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Anyway, just building off what we did last week.

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We were talking mostly about getting a couple, all right, most people are

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saying that we're

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good to go, should be all set.

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Building off of what we did last week, where we were talking about off-season

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training

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programs and working either in the gym or on the range.

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I thought that training aids would be a good topic because I get periodic

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questions either

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from my students in person or from you guys through the site and training aids

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can be

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really helpful or they can absolutely derail what you're working on.

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I'll use a few examples of golfers in the past who have sabotaged what we were

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working

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on by using the wrong training aids.

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Before we jump into specific training aids and what they work on, let me just

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kind of paint

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the big picture.

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You want to use training aids.

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I see, why would someone have two audios?

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I'm not sure what, maybe your computer audio is not.

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That's what I've used in the past.

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I see that, I see that one of you out there has two different audios.

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I would check your particular output because we just checked it here and it

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seems like

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we're pretty good.

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Anyway, I want you to always know what you're working on.

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There are a few key skills that you want to work on whenever you're trying to

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improve

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your golf game.

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One is how you create speed which would include sequencing drills and, let's

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say, rhythm drills,

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how you power your swing, so speed training, all that stuff.

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The second piece would be looking at controlling the path.

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The path can include the horizontal swing direction, so the direction that the

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swing

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plane or path is pointing, as well as low point control.

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If you have a good path, you will make solid contact.

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If you don't have a good path, you will not make good solid contact.

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Then, the last skill is working on clubface control.

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Working on how you orient the clubface compared to the path.

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If your ball has a lot of curve to it, then the clubface is pointing in the

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direction

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of the curve compared to the path.

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Once you figure out which of those skills you really want to work on, then you

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can use

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a training aid to help you correct that specific issue.

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Don't just buy a training aid and use it just because it's the latest, greatest

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thing.

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Make sure it's going to solve your specific problems.

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I've got a list here of training aids that most of you sent in beforehand.

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If you have any questions or any other specific training aids, go ahead and

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shoot them in

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the text.

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I'll check that periodically.

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By far, the most common, I'd say about 50% of the emails I got included, what

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do you

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think of the orange whip?

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If we filter back to thinking about are we working on path, are we working on

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face,

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are we working on speed?

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The orange whip is really good at working on sequencing.

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There's a couple guys in the 3D space who have done a fair amount of research

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and shown

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that in general, kinematic sequences get better when you're swinging the orange

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whip.

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You'll also notice that it tends to improve the swing path.

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If you're trying to figure out what it feels like to swing from the inside,

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orange whip

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is a great way to get that feeling.

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The problem is, it doesn't work on the two other key skills.

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It doesn't work on low point control.

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In fact, in many cases, it will cause your low point control to move backward

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and get

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behind the golf ball.

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If you struggle with low point control, then this training aid can often make

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it worse,

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especially if you use it as a daily warm up.

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The other thing that it doesn't work on is it doesn't work on club face control

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It doesn't really help you learn to rotate the forearms and orient the face.

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You can get away with a scoop flip because you're not really making contact

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ground.

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Again, while missing those two skills, it can make a number of swing patterns

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hit the

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ball worse.

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It can cause you to hit it fat, it can cause you to hit it on the toe.

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It can mess up contact.

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If you're already pretty good at moving low point around, like you do some of

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the playing

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with low point drill where you work on hitting low point behind the ball, low

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point even

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with the ball, low point in front and you work on that spectrum, then you

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shouldn't be worried

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about doing a skill that's going to improve your sequencing and improve your

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speed because

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you'll know how to move the low point back forward.

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If you're not very good at that low point control drill, then I would say that

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the orange

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whip is at best case, we'll give it a yellow flag.

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It's risky because it could cause you to hit a lot of fat and thin shots by

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moving the

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low point backward by getting your path coming a little bit more from the

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The second training aid that I had, the greatest number of questions about is

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the super speed

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system, right?

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Because this is the off season, everybody wants to hit the ball further, so the

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super

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speed system on paper makes a lot of sense and it has probably the same

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advantages and

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challenges as the orange whip.

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So it really helps with sequencing, it really helps with improving your path

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because it's

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harder to swing something off path as fast as you can when it's on plane and as

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a result,

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typically when you don't have a club face, you're not worried about low point

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control,

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you get a lighter object and you're just trying to swing it fast, your path is

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to improve.

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The problem is then, again, if you don't have the skills to be able to control

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the face

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so that it works with a more neutral path and you don't have the skills to be

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able to

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move the low point back forward, then it can become a problem.

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I've seen a number of golfers who struggle with having the club face more open

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and closing

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late and those golfers, when they use things like super speed or to a lesser

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extent orange

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whip, it can cause them to either hit shanks or really thin shots, it can cause

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them to

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leave it off to the right because better sequencing and better timing creates

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shaft lean, creates more lag and that opens the face.

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So if you already struggle with an open face orientation and then you kind of

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to the bottom in order to close it, then those training aids, I would say you

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want to work

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on the club face control first before you start working on really dialing in

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and improving

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that path.

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So that kind of brings us into some of the next genre and I have one question

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on training

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the flat left wrist, right?

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There's a number of training aids out there, whether it's the blue strike or

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the what's

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Martin Chucks, the educator, the coat hanger, there's a lot of things that help

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that left wrist flat and those can be really useful for nine to three training,

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be really useful for working on the arm mechanics, so basically working on a

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Now the question was basically with those devices when we're looking at that

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staying flat, what happens then when you go to a full swing, because obviously

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full swing at some point that wrist starts to lose flexion and move towards

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extension,

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so is it worthwhile to train the nine to threes and keep it more inflection or

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are you setting

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yourself for a bad pattern?

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What I have typically found is that yes doing nine to threes with those type of

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aids can be really helpful because what should pull the left wrist out of flex

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ion and into

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extension is more the speed and the movement of the left shoulder.

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So essentially, let me give a little bit of space here, so down at the bottom

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let's say I've got a little bit of flexion in my wrist like this, well the club

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to be pulling that way and as my body is rotating inside bending, that left

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to be pulling back up away from the golf ball that way, so I've got one thing

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way, one thing pulling that way, everything in between those points is going to

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move towards neutral and basically reach a straight line between them.

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So what takes it out of flexion is more good bracing and good body speed.

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So if you're doing little nine to three shots, it can be really helpful to

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left wrist flat all the way through a nine to three or short waist height swing

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What I typically find is golfers who struggle with having that left wrist flat

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and having

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more of a scoop are trying to absorb the force this way instead of absorbing

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a little bit more natural supination, so basically allowing the club to rotate.

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to have

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to absorb the force one way or the other.

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So if you're struggling with having more of a scoop where the handle is getting

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then doing swings that force the wrist to stay flexed and learning to absorb it

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with that rotation helps build the skill that will make it easier to get the

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when you start taking full swings.

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So I am a fan of things that help promote the flat left wrist and things that

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shaft lean.

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I just don't like to do really big full swings with them because in order to do

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or in order to use the training aid the way it looks like it's designed, you'd

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have to

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effectively use your body in a poor way.

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You wouldn't be able to pivot quite as well.

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Okay, so then I've got a few other training aids that we'll go through before I

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get in

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a few of the questions related to them.

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So we've got the impact snap, which I actually think is a pretty smart training

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device.

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I have a drill on the site where I work on ulnar deviation and ulnar deviation

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is one

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of the key movements of the left wrist going like this that essentially creates

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width in

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the follow through.

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So when it starts re-hinging, it will tend to have a look more like this.

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And if you work on that left wrist getting into ulnar deviation, it will tend

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to have

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a look coming through more like that.

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So you can, as a cheap version, one of the drills I have on the site is working

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on getting

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that grip more in line with the forearm later and later, but Calvin Miyahara

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has a training

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device called the impact snap where basically it forces you to get into that

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impact position.

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Now the only thing that I don't like about it is there's a ball bearing in it

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used for

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timing and in order to get that timing or get the ball bearing to snap on the

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side of the golf ball, you really have to hold off the ulnar deviation for an

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exaggerated

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period of time, at least compared to what I see on 3D and what I see in

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practice.

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I'm a bigger fan of trying to get that ulnar deviation to happen earlier

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get that ulnar deviation happening earlier and more gradual, it tends to

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promote body

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rotation on the way through and body rotation on the way through tends to help

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promote that

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increased arc width or the wide point getting on the other side of the golf

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ball, which

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helps with your flat spot and overall consistency.

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So I am a big fan of the impact snap.

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I think just doing the perfect place to do that type of training is whenever

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hanging out watching TV, all the lot of my students grab either a sharpie or a

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TV remote

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and work on wrist mechanics, just kind of putting in reps so the brain and the

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body

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is more and more comfortable with those movements, similar to the karate kid

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doing all the wax

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on stuff, just to train the muscle pattern so that then when you get on the

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range, it's

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easier to recall that pattern and build it into a more usable scale.

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So impact snap is definitely one of those good training devices that you can

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use to

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train the wrist release, just be careful with the timing because the timing can

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be counterproductive.

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The swing guide, I had a question about that, it's one of the most popular

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training devices

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out there for a long period of time.

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It can be useful if you don't use it the way that they recommend you use it on

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the box.

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So on the box, they basically want you to hinge your wrist so that it sits up

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against

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your forearm just like so.

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The problem is when you hinge your wrist like that, you'll tend to create some

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extension

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which is going to tend to open the club face, and if you keep that club face

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open long

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into the downswing, then that would create an excessively steep path from the

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arm so

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you'll shallow out your body.

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The most common ways to shallow out the body would be to delay the rotation and

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go into

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a bit of extension so it really can promote more of this kind of extension

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stall pattern

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and then rapid flip down to the bottom.

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But what you can do is if you set it up the way that you're supposed to, but

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then you

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make sure instead of it hitting your forearm that it stays on the outside of

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your forearm.

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So basically, you're going to make sure that it is outside of the body here.

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So it's basically connected from here to there, and that will help encourage

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the flexion especially

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on the way through.

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So when you go into that release or the follow through side, making sure that

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the swing guide

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is on the outside of the forearm instead of hitting it right on top.

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The radial deviation or hinging the wrist is one of the movements that many

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amateur golfers

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tend to struggle with.

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When you hinge your wrist, especially on the way through, that tends to close

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the club

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face.

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It's effectively like having the ball up above your feet, and you can see that

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that club

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would be pointing way to the left.

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So many golfers, amateur golfers anyway, use that kind of rehinging down at the

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bottom

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to help close the club face, and when they first start working on a better

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release, they

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hit it out to the right because they, instead of getting the shaft rotation to

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close the

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club face, they're doing it with that rehinge.

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So the training devices that emphasize holding that hinge longer can indirectly

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cause you

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to have more of a scoop or more of a roll pattern down at the bottom.

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So that's something that you have to be careful of if you struggle with club

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face control

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and you use more of that roll as one of your primary ways for scoring the face.

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There's some other devices that work on kind of connection, so you've got like

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the swing

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shirt where you, it basically forces your arms to stay close together, you've

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got things

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like the impact ball.

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You've got, you know, I use just a car wash sponge, but things that keep your

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arms close

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together generally work on path training and generally work on sequencing.

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So many golfers struggle with getting a lot of arm pull to create their speed,

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or they

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tend to swing the club backward, mostly using their shoulders instead of using

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their spine.

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So I've said before that virtually every swing tip related to the backswing is

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just trying

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to get you to use your body instead of your arms to bring the club back, or to

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keep the

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club face from opening up too much.

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So all the low and slow and one piece take away and things like the shirt and

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the impact

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ball, that just forces you to rotate your body in the backswing as opposed to

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just moving

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your arms.

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When you just move your arms, it then becomes harder to have really good

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sequencing and transition.

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So I put those in more of a how we create speed category.

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Now I've got a video on the impact ball and why I prefer like softer sponges

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and things

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like that is because in the follow through those arms should be getting closer

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together.

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So if you have a device that's too firm in between your forearms, it will tend

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to prevent

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you from getting that trail arm to fully straighten, or it will tend to cause

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your upper body

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to lunge too far forward in order to get the club to swing on a good path

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without letting

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those arms get closer together.

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So there's a lot of training aids that seem like a good idea on paper and

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ultimately help

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you with one specific aspect.

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But if you take it all the way through the whole swing, it messes up another

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area.

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And that's one of the cases where the impact ball helps you with your backswing

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and helps

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you with your transition, but it can be a problem for the release, which many

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golfers struggle

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with.

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So I'm not a huge fan of that one, I would prefer using something softer like a

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sponge.

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I see a couple questions coming in.

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Martin Chuck's five and seven irons with the no leading wedge, do you mean the

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tour striker?

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The problem with the tour striker is, so if you haven't seen it, the tour

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striker instead

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of the golfer or the golf club being like this, the leading edge is basically

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up here

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and then it has a curved bottom.

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So in theory, its design is to get you to excessively lean the shaft.

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Now the problem is it has so much bounce, they used, the sole is fairly round,

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that you

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can actually scoop it well enough to get the ball in the air even if you don't

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use it properly.

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So I haven't seen a huge carryover from those devices.

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I like Martin's other training aid, the educator, a whole lot better.

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So I give kind of a caution, I think there's better stuff to then Martin Chuck

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's tour striker.

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In fact, that brings one of the questions was about the DST compressor.

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So the DST compressor, if you haven't seen it, is a curved shaft.

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So instead of the club going straight, it kind of curves like this.

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So essentially it forces you to get your hands ahead, which is one of the

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things that most

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amateur golfers struggle with.

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So it just gives you the experience of when your hands are ahead, how would you

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have the

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club face square?

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And it definitely helps with shallowing the club.

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If you have more of an early arm action, if you have more of kind of a cast

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pattern,

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you'll hit the ball just terribly.

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The thing that it doesn't really help with is it doesn't really help prevent a

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flip.

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So if your main struggle is more of club face control with a flip, then I think

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there are

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better trainees.

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But if your main goal is getting used to the hands forward or shallowing in

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transition,

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I think it's a pretty good one.

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I've got a fair number of students who like it.

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I would use it sparingly, so I'd use it as just kind of like the first five or

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ten minutes

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of a warm-up session or of your warm-up before getting into some mechanical

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practice.

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But I wouldn't overdo it with that because it doesn't -- I think it can

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actually encourage

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a little bit of a flip, but I don't have enough data points on that one to say

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100%.

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I see a couple of questions coming in.

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Sharon's asking about the sure set.

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I'm actually not quite sure about the sure set.

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If you can post the link of the sure set, and I'll click on it real quick and

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check

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it out.

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George is asking about boards and plastic to place behind the ball to promote

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divot in

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front of the ball.

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Yeah, when you're practicing indoors or when you're practicing in the winter,

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low point

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control is more challenging to pay attention to when you're training on a mat.

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There are things like the fat plate.

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You can take a credit, old credit card or room key and place it behind the golf

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ball.

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You can place a towel.

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Those things can help you be more aware of low point control because the mat,

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you can

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YouTube, high speed video of hitting it fat on a mat and you'll see that if you

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hit behind

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the ball, the ball will pop up and you'll hit it right in the middle of the

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club.

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You'll feel like you hit a good shot, but if you'd done that off grass, it

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would have

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been a poor shot.

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So I do like having some type of feedback if you're working on low point

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control.

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So you'll see I'm always going to come back to what skill are you trying to

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train and

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low point control is one of the most important factors when it comes to making

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solid contact

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with the irons and solid contact.

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Good iron play is one of the fastest ways to lower your scores.

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So I would say that having something when you're practicing to just make sure

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that you don't

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get too sloppy with your low point control is a really good idea.

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Chris is asking, if you have to consolidate the training ideas, can you pick

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three or

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four training aids, which would be great for members of the gym to the work and

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practice?

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Members who come just and swing the orange whip and golf club, it would be

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great to

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hear your recommendations for a gym with 1,200 members, top three of the ones

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you talked

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about here.

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So I would get a few of the impact snap.

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It's not really a, I wouldn't say that it's a big workout, but you could, if

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you're doing

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golf fitness, you could throw it into part of your cool down.

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It would just really help, or in between sets or things like that, almost like

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an active

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recovery period.

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I do like the orange whip or the super speed.

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They're slightly different.

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I think the orange whip is a little bit more universal, super speed.

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You have to be a little careful just because you will reinforce whatever your

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power program

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is.

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So if you are more of an armpel, you will typically strengthen your armpel

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pattern.

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If you are more of like an early standard jumper, you will reinforce your early

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standard

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jumper pattern.

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You want to be careful with that, where the orange whip I tend to find improves

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and balances

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kind of whether you're swinging more from your legs or more from your core or

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more from

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your upper body.

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I do like the DST compressor, and I use an impact bag a lot, but I don't use it

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, again,

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the way that it's described on the package.

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I don't use it to just swing and hit it as if you were hitting a golf ball.

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I'll put it at specific times to almost stop you mid-movement so that you can

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see where

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you are and what you're doing.

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So if I had to pick three, those would probably be three that I'd be working on

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.

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Golden Gate is asking, "If you have any time, do you have any PJ Tour data on

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the amount

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or degrees of hitting down on a five iron?"

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Some say sweep, but some hit down slightly.

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Oh, well, before I jump to that, I see Jim saying, asking about the orange whip

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wedge

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accidentally lice it, silently endorsed it and created it.

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I do have one and I think it's really smart.

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Now here's the, I know two different golf instructors who are both very highly

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respected

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for their short game teaching, and they use it totally differently.

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They both use the product, one tries to load it and unload it as fast as they

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can, and

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the other one tries to swing it with very little loading, but I think that it

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helps with

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feeling the club head and with a little bit more of a cast style sequence.

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So whether you do it aggressively or a little bit more passively, I still think

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it's very

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helpful for communicating, waiting at the top of the swing instead of a really

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big pull,

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and many golfers who struggle with the chip yips or hitting them really fat,

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really bad

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miss patterns, pull too hard on the grip in order to try to move it forward,

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and they

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do really well with the orange whip wedge.

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Sorry, so PJ Tour data on the amount of degrees of hitting down on a five iron,

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I don't have

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extensive data on that, I could probably talk to some of my buddies and find it

516
00:28:10.730 --> 00:28:11.040
.

517
00:28:11.040 --> 00:28:14.020
Off the top of my head, I'm going to say somewhere around three, maybe four

518
00:28:14.020 --> 00:28:14.520
degrees

519
00:28:14.520 --> 00:28:18.680
down is probably pretty close.

520
00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:23.540
The sweep first hit down is a little tricky, because when some people feel

521
00:28:23.540 --> 00:28:24.720
sweeping, they'll

522
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:29.910
get that four degrees forward, and oftentimes when golfers try to hit down,

523
00:28:29.910 --> 00:28:30.720
they do it with

524
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:36.430
more of a forward lunge and then end up scooping, and they don't hit down as

525
00:28:36.430 --> 00:28:38.400
much as the phrase

526
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:41.200
I like is trying to hit forward of the golf ball.

527
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.110
So working on where the club brushes the ground, if you have it brushing

528
00:28:45.110 --> 00:28:46.240
slightly ahead of

529
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:50.720
the golf ball, so let's say from the middle of the golf ball onward, then you

530
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:51.360
're going

531
00:28:51.360 --> 00:28:56.010
to hit down at least a couple degrees, which is going to be, depending on your

532
00:28:56.010 --> 00:28:56.560
club at

533
00:28:56.560 --> 00:28:59.960
speed, all you really need.

534
00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:06.060
Kevin's asking, slightly off topic, how do you get heavy set guys, big chested

535
00:29:06.060 --> 00:29:06.820
perhaps,

536
00:29:06.820 --> 00:29:12.110
to get their right arm into external rotation, P4 to 6, or better said, lay the

537
00:29:12.110 --> 00:29:12.840
shaft down

538
00:29:12.840 --> 00:29:13.840
shallowing.

539
00:29:13.840 --> 00:29:21.720
Honestly, I usually do it more with the lead arm.

540
00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:28.000
It's challenging to have that much mass in the way of where your right shoulder

541
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:28.600
needs

542
00:29:28.600 --> 00:29:36.790
to go, so what I've seen from some of the bigger guys on tour, you'll tend to

543
00:29:36.790 --> 00:29:37.760
see almost

544
00:29:37.760 --> 00:29:44.170
like a relaxation of the grip in transition, you'll see a little bit of spacing

545
00:29:44.170 --> 00:29:45.060
happen,

546
00:29:45.060 --> 00:29:48.970
so that that right arm can essentially get out of the way, but the shaft is

547
00:29:48.970 --> 00:29:49.840
still getting

548
00:29:49.840 --> 00:29:51.880
into a shallower position.

549
00:29:51.880 --> 00:30:00.320
So I do a lot of lead arm training with some of my bigger guys, William Brahm.

550
00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:05.110
I hope you at least mentioned my use of the Pels learning aids, I'm not on his

551
00:30:05.110 --> 00:30:05.800
payroll.

552
00:30:05.800 --> 00:30:11.730
They almost bypass the need for focus, because the focus is so immediate and

553
00:30:11.730 --> 00:30:12.720
drastic.

554
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:18.610
Yeah, so it's different skills when we're getting into putting then the full

555
00:30:18.610 --> 00:30:19.440
swing.

556
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:25.120
For putting, the three main skills are starting a ball online, controlling

557
00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:26.520
distance and with

558
00:30:26.520 --> 00:30:30.240
tempo and length of swing, and reading a green.

559
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:36.240
So for reading a green, I will use things like the perfect putter.

560
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:39.770
With the perfect putter, you have to recognize that it gets the ball rolling a

561
00:30:39.770 --> 00:30:40.520
little faster

562
00:30:40.520 --> 00:30:43.280
than you would off the putter.

563
00:30:43.280 --> 00:30:48.690
So while it rolls a perfect putter, it does not show the accurate break of what

564
00:30:48.690 --> 00:30:49.280
the putt

565
00:30:49.280 --> 00:30:51.560
would be if you hit it with a putter.

566
00:30:51.560 --> 00:30:57.120
It will show the accurate break of maybe if you had the device a foot behind

567
00:30:57.120 --> 00:30:57.560
where you're

568
00:30:57.560 --> 00:30:59.160
actually putting it from.

569
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.440
But that can help with green reading.

570
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:10.680
I like to use digital levels and the aim point lie board to help golfers learn

571
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:11.680
how to feel

572
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:13.960
slope with their feet.

573
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:20.000
And then as far as start line, there are devices that can help with ball

574
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.180
rolling end over end.

575
00:31:23.180 --> 00:31:29.530
You can use gates, tees, whether it's the pells, I forget the name of it, but

576
00:31:29.530 --> 00:31:30.960
the little triangle

577
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:33.400
thing with the marbles, that thing is great.

578
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:38.260
All those things that force you into committing to a start line work really

579
00:31:38.260 --> 00:31:38.840
well.

580
00:31:38.840 --> 00:31:43.020
One of the simplest ones is you take a dime and you place it a little more than

581
00:31:43.020 --> 00:31:43.640
two feet

582
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:45.640
in front of the golf ball.

583
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:50.080
A dime placed at two feet in front of the golf ball has the same geometry of

584
00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:50.640
the hole

585
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:52.440
at about ten feet.

586
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:57.740
So if you can roll a ball over a dime, then you can basically make a straight

587
00:31:57.740 --> 00:31:59.520
ten footer.

588
00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:03.160
At least your alignment and start line says that you can make it.

589
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:09.610
And then as far as speed control, I do like to use metronomes and tees or

590
00:32:09.610 --> 00:32:10.760
things like

591
00:32:10.760 --> 00:32:17.830
the Vizio mat just to work on pacing and work on controlling the length of the

592
00:32:17.830 --> 00:32:18.800
swing.

593
00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:23.980
So with putting, I would say, there's a couple different ways you can approach

594
00:32:23.980 --> 00:32:25.200
distance control,

595
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:29.920
which is one of the more challenging skills.

596
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:34.640
You can approach distance control by either creating one baseline putting

597
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:35.400
stroke.

598
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:41.430
And then let's say I'm going to take the putter back to just outside my, let's

599
00:32:41.430 --> 00:32:42.040
say, six

600
00:32:42.040 --> 00:32:43.040
inches outside my foot.

601
00:32:43.040 --> 00:32:45.600
I'm going to take it back to six inches outside my foot and I'm going to try to

602
00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:46.080
hit it the

603
00:32:46.080 --> 00:32:49.080
same distance every single time.

604
00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:53.520
I can place tees on the ground where I can use the metronome to help make sure

605
00:32:53.520 --> 00:32:54.520
that my

606
00:32:54.520 --> 00:32:59.570
putting tempo is pretty consistent and then if I take it back the same length

607
00:32:59.570 --> 00:33:00.320
swing, I

608
00:33:00.320 --> 00:33:05.050
should be able to get it to stop within about a foot to, let's say, two feet

609
00:33:05.050 --> 00:33:05.960
depending on

610
00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:08.560
how far that putt is.

611
00:33:08.560 --> 00:33:14.750
Well, then if I have this baseline and I know about how far that goes, I can go

612
00:33:14.750 --> 00:33:15.160
a little

613
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.300
shorter for short putts and a little longer for long putts and I can use that

614
00:33:19.300 --> 00:33:20.440
as my calibration

615
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:23.920
whenever I go to a new course.

616
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:28.240
So again, for putting, there's lots of devices to work on start line.

617
00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:36.720
There's lots of devices to help with path but really path is secondary to face

618
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:37.760
control

619
00:33:37.760 --> 00:33:39.560
in putting.

620
00:33:39.560 --> 00:33:43.330
So if you're, if you can control the face to start it online, you can control

621
00:33:43.330 --> 00:33:43.960
your tempo

622
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:48.400
to roll at the distance you want and you can read greens, you can be a really

623
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:49.280
good putter.

624
00:33:49.280 --> 00:33:57.000
Okay, I had one other question from Jim who I see signed on.

625
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:03.890
He was asking about, and this is, this is a little separate from the training

626
00:34:03.890 --> 00:34:05.360
aid discussion.

627
00:34:05.360 --> 00:34:11.030
I covered most of the training aids on the list but if you have any that I didn

628
00:34:11.030 --> 00:34:12.320
't cover,

629
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:14.640
just type them in the chat box right now.

630
00:34:14.640 --> 00:34:18.960
This question was more on like power source training and sequencing training.

631
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:25.170
So he was asking about left arm adduction in transition followed by abduction

632
00:34:25.170 --> 00:34:25.920
through

633
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:26.920
the ball.

634
00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:33.310
It creates a little bit of a shoulder loading swing, a slingshot that's helpful

635
00:34:33.310 --> 00:34:34.400
for getting

636
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:39.500
the low point forward but it's really helpful for getting the arc wide in the

637
00:34:39.500 --> 00:34:40.840
follow through.

638
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:46.790
If you do the opposite or if you disconnect too soon, then what will typically

639
00:34:46.790 --> 00:34:47.440
happen

640
00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:51.990
is the club will pass your chest too early and once the club passes your chest,

641
00:34:51.990 --> 00:34:52.480
you're

642
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:57.600
going to have to bend your arms in order to absorb the speed.

643
00:34:57.600 --> 00:35:00.400
So his question was basically what promotes this?

644
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.880
Is it a natural movement of the body or is it something the arm should do?

645
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:11.840
If the arms are soft and relaxed then if my body turns into my arm that's going

646
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:12.480
to load

647
00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:13.760
my shoulder.

648
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:19.560
I never want my golfer's thinking of kind of pulling away from the target.

649
00:35:19.560 --> 00:35:27.120
There was a phrase that I loved when I heard a javelin throw or a javelin coach

650
00:35:27.120 --> 00:35:28.320
talk about

651
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:33.180
teaching javelin throw and that basically you run away from the javelin you don

652
00:35:33.180 --> 00:35:33.520
't pull

653
00:35:33.520 --> 00:35:34.520
it back.

654
00:35:34.520 --> 00:35:37.640
You'll always want energy moving in the direction of the target but in order to

655
00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:38.280
fire muscles

656
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:43.920
you need to stretch them so instead of pulling the javelin back and then

657
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.440
letting it go, you

658
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.570
keep that javelin in space and you move your shoulder away from it faster and

659
00:35:49.570 --> 00:35:50.120
then let

660
00:35:50.120 --> 00:35:51.120
it go.

661
00:35:51.120 --> 00:35:54.320
So you've got energy always moving in the direction of the target.

662
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.550
So even though I'm going to create this load of my shoulder, it's not because I

663
00:35:58.550 --> 00:35:59.160
'm pulling

664
00:35:59.160 --> 00:36:03.240
my shoulder back, it's because I have good sequencing and my lower body is

665
00:36:03.240 --> 00:36:04.080
turning into

666
00:36:04.080 --> 00:36:08.630
the shoulder faster than my arm is pulling away from it and that loads the

667
00:36:08.630 --> 00:36:09.400
stretch in

668
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:13.480
a more productive way or more powerful way.

669
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:19.080
The consequences of not doing it correctly is if you don't load into the

670
00:36:19.080 --> 00:36:20.120
shoulder it

671
00:36:20.120 --> 00:36:22.960
means that your sequencing is off.

672
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:28.010
It means that you're firing more your shoulders first and then your core would

673
00:36:28.010 --> 00:36:29.280
have to basically

674
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.880
catch up or stabilize it.

675
00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:41.120
So it could potentially sap you of some power and it could potentially affect

676
00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:42.280
you with the

677
00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:46.720
driver because it would prevent you from getting the wide point later and later

678
00:36:46.720 --> 00:36:46.920
.

679
00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:51.360
It would tend to cause your right arm to have to straighten a little bit too

680
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:51.880
soon which

681
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:56.440
would cause your body to stall a little bit.

682
00:36:56.440 --> 00:37:02.000
So now the thing that it could challenge you with is if you aren't really

683
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:02.960
comfortable

684
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:08.150
getting shaft rotation or if you're not really comfortable powering it with

685
00:37:08.150 --> 00:37:09.200
your body then

686
00:37:09.200 --> 00:37:14.240
it could cause you to almost have the opposite effect of good sequencing.

687
00:37:14.240 --> 00:37:18.270
It could cause you to get out of position and out of timing and it could

688
00:37:18.270 --> 00:37:19.320
prevent you from

689
00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:23.190
getting the club face to square especially if you get more of your squaring

690
00:37:23.190 --> 00:37:24.320
from straightening

691
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:30.190
that trail arm instead of just rotating the club shaft with the forearms as

692
00:37:30.190 --> 00:37:31.040
your body

693
00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:34.760
is powering it.

694
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:40.390
What about, let's see, we've got a couple other questions, Golden Gate coming

695
00:37:40.390 --> 00:37:41.000
in, do

696
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:47.670
you believe in chunking to get swing in memory or taking at least 200 to 300

697
00:37:47.670 --> 00:37:48.640
swings for a

698
00:37:48.640 --> 00:37:54.410
new technique, your thought is the winter, a good time for repetition practice,

699
00:37:54.410 --> 00:37:55.200
yes I'm

700
00:37:55.200 --> 00:38:02.030
absolutely a big fan of chunking, I'll tell my students that the research I've

701
00:38:02.030 --> 00:38:03.040
seen shows

702
00:38:03.040 --> 00:38:08.940
that your goal is frequency, not necessarily duration so if you're doing 10

703
00:38:08.940 --> 00:38:09.920
minutes, five

704
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:14.920
times a day that's probably better than doing two hours once a day.

705
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:22.320
So if you're able to even do slow motion practice or a little bit at home, I'll

706
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:22.880
give

707
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:28.440
them toothbrush drills so things that you can work on in the morning or in the

708
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:29.040
evening,

709
00:38:29.040 --> 00:38:32.840
standing in the elevator, we've all seen that PGA Tour commercial where people

710
00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:33.640
are practicing

711
00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:37.680
their swing at all different points, that can be really useful.

712
00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:45.450
If you have a hitting station, either in your basement or garage, doing shorter

713
00:38:45.450 --> 00:38:46.200
sets is

714
00:38:46.200 --> 00:38:54.640
something that'll usually speed up the learning, excuse me.

715
00:38:54.640 --> 00:39:01.330
But as far as taking at least 200 to 300 swings, it depends on how good your

716
00:39:01.330 --> 00:39:02.960
vocabulary is.

717
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:10.550
So basically, the better your body awareness, the better your understanding of

718
00:39:10.550 --> 00:39:11.960
the different

719
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:16.940
phases of your swing, so if you understand your release, and you understand

720
00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:18.320
your transition,

721
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:23.880
you'll be able to make swings a whole lot, or swing changes a lot faster than

722
00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:24.280
someone

723
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:25.680
who does not.

724
00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:29.450
So if you're early in the learning stages, it may even be more than that, maybe

725
00:39:29.450 --> 00:39:30.200
more like

726
00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:37.920
500 to 1,000, so essentially like 10 buckets of balls or so.

727
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:43.940
But if you have a solid understanding of your stock swing, I think it can be a

728
00:39:43.940 --> 00:39:44.880
lesson that

729
00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:49.680
I think it could be closer to the two to three buckets.

730
00:39:49.680 --> 00:39:53.640
But usually it's not going to happen overnight, you are going to have to put in

731
00:39:53.640 --> 00:39:54.480
some practice

732
00:39:54.480 --> 00:40:00.640
before it'll even show up in flashes on the course.

733
00:40:00.640 --> 00:40:05.180
Chris Padman's asking, "What about trades for neural training, or is that

734
00:40:05.180 --> 00:40:06.880
another episode?"

735
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:12.720
You know, that's probably another episode.

736
00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:18.900
One of the things that I will pass on, there's a couple different devices out

737
00:40:18.900 --> 00:40:20.160
there, like

738
00:40:20.160 --> 00:40:27.620
there's the halo, there's Debbie Cruz's that uses the muse, there's the focus

739
00:40:27.620 --> 00:40:28.500
band.

740
00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:33.870
One of the things that I've learned from looking in that space is that there's

741
00:40:33.870 --> 00:40:34.440
two different

742
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:35.440
schools.

743
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:38.800
One teaches focus and the other teaches relaxation.

744
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:44.370
Relaxation is best done in between shots, and focus is best done in the playbox

745
00:40:44.370 --> 00:40:44.800
or over

746
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:45.800
the ball.

747
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:50.890
So they teach slightly different skills, you just have to know which it is that

748
00:40:50.890 --> 00:40:51.520
you need

749
00:40:51.520 --> 00:40:57.410
to be able to apply, but trying to get in a really mellow, relaxed state over

750
00:40:57.410 --> 00:40:58.160
the ball

751
00:40:58.160 --> 00:41:00.840
is not the same thing as being focused.

752
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:06.800
So I'm a little cautious on using things like the focus band over the ball.

753
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:11.840
I think the focus band trains a great skill, but it's not the skill you would

754
00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:12.440
want in the

755
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:18.420
state of when you're actually executing the shot.

756
00:41:18.420 --> 00:41:23.280
The swing, my guess is actually about swing extender, yes, he sent the email.

757
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:28.910
Swing extender is this plastic device that goes in between here, basically it

758
00:41:28.910 --> 00:41:29.680
prevents

759
00:41:29.680 --> 00:41:36.610
you from over bending your arm on the backswing, but I have seen it used

760
00:41:36.610 --> 00:41:38.720
successfully in trying

761
00:41:38.720 --> 00:41:43.680
to train keeping the bend during the downswing.

762
00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:49.380
The key is from the down the line, a lot of golfers who would work on that

763
00:41:49.380 --> 00:41:50.440
would still

764
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.730
get the club too far out in front of them, so you'd have to make sure that you

765
00:41:53.730 --> 00:41:54.400
're getting

766
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:57.400
some of the shallowing as you're keeping that bend.

767
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:03.340
And that shallowing would come more from the external rotation or from the lead

768
00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:03.760
form

769
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:08.360
rotation instead of actively from the shoulder.

770
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:14.870
But that can be useful, if that's your main barrier, let's say you're working

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on sequencing

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and you recognize, you see it on video, you see that your main barrier to

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sequencing is

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that right arm tends to get straight too soon, then doing something to actively

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prevent

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you from straightening it too soon will help encourage the body to lead longer

777
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and longer

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in the downswing.

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So that's the smart way to use the training aids, is to use it to directly

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affect one

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00:42:40.220 --> 00:42:46.720
skill, don't just use it because you think that it's the right thing to do.

782
00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:55.930
Alright how about the pitch grip, I don't know what the pitch grip is, so shoot

783
00:42:55.930 --> 00:42:56.520
me an

784
00:42:56.520 --> 00:43:00.160
email about that one and I'll take a look at it.

785
00:43:00.160 --> 00:43:04.710
Chris is asking about the halo, I haven't used the halo myself, one of my

786
00:43:04.710 --> 00:43:05.560
colleagues

787
00:43:05.560 --> 00:43:09.760
does speak highly of it but I have yet to get my hands on one and try one.

788
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:17.120
I've tried the muse and I like it but I have yet to try the halo on that side.

789
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Any aids for the release, yes well the impact snap helps the release, again if

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you're using

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it correctly, the educator works on the release.

792
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My favorite way to train the release is with the single arm drills and just

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basically being

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00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:45.730
a little bit more aware of the proper movements and sequencing of the shoulders

795
00:43:45.730 --> 00:43:46.640
and the arms

796
00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:49.440
through the release.

797
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:54.810
I'm playing around with creating some stuff that I think will help with that

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but I have

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not seen anything great yet on the market that specifically trains either the

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00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:02.600
trail or the

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lead arm.

802
00:44:03.600 --> 00:44:06.860
There's a bunch of things that train kind of the club but I haven't seen

803
00:44:06.860 --> 00:44:07.640
anything that

804
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trains the whole arm which is why I'm working on stuff for that.

805
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:21.080
Alright we've got time for maybe one more if anything comes in quickly.

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I want to, sorry for the little audio issue, this time I will, basically I'll

807
00:44:28.190 --> 00:44:29.200
make sure

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that the mic is plugged in next time.

809
00:44:34.380 --> 00:44:40.160
One quick last question, any training aids for the lower body sequencing?

810
00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:44.000
Well, so that's a great question.

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So lower body sequencing, the things that I like to do to work on improving

812
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:50.800
lower body

813
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:54.820
sequencing is to get you aware of how your feet need to work against the ground

814
00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:55.120
.

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So my favorite things to do especially in the off season are more like lateral

816
00:45:00.680 --> 00:45:01.280
agility

817
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:10.120
drills, you know, people who like to ice skate, right, helps learn how to push

818
00:45:10.120 --> 00:45:11.160
against the

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ground properly.

820
00:45:13.520 --> 00:45:18.600
Typically I find that golfers who struggle more with the lower body sequencing

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have

822
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:23.530
poor balance, poor foot ankle awareness and have never done any skills where

823
00:45:23.530 --> 00:45:24.120
they had

824
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to move laterally or change direction quickly and so doing things working on,

825
00:45:31.620 --> 00:45:32.720
that's why

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00:45:32.720 --> 00:45:40.120
things like step drills and step drills swinging the rope work really well.

827
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The leaderboard was an interesting device because it got good muscle activation

828
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but it didn't

829
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:51.400
necessarily train the proper foot mechanics.

830
00:45:51.400 --> 00:45:58.630
So I default to lateral shuffles, lateral bounding and then step drills working

831
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on the

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00:45:59.520 --> 00:46:02.200
Jackson 5.

833
00:46:02.200 --> 00:46:06.670
But for those who do rollerblading and ice skating work really well for helping

834
00:46:06.670 --> 00:46:07.160
train

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00:46:07.160 --> 00:46:12.100
lower body sequencing, just make sure you know how to ice skate before you go

836
00:46:12.100 --> 00:46:12.800
out there

837
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:17.160
and try to do it explosively.

838
00:46:17.160 --> 00:46:21.220
If you have any other thoughts, we're kind of coming to the end of our time

839
00:46:21.220 --> 00:46:21.760
here.

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So if you have any other questions, feel free to shoot me an email at support@g

841
00:46:26.130 --> 00:46:27.520
olfsmartacademy.com

842
00:46:27.520 --> 00:46:34.080
or if you have any suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered in future Q

843
00:46:34.080 --> 00:46:34.760
&As.

844
00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:39.200
Thanks for everyone for writing in their questions, happy New Year to everyone

845
00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:40.000
out there and

846
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.600
happy 2018.

847
00:46:43.600 --> 00:46:50.270
If you haven't checked it out, we've got, I've got my book we're closing in on

848
00:46:50.270 --> 00:46:51.120
selling

849
00:46:51.120 --> 00:46:56.840
500 copies, perfect, thank you very much.

850
00:46:56.840 --> 00:47:01.490
So we've got the book that I launched in November, we'll probably do a Q&A

851
00:47:01.490 --> 00:47:02.760
where we'll just go

852
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.120
through questions based on topics that I've covered in the book.

853
00:47:07.120 --> 00:47:12.160
That was one suggestion and we'll get that probably going pretty soon.

854
00:47:12.160 --> 00:47:16.200
It's been pretty well received, I'm pretty happy with it, so love if you check

855
00:47:16.200 --> 00:47:16.600
it out

856
00:47:16.600 --> 00:47:21.080
and review it on Amazon, that's where we're currently selling it.

857
00:47:21.080 --> 00:47:27.060
If you have any questions about training aids off-season programs, again, send

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00:47:27.060 --> 00:47:27.480
them

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00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:29.880
to support and I'll answer them directly.

860
00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:37.440
But thanks again for everybody for, yeah, I'll put the, I'll put the link to

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the right arm

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00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:41.120
drills in the link below.

863
00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:45.560
Absolutely, Chris, I'll see you at the next class and I'll be sure to sign your

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00:47:45.560 --> 00:47:46.160
copy.

865
00:47:46.160 --> 00:47:51.130
Alright, thank you again for signing in, I look forward to seeing you guys in

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00:47:51.130 --> 00:47:53.400
the next Q&A.

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As always, good luck and happy golfing.