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This video is lower body slowly, but early.

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Many golfers, when they start trying to work on their transition, have a

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challenge with

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the rate of timing, and I'll explain that.

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Many golfers, especially if you're more of an upper body dominant style swing

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where the

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arms move before the lower body, will tend to have more of the hit impulse.

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A lot of accomplished golfers have described the feeling of transition as more

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of this

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gradual building and kind of building speed all the way until contact, where

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many amateur

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golfers describe it as a feeling of kind of a hit from the top.

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What I've noticed is that what will happen is when you start training

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sequencing, you'll

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notice this timing impulse, and that's a clear indication that you need to work

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on kind of

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building a little bit more of a gradual sequencing as opposed to explosive

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timing.

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What I mean by that is frequently, when we're doing whether it's the step

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change direction

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or we're doing more of a lower body pump or a lower body push drill, what'll

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happen

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is if you're used to more of this hit from the top impulse, you'll get to the

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top of

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the swing and you'll want to just explode that lower body kind of like that.

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Get to the top and you'll want to move it very quickly, very rapidly.

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What I'll do in that case is I will go in and grab onto the club and when they

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go to

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make that transition, I'll feel a very abrupt change, like they're pulling on

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it very quickly.

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And then what I'll do is we'll have them trade places and I'll have them get in

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there

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and they'll see and they'll kind of feel that there's this gradual shift and

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change

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of direction where I'm building speed until I then get into more of that

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release to help

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amplify that building of the speed.

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I think of it more like the timing of the step, whether it's in a throw or a

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strike.

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But the timing of the step in the throw, I'm stepping and it happens kind of

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slowly

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gradually.

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It's not like I'm trying to explode into the step before I get there.

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The same parallel works pretty well for this pattern in the golf swing.

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If I'm giving it more of a total body sequence, I want to have a gradual but

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early movement

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of the lower body.

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So it's going to start to slow down my hips.

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It's going to start well into the backswing and it's going to continue until I

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get into

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that release when then I get into the arm movements.

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So the interesting thing is while I don't have any data on this to totally

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support it,

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it appears that that's the opposite when I'm hitting like pitch shots.

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Where on a pitch shot I'm going to have more of a kind of a hit impulse where I

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'm going

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to put the energy in the club head pretty quickly and then just ride that

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energy all

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the way down.

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With the full swing I'm going to build that energy a little bit more gradually

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or slowly

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so it's got to start earlier.

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The timing of when it's going to start is roughly what's going to stop my lower

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body

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from rotating in the backswing.

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So you'll see that as my body is rotating in the backswing, eventually it stops

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rotating

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before it starts rotating the opposite direction.

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So whatever stops it from rotating is when I'm actually starting my lower body

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pushing

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in that direction.

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So that's what I mean by starting it early and why the step drills focus on

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changing the

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momentum of the lower body while the arms are still going back.

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It's not that you actually want to see the hips move while the arms are going

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back or

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at least not an exaggerated fashion but you're pushing and you're starting that

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movement

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well before the arms change direction.

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So if you struggle with a little bit more of a hit impulse, hopefully this

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video helps

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you kind of tie together some of the concepts and then when you're doing these

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step drills

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try to think or when you're doing some of these pump drills or any of the

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sequencing

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drills in transition, try to feel like the lower body is going early but it's

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gradually

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building up speed, it'll ultimately lead to better launch characteristics so

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you'll

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tend to get more compression and you'll fall into more of that pattern where it

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feels

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easy and the ball just jumps as opposed to feeling very forceful and kind of

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dead at impact.