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In this concept video, we're going to go over one of my favorite topics, which

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is power.

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There are two major ways to get power, and in this video, we're going to talk

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about maximizing

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your current swing.

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Because the two ways to gain power are either take what clubhead speed you're

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using and

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maximize it, or get the most out of it, or do something different with your

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body in order

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to create more clubhead speed.

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So in this first video, we're going to go over how to maximize what you're

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currently doing.

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And there's two major factors for maximizing what you're doing.

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One is the path that the clubhead is traveling on when it makes contact with

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the golf ball,

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and two is where are you hitting this on the clubface, or how solid are you

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hitting it?

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So let's cover the second one first, which is how solid are you hitting it?

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It's important to understand that the sweet spot is really just a small point

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in the middle

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of the club.

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Now you can't always go off of where the top of the club is if you remember

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from my solid

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contact video, but you can kind of get a pretty good guess that way.

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Because otherwise you have to take apart the club to figure out exactly where

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the center

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of the club is, and that's a little tricky.

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So let's just assume that it's somewhere in the middle of the, you know, where

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the manufacturers

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have marked it.

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Well, if you were to drift a half inch out onto the toe, you'll lose 10% of

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yardage,

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50, 5 to 10%, but erring more towards 10%.

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If you go 5 or half an inch in towards the heel, you'll lose about 5%.

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So if you're hitting the ball 300 yards, and you go out here, you could lose as

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much as

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10%, that could be 30 yards.

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So a 270 yard drive could be the difference between hitting it centered and

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hitting it

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on the toe.

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How are you going to figure out if you're doing that?

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Well, one of the best ways is if you mark the face.

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You can either put a Sharpie mark on the back of the golf ball, and it'll leave

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a little

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mark on the face, but that tends to add up on the face over time.

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Or you can get some anti-fungal, you know, Dr. Scholl's talc spray.

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It's basically, you know, a white powder spray.

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So then when you spray your club face, when you make contact with the golf ball

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, boom,

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it'll leave a little impact mark, and you can see exactly where you made

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contact.

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And then you can make little adjustments to adjust for where you're making

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contact, either

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by changing some of the path, or by adjusting how far away you're standing from

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the ball,

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changing your grip, you know, simple little things like that.

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So that's the simple one is we want to make sure we're hitting it in the club,

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in the

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center of the club face.

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The second one is maximizing path.

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So there was a cool study done in 2000, I believe 2008, in the golf magazine,

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called

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Add 42 Yards Now.

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Basically, long story short, they took a 95 mile an hour club at speed.

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If you get your path coming more from the inside, compared to coming from the

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outside,

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you could gain 42 yards.

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And the reason they can make that claim is because when you come from the

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inside, you

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tend to launch the ball higher with less spin.

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When you come from the outside, you tend to launch the ball lower with more

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spin.

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If you don't hit the ball as far as a lot of your playing partners, who you

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feel aren't

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that much more athletic than you, there's a good chance that you're launching

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the ball

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really low from a path that's too much outside to end.

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So in the drill section, we got lots of different ways that you can identify

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the path through

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the ball, and then learning to adjust the face to match that path, or for the

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shot that

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you're trying to hit, will help you maximize your distance, and could be as

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much as, you

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know, what is 40 out of, it could be as much as 25% distance increase, maybe

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more.

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So pay attention to solid contact, pay attention to your path, and that will

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help you maximize

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what speed you're currently creating with the driver.