it will encourage me to get a very good lower
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body shift and I would if I had to air on one side for the swing that I prefer
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we will tend to have the ball position more forward then more backward more
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often but if I had it too far forward it could potentially limit how much I'd
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be able to rotate my body through the shot because in order to get my club
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kind of down towards the golf ball I would have to keep my my chest a little
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bit more rotated and closed because as this left shoulder moves away that pulls
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this left arm further and further away from the golf ball and it would just
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make
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it that much more difficult for me to get the bottom of my swing ahead of the
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golf ball because the distance would increase. So the three major keys for
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this setup in this swing are posture ball position and grip. So now if we move
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into the takeaway the takeaway is a relatively simple motion it's more or
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less going to be starting this pivot which is a combination of rotation and
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side bend and that gives the appearance of starting of maintaining my spine
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angle. Now in order to do this one piece takeaway this takeaway that happens
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more from the rib cage my core is going to initiate the movement by by
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initiating the swing with the core it's going to delay a little bit when those
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arms are going to reach the top of the swing and it can help with rhythm and
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timing because everything will reach the top of the swing more together. If I
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was
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to start with more of my arms now my arms are pretty much my left shoulder is
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essentially reached its end range of motion I can already feel a little bit
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of a stretch there and so my shoulder wouldn't be moving during the
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remainder or the setting phase of the backswing. So if I reach that end range
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of motion too soon I kind of have to hold those muscles on stretch and that's
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going to make it a little bit more difficult for them to create speed
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effectively. So the backswing we're using the arms to create this displacement
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and
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to match the height or to match the pivot to create kind of this shaft
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plane or basically the direction that the club is going to want to swing on the
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way down or make it easier for it to swing on the way down. But the big thing
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is during the backswing we're going to have these arms going into certain
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movements because they are going to prepare for where they want to get at
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the end of transition or delivery position. So let's discuss transition
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because it'll make more sense what we're doing in the backswing if we
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understand what we're trying to do in transition. So in transition I'm trying
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to create speed so if I'm hitting this way I'm trying to create speed into that
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clubhead in the direction of the target. So similar to any rotational sport
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like
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baseball if I was throwing a wall I'm going to shift my weight onto my front
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foot and then rotate around it. If I was hitting there's going to be a very
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little shift but there's going to be a shift and then I'm going to rotate
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around it. If I was doing tennis even millennium style there's going to be a
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slight shift and then turn that shift into rotation. So in golf it's no
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different.
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The typical shift for a twerp row is going to be somewhere between four and
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six inches. That means that there are some who are below, there are some who
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are
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above but the average is going to be about four to six inches. Now the average
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width of a pelvis is going to be somewhere around 12 inches. So we're
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talking about kind of a third to half a pelvis width from the top of the swing
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they're going to or as they finish their backswing they're going to shift
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into that front foot. Now I should say that transition is basically shifting
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from rotating to the right or to rotating to the left and so it happens
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for different parts of the body at different times. It's going to have a
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general trend of moving from the ground up to the club. So the last thing that
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's
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going to change direction is going to be the club. So that means by the time
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that
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the club is changing directions I should have already started my lower body and
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then possibly even my core. So if I'm facing the camera and kind of hitting
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this way as I get to right about that setting phase my lower body is actually
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starting to shift directions. It's not going to move but basically what's
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happening is it's slowing how fast it's rotating this way which means I've
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already started to shift rotating towards the target. So the lower body is
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going to start and that lower body going first is going to create a stretch in
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my
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core or between my pelvis and my ribcage and then my ribcage is going to create
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more of a stretch in my shoulder and now I'm at the end of my transition on
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this
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really good path where the club is going to be going right at that golf ball
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with
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a face that's already starting to close because of what the arms did. So the
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body
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movements we're trying to get these big muscles to create this rotational speed
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starting with a little bit of a weight shift and then this rotation combined
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with side bend. What the arms are going to do is in order to start the club
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face
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closing towards the target the wrists are going to do what we call the
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motorcycle move or they're basically going to rotate the club slightly closed
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about on average the difference between setup and impact is going to be about
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20, 25, 30 degrees for each so basically going this way. So a lot of that is
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going
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to happen during transition and during transition this left elbow is going to
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bend slightly and that wrist where there's a slight narrowing of the distance
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between yourself and the club. That narrowing of the distance if we get way
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back to the path and what we're trying to do with impact that narrowing of the
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distance allows for this certain amount of side bend and rotation and it delays
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the straightening in the arms which helps create a flat spot in my path. So we
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refer to it on our site as the Como flat spot because as far as I know Chris
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Como was the first person to study this and kind of hypothesize it back in 2011
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where basically it's the flat spot which is essentially a place where this club
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that's swinging around me in a somewhat circular orbit has a more of a flat
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look to it than a curve to it and that flat look to it gives us the ability to
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have the bottom of our swing ahead of the golf ball as well as helping control
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some of these path relationships. So I'm gonna make that good transition with
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starting from the lower body going through the core and then my arms are
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basically ready to fire during the release. So now most of my pressure is
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going into my left foot my arms are kind of in this narrow distance right
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here is what we refer to as delivery position. Now from delivery position
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basically my wrists are going to continue the left wrist is going to be
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rotating and the right arm is basically going to be extending. The wrist is
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going to extend through the shot but I'll be making contact with the ball kind
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of something like here as it's going into that out position. The lead wrist is
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going to be trying to more or less rotate but it's going to get changed from
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this boat or motorcycle position too pretty straight because of what the
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right arm is doing. At that same time the body is going to be bracing and
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essentially pushing through that left leg to help propel those arms into their
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follow through position. So while impact is going to be more or less with my
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hands
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slightly ahead that left wrist pretty straight the right wrist slightly bent
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and
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then that elbow kind of in towards my side body rotated 30 degrees side bend
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about 30 degrees hips open even a little bit more about 40 degrees. While I'm
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in
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that whole position basically what's happening during the release is those
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arms are extending and those legs are extending in a very athletic movement.
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If you lack that body rotation and that arm extension it's going to be very
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hard to have the swing be shallow enough to have the bottom of the swing
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roughly four inches out in front of the golf ball. So hopefully that helps
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clarify
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or help you understand why we're making these movements and why I refer to the
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follow through position is kind of the end of the swing because I'm pretty much
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done from there and then whatever I do whether it's you know Arnold Palmer or
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you know someone a little bit more classic doesn't really matter it's more
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of a sign of how you absorb the force but everything that you do up until this
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point has a direct impact on either how you're going to create speed how you're
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going to control the path of the club bed or how you're going to orient the
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face to that path. So as you go through your stock full swing just keep this
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overview in mind and we'll break down each of these key phases and key
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positions to into the key details which will give you drills and ways that you
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can practice them at home and ultimately figure out your way of
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incorporating these movements into your golf swing.
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this concept video is connecting the dots. So we at the Golfsmore Academy we
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like to take the movement of the golf swing and break it down into a minimal
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number of positions and movements. Well in this video we're going to take kind
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of a broad perspective and help connect the dots as far as how these movements
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and positions kind of tie to each other. So we'll I'll try to kind of keep it a
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streamlined as I can but we're going to try to cover a lot of information. So
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hopefully then when you go through the different movements or positions in the
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stock full swing it makes a little bit more sense. So let's start with the
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three
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kind of things that we are trying to do or the three goals or drivers of the
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golf swing. I'm trying to take this implement take this golf club and the
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club head is all that really matters. I'm trying to create speed and get this
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club head moving. I'm trying to get this club head to move on a specific path
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so
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that it makes contact with that golf ball down there and I'm trying to
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orient the face in space to that path. So that sounds pretty complicated but
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those
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are the three major goals of a golf swing and we can use different feedback as
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far
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as what we're doing with setup and what we're doing you know backswing
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transition release they all give us effects to those three keys. So let's
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just go through almost as a timeline how setup affects the backswing how back
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swing affects transition how transition affects the release and how release
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affects the follow through. So we'll start with setup let me grab a chair
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because
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we're actually going to do a quick little demo.
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Okay so I'm back with my chair we're going to talk about three different
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aspects of setup. First is going to be posture second is going to be the grip
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and then third is going to be the ball position. So posture the main reason we
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want to get into this kind of athletic posture or the main reason we want to
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hinge from the hips as opposed to hinging from the spine this would be more of
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what we call S posture in my lower back or rounding my spine which would be
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more
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of C posture is we want the spine to be able to rotate and we want the hips to
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be
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able to rotate and function as well. Part of the reason why is the backswing
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pivot one of the big goals is to create the opportunity for speed and so
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the whole picture of the backswing is we're trying to get that face oriented to
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this path absolutely but the big thing is we need to create what's called
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displacement the further I can move the further I can move this golf club away
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from the golf ball the more potential power I have or really the longer I'm
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going to have or the more distance I'm going to have to apply force to this
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grip which is going to help speed up the club head. The whole purpose of this
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backswing is we're trying to displace or move this club as far away from the
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golf
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ball as we can now in doing so I also need to make contact with it right so I
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need to be able to control that path so it wouldn't work too well if I were to
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kind of go away like this because then when I got moving I would have a harder
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time making solid contact so we have some requirements that that limit a
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little bit the creativity that most of us would have with hitting this golf
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ball
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so let's go through this setup posture and why we want to hinge from the hips
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and to do so I think it's always easier to just kind of go through a little
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example so that you can figure this out so I'm going to have you sit towards
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the
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front edge of your chair get my microphone out of the way so you're
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going to sit towards the edge of the chair so your feet are flat sit up nice
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and tall put your arms across your shoulders and then go ahead and rotate
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your upper body just like so now try to do it without really
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shrugging your shoulders so you're really just trying to rotate your spine
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and your ribcage so I'm trying to turn like this okay that gives you a base
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line
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of how much you can turn just your upper body now what I want you to do is
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slouch or round your back and try to do the same movement and what you'll find
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is that it's going to limit how much you're able to turn and so what most
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people will do is they'll start moving more with their shoulder blades now
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during the golf swing and during the backswing section we talk about how that
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spine is going to straighten up or lengthen so it's not so much that if I
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start bent over I'm not going to be able to rotate because I'm going to
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lengthen my spine anyway so I will be able to rotate as it lengthens the bigger
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issue is if I start with this rounded posture it's going to make it much more
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difficult for me to start the swing with my core so I'll be more likely to
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start
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it with my arms and my shoulders if I start the swing with my arms and my
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shoulders then my shoulders are going to run out of range of motion before my
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body does and when the shoulders run out of range of motion when they get kind
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of across your body and up that's frequently when you'll feel this
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stretch and the brain gets the impulse I've kind of completed my backswing it's
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time to go into the downswing so if I'm in this rounded posture and I just pick
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up my arms the club is not going to cover nearly as much distance and I'm not
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going to use the big muscles which can apply more force as if I would make a
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good pivot the way we describe in the backswing so keeping this spine
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relatively neutral helps support all that that we're trying to do in the
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backswing so now what about the hips because my glutes are one of the most
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powerful muscles in my body if not the most powerful muscle in my body what
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could how could set up affect that well if we bring our chair back in because
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that'll just unweight the leg and I'll do it facing you so you have a perfect
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vantage point for my range of motion so if I was to raise this leg up and then
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try to rotate here we have compared to zero I'm just going to rotate my hip
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out like so and I can actually feel like glute medius starting to want to
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crimp so you saw as I had this leg up I had X amount of range of motion so now
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if I have that leg down here here will we'll do it this way so if I have that
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leg down there you can see that I can turn my hip a little bit more than if I
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have my hip up here you can see the range of motion increase so essentially if
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get into S posture that's pulling my pelvis down towards my thigh it's almost
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like pulling my thigh up towards my pelvis which typically limits range of
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motion same thing if I were to flex my knees a whole lot that can limit my
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ability to turn into my hips as well so that's why we want to bend from the
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hips and let those arms hang with our weight kind of evenly distributed with
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our within our feet depending on the shot we're trying to hit so now let's
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take a look at the grip and how that affects what we're going to do in the
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backswing so during the backswing we're trying to get these this displacements
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happens that we're trying to get the club as far kind of up and back away from
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here as we can while preparing to use those big muscles during transition so
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that displacement during the backswing is going to come from the arm working
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somewhat across my body as well as slightly up if I compliment with the
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right side it ends up looking like that well what so I'll do demonstrate it
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with
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the club so if I was to have those arms work kind of across and up just like
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so well that up is going to largely be an extension of this trail wrist and a
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hinge of this lead wrist and some golfers either start the transition
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motorcycle or they wait until actual transition to begin it but the wrists
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need to have free motion in order to get into that set position otherwise so if
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I grip it more in my palm I have to have more of the displacement done by my
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elbows and you can see that that's going to affect how my wrists are going to
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be
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able to transfer that speed and energy on the downswing so the whole purpose of
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this really good grip is to allow freedom of motion of the wrist and to
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give us a good platform for being able to start orienting that face now the
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last
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piece is ball position so if I was to get set up either with the ball too far
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back or too far forward let's just explore those so if I was to set up with
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a ball position too far back in setup that's I'm still gonna be able to hinge
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from my hips I can still take a good grip but now what would happen is if I
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make the exact same swing it's going to increase my angle of attack so what
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will frequently happen is that will mess up my sequencing because my body
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will have to stay a little bit more behind I won't be able to get that good
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transition shift that we'll talk about here in a minute. Conversely if I play
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the ball too far forward it will encourage me to get a very good lower
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body shift and I would if I had to air on one side for the swing that I prefer
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we will tend to have the ball position more forward then more backward more
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often but if I had it too far forward it could potentially limit how much I'd
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be able to rotate my body through the shot because in order to get my club
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kind of down towards the golf ball I would have to keep my my chest a little
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bit more rotated and closed because as this left shoulder moves away that pulls
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this left arm further and further away from the golf ball and it would just
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make
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it that much more difficult for me to get the bottom of my swing ahead of the
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golf ball because the distance would increase. So the three major keys for
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this setup in this swing are posture ball position and grip. So now if we move
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into the takeaway the takeaway is a relatively simple motion it's more or
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less going to be starting this pivot which is a combination of rotation and
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side bend and that gives the appearance of starting of maintaining my spine
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angle. Now in order to do this one piece takeaway this takeaway that happens
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more from the rib cage my core is going to initiate the movement by by
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initiating the swing with the core it's going to delay a little bit when those
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arms are going to reach the top of the swing and it can help with rhythm and
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timing because everything will reach the top of the swing more together. If I
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to start with more of my arms now my arms are pretty much my left shoulder is
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essentially reached its end range of motion I can already feel a little bit
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of a stretch there and so my shoulder wouldn't be moving during the
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remainder or the setting phase of the backswing. So if I reach that end range
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of motion too soon I kind of have to hold those muscles on stretch and that's
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going to make it a little bit more difficult for them to create speed
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effectively. So the backswing we're using the arms to create this displacement
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and
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to match the height or to match the pivot to create kind of this shaft
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plane or basically the direction that the club is going to want to swing on the
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way down or make it easier for it to swing on the way down. But the big thing
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is during the backswing we're going to have these arms going into certain
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movements because they are going to prepare for where they want to get at
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the end of transition or delivery position. So let's discuss transition
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because it'll make more sense what we're doing in the backswing if we
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understand what we're trying to do in transition. So in transition I'm trying
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to create speed so if I'm hitting this way I'm trying to create speed into that
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clubhead in the direction of the target. So similar to any rotational sport
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like
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baseball if I was throwing a wall I'm going to shift my weight onto my front
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foot and then rotate around it. If I was hitting there's going to be a very
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little shift but there's going to be a shift and then I'm going to rotate
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around it. If I was doing tennis even millennium style there's going to be a
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slight shift and then turn that shift into rotation. So in golf it's no
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different.
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The typical shift for a twerp row is going to be somewhere between four and
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six inches. That means that there are some who are below, there are some who
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are
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above but the average is going to be about four to six inches. Now the average
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width of a pelvis is going to be somewhere around 12 inches. So we're
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talking about kind of a third to half a pelvis width from the top of the swing
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they're going to or as they finish their backswing they're going to shift
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into that front foot. Now I should say that transition is basically shifting
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from rotating to the right or to rotating to the left and so it happens
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for different parts of the body at different times. It's going to have a
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general trend of moving from the ground up to the club. So the last thing that
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going to change direction is going to be the club. So that means by the time
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that
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the club is changing directions I should have already started my lower body and
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then possibly even my core. So if I'm facing the camera and kind of hitting
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this way as I get to right about that setting phase my lower body is actually
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starting to shift directions. It's not going to move but basically what's
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happening is it's slowing how fast it's rotating this way which means I've
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already started to shift rotating towards the target. So the lower body is
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going to start and that lower body going first is going to create a stretch in
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my
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core or between my pelvis and my ribcage and then my ribcage is going to create
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more of a stretch in my shoulder and now I'm at the end of my transition on
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this
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really good path where the club is going to be going right at that golf ball
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with
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a face that's already starting to close because of what the arms did. So the
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body
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movements we're trying to get these big muscles to create this rotational speed
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starting with a little bit of a weight shift and then this rotation combined
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with side bend. What the arms are going to do is in order to start the club
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face
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closing towards the target the wrists are going to do what we call the
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motorcycle move or they're basically going to rotate the club slightly closed
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about on average the difference between setup and impact is going to be about
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20, 25, 30 degrees for each so basically going this way. So a lot of that is
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going
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to happen during transition and during transition this left elbow is going to
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bend slightly and that wrist where there's a slight narrowing of the distance
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between yourself and the club. That narrowing of the distance if we get way
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back to the path and what we're trying to do with impact that narrowing of the
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distance allows for this certain amount of side bend and rotation and it delays
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the straightening in the arms which helps create a flat spot in my path. So we
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refer to it on our site as the Como flat spot because as far as I know Chris
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Como was the first person to study this and kind of hypothesize it back in 2011
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where basically it's the flat spot which is essentially a place where this club
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that's swinging around me in a somewhat circular orbit has a more of a flat
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look to it than a curve to it and that flat look to it gives us the ability to
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have the bottom of our swing ahead of the golf ball as well as helping control
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some of these path relationships. So I'm gonna make that good transition with
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starting from the lower body going through the core and then my arms are
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basically ready to fire during the release. So now most of my pressure is
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going into my left foot my arms are kind of in this narrow distance right
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here is what we refer to as delivery position. Now from delivery position
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basically my wrists are going to continue the left wrist is going to be
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rotating and the right arm is basically going to be extending. The wrist is
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going to extend through the shot but I'll be making contact with the ball kind
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of something like here as it's going into that out position. The lead wrist is
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going to be trying to more or less rotate but it's going to get changed from
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this boat or motorcycle position too pretty straight because of what the
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right arm is doing. At that same time the body is going to be bracing and
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essentially pushing through that left leg to help propel those arms into their
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follow through position. So while impact is going to be more or less with my
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hands
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slightly ahead that left wrist pretty straight the right wrist slightly bent
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and
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then that elbow kind of in towards my side body rotated 30 degrees side bend
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about 30 degrees hips open even a little bit more about 40 degrees. While I'm
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in
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that whole position basically what's happening during the release is those
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arms are extending and those legs are extending in a very athletic movement.
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If you lack that body rotation and that arm extension it's going to be very
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hard to have the swing be shallow enough to have the bottom of the swing
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roughly four inches out in front of the golf ball. So hopefully that helps
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clarify
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or help you understand why we're making these movements and why I refer to the
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follow through position is kind of the end of the swing because I'm pretty much
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done from there and then whatever I do whether it's you know Arnold Palmer or
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you know someone a little bit more classic doesn't really matter it's more
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of a sign of how you absorb the force but everything that you do up until this
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point has a direct impact on either how you're going to create speed how you're
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going to control the path of the club bed or how you're going to orient the
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face to that path. So as you go through your stock full swing just keep this
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overview in mind and we'll break down each of these key phases and key
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positions to into the key details which will give you drills and ways that you
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can practice them at home and ultimately figure out your way of
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incorporating these movements into your golf swing.
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.
Understand How Your Setup Affects Your Golf Swing
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify how posture impacts your backswing and transition.
- Understand the role of grip and ball position in creating speed.
- Recognize how each phase of the swing connects to enhance overall performance.
In this video, you'll learn how each part of your setup directly influences the various phases of your golf swing. By connecting these movements, you can improve your swing efficiency and consistency.
Video Transcript
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this concept video is connecting the dots. So we at the Golfsmore Academy we
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like to take the movement of the golf swing and break it down into a minimal
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number of positions and movements. Well in this video we're going to take kind
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of a broad perspective and help connect the dots as far as how these movements
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and positions kind of tie to each other. So we'll I'll try to kind of keep it a
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streamlined as I can but we're going to try to cover a lot of information. So
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hopefully then when you go through the different movements or positions in the
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stock full swing it makes a little bit more sense. So let's start with the
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three
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kind of things that we are trying to do or the three goals or drivers of the
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golf swing. I'm trying to take this implement take this golf club and the
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club head is all that really matters. I'm trying to create speed and get this
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club head moving. I'm trying to get this club head to move on a specific path
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so
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that it makes contact with that golf ball down there and I'm trying to
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orient the face in space to that path. So that sounds pretty complicated but
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those
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are the three major goals of a golf swing and we can use different feedback as
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far
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as what we're doing with setup and what we're doing you know backswing
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transition release they all give us effects to those three keys. So let's
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just go through almost as a timeline how setup affects the backswing how back
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swing affects transition how transition affects the release and how release
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affects the follow through. So we'll start with setup let me grab a chair
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because
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we're actually going to do a quick little demo.
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Okay so I'm back with my chair we're going to talk about three different
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aspects of setup. First is going to be posture second is going to be the grip
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and then third is going to be the ball position. So posture the main reason we
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want to get into this kind of athletic posture or the main reason we want to
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hinge from the hips as opposed to hinging from the spine this would be more of
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what we call S posture in my lower back or rounding my spine which would be
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more
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of C posture is we want the spine to be able to rotate and we want the hips to
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be
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able to rotate and function as well. Part of the reason why is the backswing
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pivot one of the big goals is to create the opportunity for speed and so
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the whole picture of the backswing is we're trying to get that face oriented to
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this path absolutely but the big thing is we need to create what's called
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displacement the further I can move the further I can move this golf club away
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from the golf ball the more potential power I have or really the longer I'm
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going to have or the more distance I'm going to have to apply force to this
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grip which is going to help speed up the club head. The whole purpose of this
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backswing is we're trying to displace or move this club as far away from the
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golf
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ball as we can now in doing so I also need to make contact with it right so I
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need to be able to control that path so it wouldn't work too well if I were to
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kind of go away like this because then when I got moving I would have a harder
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time making solid contact so we have some requirements that that limit a
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little bit the creativity that most of us would have with hitting this golf
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ball
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so let's go through this setup posture and why we want to hinge from the hips
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and to do so I think it's always easier to just kind of go through a little
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example so that you can figure this out so I'm going to have you sit towards
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the
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front edge of your chair get my microphone out of the way so you're
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going to sit towards the edge of the chair so your feet are flat sit up nice
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and tall put your arms across your shoulders and then go ahead and rotate
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your upper body just like so now try to do it without really
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shrugging your shoulders so you're really just trying to rotate your spine
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and your ribcage so I'm trying to turn like this okay that gives you a base
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line
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of how much you can turn just your upper body now what I want you to do is
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slouch or round your back and try to do the same movement and what you'll find
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is that it's going to limit how much you're able to turn and so what most
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people will do is they'll start moving more with their shoulder blades now
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during the golf swing and during the backswing section we talk about how that
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spine is going to straighten up or lengthen so it's not so much that if I
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start bent over I'm not going to be able to rotate because I'm going to
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lengthen my spine anyway so I will be able to rotate as it lengthens the bigger
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issue is if I start with this rounded posture it's going to make it much more
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difficult for me to start the swing with my core so I'll be more likely to
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start
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it with my arms and my shoulders if I start the swing with my arms and my
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shoulders then my shoulders are going to run out of range of motion before my
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body does and when the shoulders run out of range of motion when they get kind
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of across your body and up that's frequently when you'll feel this
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stretch and the brain gets the impulse I've kind of completed my backswing it's
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time to go into the downswing so if I'm in this rounded posture and I just pick
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up my arms the club is not going to cover nearly as much distance and I'm not
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going to use the big muscles which can apply more force as if I would make a
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good pivot the way we describe in the backswing so keeping this spine
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relatively neutral helps support all that that we're trying to do in the
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backswing so now what about the hips because my glutes are one of the most
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powerful muscles in my body if not the most powerful muscle in my body what
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could how could set up affect that well if we bring our chair back in because
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that'll just unweight the leg and I'll do it facing you so you have a perfect
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vantage point for my range of motion so if I was to raise this leg up and then
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try to rotate here we have compared to zero I'm just going to rotate my hip
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out like so and I can actually feel like glute medius starting to want to
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crimp so you saw as I had this leg up I had X amount of range of motion so now
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if I have that leg down here here will we'll do it this way so if I have that
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leg down there you can see that I can turn my hip a little bit more than if I
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have my hip up here you can see the range of motion increase so essentially if
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I
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get into S posture that's pulling my pelvis down towards my thigh it's almost
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like pulling my thigh up towards my pelvis which typically limits range of
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motion same thing if I were to flex my knees a whole lot that can limit my
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ability to turn into my hips as well so that's why we want to bend from the
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hips and let those arms hang with our weight kind of evenly distributed with
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our within our feet depending on the shot we're trying to hit so now let's
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take a look at the grip and how that affects what we're going to do in the
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backswing so during the backswing we're trying to get these this displacements
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happens that we're trying to get the club as far kind of up and back away from
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here as we can while preparing to use those big muscles during transition so
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that displacement during the backswing is going to come from the arm working
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somewhat across my body as well as slightly up if I compliment with the
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right side it ends up looking like that well what so I'll do demonstrate it
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with
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the club so if I was to have those arms work kind of across and up just like
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so well that up is going to largely be an extension of this trail wrist and a
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hinge of this lead wrist and some golfers either start the transition
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motorcycle or they wait until actual transition to begin it but the wrists
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need to have free motion in order to get into that set position otherwise so if
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I grip it more in my palm I have to have more of the displacement done by my
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elbows and you can see that that's going to affect how my wrists are going to
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be
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able to transfer that speed and energy on the downswing so the whole purpose of
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this really good grip is to allow freedom of motion of the wrist and to
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give us a good platform for being able to start orienting that face now the
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last
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piece is ball position so if I was to get set up either with the ball too far
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back or too far forward let's just explore those so if I was to set up with
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a ball position too far back in setup that's I'm still gonna be able to hinge
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from my hips I can still take a good grip but now what would happen is if I
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make the exact same swing it's going to increase my angle of attack so what
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will frequently happen is that will mess up my sequencing because my body
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will have to stay a little bit more behind I won't be able to get that good
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transition shift that we'll talk about here in a minute. Conversely if I play
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the ball too far forward it will encourage me to get a very good lower
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body shift and I would if I had to air on one side for the swing that I prefer
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we will tend to have the ball position more forward then more backward more
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often but if I had it too far forward it could potentially limit how much I'd
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be able to rotate my body through the shot because in order to get my club
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kind of down towards the golf ball I would have to keep my my chest a little
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bit more rotated and closed because as this left shoulder moves away that pulls
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this left arm further and further away from the golf ball and it would just
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make
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it that much more difficult for me to get the bottom of my swing ahead of the
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golf ball because the distance would increase. So the three major keys for
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this setup in this swing are posture ball position and grip. So now if we move
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into the takeaway the takeaway is a relatively simple motion it's more or
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less going to be starting this pivot which is a combination of rotation and
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side bend and that gives the appearance of starting of maintaining my spine
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angle. Now in order to do this one piece takeaway this takeaway that happens
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more from the rib cage my core is going to initiate the movement by by
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initiating the swing with the core it's going to delay a little bit when those
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arms are going to reach the top of the swing and it can help with rhythm and
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timing because everything will reach the top of the swing more together. If I
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was
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to start with more of my arms now my arms are pretty much my left shoulder is
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essentially reached its end range of motion I can already feel a little bit
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of a stretch there and so my shoulder wouldn't be moving during the
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remainder or the setting phase of the backswing. So if I reach that end range
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of motion too soon I kind of have to hold those muscles on stretch and that's
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going to make it a little bit more difficult for them to create speed
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effectively. So the backswing we're using the arms to create this displacement
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and
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to match the height or to match the pivot to create kind of this shaft
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plane or basically the direction that the club is going to want to swing on the
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way down or make it easier for it to swing on the way down. But the big thing
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is during the backswing we're going to have these arms going into certain
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movements because they are going to prepare for where they want to get at
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the end of transition or delivery position. So let's discuss transition
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because it'll make more sense what we're doing in the backswing if we
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understand what we're trying to do in transition. So in transition I'm trying
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to create speed so if I'm hitting this way I'm trying to create speed into that
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clubhead in the direction of the target. So similar to any rotational sport
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like
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baseball if I was throwing a wall I'm going to shift my weight onto my front
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foot and then rotate around it. If I was hitting there's going to be a very
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little shift but there's going to be a shift and then I'm going to rotate
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around it. If I was doing tennis even millennium style there's going to be a
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slight shift and then turn that shift into rotation. So in golf it's no
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different.
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The typical shift for a twerp row is going to be somewhere between four and
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six inches. That means that there are some who are below, there are some who
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are
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above but the average is going to be about four to six inches. Now the average
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width of a pelvis is going to be somewhere around 12 inches. So we're
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talking about kind of a third to half a pelvis width from the top of the swing
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they're going to or as they finish their backswing they're going to shift
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into that front foot. Now I should say that transition is basically shifting
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from rotating to the right or to rotating to the left and so it happens
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for different parts of the body at different times. It's going to have a
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general trend of moving from the ground up to the club. So the last thing that
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going to change direction is going to be the club. So that means by the time
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that
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the club is changing directions I should have already started my lower body and
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then possibly even my core. So if I'm facing the camera and kind of hitting
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this way as I get to right about that setting phase my lower body is actually
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starting to shift directions. It's not going to move but basically what's
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happening is it's slowing how fast it's rotating this way which means I've
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already started to shift rotating towards the target. So the lower body is
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going to start and that lower body going first is going to create a stretch in
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my
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core or between my pelvis and my ribcage and then my ribcage is going to create
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more of a stretch in my shoulder and now I'm at the end of my transition on
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this
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really good path where the club is going to be going right at that golf ball
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with
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a face that's already starting to close because of what the arms did. So the
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body
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movements we're trying to get these big muscles to create this rotational speed
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starting with a little bit of a weight shift and then this rotation combined
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with side bend. What the arms are going to do is in order to start the club
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face
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closing towards the target the wrists are going to do what we call the
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motorcycle move or they're basically going to rotate the club slightly closed
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about on average the difference between setup and impact is going to be about
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20, 25, 30 degrees for each so basically going this way. So a lot of that is
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going
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to happen during transition and during transition this left elbow is going to
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bend slightly and that wrist where there's a slight narrowing of the distance
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between yourself and the club. That narrowing of the distance if we get way
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back to the path and what we're trying to do with impact that narrowing of the
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distance allows for this certain amount of side bend and rotation and it delays
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the straightening in the arms which helps create a flat spot in my path. So we
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refer to it on our site as the Como flat spot because as far as I know Chris
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Como was the first person to study this and kind of hypothesize it back in 2011
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where basically it's the flat spot which is essentially a place where this club
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that's swinging around me in a somewhat circular orbit has a more of a flat
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look to it than a curve to it and that flat look to it gives us the ability to
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have the bottom of our swing ahead of the golf ball as well as helping control
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some of these path relationships. So I'm gonna make that good transition with
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starting from the lower body going through the core and then my arms are
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basically ready to fire during the release. So now most of my pressure is
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going into my left foot my arms are kind of in this narrow distance right
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here is what we refer to as delivery position. Now from delivery position
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basically my wrists are going to continue the left wrist is going to be
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rotating and the right arm is basically going to be extending. The wrist is
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going to extend through the shot but I'll be making contact with the ball kind
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of something like here as it's going into that out position. The lead wrist is
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going to be trying to more or less rotate but it's going to get changed from
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this boat or motorcycle position too pretty straight because of what the
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right arm is doing. At that same time the body is going to be bracing and
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essentially pushing through that left leg to help propel those arms into their
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follow through position. So while impact is going to be more or less with my
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hands
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slightly ahead that left wrist pretty straight the right wrist slightly bent
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and
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then that elbow kind of in towards my side body rotated 30 degrees side bend
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about 30 degrees hips open even a little bit more about 40 degrees. While I'm
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in
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that whole position basically what's happening during the release is those
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arms are extending and those legs are extending in a very athletic movement.
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If you lack that body rotation and that arm extension it's going to be very
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hard to have the swing be shallow enough to have the bottom of the swing
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roughly four inches out in front of the golf ball. So hopefully that helps
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clarify
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or help you understand why we're making these movements and why I refer to the
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follow through position is kind of the end of the swing because I'm pretty much
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done from there and then whatever I do whether it's you know Arnold Palmer or
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you know someone a little bit more classic doesn't really matter it's more
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of a sign of how you absorb the force but everything that you do up until this
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point has a direct impact on either how you're going to create speed how you're
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going to control the path of the club bed or how you're going to orient the
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face to that path. So as you go through your stock full swing just keep this
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overview in mind and we'll break down each of these key phases and key
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positions to into the key details which will give you drills and ways that you
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can practice them at home and ultimately figure out your way of
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incorporating these movements into your golf swing.
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this concept video is connecting the dots. So we at the Golfsmore Academy we
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like to take the movement of the golf swing and break it down into a minimal
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number of positions and movements. Well in this video we're going to take kind
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of a broad perspective and help connect the dots as far as how these movements
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and positions kind of tie to each other. So we'll I'll try to kind of keep it a
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streamlined as I can but we're going to try to cover a lot of information. So
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hopefully then when you go through the different movements or positions in the
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stock full swing it makes a little bit more sense. So let's start with the
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three
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kind of things that we are trying to do or the three goals or drivers of the
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golf swing. I'm trying to take this implement take this golf club and the
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club head is all that really matters. I'm trying to create speed and get this
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club head moving. I'm trying to get this club head to move on a specific path
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so
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that it makes contact with that golf ball down there and I'm trying to
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orient the face in space to that path. So that sounds pretty complicated but
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those
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are the three major goals of a golf swing and we can use different feedback as
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far
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as what we're doing with setup and what we're doing you know backswing
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transition release they all give us effects to those three keys. So let's
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just go through almost as a timeline how setup affects the backswing how back
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swing affects transition how transition affects the release and how release
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affects the follow through. So we'll start with setup let me grab a chair
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because
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we're actually going to do a quick little demo.
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Okay so I'm back with my chair we're going to talk about three different
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aspects of setup. First is going to be posture second is going to be the grip
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and then third is going to be the ball position. So posture the main reason we
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want to get into this kind of athletic posture or the main reason we want to
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hinge from the hips as opposed to hinging from the spine this would be more of
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what we call S posture in my lower back or rounding my spine which would be
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more
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of C posture is we want the spine to be able to rotate and we want the hips to
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be
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able to rotate and function as well. Part of the reason why is the backswing
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pivot one of the big goals is to create the opportunity for speed and so
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the whole picture of the backswing is we're trying to get that face oriented to
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this path absolutely but the big thing is we need to create what's called
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displacement the further I can move the further I can move this golf club away
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from the golf ball the more potential power I have or really the longer I'm
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going to have or the more distance I'm going to have to apply force to this
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grip which is going to help speed up the club head. The whole purpose of this
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backswing is we're trying to displace or move this club as far away from the
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golf
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ball as we can now in doing so I also need to make contact with it right so I
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need to be able to control that path so it wouldn't work too well if I were to
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kind of go away like this because then when I got moving I would have a harder
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time making solid contact so we have some requirements that that limit a
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little bit the creativity that most of us would have with hitting this golf
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ball
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so let's go through this setup posture and why we want to hinge from the hips
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and to do so I think it's always easier to just kind of go through a little
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example so that you can figure this out so I'm going to have you sit towards
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the
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front edge of your chair get my microphone out of the way so you're
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going to sit towards the edge of the chair so your feet are flat sit up nice
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and tall put your arms across your shoulders and then go ahead and rotate
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your upper body just like so now try to do it without really
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shrugging your shoulders so you're really just trying to rotate your spine
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and your ribcage so I'm trying to turn like this okay that gives you a base
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line
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of how much you can turn just your upper body now what I want you to do is
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slouch or round your back and try to do the same movement and what you'll find
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is that it's going to limit how much you're able to turn and so what most
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people will do is they'll start moving more with their shoulder blades now
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during the golf swing and during the backswing section we talk about how that
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spine is going to straighten up or lengthen so it's not so much that if I
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start bent over I'm not going to be able to rotate because I'm going to
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lengthen my spine anyway so I will be able to rotate as it lengthens the bigger
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issue is if I start with this rounded posture it's going to make it much more
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difficult for me to start the swing with my core so I'll be more likely to
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start
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it with my arms and my shoulders if I start the swing with my arms and my
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shoulders then my shoulders are going to run out of range of motion before my
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body does and when the shoulders run out of range of motion when they get kind
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of across your body and up that's frequently when you'll feel this
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stretch and the brain gets the impulse I've kind of completed my backswing it's
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time to go into the downswing so if I'm in this rounded posture and I just pick
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up my arms the club is not going to cover nearly as much distance and I'm not
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going to use the big muscles which can apply more force as if I would make a
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good pivot the way we describe in the backswing so keeping this spine
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relatively neutral helps support all that that we're trying to do in the
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backswing so now what about the hips because my glutes are one of the most
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powerful muscles in my body if not the most powerful muscle in my body what
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could how could set up affect that well if we bring our chair back in because
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that'll just unweight the leg and I'll do it facing you so you have a perfect
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vantage point for my range of motion so if I was to raise this leg up and then
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try to rotate here we have compared to zero I'm just going to rotate my hip
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out like so and I can actually feel like glute medius starting to want to
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crimp so you saw as I had this leg up I had X amount of range of motion so now
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if I have that leg down here here will we'll do it this way so if I have that
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leg down there you can see that I can turn my hip a little bit more than if I
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have my hip up here you can see the range of motion increase so essentially if
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get into S posture that's pulling my pelvis down towards my thigh it's almost
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like pulling my thigh up towards my pelvis which typically limits range of
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motion same thing if I were to flex my knees a whole lot that can limit my
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ability to turn into my hips as well so that's why we want to bend from the
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hips and let those arms hang with our weight kind of evenly distributed with
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our within our feet depending on the shot we're trying to hit so now let's
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take a look at the grip and how that affects what we're going to do in the
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backswing so during the backswing we're trying to get these this displacements
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happens that we're trying to get the club as far kind of up and back away from
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here as we can while preparing to use those big muscles during transition so
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that displacement during the backswing is going to come from the arm working
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somewhat across my body as well as slightly up if I compliment with the
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right side it ends up looking like that well what so I'll do demonstrate it
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with
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the club so if I was to have those arms work kind of across and up just like
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so well that up is going to largely be an extension of this trail wrist and a
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hinge of this lead wrist and some golfers either start the transition
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motorcycle or they wait until actual transition to begin it but the wrists
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need to have free motion in order to get into that set position otherwise so if
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I grip it more in my palm I have to have more of the displacement done by my
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elbows and you can see that that's going to affect how my wrists are going to
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be
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able to transfer that speed and energy on the downswing so the whole purpose of
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this really good grip is to allow freedom of motion of the wrist and to
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give us a good platform for being able to start orienting that face now the
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last
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piece is ball position so if I was to get set up either with the ball too far
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back or too far forward let's just explore those so if I was to set up with
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a ball position too far back in setup that's I'm still gonna be able to hinge
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from my hips I can still take a good grip but now what would happen is if I
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make the exact same swing it's going to increase my angle of attack so what
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will frequently happen is that will mess up my sequencing because my body
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will have to stay a little bit more behind I won't be able to get that good
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transition shift that we'll talk about here in a minute. Conversely if I play
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the ball too far forward it will encourage me to get a very good lower
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body shift and I would if I had to air on one side for the swing that I prefer
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we will tend to have the ball position more forward then more backward more
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often but if I had it too far forward it could potentially limit how much I'd
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be able to rotate my body through the shot because in order to get my club
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kind of down towards the golf ball I would have to keep my my chest a little
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bit more rotated and closed because as this left shoulder moves away that pulls
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this left arm further and further away from the golf ball and it would just
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make
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it that much more difficult for me to get the bottom of my swing ahead of the
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golf ball because the distance would increase. So the three major keys for
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this setup in this swing are posture ball position and grip. So now if we move
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into the takeaway the takeaway is a relatively simple motion it's more or
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less going to be starting this pivot which is a combination of rotation and
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side bend and that gives the appearance of starting of maintaining my spine
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angle. Now in order to do this one piece takeaway this takeaway that happens
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more from the rib cage my core is going to initiate the movement by by
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initiating the swing with the core it's going to delay a little bit when those
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arms are going to reach the top of the swing and it can help with rhythm and
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timing because everything will reach the top of the swing more together. If I
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was
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to start with more of my arms now my arms are pretty much my left shoulder is
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essentially reached its end range of motion I can already feel a little bit
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of a stretch there and so my shoulder wouldn't be moving during the
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remainder or the setting phase of the backswing. So if I reach that end range
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of motion too soon I kind of have to hold those muscles on stretch and that's
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going to make it a little bit more difficult for them to create speed
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effectively. So the backswing we're using the arms to create this displacement
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and
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to match the height or to match the pivot to create kind of this shaft
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plane or basically the direction that the club is going to want to swing on the
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way down or make it easier for it to swing on the way down. But the big thing
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is during the backswing we're going to have these arms going into certain
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movements because they are going to prepare for where they want to get at
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the end of transition or delivery position. So let's discuss transition
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because it'll make more sense what we're doing in the backswing if we
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understand what we're trying to do in transition. So in transition I'm trying
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to create speed so if I'm hitting this way I'm trying to create speed into that
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clubhead in the direction of the target. So similar to any rotational sport
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like
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baseball if I was throwing a wall I'm going to shift my weight onto my front
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foot and then rotate around it. If I was hitting there's going to be a very
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little shift but there's going to be a shift and then I'm going to rotate
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around it. If I was doing tennis even millennium style there's going to be a
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slight shift and then turn that shift into rotation. So in golf it's no
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different.
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The typical shift for a twerp row is going to be somewhere between four and
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six inches. That means that there are some who are below, there are some who
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are
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above but the average is going to be about four to six inches. Now the average
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width of a pelvis is going to be somewhere around 12 inches. So we're
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talking about kind of a third to half a pelvis width from the top of the swing
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they're going to or as they finish their backswing they're going to shift
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into that front foot. Now I should say that transition is basically shifting
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from rotating to the right or to rotating to the left and so it happens
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for different parts of the body at different times. It's going to have a
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general trend of moving from the ground up to the club. So the last thing that
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going to change direction is going to be the club. So that means by the time
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that
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the club is changing directions I should have already started my lower body and
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then possibly even my core. So if I'm facing the camera and kind of hitting
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this way as I get to right about that setting phase my lower body is actually
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starting to shift directions. It's not going to move but basically what's
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happening is it's slowing how fast it's rotating this way which means I've
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already started to shift rotating towards the target. So the lower body is
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going to start and that lower body going first is going to create a stretch in
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my
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core or between my pelvis and my ribcage and then my ribcage is going to create
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more of a stretch in my shoulder and now I'm at the end of my transition on
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this
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really good path where the club is going to be going right at that golf ball
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with
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a face that's already starting to close because of what the arms did. So the
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body
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movements we're trying to get these big muscles to create this rotational speed
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starting with a little bit of a weight shift and then this rotation combined
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with side bend. What the arms are going to do is in order to start the club
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face
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closing towards the target the wrists are going to do what we call the
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motorcycle move or they're basically going to rotate the club slightly closed
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about on average the difference between setup and impact is going to be about
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20, 25, 30 degrees for each so basically going this way. So a lot of that is
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going
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to happen during transition and during transition this left elbow is going to
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bend slightly and that wrist where there's a slight narrowing of the distance
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between yourself and the club. That narrowing of the distance if we get way
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back to the path and what we're trying to do with impact that narrowing of the
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distance allows for this certain amount of side bend and rotation and it delays
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the straightening in the arms which helps create a flat spot in my path. So we
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refer to it on our site as the Como flat spot because as far as I know Chris
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Como was the first person to study this and kind of hypothesize it back in 2011
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where basically it's the flat spot which is essentially a place where this club
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that's swinging around me in a somewhat circular orbit has a more of a flat
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look to it than a curve to it and that flat look to it gives us the ability to
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have the bottom of our swing ahead of the golf ball as well as helping control
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some of these path relationships. So I'm gonna make that good transition with
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starting from the lower body going through the core and then my arms are
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basically ready to fire during the release. So now most of my pressure is
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going into my left foot my arms are kind of in this narrow distance right
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here is what we refer to as delivery position. Now from delivery position
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basically my wrists are going to continue the left wrist is going to be
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rotating and the right arm is basically going to be extending. The wrist is
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going to extend through the shot but I'll be making contact with the ball kind
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of something like here as it's going into that out position. The lead wrist is
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going to be trying to more or less rotate but it's going to get changed from
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this boat or motorcycle position too pretty straight because of what the
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right arm is doing. At that same time the body is going to be bracing and
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essentially pushing through that left leg to help propel those arms into their
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follow through position. So while impact is going to be more or less with my
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hands
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slightly ahead that left wrist pretty straight the right wrist slightly bent
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and
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then that elbow kind of in towards my side body rotated 30 degrees side bend
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about 30 degrees hips open even a little bit more about 40 degrees. While I'm
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in
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that whole position basically what's happening during the release is those
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arms are extending and those legs are extending in a very athletic movement.
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If you lack that body rotation and that arm extension it's going to be very
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hard to have the swing be shallow enough to have the bottom of the swing
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roughly four inches out in front of the golf ball. So hopefully that helps
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clarify
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or help you understand why we're making these movements and why I refer to the
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follow through position is kind of the end of the swing because I'm pretty much
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done from there and then whatever I do whether it's you know Arnold Palmer or
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you know someone a little bit more classic doesn't really matter it's more
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of a sign of how you absorb the force but everything that you do up until this
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point has a direct impact on either how you're going to create speed how you're
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going to control the path of the club bed or how you're going to orient the
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face to that path. So as you go through your stock full swing just keep this
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overview in mind and we'll break down each of these key phases and key
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positions to into the key details which will give you drills and ways that you
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can practice them at home and ultimately figure out your way of
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incorporating these movements into your golf swing.
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