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In this video we're going to discuss grip to sternum location so I had a

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question about how guys like John Rahm will have a more of a boat wrist or

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Jordan speed they'll have a really boat wrist with a wheat grip and then how

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someone like a Dustin Johnson will have a boat wrist with strong grip and so

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how

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grip orientation relates to the top of the swing position. Unfortunately there

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's

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not a really clear correlation between starting grip and top of the swing

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position but there's a really really strong almost intimate relationship

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between

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where the sternum is at impact and where the hands are at impact. And part of

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that

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is because there's a very small margin of where the club is going to be at

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impact in order to have a solid you know torque quality shot and therefore

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there

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are only so many different body and wrist orientations I could use to get in

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that position. For example let's say the club is going to be just slightly

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leaning forward kind of roughly like this if I was to get my body in a good

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tour impact position and then put my hands on the club there there are only so

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many different ways you'll see in order to get some of these orientations I end

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up having to move my sternum so in order to keep it there there's a there's a

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smaller window than you would expect so if I take a normal kind of neutral grip

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about 25 degrees of extension of the of the lead wrist and then fairly neutral

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with that trail wrist and I get into that tour impact position you'll see that

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the

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hands and examples we're going to use two major references we're going to look

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where is the upper body in space and for that we're going to use the reference

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of

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the sternum but we'll see more of that from the down the line and from the face

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on view we'll be able to see the strength of the grip at setup so where is how

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much extension do we have in that lead wrist or in the weak grips how much

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flexion and how much has that changed to impact or looking at where the V's

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are pointing at setup that can be helpful as well so both of these golfers

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have stronger left hand grips Dustin definitely has a stronger right hand

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grip but Matt Coocher has more of a neutral right hand grip to accompany

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that strong left hand so what we'll do is we'll take them from setup to impact

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and we can see that Dustin had a lot of extension in his lead wrist at setup

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and

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then at impact it's pretty much flat so he's flexed his lead wrist a good

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amount and he's accompanied that with a fair amount of body rotation we can see

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that his chest or sternum is pointing well out in front of the golf ball that

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will be the face on view we'll have a better view of how strong or how weak the

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grip actually is but from it looking at impact position we kind of imagine

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almost

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perpendicular to the spine you can see that Matt Coocher's sternum would be

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pointing kind of just out in front of the golf ball where Dustin Johnson when

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hitting this drive has his sternum pointing way out in front of the golf ball

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it now makes sense seeing how open he got his sternum that he can have such a

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strong grip but have it bowed at the top of the swing and still fairly flat or

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much so now if we take John Ram and get him close to impact or actually we can

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probably get him right at impact you'll see that we've got a similar looking

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sternum position you'll see that Dustin's a little bit more open but you'll see

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that for all intent and purposes you can see about the same amount of the ribc

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age

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you can see it's kind of on about the same till their legs and pelvis have done

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a little different but we can see that the ribcage or the sternum which is our

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reference point is in a closest position so they've used their grips to get the

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club back to kind of a similar position and the way they did it is Dustin

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Johnson had a stronger grip and then bow to fair amount John Ram had a weak

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grip and bowed a ton and one trend you'll see from looking at a lot of the

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torque rows is that if you have a weak grip there's no way around it you

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pretty much have to bow that lead wrist in order to get good tour impact

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conditions but if you have a strong grip you can either bow and use a lot of

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body rotation or not bow that lead wrist keep that wrist relatively neutral and

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not have as much body rotation but hopefully this video helped you to see

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kind of the relationship between where the body is an impact and how it relates

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to the grip if you stay behind the golf ball and you rotate you'll need to

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close

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the club face to accommodate either with a stronger grip or bowing the wrist or

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both and if you lunge and if you don't rotate then you're not going to want to

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have a really flat left wrist or you're going to want to gravitate towards a

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weaker grip.