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Hey, this is the video we're gonna talk about.

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Early extension timing during the downswing.

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So whether you're having it early or late

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and what you need to do to solve it.

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Okay, now jumping into early extension.

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So early extension is generally referred to

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as the lower body moving excessively

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in towards the golf ball or the upper body backing away.

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Basically it creates more of a vertical spine posture

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just like this.

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But one of the things that I think is important

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when you're trying to fix that pattern

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is to understand why you're doing it.

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Because if you just focus on, you know,

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keeping your butt against the chair,

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that won't necessarily solve why you're doing it.

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It'll just put you in a position

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where you can feel if you're doing it or not.

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So I want you to understand why you're doing it

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so you can solve it faster.

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There's two main reasons that golfers

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will fall into this early extension pattern.

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And you can figure out which one you are

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based on the timing.

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So some golfers will look pretty good here in transition.

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And then as they go into the release,

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they'll start going into this early extension

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either the upper body backing away

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or the lower body moving in towards the golf ball.

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If you're doing it in the second half of the downswing,

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it's probably more of a control thing.

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This early extension movement

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late in the downswing helps with two things.

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One, if I'm really steep,

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well, early extension helps shallow it out late.

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And then two, if the club face is really open,

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if the club face is pointing way over there,

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when I pull away, my arms will straighten

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and as my arms straighten,

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the club face will tend to rotate more clothes,

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but it'll give more of a scoop look kind of like that.

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So I might hit some fat and thin shots.

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It causes the face to close really quickly.

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So I might hit some big pulls or pull hooks.

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It can be a frustrating mispattern.

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So if it's happening late,

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it's probably because of one of these control elements.

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You need to look at the path.

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You need to look at the club face

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and you'll have to solve something to close the face earlier

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and shallow out the path other than standing up.

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The other option when we're looking at early extension

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is if that early extension is happening really early

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in the downswing,

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then it's probably more of a power mechanism.

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It's part of how you're creating speed.

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So that early extension move is almost,

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it's a very powerful back exercise

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and it's a very powerful leg movement.

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But what can happen is if I'm doing too much of this,

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I'll be kind of applying this force early

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and it will pull me away.

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So I'm gonna have to move my arms

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in a little bit of a steeper fashion.

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So it can get me into a similar pattern as the later one.

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But usually when I'm working on,

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if it's happening early in the downswing,

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now you're gonna look at more sequencing

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and how your body is creating speed

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and trying to get more of the speed happening

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from your core and your abs

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instead of from your back and potentially your legs.

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So I think if you break it into these two different categories,

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it'll be much easier for you to solve it.

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If you are early, if you look at video

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and you are in pretty good posture right around here,

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but the club is coming down on a steep path

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or an open face,

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then there's a very good chance

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that your early extending in order to control contact

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and the club face or the second version would be

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if you're early extending before this point here

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and then you have to release

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and the release ends up looking similar,

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but you did it early.

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That early sign is more because of how you're creating power.

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So one quick drill that you could do to work on

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both aspects of this would be just a little half swing drill

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where you bring it back

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and you make sure you're in a little bit more flex posture

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than wherever you started.

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So I'm back to my waist height kind of like this.

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I'm gonna make sure the club face is square.

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And then from here, I'm just going to focus on rotating through

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and trying to make solid contact.

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By doing so, this forced me to close the face

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a little bit early and to change my sequencing.

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So it addresses two of the big causes.

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This isn't gonna work for everybody,

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but for a lot of golfers,

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this is gonna be all you'll need to solve your early extension.

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If you feel like you need more,

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I've got lots of other videos that relate to sequencing

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if it's more of the power problem or the release

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and your face to path relationship

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if it's more of the late in the control pattern.

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