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Okay, so I appreciate everyone joining me for the first of hopefully many of

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these little live Q&A sessions.

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I've got a bunch of questions that came in through email, so I'll address some

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of those.

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But I'll be checking out the chat the whole time, so please, you know, if

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something comes up,

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if I say something you want it clarified or it relates to a question you might

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have, please type it in.

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I've had a, it looks like, as far as a general theme, it looks like the

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majority of the questions are related to transition.

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So we'll kind of make that the theme of today's little session.

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I'm planning for, you know, somewhere around 20 minutes or so, but if questions

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keep coming in, we'll go a little bit longer.

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And like I said, hopefully this is the first of many.

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So I'll jump right in.

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One of the, one of the questions that I see popping up is relating to

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transition of the arms.

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And there were a couple different questions related to whether it's, you know,

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the direction that you're pulling, whether down versus up or the timing.

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There, there seems to be a movement in golf instruction where creating too much

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lag, creating too much lag late in the downswing is being advocated as a bad

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thing.

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So I thought that I'd just kind of discuss that from my perspective.

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Okay. So in a lot of other sports, sequencing and rhythm are largely used as

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ways to coordinate how you get up certain parts of your body to work together.

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Right.

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So in golf, the, the angle of the club, that lag angle has been, I don't want

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to say overdone, but it's been served, it's been used as a reference so golfers

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who tend to have tend to have more of this look of lag tend to hit it further.

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But what happened was we would see the look of lag and golf instructors would

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tell golf students to essentially try and increase or create more lag.

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I have a few videos on the site relating to lag that might help clarify and

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show different perspectives on it.

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But one of the, one of the big points for me to, to address is that when you

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try to increase the angle when you try to pull the club back like so, what

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typically happens is that lead risk is going to go into extension.

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And when that lead risk goes into extension, that's going to have an effect of

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opening the club face. And so what'll happen is golfers who try to hold and

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increase the lag tend to get in a situation where the club face is in an open

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position late in the downswing.

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Well, if the club is in an open position late in the downswing, you're going to

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have to do something pretty dramatic to try to close it.

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What most people end up doing is they stall their body rotation because body

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rotation delays the closing of the club face.

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And then they cast the risk or they kind of straighten the arms or they get in

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a more of a scoop pattern because scooping will close the club face gets that

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to point more.

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So here it's pointing off to the right, there it's pointing more to the left.

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So a scoop while many have talked about a scoop as holding the face open, it

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does actually close the face, it just doesn't do it rotationally.

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So the one of the other questions relating to that.

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Okay, if lag too long can be a problem, then what's the intention? So what are

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players trying to do when they create a look of lag if they're not trying to

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create a look of lag?

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I like to think of it more as proper sequencing is going to help create the

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look of lag and soft enough arms will also help create that look of lag.

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I go back to looking at other sports and if you're teaching someone to throw,

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you're never really going to teach them to try and maximally extend that wrist

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and hold the wrist back as you're going to throw.

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What you would teach is leading with the lower body following with the shoulder

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and then lastly the arm. So sequencing will obviously have a big effect in how

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well you're able to get that look of lag not just actively holding the wrist

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back.

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Holding the wrist back too aggressively will trigger some signals to stop your

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rib cage to help stabilize the arms so that they can apply more force.

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And so that combination usually creates face control issues down to the bottom

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because as I said, if I increase that extension of the wrist, I increase or I

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open up the face compared to the path.

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So then what happens is I get down to the bottom, the club faces open and I

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have to close it in an incredibly fast amount of time and it creates a lot of

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variability.

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The metaphor that I've learned from John Hardesty that I think is brilliant is

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it's like if you were to turn up the sensitivity of your mouse.

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So if you've got your mouse and you make a little movement but the cursor goes

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flying all the way across the screen, you have to be really precise with how

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you're going to move the mouse.

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What we want to do with our golf swing is we want to turn down the sensitivity

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of the mouse.

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We want to turn down the sensitivity of the club face closing or opening but

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basically we want to turn down the sensitivity of our movements to how it

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relates to where the club face is pointing so that we don't have to be quite as

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precise as when that mouse sensitivity is turned way up.

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Because we all know that when you get under the gun, when you get a little bit

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of pressure, you're going to have probably some tougher times keeping the same

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rhythm, keeping the same level of intensity.

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So another question as it relates to this transition, as it relates to the

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transition would be, you see that some instructors, let's say a common problem

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is getting the arms behind you in a stuck position.

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So some instructors advocate getting the arms back in front, so kind of holding

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the body back, saying you've got two overactive legs or your lower body is too

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active and you need to quiet that a bit.

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And then you have other instructors who say, no, you don't want to quiet your

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lower body, what you'd rather do is you want to use the lower body differently.

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This one relates more to how you're creating speed in that transition rather

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than the actual effect of the club face as we discussed in kind of that first

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transition segment.

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So ideally, you want to be using your body as a whole chain, right? You want to

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be using your legs with your core, with your ribcage, with your shoulders, with

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your arms, and if it's not so much that your lower body gets too active, what

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happens is if your lower body really kind of spins out of the shot,

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your ribcage gets disconnected from your pelvis. And so what usually happens is

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then the ribcage gets disconnected and then the arms kind of go on their own.

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So instead of having a link between the lower body, the pelvis, the ribcage,

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and the arms, you have like a broken connection system.

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And so usually those broken connection systems cause contact problems or timing

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problems down at the bottom of the swing.

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So the two solutions are the one camp of basically, okay, if you get your arms

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more in front of your body, that typically requires you to connect your ribcage

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and your pelvis better.

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So you're using your abs, you're using your core in order to get those arms

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more in front. So that helps with the sequencing.

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And oftentimes, you're not really going to slow down your lower body quite as

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much as you think. You're just speeding up your upper body to kind of get it to

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match up a little bit better.

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The other option would be you take someone whose lower body is getting too

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active, oftentimes when it gets too active, it has either too much of a thrust

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component or it has too much of a slide component.

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So you teach instead of actively going that way to actively stay a little bit

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more in the box or keep the pelvis away from the golf ball and to have more of

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a rotation component.

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Because again, most of the muscles that are going to rotate the upper body with

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the lower body are connecting the ribcage to the pelvis.

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So if you're, I'm a big fan, because I know most of your thinking, well, which

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one do I try? I'm a big fan of testing. So I like to try both and see which one

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relates to your specific movement better.

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Right. So if you, if you do the upper body one, let's talk kind of more

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dangerous. So like, why would I not want to do a certain pattern.

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Some golfers, when they try to get the upper body more in front, lose a lot of

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their path control and at like a downswing checkpoint, instead of the club

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being in line with the hands, it gets outside the hands.

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Or they're pulling down by using instead of getting the arms in front by using

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kind of the shoulders, they'll pull it down using the wrist and they'll tend to

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get that lead wrist into a little bit more extension position.

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So trying to get those arms in front could potentially cause some path issues

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or some face issues. As far as the getting more more turning, a lot of that, I

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'm a big fan of matching pieces, so matching your steeps in your shallows.

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And if a slide and an extension so an overactive lower body tend to create

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shallow patterns, then what will happen is sometimes if you take those patterns

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away, the club will get steep, it'll be a pure path problem.

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The club will just get a little bit steeper as it enters the release.

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And so what you have to do is you have to give it a separate, a separate

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shallow or a new movement to balance out the pattern because we took away some

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form of shallow.

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You got to add one back in or else you're going to be steep.

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The most common one, which actually gets to one of the other questions, which

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is, I did a video on shallow position, shallow movements, and there was a

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question about Fred couples, like what movements is he doing.

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So, if you keep your body more in the box and you're really kind of powering it

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with the body, then your arms have to provide some of the shallow where else

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you would get steep.

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And so the two main movements that you'll see on 3D are released on AMM 3D

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systems, you'll see a pronation of the lead wrist, so it'll rotate this way.

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About 10, maybe up to 15 degrees. And the tricky one is you'll see a pronation

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of the trail wrist and an extension of the trail wrist.

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So you'll actually see the trail wrist go like that.

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And I know that if I see that pattern, that's a sign that they're shallowing

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from that trail shoulder.

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But unfortunately, the shoulders are really tricky to measure, so you have to

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really coordinate or you have to interpret the graphs.

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So, when this is going that way, what that usually means is that the shoulder

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was going more like that, and it's that shoulder external rotation and ad

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duction that kind of helps create the force on the club that gets the club to

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drop behind.

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When I see a golfer that I think is too shallow, what usually happens, because

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I'm answering Jason's question that popped up.

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So when I see a golfer that is considered too shallow, what's usually happened

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is that the shallow movements from the body are preventing some of the low

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point control movements that I would like to see during the release.

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So basically, usually a golfer who gets too shallow is going to have either too

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much side bend or too much extension, and both of those are going to prevent

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the ribcage and thoracic rotation through the shot.

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And that's one of the other patterns that I tend to see on 3D, which is the

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upper body moving faster than the arms faster than the pelvis through the shot

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for more consistent golfers,

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where it'll be a little bit slower for golfers who tend to have higher clubface

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variability.

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And it relates to the arc width graph and the 3D flat spot and getting the

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bottom of the swing, you know, shallowly out in front of the in front of impact

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So let me, let me scroll back up and address a couple of these. The long term

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drunken monkeys have a long term issue where my arms collapse in transition and

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both arms bend excessively.

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Do you have any drills training aids which help maintain width during that part

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of the swing?

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So there are, there are a number of golfers, the most prominent example would

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be like a Jason Day, but I've worked with a number of mini tour caliber players

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who get a fair amount of this kind of bend look through transition.

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I don't think it's necessary, I don't think it's optimal if consistencies are

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main goal, but it's a big power source. So like guys like Jason Day or the

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players who have worked with hit the ball a long way.

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What can happen is if it does it too much, it's usually accompanied by a little

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bit more of a kind of scoop style release, which for me is the bigger problem

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for that pattern.

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But if you're trying to get the arms to stay a little bit wider, then what you

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have to do is you have to create more of the hand movement from rib cage

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rotation or from using your core.

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So imagine that you're in the gym and you're doing like a horizontal chop, that

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would be creating speed and movement more with my abs, more with my spine

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rotation, and less from my arms pulling.

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Right, my arms pulling is more of a lat or a upper back style pattern of

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creating force in the club.

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So I've had more success with doing, for working on that pattern doing two

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things, really working on getting the earlier shaft rotation, because the

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earlier shaft rotation if you then pull in narrow you tend to hit really bad

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pulls.

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It forces you to shallow and pretty much every shallower also opens the club

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face.

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So by getting that shaft rotation, it forces you to get more of the shallow,

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which then puts your arms in a position where they're not going to be able to

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pull narrowly as powerfully.

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So it kind of weakens their position.

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Now, the problem is some golfers hate that feeling of getting weak, especially

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if the main feeling of power is in the shoulders or the triceps or something

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like that, because it's going to make it feel weaker and golfers, especially

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under pressure hate the feeling of not being able to go hard at it.

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So I find that the easiest way to work on that is through kind of proper off-

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season planning where you're working on good oblique and spine rotation and then

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getting into even some med balls or there's a product I use training wise

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called the tornado ball or the twister ball.

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I use the lighter one, but it's basically a medicine ball on a rope, and that

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can really help with coordinating more of a feeling of pulling on something

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from the core, because if you pull on it with your arms, you hit yourself with

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a medicine ball, and it's not too pleasant.

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So I would kind of, I would start with the looking at the clubface control in

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transition, and I would look on video a lot at how well the spine is rotating.

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And I would also remind myself that Jason Day got the number one in the world

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with that pattern.

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So it doesn't mean that you can't have success with that pattern.

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I would, but if you're going to improve it, you're going to have to rebalance

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how your body creates power. It's not, it's usually not a pathing. It's usually

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more of a this feels really strong.

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Okay, so I had another question that I had another question about kind of

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someone who's got more of a barrel chested right so if you're, if you're larger

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and you don't have quite as much range of motion for making these shallow

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movements.

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What do you do, and, and I'll relate it to the backswing because I see another

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question related to that. You know, it's, there, there are definitely some

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advantages. There's a reason why a lot of the young guns are kind of wiry and

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fit, because ideally you want to act with the club a little bit more like a

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pitcher with some of this kind of delayed timing and larger range of motion.

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But there, there've been some really good golfers who are more barrel chested.

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The, the thing that you need to make sure is that you're in the backswing, you

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're controlling the arms relationship to the chest.

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So what I see with more barrel chested golfers is they kind of really stabilize

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dig into the ground and they create more of the turn with the arms getting

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behind.

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Well, if I get my arm behind in a position, kind of like that, when, when my

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elbow gets behind my shoulder, I'm going to lose a lot of the external range of

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motion.

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So it's going to force me to then pull down, which is going to create a really

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steep alignment on the way back. So I'll do, I'll do drills kind of where I'm

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applying resistance and getting more of the backswing rotation, where the club

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feels like it's staying a little bit more in front of your chest.

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I'll give you the kind of the best opportunity or the, that'll give you some

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slack to then allow a little bit of shallowing on the way down.

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Now you're probably never going to get the arms well in front on the way down,

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just because you got more mass than, you know, skinny guys like me.

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But what will, what will happen is if you keep it in front, you'll have that

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extra range of motion to get the club to shallow mostly from the lead arm.

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So mostly from letting that left arm relax. I did a video on the site on, you

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know, some of the, I want to say, larger golfers and you'll tend to see a

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pattern where the, the right hand will come off the club at different points in

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the swing.

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Most of the larger golfers who got to a really high level seem to control it

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more with the left hand and less with the right hand or the trail hand for a

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right hand golfer.

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Because that restriction, you know, having that extra mass, having that

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restriction in the shoulder would cause a really steep movement of the arms or

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of the club, unless you did it mostly with that lead arm.

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Doing is especially some of the lead arm release drills and kind of getting

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comfortable with controlling it more with the left arm.

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I've found with some of my Husker golfers that that really tends to help, tends

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to help clean things up.

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But if it, if it's more of the backswing issue, I would look at the spine

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movements more so than the arm movements and, and kind of start from there.

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I had a question about my thoughts on the orange whip as it relates to training

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transition, which I think is a good, good question.

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I do, I like the orange whip as far as kind of the, I call it a path trainer

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because what usually happens is things like the orange whip or things like the

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speed sticks, things where you're focusing on getting a lot of speed.

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Usually creates a better path.

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Now the problem is with those objects, you don't have to worry about the club

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face.

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The other thing you don't have to worry about is low point control.

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So what I've seen is the orange whip can create face control issues where the

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club is coming in kind of heel open or club face open.

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And you, you tend to, I've seen it cause shanks, you can get into just kind of

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like flaring it off to the right.

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Or the one that I think is worse is it causes low point control because it gets

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you using your body inside bending.

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And if you still have a bit of a cast pattern for squaring the club face and

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you get into a better body position, which the orange whip tends to train, then

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if you don't make any adjustment to your arms, the bottom of the swing is going

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to be more back behind the golf ball here.

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So I like the orange whip for creating speed, but in the short term I've seen

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it create some low point issues.

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So I wouldn't try it, you know, I wouldn't break it out and test it the week

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before an important event unless you've already practiced with a bunch.

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See a couple. Okay, so would you say that another way from from Jason, would

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you say that another way of looking at shallowing the club that is either

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behind the hands or even with the hands throughout the downswing.

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You can correct me if I'm wrong about your when you say even with the hands,

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but, but yes so shallowing for me is the relationship of the club shaft

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compared to the body horizontally, or it's the amount of width.

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So that's where some guys shallow it more by getting the club far away from you

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. And then it's like a circle that's with a wider radius like it has less change

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down to the bottom.

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Others would be getting it more behind the hands as you're describing, which

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then it's basically like like flattening the lie angle so now instead of

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slamming into the ground it kind of skims the ground that way.

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Both of those tend to shallow the club. The, when you get the club more behind,

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it allows you to use body rotation to then bring it back out in front and that

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body rotation typically creates more speed.

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So, for the at the very least, even if it doesn't create more speed, it allows

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for the arm extension to happen later, which tends to slow down the club face

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closure, which tends to produce a little bit more repeatability when you get

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good at that pattern.

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So, a good, you know, there are a couple good checkpoints, you know, when the,

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when the shaft is getting in line with the right form or at shaft parallel if

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the hand, if the club is still behind the hands as providing that the chest is

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facing roughly around the golf ball.

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Then that would indicate that you have more of a shallow arm movement, so those

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are two good kind of video checkpoints you can use.

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I have a question from a Rasu, classic swings appear to have more leg drive and

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access tilt at impact.

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Is it equipment related? Do you have preference for young golfers to model

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after classic versus modern swings?

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There's, you know, I definitely think that the equipment has a large role in

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why we see swings the way that they are now.

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And there's enough cases of golfers who've grabbed old equipment, right? I know

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that they did this at the, the BMW when it was in Denver.

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And I remember Rory doing it at another event, but grabbing old equipment, so

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the old golf ball and the old shafts and trying to make swings and not being

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able to hit it very well at all.

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When you had kind of the high spinning golf ball, you really had to launch it

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low. And so getting that leg drive was one way to help get more shaft lean.

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And I don't even know if it's more shaft lean per se, because I haven't seen

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the, I don't know if they've done any research or any, even video analysis of

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looking at how much more the handle would be ahead.

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You see the images and if you played volatas, you saw the ball launch really

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low and then spin up. And if you launched it high, it's still spun up. It wasn

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't until really the Pro V that you could launch it high and get the spin rate

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really low.

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So, I think that there are some, I think that there are some possible benefits

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for the, like looking at some of the older swings for more of the fluid aspect,

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you know, kind of more like a softer Phil Mickelson style of creating speed.

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But there's a reason why most of the top guys right now have more of the modern

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swing look. I think performance wise, it's better.

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I think that, let's see, I think you were asking for, yeah, for young golfers,

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the thing that really is tougher, young golfers is that they have so many

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tournaments and so much demand as far as playing well at all times throughout

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the year that they almost get locked into their swing too soon.

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Because most of them, like it's really hard to have a solid sequencing until

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your abs really develop. And most kids develop the legs grow first so they get

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really powerful with their legs and the arms tend to grow second and then the

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spine tends to grow third.

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And so during that phase where the spine is where the legs are more powerful

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and the spine is still weak, they tend to get into typically some of that kind

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of overuse of the lower body.

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And then when the upper body catches up and comes back in, it can be

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challenging for some to kind of go through the growing pains of learning to reb

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alance and get the core a little bit more involved.

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So I think that's a bigger, bigger issue as it relates to kids, because they're

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not necessarily using the older equipment right they're not really going to be.

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They're not going to have the same incentives to have that low launch, because

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they won't have the high spin with the current golf ball.

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Okay, what's the importance of pelvic tilt spine alignment from Rob.

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What's the importance of pelvic tilt spine alignment and address is there a

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range you like to see can hit pinging in the downswing be more advantageous

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than doing it more at address.

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Good, good question, so this is where I'm probably going to do some stuff

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related to this but a lot of those numbers that you'll see on 3D.

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Most of you know that I've got a pretty strong 3D background I've been using AM

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M systems since 2004.

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I think that 3D is great for getting the big global pictures of what your

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pattern is, so are you more of a lunger than a caster or you more of a caster

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than a lunger because on video it looks like you do both.

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3D is great for answering those questions for getting into some of the specific

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details like what you're asking about with pelvic alignment spine alignment.

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It's 3D is not detailed enough, because if you think about it like the pelvis

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sensor is really addressing the hip, the SI joints, the lower back.

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So there's probably like 10, 15 joints that are all related to the pelvic

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sensor, right.

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So you can't just say that, hey, this golfer is 5 degrees open with the upper

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body, 0 degrees with his pelvis.

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That's the right alignment, because there's lots of different combinations that

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could create that specific alignment.

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So I like to go off of, I actually will, if I have a golfer who is highly

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focused on their address and trying to really narrow in where they feel the

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most balanced or where they should be aligned.

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And I'm just, I'm seeing some weird stuff going on with the spine tilt or the

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legs. I'll usually do some of my tests to look in and see what's happening at

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the pelvis, what's happening at the SI joint.

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Because it's very common for golfers to have slightly off or having some tors

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ion in the pelvis.

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And then what you'll see is they'll use their legs and their feet to get that

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pelvis back in normal position.

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So I'm not a huge fan of finding like an absolute best spine alignment as like

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a global, you know, everybody needs to be at 20 degrees, but you can, you can

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figure out like your long term goal is to keep your spine in relatively neutral

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position.

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So that you can create, create speed safely, and create speed throughout the

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whole spine or the whole unit of legs, pelvis, hips, ribcage, shoulders, arms.

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If you get too much torsion in one area, you'll create kind of a weak point

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where you typically will either overuse that area or you'll completely avoid

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that area.

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So those are the problems that I'd see more for spine alignment. So I could

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give you a rough range on 3D, but I think that, you know, if you're working

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with good players, you need to get past that.

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The rough range isn't as good as what I think the best guys are doing.

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But can hip hinging in the downswing be more advantageous than doing it at

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setup. Yeah, I mean, whether it's a pre stretch or a stretch shorten or kind of

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a, you know, a getting the.

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We don't know for sure if it's stretch shortened or if it's just by pre loading

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the muscle, it can then apply more force.

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It's probably more the latter than a true stretch shortened, but if you're

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stretching something during the downswing or during transition, then the muscle

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will be able to activate stronger than if you stretched it at the start and

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just started from there.

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The example would be like, if you do a running jump versus a standing jump. So

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in a standing jump, it's going to be basically, you know, all muscle activity

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that's going to create some elevation.

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With the running jump, when you run and you plant your foot, your your quad is

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going to decelerate your momentum going forward. And it's by activating that

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quad in decelerating that then when it gets into lifting up.

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It's going at a higher level because it got to activate a whole lot earlier

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without causing you to lose that position.

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So there's probably like you'll see a lot with with kids and young people who

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are really create or really creating a lot of speed from the lower body that

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they'll hit pinch in the downswing.

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My goal would be the danger with that is that you may have some sequence issues

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and path issues that could relate to the bottom of the swing.

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So you just want to monitor that and make sure that they're not doing it so

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much that it messes up their, their upper body and their arm motions down

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through the release.

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Alright, another question. If I pull my hands towards the ball, some say that's

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bad. If I pull my hands to be desired impact location, this would seem to be

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consistent with the wipe concept.

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Yeah, so the wipe concept for me is my term of basically getting your arms back

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in front of you and doing it mostly from the shoulders right so many golfers

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have talked about getting the club in front of you.

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But obviously if you get the club in front of you, you can't have your body

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rotated or side bent at impact.

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So it's more about getting the arms and the hands out in front of your body.

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And if you find that I've had many golfers where when they feel like they swing

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more with their arms, they get the better alignments like they get the arms out

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in front of the golf ball.

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Especially if they tend to have more of an early extension or thrust pattern.

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So, I'm enjoying all the questions, but I've realized that, you know, my goal

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is about 20, 30 minutes and we're getting towards the, the end of this.

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I'm planning to do more of these so I really appreciate all your comments.

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This was a lot of fun. Yeah, someone asked about, can I hold my book up? I've

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got a few of the early copies here, but I just wrote a kind of pretty massive

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book. It's about 350 pages going through lots of the different kind of ways

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that all the pieces fit together.

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So kind of taking science, taking some practical coaching and really tying it

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all together into hopefully a way that you can figure out what you need to do

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with your swing.

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So I always, I always harp on my students that you got to figure out what you

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're trying to do. So is it, are you working on your face control? Are you

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working on solid contact and low point control? Are you working on creating

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speed better?

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I think that when you figure out what main skill you're working on, it opens up

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the road and it kind of makes it easier to then know if a tip that you heard or

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a swing thought makes sense, or if it's just going to be one of those kind of

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things that's only going to work for a day.

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It's going to take long term growth and long term improvement. And the goal of

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this book was to really help you understand the pieces so that you can have a

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real long term plan.

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I see one last question, if you have any other questions, please send them,

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send them to support@golfsmartacademy.com and I'll get back to them, hopefully

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in a timely manner.

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If you want more of a rotary movement through the ball, or a stall like Phil,

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seems like I hit more solid shots with a stall, which probably means I'm over

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the top when rotating through the motorcycle.

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What it probably means is that you don't have an, I advocate more of the rotary

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style. Phil obviously has some face control issues.

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But the, the, the more upper body on top arm, arm dominant swing can work

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really well for the short irons, which is more of kind of a circular shape less

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of the flat bottom.

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As far as what's likely happening if you hit better with a stall is that, yes,

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you would probably need a little bit more motorcycle and you'd probably need

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more of the Jackson five or a little bit more of the access till.

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Because what's probably happening is you're getting early movement from the

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shoulders and then by stalling, you haven't kind of gotten as much outside in,

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or steep, and then when you straighten your arms because of the stall, you're

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able to coordinate the face and control the low point.

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My only concern would be if you had face control issues with the driver, or

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potentially like three would if those are your main struggles, then I would

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probably make a plan to work on the kind of the timing of that through impact.

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So all right, thank you all for, for joining me, and if you have any other

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questions, you can, you can.