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This content video is looking at the full body finish.

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So a lot of golfers, especially, you know, kind of your 15 to 25 handicap golf

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ers tend

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to have more of a kind of a short finish that is associated with more of an arm

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dominant

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release pattern.

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And so oftentimes, as you're working through some of these drills, you've

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gotten maybe better

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with your nine to threes and you're making some solid contact, but you're still

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maybe

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struggling with some of the distance and you just have a shortish swing.

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You're not having a full finish.

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So we're going to talk about the, I think, two of the bigger key feeling

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differences

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when we go up into a full finish pattern.

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So first is understanding the role of spine extension.

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So during the follow through and during the release, my abs are going to stay

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tight.

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I'm going to stay having an appearance of being in my spine angle from the down

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the line,

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but my spine is going to go into some extension.

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My upper body is going to go into some extension like this as it goes into the

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finish.

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So one of the easy things for you to try, and I'll demonstrate it a lot, but it

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's helpful

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if you just try and you can do it just by sitting there.

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If you're sitting there watching this video, you're going to round.

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You're going to do a little crunch by bringing your upper body down towards

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your belly button,

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kind of like this.

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And then you're going to try to rotate into the finish.

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And now without trying to rotate, all I want you to do is go into extension.

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And you'll see as I go into extension, my shoulder goes from that's as far as

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it can

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go to as it goes into extension, it moves well across the screen.

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So part of what creates this kind of short finish is staying down in your thing

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flexed

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in your posture, kind of more like this and just throwing those arms past.

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Now instead what we're going to try to do is we're going to get us a little

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reference

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of what a full finish would feel like.

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So we're going to extend the upper spine while keeping the abs tight.

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And then we're going to turn so that we are basically facing away from the golf

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ball,

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and your trail shoulder is closer to the target than the lead shoulder.

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So the classic short finish position is basically here where everything is

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facing.

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Instead, what we're going to do is we're going to get used to looking over our

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trail

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shoulder for right hand and golf for the right shoulder, and we're going to

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feel a little

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bit more tall in our extension position.

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Now what I usually ask golfers to do is try and look back at the golf ball, and

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they'll

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notice that they've turned so much that they can't even see the golf ball,

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where when you're

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doing more of an arm dominant pattern, it's really easy to just look back at

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the golf

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ball because you haven't really turned.

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If you're doing more of a body dominant pattern, it's going to take some real

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effort if I

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get, if I wanted to try to look back at the golf ball, I have to unwind and

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come out of

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that finish position.

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So now, realistically, it's going to be the timing of the release, the

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sequencing, and

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the momentum of the club that allows that full finish or takes you into that

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full finish.

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If you allow it, the club is not moving so fast that you can't resist it and

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stay flexed

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forward and just hit it with the arms, but if you allow it, if you use more of

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your body

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to get into this full finish, you'll feel the chest being more up, or the upper

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body

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a little bit more extended, and the trail shoulder closer to the target.

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Oftentimes, that can help clean up some of the width and some of the look

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through there

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if you have more of an arm dominant release pattern like that.

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So if you're looking at video and you're doing pretty well in the '93s, but it

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's really

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short and it kind of struggles and breaks down as you go more into the full

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swings, focus

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on these two keys, getting a little bit more extension and getting that lead

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shoulder closer

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to the target.

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If your arms stay in front of you or even a little bit towards the right side

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of your

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body, while you do that, that will clean up a lot of the connection, the tempo,

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the rhythm,

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the consistency, all the things that the arm dominant pattern tends to complain

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about.

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Okay, so let's just check, we're going to go up.

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And now if we check that finished position, we're going to feel a little bit

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extended

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and I'm facing away from the golf ball or the trail shoulder is closer to the

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target.

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That was a pretty good one.