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want to thank you. Here we'll angle this down a little bit. I want to thank you

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for coming to our live Q&A about the shanks and the yips. So these are these

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are mostly going to be Galsmar Academy members but we're answering Galsmar

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Academy member questions but if you are you know having it if I'm saying

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something about whether it's the shanks or the yips and you got a

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quick question about it go ahead and type something in the chat and I will

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address it as we go through. So we'll we'll start with the shanks because I

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think that they're a fun topic and they're they're kind of a taboo topic

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nobody really likes to talk about them or even address them you know there's

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that famous tin cup scene about they're just like a virus right and nobody

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really knows how to correct them. Well I would say that I probably coach

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someone into the shanks at least once a month or so especially if they're

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coming out of a kind of a casting scoop flip style pattern. Let me just see if

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anybody and we'll see anyone on the chat so if you're if you're here and

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watching just say who you are where you're from real quick because I don't want

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go too far into it and have to start over.

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Okay so we'll go back into the discussion about the shank. So Ryan

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Gossmart Academy member asked about the major cause whether it's more of a

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relationship to the path of the club or whether it's more related to the

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hand path and I'll break that down a little bit but first sorry I was I was

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telling a little story about the coaching people into the shanks so

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oftentimes if you're coming out of a kind of cast scoop pattern right so if

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you're if you're coming out of a pattern where you're basically getting the

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arms

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straight early and then bending them on the way through when you start to work

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on getting a little bit more arm extension it is possible that you can

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start hitting it more on the heel and even shaking the wall because there's

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really two kind of ways that you'll develop the shank. One would be if the

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and I'll do it kind of facing the camera this way so we'll imagine you're the

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target view so one would be if the hosel is simply moving that way so the club

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face starts square like this and it's coming into the ball with the club face

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still square but it's just moved more out towards the golf ball that's option

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number one and then option number two would be okay we start up here the center

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of the club stays at about the same point but now the club faces rotating and

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coming in wide open and so it's hitting the heel there so I would say that of

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the two that first version where the club isn't coming in overly open but

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it's just coming a little bit more out towards the golf ball like so is the

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most common version here's basically what's happening when you're getting

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that version of the chain the path of the club or we'll look at the swing

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plane so if I've got let's let's imagine that instead of the club head I've got

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a weight on the end of the string so I've got a tennis ball in a sock here so

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if

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I'm swinging the weight around me kind of like this my goal is to get that to

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impact where the golf ball was well what can happen is I can get swinging that

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and I can just drift out a little bit kind of like that well that could come

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from one of two primary areas that could either come from just a general weight

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shift and my body shifting more in towards the toes especially if I'm not

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getting a whole lot of rotation if I'm shifting in towards the toes without

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getting rotation that can just move the hand path or the swing path out to the

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golf ball and the other one would be if the trail arm is getting out away and

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straightening too soon so it's kind of going like that that can cause the the

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path of the club to go out that way the the other way that you could look at it

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is not just looking at the path of the weight or the path of the club but

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looking

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at where my hands are along this path so let's say the club is going down

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towards

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the golf ball like this if I have a path that's pointed kind of outside the

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golf

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ball but then my hand path is coming way to the left then I'm probably not

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to shake it I'll probably be okay so it would be going like this but if the

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hand path is coming more around it's going to prevent how far the club is

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swinging away from me where I can get a lot of trouble is if it's swinging

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around

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like this and then my arms are are straightening and they're going with the

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swing of the club and they're going out into the golf ball that can that's one

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of the more common causes for getting that shank pattern to show up especially

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for golfers who used to be really steep in chicken winging and then they get a

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little bit flat and better arm extension time so the question from Ryan is

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basically we have two things either the hands are going too much out or the

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overall path of the club is tilted too much in out which do you go at first I

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would say that the majority of the time I'm gonna go at the hands going more

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out

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and I'm gonna try to get that by staying a little bit more centered in my

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weight

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distribution and working on the pivot on the way through so basically working

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having continued body rotation and basically having the movement of the

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hips and the rib cage start to pull those hands a little bit more around I don

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like the idea of just artificially using the arms to pull them more around into

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the left but if I can use my body turn to get them to go to the left it will

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prevent the club from flying too much into out the other option would be

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essentially trying to tilt the swing path a little bit more vertically because

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it's if it's pointed out a weight out to the outside of the golf ball that's an

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overly shallow position and requires more of that body turn on the way through

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I break it down that's kind of the more the theory as far as how the club works

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so I break it down into a couple different simple body awareness things

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either your weight distribution is moving too much in towards your toes and

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that's causing your hands to get too far out so doing something as simple as

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putting an alignment stick like underneath the toes to make sure that

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you're saying more in the center of your feet that can have a strong enough

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influence or I'll use a pool noodle to make sure that the upper body and the

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head isn't really lunging in towards the golf ball the that would be kind of

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looking at it from the body position orientation the second one will be

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looking at the arm timing and that's usually more of like a tempo drill and

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more of a sequencing drill so I may use like the shank gate just to make golf

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a little bit more aware and then do something like hitting maybe single arm

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only trying to get the timing of the arm extension to happen a little bit

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after the golf ball as opposed to right before it I see a couple comments

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in from Ned Germany he had the shanks my fix was to flip it which is one of the

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common ways that you fix the the shank because when you move start you know

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flipping the club back this way it's typically going to work away from the

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widest point he said I had I flipped it for 25 years and the tires help stop

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flipping it I think I shanked it because I didn't realize the toe had to close

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past the heel I used to break driver shafts because I'd hit shots dead off

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the extreme inside of the heel so that gets to the that second kind of shank

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which would be more if you're coming in with the clubface open right so if it's

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swinging more in line with the center of the the mass of the club kind of like

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that heel can really come in towards the golf ball and then even if you close

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late because it was coming in it's gonna be further away so if the pivot stuff

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doesn't work and you're still hitting them off to the right then often times

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what you'll have to do is you'll have to get a little bit more of that

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motorcycle

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timing and you'll have to get a little bit earlier face rotation or as Ned is

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describing letting the toe pass the heel in order to square the face and

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basically move the hosel backwards supposed to be so it's not contacting

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the golf ball too soon so before we get into some of the non-shank and yip

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related questions let's go let's transition to the yips unless there are

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any questions that come in more on the shanks if you're shanking the ball watch

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your weight distribution watch your the timing your arm straightening and watch

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the rotation of the face it could show up in early extension being the weight

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distribution it could show up in getting like overly flat or overly shallow

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with

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the arm path with a club face that's wide open but usually you know shanks

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shouldn't be something that you shouldn't be too afraid of because they're

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usually one of the easier patterns to solve once you break it down which brings

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us next to the yip which the yip is a little bit trickier so I was talking we

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hosted Dr. Debbie Cruz and she had some good research with a guy from the

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Mayo Clinic I think or the Cleveland Clinic and he was talking about he he

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was doing a study where they can actually test you neurologically to see if you

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having a yip basically to see if you're having focal dystonia and what they

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found was about seven percent of the people who were they were testing who

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claimed to have the yips actually had this neurological inputs so what most

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people have the vast majority so let's say 93% of golfers who think that they

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have the yips have more of a anxiety built fear pattern around a shot because

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in order for it to be a true yip in order for it to be focal dystonia it is

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situation independent which means if I have you in the most relaxed state if I

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have you in your living room you know nobody watching just making a little

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putting motion or chipping motion because those are two most common times that

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yip shows up it should show up just as frequently with no pressure and no you

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know nothing on the line no one watching no anxiety as if you had pressure on

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you if it's more a result of I get extra tension because I get nervous that is

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usually more a result of a kind of let's say a a balance or an imbalance in

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steep

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shallows and face closing so basically your face and path relationship are

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fragile enough that if you're off by a little bit you have a really bad mess

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commonly with putting that would be I'm either the cut the putter faces getting

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left open or the path of the club is coming way outside in would be the most

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the two most common that I've seen and so what ends up happening is the yip

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either the club faces open and the yip closes it or the putter path is going to

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the left and the yip kind of straightens out the path but because of the

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anxiety

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because of the tension in the forearms it gets overdone and so it it looks like

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a flinch and it produces really dramatic misses really bad you know two way or

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contact misses like it's it's unpredictable so I've had what's uh the

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the question that Ryan asked was about the yip do you have to do a really

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dramatic change because some people will say if you got the yips you got a you

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know switch the left-handed or close your eyes or change grips if it's truly

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focal dystonia absolutely getting as far away from that motor pattern as

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possible is the easiest way to correct it if it's more of this anxiety built

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fear pattern sometimes those big changes work because it makes it different

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enough especially if that big change helps it out so I'll give you an

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example on of one where that big change could potentially like help balance

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things out better like let's say you had the chipping yips and that was coming

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because you were overly shallow and you know tilting behind the golf ball and

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then you had to kind of flip in order to quickly move the bottom the swing

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forward well some golfers have done well with getting more of a cross hand

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well getting putting that left hand low helps level out the shoulders which

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adds a little bit more steepness which moves the bottom the swing forward which

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helps prevent your steep shallow balance or helps improve your steep shallow

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balance so if you're having the chip yips which I would say I've had more

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people come to me with the what they thought were the chipping yips then the

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putting yips and typically with the chipping yips I can almost predict what's

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gonna be going on typically the upper body is in the lower the upper body is

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well behind the lower body so it's got a fair amount of side bend and axis till

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usually the head is even behind the golf ball and then because the body is in

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an overly shallow position tilted way behind they're gonna drag the handle in

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order to move the low point forward that takes away bounce so they get kind of

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these chunk shots when they're scared of that chunk shot they pull in but

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they are so shallow they tend to blade it so typically what'll happen with chip

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yips is you have to get the posture a little bit more vertical so shoulders

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staying much more level eliminate the downward movement that helps with the

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pull so get a little bit more of a cast pattern that'll improve the use of the

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bounce the turf interaction and the low point control and then you can

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continue to work on getting let's say some body rotation or body pivot on the

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way through that one's usually a little bit easier than putting with putting

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I've only had a few cases of yips and let's say one of them was true

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neurological so we had to you know go to a long putter to take away what

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the trailhand was doing but frequently or the the other few times that I've

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been able to correct the yips usually what I'm looking for is when there's

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almost like gapping or floating where basically the grip is moving around in

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the hand and kind of creating almost like these little impulses where

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basically the the putter or the putter is pushing against part of the hand

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creating almost like a stretch shorten and then it gets slingshot so getting a

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little bit more I don't want to say even grip pressure because it's not that

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but getting a little bit better hand the grip contact so that it can control

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the face because that's the other thing is oftentimes golfers who have

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really good shaft lean really good lower body dynamics with their full swing

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are you still having the putter come in in more of a open position and then

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rotating it closed with that motorcycle movement or shaft rotation

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but you can't do that in putting the in putting they're so little loft

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that you have to square it more by having the putter pass

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you can't really square it by twisting the club so what they'll end up doing is

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they're coming in open and then at the last second

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they'll whip it closed with more of kind of that flinching movement

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so working on getting a little bit better hand the grip contact

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and working on getting the the arc of the club or the path

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to square the face as opposed to just twisting the club

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those usually work pretty well okay so covered the two major questions

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both from Ryan about the the shank and the yip and i've got a couple other

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questions that kind of came in as a result of these topics so

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if you have any any questions this is when you get me live i love to have

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some discussions so if you want to put them in the

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chat box i will look for them but i have a question from Steven

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yes do i need to adjust the amount of motorcycle

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for the longer clubs this is um i'm going to say

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yes with a caveat so we'll we'll talk through it a little bit

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um with the with the longer clubs you will typically see

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earlier shaft rotation so when i look at 3d of let's say a nine iron of a

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tour pro the club face is typically not rotating

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a whole lot during that early part um and then down during the release it's

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closing a lot faster where with the driver with the

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longer clubs it's definitely rotating a bit more early in

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transition so that's that motorcycle movement

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so that they've got the the club face already in a good position so that

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then they can more or less um rotate and control the

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strike with the body pivot the example i give that

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or the the metaphor i use is um with a longer club has a whole lot more

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inertia so it's harder to make when it when it's

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moving fast um it's longer it essentially weighs

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more it's hard to make a rapid change to it

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it's almost as if i had like a 20 pound 25 pound weight in my hand

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and i swung it back like i was going to do a bowling action

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and i was going to throw it and then at the last second i wanted to change

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directions right it would be it would be really

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tough to have a dramatic change on the trajectory that

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25 pound weight especially if i waited to change it until

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right at the very end that's more like the driver

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the iron is shorter um and it doesn't have quite the same uh

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you know it doesn't have the the same amount of resistance

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so what i use the example of like if i had a five pound weight in my hand

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and if i had a five pound weight and i would get it swing yeah it's got some

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momentum going towards the target but then at the last second i could

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probably change it pretty quickly so if the if the club is coming in an

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open position because you haven't done a lot of the motorcycle

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with a shorter club it will be easier to kind of time that

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um where with the with the um the longer club when you've got

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uh more resistance you've got to start getting it lined up sooner

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also the longer clubs are naturally flatter and the flatter something is

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the more it points the club face out to the right it opens the club face so

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you have to counterbalance that by getting the club face closed earlier

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um because you can't use what you could do with an iron with an iron you can

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close the face by getting steep but with a driver because it's built on

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more of a flat lie um that that wouldn't work with

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kind of the the design of the club and it's got so little loft that if you

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squared it by getting steep you just kind of hit this warm burner so then

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you have to hold the face open it uh it becomes a big problem

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okay i see a uh question coming in from Don uh

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seem to have those shanks lately uh good hopefully you got to hear that first

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part um what causes early extension i'm assuming a

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lack of rotation um okay so here's the hard thing with

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early extension early extension does three things

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that are helpful for hitting a golf ball it helps shallow it out because uh

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oftentimes golfers get steep and when you back up you create a greater

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distance between your chest and the the golf ball and it'll allow you to

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straighten your arms and the wider i get it the

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the straighter i get my arms that helps um

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shallow out the club because it's swinging on a

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uh circle that has a wider radius so it's got less of a change direction and

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it's lowering the ground coming into it therefore it is more shallow

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the other thing it helps do is it helps square the club face so early extension

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by getting the arm to straighten will get the club

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to twist closed um so oftentimes golfers who early

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extension or who struggle with early extension will come in with the club

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face open and they'll use that late early extension

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to get the club face to shut um so the hard thing is golfers who

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are struggling with early extension oftentimes have to feel that rotation of

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the club but they often struggle with hooking it

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because they let the club pass um so if you're

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shanking with the early extension check to see like look on video and see if

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the

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club is well open at shaft parallel if that's the

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case then you probably need to get more shaft rotation in order to um help

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avoid the early extension um otherwise it could be um

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something as simple as yes working on a good follow through position working on

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a position where you have more body rotation um when the shaft is parallel

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in the follow through uh because if you if you tend to stall your body with

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that

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early extension so it stays facing the golf ball

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that'll get the path and the hand path both going out

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towards the target line and that combination is going to move the

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hosel out there uh nine ninety nine times out of ten

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um and so that actually transitions well into um a

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question I had from Sean uh one of the members of the site

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he was asking about early extension he said his early extension went away

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um from some of his uh his work here with a few of our drills

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but now he's worried that um his legs are bent at impact so he's

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he's been able to get his chest to be more down but now

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here we'll do it this way he's been able to get his chest more down but now

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coming into impact he has a little bit more of

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kind of that soft bend look where he used to have those legs straightening

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but his upper body would go with it um that's usually a sign that you're

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you're stabilizing and getting the pressure from more of the quad

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going uh so the pressure through that lead foot going more into the quad as

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opposed to into the glute um that by itself is not

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a dramatic problem um

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i would say that it's something to monitor so it depends how long you've

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been um like working on your chest thing now

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i never like to move on too quickly i want you to

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let the pattern kind of organize and gel a little bit

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so if you've been let's say just recently uh improving your chest staying down

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you should probably work on that and not really worry too much about the

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lead leg buckling on the way through or bending on the way through

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that being said that lead leg bending on the way through

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long term is going to tend to cause more of a steep angle of attack

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so getting some better bracing can help eliminate maybe

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some pulls and some pull hooks and would help eliminate some diggy contact

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um so by getting that bracing that'll tend to move the hand path a little

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bit more around and that'll tend to create a

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little bit more of shallowness from side bend

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and that could improve the miss pattern especially

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uh where i'd be looking would be more like the

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fairway woods or long irons if you still play

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uh okay thoughts on training aids specifically the motorcycle movement

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and the device like the hanger um i

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so we'll probably do another one on stages of learning stages of creating

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awareness i like training aids but i like them

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only for a very short amount of time usually at the beginning of

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getting used to a new pattern so the problem with the training aid is

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they're usually somewhat expensive and you buy it and you feel like you have to

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use it a lot in order to you know justify the fact that you bought it

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where you usually only want to use it for

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let's say five to ten minutes and then put it away for a while and try to take

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what you felt and what you experienced and then try to recreate it

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without the benefit of the the training aid um

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because i'll i'll do another video on it at some point but there's basically

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four stages to building awareness um there's

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using an external um uh reference they call trains and dental reference so

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let's say let's say i'm working on posture because that's a really easy one

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so let's say i've got a stick or a wall behind me and i get my back flat up

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against the wall that's i know that the wall is fixed so my

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brain's gonna buy into it it's not gonna argue that the wall is crooked so it

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knows that that's straight so there i can maybe get straight posture

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but with this fixed external reference the next stage would be

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using um like outside scepter so basically using like

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my eyes or someone touching me so that's where training aids fit in they're in

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one of these first two early categories so like let's say i had a mirror or a

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camera on me and so i was sitting there and like well

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man i feel straight but i can see on the video that i'm not straight so i

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correct it that would be stage two where it's

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instantly i'm i'm getting a visual receptor or

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feel receptor basically i'm able to um see or feel where i'm wrong but i don't

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have an external reference that i can rely on

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the next stage would be um just using my imagination so that would be more like

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okay i feel straight but someone just told me

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that i'm not straight he didn't tell me if i'm not straight this way or i'm not

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straight this way i have to figure it out and then

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the last uh stage would be let's say i could control it when

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someone um told me you know they say that i'm not straight and i

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i fixed my posture the next stage would be fixing my posture

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and doing something else so it's like uh

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come uh you know complex movement so now i'm doing

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i'm fixing my posture and i'm running forward and running side to side like

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i have to do all these other things while keeping my posture

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the hard thing is that the golf swing really fits into that third category

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because you have to do a couple things at once

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so if you use the training aid to say work on the motorcycle

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that's good for stage one training but then you need to

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progress through to stage two stage three stage four

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before it's really going to show up on the golf course

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so what can happen is you get a you do a training aid

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you get better results with your practice but you haven't

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walked through the the progress of how to train the brain

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for the complex model it's going to need on the course

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so then you hit worst shots on the course compared to practice and that

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creates a frustration yet um that's my only criticism with

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training it's is you have to understand what they're good at

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and where they are created okay um question in or comment in from

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out of nowhere axis and spine tilt are a very unnatural move through the ball

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just go with it and work on clearing the hips and early extension will clear

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up um so i always point out that you you know

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hitting the wall solidly is a balance of your steeps and shallows and

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rotation is a steepener so if you're already steep and that early extension

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is when your main ways of shallowing it then if you eliminate early extension

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that makes it steeper and if you add rotation that makes it steeper

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um so you've got to add some shallows somewhere else

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it's either going to be axis tilt or something with the arms

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um most tour pros do it more with the axis tilt

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okay uh ben hogan blades 55 years old champions tour

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sidebed video added nine yards carry in 17 17 yards overall to my drives

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thank you you're very welcome um i can't tell you how often i i hear

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golfers come in when they're struggling with their driver

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and they're really trying to get their weight and their upper body on top of

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that front leg you know kind of that old jimmy ballard style of just

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or you know finishing in a vertical posture

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towards the golf ball so i'm happy to uh to help

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um support the the hangback or getting a little bit better line of pressure

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where your upper body is behind your lower body behind your foot

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um to balance out the pole of the club and create a little more shallow angle

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attack i see improvements like that 20 yards

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nine yards carry in pretty quickly um especially for

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55 year olds pretty good job okay out of nowhere do you think

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aiming one fin one inch in front of the ball helps with wall first contact

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um yes especially especially for um some golfers are

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more visual dominant than others um i'm i personally am more field dominant so

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i almost lose visual awareness over the wall i kind of see it in my peripheral

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i'm not really overly focused but i've had a lot of guys who are

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very visual and um especially at first

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focusing a little bit in front of the golf ball can be helpful what i usually

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do is i'll i'll do something simple like the line drill

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and figure out what do you have to think about in order to

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get the club to bottom out a little bit in front of the golf ball

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and for many of them they'll just say well i looked there

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um and then when they get to the golf ball i say well where were you looking

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and they'll say the back of the wall so i'll say okay well

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when you were hitting the ground where we wanted you were looking here

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and or you know bring my hand out so when we were hitting the ground where we

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wanted you were looking here and then you went to hit a golf ball and you

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moved your focus to there so um looking one inch in front of the golf ball

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can be very helpful uh what what you have to be careful with

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is some golfers that look more one inch in front of the golf ball

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tend to get a little bit more of a lunge with their upper body to move the

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bottom of swing forward so if you do that and

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let's say you're hitting either um deeper divots or you're hitting kind of

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wipey cuts um then make sure that you're not

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getting your look ahead of the golf ball by by lunging

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that would be my only caution with that um Ned your website and new book are

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fantastic any chance you might add a strength and

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flexibility portion to your website any chance i would say

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yes there is a chance um i've been studying under uh gee voié for the

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last few years and i've i've developed a whole new appreciation

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for how detailed it is to do proper stretching

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um to the point where it is i'd say it's almost impossible

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to get someone to stretch perfectly um through website and i kind of i'm a

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little bit of a unless i can do it right i don't want to try it at all so i'm a

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little hesitant with that but i'll see what i'll see what i can come up with

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over over this next uh you know six eight months or so

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um because i know that it's a it is an important part i'm you know

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i was just put on the golf digest uh top fitness trainer list um i do believe

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in uh strengthen flexibility as part of training for golf

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but it's tricky to do through online it's a lot easier to get people to

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improve their swings online than it is to stretch properly

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um all right kevin golf at what stage in the downswing do you like to see

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side tilt kick in and where does it maximize um

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the uh so the side tilt will usually there's a

457
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there's a reason why i kind of break this wing into transition and then release

458
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at the end of transition so somewhere kind of around here

459
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is usually when shoulders are level pelvis is square um and i've reached as

460
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much flexion as i'm going to go into so from here i'm basically

461
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going to go into side bend extension as i continue rotating so the side bend

462
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really starts to kick in after that initial movement there

463
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um so after that little left tilt gets that pressure

464
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it'll start going into the side bend and it'll reach its maximum

465
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usually by follow through position so when the when the shaft is

466
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roughly parallel in the follow through that's when most golfers will reach

467
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their maximum side bend good question also love the book

468
00:35:31.240 --> 00:35:36.840
wish there was one for instructors uh stay tuned we're working on stuff

469
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um okay moto x um bend myers right arm is

470
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longer than left due to surgeries do you on what would you help me

471
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:53.960
impact um all right so i just had a student

472
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who uh flew in here who had a similar situation where he broke his radius

473
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and through the healing process his right arm was maybe about this much

474
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shorter um we did a lot of right arm training

475
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because what was happening was the the left arm was bending a little bit

476
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um basically is a protection from getting pulled out by the right arm so

477
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he had a little bit of an extra scoop or flip to it

478
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we started with the right arm training and then

479
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we went into left wrist training but we were a little bit

480
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uh less less picky on doing the left arm

481
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stuff perfectly um so getting getting more of the

482
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trail arm trail shoulder working perfectly

483
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was uh a big part of the the pattern um so i would definitely look at the

484
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single arm drills the the right arm only um the right arm shot put whatever you

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need to do to get that right arm working

486
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i don't want to say cleanly uh but

487
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i've found in the past that it's easier to train the good

488
00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:14.200
arm than to struggle too much with uh the bad arm you basically just make sure

489
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have to make sure that the bad arm is not so bad

490
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that it messes up with the good arms trying to do

491
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um so it's not a um it's going to change a little bit of

492
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the look you'll probably have more of a look of almost like a Chad Campbell

493
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or um even say a Jordan Spieth where the right arm gets fully extended that

494
00:37:36.520 --> 00:37:40.120
would be one of my big follow through keys more so than the left arm being

495
00:37:40.120 --> 00:37:42.600
perfect just working on making sure that left

496
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wrist isn't sa- isn't sabotaging the right arm extension

497
00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:55.240
okay uh i got one more question coming in um we got

498
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ben hogan blades what is the best thing to work on indoors during the winter

499
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so if uh what i usually like to work on in the winter

500
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is the stuff that is the hardest to do during the season

501
00:38:08.520 --> 00:38:12.040
um and that's a little bit case by case so i usually

502
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:14.520
break golfers into two categories you're either

503
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really good with your body and kind of unaware of your hands

504
00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:21.480
or you're really good with your hands and kind of unaware of your body

505
00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:24.760
whichever one you're unaware of i usually

506
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:28.920
train harder in the off season um and because

507
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you can do a lot of good stuff indoors so

508
00:38:31.640 --> 00:38:36.120
that's why i have drills on the website on isolating the body pivots isolating

509
00:38:36.120 --> 00:38:39.480
how the legs work or isolating what the arms do

510
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.320
um the other thing that you can work on

511
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:48.290
indoors during the off season um is you can really work on your fitness if you

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've

513
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got somebody in your area who's really good and can teach you how to

514
00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:55.400
stretch properly um i love aldellas they're

515
00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:58.920
they're great for spine health um i've been studying them the last few years

516
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:03.880
and have a really good success with that um especially for golfers who have

517
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:08.600
l5 s1 back pain stuff um so that's good things to do uh

518
00:39:08.600 --> 00:39:13.560
during the winter um the uh the things that i think

519
00:39:13.560 --> 00:39:18.440
are harder to work on during the winter um

520
00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:22.600
i think it's harder to work on a lot of like the shot shaping skills like the

521
00:39:22.600 --> 00:39:26.840
fine-tuning trajectory control um especially

522
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:30.360
you know if you're working indoors obviously you don't have any of that

523
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:34.760
um what usually ends up happening is when you're practicing indoors

524
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:39.080
your feet have a much uh better connection to the ground than when

525
00:39:39.080 --> 00:39:42.680
you're on grass it's almost like the difference between

526
00:39:42.680 --> 00:39:46.280
doing uh beach volleyball versus indoor volleyball

527
00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:51.320
right so what frequently happens is if you do a ton of indoor practice

528
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and then you go out onto the course and the grass is especially this time of

529
00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:58.920
year it's usually a little bit sogier um because of

530
00:39:58.920 --> 00:40:04.040
you know you have a melted snow or or whatever um

531
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you'll tend to not be able to use your pivot quite as well which tends to

532
00:40:08.200 --> 00:40:13.000
affect low point um so i tend to work on kind of the

533
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the bigger more challenging skills during the winter

534
00:40:16.040 --> 00:40:19.960
knowing that we're gonna have a little bit of sacrifice probably in

535
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:26.600
in scoring um all right i see you're uh so you like to practice impact drills

536
00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:30.120
but uh everyone is lacking in in different areas

537
00:40:30.120 --> 00:40:33.960
yeah i mean the the golf swing is definitely

538
00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:37.240
let's say um complicated to say the least

539
00:40:37.240 --> 00:40:42.680
and so understanding your keys is really important um

540
00:40:42.680 --> 00:40:47.320
so impact drills low point drills those can be

541
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.840
pretty good um but during the winter i think is the best time to get

542
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:53.960
a little bit more technical during the season i like to get

543
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:56.840
i like to spend a little bit more time with skill building

544
00:40:56.840 --> 00:41:02.840
um less so than um less so than kind of your fine

545
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:06.600
motor your precision stuff David Howe one of my

546
00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:11.480
old Denver students it's going to be 10 degrees high at broken tee this weekend

547
00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:17.080
uh yeah here in california i mean it was only it only got up to like 65 you

548
00:41:17.080 --> 00:41:21.240
can see i'm in a sweater um so it's uh it's pretty tough out here too

549
00:41:21.240 --> 00:41:24.680
we we can both we we're both feeling the the winter

550
00:41:24.680 --> 00:41:29.640
pain um okay so i'm gonna i'm gonna wrap this up

551
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i appreciate any questions if you want to uh email questions i can

552
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start creating a list for the next one of these that i'll do

553
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um they seem to be seem to be fun and well received

554
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and uh gives me a good chance to interact with some of you who i i don't

555
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get to see personally if you haven't checked out

556
00:41:48.120 --> 00:41:54.920
either the website or the book always reference uh this is the the book that's

557
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available on amazon stock tour swing if you read it and like it i would

558
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really appreciate any reviews that you can give

559
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those those help me figure out what we need to do better for the next version

560
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and then we're constantly updating you know creating new videos based on your

561
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questions and we got some fun stuff coming in the

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in the mix for 2018 so thank you all for uh for your support and for joining me

563
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on this uh question and answer uh please send me any any feedback and any other

564
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questions that you have they'll help us get ready

565
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for next time um until then go practice with a

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purpose and uh as always happy golfing