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In this analysis video, we're going to look at impact.

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Now, in the concept videos, I talk about how impact is really just a flash in

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the middle

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of a movement.

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Now, the movement will be the release, which is roughly from waist height to

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waist height,

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like so.

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Now, we will get into the specifics of the release in the release section.

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But here for impact, we're going to take a look at the static differences

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between impact

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positions, setup positions for both professional golfers, as well as amateurs.

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In this analysis of impact positions, we are going to break the swing into two

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major pieces.

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First, we're going to look at the body and how it has changed, or how it's

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different

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from it was at setup.

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And then secondly, we're going to look at the arms, everything from the

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shoulder to the

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hands, and how those are different.

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So, let's proceed with the body.

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It's important to realize that the body is really going to look very different

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than it

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did at setup.

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Now, a lot of amateurs and a lot of beginners start with the concept of I'm

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trying to get

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back to where I was at setup, but as you'll see through this video, that's not

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the case

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with most high-level golfers.

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Now, the body has changed in a number of ways.

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Compared to setup posture, the spine is going to be much more flexed, like so.

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It is going to have more of a right side tilt, like so.

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We're going to talk about something that we call early extension.

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We're looking at the space of the pelvis compared to the golf ball.

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And then we're going to look at the amount of body rotation as it compares to

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setup.

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So let's begin with the spine flexion, or how the spine has changed.

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In elite level golfers, the spine is going to be a lot more flexed or rounded

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if you compare

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setup position to impact.

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So here on the left, I have Dustin Johnson, and at setup, you can see the solid

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line goes

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from roughly his hip to roughly his ear.

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If I then take him through his swing until he gets to impact, which we'll be

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right about.

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So you will see that there is now a pronounced curve to his spine.

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This is a side flex to the right, but it's also a flex forward, as we can

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measure on 3D.

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This flexing forward and flexing to the right helps transfer energy through the

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abdominals.

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So when you use your legs, you have to transfer the energy through your body

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somehow.

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If you're going to use your abs, it will cause you to do almost like a crunch,

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which

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will get you into more of this rounded posture.

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That keeps your upper body closer to the ground, which allows you to build

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shaft lean with

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your arms, which we'll get into in later sections.

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Here's another example of an elite level golfer at setup.

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This is Roy McElroy.

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You can see that straight line from ear to hip.

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And then as he approaches impact, you will see that his spine now has that

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gentle curve

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and slightly flex to the right.

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This is a great trait, and it's a sign that you're using your body effectively

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for transferring

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energy from your legs to your shoulders.

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Now let's take a quick look at a couple amateurs to see the difference between

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what pros are

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doing.

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So on the right, I still have Roy McElroy.

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The straight teal line is representing his spine at the start of the swing, and

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then the

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curved red line is representing the curve in his spine down in this impact

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interval.

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Now here we have an amateur, unfortunately the camera moves a bit, so this will

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be harder

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to see.

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But the blue line, or the teal line is what it was at setup, and then as we get

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to impact,

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you'll see that the curve is roughly the same, especially through the majority

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of the lower

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back and mid back.

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He's using more of his hamstrings and his back to transfer the energy, which

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isn't going

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to curb his spine the way that using your abdominals would.

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So this spine curve is very important for making sure that you're using the

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proper muscles

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to transfer energy effectively, keep your alignments as well as avoid back pain

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Let's look at another one.

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And here's an example of another golfer who starts off in a relatively similar

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angle

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to say Rory McElroy, although we already used him for an example of S posture

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because he

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has a little more curve to it, but let's see what happens as he goes into his

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downswing

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and approaches impact.

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You'll see that as he approaches impacts, yes, he'll have a little bit of curve

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in his

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upper spine, but you can see for all intents and purposes, his spine is pretty

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straight

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because he's used primarily his lower back as well as his hamstrings to

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transfer energy

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from the legs to the shoulders, as opposed to Rory who was using more of his

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abs.

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The using the abs creates the space for the elbows to work in front of your

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body, where

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this gentleman is forced to have his elbows hit his rib gauge, which causes

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some of his

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early release issues.

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So just pay attention to how much spine flex you have at setup, and then follow

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the drills

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that help you learn how to get the proper spine both side tilt as well as flex

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ion as

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we go into impact.

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Now the next piece to the body puzzle we're going to look at is something

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referred to

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as early extension, which is basically looking at the location of the head and

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the tailbone

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throughout the golf swing.

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Now both of these swings are not on tripods, so there's a little bit of

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movement, but you

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can see basically from the top of the swing down towards impact, roughly his

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tailbone

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or his left hip or some part of his pelvis is up against this line right here,

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over here

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on the right with Adam Scott, and you can see that his head has barely moved

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off this line

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if at all.

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So he's kept basically the same spatial orientation between his head and the

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pelvis and the golf

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ball.

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The only thing that's happened is he's curved his spine, so his head is dropped

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down some.

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Now here's my student, and again the camera is not on a tripod, but you'll

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clearly be

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able to see that as he approaches impact, his lower body has moved towards the

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golf ball

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and his upper body has moved away.

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This is an indication that he's doing more of a spine extension, and that takes

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all the room for his arms to do the proper movement.

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So this gentleman struggles a little bit with his release.

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Now I want to use this example of Paul Casey to show that while we want your

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pelvis to

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stay roughly in the same orientation, it's not absolutely critical.

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There are golfers who from their setup position will move slightly in, such as

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someone like

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Paul Casey, but you can see in his case his head doesn't move.

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You will rarely see both of them happen the way that we're seeing over here on

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the left

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with this amateur, but the one on the left is very common for amateurs where we

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see a

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standing up during the downswing.

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You'll understand much more about that as we get into transition.

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One of the big things to pay attention to though is because the golfer on the

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left has

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stood up in order to shallow at the club and create his speed on the downswing,

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see that there's very little rotation, as in you can't see any part of his left

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shoulder

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and very little of his left hip and left back.

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The golfers who use more of this flexion and right side bend, you'll be able to

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see his

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entire left side of his back, his left hip, his left leg, because he has

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rotated and cleared

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his body to help create the leg, which is a big power source.

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Now in finishing with the body as it relates to impact, we're going to talk

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about weight

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left or having your left hip on top of your left foot.

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So here on the right, we have Zach Johnson, and this will relate a lot to that

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right side

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bend.

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What you'll see is as we approach impact, you'll see that depending on camera

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angle,

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a significant portion of their body will get over their left foot.

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In his case, you've got his belt buckle, which is roughly where his hip is,

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right on top

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of that left foot.

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Now the thing to notice with this is in order to have the lower body move that

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forward

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and the upper body not move forward with it, the head is going to have to drop

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I don't know if you saw that, but we'll focus on his cap.

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From the top of the swing, you'll see his head drop down pretty significantly

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to the top of the swing.

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Now Tiger Woods is frequently chastised for his head dropping, but you will

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a good ball striker, especially with a driver who does not have his head drop.

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Now I'll show a couple examples here on the left of golfers who don't really

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drop their

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heads and don't get quite as much of their weight onto the left side.

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So here you can see this golfer had the same head height at the top of the

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swing as he

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does at impact.

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That's limiting the amount of side bend he would have, but works well with the

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release

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that he's trying to accomplish.

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And here's another example of an amateur golfer who does not have a lot of

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lateral shift or

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right side bend.

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So as we go to the top of the swing, you can see there's a little bit of space

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his head and that line, and you'll see that it's a small little drop, but it

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basically

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stays about the same the entire downswing until he makes contact.

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You can also see that compared to someone like Zach Johnson, or we'll bring up

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pro example here in a second, but you can see that there's still space between

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his left

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tip and his shoulders or shoulder right side bend is nowhere near in the same

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category

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as Zach Johnson over here on the right.

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So those two kind of go hand in hand with the release or with what your arms

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are doing,

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which is what we'll get into in the second half of this video.

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And on the right, we've got Rory McElroy, now this camera angle is not

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perfectly square

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to him, so it's not going to look like he shifts quite as much, but it would be

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difficult to have that much head drop from the top of the swing and not have

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his lower

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body get on top of that leg.

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So you can see that those two go hand in hand having significant amount of

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right side bend

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helps get the arm in front of the body, helps get the lower body on top of the

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left leg.

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So these things kind of all play together, which is why I'm going over them in

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each piece,

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but we train them in chunks and you'll see in the drills that we combine these

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movements

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into trainable chunks so that you can learn how to do it without having to

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think about

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all these pieces, but that's a pretty I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment

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of what

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the body should be doing at impact and how it compares the setup.

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Now let's go over the arms.

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When it comes to the arms and hands, we've one simple objective.

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We want the arms and hands to be in a strong position so that they transfer

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energy to

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the golf ball.

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Now there's a few key points that we look for when we're looking at the arms

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and hands

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as they relate to impact.

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Here I've got Rory McElroy on both sides, one with an iron, one with a driver.

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At setup, you can see that both arms are fairly straight, but as we approach

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impact, you will

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see that that right elbow is in closer to his side and is in a bent position.

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It'll be easier to see when we look at it from down the line.

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In addition, you will see that as I get him to impact, you will see that there

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is an angle

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in his right wrist and his left wrist is relatively flat.

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Here you can see him in a similar wrist position on the right with a driver,

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even though the

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shaft is in a totally different position.

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What it shows is that the arms and the hands work very similarly regardless of

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what club

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you're using, at least in the full swing.

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And what tends to change is more what the body is doing.

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From the down the line, we get a pretty clear idea of what the trail elbow is

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doing.

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As you can see here with Keegan Bradley, as he approaches impact, you can see

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that that

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elbow is still more or less close to his body, and you can see that there is a

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significant

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amount of arm bend.

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I've done a video specifically on arm bend in this illusion.

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Part of the reason why it looks like there is a lot of arm bend, which there is

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a good

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amount, but part of the reason why it looks so drastic, like almost 90 degrees,

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is because

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the elbow is more in front of his body at this point, as opposed to being

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behind it.

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I'll demonstrate that with a few pros and amateurs from the face on view.

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On the right we have Dustin Johnson, and on the left we have a high handicap

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golfer.

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Now as you see Dustin Johnson approach impact, you will see that there is a

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significant amount

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of space between his elbow and his ribs or his pelvis, right here.

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If I go back up towards the top of the swing and come back down, you can see

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that there

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is almost never any daylight between his elbow and his body.

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His elbow at this point is already starting to work in front of his body.

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That helps maintain the lag in the wrist and delay the release of the club.

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Over here on the left we have an amateur going through the similar phase, and

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you can see

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that there's daylight between his elbow and his shirt, sort of right in this

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area, because

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his right arm is straightening away from his body instead of working past his

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belly button.

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It gives a very different look to impact.

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In addition, because his arms are not working across his body instead of

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working straight

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out in front of it, this will limit how much side bend, how much weight shift,

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and how much

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rotation he will be able to have at impact.

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So we know that the elbow is working across your body in order to get the hands

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more or

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less out in front of the chest.

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But let's take a look or a close look at the hands specifically.

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So what I want you to notice is if I draw a circle around his hands, you can

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see that

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the right wrist still has a bit of a cup in it as he makes contact with the

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golf ball,

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and the left wrist is fairly flat.

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Now if we compare that with where he was at setup, you will see that at setup

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his left

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wrist had a pretty significant cup while his right wrist was pretty close to

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flat.

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So essentially they have changed orientation during the golf swing as they

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apply the force

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onto the shaft.

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If you look on the left, I have an amateur who, if you look at his wrist at

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impact, the

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right wrist has a little bit, or is relatively straight while the left wrist

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has a little

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bit of a cup in it.

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If I take him back to setup, you can see that setup wise, the wrist orientation

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is fairly

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similar between these two golfers, but because of what they're trying to do on

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the downswing,

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they end up in very different wrist alignments at impact.

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I teach primarily trying to get your full swing into the wrist alignment of

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having or

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maintaining a bit of extension or cup in the trail wrist, and maintaining some

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flexion

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or flatness in the lead wrist, and we have drills in the section of the release

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explaining

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exactly how you can learn how to do that.

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As you continue to study the golf swing and learn how to play it, you want to

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try to emulate

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some of the common patterns that we see with the best golfers in the world.

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The issues that I highlight or the concepts that I highlight in this video are

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some of

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the things that I help produce the most solid and repeatable impact positions.

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But remember, ultimately, this is what we are trying to do.

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Because the club comes down into impact, at least with an iron, you are going

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to see

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that the weight left, the side bend right, and the hand position that I talk

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about will

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help get the golf club to hit the back of the golf ball before the ground.

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You will see this example, he is making contact with the golf ball, it's

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already leaving the

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club, and now is when the club enters the ground.

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As long as you can do that and have the bottom of your swing far enough forward

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in front

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of the golf ball, you have what it takes to have a consistent, powerful, and

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repeatable

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golf swing.