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In this Golf Smart Insight, we're going to talk about the relationship between

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the body

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and the arms.

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So I'm going to give you a fun little exercise that I got from Peter Costas at

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the World

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Golf Fitness Summit a couple of years back.

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So you're going to get up out of your chairs if you can, otherwise you're going

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to wait

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and do it later.

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But here's a little example to illustrate whether you should be thinking about

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your

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arms, your body, or what.

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So, you're going to imagine that you're standing in front of a blackboard and

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you've got an

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eraser in your hand, okay?

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And there's chalk all over the blackboard and you're going to try to clean it

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up, okay?

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So basically you're going to start with one as a baseline where you're just

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going to move

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your arm kind of in wax on, wax off-type circles and you're just going to do it

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nice and smoothly

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and you just want to pay attention to your body, okay?

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I kind of feel how it's moving there.

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Now option one, you're going to try to do it faster, okay?

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So I'm going to say just focus on getting the hand and the eraser to move as

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fast as you

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can, okay?

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It's going to be a little bit like a body blade type thing, you're going to get

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a little core

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workout.

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So you're moving all over, cleaning the blackboard, okay?

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Good.

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Option two.

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Now what I'm going to have you do is you're going to try and move your arm the

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same just

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relaxed pace you were doing before, but you're going to try to move your hips

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to speed up

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your arm.

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So you're going to try to time exactly when to move your hips.

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And if you're anything like most people who I've done this with, you'll look

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like I just

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did, a little uncoordinated.

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So the way that the brain tends to work is based on some neural input and

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things like

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that.

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Well, your hands have a ton of neural sensors to them.

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So we have these pathways to help control where my hands are, where if you

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start with

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your attention more in your hips, it can be a little bit trickier to try to

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then connect

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it back to your arm if your attention isn't there.

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So here's where this makes sense with golf.

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A lot of golf instruction has drifted more into what the body's doing, right?

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Well, the problem with that is we don't have a ton of neural input there.

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We have a lot of neural input in the hands.

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So if you can learn how to get your hand path, if you can learn how to get your

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hands to

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accelerate correctly, how to create all that speed and lag and transfer that

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energy just

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at the last moment to the golf ball, your body will tend to do what it's

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supposed to

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do.

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Now, part of the reason why I think that we shifted a lot to the body was some

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of the

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early 3D stuff.

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Now, I'm guilty of this because I was one of those early 3D guys.

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And our first system's pretty much only measured either the thorax or the pel

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vis, right?

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If you look at the KVEST, the original AMM, the original golf biodynamic system

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, they

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primarily measured the thorax and the pelvis.

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So we started to be able to measure what those were doing, and we tell you, hey

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, you need

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to move this differently.

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But going back to that blackboard analogy, it's hard to connect the two if you

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're not

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quite sure what your arms should be doing as well.

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So with the latest versions of either the golf biodynamics or the AMM, or if

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you have

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one of the expensive, you know, Vicon optical systems, we can measure now how

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the arms and

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the hands are actually moving.

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And I have had a lot of success teaching people how to use their arms and hands

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correctly,

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which helps get the body to do the right things, where I would reach roadblocks

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when I would

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give them the right exercises.

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I knew we could get the body moving, but the hands just wouldn't end up in the

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right position

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and they wouldn't hit the ball solidly.

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So you'll see in my sight, I talk a lot about the details of how the arms and

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the hands

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work because once you have a clear picture of how the arms and hands work, the

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body will

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unfold and make a whole lot more sense.