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This video is discussing lag and the timing of the unhinged so I'd say that

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one of the most common discussions that I have to have with better players is

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the

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timing of the unhinged so many golfers who struggle with driver or who struggle

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with contact do so because they're too steep coming on the way down especially

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during the release kind of through here and I'll talk to them about well using

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some of this unhinged to get the shallowing and get the club closer to the

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ground so that they can approach the golf ball from a more shallow or inside

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path and oftentimes they're resistant to that because they think it's a cast

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movement and you may be feeling the same thing that this movement is the cast

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movement. Well 3D helped clarify how this works for me and I'm going to help

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discuss when the timing of that unhinged should take place hopefully it

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clarifies what we're doing in the downswing for you. So if I go up to the top

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of

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the swing yes if I increase the hinge of the wrist so if I do a little bit of

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this motion that can create some lag or that can create some power but I can

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also create some power by increasing the extension of this wrist kind of like

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that so I could load the wrist this way or I could load the wrist vertically.

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What

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tends to happen is on 3D you'll see a little bit possibly of increased load

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but that increased load is going to start coming out or I'm going to start

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unloading when the arm is about parallel to the ground or 45 kind of

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somewhere around belly button height right about here. So what I see a lot of

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golfers do is they want to practice keeping that lag really long kind of

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past that point or even through here and you'll see that this would be a very

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challenging position to then make contact with the golf ball from from the

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down the line that was starting to go more outside in or get really steep from

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the face-on view that club was really high. So what you'll want to work on is

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from right about here getting that feeling of unhinging the wrist all the

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way down. The number of biomechanics professors who I've talked to about

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this will explain is basically lag is great for creating power but that just

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gives you the ability to get that power out into the club head better. If there

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no magical force or thing that is going to get the energy into the club head

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for

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you you actually have to do it. Now so what many amateurs try to do is they

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just hold on to the club and they think that there's something that's going to

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create more power by holding that angle but it's really you only want to hold

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that angle for that first early transition until we get to about here and

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then it's trying to get as much speed and energy into the club head as I can by

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releasing that angle and releasing that energy. What typically happens is they

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will start to release this angle right about here but at the same time they're

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increasing that extension of the trail wrist kind of like so which keeps the

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club more behind keeps the club keeps some lag from this face-on view even

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though

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now the club is getting wider and closer to the ground. So you've got

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these two different angles one going this way and one going this way this one's

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going to come out sooner or earlier than this one. The timing of this one

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coming

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out right around this shaft parallel or sorry right around this belly button

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height is driven by the vertical action of the leg. So when I get into this

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position if I start really pushing with my leg you can see that that vertical

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motion of the leg and the left side of my body is going to help get that club

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going down the ground. So I usually work through it in a little progression

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here

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what I'll usually do is take the club and exaggerate or get it fully unhinged

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all the way back here so in 9 to 3 with full unhinging. Now keeping that

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unhinged I'm just going to rotate through and I'll start to feel that

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there's a very gentle or shallowness to the contact with the ground and I'll

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start to feel that the club face doesn't feel like it changes a whole lot

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down through there. So I have really good ground contact and what feels like a

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pretty consistent club face that tends to be a good feeling to have. So then

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how

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do I take that into a more dynamic motion? I go up to that position here I'm

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going

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to extend or increase the angle of that right wrist but then from here I'm

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going

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to basically try to get that feeling I just had while doing the isolated

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owner 9 to 3. Once I have a feeling of doing it from a dead stop there kind of

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up at 3/4 height so I'm going down just like so once I have that feeling then

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I'm gonna do some 3/4 swings or 10 to 2s trying to tie that together and just

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monitor turf contact. Typically golfers who have more of this increased hinge

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really late will have really steep or clunky contact with the ground unless

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they come away from the inside and have a really good timing of when to kind of

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swivel or roll or or flip that release. So now we'll do a little 10 to 2 where

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we get some angle set there at the top but then we're gonna make sure that we

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start releasing it before or right around this belly button height.

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Now that should have that same gentle kind of smooth feeling to the ground and

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a pretty stable or consistent club face position going through. So I know this

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one's a tough subject because a lot of people have thought that you just got to

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hold on to that angle forever but holding on to that angle forever actually sa

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ps

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you of power, robs you of consistency makes the driver tough so it's better to

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figure out what's the timing of when I need to get that arm out to maximize

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shallowness face control and ultimately get a really good solid balance to your

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steeps and shallows.