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This concept video is discussing the forward lunge.

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Now the forward lunge is a common component to an overall cast pattern.

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It shows up on video of an excessive movement of the upper body in front of the

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golf ball

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or compared to the lower body.

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So basically I've got this stick right here kind of in line just about like

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this.

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The forward lunge could show up early in transition where the upper body just

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moves too much

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on top of the lower body like this or it could show up later.

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So if I got down to about here and then kept sliding that upper body forward.

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But a forward lunge is an excessive movement of the upper body towards the

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target.

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Now it's not quite as simple as just oh you need more Jackson 5, you need more

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side bend

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because depending on the timing of when it happens in your swing it could be

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from a variety

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of movements.

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And the easiest way is to help coordinate that is using something that helps

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you with your

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upper body awareness.

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And what you'll find is if you use something in front of your ear or to keep

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you more centered

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and when you do that you start hitting it fat then it's a good sign that your

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forward

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lunge is coming more from low point control and how you're releasing the club

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and less

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from power.

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But if you look at the video and you tend to see more of the upper body lunge

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early it's

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more of how you're creating power and basically what's happening is you're

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using your upper

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body and usually that left shoulder to kind of pull on the club down in that

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direction

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almost like I was kind of pulling on a chain.

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If it's an early forward lunge associated more with power then what you need to

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do is

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you need to get more of the initial movement happening from the lower body.

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This is where the ideas of keeping your upper body closed or back to the target

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or more

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of having a little bit of a bump can help with that early transition forward

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lunge.

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But if you're having that forward lunge movement down late it usually means

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that you're having

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more of a flip or a scoop style of arm movement and that forward lunge is going

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to get you

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far enough ahead so that you don't hit it fat.

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Because if you had that more scoop style where you don't have very much shaft

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rotation so

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it just kind of is passing more like this and you have that timing of pushing

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on it more

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with your right hand going into internal rotation.

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If you did that and you were in a good kind of side bend where your upper body

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is behind

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your lower body then what would happen is you would typically bottom out well

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behind

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the golf ball and then if you were to have some face closing you would hit

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massive poles

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and pull ups.

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So that upper body lunge is a tricky issue but it can show up either from how

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your body

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likes to create power, a dominance of the upper body compared to the lower body

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or how

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your body likes to control the release and the bottom of the swing as more of a

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lunge

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to accompany that scoop.

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From a pure body perspective that forward lunge can show up in a couple

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different directions.

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So if I were to just drop the club there it's not the same thing as just having

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side bend

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because if I have side bend and then I rotate I still have a bunch of side bend

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but you

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can see that my upper body has gone forward.

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So even though you can see that my shoulders are down from the face on camera

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you can see

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I still had a bunch of side bend.

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So what will happen is at the top of the swing the forward lunge comes more

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from not having

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enough of that lower body movement not side bend because side bend would move

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me this way.

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In the middle zone if I do have more of the lunge kind of this way now my body

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is roughly

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facing the camera so yes now it would be more of a side bend movement that

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would keep me

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moving forward.

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But as I get down closer and closer to impact and into the follow through if I

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have the

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appearance of lunging forward it's more from not having enough of the extension

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of my legs

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and hips or even some in my spine basically I'm not getting into a good bracing

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position

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where I'm angled away from the target.

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So I can have side bend and still lunge if I had poor hip extension.

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So like I said it can be a little bit tricky but once you identify the cause it

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usually

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cleans up either with some transition sequencing maybe a little arm shallowing

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or at the very

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least working on some good release mechanics but if you have the forward lunge

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accompanying

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your cast and you've done a bunch of drills working on the cast component you

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may have

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to work on the forward lunge in order to ultimately solve your problem.

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So a swing with a lunge kind of more that's one of my versions I'll do a that

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one had more

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of a pull draw to it I'll do the over the top swing with the lunge.

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There's a little steeper well outside in big slice and then we'll do a swing

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without a

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lunge and more like that.