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This wedge video is load the chop pattern now the I've got another video where

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I talk about the chop verse lift and basically

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Whether the arm is lifting by going this way through impact or shopping by

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going this way through impact

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And I think that's a good indicator of whether it's more of a driver pattern or

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an iron pattern

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well

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What happens with a lot of golfers is they can't really chop during the down

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swing because they never loaded it during the backswing

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And there's a really common way to see if this is what's going on in your swing

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What you'll see if you're not loading that chop pattern is

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You will see the club tend to get way inside in the takeaway now

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Most golfers know that with wedges if you get it way inside

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That's a problem, but we're gonna break down a little bit why and how you

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should actually load it

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So if the arm gets deep in across your body like this, it'll stay very well

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connected to the ribcage

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But it's actually loading the chop pattern to basically fly away

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If on the other hand the arm gets away from the body

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Just a little bit that creates some space for you to then reconnect or chop

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down

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If it gets across your body like this and the club gets way to the inside

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And you've loaded that more of the lift pattern. You're creating an overly

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shallow path by the club getting way behind you

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That's a problem. What normally happens is then during the downswing, you're

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either going to drag the whole handle forward

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which will create a steepening which helps balance it out but messes up your

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low point and

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prevents you from using bounce or

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You will do more of a roll release

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which tends to steepen the angle of attack to balance out that overly shallow

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but

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also takes away bounce and can give leading edge contact and

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Usually some face control issues. So it can result in a

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problematic release pattern

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Okay, so how do we load the chop so that we can fire it during the downswing?

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Basically what will happen is during the backswing, you're going to see just a

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slight amount of space increase

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You don't want this to stay

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Completely connected to your ribcage where you've got nothing to chop down with

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and what would happen is just with rotation

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You'll tend to see the hands drift a little bit more towards the inside

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If you do this chap chop pattern correctly what you'll see is a little bit of a

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rotation and you'll see the

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the arm kind of lifts slightly off the body

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You'll see it easiest from the down the line and it'll look a little bit

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something like that

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It looks like I'm just swinging the club on plane

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But if you investigate if you look at this area, you'll see that it's just

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Working away from my body as opposed to if I kept it connected, you can see

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that would get it well deep to the inside

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So what you can then practice is you can practice loading it and do a hit from

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the top

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Where you basically feel like it's been

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loaded and then it just

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Chops down to reconnect two things that you've got to watch out for

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if you struggle with this chop pattern, there's a good chance that either you

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're

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Shifting your weight too much to the right side or kind of leaning off the ball

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So then when you chop you'll bottom out behind it

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So make sure that you do a little bit more of that forward lean during the back

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swing

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or if you tend to

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Chop and then

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Tilt during the downswing, so you don't really shift off the ball during the

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backswing

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But you tend to create too much of that side bend and drag the handle a bit

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then if you

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Chop you'll probably catch it thin or fat depending on what you do with the

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wrist

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but one thing that you will see from the face-on view is if you do a good job

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with this chop pattern you won't see a whole lot of

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Grip travel during the backswing. It's good to keep the club head lower to the

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ground

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But you don't want that grip to travel straight backward because then the grip

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is going to have to

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Basically have too much speed and travel towards the target a little bit more

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aggressively

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Okay, so you understand what we're trying to do

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Let's take a look at a few you're going to load that chop pattern pause at the

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top and then you're going to

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reconnect and

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as this

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Comes into your body as the chop kind of helps trigger that cast pattern. You

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're just going to in

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Company it with a little bit more of that cast pivot and you should make solid

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contact

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so you go

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So you get set up go up to the top and then

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little cast pattern with a little bit of the cast pivot from the face-on view

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you're going to

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Load that cast pattern and then you're going to reconnect

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just like so

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So if you're struggling with having that look of the hands going left on the

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other side of the ball

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you're struggling with the look of the arms chopping in or you may notice it if

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you're struggling with the look of your hands going out during the

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release on these

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finesse wedge shots or even distance wedge shots

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Make sure that you've loaded the chop by having a little bit of lift or drift

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in the backswing

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That'll help keep the club on plane during the backswing as opposed to having

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it get sucked inside or too inside during the takeaway