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This concept video is investigating two causes of the inside takeaway.

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So one of the common questions that I get from new students or new members of

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the site

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is relating to the takeaway that one of the looks that golfers hate the most is

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when the

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club gets inside here kind of in this space. So if I had the club on the ground

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in kind

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of a shaft line here, the classic look of the club coming more up the shaft

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line versus

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going inside or under that shaft line. I think for you know for a lot of the

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swing

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plane era where the main thing that golfers were working on was kind of these

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angles,

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that was one of the big bad P's. So I'm going to talk to you about two main

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causes that

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I see of that inside takeaway. I don't think being a little inside is the worst

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thing for

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a lot of golfers. So be careful with it. But if it is excessive, it's way

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inside, then

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yes, it usually points to one of these two problems in your swing. So one of

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the problems

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is an arm movement and one of the problems is a body movement. We're going to

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start

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with the body movement because that's actually a little bit easier to decode.

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So the main

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things that's going to bring the takeaway too far inside is a lack of side bend

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or a

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lack of left shoulder or lead shoulder down. So left shoulder in my case. So

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what I mean

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by that is if I'm standing up here, if I was to bend to the left as much or as

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I'm rotating,

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then by bending to the left, if I keep my arms out in front of the body, that

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tends to make

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the club come up. So one common issue is that a lot of golfers turn those

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shoulders on

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a really flat plane. So if this shoulder goes high or this shoulder stays low,

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you can see

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how that would tend to do two things. I will tend to shift my upper body off

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the ball and

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then from the down the line view, if you were looking at the angle of my

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shoulders, it would

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be pointing more parallel to the ground or almost out towards my camera as

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opposed to

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down towards the golf ball there. So if the body tends to tilt down, that first

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movement,

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that'll help bring the club a little bit more outside. So that's a common one

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that I see

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for a lot of golfers, you bring it inside. The other option is more from the

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arms, which

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is if I bring my arms across my body, so if my arms have very little rotation,

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if I bring

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my arms across my body, as opposed to when we do the backswing only type drills

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, we talk

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about letting those arms rotate a little bit and keeping that trail arm in

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front of your

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chest, those movements, while it feels like rotating the arms would bring the

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club way

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inside, it actually moves it more on a path kind of out that way as compared to

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the down

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the line camera. So if I do the arm rotation movement, where I feel either the

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lead arm

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kind of rotating over, a little bit like this, only about 30 degrees or so, or

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if I feel

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the trail arm starting that jazzy Jeff move where the elbow stays in front and

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the arm

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is going into some external rotation. If I do those two movements, especially

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if I do

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those two movements with a little bit of side bend, you can see how that almost

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naturally

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gets the club swinging on more of a outside takeaway. So like I said, either sn

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atching

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the club inside from the arms or turning the shoulder plate really flat will

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give you more

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of that inside takeaway look. Now, what I tend to find is the pattern is most

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of the time

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golfers will go inside takeaway and then lift up and come over the top. So part

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of the challenge

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is getting, if you're going to fix that takeaway movement, you have to get used

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to having the

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arm shallow a little bit in transition, as opposed to that steep movement,

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which is the

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over the top movement. And if you're going to shallow your arms in transition,

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then you

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have to get a little bit more comfortable with powering the downswing body

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rotation as

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opposed to with arm pull. So if I'm working on it, I usually do the downswing

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drills and

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kind of work on getting the body to rotate and the arms to shallow. And then

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when you

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start to add a little bit better backswing, it it fits. So it actually helps

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you do the

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downswing movements better. If you start with trying to do the backswing and

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you still want

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to come over the top, it'll actually make you come more over the top. You won't

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be able

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to commit to it because you will struggle with contact almost instantly. And

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that's

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usually when you'll try it for five swings and then bail on it and move on to

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something

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else. So I want you to understand the takeaway but understand how it fits into

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the equation.

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I recommend working a little bit on some downswing movements before you make it

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too higher priority.

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But if you are seeing a way inside takeaway, first check the shoulder tilt and

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body position

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and second check the arm rotation. That'll help you clean up that annoying look

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that

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messes up your swing plane. So let's do one of the bad one where we're going to

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do both

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turn shallow and lift it up. And you'll see didn't make great contact but did

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kind of

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that classic pattern. Now we'll do one that feels a little bit more better. We

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're going

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to rotate those arms while getting that shoulder down. And we make pretty good

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contact there.