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All right, welcome to another edition of the YouTube channel.

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YouTube live question and answer if you have any questions post them in the

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comment section below if this is your first time please put your name and where

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you're where you're listening from.

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I've got a handful of questions that will go through and we'll go through the

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ones related to transition because the theme of this class or this little

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YouTube event is talking more about what's happening during transition.

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So if I get through all those, then I can address some of the other questions

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related to fitness or putting, etc.

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But I had a real fun event this week where we at the club hosted Stan Utley.

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So I got to watch him do two clinics now.

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I've known Stan for about eight years. He and James Seachman have been kind of

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the two biggest influences on my short game technique other than the 3D data of

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tour pros that I've seen and just kind of my own coaching and anatomy

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experience.

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I've really picked up a lot from his class. If you get a chance and he's ever

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in your area, highly recommend you spending three hours with him and hearing

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what he says has to say about the short game.

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Every attendee really liked it. We're already trying to get him to come back.

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So thanks again, Stan. Be sure to check him out.

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Okay, so now without further delay, let's get into some of the transition

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questions.

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So Jason, who's working through some stuff, asked about the overall shape.

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So basically, I mentioned in my book that the right arm is going to go kind of

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wide in the backswing, narrowly during transition and then wide during the

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release.

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So his question was ignoring the body more so from the arms, what contributes

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to that wide, narrow, wide look.

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So there's a number of different factors that can contribute to the narrowing

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during transition.

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The most prominent would be the bending of the trail arm, so the right elbow

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increasing its flexion.

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The extension of the lead wrist, so the lead wrist will tend to extend an

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additional, let's say, 10 to 15 degrees or so during transition.

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The left arm will have a movement where it basically comes across your chest,

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so an adduction, and the left forearm will have a pronation or rotation this

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way.

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So in combination, the club is this far away. As I extend my wrist, bend my arm

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, bring it across.

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Now the club is much closer to my center than where it was at the top of the

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swing.

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Now most of those movements happen because there's weight with this club that's

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attached to my hands.

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And when my body starts to shift pressure and start rotating in the direction

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of the target, it creates this leg movement because of the weight holding my

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arms back.

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It doesn't mean that my arms are pulling away. One of the analogies or the

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images that I like to use a lot is a javelin thrower.

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You don't want to pull the javelin back. You want to run away from the javelin,

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so you want to stretch the muscle while it's still trying to go in that

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direction.

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Same thing applies here. During that transition, my arms are trying to throw

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down towards the golf ball.

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My arms are trying to apply force around my body in the direction of the target

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, but they're getting left behind from my body.

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So it creates these shortening movements, but not because I'm actively pulling

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it away. Sometimes when you're first learning it and working through it in

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drills, you'll have to actively do it just to get used to those positions.

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But then when you start adding your body back in, it should become more of a

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passive movement.

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His second question was, what are the impact effects of having too much right

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arm too early in the downswing?

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First, let me go on, I'm already on record, but let me restate.

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I think that a cast is more of a right arm problem than a left arm problem for

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a right hand golfer.

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I think that it's more of either a straightening of the right elbow early or a

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protection of the right shoulder.

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That one's kind of come on my radar in the last year, or a flexion of the trail

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race.

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So basically anything going that way. A cast is not early release or early un

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hinging.

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You've kind of been, I don't want to say, fed a lie, but I've got a handful of

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3D's of really long hitters who are decreasing the amount of ulnar early during

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transition because the wrist is going into flexion.

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But they're increasing the look of lag because of the trail risk going into

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extension.

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Many amateurs start going into flexion, sorry, the trail risk going into

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extension. Many amateurs go into flexion early in transition.

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And that becomes a problem because going into flexion early during transition

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not only gets the club moving away from you and cast the parachute that's going

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to slow you down a bit, but it also opens the club face.

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So that opening of the club face requires that you do things to close it down

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later, such as extend the arm more, bring the handle back, stall your body,

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things that usually cause low point to get backward and decrease power.

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So the problem with getting too wide too soon is it limits your power

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production and it moves the low point backward, so it limits your compression.

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That can be great for a wedge shot or a short game shot, but not so good when

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you're trying to create a lot of speed with say a 5 iron or 3 wood or something

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like that.

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Okay, Mike asked about the left tilt of the pelvis in the backswing and down

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swing in asking basically why it's not emphasized in my program where other

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programs like Sean Webb and the AMG guys tend to focus a lot on that left tilt

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of the pelvis.

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What I've seen on 3D is that the left tilt of the pelvis, you'll lose that left

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tilt of the pelvis a lot sooner, but sooner than you lose the left tilt of the

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thorax, which will get us into the next question shortly.

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So I feel that more of the look of the left pelvis staying low is more from a

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good weight shift, but if you actually look at the measurements, it's typically

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going more towards right tilt earlier in the downswing than later.

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So a lot of golfers who let's say really try and force that left tilt actually

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end up doing it more so with a forward lunge of their upper body going towards

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the target, not so much with the pelvis.

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I think if you have a really solid weight shift and you don't look like you

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stand up in your posture, you're going to have a fine amount of left tilt with

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the pelvis.

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That can be really relevant from a power creation standpoint, but can cause

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problems for golfers who don't have a good right tilt of the pelvis or the

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Jackson 5 movement, they can cause some driver angle attack issues if you're

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overemphasizing that.

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That's my experience. Okay, D Linenbaum, he asked about how do I work on the

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left tilt without feeling like a dive or a lunge.

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The left tilt in transition is basically if you're looking from the down the

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line camera angle, then as your weight is shifting, this left shoulder and this

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left side of the rib cage is going to compress just slightly.

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One good way that I'll have golfers work on that left tilt is if you look at

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where you are set up and you go to the top of the swing and you're going to try

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and get slightly lower with your chest than where you were at the top of the

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swing.

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In order to do that, you're going to start by getting that left tilt. You'll

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see it's a subtle movement right there, but the net effect is your body is a

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little bit lower.

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As opposed to golfers who tend to get taller, what they're actually doing is

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before they go into flexion, they're starting to go into right side bend.

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It's more of an early extension kind of contribution. I see a question coming

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in from Bruce. Bruce asks, "For a caster that flexes the trail wrist, is it

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okay to try to extend the wrist during transition down swing or is there

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something else that needs to happen in order if we're done naturally?"

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No, I definitely have golfers who work on feeling that that right wrist or

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trail wrist extends. If you're a caster and you're really limited with that

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movement, you can't potentially strengthen the grip so it doesn't have to do it

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quite as much.

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Ideally, yes, getting a little bit more of an extension feel really builds into

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some of the extension feels of the proper right arm covering the ball as

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opposed to getting the shoulder too far behind and going into more of a flip

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pattern.

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It starts getting into that pattern earlier if you feel like it extends. The

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only downside is if you feel like you extend it too much, often times that will

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cause any time you're overdoing the arm motions that'll tend to cause your body

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to want to stall.

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So you can really get into a steep angle of attack because you don't have

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enough body rotation to move the hand path left through the ball. So that's the

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only thing that I would be working on or concerned about, but absolutely

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feeling a little active extension during transition is not a major problem.

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Ideally, it'll happen a little bit more passively, just like if I was throwing

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a ball. The wrist goes into extension during transition, but for starters,

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getting used to that feeling can be a good pattern.

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And I clean up a lot of transition issues by working on a good release, because

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oftentimes, if your brain has no concept of how to release the club or end the

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movement, then starting it in the right direction doesn't really clean things

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up and more creates

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kind of a feeling of panic or confusion, because you're going to struggle

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figuring out how to get down to the golf ball from there.

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Okay, back to a couple of these transition questions. So Brian was asking about

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what do you do if you have a shallow transition, but then it gets steep after

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delivery position so shallow transition followed by steep release.

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Basically, I've got a video on the site where I go through kind of the steep

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shallow timeline, which is basically what creates steepness or shallowness at

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different parts of the swing.

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So the shallowness of the arms in transition doesn't guarantee that you're

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going to have a shallow path down into the ball, because what you could do is

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as you get down towards the bottom here.

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The two main causes of getting steep during the release would be more of an

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upper body lunge, which I'll show in a second, and the second one would be a

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lack of unhinge.

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So if I keep the extension or the radial deviation, if I keep my wrist up like

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this, and I rotate around more like that, that will tend to cause a look of

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getting steep and it will tend to cause diggy contact and like a closed club

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face situation and impact.

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They tend to have more poles or pulled hooks. So getting or letting the the

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older deviation happen down through there continues the shallowing movement.

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The other one is let's say I'm shallow there, but then if the upper body gets

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too much on top of the lower body, even if I'm fun hinging, that can cause a

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look of a steep release as well.

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Many golfers struggle with steepness down during the release, which is one of

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the reasons I'm a bigger advocate on getting earlier unhinge and flexion of

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that lead wrist, because that tends to set up a position where the club is in a

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shallow position.

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And then you can really kind of pour on the rotation and steepening movements

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through impact.

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Okay, I had two questions from just someone who goes by the name of ball

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striker.

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So how does the, he's reading the book and I'm talking about the steeps and

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shallows and he asks, how does the arm lift in transition shallow the club.

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The simple way to think about it is there's two major ways to look at shall

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owing the club, in my opinion, the more that the club swings horizontally as

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opposed to vertically.

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Horizontal is more shallow vertical is going to be more steep because the club

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will be coming basically covering more distance horizontally than vertically.

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If it's going more shallowly where it'll be coming covering more vertical

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distance than horizontal distance will come in steeper.

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The other option or the other way to look at it is the wider in my radius, the

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wider my swing, the further the club gets away from me, the shallower it's

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going to be, and the closer it gets to me, the steeper it's going to be.

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So if I keep my arms in close and work vertically, this is incredibly steep and

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if I extend my arms and lift them a little bit, that will be incredibly shallow

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So the lift of the arm helps the club swing more horizontally, which is a major

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reason why shallowing in transition or the arm staying high in transition or

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lifting in transition is a shallower.

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Now, armed lift is defined by its relationship to the thorax or the chest, so

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what'll happen is as this is going down, if my arm stays at the same height, I

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'm now lifting my arm.

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If I bend backwards like this, I'm actually lowering my arm. You can see the

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difference. If I had this a little bit more down, it might be easier. If I bend

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way forward and then stood back up, you can see that the arm lifted compared to

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my chest.

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If I was here and I back bend even more, you can see that angle narrowing. So

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now if I stood back up, I've actually lowered it.

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So what many golfers do is they actually keep the arms up a little bit higher

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as their chest reflexes. That's the same thing as basically increasing the lift

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of the arm about, let's say, five degrees or so.

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Well, that lift of the arm does a great job for both getting the club to swing

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more shallowly while my body is rotating and flexing because rotating and flex

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ing are both steepeners.

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So with that clarifies, how the arm lift is a shallow move in transition.

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Sometimes it's hard to imagine, but look at it compared to the chest, not

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necessarily compared to the ground.

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His other question was he has a difficulty visualizing or imagining the wipe.

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So I thought I'd take a few minutes and kind of break that down.

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I've got a number of videos on the white because I think it's a really critical

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move for good players to get out of a pull or a hook pattern.

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And the wipe is basically the simple way to explain the wipe is it's moving

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more around my body and going towards the target instead of going straight

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towards the golf ball.

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So if I imagine I had like, let's say, X, Y, and Z, if I had one axis going

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straight out from my chest like this and I had one axis going towards the

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target, I'm working more along the axis towards the target instead of the axis

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towards the golf ball.

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And it's primarily a right arm movement. What many golfers, many amateur golf

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ers do is they get this arm more on the side of their body instead of out in

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front and then from the side of the body, it tends to extend more out towards

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the golf ball.

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What better players tend to do is even if it gets to the side of the body, then

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down through the ball, it's working more across their body as the body is

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throwing it out towards the golf ball instead of the arm throwing it out

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towards the golf ball.

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One way that you can see that is looking at actually two ways you can see it.

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One is with the relationship of the hands compared to the body.

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So right here you can see that my hands are well behind my body, that's a

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delivery position, but then at impact my hands will be more out in front of my

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chest.

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As opposed to if they're behind my body and then at impact they're still behind

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my body the same amount, that would be more of a lack of wipe.

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So one of the examples that some golfers bring up is more of like a Jim Furek

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who has a way back here but still has a really stable release.

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And what you'll see is I'm not so, it's not so much the position that the elbow

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has to get in front of your body, it's just more that it's working around your

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body this way instead of straight out towards the golf ball.

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So Jim Furek gets the arm behind his body but then from about here it's working

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less behind his body, less behind his body, more in front of his body.

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Instead of way behind his body stay back there and extend towards the golf ball

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which is more of the pattern that a lot of amateur golfers would do

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demonstrating a lack of the wipe movement.

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So hopefully that helps. Imagine I use the the white movement is basically my

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term for getting the club back out in front of the body and it's a sign that

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you're applying force more with your body and less with your hands.

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So for those of you following kind of the golf science stuff, it's more of

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using the moment of force instead of the couple as the power source, let's say,

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right around this zone here.

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Okay, so I wanted to jump to a few questions that are unrelated to transition

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that came in from Fred. Fred always has good questions both on the swing as

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well as on on fitness so I'll go through some of his that come in this week.

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One quick question he asked was about low point practice so low point practice

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when you're working on mats if you're putting let's say a piece of tape or a

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live or a towel about how far should you put it behind the golf ball.

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So let's say I've got the golf ball on the mat just like so I would put the

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club just behind the golf ball like this, you'll see the club has some width to

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it.

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I would basically add another half inch to an inch and put it back there so it

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'll be slightly different depending on what club you're hitting with but the

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general guide would be putting it let's say right about where my middle finger

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is there.

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So it would probably end up being about an inch and a half two inches behind

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the golf ball, depending on the club.

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He asked about with putting the foot pressure so is it roughly the same or

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because of the tilt do you tend to have some shifting.

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I've only seen two different putting pressure studies but from the guys who I

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've talked to do more of the data collection on putting it seems like it stays

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more fairly constant in the left hindfoot.

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So even though there's a little bit of body movement they're almost countering

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that on a real subtle scale so the pressure stays more on that left heel or

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left hindfoot.

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I don't see any major weight shift when it comes to good putting.

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I'll jump back to his fitness question here in a second.

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So his question about the swing refers to his first question about the swing is

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looking at vertical head movement.

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So vertical head movement basically looking at vertical sway during the swing

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was the ideal pattern.

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I typically look at the thorax because the head sensor isn't digitized at least

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not in the AMM system.

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So I go off of where is the chest or the center of this spot right here not so

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much the head.

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So I could influence how high the head looks or the sensor looks based on how

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much I'm flexing extending where this one it takes more of the body movement.

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So I feel like this is a better indicator as far as the lift and thrust more so

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than the head.

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So his question is about vertical movement.

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Typically during the backswing it's going to go down slightly that's largely

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because of the left shoulder tilt or left side bend towards the top of the

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swing.

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So it's going to go down let's say half inch to an inch.

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It's going to continue to go down during transition so right to about there it

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'll reach its minimum somewhere around two inches or so.

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But then coming back up into impact it will end up about the same height so I

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usually say give or take or plus or minus half inch to an inch.

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So it doesn't have a whole lot of vertical height change I tend to see a lot

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more with amateurs where it can go you know one to two inches up in the back

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swing or dive down and you know three to four inches during transition they tend

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to have bigger head movement.

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They will in general tend to be taller at impact rather than a little bit lower

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And what I saw when I was doing my research for the World Golf Fitness Summit

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was that the best wedge players tended to be about an inch taller at impact

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with most of their full swing motions where the best drivers of the golf ball

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tended to be a little bit lower.

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So lower than where they started so it's definitely not a one size fit all fits

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all it depends on the pattern.

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I don't like to see a wedge shot where you're going down too much and I don't

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like to see a driver swing where you're going up too much.

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But finding that the pattern that fits for those swings takes a little bit more

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trial and error.

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Okay, his next question super simple he was asking is his is it okay to have

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your head facing the target a little bit or should it be looking down at the

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golf ball at impact.

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I definitely again I don't have a whole lot of head data but even just looking

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at videos having your head turned and looking at more towards the target is

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fine.

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One of the study or one of the stories that stand up late shared this week was

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that he and some of the golfers that he's coached have described that they have

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a very wide field of vision that they're not really focusing on one specific

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spot.

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It's more of kind of seeing everything in the peripheral so I don't really care

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if your head is turned because I think that having your head turn helps more

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with rotation and impact alignment.

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Then overly focusing on the golf ball overly focusing on the golf ball can

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create your body to want to lock down through impact.

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So I would say that controlling low point it's probably easier if you are

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turning your body and if you need to turn your head a little bit in order to

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turn your body I would absolutely prefer that then keeping your eyes fixed on a

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certain spot but then not turning your body on the way through.

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His last swing question was is a little bit trickier I've got a video on the

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site where I go through the pressure patterns that you'll see through the feet

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but he was basically asking what are the ideal vectors during the swing from

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the face on and down the line.

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The simple answer is it's the direction that you're pushing against the ground

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is roughly the opposite of the movement.

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So if I'm pushing if I'm starting to go up I'm going to be pushing more down if

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I'm twisting to the left it means that my foot is twisting more against the

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ground to the right.

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So typically what will happen is as you get towards the top of the backswing

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the weight is going to be let's say somewhere around here the weight or the

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pressure through that right foot is going to be out away from me this way or I

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'm the vector would be going back up towards the target kind of on an angle or

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like that.

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So I'm pushing against the ground as I'm rotating like this in order to slow

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down my body going that way and to then start my body moving in this opposite

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direction.

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Once I get to about this lead foot so once I get to the end of transition kind

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of in this zone here the foot vector is now pushing back up away so it's angled

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slightly I'm pushing at a slight angle away that way and I'm pushing at a

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slight angle away from me.

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If I was to push backwards or towards I would kind of if I pushed behind me

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that would push me into a golf ball and if I pushed towards or away from the

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target that would move me more and more towards the target.

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So that's the clearest one is basically about here I need to be pushing on an

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angle kind of like that so from down the line which was this quest this is the

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real big one is I would be pushing on an angle kind of about like that so it's

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not totally vertical.

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It's kind of pushing away there that would set me up for bringing the force or

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moving away from the club swinging out towards the golf ball which will help

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give me more force and more speed to basically pull that handle in towards the

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body by using a good body pivot.

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So I'd say those are the big ones now his last question was related to fitness

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and this one's a little bit trickier.

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He asked about foam rolling and what are five to ten spots that I would focus

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on for golfers.

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Now my I would say that foam rolling can be a okay short term solution but it's

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not my favorite tissue repair I tend to prefer myofascial stretching if you

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learn how to do really good myofascial stretching it has a much longer carry

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over in my experience.

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So the problem I found with foam rolling with me and my clients was that they

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had to in order to get the benefit of foam rolling like they had to do it

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frequently really consistently where I think if you get into a good stretching

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program and you learn how to stretch properly

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after you've done kind of the repair phase and you've you've done it a little

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bit more intensely stretching once or twice stretching once or twice a week

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tends to do as much as what it felt like foam rolling every single day work way

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So what I would say is if you had to pick spots I would tend to go the

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basically the big foam rolling spots I would tend to go calves I would tend to

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go quads glutes inner thigh and then really big one for golf would be armpits

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so getting lat and the Terry's groups and the pecs so basically doing all sides

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of the armpit and even there's a common spot where the lat can get stuck here

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and that can really restrict your arm height which cause a whole host of

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problems so I would say that would probably be one of my favorite from rolling

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places but I think that it's again if you know how to stretch properly I think

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it's not as good as stretching so if you had to do the little time and resource

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management I would probably work more on learning how to stretch well

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and do less foam rolling okay now that being said his last question was about

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the lower back rotational stretch so basically like the the back cracking

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stretch where you lay on the ground and kind of roll this side to me that's not

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a really clear like that's not stretching one specific muscle what when you get

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that back crack it's usually your SI joint that's actually getting released

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so I think that your that back crack stretch doesn't do a good job of

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stretching any one myofascial chain it really just it releases the SI joint it

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's designed to stretch some of your lower back muscles but I don't think it does

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a very good job on it so I'm not a fan of that now that being said I think

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there are some lower back rotational stretches

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that can be really effective for helping do some relief for back pain but if

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you are feeling stiff in the back then I would typically go after stretching

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your ileo soas stretching your quads stretching your ribcage and making sure

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that your thoracic spine is pretty mobile so stretching your diaphragm

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stretching your inner costals

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making sure that all the areas surrounding your lower back are nice and

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flexible that's a much bigger that'll have a bigger contribution on your lower

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back stiffness rather than that that uh basically SI joint move stretch

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because the chances are that your mobilizing in the right way are really slim

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so it's going to provide some really short term pain or tension relief but it

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won't have a big carry over day to day so I would avoid that stretch and

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hopefully find some other good ones

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so I have to cut this one a little bit short because we're gonna get ready I'm

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gonna head out and watch the Avengers movie so hopefully I've deliberately

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stayed away from looking at any of the spoilers or trailers so hopefully it

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meets my expectations

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but thank you again for joining another golf smart academy live Q&A a lot of

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the questions that lead to these Q&A's come from students who are reading the

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stock tour swing or have joined my website so I put a lot of thought and

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hopefully present the scientific research in a way that's digestible

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but if you have any questions if you're looking through that please shoot us an

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email at support@golfsmartacademy.com I will be probably doing another one of

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these in a couple weeks

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I see a question coming in real quick looks pretty easy so I'll answer it

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before I before I head out for the movies Lawrence Law thank you for the

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compliment I'm glad you're enjoying my work I will definitely keep it up this

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is fun for me

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golf junkie asks what is good drill to avoid the right shoulder going down too

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much and coming from the inside too much so basically the right shoulder going

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more this way so the whole left crunch idea in transition is designed to

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address that particular issue

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so one exaggerated move is basically keeping the arms up so I got this I can't

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remember where I got it but I got this as a it's basically a counter to that

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whole pattern there so you're going to put the club on your shoulder just like

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this and then you will rotate your upper body and then swing your arms down

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so it kind of like breaks the sequencing of using the body to bring the arms

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down instead you're going to use the body in more of a rotational pattern and

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you'll use the arms after the body has triggered rotation

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either doing that or working on the upper body staying more flex and the pelvis

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being more back those will have a big impact on the club coming too much from

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the inside

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so again thanks for the questions I really do have to get out today so if you

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have any other questions please just email them to support at galsmartacademy.

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com we'll get back to you or save them for the next live Q&A

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thanks again for asking your questions and joining me on this journey to happy

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golfing have a good weekend