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Live Q&A: Off Season Training - Fitness and Skills - Jan 1, 2018
Live Q&A discussing off season training and fitness.
Live Q&A discussing off season training and fitness.
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alright looks like I just got the notice
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that we're up in streaming so happy to
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do another one of these fun live
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streaming events I figured a great topic
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for the start of the new year would be
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more fitness and offseason training
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since that seems to be the most common
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you know the most common resolution is
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this new year I'm gonna get in great
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shape and for golfers this is alright
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this year I'm gonna get in great shape
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for my golf game so I figured let's
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discuss you know one of my other kind of
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passions which is fitness and let's
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discuss what we can do here in the
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offseason to hopefully improve our
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fitness so just like with the swing I
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always like to take kind of a global
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perspective and do some sort of analysis
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on each student and look at the
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different categories so the different
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categories of fitness that you could
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improve on primarily would be
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flexibility let's say core stability
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core activation balance posture training
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which is kind of more in that stability
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category strength power and endurance or
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and our cardio right now there are some
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things that are gonna be really helpful
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for your overall health like cardio for
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example but when we're looking at when
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we're looking at the requirements for
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golf I would say that the place where I
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see most people miss out on and where
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you can get the biggest improvements are
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gonna be your flexibility your core
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stability core activation and balance
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training if you if you get a good
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foundation of those then you can try and
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add on some strength and some power I
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I'm here in San Jose on the
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westcoast but I just wanted to remind
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everyone if you want to just enter into
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the chat window who's here where you're
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from and any question that you might
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have that'll be helpful and I'll try to
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answer them in real-time as best I can
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I've got a few kind of pre-loaded that
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emails came in the last couple days but
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anything that gets entered into the chat
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window I will do my best to address okay
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so when you get into designing your your
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program your priority and offseason
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should be improving your flexibility
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improving your core activation improving
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your your balance
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improving your awareness and then if you
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have those you can layer on some of the
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strength power and cardio and stuff like
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that I see a live question from Mike do
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you think it is a good idea to use
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tubing to train the Jackson 5 and pivot
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move I I do like using tubing as a way
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of building some awareness or increasing
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muscle activation for those movements
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now the the key with the Jackson 5 is
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for many it's going to be more of let's
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say a passive movement so a the there's
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a unweighting of the lead foot and then
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kind of a shift and a weighting into
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that weight foot but it for most it's
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not gonna feel like a very active muscle
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contraction to shift into that lead foot
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so the the danger with using too much of
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too much resistance is it could become
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too much of an active movement and you
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might go into like a right-side bend
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with your upper body so I would err on
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using the using the tubing let's say
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early on in the training process just to
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build a little bit stronger awareness
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but then shifting into more
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of a just a field drill and awareness
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drill I wouldn't want to rep it to heart
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what I would rather do with let's say
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some tubing is oh I'd rather do some
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glute activation exercises I would
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rather do some single leg balance
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training and some some things
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challenging your lateral stability so
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you get your glute activation that way
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and then use that newfound strength and
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fitness awareness in your swing training
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so briefly covered the the fitness stuff
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we'll get into a little bit more details
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about what I like as far as some
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flexibility and some core training as it
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relates to another question that came in
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but as far as the golf game goes right
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for most of you the winter months means
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I'm not gonna be outside quite as much
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I'm not going to be hitting as many
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balls or possibly playing as much what
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are some things that I can work on
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inside so when you're when you're
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hitting balls inside or even if you're
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just swinging and making reps inside you
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can work a little bit on your position
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and relationships but one thing that I
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would challenge you to kind of figure
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out is are you more of a body dominant
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player or are you more of a arm dominant
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player and what can be good is in the
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offseason you train the opposite one you
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train the one that is harder for you to
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work on so that way because they they
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work hand in hand right your your arms
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and your body pivot have to complement
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each other otherwise you're going to
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struggle with low point control path
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face control some people are much better
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playing focusing on a body position so
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where is the upper body
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how is my sequencing how are my feet
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moving against the ground other people
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are much better focusing on you know
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what's my hand path when do I square the
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club face
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what's my arm Direction timing the one
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that you do really well that's great for
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you to reinforce and continue to train
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in C
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but what I found very helpful is in the
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off season train the one that is not
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your natural strength and that will
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ultimately make it easier if you then
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have to make a little adjustment during
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the season because the main goal from a
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learning perspective is during the
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season you're going to revisit things
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that have worked for you in the past in
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order to balance your swing
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you're not going to hopefully introduce
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too many new pieces so in the offseason
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you cover a lot of the things that you
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think you're going to need during the
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season so maybe you cover some
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transition stuff maybe you should cover
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some release stuff maybe you cover some
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setup but balance awareness back swing
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whatever then it will be easier for you
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to then reintroduce it if it becomes an
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issue during the season the other thing
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that's great to work on at home relates
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to putting and chipping you can work on
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low point control on carpet pretty
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easily for for chipping I have lots of
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students I have doing like chipping into
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sofa cushions and things like that or
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you can work on start line right so
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there's three main skills the putting
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controlling the start line controlling
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the speed and reading a green hard to do
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green reading unless you have a really
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nice home training area but it's easy to
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do start line training so a dime placed
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about two feet in front of a golf ball
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is about the same diameter as the width
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of the hole at ten feet so if you can
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consistently roll it over a dime with
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different speeds that's indicating they
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have a pretty functional stroke and
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pretty functional start line okay so I
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see a question came in from Ben Hogan
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blades I feel like hamed guessing hand
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strength has continued to deteriorate
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fifty-five years old can this have that
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have negative impact yes so as you get
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older you will tend to lose
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your type ii fibers so your your
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strength and power fibers faster but you
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will tend to lose a little bit of
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flexibility activation endurance like
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you you lose a you lose all of the
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things that are kind of natural movement
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patterns but the ones that you lose the
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fastest are strength and power so I do
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advocate doing some type of strength
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training especially if you're if you
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have let's say more than two hours of
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total training time each week then doing
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some form of heavy lifting whether it's
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a whether it's a you know like a
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farmer's carry whether it's a deadlift
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whether it's a chest press although I'll
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talk when we cover some strength though
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that's not my favorite exercise and you
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got to be careful with it stuff where
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you do have to grip and move around
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heavy weight so dead lifting squatting
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farmers carries can be very helpful for
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maintaining grip strength or there are
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lots of devices you can use to work on
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grip strength a problem the main problem
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is is if your grip strength goes down
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then you'll tend to overly recruit some
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of the shoulder muscles to help
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manufacture your grip strength and that
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can tend to restrict some of your
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ribcage range of motion during the swing
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and it'll tend to cause a little bit of
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a over tightness down at the bottom of
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the swing and that can cause more of a
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chicken wing local and control path
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going left toe hits those things so yes
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I would definitely do some form of
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strength training as you get older in
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order to hopefully maintain your grip
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strength and your overall power ability
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but let me let me jump I did have a one
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question it's kind of related to that
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topic that came in earlier today from
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Brent he was referencing in my book in
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in the section where I'm talking about
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common swing faults I reference how one
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of the let's say stereotypes of TPI is
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that they have a number of different
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tests and pretty much everyone fails the
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glute test or the bridge test and
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everybody fails the t-spine rotation
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test typically also many people will
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feel would fail the core activation test
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although their core activation tests are
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a little weaker than some other systems
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but basically most people have tight t
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spine most people have weak gluts how do
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you balance that how do you how do I
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like to improve that so the the tight
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teat spine is you need to do things that
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involve breathing in order to get the
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ribs moving if you have someone in your
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area who is an elder a trainer I think
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that the L dough is for the ribs are
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pretty amazing and they can take a
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little while to have some to have some
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effects like I've heard people taking as
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long as six months or so of doing the
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rib elbow is to really open it up but if
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you if you open up each rib you can gain
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like let's say you gain one degree at
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each level well one degree on each side
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times twelve you can gain twenty five
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degrees with I don't want to say not a
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whole lot of work but kind of in a
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seifish way if you start if the if the
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spine if the center of your rib cage is
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really rigid then if you force the
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flexibility issue too much you know like
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clubs across your back and really
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twisting like so you could potentially
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create some some problems because the
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outside is moving let's say more than
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the inside you could potentially create
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the situation for injury so I'll give
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you one I mentioned some breathing
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exercises but I'll give you one simple
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kind of T spine rotation exercise that I
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really
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like so if I was to sit here kind of
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towards the back of my chair so I sit up
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nice and tall I'm gonna focus on some
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axial extension so I'm gonna focus on
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maintaining length in my spine and in my
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mid-back and then I'm gonna bring my
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arms up and keep the elbows above
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shoulder height now I'm gonna pull one
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arm back and reach the opposite arm palm
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forward and I'm gonna externally rotate
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both arms as I do it that external
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rotation is gonna force some more of the
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movement through the spine instead of if
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I stay in internal rotation I can get
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more of it in the actual shoulder socket
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so I go into external rotation pull one
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arm back reach the opposite arm forward
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and just take a few breaths and kind of
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as I inhale I'm gonna hold that longer
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and then when I exhale I'll try to
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increase just slightly and then as I
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inhale go a little bit further do like a
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couple breaths on each side from a from
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a spine standpoint I've got the video on
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the site called the analytic warm-up
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where I teach you how to do kind of
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translation exercises for the spine
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first before you get into rotation so
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please always make sure that you've
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warmed up your spine before you start
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trying to do any t spine rotation but
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good breathing exercises where you get
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the ribs kind of moving in all
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directions and then kind of T spine
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rotation exercises after that the other
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thing that you'll probably need to do is
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because of their connection to it you'll
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have to work on some good shoulder
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stretches so like tech stretch and lat
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stretch will also restrict your T spine
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mobility because they both run from the
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shoulder to the pelvis kind of one
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across the front and one across the back
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so for t spine breathing some rib
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mobility stuff and then good Peck and
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lat stretches should help create more
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range of motion and that range of motion
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can take pressure off of neck injury
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shoulder injuries but most of
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lower back injuries because oftentimes
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the lumbar spine rotating is what
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creates a whole lot of pain and
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dysfunction and that's rotating in order
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to compensate for a tighter t spine so
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then the other question was about the
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weak glutes so weak glutes typically
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come from a combination of poor
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activation and imbalance as far as
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overactive psoas muscles and tightness
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in basically your hip flexors which
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create a reciprocal inhibition for the
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glutes so oftentimes you'll have to
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start glute training with TVA or a deep
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core activation and you may even have to
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do some pelvic floor activation but then
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if you do bridges correctly you will get
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good glute activation so to correctly do
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the bridges you want to make sure that
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when you raise when you push through the
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hips and raise your hips up off the
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ground you're going to kind of maintain
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a little bit of posterior tilt in the
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pelvis as you're raising it up and as
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you're raising it down so I always coach
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people when they're doing those bridges
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not to let the tailbone touch the ground
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as long as the tailbone stays off the
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ground when you're moving so it's kind
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of moving more in that direction it's
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keeping your abs and your glutes active
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then to get the full range of the glutes
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you would want your feet to be in two
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different positions either feet wide
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feet narrow and you would want your
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knees in two different positions so
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you've got basically four different
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bridge activities to target different
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parts of the glute you've got feet wide
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knees narrow feet wide knees wide and
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then feet narrow knees wide feet Nut
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feet narrow knees narrow so by working
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on those four different positions you'll
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start getting glute activation if you do
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good so as stretching and you do good
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deep core or tv8 and pelvic floor
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activation that usually helps rebalance
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the pelvis create some stability and
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create better glute activation so that's
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the that's kind of a common recipe I use
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for getting the glutes active and we
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already talked about the t spine Ben's
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got another question coming in what
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problem Eric problematic area is mostly
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responsible for the forward lunge so the
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forward lunge typically comes from a
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combination of two things either a
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clubface awareness issue so I square the
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club more with a scoop then with
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rotation of the shaft and as a result of
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that scoop the low point moves backwards
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so then I lunge forward to balance it
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out so the forward lunge can be a way to
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kind of create shaft lean but from the
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body instead of the wrists physically
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there can be a handful of issues
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tightness in the neck so inability to
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rotate your head to the right enough so
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then you'll shift forward to kind of
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move stuff up the chain as well as keep
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basically instead of being able to
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rotate you'll activate the muscles in
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the neck and they'll kind of pull your
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upper body forward so it's a way to kind
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of keep vision on the ball without
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pushing the next rotation to its full
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capability it can also be very
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protective on the shoulder so when you
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when you rotate and stay behind you'll
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tend to get the arm to extend a little
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bit away in as it's going into external
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rotation where the the shoulder to be
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more protected would like to stay into
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internal rotation and flex a bit so if
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the upper body or if the shoulder wants
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to go like that that would pull the the
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low point in and that would tend to move
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the path to the left
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so then lunging in front tends to
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balance that so neck and shoulder can be
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a big issue
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the right shoulder flexibility so if the
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right shoulder tends to go into internal
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rotation that can cause a leftward path
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and the forward lunge helps make that
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less dramatic so I tend to see a lot of
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neck shoulder issues related to the
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release contributing to the forward
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lunge if those are cleared up and that's
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not the issue then I would most likely
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look at the feet and how they're working
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at the ground because it probably means
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that you're getting you're probably
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getting more of your speed from an arm
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pull and the forward lunge is a good way
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to kind of work with a more of an arm
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pull situation so you had a calcified
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tendinitis in your left shoulder yes
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that could definitely contribute to more
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of a forward lunge
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especially if if you lost some external
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rotation of the trail arm or if you had
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some some stiffening of the sc/st join
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or AC joint those could absolutely
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contribute to the for forward lunge
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problem so then you'd have to figure out
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is that something that you can really
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improve on or then do you have to start
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working with more of a forward lunge
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pattern so another question
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you know Ben's doing a great job but if
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anybody else has any questions about
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their fitness or their situation go
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ahead and type it in the chat window
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I've got a couple other questions that
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came in through email that I wanted to
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make sure that we covered Sharon asked
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about you know offseason is a good time
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to kind of game plan and work on your
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your overall swing so she was asking
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about shaft lean versus elbow playing
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versus shoulder plane basically if you
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were to you know go if you were to get
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into your set of position and draw lines
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on video what you know what's the
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advantage of looking at either the elbow
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the shoulder or the shaft lean I would
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say that early in my career I used
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all three of those I would I would say
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that now almost exclusively I'll use the
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impact plane which is gonna be closest
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to the elbow so the the research from
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dr. Huang on the functional swing plane
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and most of the guys you talk to the
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only time the club is really gonna be
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planar is from waist height to waist
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height so what I would do is make sure
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that the camera is in a good set up
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position so it's in line roughly with
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the hands from the down the line and
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then take the swing to impact and then
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draw the shaft plane there and then go
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back to set up and just you can see
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where that goes it'll usually go through
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about the point of the trail arm but the
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key for timing is looking at that
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relationship where is the club at waist
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height and then where is the club
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working on the way through the the more
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that it's coming from under to above
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through impact that's gonna tend to be
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shallower rightward more driver base the
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more that it's slightly outside and then
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under the more it's gonna be it's a
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iron-based
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but drawing the impact plane is the the
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what I would I believe is the most
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useful of the the plane lines that you
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could draw when looking at video all
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right I have a question coming in from
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Mike do you have any ideas on knee pain
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precipitated by walking is there any way
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to tell if it is from the quadricep
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overdevelopment and inhibited hamstring
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or other causes anytime that there is
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pain I like to refer out to my team and
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get a thorough evaluation because
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there's lots of simple what I call
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provocation tests where they can
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basically figure out okay if you can
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touch where the pain is going and they
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can have you do certain movements if it
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triggers the pain then you have a pretty
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clear idea as far as where the pain is
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coming from and it makes it much easier
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to diagnose I would say that the the
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knee is one of the tough tougher joints
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as far as
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being able to create space a lot of the
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other joints have some really small deep
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muscles that can help create space if
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you if you train them and the knee
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doesn't have that so typically knee pain
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and focusing on quad flexibility
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focusing on I'd say quite probably more
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so than hamstring flexibility although
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it can contribute and making sure that
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there is adequate strength in the VMO
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which is a tough guy to train but that
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helps with the patella tracking that
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those two are I've seen a fair amount of
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improvement in knee pain especially from
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walking on hills when you get those two
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a little bit more balanced but I would
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definitely you know talk to somebody
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qualified in your area
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physical therapist chiropractor
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osteopath somebody who who knows how to
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do a joint assessment and look at look
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at that knee yeah I'm trying to think of
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your swing I know you were out here a
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little bit and we were doing mostly
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related to the back I'd probably go if I
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remember right your quads weren't super
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tight so I'd be looking more at I'd find
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somebody in your area so you could rule
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out a couple issues and I'll send you a
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little note after this just send me an
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email to remind me okay add another
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question as far as like lesson plans and
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during the offseason how do you how do
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you balance you know if you're used to
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taking like a weekly lesson should you
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continue on that during the offseason
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should you try and own it a little bit
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Edward was asking about how he was
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working on shallowing and oh mike okay
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actually for Claire yeah then I would
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yes shoot me an email and I'll give you
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some ideas okay back to Edward working
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shallowing if you're if you're working
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on the downswing what I find is the the
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the transition and the release have to
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blend together right so you can have
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really big success working on one or the
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other but the greatest gains and when it
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will feel somewhat automatic is when you
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work on each of them but together right
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so let's say you're working on
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shallowing that means during the release
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you would have to work on a little bit
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more shaft rotation and a little bit
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later arm extension timing and you'll
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have the best success when you're doing
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both of those so the offseason can be a
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good time to work on the one that's more
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challenging we're in season I would say
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you want to focus on the one that is
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easier for you to do because it'll be
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easier to like you won't it won't take
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as much thought and the problem is if
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you overly focus on one area typically
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the brain kind of shuts down or loses
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some of its sequencing some of its like
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connection down during those transition
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points so I tend to advocate working on
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a few things kind of a few things at
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once and let's say spending less time so
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normally during the season I might say
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you're gonna work on one specific topic
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for anywhere from three to six weeks
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during the offseason I cut that about in
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half so I'd work on one thing and then
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move on quicker because I know that I
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want to work on multiple things at once
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and I want to try in the offseason to
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cover as many topics related to that as
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I can so if I'm working on shallowing I
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might work on how the feet are working
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on against the ground I might work on
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how the pelvis to ribcage sequence isn't
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working I might work on shallowing with
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the right arm and shallowing with the
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left arm or left forearm and I might
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work on some early clubface rotation and
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I'd I'd work on a few of those at once
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because typically when you're hitting
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balls and
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you're hitting off of a mat so you're
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not totally working on low point control
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that's a hard skill to work on indoors
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you're working more on the global
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pattern and you're working more on let's
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say path and face the path control and
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so because you it's let's say easier
00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:49.940
when you're hitting on a mat you can
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usually do a little bit more intense or
00:28:52.250 --> 00:28:54.800
you can do a few things at once and the
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other thing is because you don't get
00:28:57.830 --> 00:29:00.140
just as distracted by miss hits you
00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:02.660
don't get as distracted by ball flight
00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:04.790
it's easier to have a little bit more of
00:29:04.790 --> 00:29:07.400
a mechanical focus so I would work on
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.850
the different components of shallowing
00:29:09.850 --> 00:29:12.230
so instead of working on one thing for
00:29:12.230 --> 00:29:14.179
three to six weeks I would probably work
00:29:14.179 --> 00:29:17.150
on three or four things related to the
00:29:17.150 --> 00:29:19.910
same area over that same time frame so
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I'd move on to things usually quicker in
00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:26.059
the offseason so that I'll have the map
00:29:26.059 --> 00:29:28.880
in my mind of other ideas I can try in
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.679
season if I start to struggle with the
00:29:30.679 --> 00:29:35.020
same concept okay I had another question
00:29:35.020 --> 00:29:42.470
from Mike about ideal clubface and path
00:29:42.470 --> 00:29:48.580
ratio so he was asking about how
00:29:48.910 --> 00:29:51.290
basically you know a lot of guys will
00:29:51.290 --> 00:29:55.160
talk about a relationship of face to
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:58.370
path so you know his in his particular
00:29:58.370 --> 00:30:01.790
case he finds that when he has a face
00:30:01.790 --> 00:30:06.110
the path of greater than - - he tends to
00:30:06.110 --> 00:30:11.350
have more trouble controlling they say
00:30:11.350 --> 00:30:14.600
club head club face variability in
00:30:14.600 --> 00:30:18.559
closure rates I would say that you know
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.280
- 2 - 3 is probably yeah towards the
00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:26.090
upper end well I know that drawing a
00:30:26.090 --> 00:30:27.679
blank on his name I'll put him in the in
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the text description below I mentioned
00:30:29.870 --> 00:30:33.890
in my book did a he did some research
00:30:33.890 --> 00:30:35.720
and found it like when you get over
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above minus or plus or minus 5 so if the
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club face the path starts getting above
00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:44.090
5 you're going to have
00:30:44.090 --> 00:30:48.260
pretty much impossible dispersion but
00:30:48.260 --> 00:30:50.990
you're gonna have to high variance
00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:54.890
missus and so if the general rule of
00:30:54.890 --> 00:30:56.960
thumb is that you want your face to path
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.710
to be roughly half of the path then that
00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:03.110
says that you can't have a you can't
00:31:03.110 --> 00:31:07.070
have a path that's too much more you
00:31:07.070 --> 00:31:08.630
can't have a path that's too much more
00:31:08.630 --> 00:31:10.850
than five or six degrees in out or out
00:31:10.850 --> 00:31:15.409
to end or else your clubface open closed
00:31:15.409 --> 00:31:17.990
being half of that is gonna be up around
00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:22.429
four or five so yes working on your
00:31:22.429 --> 00:31:25.340
general path and getting it closest to
00:31:25.340 --> 00:31:28.070
zero but or you know let's say less than
00:31:28.070 --> 00:31:31.070
I usually aim for five with a lot of my
00:31:31.070 --> 00:31:35.480
golfers but being able to also control
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:38.210
the wide point or the low point and
00:31:38.210 --> 00:31:40.399
being able to get good arm extension on
00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:44.600
the way through with that same path that
00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:46.549
tends to lead towards more consistency
00:31:46.549 --> 00:31:50.809
because I wouldn't say that you're gonna
00:31:50.809 --> 00:31:54.549
have that much greater clubface very
00:31:54.549 --> 00:31:58.730
club face closure variability at a five
00:31:58.730 --> 00:32:01.690
to six compared to say a two to three
00:32:01.690 --> 00:32:05.000
but if you told me that you're having
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.460
more of an arc with issue and the club
00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:08.899
kind of passing on the way through that
00:32:08.899 --> 00:32:11.740
usually causes the clubface variability
00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:18.970
I had another question come in about
00:32:19.750 --> 00:32:22.970
struggling with hooking the ball so what
00:32:22.970 --> 00:32:27.409
should we do in the offseason yeah
00:32:27.409 --> 00:32:30.020
pushes and hooks for almost twenty years
00:32:30.020 --> 00:32:34.220
coming in from Lisa she was asking how
00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:36.409
to avoid hitting the club coming to
00:32:36.409 --> 00:32:39.590
shallow into the ball so to shallow into
00:32:39.590 --> 00:32:41.179
the wall would give kind of the holistic
00:32:41.179 --> 00:32:43.039
approach to solving hooks because I know
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.470
that that's a really frustrating miss
00:32:45.470 --> 00:32:49.850
for a lot of golfers to solve hooks you
00:32:49.850 --> 00:32:54.870
have to slow down the club passing the
00:32:54.870 --> 00:32:56.000
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or the the clubhead passing the grip on
00:32:58.400 --> 00:32:59.660
the way through because that tends to
00:32:59.660 --> 00:33:03.110
close the club face and that will happen
00:33:03.110 --> 00:33:04.820
more when you're having some early
00:33:04.820 --> 00:33:06.920
extension so if I'm moving away from the
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.840
golf ball the club is gonna pass like
00:33:08.840 --> 00:33:11.450
this and that causes the club face to
00:33:11.450 --> 00:33:14.810
get closed very quickly all right so it
00:33:14.810 --> 00:33:19.280
closes more like that so in order to
00:33:19.280 --> 00:33:23.450
solve the hook I have to get more let's
00:33:23.450 --> 00:33:25.580
say shaft lean and I have to have more
00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:27.740
body rotation on the way through in
00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:30.290
order to have the grip speed usually
00:33:30.290 --> 00:33:33.110
when you're getting too shallow on the
00:33:33.110 --> 00:33:33.740
downswing
00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:35.870
it's almost a hundred percent time
00:33:35.870 --> 00:33:38.390
coming from the body either going into
00:33:38.390 --> 00:33:40.550
too much early extension or going into
00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:44.510
too much side bend too much early
00:33:44.510 --> 00:33:50.020
extension usually comes from either
00:33:50.260 --> 00:33:53.300
either too much early extension coming
00:33:53.300 --> 00:33:56.900
more from either extending the back in
00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:59.330
order to help pull down on the club or
00:33:59.330 --> 00:34:04.700
going into side Bend as a way to adjust
00:34:04.700 --> 00:34:11.510
for too steep of a top or adjusting for
00:34:11.510 --> 00:34:13.340
let's say my arms are a little steep and
00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:17.510
then I side bend to balance that out so
00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:19.430
usually with hooking the ball the first
00:34:19.430 --> 00:34:24.380
thing I do is I work on grip grip speed
00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:26.330
and torso rotation while staying in your
00:34:26.330 --> 00:34:27.860
posture so basically working on a good
00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:29.840
follow-through position and making sure
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:31.640
that I'm not having all the speed down
00:34:31.640 --> 00:34:35.030
at my hands that that the grip and my
00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:37.100
body are continuing to move on the way
00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:40.240
through that helps move the path more
00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:46.220
left and if I work on delaying the club
00:34:46.220 --> 00:34:47.930
passing this way that tends to hold the
00:34:47.930 --> 00:34:50.420
face open so stage one is kind of
00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:52.880
working on the body rotation on the way
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.330
through and then seeing what ball flight
00:34:56.330 --> 00:34:58.400
reactions I might get to that so some
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.770
golfers will hit more pulls then I need
00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:03.110
to work on the path that about shaft
00:35:03.110 --> 00:35:04.640
parallel maybe I now I'm getting a
00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:06.710
little steep because my body is turning
00:35:06.710 --> 00:35:11.900
so I'm hitting more poles or I'm what
00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:13.790
I'd say most common is I'm hanging them
00:35:13.790 --> 00:35:16.130
a little off to the right because now
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:19.130
I've delayed the closing of the clubface
00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:22.790
and I've rotated my body and I have to
00:35:22.790 --> 00:35:24.290
work on getting a little bit earlier
00:35:24.290 --> 00:35:26.270
shaft rotation and closing the face
00:35:26.270 --> 00:35:28.430
through shaft rotation is usually the
00:35:28.430 --> 00:35:31.130
scariest part of solving a hook but it's
00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:33.920
also one of the most important skills
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:37.460
that will eventually or quickly learn
00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:40.550
teach you how to get more shaft lean and
00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:44.540
get the club from coming too shallow so
00:35:44.540 --> 00:35:47.690
if your hook in the wall got a number of
00:35:47.690 --> 00:35:50.180
videos on the site on a high level of a
00:35:50.180 --> 00:35:51.950
hook and walking through how to get more
00:35:51.950 --> 00:35:54.980
of the hit my arms or pool noodle in the
00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:57.380
follow-through low to high like a bunch
00:35:57.380 --> 00:35:59.510
of drills working on that body rotation
00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:00.770
on the way through to avoid the stall
00:36:00.770 --> 00:36:03.230
and then figuring out your individual
00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:06.650
issues based on feedback there daniel is
00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:08.750
asking how does one get advanced notice
00:36:08.750 --> 00:36:12.440
of the live Q&A normally so if you
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.940
subscribe to the YouTube channel they'll
00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:16.280
send you they'll give a little update
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.770
when we're posting this today was a
00:36:18.770 --> 00:36:22.070
little bit of you know it was it was a
00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:23.960
little bit of a last-minute scheduling
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.530
so we only decided or I I decided that I
00:36:27.530 --> 00:36:30.980
was gonna do this this morning I wasn't
00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.170
quite sure if my social calendar was
00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:36.460
gonna allow for it but normally I'll
00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:40.280
usually give a few days notice so you
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:42.560
can either go to golf smart Academy and
00:36:42.560 --> 00:36:44.810
if you sign up for the free trial
00:36:44.810 --> 00:36:47.810
membership or if you remember we we send
00:36:47.810 --> 00:36:50.990
out the emails letting you know that
00:36:50.990 --> 00:36:54.350
it's going to happen and requesting any
00:36:54.350 --> 00:36:55.910
advanced questions those are the ones
00:36:55.910 --> 00:36:57.290
that will always get answered first
00:36:57.290 --> 00:36:59.420
otherwise if you subscribe to the
00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:02.210
YouTube channel then you'll get an
00:37:02.210 --> 00:37:05.570
update when when I schedule it and then
00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:08.780
an hour beforehand or right beforehand
00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:11.980
it'll give you another reminder
00:37:12.470 --> 00:37:18.099
I had one one more question that I
00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:20.930
already one more question that came in
00:37:20.930 --> 00:37:23.119
from Brent I talked about the tight t
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.109
spine and glutes but he was also asking
00:37:26.109 --> 00:37:29.690
that so unfortunately the beginning of
00:37:29.690 --> 00:37:32.330
last year or the beginning of 2016 he
00:37:32.330 --> 00:37:35.840
was trying to restrict his hip turn and
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:40.960
he think that in in trying to do so he
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.500
created a right hip injury that could be
00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:52.820
more of a sciatic issue that is I it's
00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:54.859
not super common that we come just from
00:37:54.859 --> 00:37:57.020
restricting the hip but dealing with
00:37:57.020 --> 00:38:02.050
some sciatic issues is not uncommon so
00:38:02.050 --> 00:38:05.000
like let's let's break that down and
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.190
talk about the two components one trying
00:38:07.190 --> 00:38:09.170
to restrict your hips earth here's where
00:38:09.170 --> 00:38:13.730
my take on that is some golfers we know
00:38:13.730 --> 00:38:16.010
from 3d that the the average is that the
00:38:16.010 --> 00:38:19.430
the trail leg is going to straighten you
00:38:19.430 --> 00:38:21.140
know 10 degrees 8 degrees somewhere on
00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:23.630
there so the tray legs gonna strain you
00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:26.140
don't want it to stay perfectly straight
00:38:26.140 --> 00:38:32.810
some golfers in especially with certain
00:38:32.810 --> 00:38:35.300
swing characteristics would like lock
00:38:35.300 --> 00:38:38.000
that leg out and go to the outside of
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.530
the foot and shift on the front foot and
00:38:39.530 --> 00:38:42.530
by trying to keep that trail leg a
00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:45.200
little more flexed they would load up a
00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:48.800
little bit better in general I'm um I'm
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:51.710
more of a fan of kind of free pelvis and
00:38:51.710 --> 00:38:54.020
free hip turn and the only time that
00:38:54.020 --> 00:38:55.910
someone will ever feel like they're
00:38:55.910 --> 00:38:57.560
getting more restricted is when they
00:38:57.560 --> 00:39:00.920
learn better foot to ground contact so
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.650
if you if you learn how to stay more on
00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:05.900
the inside of the foot and not shift
00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:08.060
into your your toes or not shift to the
00:39:08.060 --> 00:39:10.280
outside the foot sometimes it will feel
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:12.740
like you're keeping your leg more flexed
00:39:12.740 --> 00:39:15.320
but I'll usually show you on video it's
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.359
not it's just by having better foot
00:39:17.359 --> 00:39:19.520
contact you're feeling more tension in
00:39:19.520 --> 00:39:23.180
the hamstring so that when you load it's
00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:25.030
all the way connected into the ground
00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:28.010
not just into the let's say the outside
00:39:28.010 --> 00:39:31.430
of the foot so that's where the
00:39:31.430 --> 00:39:33.140
interpretation of you gotta keep your
00:39:33.140 --> 00:39:37.670
trail leg bent as opposed to allowing it
00:39:37.670 --> 00:39:39.650
to straighten I think it relates to
00:39:39.650 --> 00:39:42.170
mostly what's going on at the foot not
00:39:42.170 --> 00:39:43.580
so much what's going on in the knee but
00:39:43.580 --> 00:39:45.140
it's easier to see the knee than it is
00:39:45.140 --> 00:39:47.839
to see what's happening at the foot if
00:39:47.839 --> 00:39:50.690
you okay now we've developed a situation
00:39:50.690 --> 00:39:53.119
where we created some issues that might
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.440
be sciatic sciatica can come from disc
00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:59.750
issue so it can come from the sciatic
00:39:59.750 --> 00:40:01.550
nerve exiting out of the spine
00:40:01.550 --> 00:40:07.339
I believe it's levels l2 l3 l4 l5 s1 s2
00:40:07.339 --> 00:40:12.920
you can have you can have sciatic disc
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:14.359
issues if you have some impingement
00:40:14.359 --> 00:40:21.130
there you can also have issues from
00:40:21.130 --> 00:40:22.940
tightness in certain muscles
00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:25.940
specifically the piriformis muscle so
00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:27.950
the piriformis muscle can be it goes
00:40:27.950 --> 00:40:31.640
from the inside of the sacrum to the to
00:40:31.640 --> 00:40:33.980
the outside of it and the sciatic nerve
00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:38.180
runs between it and the glute or in many
00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:40.130
cases it actually runs through the
00:40:40.130 --> 00:40:42.349
sciatica or through the piriformis so if
00:40:42.349 --> 00:40:45.950
you have tight piriformis which is one
00:40:45.950 --> 00:40:50.260
of your three main pelvic floor muscles
00:40:50.260 --> 00:40:53.599
so if you have imbalance in your pelvic
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:56.000
floor if you have overly restricted
00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.170
internal rotation those can create some
00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:03.560
sciatic issues from more the piriformis
00:41:03.560 --> 00:41:07.640
as opposed to from the actual disc or
00:41:07.640 --> 00:41:09.589
the joint or the sciatic nerve coming
00:41:09.589 --> 00:41:14.210
out of the spine so that would get like
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:17.000
I'd anytime there's pain I want to work
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.250
with somebody who understands the pain
00:41:19.250 --> 00:41:21.710
problems and can help you balance it
00:41:21.710 --> 00:41:25.160
there so I double I absolutely go to see
00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:29.780
someone but you know if if you've seen
00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:31.910
someone and they haven't tried looking
00:41:31.910 --> 00:41:32.930
at
00:41:32.930 --> 00:41:35.329
if they haven't tried anything revolving
00:41:35.329 --> 00:41:37.130
around piriformis and balancing your
00:41:37.130 --> 00:41:39.680
pelvic floor then perhaps you can find
00:41:39.680 --> 00:41:41.589
somebody else who might be in that same
00:41:41.589 --> 00:41:45.829
area who might have a better let's say
00:41:45.829 --> 00:41:48.559
toolbox being able to do it okay a
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:53.539
couple questions come in from Golden
00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:57.200
Gate I'm a right-handed golfer and
00:41:57.200 --> 00:41:59.380
notice that I've lost flexibility on the
00:41:59.380 --> 00:42:00.619
follow-through
00:42:00.619 --> 00:42:03.049
I am tight on the follow-through but
00:42:03.049 --> 00:42:05.150
more flexibility on my backswing is
00:42:05.150 --> 00:42:08.799
there a way to solve that imbalance um
00:42:08.799 --> 00:42:10.430
yes
00:42:10.430 --> 00:42:14.089
doing you know that's a normal pattern
00:42:14.089 --> 00:42:17.479
for playing golf unfortunately because
00:42:17.479 --> 00:42:20.569
we build more resistance with that right
00:42:20.569 --> 00:42:26.630
side compared to the left side the often
00:42:26.630 --> 00:42:30.160
times you will have a greater degree of
00:42:30.160 --> 00:42:32.210
flexibility turning in your backswing
00:42:32.210 --> 00:42:34.489
than you will on the follow-through just
00:42:34.489 --> 00:42:37.099
from the natural balance that's created
00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:40.339
with the sport so often swinging
00:42:40.339 --> 00:42:42.529
left-handed and hitting some balls
00:42:42.529 --> 00:42:44.359
left-handed in the offseason can be
00:42:44.359 --> 00:42:46.130
another good project I especially give
00:42:46.130 --> 00:42:48.650
that to a lot of juniors and if you get
00:42:48.650 --> 00:42:51.079
used to doing that then you can do some
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.989
practice swings on the course
00:42:52.989 --> 00:42:55.849
left-handed to counterbalance the
00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:57.349
imbalance that will naturally happen
00:42:57.349 --> 00:42:59.739
from swinging multiple times
00:42:59.739 --> 00:43:04.430
right-handed but otherwise in general in
00:43:04.430 --> 00:43:06.460
the gym you want to try to be more
00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:12.920
symmetric so by doing a you know a
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.839
balanced strength training by doing
00:43:14.839 --> 00:43:18.289
posture work by doing the eldona which
00:43:18.289 --> 00:43:19.969
is one of my favorite exercises for
00:43:19.969 --> 00:43:21.920
working on the spine you can hopefully
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.719
help minimize some of those imbalances
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.229
but again if it's you know if you're if
00:43:30.229 --> 00:43:33.519
you're tight on the follow-through
00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:36.200
you can adjust for it by flaring the
00:43:36.200 --> 00:43:39.920
lead foot out you could long-term do
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some left-handed swings short-term you
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could do
00:43:43.730 --> 00:43:47.150
kind of flexibility and stability work
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more focusing on that follow-through
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side but I'm working on the little video
00:43:53.090 --> 00:43:55.610
related that because many golfers who
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think that they have flexibility issues
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more have a swing issue and it just
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shows up in because they haven't rotated
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like many golfers think that they have a
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flexibility issue because their body
00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:10.190
isn't rotated at impact but if you're
00:44:10.190 --> 00:44:11.420
saying that it's a follow-through
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restriction where I'm not getting to
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this position at any point in time
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that's probably more of a flexibility
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issue because if it's just that impact
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but then you're able to rotate into a
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follow-through
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it's more of a timing it's not a
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physical restriction okay and another
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question from Troy M does the lead hip
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go into external rotation during the
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backswing or should it stay neutral
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letting them knee move more towards the
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golf ball the the hip will go into
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external rotation but you can also go
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into external rotation and have the knee
00:44:50.210 --> 00:44:52.100
moving in towards the golf ball it's
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just with the amount of rotation of the
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pelvis during the backswing it would be
00:45:00.410 --> 00:45:02.600
virtually impossible not to go into
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external rotation with that lead hip so
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I tend to train more of the awareness of
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the trail side hip during the or the
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trail side foot and the trail side hip
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during the backswing and then kind of
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accommodate what's more comfortable with
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the lead hip as opposed to focusing too
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much on forcing external rotation you
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know a lot of what happens at the hip I
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think is better trained at the feet I'll
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use awareness drills to kind of help
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people feel what the hip should be doing
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but by learning how to feel the foot
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against the ground it gives more of a
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reason for the hip to do the right thing
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instead of just artificially trying to
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create it doing the right thing
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so the problem is if you try and force
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external rotation of the
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I think that'll mess up your backswing
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or if you try and force it to stay
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neutral and move towards the golf ball
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if you're doing that purely from the hip
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there would be the fear and the tendency
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that you could get a little bit too much
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towards the outside of the trail hip in
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order to or outside of the trail foot in
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order to make that happen so I'd be I'd
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be a little careful with forcing the
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external rotation of the lead hip during
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the backswing unless you you've
00:46:30.530 --> 00:46:33.030
confirmed on video that when you do that
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your feet work better against the ground
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okay so if any one hand it has any last
00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:44.160
questions getting close to wrapping up
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:47.520
this one never quite know which
00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:49.020
direction we go based on your questions
00:46:49.020 --> 00:46:51.599
but they're always fun to fun to try and
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.710
be prepared for I do want to remind
00:46:55.710 --> 00:46:58.260
everyone that I'll have some links in
00:46:58.260 --> 00:47:00.240
the description below for both the
00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:04.049
website as well as the book closing in
00:47:04.049 --> 00:47:06.900
on selling 500 copies of the stock tour
00:47:06.900 --> 00:47:10.260
swing this is kind of my my manual for
00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:12.539
understanding the big global picture of
00:47:12.539 --> 00:47:15.500
how the different pieces match together
00:47:15.500 --> 00:47:17.819
really help you understand how to read
00:47:17.819 --> 00:47:22.380
feedback and how to prioritize by
00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:24.569
understanding your pattern prioritize
00:47:24.569 --> 00:47:27.210
what you need to work on when you play
00:47:27.210 --> 00:47:30.630
as well as here during the offseason so
00:47:30.630 --> 00:47:33.420
just a quick reminder on the offseason
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stuff make sure you're working on some
00:47:35.069 --> 00:47:37.890
flexibility some core definitely do some
00:47:37.890 --> 00:47:40.470
balance training if you're if you've got
00:47:40.470 --> 00:47:42.390
enough time then you can layer in some
00:47:42.390 --> 00:47:45.450
strength and some power and possibly
00:47:45.450 --> 00:47:48.569
some endurance and even cardio from a
00:47:48.569 --> 00:47:50.910
game perspective you want to work on
00:47:50.910 --> 00:47:52.680
your weaknesses here in the offseason
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and then focus a little bit more on the
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strengths during the in season and I
00:47:58.170 --> 00:48:00.270
like to vary what I'm working on a
00:48:00.270 --> 00:48:03.180
little more frequently in the offseason
00:48:03.180 --> 00:48:04.150
then
00:48:04.150 --> 00:48:08.590
in the during the during the season so
00:48:08.590 --> 00:48:10.900
that I've had my brain basically has
00:48:10.900 --> 00:48:13.390
more options that I can then recall so I
00:48:13.390 --> 00:48:15.070
don't have to learn as many new things
00:48:15.070 --> 00:48:17.050
during the season I just have to
00:48:17.050 --> 00:48:19.060
remember what worked for me during my
00:48:19.060 --> 00:48:22.930
practice during the offseason so thank
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you for all of you for your questions
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and for joining me for another one of
00:48:26.590 --> 00:48:30.340
these Facebook live Q&A s seems to be
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pretty well received so we'll definitely
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keep doing them if you have any other
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:36.730
questions you can email us at support at
00:48:36.730 --> 00:48:40.450
golf smart academy.com and we'll start
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building a cue for the next one
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but good luck in 2018 and my pleasure
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thanks for all the all the compliments
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all the questions good luck in 2018
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absolutely have a plan stick to that
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plan and as always from golf smart
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Academy happy golfing that's a lot
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alright looks like I just got the notice
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that we're up in streaming so happy to
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do another one of these fun live
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streaming events I figured a great topic
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for the start of the new year would be
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more fitness and offseason training
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since that seems to be the most common
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you know the most common resolution is
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this new year I'm gonna get in great
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shape and for golfers this is alright
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this year I'm gonna get in great shape
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for my golf game so I figured let's
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discuss you know one of my other kind of
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passions which is fitness and let's
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discuss what we can do here in the
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offseason to hopefully improve our
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fitness so just like with the swing I
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always like to take kind of a global
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perspective and do some sort of analysis
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on each student and look at the
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different categories so the different
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categories of fitness that you could
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improve on primarily would be
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flexibility let's say core stability
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core activation balance posture training
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which is kind of more in that stability
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category strength power and endurance or
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and our cardio right now there are some
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things that are gonna be really helpful
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for your overall health like cardio for
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example but when we're looking at when
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we're looking at the requirements for
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golf I would say that the place where I
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see most people miss out on and where
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you can get the biggest improvements are
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gonna be your flexibility your core
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stability core activation and balance
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training if you if you get a good
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foundation of those then you can try and
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add on some strength and some power I
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I'm here in San Jose on the
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westcoast but I just wanted to remind
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everyone if you want to just enter into
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the chat window who's here where you're
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from and any question that you might
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have that'll be helpful and I'll try to
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answer them in real-time as best I can
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I've got a few kind of pre-loaded that
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emails came in the last couple days but
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anything that gets entered into the chat
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window I will do my best to address okay
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so when you get into designing your your
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program your priority and offseason
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should be improving your flexibility
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improving your core activation improving
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your your balance
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improving your awareness and then if you
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have those you can layer on some of the
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strength power and cardio and stuff like
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that I see a live question from Mike do
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you think it is a good idea to use
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tubing to train the Jackson 5 and pivot
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move I I do like using tubing as a way
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of building some awareness or increasing
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muscle activation for those movements
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now the the key with the Jackson 5 is
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for many it's going to be more of let's
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say a passive movement so a the there's
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a unweighting of the lead foot and then
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kind of a shift and a weighting into
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that weight foot but it for most it's
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not gonna feel like a very active muscle
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contraction to shift into that lead foot
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so the the danger with using too much of
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too much resistance is it could become
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too much of an active movement and you
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might go into like a right-side bend
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with your upper body so I would err on
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using the using the tubing let's say
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early on in the training process just to
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build a little bit stronger awareness
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but then shifting into more
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of a just a field drill and awareness
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drill I wouldn't want to rep it to heart
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what I would rather do with let's say
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some tubing is oh I'd rather do some
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glute activation exercises I would
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rather do some single leg balance
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training and some some things
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challenging your lateral stability so
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you get your glute activation that way
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and then use that newfound strength and
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fitness awareness in your swing training
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so briefly covered the the fitness stuff
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we'll get into a little bit more details
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about what I like as far as some
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flexibility and some core training as it
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relates to another question that came in
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but as far as the golf game goes right
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for most of you the winter months means
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I'm not gonna be outside quite as much
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I'm not going to be hitting as many
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balls or possibly playing as much what
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are some things that I can work on
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inside so when you're when you're
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hitting balls inside or even if you're
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just swinging and making reps inside you
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can work a little bit on your position
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and relationships but one thing that I
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would challenge you to kind of figure
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out is are you more of a body dominant
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player or are you more of a arm dominant
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player and what can be good is in the
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offseason you train the opposite one you
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train the one that is harder for you to
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work on so that way because they they
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work hand in hand right your your arms
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and your body pivot have to complement
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each other otherwise you're going to
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struggle with low point control path
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face control some people are much better
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playing focusing on a body position so
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where is the upper body
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how is my sequencing how are my feet
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moving against the ground other people
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are much better focusing on you know
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what's my hand path when do I square the
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club face
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what's my arm Direction timing the one
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that you do really well that's great for
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you to reinforce and continue to train
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in C
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but what I found very helpful is in the
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off season train the one that is not
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your natural strength and that will
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ultimately make it easier if you then
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have to make a little adjustment during
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the season because the main goal from a
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learning perspective is during the
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season you're going to revisit things
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that have worked for you in the past in
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order to balance your swing
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you're not going to hopefully introduce
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too many new pieces so in the offseason
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you cover a lot of the things that you
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think you're going to need during the
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season so maybe you cover some
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transition stuff maybe you should cover
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some release stuff maybe you cover some
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setup but balance awareness back swing
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whatever then it will be easier for you
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to then reintroduce it if it becomes an
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issue during the season the other thing
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that's great to work on at home relates
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to putting and chipping you can work on
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low point control on carpet pretty
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easily for for chipping I have lots of
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students I have doing like chipping into
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sofa cushions and things like that or
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you can work on start line right so
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there's three main skills the putting
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controlling the start line controlling
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the speed and reading a green hard to do
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green reading unless you have a really
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nice home training area but it's easy to
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do start line training so a dime placed
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about two feet in front of a golf ball
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is about the same diameter as the width
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of the hole at ten feet so if you can
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consistently roll it over a dime with
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different speeds that's indicating they
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have a pretty functional stroke and
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pretty functional start line okay so I
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see a question came in from Ben Hogan
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blades I feel like hamed guessing hand
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strength has continued to deteriorate
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fifty-five years old can this have that
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have negative impact yes so as you get
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older you will tend to lose
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your type ii fibers so your your
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strength and power fibers faster but you
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will tend to lose a little bit of
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flexibility activation endurance like
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you you lose a you lose all of the
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things that are kind of natural movement
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patterns but the ones that you lose the
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fastest are strength and power so I do
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advocate doing some type of strength
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training especially if you're if you
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have let's say more than two hours of
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total training time each week then doing
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some form of heavy lifting whether it's
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a whether it's a you know like a
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farmer's carry whether it's a deadlift
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whether it's a chest press although I'll
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talk when we cover some strength though
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that's not my favorite exercise and you
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got to be careful with it stuff where
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you do have to grip and move around
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heavy weight so dead lifting squatting
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farmers carries can be very helpful for
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maintaining grip strength or there are
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lots of devices you can use to work on
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grip strength a problem the main problem
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is is if your grip strength goes down
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then you'll tend to overly recruit some
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of the shoulder muscles to help
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manufacture your grip strength and that
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can tend to restrict some of your
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ribcage range of motion during the swing
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and it'll tend to cause a little bit of
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a over tightness down at the bottom of
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the swing and that can cause more of a
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chicken wing local and control path
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going left toe hits those things so yes
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I would definitely do some form of
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strength training as you get older in
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order to hopefully maintain your grip
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strength and your overall power ability
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but let me let me jump I did have a one
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question it's kind of related to that
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topic that came in earlier today from
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Brent he was referencing in my book in
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in the section where I'm talking about
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common swing faults I reference how one
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of the let's say stereotypes of TPI is
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that they have a number of different
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tests and pretty much everyone fails the
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glute test or the bridge test and
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everybody fails the t-spine rotation
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test typically also many people will
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feel would fail the core activation test
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although their core activation tests are
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a little weaker than some other systems
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but basically most people have tight t
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spine most people have weak gluts how do
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you balance that how do you how do I
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like to improve that so the the tight
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teat spine is you need to do things that
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involve breathing in order to get the
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ribs moving if you have someone in your
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area who is an elder a trainer I think
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that the L dough is for the ribs are
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pretty amazing and they can take a
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little while to have some to have some
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effects like I've heard people taking as
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long as six months or so of doing the
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rib elbow is to really open it up but if
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you if you open up each rib you can gain
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like let's say you gain one degree at
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each level well one degree on each side
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times twelve you can gain twenty five
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degrees with I don't want to say not a
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whole lot of work but kind of in a
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seifish way if you start if the if the
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spine if the center of your rib cage is
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really rigid then if you force the
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flexibility issue too much you know like
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clubs across your back and really
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twisting like so you could potentially
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create some some problems because the
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outside is moving let's say more than
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the inside you could potentially create
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the situation for injury so I'll give
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you one I mentioned some breathing
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exercises but I'll give you one simple
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kind of T spine rotation exercise that I
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really
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like so if I was to sit here kind of
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towards the back of my chair so I sit up
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nice and tall I'm gonna focus on some
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axial extension so I'm gonna focus on
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maintaining length in my spine and in my
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mid-back and then I'm gonna bring my
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arms up and keep the elbows above
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shoulder height now I'm gonna pull one
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arm back and reach the opposite arm palm
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forward and I'm gonna externally rotate
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both arms as I do it that external
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rotation is gonna force some more of the
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movement through the spine instead of if
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I stay in internal rotation I can get
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more of it in the actual shoulder socket
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so I go into external rotation pull one
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arm back reach the opposite arm forward
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and just take a few breaths and kind of
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as I inhale I'm gonna hold that longer
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and then when I exhale I'll try to
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increase just slightly and then as I
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inhale go a little bit further do like a
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couple breaths on each side from a from
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a spine standpoint I've got the video on
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the site called the analytic warm-up
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where I teach you how to do kind of
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translation exercises for the spine
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first before you get into rotation so
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please always make sure that you've
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warmed up your spine before you start
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trying to do any t spine rotation but
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good breathing exercises where you get
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the ribs kind of moving in all
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directions and then kind of T spine
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rotation exercises after that the other
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thing that you'll probably need to do is
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because of their connection to it you'll
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have to work on some good shoulder
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stretches so like tech stretch and lat
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stretch will also restrict your T spine
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mobility because they both run from the
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shoulder to the pelvis kind of one
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across the front and one across the back
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so for t spine breathing some rib
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mobility stuff and then good Peck and
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lat stretches should help create more
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range of motion and that range of motion
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can take pressure off of neck injury
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shoulder injuries but most of
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lower back injuries because oftentimes
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the lumbar spine rotating is what
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creates a whole lot of pain and
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dysfunction and that's rotating in order
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to compensate for a tighter t spine so
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then the other question was about the
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weak glutes so weak glutes typically
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come from a combination of poor
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activation and imbalance as far as
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overactive psoas muscles and tightness
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in basically your hip flexors which
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create a reciprocal inhibition for the
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glutes so oftentimes you'll have to
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start glute training with TVA or a deep
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core activation and you may even have to
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do some pelvic floor activation but then
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if you do bridges correctly you will get
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good glute activation so to correctly do
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the bridges you want to make sure that
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when you raise when you push through the
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hips and raise your hips up off the
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ground you're going to kind of maintain
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a little bit of posterior tilt in the
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pelvis as you're raising it up and as
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you're raising it down so I always coach
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people when they're doing those bridges
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not to let the tailbone touch the ground
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as long as the tailbone stays off the
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ground when you're moving so it's kind
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of moving more in that direction it's
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keeping your abs and your glutes active
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then to get the full range of the glutes
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you would want your feet to be in two
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different positions either feet wide
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feet narrow and you would want your
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knees in two different positions so
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you've got basically four different
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bridge activities to target different
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parts of the glute you've got feet wide
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knees narrow feet wide knees wide and
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then feet narrow knees wide feet Nut
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feet narrow knees narrow so by working
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on those four different positions you'll
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start getting glute activation if you do
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good so as stretching and you do good
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deep core or tv8 and pelvic floor
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activation that usually helps rebalance
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the pelvis create some stability and
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create better glute activation so that's
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the that's kind of a common recipe I use
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for getting the glutes active and we
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already talked about the t spine Ben's
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got another question coming in what
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problem Eric problematic area is mostly
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responsible for the forward lunge so the
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forward lunge typically comes from a
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combination of two things either a
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clubface awareness issue so I square the
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club more with a scoop then with
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rotation of the shaft and as a result of
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that scoop the low point moves backwards
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so then I lunge forward to balance it
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out so the forward lunge can be a way to
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kind of create shaft lean but from the
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body instead of the wrists physically
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there can be a handful of issues
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tightness in the neck so inability to
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rotate your head to the right enough so
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then you'll shift forward to kind of
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move stuff up the chain as well as keep
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basically instead of being able to
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rotate you'll activate the muscles in
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the neck and they'll kind of pull your
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upper body forward so it's a way to kind
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of keep vision on the ball without
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pushing the next rotation to its full
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capability it can also be very
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protective on the shoulder so when you
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when you rotate and stay behind you'll
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tend to get the arm to extend a little
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bit away in as it's going into external
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rotation where the the shoulder to be
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more protected would like to stay into
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internal rotation and flex a bit so if
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the upper body or if the shoulder wants
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to go like that that would pull the the
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low point in and that would tend to move
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the path to the left
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so then lunging in front tends to
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balance that so neck and shoulder can be
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a big issue
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the right shoulder flexibility so if the
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right shoulder tends to go into internal
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rotation that can cause a leftward path
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and the forward lunge helps make that
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less dramatic so I tend to see a lot of
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neck shoulder issues related to the
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release contributing to the forward
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lunge if those are cleared up and that's
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not the issue then I would most likely
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look at the feet and how they're working
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at the ground because it probably means
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that you're getting you're probably
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getting more of your speed from an arm
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pull and the forward lunge is a good way
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to kind of work with a more of an arm
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pull situation so you had a calcified
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tendinitis in your left shoulder yes
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that could definitely contribute to more
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of a forward lunge
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especially if if you lost some external
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rotation of the trail arm or if you had
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some some stiffening of the sc/st join
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or AC joint those could absolutely
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contribute to the for forward lunge
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problem so then you'd have to figure out
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is that something that you can really
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improve on or then do you have to start
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working with more of a forward lunge
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pattern so another question
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you know Ben's doing a great job but if
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anybody else has any questions about
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their fitness or their situation go
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ahead and type it in the chat window
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I've got a couple other questions that
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came in through email that I wanted to
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make sure that we covered Sharon asked
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about you know offseason is a good time
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to kind of game plan and work on your
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your overall swing so she was asking
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about shaft lean versus elbow playing
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versus shoulder plane basically if you
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were to you know go if you were to get
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into your set of position and draw lines
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on video what you know what's the
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advantage of looking at either the elbow
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the shoulder or the shaft lean I would
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say that early in my career I used
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all three of those I would I would say
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that now almost exclusively I'll use the
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impact plane which is gonna be closest
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to the elbow so the the research from
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dr. Huang on the functional swing plane
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and most of the guys you talk to the
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only time the club is really gonna be
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planar is from waist height to waist
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height so what I would do is make sure
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that the camera is in a good set up
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position so it's in line roughly with
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the hands from the down the line and
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then take the swing to impact and then
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draw the shaft plane there and then go
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back to set up and just you can see
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where that goes it'll usually go through
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about the point of the trail arm but the
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key for timing is looking at that
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relationship where is the club at waist
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height and then where is the club
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working on the way through the the more
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that it's coming from under to above
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through impact that's gonna tend to be
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shallower rightward more driver base the
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more that it's slightly outside and then
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under the more it's gonna be it's a
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iron-based
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but drawing the impact plane is the the
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what I would I believe is the most
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useful of the the plane lines that you
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could draw when looking at video all
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right I have a question coming in from
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Mike do you have any ideas on knee pain
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precipitated by walking is there any way
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to tell if it is from the quadricep
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overdevelopment and inhibited hamstring
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or other causes anytime that there is
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pain I like to refer out to my team and
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get a thorough evaluation because
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there's lots of simple what I call
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provocation tests where they can
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basically figure out okay if you can
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touch where the pain is going and they
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can have you do certain movements if it
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triggers the pain then you have a pretty
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clear idea as far as where the pain is
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coming from and it makes it much easier
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to diagnose I would say that the the
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knee is one of the tough tougher joints
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as far as
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being able to create space a lot of the
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other joints have some really small deep
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muscles that can help create space if
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you if you train them and the knee
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doesn't have that so typically knee pain
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and focusing on quad flexibility
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focusing on I'd say quite probably more
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so than hamstring flexibility although
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it can contribute and making sure that
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there is adequate strength in the VMO
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which is a tough guy to train but that
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helps with the patella tracking that
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those two are I've seen a fair amount of
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improvement in knee pain especially from
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walking on hills when you get those two
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a little bit more balanced but I would
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definitely you know talk to somebody
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qualified in your area
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physical therapist chiropractor
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osteopath somebody who who knows how to
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do a joint assessment and look at look
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at that knee yeah I'm trying to think of
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your swing I know you were out here a
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little bit and we were doing mostly
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related to the back I'd probably go if I
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remember right your quads weren't super
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tight so I'd be looking more at I'd find
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somebody in your area so you could rule
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out a couple issues and I'll send you a
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little note after this just send me an
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email to remind me okay add another
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question as far as like lesson plans and
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during the offseason how do you how do
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you balance you know if you're used to
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taking like a weekly lesson should you
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continue on that during the offseason
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should you try and own it a little bit
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Edward was asking about how he was
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working on shallowing and oh mike okay
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actually for Claire yeah then I would
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yes shoot me an email and I'll give you
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some ideas okay back to Edward working
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shallowing if you're if you're working
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on the downswing what I find is the the
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the transition and the release have to
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blend together right so you can have
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really big success working on one or the
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other but the greatest gains and when it
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will feel somewhat automatic is when you
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work on each of them but together right
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so let's say you're working on
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shallowing that means during the release
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you would have to work on a little bit
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more shaft rotation and a little bit
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later arm extension timing and you'll
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have the best success when you're doing
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both of those so the offseason can be a
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good time to work on the one that's more
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challenging we're in season I would say
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you want to focus on the one that is
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easier for you to do because it'll be
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easier to like you won't it won't take
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as much thought and the problem is if
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you overly focus on one area typically
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the brain kind of shuts down or loses
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some of its sequencing some of its like
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connection down during those transition
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points so I tend to advocate working on
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a few things kind of a few things at
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once and let's say spending less time so
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normally during the season I might say
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you're gonna work on one specific topic
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for anywhere from three to six weeks
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during the offseason I cut that about in
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half so I'd work on one thing and then
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move on quicker because I know that I
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want to work on multiple things at once
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and I want to try in the offseason to
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cover as many topics related to that as
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I can so if I'm working on shallowing I
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might work on how the feet are working
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on against the ground I might work on
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how the pelvis to ribcage sequence isn't
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working I might work on shallowing with
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the right arm and shallowing with the
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left arm or left forearm and I might
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work on some early clubface rotation and
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I'd I'd work on a few of those at once
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because typically when you're hitting
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balls and
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you're hitting off of a mat so you're
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not totally working on low point control
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that's a hard skill to work on indoors
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you're working more on the global
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pattern and you're working more on let's
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say path and face the path control and
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so because you it's let's say easier
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when you're hitting on a mat you can
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usually do a little bit more intense or
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you can do a few things at once and the
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other thing is because you don't get
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just as distracted by miss hits you
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don't get as distracted by ball flight
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it's easier to have a little bit more of
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a mechanical focus so I would work on
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the different components of shallowing
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so instead of working on one thing for
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three to six weeks I would probably work
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on three or four things related to the
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same area over that same time frame so
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I'd move on to things usually quicker in
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the offseason so that I'll have the map
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in my mind of other ideas I can try in
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season if I start to struggle with the
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same concept okay I had another question
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from Mike about ideal clubface and path
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ratio so he was asking about how
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basically you know a lot of guys will
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talk about a relationship of face to
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path so you know his in his particular
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case he finds that when he has a face
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the path of greater than - - he tends to
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have more trouble controlling they say
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club head club face variability in
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closure rates I would say that you know
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- 2 - 3 is probably yeah towards the
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upper end well I know that drawing a
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blank on his name I'll put him in the in
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the text description below I mentioned
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in my book did a he did some research
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and found it like when you get over
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above minus or plus or minus 5 so if the
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club face the path starts getting above
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5 you're going to have
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pretty much impossible dispersion but
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you're gonna have to high variance
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missus and so if the general rule of
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thumb is that you want your face to path
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to be roughly half of the path then that
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says that you can't have a you can't
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have a path that's too much more you
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can't have a path that's too much more
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than five or six degrees in out or out
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to end or else your clubface open closed
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being half of that is gonna be up around
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four or five so yes working on your
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general path and getting it closest to
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zero but or you know let's say less than
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I usually aim for five with a lot of my
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golfers but being able to also control
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the wide point or the low point and
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being able to get good arm extension on
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the way through with that same path that
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tends to lead towards more consistency
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because I wouldn't say that you're gonna
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have that much greater clubface very
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club face closure variability at a five
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to six compared to say a two to three
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but if you told me that you're having
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more of an arc with issue and the club
00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:08.899
kind of passing on the way through that
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usually causes the clubface variability
00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:18.970
I had another question come in about
00:32:19.750 --> 00:32:22.970
struggling with hooking the ball so what
00:32:22.970 --> 00:32:27.409
should we do in the offseason yeah
00:32:27.409 --> 00:32:30.020
pushes and hooks for almost twenty years
00:32:30.020 --> 00:32:34.220
coming in from Lisa she was asking how
00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:36.409
to avoid hitting the club coming to
00:32:36.409 --> 00:32:39.590
shallow into the ball so to shallow into
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the wall would give kind of the holistic
00:32:41.179 --> 00:32:43.039
approach to solving hooks because I know
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that that's a really frustrating miss
00:32:45.470 --> 00:32:49.850
for a lot of golfers to solve hooks you
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have to slow down the club passing the
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or the the clubhead passing the grip on
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the way through because that tends to
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close the club face and that will happen
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more when you're having some early
00:33:04.820 --> 00:33:06.920
extension so if I'm moving away from the
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.840
golf ball the club is gonna pass like
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this and that causes the club face to
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get closed very quickly all right so it
00:33:14.810 --> 00:33:19.280
closes more like that so in order to
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solve the hook I have to get more let's
00:33:23.450 --> 00:33:25.580
say shaft lean and I have to have more
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body rotation on the way through in
00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:30.290
order to have the grip speed usually
00:33:30.290 --> 00:33:33.110
when you're getting too shallow on the
00:33:33.110 --> 00:33:33.740
downswing
00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:35.870
it's almost a hundred percent time
00:33:35.870 --> 00:33:38.390
coming from the body either going into
00:33:38.390 --> 00:33:40.550
too much early extension or going into
00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:44.510
too much side bend too much early
00:33:44.510 --> 00:33:50.020
extension usually comes from either
00:33:50.260 --> 00:33:53.300
either too much early extension coming
00:33:53.300 --> 00:33:56.900
more from either extending the back in
00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:59.330
order to help pull down on the club or
00:33:59.330 --> 00:34:04.700
going into side Bend as a way to adjust
00:34:04.700 --> 00:34:11.510
for too steep of a top or adjusting for
00:34:11.510 --> 00:34:13.340
let's say my arms are a little steep and
00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:17.510
then I side bend to balance that out so
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usually with hooking the ball the first
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thing I do is I work on grip grip speed
00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:26.330
and torso rotation while staying in your
00:34:26.330 --> 00:34:27.860
posture so basically working on a good
00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:29.840
follow-through position and making sure
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:31.640
that I'm not having all the speed down
00:34:31.640 --> 00:34:35.030
at my hands that that the grip and my
00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:37.100
body are continuing to move on the way
00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:40.240
through that helps move the path more
00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:46.220
left and if I work on delaying the club
00:34:46.220 --> 00:34:47.930
passing this way that tends to hold the
00:34:47.930 --> 00:34:50.420
face open so stage one is kind of
00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:52.880
working on the body rotation on the way
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.330
through and then seeing what ball flight
00:34:56.330 --> 00:34:58.400
reactions I might get to that so some
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.770
golfers will hit more pulls then I need
00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:03.110
to work on the path that about shaft
00:35:03.110 --> 00:35:04.640
parallel maybe I now I'm getting a
00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:06.710
little steep because my body is turning
00:35:06.710 --> 00:35:11.900
so I'm hitting more poles or I'm what
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I'd say most common is I'm hanging them
00:35:13.790 --> 00:35:16.130
a little off to the right because now
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:19.130
I've delayed the closing of the clubface
00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:22.790
and I've rotated my body and I have to
00:35:22.790 --> 00:35:24.290
work on getting a little bit earlier
00:35:24.290 --> 00:35:26.270
shaft rotation and closing the face
00:35:26.270 --> 00:35:28.430
through shaft rotation is usually the
00:35:28.430 --> 00:35:31.130
scariest part of solving a hook but it's
00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:33.920
also one of the most important skills
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:37.460
that will eventually or quickly learn
00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:40.550
teach you how to get more shaft lean and
00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:44.540
get the club from coming too shallow so
00:35:44.540 --> 00:35:47.690
if your hook in the wall got a number of
00:35:47.690 --> 00:35:50.180
videos on the site on a high level of a
00:35:50.180 --> 00:35:51.950
hook and walking through how to get more
00:35:51.950 --> 00:35:54.980
of the hit my arms or pool noodle in the
00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:57.380
follow-through low to high like a bunch
00:35:57.380 --> 00:35:59.510
of drills working on that body rotation
00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:00.770
on the way through to avoid the stall
00:36:00.770 --> 00:36:03.230
and then figuring out your individual
00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:06.650
issues based on feedback there daniel is
00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:08.750
asking how does one get advanced notice
00:36:08.750 --> 00:36:12.440
of the live Q&A normally so if you
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.940
subscribe to the YouTube channel they'll
00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:16.280
send you they'll give a little update
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.770
when we're posting this today was a
00:36:18.770 --> 00:36:22.070
little bit of you know it was it was a
00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:23.960
little bit of a last-minute scheduling
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.530
so we only decided or I I decided that I
00:36:27.530 --> 00:36:30.980
was gonna do this this morning I wasn't
00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.170
quite sure if my social calendar was
00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:36.460
gonna allow for it but normally I'll
00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:40.280
usually give a few days notice so you
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:42.560
can either go to golf smart Academy and
00:36:42.560 --> 00:36:44.810
if you sign up for the free trial
00:36:44.810 --> 00:36:47.810
membership or if you remember we we send
00:36:47.810 --> 00:36:50.990
out the emails letting you know that
00:36:50.990 --> 00:36:54.350
it's going to happen and requesting any
00:36:54.350 --> 00:36:55.910
advanced questions those are the ones
00:36:55.910 --> 00:36:57.290
that will always get answered first
00:36:57.290 --> 00:36:59.420
otherwise if you subscribe to the
00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:02.210
YouTube channel then you'll get an
00:37:02.210 --> 00:37:05.570
update when when I schedule it and then
00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:08.780
an hour beforehand or right beforehand
00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:11.980
it'll give you another reminder
00:37:12.470 --> 00:37:18.099
I had one one more question that I
00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:20.930
already one more question that came in
00:37:20.930 --> 00:37:23.119
from Brent I talked about the tight t
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.109
spine and glutes but he was also asking
00:37:26.109 --> 00:37:29.690
that so unfortunately the beginning of
00:37:29.690 --> 00:37:32.330
last year or the beginning of 2016 he
00:37:32.330 --> 00:37:35.840
was trying to restrict his hip turn and
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:40.960
he think that in in trying to do so he
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.500
created a right hip injury that could be
00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:52.820
more of a sciatic issue that is I it's
00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:54.859
not super common that we come just from
00:37:54.859 --> 00:37:57.020
restricting the hip but dealing with
00:37:57.020 --> 00:38:02.050
some sciatic issues is not uncommon so
00:38:02.050 --> 00:38:05.000
like let's let's break that down and
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.190
talk about the two components one trying
00:38:07.190 --> 00:38:09.170
to restrict your hips earth here's where
00:38:09.170 --> 00:38:13.730
my take on that is some golfers we know
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from 3d that the the average is that the
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the trail leg is going to straighten you
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know 10 degrees 8 degrees somewhere on
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there so the tray legs gonna strain you
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don't want it to stay perfectly straight
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some golfers in especially with certain
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swing characteristics would like lock
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that leg out and go to the outside of
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the foot and shift on the front foot and
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by trying to keep that trail leg a
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little more flexed they would load up a
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little bit better in general I'm um I'm
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more of a fan of kind of free pelvis and
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free hip turn and the only time that
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someone will ever feel like they're
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getting more restricted is when they
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learn better foot to ground contact so
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if you if you learn how to stay more on
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the inside of the foot and not shift
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into your your toes or not shift to the
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outside the foot sometimes it will feel
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like you're keeping your leg more flexed
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but I'll usually show you on video it's
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not it's just by having better foot
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contact you're feeling more tension in
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the hamstring so that when you load it's
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all the way connected into the ground
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not just into the let's say the outside
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of the foot so that's where the
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interpretation of you gotta keep your
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trail leg bent as opposed to allowing it
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to straighten I think it relates to
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mostly what's going on at the foot not
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so much what's going on in the knee but
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it's easier to see the knee than it is
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to see what's happening at the foot if
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you okay now we've developed a situation
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where we created some issues that might
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be sciatic sciatica can come from disc
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issue so it can come from the sciatic
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nerve exiting out of the spine
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I believe it's levels l2 l3 l4 l5 s1 s2
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you can have you can have sciatic disc
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issues if you have some impingement
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there you can also have issues from
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tightness in certain muscles
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specifically the piriformis muscle so
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the piriformis muscle can be it goes
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from the inside of the sacrum to the to
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the outside of it and the sciatic nerve
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runs between it and the glute or in many
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cases it actually runs through the
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sciatica or through the piriformis so if
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you have tight piriformis which is one
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of your three main pelvic floor muscles
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so if you have imbalance in your pelvic
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floor if you have overly restricted
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internal rotation those can create some
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sciatic issues from more the piriformis
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as opposed to from the actual disc or
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the joint or the sciatic nerve coming
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out of the spine so that would get like
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I'd anytime there's pain I want to work
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with somebody who understands the pain
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problems and can help you balance it
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there so I double I absolutely go to see
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someone but you know if if you've seen
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someone and they haven't tried looking
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at
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if they haven't tried anything revolving
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around piriformis and balancing your
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pelvic floor then perhaps you can find
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somebody else who might be in that same
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area who might have a better let's say
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toolbox being able to do it okay a
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:53.539
couple questions come in from Golden
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Gate I'm a right-handed golfer and
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notice that I've lost flexibility on the
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follow-through
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I am tight on the follow-through but
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more flexibility on my backswing is
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there a way to solve that imbalance um
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yes
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doing you know that's a normal pattern
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for playing golf unfortunately because
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we build more resistance with that right
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side compared to the left side the often
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times you will have a greater degree of
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flexibility turning in your backswing
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than you will on the follow-through just
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from the natural balance that's created
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with the sport so often swinging
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left-handed and hitting some balls
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left-handed in the offseason can be
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another good project I especially give
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that to a lot of juniors and if you get
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used to doing that then you can do some
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practice swings on the course
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left-handed to counterbalance the
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imbalance that will naturally happen
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from swinging multiple times
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right-handed but otherwise in general in
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the gym you want to try to be more
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symmetric so by doing a you know a
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balanced strength training by doing
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posture work by doing the eldona which
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is one of my favorite exercises for
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working on the spine you can hopefully
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help minimize some of those imbalances
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but again if it's you know if you're if
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you're tight on the follow-through
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you can adjust for it by flaring the
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lead foot out you could long-term do
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some left-handed swings short-term you
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could do
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kind of flexibility and stability work
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more focusing on that follow-through
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side but I'm working on the little video
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related that because many golfers who
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think that they have flexibility issues
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more have a swing issue and it just
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shows up in because they haven't rotated
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like many golfers think that they have a
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flexibility issue because their body
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isn't rotated at impact but if you're
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saying that it's a follow-through
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restriction where I'm not getting to
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this position at any point in time
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that's probably more of a flexibility
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issue because if it's just that impact
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but then you're able to rotate into a
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follow-through
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it's more of a timing it's not a
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physical restriction okay and another
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question from Troy M does the lead hip
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go into external rotation during the
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backswing or should it stay neutral
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letting them knee move more towards the
00:44:40.070 --> 00:44:44.180
golf ball the the hip will go into
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external rotation but you can also go
00:44:47.570 --> 00:44:50.210
into external rotation and have the knee
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moving in towards the golf ball it's
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just with the amount of rotation of the
00:44:57.350 --> 00:45:00.410
pelvis during the backswing it would be
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virtually impossible not to go into
00:45:02.600 --> 00:45:07.430
external rotation with that lead hip so
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I tend to train more of the awareness of
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the trail side hip during the or the
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trail side foot and the trail side hip
00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:19.010
during the backswing and then kind of
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accommodate what's more comfortable with
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the lead hip as opposed to focusing too
00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:26.810
much on forcing external rotation you
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know a lot of what happens at the hip I
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:32.780
think is better trained at the feet I'll
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use awareness drills to kind of help
00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:37.730
people feel what the hip should be doing
00:45:37.730 --> 00:45:40.430
but by learning how to feel the foot
00:45:40.430 --> 00:45:43.040
against the ground it gives more of a
00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:44.810
reason for the hip to do the right thing
00:45:44.810 --> 00:45:46.460
instead of just artificially trying to
00:45:46.460 --> 00:45:49.790
create it doing the right thing
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so the problem is if you try and force
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external rotation of the
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I think that'll mess up your backswing
00:45:56.150 --> 00:46:00.839
or if you try and force it to stay
00:46:00.839 --> 00:46:04.700
neutral and move towards the golf ball
00:46:04.700 --> 00:46:07.920
if you're doing that purely from the hip
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there would be the fear and the tendency
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that you could get a little bit too much
00:46:13.260 --> 00:46:15.750
towards the outside of the trail hip in
00:46:15.750 --> 00:46:18.450
order to or outside of the trail foot in
00:46:18.450 --> 00:46:22.079
order to make that happen so I'd be I'd
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.599
be a little careful with forcing the
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:27.150
external rotation of the lead hip during
00:46:27.150 --> 00:46:30.530
the backswing unless you you've
00:46:30.530 --> 00:46:33.030
confirmed on video that when you do that
00:46:33.030 --> 00:46:36.170
your feet work better against the ground
00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:41.460
okay so if any one hand it has any last
00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:44.160
questions getting close to wrapping up
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:47.520
this one never quite know which
00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:49.020
direction we go based on your questions
00:46:49.020 --> 00:46:51.599
but they're always fun to fun to try and
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.710
be prepared for I do want to remind
00:46:55.710 --> 00:46:58.260
everyone that I'll have some links in
00:46:58.260 --> 00:47:00.240
the description below for both the
00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:04.049
website as well as the book closing in
00:47:04.049 --> 00:47:06.900
on selling 500 copies of the stock tour
00:47:06.900 --> 00:47:10.260
swing this is kind of my my manual for
00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:12.539
understanding the big global picture of
00:47:12.539 --> 00:47:15.500
how the different pieces match together
00:47:15.500 --> 00:47:17.819
really help you understand how to read
00:47:17.819 --> 00:47:22.380
feedback and how to prioritize by
00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:24.569
understanding your pattern prioritize
00:47:24.569 --> 00:47:27.210
what you need to work on when you play
00:47:27.210 --> 00:47:30.630
as well as here during the offseason so
00:47:30.630 --> 00:47:33.420
just a quick reminder on the offseason
00:47:33.420 --> 00:47:35.069
stuff make sure you're working on some
00:47:35.069 --> 00:47:37.890
flexibility some core definitely do some
00:47:37.890 --> 00:47:40.470
balance training if you're if you've got
00:47:40.470 --> 00:47:42.390
enough time then you can layer in some
00:47:42.390 --> 00:47:45.450
strength and some power and possibly
00:47:45.450 --> 00:47:48.569
some endurance and even cardio from a
00:47:48.569 --> 00:47:50.910
game perspective you want to work on
00:47:50.910 --> 00:47:52.680
your weaknesses here in the offseason
00:47:52.680 --> 00:47:54.660
and then focus a little bit more on the
00:47:54.660 --> 00:47:58.170
strengths during the in season and I
00:47:58.170 --> 00:48:00.270
like to vary what I'm working on a
00:48:00.270 --> 00:48:03.180
little more frequently in the offseason
00:48:03.180 --> 00:48:04.150
then
00:48:04.150 --> 00:48:08.590
in the during the during the season so
00:48:08.590 --> 00:48:10.900
that I've had my brain basically has
00:48:10.900 --> 00:48:13.390
more options that I can then recall so I
00:48:13.390 --> 00:48:15.070
don't have to learn as many new things
00:48:15.070 --> 00:48:17.050
during the season I just have to
00:48:17.050 --> 00:48:19.060
remember what worked for me during my
00:48:19.060 --> 00:48:22.930
practice during the offseason so thank
00:48:22.930 --> 00:48:24.910
you for all of you for your questions
00:48:24.910 --> 00:48:26.590
and for joining me for another one of
00:48:26.590 --> 00:48:30.340
these Facebook live Q&A s seems to be
00:48:30.340 --> 00:48:32.170
pretty well received so we'll definitely
00:48:32.170 --> 00:48:34.480
keep doing them if you have any other
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:36.730
questions you can email us at support at
00:48:36.730 --> 00:48:40.450
golf smart academy.com and we'll start
00:48:40.450 --> 00:48:42.790
building a cue for the next one
00:48:42.790 --> 00:48:48.430
but good luck in 2018 and my pleasure
00:48:48.430 --> 00:48:50.770
thanks for all the all the compliments
00:48:50.770 --> 00:48:53.260
all the questions good luck in 2018
00:48:53.260 --> 00:48:56.230
absolutely have a plan stick to that
00:48:56.230 --> 00:48:59.350
plan and as always from golf smart
00:48:59.350 --> 00:49:04.170
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Live Q&A: Off Season Training - Fitness and Skills - Jan 1, 2018
Live Q&A discussing off season training and fitness.
Live Q&A discussing off season training and fitness.
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alright looks like I just got the notice
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that we're up in streaming so happy to
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do another one of these fun live
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streaming events I figured a great topic
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for the start of the new year would be
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more fitness and offseason training
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since that seems to be the most common
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you know the most common resolution is
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this new year I'm gonna get in great
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shape and for golfers this is alright
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this year I'm gonna get in great shape
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for my golf game so I figured let's
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discuss you know one of my other kind of
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passions which is fitness and let's
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discuss what we can do here in the
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offseason to hopefully improve our
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fitness so just like with the swing I
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always like to take kind of a global
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perspective and do some sort of analysis
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on each student and look at the
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different categories so the different
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categories of fitness that you could
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improve on primarily would be
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flexibility let's say core stability
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core activation balance posture training
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which is kind of more in that stability
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category strength power and endurance or
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and our cardio right now there are some
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things that are gonna be really helpful
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for your overall health like cardio for
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example but when we're looking at when
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we're looking at the requirements for
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golf I would say that the place where I
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see most people miss out on and where
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you can get the biggest improvements are
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gonna be your flexibility your core
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stability core activation and balance
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training if you if you get a good
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foundation of those then you can try and
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add on some strength and some power I
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I'm here in San Jose on the
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westcoast but I just wanted to remind
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everyone if you want to just enter into
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the chat window who's here where you're
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from and any question that you might
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have that'll be helpful and I'll try to
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answer them in real-time as best I can
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I've got a few kind of pre-loaded that
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emails came in the last couple days but
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anything that gets entered into the chat
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window I will do my best to address okay
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so when you get into designing your your
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program your priority and offseason
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should be improving your flexibility
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improving your core activation improving
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your your balance
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improving your awareness and then if you
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have those you can layer on some of the
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strength power and cardio and stuff like
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that I see a live question from Mike do
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you think it is a good idea to use
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tubing to train the Jackson 5 and pivot
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move I I do like using tubing as a way
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of building some awareness or increasing
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muscle activation for those movements
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now the the key with the Jackson 5 is
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for many it's going to be more of let's
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say a passive movement so a the there's
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a unweighting of the lead foot and then
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kind of a shift and a weighting into
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that weight foot but it for most it's
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not gonna feel like a very active muscle
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contraction to shift into that lead foot
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so the the danger with using too much of
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too much resistance is it could become
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too much of an active movement and you
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might go into like a right-side bend
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with your upper body so I would err on
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using the using the tubing let's say
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early on in the training process just to
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build a little bit stronger awareness
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but then shifting into more
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of a just a field drill and awareness
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drill I wouldn't want to rep it to heart
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what I would rather do with let's say
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some tubing is oh I'd rather do some
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glute activation exercises I would
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rather do some single leg balance
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training and some some things
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challenging your lateral stability so
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you get your glute activation that way
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and then use that newfound strength and
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fitness awareness in your swing training
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so briefly covered the the fitness stuff
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we'll get into a little bit more details
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about what I like as far as some
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flexibility and some core training as it
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relates to another question that came in
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but as far as the golf game goes right
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for most of you the winter months means
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I'm not gonna be outside quite as much
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I'm not going to be hitting as many
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balls or possibly playing as much what
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are some things that I can work on
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inside so when you're when you're
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hitting balls inside or even if you're
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just swinging and making reps inside you
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can work a little bit on your position
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and relationships but one thing that I
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would challenge you to kind of figure
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out is are you more of a body dominant
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player or are you more of a arm dominant
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player and what can be good is in the
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offseason you train the opposite one you
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train the one that is harder for you to
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work on so that way because they they
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work hand in hand right your your arms
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and your body pivot have to complement
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each other otherwise you're going to
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struggle with low point control path
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face control some people are much better
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playing focusing on a body position so
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where is the upper body
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how is my sequencing how are my feet
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moving against the ground other people
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are much better focusing on you know
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what's my hand path when do I square the
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club face
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what's my arm Direction timing the one
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that you do really well that's great for
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you to reinforce and continue to train
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in C
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but what I found very helpful is in the
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off season train the one that is not
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your natural strength and that will
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ultimately make it easier if you then
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have to make a little adjustment during
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the season because the main goal from a
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learning perspective is during the
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season you're going to revisit things
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that have worked for you in the past in
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order to balance your swing
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you're not going to hopefully introduce
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too many new pieces so in the offseason
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you cover a lot of the things that you
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think you're going to need during the
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season so maybe you cover some
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transition stuff maybe you should cover
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some release stuff maybe you cover some
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setup but balance awareness back swing
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whatever then it will be easier for you
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to then reintroduce it if it becomes an
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issue during the season the other thing
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that's great to work on at home relates
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to putting and chipping you can work on
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low point control on carpet pretty
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easily for for chipping I have lots of
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students I have doing like chipping into
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sofa cushions and things like that or
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you can work on start line right so
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there's three main skills the putting
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controlling the start line controlling
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the speed and reading a green hard to do
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green reading unless you have a really
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nice home training area but it's easy to
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do start line training so a dime placed
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about two feet in front of a golf ball
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is about the same diameter as the width
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of the hole at ten feet so if you can
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consistently roll it over a dime with
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different speeds that's indicating they
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have a pretty functional stroke and
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pretty functional start line okay so I
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see a question came in from Ben Hogan
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blades I feel like hamed guessing hand
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strength has continued to deteriorate
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fifty-five years old can this have that
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have negative impact yes so as you get
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older you will tend to lose
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your type ii fibers so your your
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strength and power fibers faster but you
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will tend to lose a little bit of
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flexibility activation endurance like
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you you lose a you lose all of the
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things that are kind of natural movement
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patterns but the ones that you lose the
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fastest are strength and power so I do
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advocate doing some type of strength
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training especially if you're if you
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have let's say more than two hours of
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total training time each week then doing
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some form of heavy lifting whether it's
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a whether it's a you know like a
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farmer's carry whether it's a deadlift
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whether it's a chest press although I'll
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talk when we cover some strength though
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that's not my favorite exercise and you
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got to be careful with it stuff where
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you do have to grip and move around
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heavy weight so dead lifting squatting
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farmers carries can be very helpful for
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maintaining grip strength or there are
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lots of devices you can use to work on
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grip strength a problem the main problem
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is is if your grip strength goes down
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then you'll tend to overly recruit some
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of the shoulder muscles to help
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manufacture your grip strength and that
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can tend to restrict some of your
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ribcage range of motion during the swing
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and it'll tend to cause a little bit of
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a over tightness down at the bottom of
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the swing and that can cause more of a
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chicken wing local and control path
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going left toe hits those things so yes
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I would definitely do some form of
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strength training as you get older in
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order to hopefully maintain your grip
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strength and your overall power ability
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but let me let me jump I did have a one
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question it's kind of related to that
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topic that came in earlier today from
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Brent he was referencing in my book in
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in the section where I'm talking about
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common swing faults I reference how one
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of the let's say stereotypes of TPI is
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that they have a number of different
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tests and pretty much everyone fails the
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glute test or the bridge test and
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everybody fails the t-spine rotation
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test typically also many people will
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feel would fail the core activation test
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although their core activation tests are
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a little weaker than some other systems
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but basically most people have tight t
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spine most people have weak gluts how do
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you balance that how do you how do I
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like to improve that so the the tight
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teat spine is you need to do things that
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involve breathing in order to get the
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ribs moving if you have someone in your
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area who is an elder a trainer I think
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that the L dough is for the ribs are
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pretty amazing and they can take a
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little while to have some to have some
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effects like I've heard people taking as
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long as six months or so of doing the
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rib elbow is to really open it up but if
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you if you open up each rib you can gain
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like let's say you gain one degree at
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each level well one degree on each side
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times twelve you can gain twenty five
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degrees with I don't want to say not a
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whole lot of work but kind of in a
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seifish way if you start if the if the
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spine if the center of your rib cage is
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really rigid then if you force the
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flexibility issue too much you know like
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clubs across your back and really
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twisting like so you could potentially
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create some some problems because the
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outside is moving let's say more than
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the inside you could potentially create
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the situation for injury so I'll give
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you one I mentioned some breathing
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exercises but I'll give you one simple
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kind of T spine rotation exercise that I
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really
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like so if I was to sit here kind of
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towards the back of my chair so I sit up
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nice and tall I'm gonna focus on some
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axial extension so I'm gonna focus on
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maintaining length in my spine and in my
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mid-back and then I'm gonna bring my
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arms up and keep the elbows above
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shoulder height now I'm gonna pull one
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arm back and reach the opposite arm palm
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forward and I'm gonna externally rotate
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both arms as I do it that external
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rotation is gonna force some more of the
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movement through the spine instead of if
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I stay in internal rotation I can get
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more of it in the actual shoulder socket
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so I go into external rotation pull one
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arm back reach the opposite arm forward
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and just take a few breaths and kind of
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as I inhale I'm gonna hold that longer
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and then when I exhale I'll try to
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increase just slightly and then as I
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inhale go a little bit further do like a
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couple breaths on each side from a from
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a spine standpoint I've got the video on
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the site called the analytic warm-up
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where I teach you how to do kind of
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translation exercises for the spine
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first before you get into rotation so
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please always make sure that you've
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warmed up your spine before you start
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trying to do any t spine rotation but
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good breathing exercises where you get
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the ribs kind of moving in all
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directions and then kind of T spine
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rotation exercises after that the other
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thing that you'll probably need to do is
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because of their connection to it you'll
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have to work on some good shoulder
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stretches so like tech stretch and lat
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stretch will also restrict your T spine
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mobility because they both run from the
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shoulder to the pelvis kind of one
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across the front and one across the back
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so for t spine breathing some rib
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mobility stuff and then good Peck and
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lat stretches should help create more
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range of motion and that range of motion
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can take pressure off of neck injury
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shoulder injuries but most of
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lower back injuries because oftentimes
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the lumbar spine rotating is what
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creates a whole lot of pain and
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dysfunction and that's rotating in order
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to compensate for a tighter t spine so
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then the other question was about the
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weak glutes so weak glutes typically
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come from a combination of poor
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activation and imbalance as far as
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overactive psoas muscles and tightness
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in basically your hip flexors which
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create a reciprocal inhibition for the
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glutes so oftentimes you'll have to
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start glute training with TVA or a deep
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core activation and you may even have to
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do some pelvic floor activation but then
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if you do bridges correctly you will get
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good glute activation so to correctly do
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the bridges you want to make sure that
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when you raise when you push through the
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hips and raise your hips up off the
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ground you're going to kind of maintain
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a little bit of posterior tilt in the
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pelvis as you're raising it up and as
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you're raising it down so I always coach
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people when they're doing those bridges
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not to let the tailbone touch the ground
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as long as the tailbone stays off the
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ground when you're moving so it's kind
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of moving more in that direction it's
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keeping your abs and your glutes active
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then to get the full range of the glutes
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you would want your feet to be in two
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different positions either feet wide
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feet narrow and you would want your
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knees in two different positions so
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you've got basically four different
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bridge activities to target different
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parts of the glute you've got feet wide
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knees narrow feet wide knees wide and
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then feet narrow knees wide feet Nut
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feet narrow knees narrow so by working
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on those four different positions you'll
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start getting glute activation if you do
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good so as stretching and you do good
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deep core or tv8 and pelvic floor
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activation that usually helps rebalance
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the pelvis create some stability and
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create better glute activation so that's
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the that's kind of a common recipe I use
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for getting the glutes active and we
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already talked about the t spine Ben's
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got another question coming in what
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problem Eric problematic area is mostly
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responsible for the forward lunge so the
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forward lunge typically comes from a
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combination of two things either a
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clubface awareness issue so I square the
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club more with a scoop then with
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rotation of the shaft and as a result of
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that scoop the low point moves backwards
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so then I lunge forward to balance it
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out so the forward lunge can be a way to
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kind of create shaft lean but from the
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body instead of the wrists physically
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there can be a handful of issues
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tightness in the neck so inability to
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rotate your head to the right enough so
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then you'll shift forward to kind of
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move stuff up the chain as well as keep
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basically instead of being able to
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rotate you'll activate the muscles in
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the neck and they'll kind of pull your
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upper body forward so it's a way to kind
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of keep vision on the ball without
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pushing the next rotation to its full
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capability it can also be very
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protective on the shoulder so when you
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when you rotate and stay behind you'll
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tend to get the arm to extend a little
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bit away in as it's going into external
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rotation where the the shoulder to be
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more protected would like to stay into
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internal rotation and flex a bit so if
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the upper body or if the shoulder wants
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to go like that that would pull the the
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low point in and that would tend to move
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the path to the left
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so then lunging in front tends to
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balance that so neck and shoulder can be
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a big issue
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the right shoulder flexibility so if the
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right shoulder tends to go into internal
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rotation that can cause a leftward path
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and the forward lunge helps make that
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less dramatic so I tend to see a lot of
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neck shoulder issues related to the
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release contributing to the forward
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lunge if those are cleared up and that's
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not the issue then I would most likely
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look at the feet and how they're working
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at the ground because it probably means
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that you're getting you're probably
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getting more of your speed from an arm
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pull and the forward lunge is a good way
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to kind of work with a more of an arm
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pull situation so you had a calcified
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tendinitis in your left shoulder yes
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that could definitely contribute to more
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of a forward lunge
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especially if if you lost some external
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rotation of the trail arm or if you had
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some some stiffening of the sc/st join
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or AC joint those could absolutely
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contribute to the for forward lunge
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problem so then you'd have to figure out
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is that something that you can really
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improve on or then do you have to start
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working with more of a forward lunge
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pattern so another question
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you know Ben's doing a great job but if
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anybody else has any questions about
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their fitness or their situation go
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ahead and type it in the chat window
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I've got a couple other questions that
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came in through email that I wanted to
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make sure that we covered Sharon asked
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about you know offseason is a good time
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to kind of game plan and work on your
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your overall swing so she was asking
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about shaft lean versus elbow playing
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versus shoulder plane basically if you
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were to you know go if you were to get
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into your set of position and draw lines
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on video what you know what's the
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advantage of looking at either the elbow
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the shoulder or the shaft lean I would
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say that early in my career I used
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all three of those I would I would say
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that now almost exclusively I'll use the
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impact plane which is gonna be closest
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to the elbow so the the research from
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dr. Huang on the functional swing plane
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and most of the guys you talk to the
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only time the club is really gonna be
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planar is from waist height to waist
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height so what I would do is make sure
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that the camera is in a good set up
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position so it's in line roughly with
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the hands from the down the line and
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then take the swing to impact and then
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draw the shaft plane there and then go
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back to set up and just you can see
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where that goes it'll usually go through
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about the point of the trail arm but the
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key for timing is looking at that
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relationship where is the club at waist
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height and then where is the club
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working on the way through the the more
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that it's coming from under to above
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through impact that's gonna tend to be
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shallower rightward more driver base the
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more that it's slightly outside and then
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under the more it's gonna be it's a
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iron-based
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but drawing the impact plane is the the
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what I would I believe is the most
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useful of the the plane lines that you
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could draw when looking at video all
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right I have a question coming in from
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Mike do you have any ideas on knee pain
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precipitated by walking is there any way
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to tell if it is from the quadricep
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overdevelopment and inhibited hamstring
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or other causes anytime that there is
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pain I like to refer out to my team and
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get a thorough evaluation because
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there's lots of simple what I call
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provocation tests where they can
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basically figure out okay if you can
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touch where the pain is going and they
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can have you do certain movements if it
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triggers the pain then you have a pretty
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clear idea as far as where the pain is
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coming from and it makes it much easier
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to diagnose I would say that the the
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knee is one of the tough tougher joints
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as far as
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being able to create space a lot of the
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other joints have some really small deep
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muscles that can help create space if
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you if you train them and the knee
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doesn't have that so typically knee pain
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and focusing on quad flexibility
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focusing on I'd say quite probably more
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so than hamstring flexibility although
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it can contribute and making sure that
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there is adequate strength in the VMO
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which is a tough guy to train but that
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helps with the patella tracking that
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those two are I've seen a fair amount of
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improvement in knee pain especially from
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walking on hills when you get those two
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a little bit more balanced but I would
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definitely you know talk to somebody
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qualified in your area
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physical therapist chiropractor
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osteopath somebody who who knows how to
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do a joint assessment and look at look
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at that knee yeah I'm trying to think of
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your swing I know you were out here a
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little bit and we were doing mostly
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related to the back I'd probably go if I
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remember right your quads weren't super
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tight so I'd be looking more at I'd find
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somebody in your area so you could rule
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out a couple issues and I'll send you a
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little note after this just send me an
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email to remind me okay add another
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question as far as like lesson plans and
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during the offseason how do you how do
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you balance you know if you're used to
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taking like a weekly lesson should you
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continue on that during the offseason
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should you try and own it a little bit
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Edward was asking about how he was
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working on shallowing and oh mike okay
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actually for Claire yeah then I would
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yes shoot me an email and I'll give you
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some ideas okay back to Edward working
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shallowing if you're if you're working
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on the downswing what I find is the the
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the transition and the release have to
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blend together right so you can have
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really big success working on one or the
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other but the greatest gains and when it
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will feel somewhat automatic is when you
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work on each of them but together right
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so let's say you're working on
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shallowing that means during the release
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you would have to work on a little bit
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more shaft rotation and a little bit
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later arm extension timing and you'll
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have the best success when you're doing
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both of those so the offseason can be a
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good time to work on the one that's more
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challenging we're in season I would say
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you want to focus on the one that is
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easier for you to do because it'll be
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easier to like you won't it won't take
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as much thought and the problem is if
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you overly focus on one area typically
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the brain kind of shuts down or loses
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some of its sequencing some of its like
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connection down during those transition
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points so I tend to advocate working on
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a few things kind of a few things at
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once and let's say spending less time so
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normally during the season I might say
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you're gonna work on one specific topic
00:27:45.610 --> 00:27:47.880
for anywhere from three to six weeks
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during the offseason I cut that about in
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half so I'd work on one thing and then
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move on quicker because I know that I
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want to work on multiple things at once
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and I want to try in the offseason to
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cover as many topics related to that as
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I can so if I'm working on shallowing I
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might work on how the feet are working
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on against the ground I might work on
00:28:10.270 --> 00:28:13.630
how the pelvis to ribcage sequence isn't
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working I might work on shallowing with
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the right arm and shallowing with the
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left arm or left forearm and I might
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work on some early clubface rotation and
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I'd I'd work on a few of those at once
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because typically when you're hitting
00:28:30.100 --> 00:28:31.420
balls and
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you're hitting off of a mat so you're
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not totally working on low point control
00:28:36.230 --> 00:28:37.970
that's a hard skill to work on indoors
00:28:37.970 --> 00:28:40.280
you're working more on the global
00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:42.410
pattern and you're working more on let's
00:28:42.410 --> 00:28:45.110
say path and face the path control and
00:28:45.110 --> 00:28:48.890
so because you it's let's say easier
00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:49.940
when you're hitting on a mat you can
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usually do a little bit more intense or
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you can do a few things at once and the
00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:57.830
other thing is because you don't get
00:28:57.830 --> 00:29:00.140
just as distracted by miss hits you
00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:02.660
don't get as distracted by ball flight
00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:04.790
it's easier to have a little bit more of
00:29:04.790 --> 00:29:07.400
a mechanical focus so I would work on
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.850
the different components of shallowing
00:29:09.850 --> 00:29:12.230
so instead of working on one thing for
00:29:12.230 --> 00:29:14.179
three to six weeks I would probably work
00:29:14.179 --> 00:29:17.150
on three or four things related to the
00:29:17.150 --> 00:29:19.910
same area over that same time frame so
00:29:19.910 --> 00:29:22.970
I'd move on to things usually quicker in
00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:26.059
the offseason so that I'll have the map
00:29:26.059 --> 00:29:28.880
in my mind of other ideas I can try in
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.679
season if I start to struggle with the
00:29:30.679 --> 00:29:35.020
same concept okay I had another question
00:29:35.020 --> 00:29:42.470
from Mike about ideal clubface and path
00:29:42.470 --> 00:29:48.580
ratio so he was asking about how
00:29:48.910 --> 00:29:51.290
basically you know a lot of guys will
00:29:51.290 --> 00:29:55.160
talk about a relationship of face to
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:58.370
path so you know his in his particular
00:29:58.370 --> 00:30:01.790
case he finds that when he has a face
00:30:01.790 --> 00:30:06.110
the path of greater than - - he tends to
00:30:06.110 --> 00:30:11.350
have more trouble controlling they say
00:30:11.350 --> 00:30:14.600
club head club face variability in
00:30:14.600 --> 00:30:18.559
closure rates I would say that you know
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.280
- 2 - 3 is probably yeah towards the
00:30:22.280 --> 00:30:26.090
upper end well I know that drawing a
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blank on his name I'll put him in the in
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the text description below I mentioned
00:30:29.870 --> 00:30:33.890
in my book did a he did some research
00:30:33.890 --> 00:30:35.720
and found it like when you get over
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above minus or plus or minus 5 so if the
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club face the path starts getting above
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5 you're going to have
00:30:44.090 --> 00:30:48.260
pretty much impossible dispersion but
00:30:48.260 --> 00:30:50.990
you're gonna have to high variance
00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:54.890
missus and so if the general rule of
00:30:54.890 --> 00:30:56.960
thumb is that you want your face to path
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.710
to be roughly half of the path then that
00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:03.110
says that you can't have a you can't
00:31:03.110 --> 00:31:07.070
have a path that's too much more you
00:31:07.070 --> 00:31:08.630
can't have a path that's too much more
00:31:08.630 --> 00:31:10.850
than five or six degrees in out or out
00:31:10.850 --> 00:31:15.409
to end or else your clubface open closed
00:31:15.409 --> 00:31:17.990
being half of that is gonna be up around
00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:22.429
four or five so yes working on your
00:31:22.429 --> 00:31:25.340
general path and getting it closest to
00:31:25.340 --> 00:31:28.070
zero but or you know let's say less than
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I usually aim for five with a lot of my
00:31:31.070 --> 00:31:35.480
golfers but being able to also control
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:38.210
the wide point or the low point and
00:31:38.210 --> 00:31:40.399
being able to get good arm extension on
00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:44.600
the way through with that same path that
00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:46.549
tends to lead towards more consistency
00:31:46.549 --> 00:31:50.809
because I wouldn't say that you're gonna
00:31:50.809 --> 00:31:54.549
have that much greater clubface very
00:31:54.549 --> 00:31:58.730
club face closure variability at a five
00:31:58.730 --> 00:32:01.690
to six compared to say a two to three
00:32:01.690 --> 00:32:05.000
but if you told me that you're having
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.460
more of an arc with issue and the club
00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:08.899
kind of passing on the way through that
00:32:08.899 --> 00:32:11.740
usually causes the clubface variability
00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:18.970
I had another question come in about
00:32:19.750 --> 00:32:22.970
struggling with hooking the ball so what
00:32:22.970 --> 00:32:27.409
should we do in the offseason yeah
00:32:27.409 --> 00:32:30.020
pushes and hooks for almost twenty years
00:32:30.020 --> 00:32:34.220
coming in from Lisa she was asking how
00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:36.409
to avoid hitting the club coming to
00:32:36.409 --> 00:32:39.590
shallow into the ball so to shallow into
00:32:39.590 --> 00:32:41.179
the wall would give kind of the holistic
00:32:41.179 --> 00:32:43.039
approach to solving hooks because I know
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.470
that that's a really frustrating miss
00:32:45.470 --> 00:32:49.850
for a lot of golfers to solve hooks you
00:32:49.850 --> 00:32:54.870
have to slow down the club passing the
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or the the clubhead passing the grip on
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the way through because that tends to
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close the club face and that will happen
00:33:03.110 --> 00:33:04.820
more when you're having some early
00:33:04.820 --> 00:33:06.920
extension so if I'm moving away from the
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.840
golf ball the club is gonna pass like
00:33:08.840 --> 00:33:11.450
this and that causes the club face to
00:33:11.450 --> 00:33:14.810
get closed very quickly all right so it
00:33:14.810 --> 00:33:19.280
closes more like that so in order to
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solve the hook I have to get more let's
00:33:23.450 --> 00:33:25.580
say shaft lean and I have to have more
00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:27.740
body rotation on the way through in
00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:30.290
order to have the grip speed usually
00:33:30.290 --> 00:33:33.110
when you're getting too shallow on the
00:33:33.110 --> 00:33:33.740
downswing
00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:35.870
it's almost a hundred percent time
00:33:35.870 --> 00:33:38.390
coming from the body either going into
00:33:38.390 --> 00:33:40.550
too much early extension or going into
00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:44.510
too much side bend too much early
00:33:44.510 --> 00:33:50.020
extension usually comes from either
00:33:50.260 --> 00:33:53.300
either too much early extension coming
00:33:53.300 --> 00:33:56.900
more from either extending the back in
00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:59.330
order to help pull down on the club or
00:33:59.330 --> 00:34:04.700
going into side Bend as a way to adjust
00:34:04.700 --> 00:34:11.510
for too steep of a top or adjusting for
00:34:11.510 --> 00:34:13.340
let's say my arms are a little steep and
00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:17.510
then I side bend to balance that out so
00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:19.430
usually with hooking the ball the first
00:34:19.430 --> 00:34:24.380
thing I do is I work on grip grip speed
00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:26.330
and torso rotation while staying in your
00:34:26.330 --> 00:34:27.860
posture so basically working on a good
00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:29.840
follow-through position and making sure
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:31.640
that I'm not having all the speed down
00:34:31.640 --> 00:34:35.030
at my hands that that the grip and my
00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:37.100
body are continuing to move on the way
00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:40.240
through that helps move the path more
00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:46.220
left and if I work on delaying the club
00:34:46.220 --> 00:34:47.930
passing this way that tends to hold the
00:34:47.930 --> 00:34:50.420
face open so stage one is kind of
00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:52.880
working on the body rotation on the way
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.330
through and then seeing what ball flight
00:34:56.330 --> 00:34:58.400
reactions I might get to that so some
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.770
golfers will hit more pulls then I need
00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:03.110
to work on the path that about shaft
00:35:03.110 --> 00:35:04.640
parallel maybe I now I'm getting a
00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:06.710
little steep because my body is turning
00:35:06.710 --> 00:35:11.900
so I'm hitting more poles or I'm what
00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:13.790
I'd say most common is I'm hanging them
00:35:13.790 --> 00:35:16.130
a little off to the right because now
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:19.130
I've delayed the closing of the clubface
00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:22.790
and I've rotated my body and I have to
00:35:22.790 --> 00:35:24.290
work on getting a little bit earlier
00:35:24.290 --> 00:35:26.270
shaft rotation and closing the face
00:35:26.270 --> 00:35:28.430
through shaft rotation is usually the
00:35:28.430 --> 00:35:31.130
scariest part of solving a hook but it's
00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:33.920
also one of the most important skills
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:37.460
that will eventually or quickly learn
00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:40.550
teach you how to get more shaft lean and
00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:44.540
get the club from coming too shallow so
00:35:44.540 --> 00:35:47.690
if your hook in the wall got a number of
00:35:47.690 --> 00:35:50.180
videos on the site on a high level of a
00:35:50.180 --> 00:35:51.950
hook and walking through how to get more
00:35:51.950 --> 00:35:54.980
of the hit my arms or pool noodle in the
00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:57.380
follow-through low to high like a bunch
00:35:57.380 --> 00:35:59.510
of drills working on that body rotation
00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:00.770
on the way through to avoid the stall
00:36:00.770 --> 00:36:03.230
and then figuring out your individual
00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:06.650
issues based on feedback there daniel is
00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:08.750
asking how does one get advanced notice
00:36:08.750 --> 00:36:12.440
of the live Q&A normally so if you
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.940
subscribe to the YouTube channel they'll
00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:16.280
send you they'll give a little update
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.770
when we're posting this today was a
00:36:18.770 --> 00:36:22.070
little bit of you know it was it was a
00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:23.960
little bit of a last-minute scheduling
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.530
so we only decided or I I decided that I
00:36:27.530 --> 00:36:30.980
was gonna do this this morning I wasn't
00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.170
quite sure if my social calendar was
00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:36.460
gonna allow for it but normally I'll
00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:40.280
usually give a few days notice so you
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:42.560
can either go to golf smart Academy and
00:36:42.560 --> 00:36:44.810
if you sign up for the free trial
00:36:44.810 --> 00:36:47.810
membership or if you remember we we send
00:36:47.810 --> 00:36:50.990
out the emails letting you know that
00:36:50.990 --> 00:36:54.350
it's going to happen and requesting any
00:36:54.350 --> 00:36:55.910
advanced questions those are the ones
00:36:55.910 --> 00:36:57.290
that will always get answered first
00:36:57.290 --> 00:36:59.420
otherwise if you subscribe to the
00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:02.210
YouTube channel then you'll get an
00:37:02.210 --> 00:37:05.570
update when when I schedule it and then
00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:08.780
an hour beforehand or right beforehand
00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:11.980
it'll give you another reminder
00:37:12.470 --> 00:37:18.099
I had one one more question that I
00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:20.930
already one more question that came in
00:37:20.930 --> 00:37:23.119
from Brent I talked about the tight t
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.109
spine and glutes but he was also asking
00:37:26.109 --> 00:37:29.690
that so unfortunately the beginning of
00:37:29.690 --> 00:37:32.330
last year or the beginning of 2016 he
00:37:32.330 --> 00:37:35.840
was trying to restrict his hip turn and
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:40.960
he think that in in trying to do so he
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.500
created a right hip injury that could be
00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:52.820
more of a sciatic issue that is I it's
00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:54.859
not super common that we come just from
00:37:54.859 --> 00:37:57.020
restricting the hip but dealing with
00:37:57.020 --> 00:38:02.050
some sciatic issues is not uncommon so
00:38:02.050 --> 00:38:05.000
like let's let's break that down and
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.190
talk about the two components one trying
00:38:07.190 --> 00:38:09.170
to restrict your hips earth here's where
00:38:09.170 --> 00:38:13.730
my take on that is some golfers we know
00:38:13.730 --> 00:38:16.010
from 3d that the the average is that the
00:38:16.010 --> 00:38:19.430
the trail leg is going to straighten you
00:38:19.430 --> 00:38:21.140
know 10 degrees 8 degrees somewhere on
00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:23.630
there so the tray legs gonna strain you
00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:26.140
don't want it to stay perfectly straight
00:38:26.140 --> 00:38:32.810
some golfers in especially with certain
00:38:32.810 --> 00:38:35.300
swing characteristics would like lock
00:38:35.300 --> 00:38:38.000
that leg out and go to the outside of
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.530
the foot and shift on the front foot and
00:38:39.530 --> 00:38:42.530
by trying to keep that trail leg a
00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:45.200
little more flexed they would load up a
00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:48.800
little bit better in general I'm um I'm
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:51.710
more of a fan of kind of free pelvis and
00:38:51.710 --> 00:38:54.020
free hip turn and the only time that
00:38:54.020 --> 00:38:55.910
someone will ever feel like they're
00:38:55.910 --> 00:38:57.560
getting more restricted is when they
00:38:57.560 --> 00:39:00.920
learn better foot to ground contact so
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.650
if you if you learn how to stay more on
00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:05.900
the inside of the foot and not shift
00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:08.060
into your your toes or not shift to the
00:39:08.060 --> 00:39:10.280
outside the foot sometimes it will feel
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:12.740
like you're keeping your leg more flexed
00:39:12.740 --> 00:39:15.320
but I'll usually show you on video it's
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.359
not it's just by having better foot
00:39:17.359 --> 00:39:19.520
contact you're feeling more tension in
00:39:19.520 --> 00:39:23.180
the hamstring so that when you load it's
00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:25.030
all the way connected into the ground
00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:28.010
not just into the let's say the outside
00:39:28.010 --> 00:39:31.430
of the foot so that's where the
00:39:31.430 --> 00:39:33.140
interpretation of you gotta keep your
00:39:33.140 --> 00:39:37.670
trail leg bent as opposed to allowing it
00:39:37.670 --> 00:39:39.650
to straighten I think it relates to
00:39:39.650 --> 00:39:42.170
mostly what's going on at the foot not
00:39:42.170 --> 00:39:43.580
so much what's going on in the knee but
00:39:43.580 --> 00:39:45.140
it's easier to see the knee than it is
00:39:45.140 --> 00:39:47.839
to see what's happening at the foot if
00:39:47.839 --> 00:39:50.690
you okay now we've developed a situation
00:39:50.690 --> 00:39:53.119
where we created some issues that might
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.440
be sciatic sciatica can come from disc
00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:59.750
issue so it can come from the sciatic
00:39:59.750 --> 00:40:01.550
nerve exiting out of the spine
00:40:01.550 --> 00:40:07.339
I believe it's levels l2 l3 l4 l5 s1 s2
00:40:07.339 --> 00:40:12.920
you can have you can have sciatic disc
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:14.359
issues if you have some impingement
00:40:14.359 --> 00:40:21.130
there you can also have issues from
00:40:21.130 --> 00:40:22.940
tightness in certain muscles
00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:25.940
specifically the piriformis muscle so
00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:27.950
the piriformis muscle can be it goes
00:40:27.950 --> 00:40:31.640
from the inside of the sacrum to the to
00:40:31.640 --> 00:40:33.980
the outside of it and the sciatic nerve
00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:38.180
runs between it and the glute or in many
00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:40.130
cases it actually runs through the
00:40:40.130 --> 00:40:42.349
sciatica or through the piriformis so if
00:40:42.349 --> 00:40:45.950
you have tight piriformis which is one
00:40:45.950 --> 00:40:50.260
of your three main pelvic floor muscles
00:40:50.260 --> 00:40:53.599
so if you have imbalance in your pelvic
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:56.000
floor if you have overly restricted
00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.170
internal rotation those can create some
00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:03.560
sciatic issues from more the piriformis
00:41:03.560 --> 00:41:07.640
as opposed to from the actual disc or
00:41:07.640 --> 00:41:09.589
the joint or the sciatic nerve coming
00:41:09.589 --> 00:41:14.210
out of the spine so that would get like
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:17.000
I'd anytime there's pain I want to work
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.250
with somebody who understands the pain
00:41:19.250 --> 00:41:21.710
problems and can help you balance it
00:41:21.710 --> 00:41:25.160
there so I double I absolutely go to see
00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:29.780
someone but you know if if you've seen
00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:31.910
someone and they haven't tried looking
00:41:31.910 --> 00:41:32.930
at
00:41:32.930 --> 00:41:35.329
if they haven't tried anything revolving
00:41:35.329 --> 00:41:37.130
around piriformis and balancing your
00:41:37.130 --> 00:41:39.680
pelvic floor then perhaps you can find
00:41:39.680 --> 00:41:41.589
somebody else who might be in that same
00:41:41.589 --> 00:41:45.829
area who might have a better let's say
00:41:45.829 --> 00:41:48.559
toolbox being able to do it okay a
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:53.539
couple questions come in from Golden
00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:57.200
Gate I'm a right-handed golfer and
00:41:57.200 --> 00:41:59.380
notice that I've lost flexibility on the
00:41:59.380 --> 00:42:00.619
follow-through
00:42:00.619 --> 00:42:03.049
I am tight on the follow-through but
00:42:03.049 --> 00:42:05.150
more flexibility on my backswing is
00:42:05.150 --> 00:42:08.799
there a way to solve that imbalance um
00:42:08.799 --> 00:42:10.430
yes
00:42:10.430 --> 00:42:14.089
doing you know that's a normal pattern
00:42:14.089 --> 00:42:17.479
for playing golf unfortunately because
00:42:17.479 --> 00:42:20.569
we build more resistance with that right
00:42:20.569 --> 00:42:26.630
side compared to the left side the often
00:42:26.630 --> 00:42:30.160
times you will have a greater degree of
00:42:30.160 --> 00:42:32.210
flexibility turning in your backswing
00:42:32.210 --> 00:42:34.489
than you will on the follow-through just
00:42:34.489 --> 00:42:37.099
from the natural balance that's created
00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:40.339
with the sport so often swinging
00:42:40.339 --> 00:42:42.529
left-handed and hitting some balls
00:42:42.529 --> 00:42:44.359
left-handed in the offseason can be
00:42:44.359 --> 00:42:46.130
another good project I especially give
00:42:46.130 --> 00:42:48.650
that to a lot of juniors and if you get
00:42:48.650 --> 00:42:51.079
used to doing that then you can do some
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.989
practice swings on the course
00:42:52.989 --> 00:42:55.849
left-handed to counterbalance the
00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:57.349
imbalance that will naturally happen
00:42:57.349 --> 00:42:59.739
from swinging multiple times
00:42:59.739 --> 00:43:04.430
right-handed but otherwise in general in
00:43:04.430 --> 00:43:06.460
the gym you want to try to be more
00:43:06.460 --> 00:43:12.920
symmetric so by doing a you know a
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.839
balanced strength training by doing
00:43:14.839 --> 00:43:18.289
posture work by doing the eldona which
00:43:18.289 --> 00:43:19.969
is one of my favorite exercises for
00:43:19.969 --> 00:43:21.920
working on the spine you can hopefully
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.719
help minimize some of those imbalances
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:30.229
but again if it's you know if you're if
00:43:30.229 --> 00:43:33.519
you're tight on the follow-through
00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:36.200
you can adjust for it by flaring the
00:43:36.200 --> 00:43:39.920
lead foot out you could long-term do
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:42.499
some left-handed swings short-term you
00:43:42.499 --> 00:43:43.730
could do
00:43:43.730 --> 00:43:47.150
kind of flexibility and stability work
00:43:47.150 --> 00:43:49.370
more focusing on that follow-through
00:43:49.370 --> 00:43:53.090
side but I'm working on the little video
00:43:53.090 --> 00:43:55.610
related that because many golfers who
00:43:55.610 --> 00:43:57.470
think that they have flexibility issues
00:43:57.470 --> 00:44:00.620
more have a swing issue and it just
00:44:00.620 --> 00:44:03.860
shows up in because they haven't rotated
00:44:03.860 --> 00:44:05.480
like many golfers think that they have a
00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:06.980
flexibility issue because their body
00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:10.190
isn't rotated at impact but if you're
00:44:10.190 --> 00:44:11.420
saying that it's a follow-through
00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:13.490
restriction where I'm not getting to
00:44:13.490 --> 00:44:15.230
this position at any point in time
00:44:15.230 --> 00:44:17.690
that's probably more of a flexibility
00:44:17.690 --> 00:44:20.060
issue because if it's just that impact
00:44:20.060 --> 00:44:22.130
but then you're able to rotate into a
00:44:22.130 --> 00:44:23.060
follow-through
00:44:23.060 --> 00:44:24.650
it's more of a timing it's not a
00:44:24.650 --> 00:44:28.540
physical restriction okay and another
00:44:28.540 --> 00:44:32.630
question from Troy M does the lead hip
00:44:32.630 --> 00:44:35.570
go into external rotation during the
00:44:35.570 --> 00:44:37.420
backswing or should it stay neutral
00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:40.070
letting them knee move more towards the
00:44:40.070 --> 00:44:44.180
golf ball the the hip will go into
00:44:44.180 --> 00:44:47.570
external rotation but you can also go
00:44:47.570 --> 00:44:50.210
into external rotation and have the knee
00:44:50.210 --> 00:44:52.100
moving in towards the golf ball it's
00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:57.350
just with the amount of rotation of the
00:44:57.350 --> 00:45:00.410
pelvis during the backswing it would be
00:45:00.410 --> 00:45:02.600
virtually impossible not to go into
00:45:02.600 --> 00:45:07.430
external rotation with that lead hip so
00:45:07.430 --> 00:45:11.780
I tend to train more of the awareness of
00:45:11.780 --> 00:45:14.090
the trail side hip during the or the
00:45:14.090 --> 00:45:15.980
trail side foot and the trail side hip
00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:19.010
during the backswing and then kind of
00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:21.230
accommodate what's more comfortable with
00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:23.240
the lead hip as opposed to focusing too
00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:26.810
much on forcing external rotation you
00:45:26.810 --> 00:45:29.480
know a lot of what happens at the hip I
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:32.780
think is better trained at the feet I'll
00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:34.550
use awareness drills to kind of help
00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:37.730
people feel what the hip should be doing
00:45:37.730 --> 00:45:40.430
but by learning how to feel the foot
00:45:40.430 --> 00:45:43.040
against the ground it gives more of a
00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:44.810
reason for the hip to do the right thing
00:45:44.810 --> 00:45:46.460
instead of just artificially trying to
00:45:46.460 --> 00:45:49.790
create it doing the right thing
00:45:49.790 --> 00:45:52.130
so the problem is if you try and force
00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:53.910
external rotation of the
00:45:53.910 --> 00:45:56.150
I think that'll mess up your backswing
00:45:56.150 --> 00:46:00.839
or if you try and force it to stay
00:46:00.839 --> 00:46:04.700
neutral and move towards the golf ball
00:46:04.700 --> 00:46:07.920
if you're doing that purely from the hip
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:11.250
there would be the fear and the tendency
00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:13.260
that you could get a little bit too much
00:46:13.260 --> 00:46:15.750
towards the outside of the trail hip in
00:46:15.750 --> 00:46:18.450
order to or outside of the trail foot in
00:46:18.450 --> 00:46:22.079
order to make that happen so I'd be I'd
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.599
be a little careful with forcing the
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:27.150
external rotation of the lead hip during
00:46:27.150 --> 00:46:30.530
the backswing unless you you've
00:46:30.530 --> 00:46:33.030
confirmed on video that when you do that
00:46:33.030 --> 00:46:36.170
your feet work better against the ground
00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:41.460
okay so if any one hand it has any last
00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:44.160
questions getting close to wrapping up
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:47.520
this one never quite know which
00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:49.020
direction we go based on your questions
00:46:49.020 --> 00:46:51.599
but they're always fun to fun to try and
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.710
be prepared for I do want to remind
00:46:55.710 --> 00:46:58.260
everyone that I'll have some links in
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the description below for both the
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website as well as the book closing in
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on selling 500 copies of the stock tour
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swing this is kind of my my manual for
00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:12.539
understanding the big global picture of
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how the different pieces match together
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really help you understand how to read
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feedback and how to prioritize by
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understanding your pattern prioritize
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what you need to work on when you play
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as well as here during the offseason so
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just a quick reminder on the offseason
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stuff make sure you're working on some
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flexibility some core definitely do some
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balance training if you're if you've got
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enough time then you can layer in some
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strength and some power and possibly
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some endurance and even cardio from a
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game perspective you want to work on
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your weaknesses here in the offseason
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and then focus a little bit more on the
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strengths during the in season and I
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like to vary what I'm working on a
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little more frequently in the offseason
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then
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in the during the during the season so
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that I've had my brain basically has
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more options that I can then recall so I
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don't have to learn as many new things
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during the season I just have to
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remember what worked for me during my
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practice during the offseason so thank
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you for all of you for your questions
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and for joining me for another one of
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these Facebook live Q&A s seems to be
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pretty well received so we'll definitely
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keep doing them if you have any other
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questions you can email us at support at
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golf smart academy.com and we'll start
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building a cue for the next one
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but good luck in 2018 and my pleasure
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thanks for all the all the compliments
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all the questions good luck in 2018
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absolutely have a plan stick to that
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plan and as always from golf smart
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Academy happy golfing that's a lot
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alright looks like I just got the notice
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that we're up in streaming so happy to
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do another one of these fun live
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streaming events I figured a great topic
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for the start of the new year would be
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more fitness and offseason training
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since that seems to be the most common
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you know the most common resolution is
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this new year I'm gonna get in great
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shape and for golfers this is alright
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this year I'm gonna get in great shape
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for my golf game so I figured let's
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discuss you know one of my other kind of
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passions which is fitness and let's
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discuss what we can do here in the
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offseason to hopefully improve our
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fitness so just like with the swing I
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always like to take kind of a global
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perspective and do some sort of analysis
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on each student and look at the
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different categories so the different
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categories of fitness that you could
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improve on primarily would be
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flexibility let's say core stability
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core activation balance posture training
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which is kind of more in that stability
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category strength power and endurance or
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and our cardio right now there are some
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things that are gonna be really helpful
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for your overall health like cardio for
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example but when we're looking at when
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we're looking at the requirements for
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golf I would say that the place where I
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see most people miss out on and where
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you can get the biggest improvements are
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gonna be your flexibility your core
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stability core activation and balance
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training if you if you get a good
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foundation of those then you can try and
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add on some strength and some power I
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I'm here in San Jose on the
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westcoast but I just wanted to remind
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everyone if you want to just enter into
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the chat window who's here where you're
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from and any question that you might
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have that'll be helpful and I'll try to
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answer them in real-time as best I can
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I've got a few kind of pre-loaded that
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emails came in the last couple days but
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anything that gets entered into the chat
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window I will do my best to address okay
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so when you get into designing your your
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program your priority and offseason
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should be improving your flexibility
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improving your core activation improving
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your your balance
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improving your awareness and then if you
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have those you can layer on some of the
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strength power and cardio and stuff like
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that I see a live question from Mike do
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you think it is a good idea to use
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tubing to train the Jackson 5 and pivot
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move I I do like using tubing as a way
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of building some awareness or increasing
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muscle activation for those movements
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now the the key with the Jackson 5 is
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for many it's going to be more of let's
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say a passive movement so a the there's
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a unweighting of the lead foot and then
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kind of a shift and a weighting into
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that weight foot but it for most it's
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not gonna feel like a very active muscle
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contraction to shift into that lead foot
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so the the danger with using too much of
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too much resistance is it could become
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too much of an active movement and you
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might go into like a right-side bend
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with your upper body so I would err on
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using the using the tubing let's say
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early on in the training process just to
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build a little bit stronger awareness
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but then shifting into more
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of a just a field drill and awareness
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drill I wouldn't want to rep it to heart
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what I would rather do with let's say
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some tubing is oh I'd rather do some
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glute activation exercises I would
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rather do some single leg balance
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training and some some things
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challenging your lateral stability so
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you get your glute activation that way
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and then use that newfound strength and
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fitness awareness in your swing training
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so briefly covered the the fitness stuff
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we'll get into a little bit more details
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about what I like as far as some
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flexibility and some core training as it
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relates to another question that came in
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but as far as the golf game goes right
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for most of you the winter months means
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I'm not gonna be outside quite as much
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I'm not going to be hitting as many
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balls or possibly playing as much what
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are some things that I can work on
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inside so when you're when you're
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hitting balls inside or even if you're
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just swinging and making reps inside you
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can work a little bit on your position
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and relationships but one thing that I
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would challenge you to kind of figure
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out is are you more of a body dominant
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player or are you more of a arm dominant
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player and what can be good is in the
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offseason you train the opposite one you
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train the one that is harder for you to
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work on so that way because they they
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work hand in hand right your your arms
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and your body pivot have to complement
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each other otherwise you're going to
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struggle with low point control path
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face control some people are much better
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playing focusing on a body position so
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where is the upper body
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how is my sequencing how are my feet
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moving against the ground other people
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are much better focusing on you know
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what's my hand path when do I square the
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club face
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what's my arm Direction timing the one
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that you do really well that's great for
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you to reinforce and continue to train
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in C
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but what I found very helpful is in the
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off season train the one that is not
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your natural strength and that will
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ultimately make it easier if you then
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have to make a little adjustment during
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the season because the main goal from a
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learning perspective is during the
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season you're going to revisit things
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that have worked for you in the past in
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order to balance your swing
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you're not going to hopefully introduce
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too many new pieces so in the offseason
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you cover a lot of the things that you
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think you're going to need during the
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season so maybe you cover some
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transition stuff maybe you should cover
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some release stuff maybe you cover some
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setup but balance awareness back swing
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whatever then it will be easier for you
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to then reintroduce it if it becomes an
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issue during the season the other thing
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that's great to work on at home relates
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to putting and chipping you can work on
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low point control on carpet pretty
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easily for for chipping I have lots of
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students I have doing like chipping into
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sofa cushions and things like that or
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you can work on start line right so
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there's three main skills the putting
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controlling the start line controlling
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the speed and reading a green hard to do
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green reading unless you have a really
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nice home training area but it's easy to
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do start line training so a dime placed
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about two feet in front of a golf ball
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is about the same diameter as the width
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of the hole at ten feet so if you can
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consistently roll it over a dime with
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different speeds that's indicating they
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have a pretty functional stroke and
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pretty functional start line okay so I
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see a question came in from Ben Hogan
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blades I feel like hamed guessing hand
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strength has continued to deteriorate
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fifty-five years old can this have that
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have negative impact yes so as you get
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older you will tend to lose
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your type ii fibers so your your
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strength and power fibers faster but you
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will tend to lose a little bit of
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flexibility activation endurance like
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you you lose a you lose all of the
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things that are kind of natural movement
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patterns but the ones that you lose the
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fastest are strength and power so I do
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advocate doing some type of strength
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training especially if you're if you
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have let's say more than two hours of
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total training time each week then doing
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some form of heavy lifting whether it's
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a whether it's a you know like a
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farmer's carry whether it's a deadlift
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whether it's a chest press although I'll
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talk when we cover some strength though
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that's not my favorite exercise and you
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got to be careful with it stuff where
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you do have to grip and move around
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heavy weight so dead lifting squatting
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farmers carries can be very helpful for
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maintaining grip strength or there are
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lots of devices you can use to work on
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grip strength a problem the main problem
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is is if your grip strength goes down
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then you'll tend to overly recruit some
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of the shoulder muscles to help
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manufacture your grip strength and that
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can tend to restrict some of your
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ribcage range of motion during the swing
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and it'll tend to cause a little bit of
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a over tightness down at the bottom of
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the swing and that can cause more of a
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chicken wing local and control path
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going left toe hits those things so yes
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I would definitely do some form of
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strength training as you get older in
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order to hopefully maintain your grip
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strength and your overall power ability
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but let me let me jump I did have a one
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question it's kind of related to that
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topic that came in earlier today from
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Brent he was referencing in my book in
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in the section where I'm talking about
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common swing faults I reference how one
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of the let's say stereotypes of TPI is
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that they have a number of different
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tests and pretty much everyone fails the
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glute test or the bridge test and
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everybody fails the t-spine rotation
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test typically also many people will
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feel would fail the core activation test
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although their core activation tests are
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a little weaker than some other systems
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but basically most people have tight t
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spine most people have weak gluts how do
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you balance that how do you how do I
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like to improve that so the the tight
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teat spine is you need to do things that
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involve breathing in order to get the
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ribs moving if you have someone in your
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area who is an elder a trainer I think
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that the L dough is for the ribs are
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pretty amazing and they can take a
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little while to have some to have some
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effects like I've heard people taking as
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long as six months or so of doing the
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rib elbow is to really open it up but if
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you if you open up each rib you can gain
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like let's say you gain one degree at
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each level well one degree on each side
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times twelve you can gain twenty five
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degrees with I don't want to say not a
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whole lot of work but kind of in a
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seifish way if you start if the if the
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spine if the center of your rib cage is
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really rigid then if you force the
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flexibility issue too much you know like
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clubs across your back and really
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twisting like so you could potentially
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create some some problems because the
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outside is moving let's say more than
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the inside you could potentially create
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the situation for injury so I'll give
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you one I mentioned some breathing
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exercises but I'll give you one simple
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kind of T spine rotation exercise that I
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really
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like so if I was to sit here kind of
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towards the back of my chair so I sit up
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nice and tall I'm gonna focus on some
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axial extension so I'm gonna focus on
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maintaining length in my spine and in my
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mid-back and then I'm gonna bring my
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arms up and keep the elbows above
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shoulder height now I'm gonna pull one
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arm back and reach the opposite arm palm
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forward and I'm gonna externally rotate
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both arms as I do it that external
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rotation is gonna force some more of the
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movement through the spine instead of if
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I stay in internal rotation I can get
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more of it in the actual shoulder socket
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so I go into external rotation pull one
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arm back reach the opposite arm forward
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and just take a few breaths and kind of
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as I inhale I'm gonna hold that longer
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and then when I exhale I'll try to
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increase just slightly and then as I
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inhale go a little bit further do like a
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couple breaths on each side from a from
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a spine standpoint I've got the video on
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the site called the analytic warm-up
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where I teach you how to do kind of
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translation exercises for the spine
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first before you get into rotation so
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please always make sure that you've
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warmed up your spine before you start
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trying to do any t spine rotation but
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good breathing exercises where you get
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the ribs kind of moving in all
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directions and then kind of T spine
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rotation exercises after that the other
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thing that you'll probably need to do is
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because of their connection to it you'll
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have to work on some good shoulder
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stretches so like tech stretch and lat
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stretch will also restrict your T spine
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mobility because they both run from the
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shoulder to the pelvis kind of one
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across the front and one across the back
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so for t spine breathing some rib
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mobility stuff and then good Peck and
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lat stretches should help create more
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range of motion and that range of motion
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can take pressure off of neck injury
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shoulder injuries but most of
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lower back injuries because oftentimes
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the lumbar spine rotating is what
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creates a whole lot of pain and
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dysfunction and that's rotating in order
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to compensate for a tighter t spine so
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then the other question was about the
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weak glutes so weak glutes typically
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come from a combination of poor
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activation and imbalance as far as
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overactive psoas muscles and tightness
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in basically your hip flexors which
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create a reciprocal inhibition for the
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glutes so oftentimes you'll have to
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start glute training with TVA or a deep
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core activation and you may even have to
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do some pelvic floor activation but then
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if you do bridges correctly you will get
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good glute activation so to correctly do
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the bridges you want to make sure that
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when you raise when you push through the
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hips and raise your hips up off the
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ground you're going to kind of maintain
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a little bit of posterior tilt in the
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pelvis as you're raising it up and as
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you're raising it down so I always coach
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people when they're doing those bridges
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not to let the tailbone touch the ground
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as long as the tailbone stays off the
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ground when you're moving so it's kind
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of moving more in that direction it's
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keeping your abs and your glutes active
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then to get the full range of the glutes
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you would want your feet to be in two
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different positions either feet wide
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feet narrow and you would want your
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knees in two different positions so
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you've got basically four different
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bridge activities to target different
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parts of the glute you've got feet wide
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knees narrow feet wide knees wide and
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then feet narrow knees wide feet Nut
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feet narrow knees narrow so by working
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on those four different positions you'll
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start getting glute activation if you do
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good so as stretching and you do good
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deep core or tv8 and pelvic floor
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activation that usually helps rebalance
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the pelvis create some stability and
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create better glute activation so that's
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the that's kind of a common recipe I use
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for getting the glutes active and we
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already talked about the t spine Ben's
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got another question coming in what
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problem Eric problematic area is mostly
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responsible for the forward lunge so the
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forward lunge typically comes from a
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combination of two things either a
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clubface awareness issue so I square the
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club more with a scoop then with
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rotation of the shaft and as a result of
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that scoop the low point moves backwards
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so then I lunge forward to balance it
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out so the forward lunge can be a way to
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kind of create shaft lean but from the
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body instead of the wrists physically
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there can be a handful of issues
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tightness in the neck so inability to
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rotate your head to the right enough so
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then you'll shift forward to kind of
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move stuff up the chain as well as keep
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basically instead of being able to
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rotate you'll activate the muscles in
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the neck and they'll kind of pull your
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upper body forward so it's a way to kind
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of keep vision on the ball without
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pushing the next rotation to its full
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capability it can also be very
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protective on the shoulder so when you
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when you rotate and stay behind you'll
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tend to get the arm to extend a little
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bit away in as it's going into external
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rotation where the the shoulder to be
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more protected would like to stay into
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internal rotation and flex a bit so if
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the upper body or if the shoulder wants
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to go like that that would pull the the
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low point in and that would tend to move
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the path to the left
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so then lunging in front tends to
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balance that so neck and shoulder can be
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a big issue
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the right shoulder flexibility so if the
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right shoulder tends to go into internal
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rotation that can cause a leftward path
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and the forward lunge helps make that
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less dramatic so I tend to see a lot of
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neck shoulder issues related to the
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release contributing to the forward
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lunge if those are cleared up and that's
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not the issue then I would most likely
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look at the feet and how they're working
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at the ground because it probably means
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that you're getting you're probably
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getting more of your speed from an arm
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pull and the forward lunge is a good way
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to kind of work with a more of an arm
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pull situation so you had a calcified
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tendinitis in your left shoulder yes
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that could definitely contribute to more
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of a forward lunge
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especially if if you lost some external
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rotation of the trail arm or if you had
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some some stiffening of the sc/st join
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or AC joint those could absolutely
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contribute to the for forward lunge
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problem so then you'd have to figure out
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is that something that you can really
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improve on or then do you have to start
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working with more of a forward lunge
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pattern so another question
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you know Ben's doing a great job but if
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anybody else has any questions about
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their fitness or their situation go
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ahead and type it in the chat window
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I've got a couple other questions that
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came in through email that I wanted to
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make sure that we covered Sharon asked
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about you know offseason is a good time
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to kind of game plan and work on your
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your overall swing so she was asking
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about shaft lean versus elbow playing
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versus shoulder plane basically if you
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were to you know go if you were to get
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into your set of position and draw lines
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on video what you know what's the
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advantage of looking at either the elbow
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the shoulder or the shaft lean I would
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say that early in my career I used
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all three of those I would I would say
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that now almost exclusively I'll use the
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impact plane which is gonna be closest
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to the elbow so the the research from
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dr. Huang on the functional swing plane
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and most of the guys you talk to the
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only time the club is really gonna be
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planar is from waist height to waist
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height so what I would do is make sure
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that the camera is in a good set up
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position so it's in line roughly with
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the hands from the down the line and
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then take the swing to impact and then
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draw the shaft plane there and then go
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back to set up and just you can see
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where that goes it'll usually go through
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about the point of the trail arm but the
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key for timing is looking at that
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relationship where is the club at waist
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height and then where is the club
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working on the way through the the more
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that it's coming from under to above
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through impact that's gonna tend to be
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shallower rightward more driver base the
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more that it's slightly outside and then
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under the more it's gonna be it's a
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iron-based
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but drawing the impact plane is the the
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what I would I believe is the most
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useful of the the plane lines that you
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could draw when looking at video all
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right I have a question coming in from
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Mike do you have any ideas on knee pain
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precipitated by walking is there any way
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to tell if it is from the quadricep
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overdevelopment and inhibited hamstring
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or other causes anytime that there is
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pain I like to refer out to my team and
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get a thorough evaluation because
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there's lots of simple what I call
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provocation tests where they can
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basically figure out okay if you can
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touch where the pain is going and they
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can have you do certain movements if it
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triggers the pain then you have a pretty
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clear idea as far as where the pain is
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coming from and it makes it much easier
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to diagnose I would say that the the
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knee is one of the tough tougher joints
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as far as
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being able to create space a lot of the
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other joints have some really small deep
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muscles that can help create space if
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you if you train them and the knee
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doesn't have that so typically knee pain
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and focusing on quad flexibility
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focusing on I'd say quite probably more
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so than hamstring flexibility although
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it can contribute and making sure that
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there is adequate strength in the VMO
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which is a tough guy to train but that
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helps with the patella tracking that
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those two are I've seen a fair amount of
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improvement in knee pain especially from
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walking on hills when you get those two
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a little bit more balanced but I would
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definitely you know talk to somebody
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qualified in your area
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physical therapist chiropractor
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osteopath somebody who who knows how to
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do a joint assessment and look at look
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at that knee yeah I'm trying to think of
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your swing I know you were out here a
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little bit and we were doing mostly
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related to the back I'd probably go if I
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remember right your quads weren't super
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tight so I'd be looking more at I'd find
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somebody in your area so you could rule
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out a couple issues and I'll send you a
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little note after this just send me an
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email to remind me okay add another
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question as far as like lesson plans and
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during the offseason how do you how do
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you balance you know if you're used to
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taking like a weekly lesson should you
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continue on that during the offseason
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should you try and own it a little bit
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Edward was asking about how he was
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working on shallowing and oh mike okay
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actually for Claire yeah then I would
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yes shoot me an email and I'll give you
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some ideas okay back to Edward working
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shallowing if you're if you're working
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on the downswing what I find is the the
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the transition and the release have to
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blend together right so you can have
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really big success working on one or the
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other but the greatest gains and when it
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will feel somewhat automatic is when you
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work on each of them but together right
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so let's say you're working on
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shallowing that means during the release
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you would have to work on a little bit
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more shaft rotation and a little bit
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later arm extension timing and you'll
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have the best success when you're doing
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both of those so the offseason can be a
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good time to work on the one that's more
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challenging we're in season I would say
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you want to focus on the one that is
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easier for you to do because it'll be
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easier to like you won't it won't take
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as much thought and the problem is if
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you overly focus on one area typically
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the brain kind of shuts down or loses
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some of its sequencing some of its like
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connection down during those transition
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points so I tend to advocate working on
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a few things kind of a few things at
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once and let's say spending less time so
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normally during the season I might say
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you're gonna work on one specific topic
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for anywhere from three to six weeks
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during the offseason I cut that about in
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half so I'd work on one thing and then
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move on quicker because I know that I
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want to work on multiple things at once
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and I want to try in the offseason to
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cover as many topics related to that as
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I can so if I'm working on shallowing I
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might work on how the feet are working
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on against the ground I might work on
00:28:10.270 --> 00:28:13.630
how the pelvis to ribcage sequence isn't
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working I might work on shallowing with
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the right arm and shallowing with the
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left arm or left forearm and I might
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work on some early clubface rotation and
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I'd I'd work on a few of those at once
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because typically when you're hitting
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balls and
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you're hitting off of a mat so you're
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not totally working on low point control
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that's a hard skill to work on indoors
00:28:37.970 --> 00:28:40.280
you're working more on the global
00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:42.410
pattern and you're working more on let's
00:28:42.410 --> 00:28:45.110
say path and face the path control and
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so because you it's let's say easier
00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:49.940
when you're hitting on a mat you can
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usually do a little bit more intense or
00:28:52.250 --> 00:28:54.800
you can do a few things at once and the
00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:57.830
other thing is because you don't get
00:28:57.830 --> 00:29:00.140
just as distracted by miss hits you
00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:02.660
don't get as distracted by ball flight
00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:04.790
it's easier to have a little bit more of
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a mechanical focus so I would work on
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.850
the different components of shallowing
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so instead of working on one thing for
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three to six weeks I would probably work
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on three or four things related to the
00:29:17.150 --> 00:29:19.910
same area over that same time frame so
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I'd move on to things usually quicker in
00:29:22.970 --> 00:29:26.059
the offseason so that I'll have the map
00:29:26.059 --> 00:29:28.880
in my mind of other ideas I can try in
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.679
season if I start to struggle with the
00:29:30.679 --> 00:29:35.020
same concept okay I had another question
00:29:35.020 --> 00:29:42.470
from Mike about ideal clubface and path
00:29:42.470 --> 00:29:48.580
ratio so he was asking about how
00:29:48.910 --> 00:29:51.290
basically you know a lot of guys will
00:29:51.290 --> 00:29:55.160
talk about a relationship of face to
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path so you know his in his particular
00:29:58.370 --> 00:30:01.790
case he finds that when he has a face
00:30:01.790 --> 00:30:06.110
the path of greater than - - he tends to
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have more trouble controlling they say
00:30:11.350 --> 00:30:14.600
club head club face variability in
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closure rates I would say that you know
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.280
- 2 - 3 is probably yeah towards the
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upper end well I know that drawing a
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blank on his name I'll put him in the in
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the text description below I mentioned
00:30:29.870 --> 00:30:33.890
in my book did a he did some research
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and found it like when you get over
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above minus or plus or minus 5 so if the
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club face the path starts getting above
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5 you're going to have
00:30:44.090 --> 00:30:48.260
pretty much impossible dispersion but
00:30:48.260 --> 00:30:50.990
you're gonna have to high variance
00:30:50.990 --> 00:30:54.890
missus and so if the general rule of
00:30:54.890 --> 00:30:56.960
thumb is that you want your face to path
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.710
to be roughly half of the path then that
00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:03.110
says that you can't have a you can't
00:31:03.110 --> 00:31:07.070
have a path that's too much more you
00:31:07.070 --> 00:31:08.630
can't have a path that's too much more
00:31:08.630 --> 00:31:10.850
than five or six degrees in out or out
00:31:10.850 --> 00:31:15.409
to end or else your clubface open closed
00:31:15.409 --> 00:31:17.990
being half of that is gonna be up around
00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:22.429
four or five so yes working on your
00:31:22.429 --> 00:31:25.340
general path and getting it closest to
00:31:25.340 --> 00:31:28.070
zero but or you know let's say less than
00:31:28.070 --> 00:31:31.070
I usually aim for five with a lot of my
00:31:31.070 --> 00:31:35.480
golfers but being able to also control
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:38.210
the wide point or the low point and
00:31:38.210 --> 00:31:40.399
being able to get good arm extension on
00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:44.600
the way through with that same path that
00:31:44.600 --> 00:31:46.549
tends to lead towards more consistency
00:31:46.549 --> 00:31:50.809
because I wouldn't say that you're gonna
00:31:50.809 --> 00:31:54.549
have that much greater clubface very
00:31:54.549 --> 00:31:58.730
club face closure variability at a five
00:31:58.730 --> 00:32:01.690
to six compared to say a two to three
00:32:01.690 --> 00:32:05.000
but if you told me that you're having
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:07.460
more of an arc with issue and the club
00:32:07.460 --> 00:32:08.899
kind of passing on the way through that
00:32:08.899 --> 00:32:11.740
usually causes the clubface variability
00:32:11.740 --> 00:32:18.970
I had another question come in about
00:32:19.750 --> 00:32:22.970
struggling with hooking the ball so what
00:32:22.970 --> 00:32:27.409
should we do in the offseason yeah
00:32:27.409 --> 00:32:30.020
pushes and hooks for almost twenty years
00:32:30.020 --> 00:32:34.220
coming in from Lisa she was asking how
00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:36.409
to avoid hitting the club coming to
00:32:36.409 --> 00:32:39.590
shallow into the ball so to shallow into
00:32:39.590 --> 00:32:41.179
the wall would give kind of the holistic
00:32:41.179 --> 00:32:43.039
approach to solving hooks because I know
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.470
that that's a really frustrating miss
00:32:45.470 --> 00:32:49.850
for a lot of golfers to solve hooks you
00:32:49.850 --> 00:32:54.870
have to slow down the club passing the
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or the the clubhead passing the grip on
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the way through because that tends to
00:32:59.660 --> 00:33:03.110
close the club face and that will happen
00:33:03.110 --> 00:33:04.820
more when you're having some early
00:33:04.820 --> 00:33:06.920
extension so if I'm moving away from the
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:08.840
golf ball the club is gonna pass like
00:33:08.840 --> 00:33:11.450
this and that causes the club face to
00:33:11.450 --> 00:33:14.810
get closed very quickly all right so it
00:33:14.810 --> 00:33:19.280
closes more like that so in order to
00:33:19.280 --> 00:33:23.450
solve the hook I have to get more let's
00:33:23.450 --> 00:33:25.580
say shaft lean and I have to have more
00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:27.740
body rotation on the way through in
00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:30.290
order to have the grip speed usually
00:33:30.290 --> 00:33:33.110
when you're getting too shallow on the
00:33:33.110 --> 00:33:33.740
downswing
00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:35.870
it's almost a hundred percent time
00:33:35.870 --> 00:33:38.390
coming from the body either going into
00:33:38.390 --> 00:33:40.550
too much early extension or going into
00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:44.510
too much side bend too much early
00:33:44.510 --> 00:33:50.020
extension usually comes from either
00:33:50.260 --> 00:33:53.300
either too much early extension coming
00:33:53.300 --> 00:33:56.900
more from either extending the back in
00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:59.330
order to help pull down on the club or
00:33:59.330 --> 00:34:04.700
going into side Bend as a way to adjust
00:34:04.700 --> 00:34:11.510
for too steep of a top or adjusting for
00:34:11.510 --> 00:34:13.340
let's say my arms are a little steep and
00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:17.510
then I side bend to balance that out so
00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:19.430
usually with hooking the ball the first
00:34:19.430 --> 00:34:24.380
thing I do is I work on grip grip speed
00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:26.330
and torso rotation while staying in your
00:34:26.330 --> 00:34:27.860
posture so basically working on a good
00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:29.840
follow-through position and making sure
00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:31.640
that I'm not having all the speed down
00:34:31.640 --> 00:34:35.030
at my hands that that the grip and my
00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:37.100
body are continuing to move on the way
00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:40.240
through that helps move the path more
00:34:40.240 --> 00:34:46.220
left and if I work on delaying the club
00:34:46.220 --> 00:34:47.930
passing this way that tends to hold the
00:34:47.930 --> 00:34:50.420
face open so stage one is kind of
00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:52.880
working on the body rotation on the way
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:56.330
through and then seeing what ball flight
00:34:56.330 --> 00:34:58.400
reactions I might get to that so some
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:00.770
golfers will hit more pulls then I need
00:35:00.770 --> 00:35:03.110
to work on the path that about shaft
00:35:03.110 --> 00:35:04.640
parallel maybe I now I'm getting a
00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:06.710
little steep because my body is turning
00:35:06.710 --> 00:35:11.900
so I'm hitting more poles or I'm what
00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:13.790
I'd say most common is I'm hanging them
00:35:13.790 --> 00:35:16.130
a little off to the right because now
00:35:16.130 --> 00:35:19.130
I've delayed the closing of the clubface
00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:22.790
and I've rotated my body and I have to
00:35:22.790 --> 00:35:24.290
work on getting a little bit earlier
00:35:24.290 --> 00:35:26.270
shaft rotation and closing the face
00:35:26.270 --> 00:35:28.430
through shaft rotation is usually the
00:35:28.430 --> 00:35:31.130
scariest part of solving a hook but it's
00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:33.920
also one of the most important skills
00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:37.460
that will eventually or quickly learn
00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:40.550
teach you how to get more shaft lean and
00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:44.540
get the club from coming too shallow so
00:35:44.540 --> 00:35:47.690
if your hook in the wall got a number of
00:35:47.690 --> 00:35:50.180
videos on the site on a high level of a
00:35:50.180 --> 00:35:51.950
hook and walking through how to get more
00:35:51.950 --> 00:35:54.980
of the hit my arms or pool noodle in the
00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:57.380
follow-through low to high like a bunch
00:35:57.380 --> 00:35:59.510
of drills working on that body rotation
00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:00.770
on the way through to avoid the stall
00:36:00.770 --> 00:36:03.230
and then figuring out your individual
00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:06.650
issues based on feedback there daniel is
00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:08.750
asking how does one get advanced notice
00:36:08.750 --> 00:36:12.440
of the live Q&A normally so if you
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:13.940
subscribe to the YouTube channel they'll
00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:16.280
send you they'll give a little update
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:18.770
when we're posting this today was a
00:36:18.770 --> 00:36:22.070
little bit of you know it was it was a
00:36:22.070 --> 00:36:23.960
little bit of a last-minute scheduling
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.530
so we only decided or I I decided that I
00:36:27.530 --> 00:36:30.980
was gonna do this this morning I wasn't
00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.170
quite sure if my social calendar was
00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:36.460
gonna allow for it but normally I'll
00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:40.280
usually give a few days notice so you
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:42.560
can either go to golf smart Academy and
00:36:42.560 --> 00:36:44.810
if you sign up for the free trial
00:36:44.810 --> 00:36:47.810
membership or if you remember we we send
00:36:47.810 --> 00:36:50.990
out the emails letting you know that
00:36:50.990 --> 00:36:54.350
it's going to happen and requesting any
00:36:54.350 --> 00:36:55.910
advanced questions those are the ones
00:36:55.910 --> 00:36:57.290
that will always get answered first
00:36:57.290 --> 00:36:59.420
otherwise if you subscribe to the
00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:02.210
YouTube channel then you'll get an
00:37:02.210 --> 00:37:05.570
update when when I schedule it and then
00:37:05.570 --> 00:37:08.780
an hour beforehand or right beforehand
00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:11.980
it'll give you another reminder
00:37:12.470 --> 00:37:18.099
I had one one more question that I
00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:20.930
already one more question that came in
00:37:20.930 --> 00:37:23.119
from Brent I talked about the tight t
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:26.109
spine and glutes but he was also asking
00:37:26.109 --> 00:37:29.690
that so unfortunately the beginning of
00:37:29.690 --> 00:37:32.330
last year or the beginning of 2016 he
00:37:32.330 --> 00:37:35.840
was trying to restrict his hip turn and
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:40.960
he think that in in trying to do so he
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.500
created a right hip injury that could be
00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:52.820
more of a sciatic issue that is I it's
00:37:52.820 --> 00:37:54.859
not super common that we come just from
00:37:54.859 --> 00:37:57.020
restricting the hip but dealing with
00:37:57.020 --> 00:38:02.050
some sciatic issues is not uncommon so
00:38:02.050 --> 00:38:05.000
like let's let's break that down and
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.190
talk about the two components one trying
00:38:07.190 --> 00:38:09.170
to restrict your hips earth here's where
00:38:09.170 --> 00:38:13.730
my take on that is some golfers we know
00:38:13.730 --> 00:38:16.010
from 3d that the the average is that the
00:38:16.010 --> 00:38:19.430
the trail leg is going to straighten you
00:38:19.430 --> 00:38:21.140
know 10 degrees 8 degrees somewhere on
00:38:21.140 --> 00:38:23.630
there so the tray legs gonna strain you
00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:26.140
don't want it to stay perfectly straight
00:38:26.140 --> 00:38:32.810
some golfers in especially with certain
00:38:32.810 --> 00:38:35.300
swing characteristics would like lock
00:38:35.300 --> 00:38:38.000
that leg out and go to the outside of
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:39.530
the foot and shift on the front foot and
00:38:39.530 --> 00:38:42.530
by trying to keep that trail leg a
00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:45.200
little more flexed they would load up a
00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:48.800
little bit better in general I'm um I'm
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:51.710
more of a fan of kind of free pelvis and
00:38:51.710 --> 00:38:54.020
free hip turn and the only time that
00:38:54.020 --> 00:38:55.910
someone will ever feel like they're
00:38:55.910 --> 00:38:57.560
getting more restricted is when they
00:38:57.560 --> 00:39:00.920
learn better foot to ground contact so
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.650
if you if you learn how to stay more on
00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:05.900
the inside of the foot and not shift
00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:08.060
into your your toes or not shift to the
00:39:08.060 --> 00:39:10.280
outside the foot sometimes it will feel
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:12.740
like you're keeping your leg more flexed
00:39:12.740 --> 00:39:15.320
but I'll usually show you on video it's
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.359
not it's just by having better foot
00:39:17.359 --> 00:39:19.520
contact you're feeling more tension in
00:39:19.520 --> 00:39:23.180
the hamstring so that when you load it's
00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:25.030
all the way connected into the ground
00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:28.010
not just into the let's say the outside
00:39:28.010 --> 00:39:31.430
of the foot so that's where the
00:39:31.430 --> 00:39:33.140
interpretation of you gotta keep your
00:39:33.140 --> 00:39:37.670
trail leg bent as opposed to allowing it
00:39:37.670 --> 00:39:39.650
to straighten I think it relates to
00:39:39.650 --> 00:39:42.170
mostly what's going on at the foot not
00:39:42.170 --> 00:39:43.580
so much what's going on in the knee but
00:39:43.580 --> 00:39:45.140
it's easier to see the knee than it is
00:39:45.140 --> 00:39:47.839
to see what's happening at the foot if
00:39:47.839 --> 00:39:50.690
you okay now we've developed a situation
00:39:50.690 --> 00:39:53.119
where we created some issues that might
00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:57.440
be sciatic sciatica can come from disc
00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:59.750
issue so it can come from the sciatic
00:39:59.750 --> 00:40:01.550
nerve exiting out of the spine
00:40:01.550 --> 00:40:07.339
I believe it's levels l2 l3 l4 l5 s1 s2
00:40:07.339 --> 00:40:12.920
you can have you can have sciatic disc
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:14.359
issues if you have some impingement
00:40:14.359 --> 00:40:21.130
there you can also have issues from
00:40:21.130 --> 00:40:22.940
tightness in certain muscles
00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:25.940
specifically the piriformis muscle so
00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:27.950
the piriformis muscle can be it goes
00:40:27.950 --> 00:40:31.640
from the inside of the sacrum to the to
00:40:31.640 --> 00:40:33.980
the outside of it and the sciatic nerve
00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:38.180
runs between it and the glute or in many
00:40:38.180 --> 00:40:40.130
cases it actually runs through the
00:40:40.130 --> 00:40:42.349
sciatica or through the piriformis so if
00:40:42.349 --> 00:40:45.950
you have tight piriformis which is one
00:40:45.950 --> 00:40:50.260
of your three main pelvic floor muscles
00:40:50.260 --> 00:40:53.599
so if you have imbalance in your pelvic
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:56.000
floor if you have overly restricted
00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:00.170
internal rotation those can create some
00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:03.560
sciatic issues from more the piriformis
00:41:03.560 --> 00:41:07.640
as opposed to from the actual disc or
00:41:07.640 --> 00:41:09.589
the joint or the sciatic nerve coming
00:41:09.589 --> 00:41:14.210
out of the spine so that would get like
00:41:14.210 --> 00:41:17.000
I'd anytime there's pain I want to work
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.250
with somebody who understands the pain
00:41:19.250 --> 00:41:21.710
problems and can help you balance it
00:41:21.710 --> 00:41:25.160
there so I double I absolutely go to see
00:41:25.160 --> 00:41:29.780
someone but you know if if you've seen
00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:31.910
someone and they haven't tried looking
00:41:31.910 --> 00:41:32.930
at
00:41:32.930 --> 00:41:35.329
if they haven't tried anything revolving
00:41:35.329 --> 00:41:37.130
around piriformis and balancing your
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pelvic floor then perhaps you can find
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somebody else who might be in that same
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area who might have a better let's say
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toolbox being able to do it okay a
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:53.539
couple questions come in from Golden
00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:57.200
Gate I'm a right-handed golfer and
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notice that I've lost flexibility on the
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follow-through
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I am tight on the follow-through but
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more flexibility on my backswing is
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there a way to solve that imbalance um
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yes
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doing you know that's a normal pattern
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for playing golf unfortunately because
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we build more resistance with that right
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side compared to the left side the often
00:42:26.630 --> 00:42:30.160
times you will have a greater degree of
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flexibility turning in your backswing
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than you will on the follow-through just
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from the natural balance that's created
00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:40.339
with the sport so often swinging
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left-handed and hitting some balls
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left-handed in the offseason can be
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another good project I especially give
00:42:46.130 --> 00:42:48.650
that to a lot of juniors and if you get
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used to doing that then you can do some
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.989
practice swings on the course
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left-handed to counterbalance the
00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:57.349
imbalance that will naturally happen
00:42:57.349 --> 00:42:59.739
from swinging multiple times
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right-handed but otherwise in general in
00:43:04.430 --> 00:43:06.460
the gym you want to try to be more
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symmetric so by doing a you know a
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balanced strength training by doing
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posture work by doing the eldona which
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is one of my favorite exercises for
00:43:19.969 --> 00:43:21.920
working on the spine you can hopefully
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.719
help minimize some of those imbalances
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but again if it's you know if you're if
00:43:30.229 --> 00:43:33.519
you're tight on the follow-through
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you can adjust for it by flaring the
00:43:36.200 --> 00:43:39.920
lead foot out you could long-term do
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:42.499
some left-handed swings short-term you
00:43:42.499 --> 00:43:43.730
could do
00:43:43.730 --> 00:43:47.150
kind of flexibility and stability work
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more focusing on that follow-through
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side but I'm working on the little video
00:43:53.090 --> 00:43:55.610
related that because many golfers who
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think that they have flexibility issues
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more have a swing issue and it just
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shows up in because they haven't rotated
00:44:03.860 --> 00:44:05.480
like many golfers think that they have a
00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:06.980
flexibility issue because their body
00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:10.190
isn't rotated at impact but if you're
00:44:10.190 --> 00:44:11.420
saying that it's a follow-through
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restriction where I'm not getting to
00:44:13.490 --> 00:44:15.230
this position at any point in time
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that's probably more of a flexibility
00:44:17.690 --> 00:44:20.060
issue because if it's just that impact
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but then you're able to rotate into a
00:44:22.130 --> 00:44:23.060
follow-through
00:44:23.060 --> 00:44:24.650
it's more of a timing it's not a
00:44:24.650 --> 00:44:28.540
physical restriction okay and another
00:44:28.540 --> 00:44:32.630
question from Troy M does the lead hip
00:44:32.630 --> 00:44:35.570
go into external rotation during the
00:44:35.570 --> 00:44:37.420
backswing or should it stay neutral
00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:40.070
letting them knee move more towards the
00:44:40.070 --> 00:44:44.180
golf ball the the hip will go into
00:44:44.180 --> 00:44:47.570
external rotation but you can also go
00:44:47.570 --> 00:44:50.210
into external rotation and have the knee
00:44:50.210 --> 00:44:52.100
moving in towards the golf ball it's
00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:57.350
just with the amount of rotation of the
00:44:57.350 --> 00:45:00.410
pelvis during the backswing it would be
00:45:00.410 --> 00:45:02.600
virtually impossible not to go into
00:45:02.600 --> 00:45:07.430
external rotation with that lead hip so
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I tend to train more of the awareness of
00:45:11.780 --> 00:45:14.090
the trail side hip during the or the
00:45:14.090 --> 00:45:15.980
trail side foot and the trail side hip
00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:19.010
during the backswing and then kind of
00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:21.230
accommodate what's more comfortable with
00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:23.240
the lead hip as opposed to focusing too
00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:26.810
much on forcing external rotation you
00:45:26.810 --> 00:45:29.480
know a lot of what happens at the hip I
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:32.780
think is better trained at the feet I'll
00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:34.550
use awareness drills to kind of help
00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:37.730
people feel what the hip should be doing
00:45:37.730 --> 00:45:40.430
but by learning how to feel the foot
00:45:40.430 --> 00:45:43.040
against the ground it gives more of a
00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:44.810
reason for the hip to do the right thing
00:45:44.810 --> 00:45:46.460
instead of just artificially trying to
00:45:46.460 --> 00:45:49.790
create it doing the right thing
00:45:49.790 --> 00:45:52.130
so the problem is if you try and force
00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:53.910
external rotation of the
00:45:53.910 --> 00:45:56.150
I think that'll mess up your backswing
00:45:56.150 --> 00:46:00.839
or if you try and force it to stay
00:46:00.839 --> 00:46:04.700
neutral and move towards the golf ball
00:46:04.700 --> 00:46:07.920
if you're doing that purely from the hip
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:11.250
there would be the fear and the tendency
00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:13.260
that you could get a little bit too much
00:46:13.260 --> 00:46:15.750
towards the outside of the trail hip in
00:46:15.750 --> 00:46:18.450
order to or outside of the trail foot in
00:46:18.450 --> 00:46:22.079
order to make that happen so I'd be I'd
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:24.599
be a little careful with forcing the
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:27.150
external rotation of the lead hip during
00:46:27.150 --> 00:46:30.530
the backswing unless you you've
00:46:30.530 --> 00:46:33.030
confirmed on video that when you do that
00:46:33.030 --> 00:46:36.170
your feet work better against the ground
00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:41.460
okay so if any one hand it has any last
00:46:41.460 --> 00:46:44.160
questions getting close to wrapping up
00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:47.520
this one never quite know which
00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:49.020
direction we go based on your questions
00:46:49.020 --> 00:46:51.599
but they're always fun to fun to try and
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.710
be prepared for I do want to remind
00:46:55.710 --> 00:46:58.260
everyone that I'll have some links in
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the description below for both the
00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:04.049
website as well as the book closing in
00:47:04.049 --> 00:47:06.900
on selling 500 copies of the stock tour
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swing this is kind of my my manual for
00:47:10.260 --> 00:47:12.539
understanding the big global picture of
00:47:12.539 --> 00:47:15.500
how the different pieces match together
00:47:15.500 --> 00:47:17.819
really help you understand how to read
00:47:17.819 --> 00:47:22.380
feedback and how to prioritize by
00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:24.569
understanding your pattern prioritize
00:47:24.569 --> 00:47:27.210
what you need to work on when you play
00:47:27.210 --> 00:47:30.630
as well as here during the offseason so
00:47:30.630 --> 00:47:33.420
just a quick reminder on the offseason
00:47:33.420 --> 00:47:35.069
stuff make sure you're working on some
00:47:35.069 --> 00:47:37.890
flexibility some core definitely do some
00:47:37.890 --> 00:47:40.470
balance training if you're if you've got
00:47:40.470 --> 00:47:42.390
enough time then you can layer in some
00:47:42.390 --> 00:47:45.450
strength and some power and possibly
00:47:45.450 --> 00:47:48.569
some endurance and even cardio from a
00:47:48.569 --> 00:47:50.910
game perspective you want to work on
00:47:50.910 --> 00:47:52.680
your weaknesses here in the offseason
00:47:52.680 --> 00:47:54.660
and then focus a little bit more on the
00:47:54.660 --> 00:47:58.170
strengths during the in season and I
00:47:58.170 --> 00:48:00.270
like to vary what I'm working on a
00:48:00.270 --> 00:48:03.180
little more frequently in the offseason
00:48:03.180 --> 00:48:04.150
then
00:48:04.150 --> 00:48:08.590
in the during the during the season so
00:48:08.590 --> 00:48:10.900
that I've had my brain basically has
00:48:10.900 --> 00:48:13.390
more options that I can then recall so I
00:48:13.390 --> 00:48:15.070
don't have to learn as many new things
00:48:15.070 --> 00:48:17.050
during the season I just have to
00:48:17.050 --> 00:48:19.060
remember what worked for me during my
00:48:19.060 --> 00:48:22.930
practice during the offseason so thank
00:48:22.930 --> 00:48:24.910
you for all of you for your questions
00:48:24.910 --> 00:48:26.590
and for joining me for another one of
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these Facebook live Q&A s seems to be
00:48:30.340 --> 00:48:32.170
pretty well received so we'll definitely
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keep doing them if you have any other
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:36.730
questions you can email us at support at
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00:48:42.790 --> 00:48:48.430
but good luck in 2018 and my pleasure
00:48:48.430 --> 00:48:50.770
thanks for all the all the compliments
00:48:50.770 --> 00:48:53.260
all the questions good luck in 2018
00:48:53.260 --> 00:48:56.230
absolutely have a plan stick to that
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plan and as always from golf smart
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