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Member Question - Discussing Active Lowering in Transition
This video looks at the dynamics of active lowering in a golf swing transition; addressing a common misconception. Tyler discusses the nuances between decelerating and accelerating movements, and highlights how improperly pushing against the ground can disrupt the swing's flow and compromise performance.
This video looks at the dynamics of active lowering in a golf swing transition; addressing a common misconception. Tyler discusses the nuances between decelerating and accelerating movements, and highlights how improperly pushing against the ground can disrupt the swing's flow and compromise performance.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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In this concept video, we're going to answer a member question about active
2
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:10.340
lowering in
3
00:00:10.340 --> 00:00:11.340
transition.
4
00:00:11.340 --> 00:00:16.070
So one of the members of the site sent me a question about a Dr. Quand video
5
00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:16.700
that he
6
00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:22.970
recently saw where basically Dr. Quand was addressing how if you're actively
7
00:00:22.970 --> 00:00:23.400
trying
8
00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:28.640
to push down against the ground, that will actually impede your swing rather
9
00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:29.180
than help
10
00:00:29.180 --> 00:00:30.180
it.
11
00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:33.790
And that seemed contradictory to some other stuff that he's heard, where people
12
00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:34.340
will talk
13
00:00:34.340 --> 00:00:37.740
about really trying to push against the ground to create speed.
14
00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:40.740
So I want to do a quick little video discussing it.
15
00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:46.170
But it really boils down to whether you are decelerating the movement with the
16
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purpose
17
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of accelerating away from the ground, or if you are accelerating towards the
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ground.
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You're going to use like different pathways or different systems within your
20
00:00:57.800 --> 00:00:58.700
muscles.
21
00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:03.050
So in one sense, you would be actively moving down, and then you would have to
22
00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:03.700
stop that
23
00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:08.130
active motion, and then you would have to change direction and go active
24
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against the
25
00:01:08.780 --> 00:01:09.780
ground.
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And we just don't have enough time in the downswing.
27
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So what would often happen is if you do that, if you really actively go down,
28
00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:16.660
it's going
29
00:01:16.660 --> 00:01:22.420
to disrupt your core and you're going to be left kind of firing the arms.
30
00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:26.450
And I've seen that a number of times in golfers trying to work on kind of a
31
00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:27.580
squat movement,
32
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and doing it inappropriately.
33
00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:38.030
Where what should happen is the desire to push against the ground requires that
34
00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:38.660
I load
35
00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:42.160
the leg so that then I can straighten the leg, as if I was jumping.
36
00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:47.780
So if I was going to jump, I don't like lower myself aggressively in a sense
37
00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:48.460
that I'm not
38
00:01:48.460 --> 00:01:53.940
trying to bend my knees and go down, I'm just kind of falling into the bottom.
39
00:01:53.940 --> 00:01:58.080
And what happens is my legs start resisting me lowering down, so my legs are
40
00:01:58.080 --> 00:01:58.620
already
41
00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:03.740
trying to push up, but they're pushing up against a body that's lowering.
42
00:02:03.740 --> 00:02:08.290
So it's slowing it down lowering, so then when it actually goes up, it's been
43
00:02:08.290 --> 00:02:08.660
doing
44
00:02:08.660 --> 00:02:12.100
that for longer, so the muscles are at a higher level.
45
00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:15.060
This also happens for the arms in shallowing.
46
00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:19.080
If you really aggressively shallow, then what will happen is it will throw you
47
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.700
out of position,
48
00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:25.290
where what's actually happening is you're kind of more relaxing to or kind of
49
00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:26.020
softening
50
00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:31.740
to let it shallow, but you are trying to release the club.
51
00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:37.490
It's just being loaded against the force of the club, which gives the look of
52
00:02:37.490 --> 00:02:38.700
shallowing.
53
00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:43.080
So if you're trying to work on getting a little bit more of a lowering, then
54
00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:44.020
oftentimes what
55
00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:49.260
I would do is I would start by getting more comfortable with unloading or
56
00:02:49.260 --> 00:02:50.140
raising.
57
00:02:50.140 --> 00:02:55.670
So I would get comfortable with doing some kind of delivery position drills,
58
00:02:55.670 --> 00:02:56.420
where I'm
59
00:02:56.420 --> 00:03:02.000
in a lowered position, and then I'm going to raise my leg, raise my core,
60
00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:02.980
especially
61
00:03:02.980 --> 00:03:05.020
raise my core to come up out of it.
62
00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:09.440
In fact, I would say that the primary mechanism for getting that leg to
63
00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:11.340
straighten in, straighten
64
00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:18.160
is the core going into a little bit more of extension, or what's really called
65
00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:19.100
negative
66
00:03:19.100 --> 00:03:20.100
intrusion.
67
00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:23.200
But going into this extension move on the way through, you can see that the
68
00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:23.780
spine going
69
00:03:23.780 --> 00:03:27.760
this way pulls that leg into straight, rather than the leg just straightening
70
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:28.340
on its own
71
00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:31.660
and my body staying too flexed down too long.
72
00:03:31.660 --> 00:03:34.660
So again, transition can be a little bit tricky.
73
00:03:34.660 --> 00:03:39.010
The timing of kind of this lowering load, unload, but if you focus more on the
74
00:03:39.010 --> 00:03:39.540
unload
75
00:03:39.540 --> 00:03:43.380
aspect, sometimes you get the loading aspect for free.
76
00:03:43.380 --> 00:03:47.720
So if focusing on the unload causes you to, let's say, go into an early
77
00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:48.780
straightening
78
00:03:48.780 --> 00:03:54.020
going this way, then I would focus more on the spine getting into that lead
79
00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:55.140
side to help
80
00:03:55.140 --> 00:03:59.420
complement going into the lowering rather than just trying to bend your knees.
81
00:03:59.420 --> 00:04:03.020
Just trying to actively bend your knees will disrupt your downswing, and I see
82
00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:03.420
that as
83
00:04:03.420 --> 00:04:08.090
a problematic way for trying to get the good lowering look in transition that
84
00:04:08.090 --> 00:04:09.380
is characteristic
85
00:04:09.380 --> 00:04:12.220
of the stock-tour swing.
86
00:04:12.220 --> 00:04:22.240
[BLANK_AUDIO]
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.720
In this concept video, we're going to answer a member question about active
2
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:10.340
lowering in
3
00:00:10.340 --> 00:00:11.340
transition.
4
00:00:11.340 --> 00:00:16.070
So one of the members of the site sent me a question about a Dr. Quand video
5
00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:16.700
that he
6
00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:22.970
recently saw where basically Dr. Quand was addressing how if you're actively
7
00:00:22.970 --> 00:00:23.400
trying
8
00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:28.640
to push down against the ground, that will actually impede your swing rather
9
00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:29.180
than help
10
00:00:29.180 --> 00:00:30.180
it.
11
00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:33.790
And that seemed contradictory to some other stuff that he's heard, where people
12
00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:34.340
will talk
13
00:00:34.340 --> 00:00:37.740
about really trying to push against the ground to create speed.
14
00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:40.740
So I want to do a quick little video discussing it.
15
00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:46.170
But it really boils down to whether you are decelerating the movement with the
16
00:00:46.170 --> 00:00:46.740
purpose
17
00:00:46.740 --> 00:00:51.910
of accelerating away from the ground, or if you are accelerating towards the
18
00:00:51.910 --> 00:00:52.180
ground.
19
00:00:52.180 --> 00:00:57.800
You're going to use like different pathways or different systems within your
20
00:00:57.800 --> 00:00:58.700
muscles.
21
00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:03.050
So in one sense, you would be actively moving down, and then you would have to
22
00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:03.700
stop that
23
00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:08.130
active motion, and then you would have to change direction and go active
24
00:01:08.130 --> 00:01:08.780
against the
25
00:01:08.780 --> 00:01:09.780
ground.
26
00:01:09.780 --> 00:01:11.780
And we just don't have enough time in the downswing.
27
00:01:11.780 --> 00:01:16.080
So what would often happen is if you do that, if you really actively go down,
28
00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:16.660
it's going
29
00:01:16.660 --> 00:01:22.420
to disrupt your core and you're going to be left kind of firing the arms.
30
00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:26.450
And I've seen that a number of times in golfers trying to work on kind of a
31
00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:27.580
squat movement,
32
00:01:27.580 --> 00:01:30.460
and doing it inappropriately.
33
00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:38.030
Where what should happen is the desire to push against the ground requires that
34
00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:38.660
I load
35
00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:42.160
the leg so that then I can straighten the leg, as if I was jumping.
36
00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:47.780
So if I was going to jump, I don't like lower myself aggressively in a sense
37
00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:48.460
that I'm not
38
00:01:48.460 --> 00:01:53.940
trying to bend my knees and go down, I'm just kind of falling into the bottom.
39
00:01:53.940 --> 00:01:58.080
And what happens is my legs start resisting me lowering down, so my legs are
40
00:01:58.080 --> 00:01:58.620
already
41
00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:03.740
trying to push up, but they're pushing up against a body that's lowering.
42
00:02:03.740 --> 00:02:08.290
So it's slowing it down lowering, so then when it actually goes up, it's been
43
00:02:08.290 --> 00:02:08.660
doing
44
00:02:08.660 --> 00:02:12.100
that for longer, so the muscles are at a higher level.
45
00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:15.060
This also happens for the arms in shallowing.
46
00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:19.080
If you really aggressively shallow, then what will happen is it will throw you
47
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.700
out of position,
48
00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:25.290
where what's actually happening is you're kind of more relaxing to or kind of
49
00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:26.020
softening
50
00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:31.740
to let it shallow, but you are trying to release the club.
51
00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:37.490
It's just being loaded against the force of the club, which gives the look of
52
00:02:37.490 --> 00:02:38.700
shallowing.
53
00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:43.080
So if you're trying to work on getting a little bit more of a lowering, then
54
00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:44.020
oftentimes what
55
00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:49.260
I would do is I would start by getting more comfortable with unloading or
56
00:02:49.260 --> 00:02:50.140
raising.
57
00:02:50.140 --> 00:02:55.670
So I would get comfortable with doing some kind of delivery position drills,
58
00:02:55.670 --> 00:02:56.420
where I'm
59
00:02:56.420 --> 00:03:02.000
in a lowered position, and then I'm going to raise my leg, raise my core,
60
00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:02.980
especially
61
00:03:02.980 --> 00:03:05.020
raise my core to come up out of it.
62
00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:09.440
In fact, I would say that the primary mechanism for getting that leg to
63
00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:11.340
straighten in, straighten
64
00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:18.160
is the core going into a little bit more of extension, or what's really called
65
00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:19.100
negative
66
00:03:19.100 --> 00:03:20.100
intrusion.
67
00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:23.200
But going into this extension move on the way through, you can see that the
68
00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:23.780
spine going
69
00:03:23.780 --> 00:03:27.760
this way pulls that leg into straight, rather than the leg just straightening
70
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:28.340
on its own
71
00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:31.660
and my body staying too flexed down too long.
72
00:03:31.660 --> 00:03:34.660
So again, transition can be a little bit tricky.
73
00:03:34.660 --> 00:03:39.010
The timing of kind of this lowering load, unload, but if you focus more on the
74
00:03:39.010 --> 00:03:39.540
unload
75
00:03:39.540 --> 00:03:43.380
aspect, sometimes you get the loading aspect for free.
76
00:03:43.380 --> 00:03:47.720
So if focusing on the unload causes you to, let's say, go into an early
77
00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:48.780
straightening
78
00:03:48.780 --> 00:03:54.020
going this way, then I would focus more on the spine getting into that lead
79
00:03:54.020 --> 00:03:55.140
side to help
80
00:03:55.140 --> 00:03:59.420
complement going into the lowering rather than just trying to bend your knees.
81
00:03:59.420 --> 00:04:03.020
Just trying to actively bend your knees will disrupt your downswing, and I see
82
00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:03.420
that as
83
00:04:03.420 --> 00:04:08.090
a problematic way for trying to get the good lowering look in transition that
84
00:04:08.090 --> 00:04:09.380
is characteristic
85
00:04:09.380 --> 00:04:12.220
of the stock-tour swing.
86
00:04:12.220 --> 00:04:22.240
[BLANK_AUDIO]
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Member Question - Discussing Active Lowering in Transition
This video looks at the dynamics of active lowering in a golf swing transition; addressing a common misconception. Tyler discusses the nuances between decelerating and accelerating movements, and highlights how improperly pushing against the ground can disrupt the swing's flow and compromise performance.
This video looks at the dynamics of active lowering in a golf swing transition; addressing a common misconception. Tyler discusses the nuances between decelerating and accelerating movements, and highlights how improperly pushing against the ground can disrupt the swing's flow and compromise performance.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.720
In this concept video, we're going to answer a member question about active
2
00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:10.340
lowering in
3
00:00:10.340 --> 00:00:11.340
transition.
4
00:00:11.340 --> 00:00:16.070
So one of the members of the site sent me a question about a Dr. Quand video
5
00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:16.700
that he
6
00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:22.970
recently saw where basically Dr. Quand was addressing how if you're actively
7
00:00:22.970 --> 00:00:23.400
trying
8
00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:28.640
to push down against the ground, that will actually impede your swing rather
9
00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:29.180
than help
10
00:00:29.180 --> 00:00:30.180
it.
11
00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:33.790
And that seemed contradictory to some other stuff that he's heard, where people
12
00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:34.340
will talk
13
00:00:34.340 --> 00:00:37.740
about really trying to push against the ground to create speed.
14
00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:40.740
So I want to do a quick little video discussing it.
15
00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:46.170
But it really boils down to whether you are decelerating the movement with the
16
00:00:46.170 --> 00:00:46.740
purpose
17
00:00:46.740 --> 00:00:51.910
of accelerating away from the ground, or if you are accelerating towards the
18
00:00:51.910 --> 00:00:52.180
ground.
19
00:00:52.180 --> 00:00:57.800
You're going to use like different pathways or different systems within your
20
00:00:57.800 --> 00:00:58.700
muscles.
21
00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:03.050
So in one sense, you would be actively moving down, and then you would have to
22
00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:03.700
stop that
23
00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:08.130
active motion, and then you would have to change direction and go active
24
00:01:08.130 --> 00:01:08.780
against the
25
00:01:08.780 --> 00:01:09.780
ground.
26
00:01:09.780 --> 00:01:11.780
And we just don't have enough time in the downswing.
27
00:01:11.780 --> 00:01:16.080
So what would often happen is if you do that, if you really actively go down,
28
00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:16.660
it's going
29
00:01:16.660 --> 00:01:22.420
to disrupt your core and you're going to be left kind of firing the arms.
30
00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:26.450
And I've seen that a number of times in golfers trying to work on kind of a
31
00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:27.580
squat movement,
32
00:01:27.580 --> 00:01:30.460
and doing it inappropriately.
33
00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:38.030
Where what should happen is the desire to push against the ground requires that
34
00:01:38.030 --> 00:01:38.660
I load
35
00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:42.160
the leg so that then I can straighten the leg, as if I was jumping.
36
00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:47.780
So if I was going to jump, I don't like lower myself aggressively in a sense
37
00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:48.460
that I'm not
38
00:01:48.460 --> 00:01:53.940
trying to bend my knees and go down, I'm just kind of falling into the bottom.
39
00:01:53.940 --> 00:01:58.080
And what happens is my legs start resisting me lowering down, so my legs are
40
00:01:58.080 --> 00:01:58.620
already
41
00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:03.740
trying to push up, but they're pushing up against a body that's lowering.
42
00:02:03.740 --> 00:02:08.290
So it's slowing it down lowering, so then when it actually goes up, it's been
43
00:02:08.290 --> 00:02:08.660
doing
44
00:02:08.660 --> 00:02:12.100
that for longer, so the muscles are at a higher level.
45
00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:15.060
This also happens for the arms in shallowing.
46
00:02:15.060 --> 00:02:19.080
If you really aggressively shallow, then what will happen is it will throw you
47
00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:20.700
out of position,
48
00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:25.290
where what's actually happening is you're kind of more relaxing to or kind of
49
00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:26.020
softening
50
00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:31.740
to let it shallow, but you are trying to release the club.
51
00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:37.490
It's just being loaded against the force of the club, which gives the look of
52
00:02:37.490 --> 00:02:38.700
shallowing.
53
00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:43.080
So if you're trying to work on getting a little bit more of a lowering, then
54
00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:44.020
oftentimes what
55
00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:49.260
I would do is I would start by getting more comfortable with unloading or
56
00:02:49.260 --> 00:02:50.140
raising.
57
00:02:50.140 --> 00:02:55.670
So I would get comfortable with doing some kind of delivery position drills,
58
00:02:55.670 --> 00:02:56.420
where I'm
59
00:02:56.420 --> 00:03:02.000
in a lowered position, and then I'm going to raise my leg, raise my core,
60
00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:02.980
especially
61
00:03:02.980 --> 00:03:05.020
raise my core to come up out of it.
62
00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:09.440
In fact, I would say that the primary mechanism for getting that leg to
63
00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:11.340
straighten in, straighten
64
00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:18.160
is the core going into a little bit more of extension, or what's really called
65
00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:19.100
negative
66
00:03:19.100 --> 00:03:20.100
intrusion.
67
00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:23.200
But going into this extension move on the way through, you can see that the
68
00:03:23.200 --> 00:03:23.780
spine going
69
00:03:23.780 --> 00:03:27.760
this way pulls that leg into straight, rather than the leg just straightening
70
00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:28.340
on its own
71
00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:31.660
and my body staying too flexed down too long.
72
00:03:31.660 --> 00:03:34.660
So again, transition can be a little bit tricky.
73
00:03:34.660 --> 00:03:39.010
The timing of kind of this lowering load, unload, but if you focus more on the
74
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unload
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aspect, sometimes you get the loading aspect for free.
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So if focusing on the unload causes you to, let's say, go into an early
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straightening
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going this way, then I would focus more on the spine getting into that lead
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side to help
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complement going into the lowering rather than just trying to bend your knees.
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Just trying to actively bend your knees will disrupt your downswing, and I see
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that as
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a problematic way for trying to get the good lowering look in transition that
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is characteristic
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of the stock-tour swing.
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In this concept video, we're going to answer a member question about active
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lowering in
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transition.
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So one of the members of the site sent me a question about a Dr. Quand video
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that he
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recently saw where basically Dr. Quand was addressing how if you're actively
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trying
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to push down against the ground, that will actually impede your swing rather
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than help
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it.
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And that seemed contradictory to some other stuff that he's heard, where people
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will talk
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about really trying to push against the ground to create speed.
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So I want to do a quick little video discussing it.
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But it really boils down to whether you are decelerating the movement with the
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purpose
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of accelerating away from the ground, or if you are accelerating towards the
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ground.
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You're going to use like different pathways or different systems within your
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muscles.
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So in one sense, you would be actively moving down, and then you would have to
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stop that
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active motion, and then you would have to change direction and go active
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against the
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ground.
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And we just don't have enough time in the downswing.
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So what would often happen is if you do that, if you really actively go down,
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it's going
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to disrupt your core and you're going to be left kind of firing the arms.
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And I've seen that a number of times in golfers trying to work on kind of a
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squat movement,
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and doing it inappropriately.
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Where what should happen is the desire to push against the ground requires that
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I load
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the leg so that then I can straighten the leg, as if I was jumping.
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So if I was going to jump, I don't like lower myself aggressively in a sense
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that I'm not
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trying to bend my knees and go down, I'm just kind of falling into the bottom.
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And what happens is my legs start resisting me lowering down, so my legs are
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already
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trying to push up, but they're pushing up against a body that's lowering.
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So it's slowing it down lowering, so then when it actually goes up, it's been
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doing
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that for longer, so the muscles are at a higher level.
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This also happens for the arms in shallowing.
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If you really aggressively shallow, then what will happen is it will throw you
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out of position,
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where what's actually happening is you're kind of more relaxing to or kind of
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softening
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to let it shallow, but you are trying to release the club.
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It's just being loaded against the force of the club, which gives the look of
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shallowing.
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So if you're trying to work on getting a little bit more of a lowering, then
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oftentimes what
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I would do is I would start by getting more comfortable with unloading or
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raising.
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So I would get comfortable with doing some kind of delivery position drills,
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where I'm
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in a lowered position, and then I'm going to raise my leg, raise my core,
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especially
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raise my core to come up out of it.
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In fact, I would say that the primary mechanism for getting that leg to
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straighten in, straighten
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is the core going into a little bit more of extension, or what's really called
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negative
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intrusion.
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But going into this extension move on the way through, you can see that the
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spine going
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this way pulls that leg into straight, rather than the leg just straightening
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on its own
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and my body staying too flexed down too long.
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So again, transition can be a little bit tricky.
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The timing of kind of this lowering load, unload, but if you focus more on the
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unload
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aspect, sometimes you get the loading aspect for free.
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So if focusing on the unload causes you to, let's say, go into an early
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straightening
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going this way, then I would focus more on the spine getting into that lead
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side to help
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complement going into the lowering rather than just trying to bend your knees.
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Just trying to actively bend your knees will disrupt your downswing, and I see
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that as
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a problematic way for trying to get the good lowering look in transition that
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is characteristic
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of the stock-tour swing.
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