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In this analysis video, we're going to look at the swing pattern for loss of

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posture.

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Now the definition of the swing pattern for loss of posture is essentially an

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elevation of the thorax

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or a lack of left tilt during the backswing.

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So the thorax is going to be somewhere right around in here on these two golf

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ers.

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And what you'll see is during the backswing, you'll see the thorax actually

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raise up.

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So if we look at this other gentleman who's a little bit more of a low handicap

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golfer,

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you'll still see a raise of the thorax.

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Now the other way that you can look at this pattern, still from the down the

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line camera angle,

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is if you were to look at the amount of left tilt of their thorax or the amount

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of left bend,

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you will see that loss of posture golfers tend to have flatter shoulders,

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and as a result, we'll usually have steeper arms to adjust.

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But the pattern is a raise of the thorax and a loss of this left tilt during

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the backswing.

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Or I guess I should say a failure to develop this left tilt during the back

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swing.

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Now one of the common patterns with this pattern, or the common ball flights

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that you'll typically see,

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is players who have this loss of posture during their backswing

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are typically going to have more of a flexion base swing than a rotation base

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swing.

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As a result, they're not going to be very open with their body at impact,

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and so that will typically move the bottom of the swing further behind the golf

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ball.

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As a result, they will struggle with fat shots and top shots.

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They will have a path that's going typically to the left,

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but we'll get into that more in the next section.

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Now there will always be examples of players on tours who demonstrate some of

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these swing patterns.

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So here's Kenny Perry, who's probably the most predominant golfer with the loss

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of posture swing pattern.

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Typically the loss of posture swing pattern is going to cause a transition that

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is more flexion based.

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But what you'll see with Kenny Perry is he does a great job during transition

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of getting back into position,

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and then allowing rotation to help him provide the proper angle of attack and

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path into the golf club.

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Compare that to this low handicap amateur golfer.

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You'll see that there's a lack of that drop during transition,

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which is one of the common compensation patterns or associated movements with

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the loss of posture swing pattern.

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Typically, when you lose your posture, you will have to then result in a little

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bit more of a cast and crunch

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in order to get the golf club back down to the golf ball.

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Now let's take a look from a power path and face perspective.

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So from a power perspective, this loss of posture is going to load your six-

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pack abs and it's going to load your shoulder.

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So typically what happens is you're going to do more of a crunch movement from

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the upper body,

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and you're going to do more of a tricep extension or arm extension.

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The areas where it tends to weaken your body is it tends to weaken the ability

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to create speed from the legs and from the hips.

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It also tends to weaken the amount of rotational capabilities.

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When you have this left shoulder down a little bit more, it loads your obliques

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where standing up like so is typically loading more your rectus or your six-

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pack muscles.

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Your obliques do a great job of rotating you while your six-pack muscles do a

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great job of flexing you.

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You'll notice that Kenny Perry during this transition is going to get back down

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into his hips and create a little bit more of a steep path for his shoulders,

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compared to where it was truly at the top of his swing.

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That movement during transition has reloaded the hips and reloaded the obliques

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and those allow for some of this rotation to occur during his downswing,

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where the amateur not sitting back down into the hips, but rather bending more

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into the spine,

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is not going to have the legs to necessarily push off and create speed,

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and so always left with is his crunch and chop from his arms.

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From a path perspective, simply standing up will create more of a shallow path,

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because it gets the club swinging more on a horizontal plane.

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Unfortunately, most amateurs that stand up will then use their arms more

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vertically and do that forward crunch that I discussed.

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So as a result, those two movements tend to create more of a steepening path.

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So by itself, the stand-up move or the loss of posture during the backswing is

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going to create a shallow angle of attack or a shallow path,

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but it's usually accompanied by an overly steep compensation, which results in

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the steep and left path that most amateurs who struggle with this pattern

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battle.

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Lastly, the loss of posture swing pattern by itself has a minimal effect on

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face rotation.

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One of the most common compensating or associative movements with the loss of

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posture swing fault is going to be the cast pattern,

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because when I've raised up my upper body, I've loaded that shoulder and I've

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loaded that tricep

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and I've created a whole lot of vertical distance between myself and the golf

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ball,

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which provides for a powerful platform for my arms.

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So you'll see frequently the arms leading transition or leading the early

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stages of the release, just like so.

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So you'll see a little bit of a cast pattern and a lack of drop during

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transition.

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That drop helps load the hips and create the lower body power, so if you don't

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drop, all you have left with is using those arms to create power.

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These two movements tend to create an appearance at impact where the hands are

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a little bit more even with the golf ball or off of the right side of the body.

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It's not always the case. As you'll see on this skilled golfer on the left, he

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's able to still get his hands a little bit ahead of the golf ball,

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but that would be part of this common pattern, the loss of posture swing

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pattern.