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in this golf smart insight we're gonna

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talk about adjusting from a life of

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baseball now baseball and golf have a

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lot of similar patterns built into them

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so it's very common if you have played a

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fair amount of baseball or if you just

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built very sound baseball patterns for

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these patterns that show up in your golf

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swing so one of the interesting little

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factoids that I like to mention is if

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you look at the celebrity golf

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tournaments you know I used to watch a

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ton of them when I was playing a lot of

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golf or when I was playing tournament

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golf when you watch these celebrity

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tournaments you'll see some of the

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movements that these ex-athletes make

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from their sport in their golf swing

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well the best baseball players tended to

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be the pitchers now part of that's you

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know the way that they differ they train

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differently in the gym their physical

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capabilities but part of it is just

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their their movement patterns aren't as

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ingrained for hitting as they are for

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throwing and the golf swing seems to be

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a little bit more like a throwing

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pattern than it does like the baseball

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hitting pattern there's two major issues

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that I see when I work with players who

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tell me that they've played a lot of

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baseball and they tend to show up with

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some of these patterns the first one is

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the release now in in proper I I've

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played competitive golf played

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competitive basketball tennis a lot of

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sports baseball was one of the ones that

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I did not have a lot of experience with

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so I'm going off second hand not first

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personal experience here but in the

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proper release in baseball you're gonna

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tend to come through with your hands

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parallel to each other right so it'll

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look more like it drops into this plane

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and then this hand will basically stay

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on top until you make contact with the

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golf ball and then you'll see them go

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through kind of you know into that home

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run hitter finish well I actually had a

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MLB scout who said Tyler Mike I'm a

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great hitter so when I had him on I was

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like well we gotta get you hidden a

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baseball so in addition to looking his

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golf swing gave him a baseball bat

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attach the sensor to it what was really

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interesting was the hand movements that

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he made for the baseball swing were

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almost identical to that of the golf

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swing the only problem

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was they were delayed in the baseball

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swing about a tenth of a second this is

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why many good hitters struggle with a

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slice in golf because in baseball that

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that release is gonna happen no no no no

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make contact with the golf ball and now

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we're going to have the ulnar deviation

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rotation all of the stuff that we see in

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their golf swing in the golf swing if I

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brought that into the baseball pattern

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it would be nope nope nope nope I

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haven't made contact with the ball now

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I'm gonna start releasing and now I make

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contact with the golf ball so that

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subtle difference in timing can cause

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some huge problems with clubface control

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and so part of what baseball players end

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up having to do is to adjust for this

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delayed clubface control the second

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thing is lack of weight shift now

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there's many different philosophies as

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far as what is the proper baseball

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hitting technique whether you should

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stay into the front or stay in the back

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leg whether you should actually be kind

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of having all your pressure going into

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the front leg there's there's a lot of

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there's just as much controversy in the

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baseball hitting the world as there is

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in the golf world what I tend to see

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with baseball players is when I when I

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put the sensors on their body they tend

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to have a little bit less of this

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lateral movement during transition and

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they tend to just have this a little bit

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more of a spin axis now they'll usually

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have a very good kinematic sequence

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they'll have very good energy transfer

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but because of this lack of lower body

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lateral shift because of this lack of

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access tool they will tend to have path

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issues that actually complement their

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poor release so whether it's the chicken

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or the egg of you got to fix the path

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before you fix the release I tend to fix

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the release before I fix the path but

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that's totally up to you what I'm saying

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is if you are a baseball player and

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you're coming to golf these are the

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things that you're gonna have to get

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used to you're gonna have to get used to

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having your lower body ahead of your

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upper body which would basically cause

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you hit pop ups in baseball but in golf

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this is really good because this helps

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get the proper kind of hand path through

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transition and then the other thing is

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you have to get used to this little move

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I call the motorcycle move

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and how those arms are gonna release

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which I go into great detail in the

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release section so if you're a baseball

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player those are probably the two

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biggest areas you'll have to pay

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attention to but the good news is you

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already know how to sequence your body

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and rotate it explosively you just have

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to learn how to get it on the proper

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path for hitting a golf club which has a

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clubface instead of a baseball bat which

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doesn't