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This console video is discussing the member question about hand path at the

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bottom of

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the swing.

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So, a member asked a question about Chris Ryan video about hand path

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specifically that

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the hands get furthest out kind of at when the club is parallel in the down

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swing and

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then they work in on the way through and basically he had a lot of questions,

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comments,

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about how does that not shank it, how does that not create pulls.

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So I just thought to his request, I would talk through what creates some of

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those looks.

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So this ties into the flat spot idea that in order to create a more gradual

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bottom of

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the swing, I essentially want the handle moving in the opposite direction of

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the clubhead.

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So during the release or during impact, not the whole release, but during

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impact and going

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in to follow through, the handle is going to be moving slightly up and in as

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the clubhead

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is passing.

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What you'll see from the down the line compared to if I was moving kind of down

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and out with

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it, the height of the club and the path of the club would vary greatly, it

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would be very

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diggy, it would move out that way, where if I can move the handle this way as

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the clubhead

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is releasing out, it softens the amount that it's moving into out and it soft

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ens the amount

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that it's moving high to low, so it creates this flat bottom of the swing.

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So there are some things that Chris was talking about in his video that I'll

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try to clarify.

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There are two, I think, big ideas here.

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One, what is the club doing compared to the ball, which we've already discussed

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, and

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then what is the club doing compared to the body, how do we marry those two?

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Compared to the body, in order to create more stability in the forearms and the

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clubhead

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and in order to create maximum width control, I want the club moving from

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closer to my body

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to away from my body.

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So if I didn't move and I just got the club kind of in a shaft parallel like

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this and

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I just used my arms trying not to move my body, the club would move, the grip

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and the

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clubhead would move out towards the golf ball and down.

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Now Chris said in the video that the furthest out that the club is going to be

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here and

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then it's working in towards your body.

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There's a small clarification, I would say, typically, yes, the club is going

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to be it's

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furthest out.

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Not quite a parallel, it's a little bit past there, but then the club is going

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to be moving

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slightly away from the golf ball and in, but it's not working towards your body

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.

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It's working further away from your body.

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So how do you marry that in order to have the club working away from your body

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but globally

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moving up and in, your body has to have rotation side bending going into

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extension or the movement

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we call negative torsion.

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So if I get into this pattern and then I extended my arms, the club would move

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out towards the

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golf ball, both the clubhead and the grip, but if at the same time that I do

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that with

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my arms, my body is turning, then the club, you can see compared to the golf

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ball, is

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actually following my body rotation and moving around to the left and up

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because at this

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point my shoulders are tilted, I'm going into extension and my body is rotated

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and my arms

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are simply following that path of the body, kind of going more this way, but in

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order

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to not have it go that way quite so extreme, my arms are going to be extending

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down the

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line or extending away from my body.

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So that's one of the pieces that I don't think he necessarily highlighted in

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his video

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that could cause some confusion.

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For a lot of golfers it's going to feel like the club, the whole club is

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traveling down

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through impact, but if you actually have the club, the grip end of the club

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traveling down

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through impact, the contact with the ground would be very diggy.

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So if you feel like the club is moving down through impact and you have some

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good compression

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or your hands are ahead but it's not too diggy, then rest assured you're

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probably doing some

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good things with your body moving the club away from the ground as the club

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head is moving

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down towards the golf ball.

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So the club is getting into this further out position here, but then because of

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the bracing

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movement of the body, complemented by the arms getting further away, those

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offset each

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other and create a really flat bottom of the swing or shallow bottom of the

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swing with

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the bottom of the swing far enough or pretty much as far as you can in front of

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the golf

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ball, allowing you to make more consistent contact as well as control the club

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face.

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So hopefully this ties together what's going on with the arms and hands down at

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the bottom.

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I have lots of drills on how to train the arms working into this more wider

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position as opposed

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to kind of scooping and pulling in.

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And I have lots of drills to work on the sequencing and the body position, both

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controlling the

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distance as well as the rotational sequencing.

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Mastering that combination will help give you really high level consistency of

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ground

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contact as well as club face control, two of the hallmarks of the stock tour

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swing that

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we're all trying to build.

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So club is at its kind of lowest and furthest out right around here as it moves

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as the body

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moves up and away if we did that a little bit more dynamically, it just looks

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normal.