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In this golf smart insight, we're going to talk about adjusting from a life of

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baseball.

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Now baseball and golf have a lot of similar patterns built into them so it's

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very common

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if you have played a fair amount of baseball or if you just built very sound

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baseball patterns

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for these patterns to show up in your golf swing.

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So one of the interesting little factoids that I like to mention is if you look

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at the

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celebrity golf tournaments, you know, I used to watch a ton of them when I was

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playing

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a lot of golf or when I was playing tournament golf.

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When you watch these celebrity tournaments, you'll see some of the movements

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that these

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ex-athletes make from their sport in their golf swing.

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Well, the best baseball players tended to be the pitchers.

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Now part of that's, you know, the way that they train differently in the gym,

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their

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physical capabilities, but part of it is just their movement patterns aren't as

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ingrained

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for hitting as they are for throwing and the golf swing seems to be a little

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bit more like

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a throwing pattern than it does like the baseball hitting pattern.

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There's two major issues that I see when I work with players who tell me that

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they've

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played a lot of baseball and they tend to show up with some of these patterns.

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The first one is the release.

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Now in proper, I've played competitive golf, played competitive basketball,

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tennis, a lot

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of sports.

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Baseball was one of the ones that I did not have a lot of experience with, so I

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'm going

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off secondhand, not first personal experience here.

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But in the proper release in baseball, you're going to tend to come through

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with your hands

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parallel to each other, right?

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So it'll look more like it drops into this plane and then this hand will

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basically stay

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on top until you make contact with the golf ball and then you'll see them go

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through

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kind of, you know, into that home run hit or finish.

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Well, I actually had an MLB scout who said, Tyler, I'm a great hitter.

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So when I had him on, I was like, well, we got to get you hit in a baseball.

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So in addition to looking at his golf swing, gave him a baseball bat, attached

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the sensor

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to it.

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What was really interesting was the hand movements that he made for the

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baseball swing were almost

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identical to that of the golf swing.

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The only problem was they were delayed in the baseball swing about a tenth of a

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second.

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This is why many good hitters struggle with a slice in golf because in baseball

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that release

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is going to happen, nope, nope, nope, nope, make contact with the golf ball and

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now we're

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going to have the ulnar deviation, rotation, all of the stuff that we see in

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the golf swing.

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In the golf swing, if I brought that into the baseball pattern, it would be n

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ope, nope,

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nope, I haven't made contact with the ball.

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Now I'm going to start releasing and now I make contact with the golf ball.

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So that subtle difference in timing can cause some huge problems with clubface

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control.

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And so part of what baseball players end up having to do is to adjust for this

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delayed

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clubface control.

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The second thing is lack of weight shift.

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Now there's many different philosophies as far as what is the proper baseball

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hitting

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technique, whether you should stay into the front or stay in the back leg,

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whether you

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should actually be kind of having all your pressure going into the front leg.

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There's just as much controversy in the baseball hitting world as there is in

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the golf world.

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What I tend to see with baseball players is when I put the sensors on their

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body, they

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tend to have a little bit less of this lateral movement during transition and

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they tend to

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just have this little bit more of a spin axis.

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Now they'll usually have a very good kinematic sequence, they'll have very good

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energy transfer,

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but because of this lack of lower body lateral shift, because of this lack of

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axis tilt,

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they will tend to have path issues that actually complement their poor release.

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So whether it's the chicken or the egg of you got to fix the path before you

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fix the

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release, I tend to fix the release before I fix the path, but that's totally up

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to you.

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What I'm saying is if you are a baseball player and you're coming to golf,

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these are

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the things that you're going to have to get used to.

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You're going to have to get used to having your lower body ahead of your upper

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body, which

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would basically cause you to hit pop ups in baseball, but in golf, this is

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really good

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because this helps get the proper kind of hand path through transition.

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And then the other thing is you have to get used to this little move I call the

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motorcycle

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move and how those arms are going to release, which I go into great detail in

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the release

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section.

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So if you're a baseball player, those are probably the two biggest areas you'll

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have to

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pay attention to, but the good news is you already know how to sequence your

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body and

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rotate it explosively.

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You just have to learn how to get it on the proper path for hitting a golf club

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, which

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has a club face and set up a baseball bat, which doesn't.