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>> This concept video is answering the member question,

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does Shafleen really open the club face?

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So I've talked about the club face a number of times,

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but I got another question about if

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Shafleen opens the club face or seems to be some debate on Instagram.

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So I thought I'd throw my two cents in here.

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I got a few different images that we're going to look at,

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and then we'll talk about it from the mechanics point of view.

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But I think the first step is to understand what's happening

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when you move the grip forward or when you create Shafleen.

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So because there's a number of different factors,

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I could create Shafleen while moving the grip straight forward like this,

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but is that really what's happening in the golf swing?

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I could create Shafleen by moving it that way,

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but some would say that you're rotating the face.

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So let's discuss this.

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So here we have a golfer at impact with some Shafleen.

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So the club is in a position like this.

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If you were to create more Shafleen by moving the grip forward,

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essentially what you're doing is you're moving

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the club further back along the swing path.

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So if I had the trusty hula hoop here,

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at the bottom of the swing here would be the widest point.

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If I move the bottom of the swing forward

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and keep the grip kind of in the same spot,

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essentially what's happened is I've moved the club further back

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along the swing path.

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By moving it further back along the swing path,

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I've done a couple things or a few things.

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I've moved the club back, I've moved the club up,

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and I've rotated the club face because we know

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that every golf club swinging into impact on a full swing,

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but at least everything that I've seen on AMM

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is going to show some amount of club face closing.

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I've never seen one actually opening through impact.

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And so I mean, if you move it backward,

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you are opening the face.

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And when you create Shafleen, you're

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moving the club back a long time, basically earlier

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in the swing, so the club face would not

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have closed as much at that point in time.

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So the club, when I go from here and I move it,

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create some Shafleen, what should happen

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is if I'm following this geometry,

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I should not just move the grip forward,

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but I should move the grip forward and down and out,

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just like that.

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And you'll see that the club face is going to twist open

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as it does that.

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So by hitting it early in the arc, earlier in the arc,

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the club face is closing at a slower amount.

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And I've created some slack or some room

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to be able to widen things and create more of this flat spot

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on the way through.

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So that helps with consistency.

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So it helps with club face control.

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And it helps with consistency of contact, low point.

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So it does some really good things,

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especially for iron play, but it helps the driver as well

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as long as we just tilt the model back this way.

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So now the club is in Shafleen compared to the golfer,

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but fairly vertical compared to the golf ball.

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Now, one other thing to talk about

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would be mechanics wise.

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Again, if I'm pressing rewind, we

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know that we want the lead arm to have some supination coming

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into impact.

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That fits the model of getting some of this club face rotation.

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So if I was to move the club backward and atomically,

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I should undo some of that supination

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or I should pronate the arm.

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And when I pronate the arm, that's

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going to open the club face.

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So yes, you could just have it here and move the grip forward.

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Move the grip forward in space.

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Keep the shaft kind of perpendicular as I do that.

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But in order to do that, I actually

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have to twist it.

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And effectively, what I would be doing

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is in order to move the grip 100% forward sideways,

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not forward and out, but forward sideways,

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I would actually be shifting the path of the club.

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So that's often what's missed in the discussion.

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If I had kept the swing path or the swing plane essentially

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the same and just moved the grip forward,

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then moving the grip forward would move it down and out,

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kind of like this.

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And I'm balancing it in the actual swing

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by moving the body up and away so that the handle is actually

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moving this way as the grip is moving slightly down and out.

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Or sorry, as the club head is moving slightly down and out,

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that's what helps create the 3D flat spot.

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It gives us a little bit more consistency.

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But hopefully this helps you understand

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what's happening mechanically.

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Yes, shaft lean or hitting it earlier in the arc, which

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happens from getting good body rotation,

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delaying the extension of the arms,

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getting into that good kind of tour impact position,

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does open the face relative to any other position.

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And it allows for some of these elements

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through the release that creates this flat spot,

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creates a low point further ahead of a golf ball,

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but with more kind of brushing, contact the ground,

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some traits that we're used to seeing from really elite level

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ball strikers.