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This concept video is exploring the path of the takeaway.

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So in the downswing we like to use this shaft parallel checkpoint and shaft

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parallel on

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the follow through as good checkpoints.

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You can use the checkpoint in the backswing as well just to see what you're

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doing during

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your takeaway.

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I tend to find if you're having dramatic takeaway issues, they tend to not be

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an issue

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unless they cause top of the swing or for your short, you know, your finesse

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wedge,

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or distance wedge shots where you don't have as much time to make these big

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body movements

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to get back into position.

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So as we discuss in the takeaway movement, the majority of the takeaway should

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be kind

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of an upper body or core rotation movement with what we say is very little

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going on in

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the wrist.

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I'm going to talk about the two major issues that you'll tend to see.

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Now just as a reference guide, I've got this stick on the ground roughly even

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with my toes.

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So if I was to make a pretty good takeaway movement, this would roughly be on

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top of that

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club.

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If I would make my takeaway movement and shaft parallel, it's either kind of

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pointed way

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out there or even more common, it's pointed kind of way in here.

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That means that I'm getting way off of plane or off a path and I'm just going

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to have to

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make a bigger adjustment at some point during the swing to kind of get back on

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track.

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So the two most common would be more of an arm lift and going up and out kind

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of like

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that where you'll see very little body rotation.

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You'll see that it's very much, you can compare the height of the shaft to

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where my body is.

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If I do it more with the body, you'll see that the hands stay kind of below the

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belt.

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If they tend to go up here, it's definitely more of an arm movement.

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But I could also err on getting this inside and there's a number of different

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ways that

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that can happen.

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One would be if I was to just use my shoulders and pull them kind of across my

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body like

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so.

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So basically in that one, my arms are actually just going like this.

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And that's getting the club kind of in this shut across my body almost stuck

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position.

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And from here, I'm just going to have a lot of rerouting in order to get my

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arms back

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in front in order to shallow the club during transition.

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The other option would be if I keep my arms pretty straight, but then I have a

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massive

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hip movement to bring the club back to waist height.

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So this was not really core, this was all knees and feet.

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So it was kind of looking like this and that.

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Also unless I make an adjustment with my arms, can tend to get the club in a

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shut position.

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So I guess one of the things that was interesting for me to first look at was

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when the James

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Seachman and Greg Rose when they were talking about the finesse wedge shot, you

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know, five

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or six years ago when I was taking the class, they were talking about more

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forearm rotation

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during the takeaway for a chip shot than on a normal swing.

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And in my mind at first that didn't make sense because I felt like a putting

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stroke

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or a small chip shot would have very little forearm rotation.

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If we think about it with the shorter shot where my body is going to be a

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little bit quieter

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and I'm dominating it more with the upper body, what would happen is if I don't

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rotate

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my forearms and shoulders then the club would just move straight back kind of

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like this.

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Now if I, in the normal swing I add body rotation, that's fine and now the club

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is pretty close

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to on plane, it's just a little shut.

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In the shorter shot, we're going to tend to have, because the body's not going

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to move

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as much, these arms have to rotate in order to get this club on plane like so.

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Otherwise what would happen is I would use either my body standing up, I would

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use hip

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movement, I would take it away in a very closed position kind of like so.

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So getting into some of these details and just analyzing what you do during the

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takeaway,

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especially if you have trouble with the finesse wedges, can help reveal how you

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're getting

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off plane, how you're losing control of the face.

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If you're getting the face too shut, it's almost always collapsing this left

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wrist and

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not having enough arm rotation or not powering in enough from the core.

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So that combination of power core, rotate the arms, don't collapse the wrist,

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it ends

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up looking like that, where if I exaggerate it and I use my legs so I don't use

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my core,

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I flex the wrist and I don't rotate, I can get that extremely inside.

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The opposite would be typically in the guys who tend to have more of this big

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sway, they'll

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tend to bring the club kind of straight up like so.

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And that's usually just not having enough of that body rotation or possibly

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shoulder

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rotation in order to get the hands in that path.

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So there's a lot of details you can look at in the details of the takeaway.

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I tend to not go there unless it shows up elsewhere in your swing that you have

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a hard

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time adjusting from that position, but if you're working on building your sock

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full swing

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from the ground up, some of these takeaway keys are making sure that the body

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is rotating

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from the core and the wrist have done very little, but the forearms and

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shoulders have

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been rotated just a little bit to kind of help that takeaway movement.

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So hopefully that helps you understand your pattern and all the patterns that

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you might

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see with golfers on TV of what they're doing during this initial movement

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called the takeaway.