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this video is discussing your swing under pressure. Now one of the reasons that

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we want to train a balance of good movements the body, good movements the

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arms, is so that it performs under pressure. What I've found is that golfers

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who tend to have, I don't want to say unique swings because there's lots of

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unique swings on tour that work well under pressure, but golfers who have

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either low point control or face control that is dependent on a timing of

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kind of some extreme movements tend to have more trouble under pressure. And

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usually what'll happen is under pressure your body is going to get hit with a

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adrenaline and cortisol and you're gonna feel kind of jacked up. Well those

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hormones affect different parts of your body differently and in my experience

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what typically happens is your power sources and your core muscles get

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amplified so your body movements from the shoulders to your feet tend to get

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amplified and your arm movements you tend to feel a little bit shaky as the

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normal reaction and so you'll tend to almost lock them down or slow them down

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or speed them up but you'll basically kind of quiet the range of motion. You'll

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usually shorten the movements of the arms and you'll usually amplify what's

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going on with your body. And so when that happens you can get into some trouble

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So let's take a couple of the classic examples. What may happen is a golfer

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maybe a little bit more outside in let's say steep with the arms and has a

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scoop

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to kind of shallow it out and they use their body standing up to shallow it out

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So on the range your arms are working a little bit steep kind of like this and

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you've got a nice little scoop and you might actually you can see that I got a

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path that's slightly end out there. You might actually hit a few nice little

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draws but what you'll tend to find is that under pressure you may find that you

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stand up earlier or more or more explosively and your arms don't quite

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scoop at the right time they tend to kind of hold on a little bit more and now

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instead of having a nice little scoop pattern where you hit some solid shots

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now you hit a bunch of top shots because you stand up and kind of tighten the

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arms too much. So what you want to do is you want to try to build a relatively

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balanced body movement where your upper body doesn't move around too much not

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too much of a sway not too much of a slide not too much lift it kind of stays

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in a little bubble I call it. So that that's that old idea of kind of keeping

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your head still while keeping your body in a relatively stable position or

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relatively you know small amount of lateral movement to it that'll allow you

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to then just kind of fire the arms and know that you're going to make

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relatively solid contact. So one of the ways to train yourself to perform

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better

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under pressure is to take away some of your really big body movements but

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oftentimes those big body movements or compensations for either really steep

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arm movements or a really open club face or a scoop to control low point or

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something like that. So by understanding what happens to your swing under

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pressure

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or rather by looking at video and reading your feedback you can see what

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type of misses you may normally have and by predicting if we amplify that

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pattern we'll usually be able to predict what's going to happen when you get

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nervous on the course. But the solution is to work on the key movements of this

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stock tour swing. So the body movements that kind of keep you relatively on

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plane and the arm movements by themselves that keep you relatively on

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plane they're going to tend to balance each other under pressure. You don't

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have

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to get all the way there if you have a lot of stand up just by focusing on

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saying

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down a little bit more that can minimize how much the the pattern is going to

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show up under pressure and it may help you hit more solid shots. So if you

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struggle with taking your range to the course then take an honest look at how

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dramatic your body movements are and how dramatic your arm movements are and if

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you have two dramatic movements that are balancing each other out then

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understand that the arm movement is probably going to get a little quieter

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the body movement is going to get amplified. So working on one of your

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ways to kind of keep your exaggerated body movement in check and to let's say

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fully release or keep the tension low in your arms those two things will help

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your game transfer more from the range to the course.