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This video is breaking down the look of lag so a lot of golfers are looking for

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more distance and lag has frequently been attributed to one of those things

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that if you have it you're gonna hit the ball plenty far and if you don't have

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it

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you're gonna hit the ball really short. Lag typically refers to the angle from

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the face-on camera between the club shaft and the forearm so if you're not

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aware someone who kind of looks like that doesn't have very much lag and

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then someone who looks like that. All right kind of exaggerating but someone

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who

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looks a little bit more like that still has that angle between their arms and

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the

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club they're gonna have more lag they're gonna release it better all those

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things are gonna contribute to more speed and more power. I'm gonna cover the

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two

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major areas where you can develop lag and I'm gonna dispel a few myths as far

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as

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what movements create lag. First and foremost lag is not created by hinging

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the wrist or going into radial deviation all right so if you think that pulling

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back this way is how you're gonna create lag you are kind of barking up the

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wrong

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tree and hopefully this video will help clarify the two major areas where you

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can actually gain lag. So the two major areas are going to be body sequencing

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and then the movement of the wrist and forearms. So first thing let's talk

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about

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is body sequencing this is one of the big contributors to lag and you'll see

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that it relates to what we're gonna talk about in the second half which is more

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the arms and hands and how they can either help create lag or remove the

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look of lag but body sequencing is one of the big ones. In fact lag is

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actually not really this angle it's more of a delay in time right like my

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computer is lagging the video is lagging right lagging basically means

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delaying the action of the arms and hands or delaying the movement of the club

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going out towards the golf ball. So how do I do that how do I sequence the body

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We have lots of videos in transition that cover kind of how to use your legs

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against the ground but know that the more that you delay the timing of your

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arms you're gonna have to move something else so in order to delay the timing

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of

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the arms you're going to use your legs you're gonna use your core then you're

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gonna use your ribcage you're gonna use your shoulders and then finally you're

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going to use your arms that will look like something like this where the lower

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body goes first and then the core and then the shoulders and now I'm already

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down here and I haven't done a whole lot with my arms how could I not have lag

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since I had some angles up here at the top so the simple thing would be if I

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use my arms before I use my hands and arms before I use my body that's going to

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tend to cause that look of lag or loss of lag which is gonna dramatically take

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down your speed the the metaphor that I kind of like is throwing a wall right

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throwing a ball is one where sequencing has a big effect in how well I'm gonna

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be able to create speed so if we just took the arm you could see that I'm

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getting this loaded position and then I'm gonna use my shoulder I'm gonna use

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my

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elbow and then I'm going to use my wrist kind of at the end so that ends up

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looking something like that now I can get in that same loaded position use

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those

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same three points or three parts but I'm gonna use them into a different order

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and this is actually more challenging than it looks I'm going to use my wrist

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first then I'm gonna use my elbow and then I'm gonna use my shoulder and my

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body so it's gonna look kind of like that and you'll see it takes a lot of

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effort to produce very little speed so golfers who don't have lag don't have

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very good sequencing tend to have effortless or sorry powerless effort where

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golfers who have this great look of lag tend to produce that effortless power

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now the last piece or the second piece right because we covered sequencing we

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want to work from the ground up or from the core up however you like to look at

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it we're going the second piece is going to be the movement of the arms and

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hands

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so I already highlighted the beginning that lag has nothing to do with hinging

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this way in fact looking at 3d one thing that I can tell you is that very few

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professional golfers have any real measurable increase in radial deviation

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of the lead hand during the downswing it's not really going this way during

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transition even if it looks like it from the face-on view part of the reason is

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because most of them are going to be doing some sort of face closing with the

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motorcycle and if you're doing the motorcycle it is very hard to flex the

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wrist and increase radial deviation fact borderline impossible but what I do

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see is during transition I will tend to see a pretty big increase 10 some some

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guys up to 15 degrees of increased extension of that trail wrist so as they

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start down if I was to extend that trail wrist it looks from the face-on view

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like I've increased the angle and like I've hinged this way but what's really

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happened is this wrist is just rotated hasn't really increased that hinge so

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one getting this trail wrist to extend and kind of work in like so is going to

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produce the look of lag where getting it to flex and straighten out is going to

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reduce the look of lag so that's movement number one is looking at this

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flexion extension not radial and ulnar deviation movement number two is going

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to look at this pronation supination which is not technically a wrist movement

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kind of whole forearm but it definitely relates to the look of lag if I'm going

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to sequence and produce a lot of my speed with rotation of the body then this

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club actually has to be more behind me so one way I could look at lag is if

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this

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is you know the club straight out in front of me hinging moves it away from

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neutral up and down but if I was to rotate pronate supinate or I guess

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pronate that trail wrist anyway I'm going to move the club away from neutral

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this

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way in more of a rotational capacity that's pretty much like if I exaggerated I

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trying to get the club well behind me even though my hand stay kind of out in

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front of me the more that I have the club behind me like so then it's going to

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take body rotation to get that out in front of me so that is going to now

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produce a much bigger look of lag compared to if I have the club straight

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out in front of me like so now I'm going to have some lag because my body stay

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closed but if I kept the club in front of me and I rotated my body the club

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come with it so it relates that sequencing movement because the more that

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I'm able to rotate the forms get the club behind me in kind of this arm

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shallowing movement the more that I'm able to sequence and go with my body

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body tends to have some bigger muscles so that allows me to create a lot more

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speed it tends to delay the timing of when my arms get involved and if I do the

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motorcycle to kind of start squaring the club face early all these things are

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going to match up in a kind of on-plane look with a club face that's

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slightly closed and in a good athletic position for bracing and from the face

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on camera really getting that good look of a delivery position good look of lag

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so that I can go through my release movements get really good ground contact

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so if you're struggling with lag know that the movements that I teach in this

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program ultimately help develop a golf swing that creates a lot of lag has a

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look of lag it's just understanding the details of each of the key key

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movements

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and key phases and which ones to apply to your game at the right time if you're

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unsure of what you should be working on feel free to submit your swing we'll do

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a video analysis and help get you back on track otherwise you can always just

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ask questions through email and we'll help guide you as best as we're capable