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Early Extension - 3 Core Moves
The 3 core movements that drive the early extension pattern are:
- Lower body moving in towards the golf ball
- Chest moving up or away from the golf ball
- The arms straightening early
The lower body could be driven by the foot action, the ankle, the way the body pushes against the ground, the back, starting too much in the heels, moving too much towards the toes, etc
The chest moving away from the golf ball could be driven by lots of issues as well. It could be driven by the back powering the swing, a lack of side bend movement, the closeness of the yes to the ground and the size of the golf ball appearance, a way to shallow out the club, etc
The arms straightening early could come from the lead arm pulling, the trail arm throwing, the wrist not unhinging, an attempt to shallow out the club, an early timing of swinging at the ball instead of through the ball.
While the reasons could be many, this video outlines the three basic patterns to work through to eradicate the pattern.
The 3 core movements that drive the early extension pattern are:
- Lower body moving in towards the golf ball
- Chest moving up or away from the golf ball
- The arms straightening early
The lower body could be driven by the foot action, the ankle, the way the body pushes against the ground, the back, starting too much in the heels, moving too much towards the toes, etc
The chest moving away from the golf ball could be driven by lots of issues as well. It could be driven by the back powering the swing, a lack of side bend movement, the closeness of the yes to the ground and the size of the golf ball appearance, a way to shallow out the club, etc
The arms straightening early could come from the lead arm pulling, the trail arm throwing, the wrist not unhinging, an attempt to shallow out the club, an early timing of swinging at the ball instead of through the ball.
While the reasons could be many, this video outlines the three basic patterns to work through to eradicate the pattern.
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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the three key pieces to early
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extension.
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So some golfers struggle with the early extension pattern where basically the
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hips are going
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in and there's a little bit more of an arm throw.
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There's a bunch of different components that can relate to it.
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But in my general, in my opinion, there's kind of three key ones that you have
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to tackle
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in order to correct this problem, and usually getting one of them to work
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better will help
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improve the other two.
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So the three big pieces are either the lower body moving in towards the golf
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ball, so
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pushing with my feet in towards the golf ball too much, especially from that
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trail knee or
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that trail knee gets in towards the golf ball or past the foot, and the hip
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goes past the
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middle of the foot, kind of like this.
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The second component would be the upper body going backward.
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So the upper body pulling back away from the golf ball or getting more vertical
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from the
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down the line camera angle.
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And then the third one is going to be the timing of the arm extension.
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So typically what happens is in order to make this all work, the hips go
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forward, the upper
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body goes back and the arms extend, kind of like this.
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And you'll see I can pick the ball, I can hit it pretty straight, but it
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becomes a limiting
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pattern when I start to add more speed or when I try to time it up with the
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longer clubs,
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or it can become a low point problem for the shorter clubs.
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So if you're working on it and one of these areas isn't clicking, let's say you
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're trying
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to do some hip back drills and you're just feeling like you're kind of stuck
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and they're
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not rotating, you can always focus on more the chest being closer to the ground
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or working
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the chest closer to the ground.
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If you're in this chest closer to ground position and you went forward, you
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would fall over,
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or if you were in this chest down position and you straighten your arms, you
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would hit
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behind the golf ball, you'd hit it fat.
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So the chest being down or the hips being back, get your body closer to the
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golf ball.
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So then it would require a delayed timing of that arm extension, kind of like
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that.
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So it would require this arm to be a little bit more bent as I'm getting into
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impact
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and then extending through the shot.
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Now there are a couple, let's say, complementary movements such as if the body
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has gotten more
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steep like this, I might have to do some arm shallowing either with kind of
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some of this
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actual rotation of the arms or a little bit more ulnar adiation.
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And because I'm down and have more body rotation on the way through, the club
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face may be more
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open than I'm used to.
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You can see that from the overhead view as the hands go forward, the clubface
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gets open.
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So I might have to feel a little bit more motorcycle components to it.
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So the big pieces are lower body in or upper body up or timing of the arm
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straightening.
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If you work on one of those three and you're just trying to dial in some
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contact and ball
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flight, then you might have to go after some arm shallowing or clubface control
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.
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But if you're struggling with early extension and the associated either block
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hook, thin
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divot, consistency with the longer clubs and contact with the shorter clubs,
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then I recommend
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targeting one of the big three until you get a change on video that can provide
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the platform
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that you can then build some of the other movements around.
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Alright, so demo wise, let's work through a couple of these common ones.
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First one, I'll focus on the hips going backward.
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Oftentimes what can happen is if the hips go backward and I still kind of
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straighten
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my arms, I'll have a really exaggerated feel of the stall pattern.
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So when the hips go backward, I want to now feel a little bit more body
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rotation.
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So I'm making sure that even though my hips went backward, my chest is facing
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the target.
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Alright, let's try one of the other components.
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So now let's say I'm going to focus on the chest being more down.
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So if I focus on the chest being more down, if I straighten my arms early, you
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'll see
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I hit way behind it and the divot is quite deep.
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So that's a really frustrating one.
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But I'm going to focus on during this next one, chest is going to stay down,
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but I'm
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going to get either a little bit more arm shallowing or I'm going to feel a
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little bit
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more of my body rotation.
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I did a little bit of both because I wanted to decrease the depth of that divot
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and move
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the low point a little bit more forward.
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Okay, then third combo would be I'm used to straightening the arm into the ball
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.
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Now it's going to feel like I'm kind of stuck here.
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Now if I don't have enough owner deviation and I keep this in here, then I'm
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going to
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be well above the golf ball, I might actually top it.
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So if I feel like I'm keeping this in and I'm hitting a lot of shots like this,
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you saw
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I stood up and I didn't give any owner deviation.
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So on the next one, trying to keep the wiper, trying to keep that arm a little
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bit more
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in, now I'm going to feel at the same time, a little bit of body staying lower
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and letting
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a little bit of that owner deviation happen.
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So the challenging thing with the early extension pattern is that there's a
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couple components
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and you have to do at least two of them usually to have some really good
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success.
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But in order to do two of them comfortably, you'll have to work on each piece
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maybe for
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a couple practices before you can add them both at the same time.
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But it is a pattern that when you get through it and you've improved it, you'll
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typically
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experience much greater consistency and overall enjoyment of your ball strike.
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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the three key pieces to early
2
00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:11.160
extension.
3
00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:16.440
So some golfers struggle with the early extension pattern where basically the
4
00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:16.840
hips are going
5
00:00:16.840 --> 00:00:20.120
in and there's a little bit more of an arm throw.
6
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.960
There's a bunch of different components that can relate to it.
7
00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:28.330
But in my general, in my opinion, there's kind of three key ones that you have
8
00:00:28.330 --> 00:00:29.120
to tackle
9
00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.050
in order to correct this problem, and usually getting one of them to work
10
00:00:33.050 --> 00:00:34.120
better will help
11
00:00:34.120 --> 00:00:35.920
improve the other two.
12
00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.840
So the three big pieces are either the lower body moving in towards the golf
13
00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:40.440
ball, so
14
00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:44.940
pushing with my feet in towards the golf ball too much, especially from that
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00:00:44.940 --> 00:00:45.800
trail knee or
16
00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:52.100
that trail knee gets in towards the golf ball or past the foot, and the hip
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00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:53.080
goes past the
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middle of the foot, kind of like this.
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The second component would be the upper body going backward.
20
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So the upper body pulling back away from the golf ball or getting more vertical
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00:01:06.020 --> 00:01:06.520
from the
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down the line camera angle.
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And then the third one is going to be the timing of the arm extension.
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So typically what happens is in order to make this all work, the hips go
25
00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:19.840
forward, the upper
26
00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.560
body goes back and the arms extend, kind of like this.
27
00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.820
And you'll see I can pick the ball, I can hit it pretty straight, but it
28
00:01:29.820 --> 00:01:31.440
becomes a limiting
29
00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:35.880
pattern when I start to add more speed or when I try to time it up with the
30
00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:37.120
longer clubs,
31
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.560
or it can become a low point problem for the shorter clubs.
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00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:45.280
So if you're working on it and one of these areas isn't clicking, let's say you
33
00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:46.040
're trying
34
00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.760
to do some hip back drills and you're just feeling like you're kind of stuck
35
00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:50.400
and they're
36
00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.770
not rotating, you can always focus on more the chest being closer to the ground
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or working
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the chest closer to the ground.
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If you're in this chest closer to ground position and you went forward, you
40
00:02:02.750 --> 00:02:04.480
would fall over,
41
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or if you were in this chest down position and you straighten your arms, you
42
00:02:07.950 --> 00:02:08.520
would hit
43
00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.880
behind the golf ball, you'd hit it fat.
44
00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:17.160
So the chest being down or the hips being back, get your body closer to the
45
00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:18.200
golf ball.
46
00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:26.340
So then it would require a delayed timing of that arm extension, kind of like
47
00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:27.320
that.
48
00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:31.310
So it would require this arm to be a little bit more bent as I'm getting into
49
00:02:31.310 --> 00:02:31.800
impact
50
00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:33.680
and then extending through the shot.
51
00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:38.370
Now there are a couple, let's say, complementary movements such as if the body
52
00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:39.200
has gotten more
53
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:43.650
steep like this, I might have to do some arm shallowing either with kind of
54
00:02:43.650 --> 00:02:45.640
some of this
55
00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:49.880
actual rotation of the arms or a little bit more ulnar adiation.
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And because I'm down and have more body rotation on the way through, the club
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face may be more
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open than I'm used to.
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You can see that from the overhead view as the hands go forward, the clubface
60
00:03:00.690 --> 00:03:01.760
gets open.
61
00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:05.940
So I might have to feel a little bit more motorcycle components to it.
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So the big pieces are lower body in or upper body up or timing of the arm
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straightening.
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If you work on one of those three and you're just trying to dial in some
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contact and ball
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flight, then you might have to go after some arm shallowing or clubface control
67
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.
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But if you're struggling with early extension and the associated either block
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hook, thin
70
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divot, consistency with the longer clubs and contact with the shorter clubs,
71
00:03:32.030 --> 00:03:33.120
then I recommend
72
00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:38.440
targeting one of the big three until you get a change on video that can provide
73
00:03:38.440 --> 00:03:39.160
the platform
74
00:03:39.160 --> 00:03:41.720
that you can then build some of the other movements around.
75
00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:45.000
Alright, so demo wise, let's work through a couple of these common ones.
76
00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.320
First one, I'll focus on the hips going backward.
77
00:03:48.320 --> 00:03:51.670
Oftentimes what can happen is if the hips go backward and I still kind of
78
00:03:51.670 --> 00:03:52.360
straighten
79
00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:56.880
my arms, I'll have a really exaggerated feel of the stall pattern.
80
00:03:56.880 --> 00:04:05.110
So when the hips go backward, I want to now feel a little bit more body
81
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rotation.
82
00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:10.100
So I'm making sure that even though my hips went backward, my chest is facing
83
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the target.
84
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Alright, let's try one of the other components.
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So now let's say I'm going to focus on the chest being more down.
86
00:04:21.540 --> 00:04:28.470
So if I focus on the chest being more down, if I straighten my arms early, you
87
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'll see
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I hit way behind it and the divot is quite deep.
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So that's a really frustrating one.
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But I'm going to focus on during this next one, chest is going to stay down,
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but I'm
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going to get either a little bit more arm shallowing or I'm going to feel a
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little bit
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more of my body rotation.
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I did a little bit of both because I wanted to decrease the depth of that divot
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and move
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the low point a little bit more forward.
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Okay, then third combo would be I'm used to straightening the arm into the ball
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.
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Now it's going to feel like I'm kind of stuck here.
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Now if I don't have enough owner deviation and I keep this in here, then I'm
102
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going to
103
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be well above the golf ball, I might actually top it.
104
00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:21.400
So if I feel like I'm keeping this in and I'm hitting a lot of shots like this,
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you saw
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I stood up and I didn't give any owner deviation.
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So on the next one, trying to keep the wiper, trying to keep that arm a little
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bit more
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in, now I'm going to feel at the same time, a little bit of body staying lower
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and letting
111
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a little bit of that owner deviation happen.
112
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So the challenging thing with the early extension pattern is that there's a
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couple components
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and you have to do at least two of them usually to have some really good
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success.
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But in order to do two of them comfortably, you'll have to work on each piece
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maybe for
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a couple practices before you can add them both at the same time.
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But it is a pattern that when you get through it and you've improved it, you'll
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typically
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experience much greater consistency and overall enjoyment of your ball strike.
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Early Extension - 3 Core Moves
The 3 core movements that drive the early extension pattern are:
- Lower body moving in towards the golf ball
- Chest moving up or away from the golf ball
- The arms straightening early
The lower body could be driven by the foot action, the ankle, the way the body pushes against the ground, the back, starting too much in the heels, moving too much towards the toes, etc
The chest moving away from the golf ball could be driven by lots of issues as well. It could be driven by the back powering the swing, a lack of side bend movement, the closeness of the yes to the ground and the size of the golf ball appearance, a way to shallow out the club, etc
The arms straightening early could come from the lead arm pulling, the trail arm throwing, the wrist not unhinging, an attempt to shallow out the club, an early timing of swinging at the ball instead of through the ball.
While the reasons could be many, this video outlines the three basic patterns to work through to eradicate the pattern.
The 3 core movements that drive the early extension pattern are:
- Lower body moving in towards the golf ball
- Chest moving up or away from the golf ball
- The arms straightening early
The lower body could be driven by the foot action, the ankle, the way the body pushes against the ground, the back, starting too much in the heels, moving too much towards the toes, etc
The chest moving away from the golf ball could be driven by lots of issues as well. It could be driven by the back powering the swing, a lack of side bend movement, the closeness of the yes to the ground and the size of the golf ball appearance, a way to shallow out the club, etc
The arms straightening early could come from the lead arm pulling, the trail arm throwing, the wrist not unhinging, an attempt to shallow out the club, an early timing of swinging at the ball instead of through the ball.
While the reasons could be many, this video outlines the three basic patterns to work through to eradicate the pattern.
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Video Transcript
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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the three key pieces to early
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extension.
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So some golfers struggle with the early extension pattern where basically the
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hips are going
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in and there's a little bit more of an arm throw.
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There's a bunch of different components that can relate to it.
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But in my general, in my opinion, there's kind of three key ones that you have
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to tackle
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in order to correct this problem, and usually getting one of them to work
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better will help
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improve the other two.
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So the three big pieces are either the lower body moving in towards the golf
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ball, so
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pushing with my feet in towards the golf ball too much, especially from that
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trail knee or
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that trail knee gets in towards the golf ball or past the foot, and the hip
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goes past the
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middle of the foot, kind of like this.
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The second component would be the upper body going backward.
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So the upper body pulling back away from the golf ball or getting more vertical
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from the
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down the line camera angle.
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And then the third one is going to be the timing of the arm extension.
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So typically what happens is in order to make this all work, the hips go
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forward, the upper
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body goes back and the arms extend, kind of like this.
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And you'll see I can pick the ball, I can hit it pretty straight, but it
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becomes a limiting
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pattern when I start to add more speed or when I try to time it up with the
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longer clubs,
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or it can become a low point problem for the shorter clubs.
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So if you're working on it and one of these areas isn't clicking, let's say you
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're trying
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to do some hip back drills and you're just feeling like you're kind of stuck
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and they're
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not rotating, you can always focus on more the chest being closer to the ground
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or working
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the chest closer to the ground.
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If you're in this chest closer to ground position and you went forward, you
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would fall over,
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or if you were in this chest down position and you straighten your arms, you
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would hit
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behind the golf ball, you'd hit it fat.
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So the chest being down or the hips being back, get your body closer to the
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golf ball.
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So then it would require a delayed timing of that arm extension, kind of like
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that.
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So it would require this arm to be a little bit more bent as I'm getting into
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impact
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and then extending through the shot.
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Now there are a couple, let's say, complementary movements such as if the body
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has gotten more
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steep like this, I might have to do some arm shallowing either with kind of
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some of this
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actual rotation of the arms or a little bit more ulnar adiation.
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And because I'm down and have more body rotation on the way through, the club
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face may be more
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open than I'm used to.
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You can see that from the overhead view as the hands go forward, the clubface
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gets open.
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So I might have to feel a little bit more motorcycle components to it.
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So the big pieces are lower body in or upper body up or timing of the arm
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straightening.
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If you work on one of those three and you're just trying to dial in some
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contact and ball
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flight, then you might have to go after some arm shallowing or clubface control
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.
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But if you're struggling with early extension and the associated either block
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hook, thin
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divot, consistency with the longer clubs and contact with the shorter clubs,
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then I recommend
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targeting one of the big three until you get a change on video that can provide
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the platform
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that you can then build some of the other movements around.
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Alright, so demo wise, let's work through a couple of these common ones.
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First one, I'll focus on the hips going backward.
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Oftentimes what can happen is if the hips go backward and I still kind of
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straighten
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my arms, I'll have a really exaggerated feel of the stall pattern.
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So when the hips go backward, I want to now feel a little bit more body
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rotation.
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So I'm making sure that even though my hips went backward, my chest is facing
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the target.
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Alright, let's try one of the other components.
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So now let's say I'm going to focus on the chest being more down.
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So if I focus on the chest being more down, if I straighten my arms early, you
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'll see
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I hit way behind it and the divot is quite deep.
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So that's a really frustrating one.
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But I'm going to focus on during this next one, chest is going to stay down,
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but I'm
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going to get either a little bit more arm shallowing or I'm going to feel a
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little bit
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more of my body rotation.
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I did a little bit of both because I wanted to decrease the depth of that divot
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and move
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the low point a little bit more forward.
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Okay, then third combo would be I'm used to straightening the arm into the ball
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.
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Now it's going to feel like I'm kind of stuck here.
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Now if I don't have enough owner deviation and I keep this in here, then I'm
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going to
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be well above the golf ball, I might actually top it.
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So if I feel like I'm keeping this in and I'm hitting a lot of shots like this,
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you saw
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I stood up and I didn't give any owner deviation.
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So on the next one, trying to keep the wiper, trying to keep that arm a little
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bit more
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in, now I'm going to feel at the same time, a little bit of body staying lower
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and letting
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a little bit of that owner deviation happen.
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So the challenging thing with the early extension pattern is that there's a
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couple components
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and you have to do at least two of them usually to have some really good
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success.
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But in order to do two of them comfortably, you'll have to work on each piece
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maybe for
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a couple practices before you can add them both at the same time.
119
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But it is a pattern that when you get through it and you've improved it, you'll
120
00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:03.920
typically
121
00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.800
experience much greater consistency and overall enjoyment of your ball strike.
1
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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the three key pieces to early
2
00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:11.160
extension.
3
00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:16.440
So some golfers struggle with the early extension pattern where basically the
4
00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:16.840
hips are going
5
00:00:16.840 --> 00:00:20.120
in and there's a little bit more of an arm throw.
6
00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:22.960
There's a bunch of different components that can relate to it.
7
00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:28.330
But in my general, in my opinion, there's kind of three key ones that you have
8
00:00:28.330 --> 00:00:29.120
to tackle
9
00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.050
in order to correct this problem, and usually getting one of them to work
10
00:00:33.050 --> 00:00:34.120
better will help
11
00:00:34.120 --> 00:00:35.920
improve the other two.
12
00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.840
So the three big pieces are either the lower body moving in towards the golf
13
00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:40.440
ball, so
14
00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:44.940
pushing with my feet in towards the golf ball too much, especially from that
15
00:00:44.940 --> 00:00:45.800
trail knee or
16
00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:52.100
that trail knee gets in towards the golf ball or past the foot, and the hip
17
00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:53.080
goes past the
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middle of the foot, kind of like this.
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The second component would be the upper body going backward.
20
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So the upper body pulling back away from the golf ball or getting more vertical
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from the
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down the line camera angle.
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And then the third one is going to be the timing of the arm extension.
24
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So typically what happens is in order to make this all work, the hips go
25
00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:19.840
forward, the upper
26
00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:25.560
body goes back and the arms extend, kind of like this.
27
00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.820
And you'll see I can pick the ball, I can hit it pretty straight, but it
28
00:01:29.820 --> 00:01:31.440
becomes a limiting
29
00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:35.880
pattern when I start to add more speed or when I try to time it up with the
30
00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:37.120
longer clubs,
31
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.560
or it can become a low point problem for the shorter clubs.
32
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So if you're working on it and one of these areas isn't clicking, let's say you
33
00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:46.040
're trying
34
00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.760
to do some hip back drills and you're just feeling like you're kind of stuck
35
00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:50.400
and they're
36
00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:55.770
not rotating, you can always focus on more the chest being closer to the ground
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or working
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the chest closer to the ground.
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If you're in this chest closer to ground position and you went forward, you
40
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would fall over,
41
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or if you were in this chest down position and you straighten your arms, you
42
00:02:07.950 --> 00:02:08.520
would hit
43
00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:10.880
behind the golf ball, you'd hit it fat.
44
00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:17.160
So the chest being down or the hips being back, get your body closer to the
45
00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:18.200
golf ball.
46
00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:26.340
So then it would require a delayed timing of that arm extension, kind of like
47
00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:27.320
that.
48
00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:31.310
So it would require this arm to be a little bit more bent as I'm getting into
49
00:02:31.310 --> 00:02:31.800
impact
50
00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:33.680
and then extending through the shot.
51
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Now there are a couple, let's say, complementary movements such as if the body
52
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has gotten more
53
00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:43.650
steep like this, I might have to do some arm shallowing either with kind of
54
00:02:43.650 --> 00:02:45.640
some of this
55
00:02:45.640 --> 00:02:49.880
actual rotation of the arms or a little bit more ulnar adiation.
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And because I'm down and have more body rotation on the way through, the club
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face may be more
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00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.120
open than I'm used to.
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00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:00.690
You can see that from the overhead view as the hands go forward, the clubface
60
00:03:00.690 --> 00:03:01.760
gets open.
61
00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:05.940
So I might have to feel a little bit more motorcycle components to it.
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00:03:05.940 --> 00:03:11.260
So the big pieces are lower body in or upper body up or timing of the arm
63
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straightening.
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If you work on one of those three and you're just trying to dial in some
65
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contact and ball
66
00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:20.620
flight, then you might have to go after some arm shallowing or clubface control
67
00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:20.920
.
68
00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:25.530
But if you're struggling with early extension and the associated either block
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hook, thin
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divot, consistency with the longer clubs and contact with the shorter clubs,
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then I recommend
72
00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:38.440
targeting one of the big three until you get a change on video that can provide
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00:03:38.440 --> 00:03:39.160
the platform
74
00:03:39.160 --> 00:03:41.720
that you can then build some of the other movements around.
75
00:03:41.720 --> 00:03:45.000
Alright, so demo wise, let's work through a couple of these common ones.
76
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First one, I'll focus on the hips going backward.
77
00:03:48.320 --> 00:03:51.670
Oftentimes what can happen is if the hips go backward and I still kind of
78
00:03:51.670 --> 00:03:52.360
straighten
79
00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:56.880
my arms, I'll have a really exaggerated feel of the stall pattern.
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00:03:56.880 --> 00:04:05.110
So when the hips go backward, I want to now feel a little bit more body
81
00:04:05.110 --> 00:04:06.760
rotation.
82
00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:10.100
So I'm making sure that even though my hips went backward, my chest is facing
83
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the target.
84
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Alright, let's try one of the other components.
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So now let's say I'm going to focus on the chest being more down.
86
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So if I focus on the chest being more down, if I straighten my arms early, you
87
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'll see
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I hit way behind it and the divot is quite deep.
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So that's a really frustrating one.
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But I'm going to focus on during this next one, chest is going to stay down,
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but I'm
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going to get either a little bit more arm shallowing or I'm going to feel a
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little bit
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more of my body rotation.
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I did a little bit of both because I wanted to decrease the depth of that divot
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and move
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the low point a little bit more forward.
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Okay, then third combo would be I'm used to straightening the arm into the ball
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.
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Now it's going to feel like I'm kind of stuck here.
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Now if I don't have enough owner deviation and I keep this in here, then I'm
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going to
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be well above the golf ball, I might actually top it.
104
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So if I feel like I'm keeping this in and I'm hitting a lot of shots like this,
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you saw
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I stood up and I didn't give any owner deviation.
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So on the next one, trying to keep the wiper, trying to keep that arm a little
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bit more
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in, now I'm going to feel at the same time, a little bit of body staying lower
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and letting
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a little bit of that owner deviation happen.
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So the challenging thing with the early extension pattern is that there's a
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couple components
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and you have to do at least two of them usually to have some really good
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success.
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But in order to do two of them comfortably, you'll have to work on each piece
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maybe for
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a couple practices before you can add them both at the same time.
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But it is a pattern that when you get through it and you've improved it, you'll
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typically
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experience much greater consistency and overall enjoyment of your ball strike.
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