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in this golf smart insight we're going

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to look at gripping the club based on

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how your arms hang so i can remember

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growing up and and reading in lots of

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different are good articles and golf

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magazine golf digest's that to figure

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out what grip you should have you should

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stand and look in the mirror and see how

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much of your hand or the back of your

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hand you can see and then try to

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recreate that same amount on the club

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well that seems a little bit more like

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witchcraft than like actual golf science

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so for place like golf smart academy

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we're not going to buy into that here's

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how this arm hang thing actually works

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within your body and why don't think

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it's a great indicator for how you're

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going to grip the club if the more that

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you work on standing up straight or the

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more that your shoulders open up you'll

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tend to have more of this anatomical

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neutral position which would basically

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be my arm is hanging vertically down my

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forms are slightly in front of my body

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in my arm my hands are slightly turned

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in my fingers have a slight curl to them

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they're not perfectly straight and

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they're not in the fist kind of like so

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well the more that I round my body and

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kind of roll my shoulders forward this

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is kind of a slouch posture you'll tend

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to see that my arms hang in front so if

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we went back to that how much can you

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see that that pretty much means the

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better athletes who've got better

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posture should have a weaker grip even

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though because they're better athletes

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they can probably rotate their body

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harder there there are a number of these

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things that just don't quite make sense

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so here's what i like to do with

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determining grip strength first of all I

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have a whole video on how I measure grip

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strengthened and how you can decide what

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to do with that but I want to pose this

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thought that there's an intimate

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relationship between where your chest is

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pointed at impact and what your hands

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should be like on the club the more that

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your body is going to be turned side

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bent or facing the target in general

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that's going to get your hands further

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ahead of the golf ball which is going to

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cause the clubface to open up compared

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to the path or rather delayed its

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closing so the more that your hands are

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further out in front of your body and

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the more your body's

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jet facing the general direction of the

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target you probably need a stronger grip

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otherwise you'd have to do that motor so

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motorcycle move that I teach just a ton

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which is an option but it's it's

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something to consider whereas the more

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that my chest is facing the golf ball

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the more that I'm going to have my hands

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kind of in front of my body and facing

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the golf ball so the more that this

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right arm is going to be straight well

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with that criteria kind of the weaker

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grip I have is going to get that pointed

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in the general direction of the target

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unless I have a tremendous amount of

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lead shoulder kind of pull it tends to

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work out better that way so your grip is

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something that is probably going to

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evolve as you work on your golf game and

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the more that you get into this kind of

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30 degree open body position the more

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that you'll gravitate or towards a

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neutral grip or a slightly strong grip

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in order to have the club face in the

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proper position so anytime you hear

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something that's been around for a long

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time in golf there's the chance that it

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has some some science behind it because

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a lot of them have worked out but always

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be critical that perhaps it was just you

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know some fleeting thought that's a golf

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instructor head and it got passed on as

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fact and when we now put kind of

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measurement to it or technique to it it

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just doesn't hold up so for other smart

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approaches check out the rest of our

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blogs as well as our videos inside the

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membership site here at golf smart

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