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In this concept video we're going to talk about the overview of the finesse

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swing. Now the finesse swing is essentially going to be your chip and

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your pitch around the green and I'm going to differentiate what we're doing

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with kind of either the stock full swing which is we're trying to create power

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or the distance wedge which is kind of in the middle or the finesse wedge which

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is what we're talking about in this section where I am intentionally trying

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to be weak in order to be accurate. So the analogy that I like to give just to

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kind of create the big picture of what we're trying to do is if we look at

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throwing. There's a variety of different ways that I could throw a ball, right?

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Well the stock full swing would be like if I'm trying to throw this thing as

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far as I can and I'm basically you know loading up, unloading, sequencing,

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trying

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to create power, all that fun stuff. The finesse wedge would basically be if I

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were trying to toss a bean bag or toss a ball for control just like so and it's

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it's often been described as hey my short game just feels kind of like I'm

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doing an underhand toss. Well there's a lot of truth in that. So what I want to

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do in this video is just break down some of these key differences between a

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powerful throw and a soft underhand toss throw. So in the powerful throw you

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will see that there is a counter shift, right? I shift my weight back in order

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to

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load up some muscles in my hips and my core as well as to create somewhere for

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my weight to go during transition. So then during transition I'm going to step

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towards the target. I'm going to sequence my body from the ground to my arm

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creating leg all the way and then at the last second I'm gonna release my arm

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in hand in the direction of my target. Well in the underhand toss, right, kind

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of

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like this, I'm not really gonna have a weight shift because I've or at least I

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'm

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not gonna have a counter shift. I'm not gonna shift away from the target. I'm

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pretty much as far away from it as I'm going to get and then even during the

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backswing I'm going to be moving towards the target and then I'm gonna have a

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gentle release from my hands. I'm not really creating very much lag because

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what'll happen is my biggest stretch will basically be at the top of the swing

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and then I'll close that stretch the entire time that I'm going into that

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throwing motion. Here's how that applies to golf. So if I were to take a stock

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full swing you would see a slight little counter movement into the backswing

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followed by lag created from the lower body through the upper body. During that

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transition my arms get in narrow and then I release everything during my

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powerful

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release which you've studied in the stock full swing. In this short game area

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or in this finesse wedge swing section basically what you'll see is during the

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backswing my body is going to be moving towards the target just slightly and I

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'm

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gonna have a little bit of set for my wrist. Now I'm not gonna have a big down

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cock movement but from the top of the swing I'm just going to release those

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arms and hands while I continue to move in the direction of the target. So we

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'll

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go through my favorite drills and some of the key details in the drills section

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but that's kind of a big overhand or the big overview. Instead of trying to

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create power and throw in a wall we're gonna try and create control like

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tossing

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a wall. If you can do that you can probably be pretty accurate at getting up

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and down around the greens.